At Years End and Oregon Trail

So it's that time of year again... time for the year to be over. But that's okay. It happens all the time. We'll be fine. The next year will be right there to comfort us when this one leaves us.

And to prove I'm not crazy I dusted off my old computer (equiped with Windows '98 if I'm not mistaken) and played some good old Oregon Trail. ^.^ While a hilarious game all on it's own it was much more fun when I made some Naruto characters (specifically Sakura, Naruto, Sai, Sasuke, and Ino) travel the trail.
They started their journey on April 1st with Sakura (a doctor) leading the mission. However it only took 14 days for things to go wrong at the Big Blue River crossing. Here tragity struck as the wagon sank and Sasuke drowned (and I laughed for a good minute's worth of time).
After that Sai went on a limb brakeing spree (an arm on May 6th, a leg May 9th, and another arm on May 16th).
Then the party decided it would be fun to bother snakes (lol). Naruto got bit a total of 3 times (May 28th, June 6th, and July 17th), Sai twice (August 8th and October 19th) and Ino once (August 15).
Cholera was contracted twice (Sai on June 22 and Naruto on October 21) and Typhoid was contracted once by Ino (on July 13th).
The journey came to an end on October 31 when the party finally reached the destination. Honestly I think it was a good thing the party leader was a doctor otherwise, will all his broken limbs, I think Sai would have died.

I played another round with an FmA theme (Hohenheim being leader with Edward, Alphonse, Roy, and Heiderich in the party) and it went a little better.
Alphonse (March 21-leg) and Roy (June 25th-arm) both broke limbs, Roy got lost (and about a week was spent looking for him), There were 4 snake bites (2 for Alphonse [July 1st and August 26th] and 1 each for Edward [August 11th] and Roy [May 3rd]), Edward kept getting exhasuted, and Heiderich got a fever.
Nobody died and the goal was reached in Good health. It took nearly three and a half extra months though. They started March 1st and didn't make it till December 11th.

So while on the subject of Fullmetal Alchemsit and Naruto there's some big news about both of them.
Naruto - Dattebayo will be dropping them as a sub since OFFICIAL subs will be avalible starting January. Subs will be avalible on Crunchyroll as well as the official English website (http://www.naruto.com)
Fullmetal Alchemist - The new series of FmA will be launching on television in Japan this coming April. A teaser trailer was fun on Sunday.
The trailer says, "New training … a fullmetal artificial limb, a body of armor … the brothers' journey begins. Fullmetal Alchemist: April 2009 Training. In this palm, is there hope or despair?"*

*Sorce: AnimeNewsNetwork