It’s that time again, kids!
So, Jabba and I made it to the auto-show after all. I took some good pics, saw some cool cars, and even went to Arby’s!
Ok, Arby’s is not that amazing. I did ok in school last week, given that I really didn’t try at all. I’m just so sick of school. I guess I’m not that sick, but whatever, you know? It’s pretty low on my list of priorities.
Ok, so it has been a few days. I had a good run o’ blogging and now you’re worried that Wudan is back to his old, non-blogging habits.
While I reserve the right not to update, I must warn you, I had a 3 day weekend, and sitting around with Sukie always takes precedence.
We didn’t make it to the Auto Expo like we had planned. I was kind of psyched to take some pictures. I even took Jabba to get his hair cut. We even planned on going this morning, but didn’t make it 🙁
Oh well, don’t fret.
theorb77, Sukie, Daxero, Antigone, Krispy, Meryl, Yoshi, Jabba, and myself went bowling Thursday night. We found that there weren’t going to be lanes open til later, so ate at the Dragon Diner and then went bowling later.
The fad that these bowling places have is that they’ll play music and use black lights later on in the evenings. The first place I heard of doing this was at the not so FunDome, now just a big, stupid looking, run down building.
Anyway, bowling was not so great. But it had it’s moments.
Bowling, I guess, is a geeky enough sport to bring out the bloggers. At least Yoshi is good at it 🙂
Daxero got a strike. When theorb77 was up, the ball was about 2/3rds of the way down the lane when Daxero said, “He’s got one now.” Which, he did – theorb77, not a fantastic bowler, had just bowled a strike. Quite convinced that I could also get a strike, I bowled and got one as well. I thought it was pretty cool. Yoshi also got a strike, but he’s a better bowler than the rest of us, so it’s not like … a miracle that he knocked some pins down or anything.
The rest of the weekend was fairly boring. We ate out too much, were lazy too much, but got week 1 of our 8 week semester out of the way.
I’m completely unmotivated by school right now. I didn’t expect these classes to be cakewalks or anything, but I don’t really feel challenged. Maybe if I wanted challenge I’d have taken Statistics with Sukie, lol. Fat fricking chance. I’m done with that class and I’ll stay that way 🙂
When registration comes up for next semester I’ll have to make an appointment to have my credits checked for graduation. I still have plenty of semesters before summer so if I need something it can easily be taken care of 🙂
Sukie’s blog has a new look, it’s incomplete, like mine. I have a plan though, on how to make it super easy for me to change layouts. Of course, you’ll all have to use Firefox, like me. I was reluctant to use Firefox at first, but since switching I’ve noticed a dramatic reduction in the ammount of shit my computer has to put up with.
Way to go, Microsoft, you produced yet another peice of bloatware. Amazing.
Wow, I guess today is a twofer.
Those of you who know me know that I like local (Utah) history. I especially like old buildings and photos of old buildings when they were new. A few days ago I hit up the HABS/HAER collection that the Library of Congress maintains and saw that their website had got a serious revamping and it is now much faster.
Anyway, this got me to dig through Utah’s photo archives that are on-line and I found some really really really good ones? How good?
Let’s say I had a ‘sixth sense’ moment of shock and surprise when I did a search for my own family name, at this site and found something very amazing.
I came to a visitor’s register that had our family name on it, and it was basically a notebook with names scrawled on it, apparently from 1961. I didn’t know what to make of it. What was this log for? What member of my family was on it that made it relevant? I scanned the pages, slowly, slowly, trying to make out the names (I did this for a living for about 8 months in 1998-1999, so I know a few things about reading the writing of people who don’t think anybody will ever read the writing.)
So, scanning the page, I had one of those spine-tingling moments, you know? Like deja vu. Well, what hit my brain first is that I had recognized the handwriting on one particular line. Second, is that I recognized the names of my uncle, father, and grandfather, written, very legibly, almost 50 years ago, scanned a few years ago and catalogued. My dad would have been 12 or so.
Wow 🙂
edit: Even odder, is that it appears to have been Dax’s birthday, only … he wasn’t born yet!
Ok, so today is a pretty big day. Jabba and I finished watching Episode 6 (well, ok, he still has like a minute to go, but he has seen the part where Vader helps Luke, and it make Jabba feel good about Vader, especially since all he does for the last two movies is choke people and go on about his obsession with Luke Skywalker.) In his relentlessness and his obsession, I can see how Anakin Skywalker is the Darth Vader of the second (original) trilogy – he is more powerful than even the emporer, and, in a sad way, betrays the emperor in the same manner that I imagine he betrays Obi Wan.
Well, we’ll see.
Jabba also got interviewed by someone with the school district to see if he is a gifted child. I know he is gifted even if they don’t agree, but I spoke with his teacher who spoke with the interviewer and his teacher feels that there is a strong chance he’ll be selected to run with the gifted crowd.
I dug at Jabba after school to see what they said about him and what kinds of questions they asked him, he said that the lady told him he was a genius and that he got all the questions right. If she didn’t say that, it wouldn’t be the first time that the boy has told me something just because I wanted to hear it. It also wouldn’t shock me if it was the truth 🙂
As a parent, I always want to think your kids are special, and I am sometimes worried that my perception of my child’s brilliance is skewed.
It just occured to me that I am always bragging about Sukie and Jabba 🙂 I guess I just really love my family. In fact, now that I think about it, I have positive things to say about everyone in my family, even my extended families.
Wow, I guess everyone is awesome. By reading this, your awesome stat jumped 5 points! You celebrate with root beer floats.
Turn to page 43.
Well, today was another bust. I haven’t been working out like I had planned, but I shall not give up hope. Today I figured I’d go at 1pm, since last time I went I left at like 1pm, and the place was empty when I left. I could eat lunch after working out, and it’d be cool.
I guess Dax and Annie Mouse Lee are going bowling with Sukie, Jabba, and myself. Jabba is a great bowler 🙂
Tonight I’m listening to OffSpring’s Smash album, which is also another oldie but goodie. Those we’re two-layered shirt days.
I realize that in my late night blogging last night that I might have faltered to make one point that was in my head. I meant to say that I had idolized theorb77 when I was young and thought he was the coolest. When I got older he and I clashed quite a bit more (what didn’t I clash with, though?)
In recent times theorb77 and I have become rather good friends and he’s a pretty cool guy. He probably doesn’t think so as much, but this is life: the light of self-esteem wanes inversely proportional to your age. Isn’t in funny that your appraisal of self doesn’t get ‘better’ as you acquire more skills?
Well, not if you’re one of my kin, anyway.
I’m wondering if we don’t burn out and get pissed because we expect this from ourselves, though.
Well, I feel like digging up some Lost info. Ciao!
A coworker laughed at me when he heard what I was blasting from my iTunes. It was the Alanis Morissette album that started it all, Jagged Little Pill. Of course, a lot of the different songs remind me of different times of my life, roughly 10 years ago.
Wow. 10 years. In September we’ll have been back in Utah for ten years, following a brief 3 or 4 year stint in Colorado. It was in Colorado where we grew these really huge chips on our shoulders (I think I probably had one planted back then, that really surfaced when I got over here.)
It’s funny to think how much I idolized my brother, theorb77, back then. I wanted to chill with his peeps, and did, to some extent, and of course it was a bit of a territorial thing for theorb77, and we had words on a few occasions about my lack of ‘tact’. Well, ten years later and I have all the tact of a Dodo bird, but, hey, I eventually found my own way.
When I came to Utah, it is mindboggling how closed my mind was, at the time, to music. It’s fairly well known that I like to sample all the different kinds of music out there, and that I can learn to appreciate all of it. When I got here, I was all about depressing ole’ shoot-yourself-in-the-shed-life-sucks grunge music. I think after a while, Punk/Ska became the in-thing and Swing music became a mainstream fad for a while. I’m sure the die-hard ‘swing’ fans are glad we’ve all moved on to other things.
I digress (digress is what you do when you have a point), my musical tastes have fanned out like a beautiful peacock.
Did you know the peacock used to be considered up there with the goat as one of the devil’s minions? That’s just crazy. Good thing mainstream media has cleared this up for us: It is liberals and not goats and peacocks, who are the devil’s minions.
When the hell did liberal become a bad word anyway? Isn’t being ‘un-liberal’ the same as being ‘un-American’? I guess the double negative fizzles most folks’ brains.
On Saturday, Jabba, Sukie, and I went out to the ole’ Delton Lanes for some bowling. Ah, bowling. It’s super cute to watch lil’ Jabba drag his ball down the lane and give it a good shove. He did this for 10 frames, that’s just amazing. Who knew?
I wasn’t doing too bad, but couldn’t pick up a spare to save my life, but when I did, it was sweet. Sukie and I were in a dead heat coasting in to the final frames, but I came out with a spare in frame 8 and a strike in frame 9, and strolled through frame 10 to come out with 113. Not bad, but not great either 🙂 That’s me, in a nutshell 🙂
So, I keep meaning to blog about this, but I keep forgetting. I have figured out the trick of Lost, ABC’s hit TV show:
It’s the Bermuda Triangle, only … not really in Bermuda. However, look at that island they are on (ok, it’s really Hawaii, but whatever …) – there’s a big ole’ mountain they could have crashed in to. Basically, the plane was going to crash and DID NOT hit the ocean and hit the beach in a manner that it did not crash in to the mountains … LUCKY.
So, yeah, if it is a Bermuda Triangle like location, I’ll buy that there are other people there, since it’s a phenomenon that is familiar in memory.
Sukie and I BBQ’d in the snow last night. We moved fast and were able to fire off one round of hamburger patties before the coals cooled too much. They didn’t get to ash form because they cooled too quick to burn through all the way, so I’ve got a BBQ grill with half burnt coals and some cheese on the grill.
Still, it was nice to show mother nature who’s the boss. Truth be told, I wasn’t really up for the idea. About a week ago my arm started feeling funky, and it cleared up in two days, but these little damn blisters showed up on my arm the same time it felt better. Grrr. So, my arm was funky, and, as is the tradition of my people, we prefer to remain immobile if we are experiencing discomfort.
It’s almost all better though, it just hurts to move because of where the irritated skin is located. Annoying mess, that bit. Near as I can tell I was bit by something or had a reaction to some poison. Blech.
So, yeah. I was thinking that the drive home tonight should be taken especially slow, it is snowy and windy out 🙁
Wow, there’s an independent games competition in Park City in a few weeks. I read about this back in September and thought it would be cool to enter – except I didn’t have a game or a team, or time to make a game with the team I didn’t have. Anyway, here’a a
And since nobody else has posted links to all the games I had to track them all down myself:
ALIEN HOMINID
by the Behemoth
San Diego, CA
AVENCAST
by Michael Scheistl, Min Tri Do Dinh, Matthias Hilke, Marcel Ritter, Alexander Senfter, Stephen Sossau, and Marco Gallop
Innsbruck, Austria
HYPERBOL
Iocaine Studios
Yorba Linda, CA
Q’BICLES
Dragonfly Game Design, LLC
Marlborough, MA
REVOLVED
Alter Ego Games
Sammamish, WA
SCAVENGER HUNT
Jackson Dunstan, Jonathon Bryant, Kevin Neece, Doug DaSilva, Eric Smith, Jemal Armstrong, Lolin Turner, Shane McIntire, and Ryan Hammond
Ventura, CA
SECTOR 13
Reactor Interactive, LLC
Sinking Springs, PA
SHEPARD OF DREAMS
Ross Fergus, Brian Nadeau, and Victor Palmer
College Station, TX
TAKE BACK ILLINOIS
Persuasive Games
Decatur, GA
WACO RESURRECTION
C-Level
Los Angeles, CA
Ok, no links yet. But I promise that I’ll get them up there.
I feel really ‘pumped’ today. I went to work out at the rec, and walked like 1.5 miles and did 36 incline press lifts at 75 lbs. What I’m most proud of though, is that my Dragon program is in Open Beta.
I uploaded it to the ‘net thing here and BLAMMO people started a’ downloading it. Ok, not tons of people have downloaded it, but it’s going out to people who want to use it, nonetheless. It’s actually pretty crappy, considering that I started working on it TWO YEARS AGO, but pretty cool, when you think that I didn’t know jack about programming in C++ two years ago. Also, it’s cool that I go to gamedev.net and can answer questions about stuff. I’m not as smart as some of the blokes there, but considering that I’m an amateur in every sense of the word, I figure my knowledge of computer graphics theory is still fairly impressive, nonetheless.
Man though, I feel good about going to the gym and working out. I feel energized 🙂 I want to get my stamina up and then put a few attribute points in Dexterity so I can equip a bow.
Oh wait, this isn’t Diablo 2.
When I work out it’s like I can feel myself getting skinnier. It really changes my whole perception of self. I’ll probably never be as fit as Antigone though.
Anyway, I just found out that we don’t get Holiday pay for New Years or Christmas, but instead get *ass* Floating Holidays. These are basically paid days off that will expire at the end of January. 🙁
Oh well, more time with Sukie!
New layout, links not on there yet. Have to go to the store to pick up a gift for a wedding. Adieu!
