Is misery made beautiful right before our eyes?

Someone tell me why the heck I dreamed about Vikings.

Not the football player Vikings, the real burly braided pillaging horned-helmets Vikings.

To the neighbors'!

We carry the weight and die for a cause.

Well, I was really pleased that I'd gotten my AMV contest entry sent off today, so it would reach my local con in time.

Until I found out the Windows XP Media Player stretches all my AMVs into a distorted widescreen mode for absolutely no reason and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

AND NOBODY EVER TOLD ME THIS.

If anyone out there has XP and can tell me you downloaded one of my AMVs and it played nice and properly TV-square like it's supposed to be, and it's only my work computer and my sister's computer that are stupid, I will love you forever.

Otherwise I'm currently caught between violent rage and utter despair.