Hilarious news item of the day

So I was just browsing the international news on my Wii, and I came across the following AP news story:
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TOKYO - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called the police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

"We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean."
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So after I finished cracking up, I had to ask myself - how on earth could you possibly manage to miss that in your own home for that long? Almost makes me want to start checking all of my closets, just in case. Nonetheless, that's probably the most inventive and devious homeless woman I've ever heard of.

Okay, so aside from that, I've got a funny story of my own to tell. We went to the lake on Sunday last weekend and stayed the night to get the place cleaned up and open for use later in the year. Sunday night we went out to a Hibachi grill for dinner, and found out why you don't let part-time college students run loose working in a Japanese restaurant.

While we're waiting for our chef, the table is set. We each get a folded napkin with some silverware and a plate. While we're all sitting around talking, I reach for my napkin to get some water I dripped, only to find that it's somehow disappeared. Figuring I'm nuts and I must never have had one for some reason, I reach under the table and get another one out of the basket. Ten minutes later, our appetizers arrive, and I look down to see that my plate is gone now, too. Apparently, somewhere in the restaurant was a very stealthy, very overzealous waitress tasked with table clearance.

Shortly afterwards, the chef shows up and looks at me, puzzled, asking where my plate is.

"I have no earthly idea."

So that was pretty strange. Maybe I'm just getting paranoid after all this, but I think I'm going to have to start paying close attention to the people around me. There're plate thieves hiding in closets everywhere you look.

Also, Dad finally set me and David up with some more disk space for our desktop computers, which turned out to be more of an ordeal than planned. Each of our computers has a CD drive and a DVD-ROM drive. The CD drive we never really use - since we don't burn directly from disc-to-disc (I rip it to my computer and then burn from there), the only real use for the CD drive is to maybe have a second disc in while there's something in the DVD-ROM drive, since the DVD-ROM drive can read regular CDs in addition to DVDs anyway. So to make room for the extra disk drive, we were going to take the CD drive out of each computer and replace it with the new E drive.

This was all well and good, and we got both computers all set up again, moved tons of stuff from the D and C drives to the new E drives, and we generally happy with life... until I tried to play Lost Planet and the disc wouldn't read.

It was at this point that I realized Dad has somehow slipped up and taken the DVD-ROM drive out instead of the CD drive.

So we took 'em apart again and switched the correct drives in. David set his up a couple of days ago, and it was working great. Yesterday, we bought Mass Effect for the PC, so last night I went to set my PC back up as well, booted it up, popped in the disc...

It still wouldn't read.

Naturally, I was puzzled, especially after double-checking to make sure that I had a DVD-ROM drive this time and finding that I did indeed have the correct drive. After a moment of sleuthing, I discovered that not only did my computer not think it had any kind of disc drive installed, but that it wasn't recognizing the E drive that I was fairly certain was still in there either. The E drive containing all of my subbed anime and all of my music and all of my images.

This displeased me.

Now, my family's crazy, so despite the fact that it was somewhere in the realm of 1:00 AM, Dad was still up. I brought the damn thing upstairs again and we took it apart once more right there on his bed to fix the problem. Turns out both the DVD-ROM and the new disk drive were set to "slave," so the computer was acknowledging neither. Simply switching the disk drive to "master" fixed the problem, and I quickly got my PC up and running again, installed Mass Effect, created my character, and went through the first awesome few minutes of the game before finally going to sleep at around 3:00 AM.

So right now, I'm off to play Mass Effect. Two last notes before I do: one, Soul Calibur Legends for the Wii has a crap story, laughable cutscenes (and in some cases voice acting), relatively bland environments, and repetitive enemies, just like all the reviews said it did... but it's still extremely fun to play. We got that yesterday too, and I've been killing my right arm with all the sword-swinging, and loving every hokey minute of it. Second, I'm finally employed again - I went back to my job at Shop Rite yesterday, and my first day on the job again will be this Wednesday at noon. Followed by this Thursday at noon, this Friday at noon, and this Saturday at 10:30 AM. And although the weekly schedule starts on Sundays so I don't know what time yet, I'm quite sure I'll be working this Sunday as well. So I should be able to buy stuff again very soon without having to wait for David to owe me money first. But the plus side is; earlier shifts! Just what I always wanted!

Now, I'm off to kill some Geth. I'll touch in again later.