BLAG Ramblings of a crazy old fool

9Mar/110

Mmpf

Sick days are always the worst. Especially when they are unpaid. I woke up this morning with the worst migraine I've ever had (I blame Erin and Dani playing ChronoCross all night), and decided I needed to stay home; there's no way I'd make it through the day like this. So now I have the day to myself, but I can't even enjoy it because everything feels like a bad acid trip with a robot elephant standing on my head. Worked a bit on the site, made the media section work sortof; built a dinky foreach/scandir/lightbox dealie for a nice gallery view. Toying with the idea of playing with mod_rewrite today.

Erin and Dani are off to see Dani's therapist; apparently she wanted to meet Erin. Guess I'm just not important enough to want to meet. Whatever. Dunno what I'm gonna do for the next couple hours. I watched the Blizzard 20 year video, and it yet again reaffirms my want to make my business happen. I love video games, and I'd love to work for a video game company. Blizzard, in particular, would be fantastic. I love everything about the company, from it's history and culture, to the games it makes. Perhaps someday.

1Oct/090

Rain, Rain, Go Away — No Wait, Come Back!

First good rainstorm of the season tonight. Was pretty sweet :) Windows are open, AC is off, its somewhere between 50-55 in our apartment. Perfect weather.

Long-ass week coming to a close now. I caught a cold on Friday sometime, and it kicked my ass around 'till Wednesday. Outta sick days though, so Day-Quil and caffeine have gotten me through the last couple days at work. I think it's finally clearing up now though, which is good. Should make the weekend all the more enjoyable!

I ended up working on a project with some of my family members on Wednesday (more to come tomorrow!). My grandfather invented the G! Panel, which is a modular paneling system for geodesic housing. It's actually pretty sweet; I'm not sure what his marketing plans are for the future, but it sounds like a design project might be coming my way sometime. He is entering his product in an online product promotion video contest, and enlisted the help of several family members in scripting, casting, shooting, and post-production. I was able to snag a GL video camera from work, along with studio/stage and editing time. It should be a pretty good looking and fun project! We spent a few hours shooting on location at a geodesic home, and a few mock locations. More filming and post-production starts tomorrow.

I haven't been playing anything a whole lot this week, on account of my insides trying to get outside. I did make it to 21 on my templar in Aion, which is fun. Scored a sweet deal on a lvl 22 stigma, so whenever I manage to get around to leveling... Sammi is beating me! :( She hit 28 sometime today, and I've not moved from my ~20 position in a while. Did a little PvP in wow on the warrior, but nothing much to speak of.

Dani found a working WoW private server/emulator, so we played around on there for a while. Ran around spawning a private army of Lich Kings, getting them to follow me around, and slaughter random NPCs. It was pretty sweet. Also spawned Algalon in an ocean and slaughtered him for fun. >.>

Getting paid tomorrow! Finally my bank account will no longer be negative. -_- After I pay the bills, I might have enough to buy food. This sucks. I applied for a job yesterday, at Blizzard Entertainment. It's a Night/Weekend Network Ops Tech job, which is pretty sweet. More or less my dream job, and working for Blue sounds awesome. Unfortunately it's in California. So, if they do want to interview me, it's going to cost over $600 just to get there and back. I almost hope they don't want me, but at the same time I really want that job. :/

Off to sleep I suppose, more work tomorrow, more filming, and at some point I probably need to start working on that big presentation for next month. Farewell!

24Sep/090

I’m Back, Baby!

Website's back up! I found a style I liked and played around with it a bit. Still needs some work, but its good enough for me at the moment! Lets see, roommate got a job, so I don't/shouldn't have to cover all of the bills. Should mean I'll start having some extra cash soon. No more ramen perhaps!

I've started playing Aion: The Tower of Eternity, a Korean/Chinese-style MMORPG. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is fun, and it's a lot more challenging than any other MMO I've played recently. Up to level 16 right now on my Templar, hopefully finishing out 20 by the end of the week. I'm not rushing anything, I'd prefer to enjoy the game up to end-game, rather than burn out leveling and hate it. Still can't really decide between the Templar and Chanter classes, but the Templar is further along at the moment ;)

I haven't quit WoW exactly.. closer to taking a break. I don't really enjoy playing anymore except on my 49 Warror; WoW's endgame just sucks. There's no point in getting gear, it will just be replaced in a month by a new tier. PvP is unbalanced and not nearly as fun as it used to be. I find that I only login on the weekends, because my guild needs me to tank progression content. Content that we haven't progressed anywhere in for months. I love all my friends in WoW, but I've been playing less and less recently. I don't want to quit playing, because of the social aspect, but I can't very well demand that everyone play the game I want to play now can I? :)

There are several people from the guild playing Aion though, along with the roommate and couple friends. I suppose if I do decide to quit WoW it won't be cutting off from everyone, but still...I don't know.

Well, back to working on the website. Most of the data is being pulled from MySQL correctly, except for the stuff with # links...They don't work exactly. /at all. Once that's all dynamic, I get to figure out how to build an admin piece, integrate uploading photos, etc. Then sanitize it, and repackage for hosting. Ya know, I've been trying to sanitize and repackage a blogging solution for...years? now, and I never seem to finish.

Perhaps this time will be different...

17Nov/070

Wanna Touch My…WeeMee?

Yeah I dunno. WeeMees for everyone. :D

Josh, Erin, and Dan

17Nov/070

Life at Home

Living at home is fucking rediculous. Seriously. What the fuck.

So I'm living at home again temporarily (house got robbed, servers got stolen, car broke down, etc.) But let's skip back a bit. Why did I leave in the first place? Oh right, I moved to another state and took a night job so I could completely avoid my parents for forever. Ironic, isn't it.

I got a fantastic job, doing exactly what I want to be doing, I'm the building technician for a school here in Indiana. And in ten years, I see myself as working in the same place, but higher up the chain, with better pay. So. Job=Score. The plan is to live at home until I can replace the transmission on my car, then move out and grab a place here locally with my best friend. However, I'm beginning to think that even having my own place isn't going to be far enough away again.

So I wake up at 11AM (pretty early for programming/designing websites until 5AM) and play music/do math homework until around 2ish, then grab some food. Here comes the rediculous part, my father complains about what I'm wearing to go through the drive-thru on my day off. I mean shit, at least I'm wearing clothes by 2PM on a Saturday, isn't this an improvement?

Blah blah, played some WoW, played some Halo, dad comes in and bitches about our `language` (we even tone it down at my house, i think the worst that came out was `oh my god`), blah blah, Dan goes to work. Then my sister's like holy crap im bored, let me play. And here come the dramatics.

~20 minutes or so into it, he comes out and starts screaming at us. Like really screaming. Apparently, my brother has ben telling him every time we say `oh my god` (jesus christ grow up you little bastard), and like the good catholic he is, he comes out and goes on some bible-thumping campaign. Something about the first commandment, mortal sins, blah blah blah. Then apparently we're wasting our lives playing video games, the computer is a devil machine, some other bullshit. Something about us eating all their food. Is it just me, or do I remember leaving and getting food. And not eating any of theirs. ...

So I ask him, Who cares that we're playing games all day, it's our day off. Well, that was the wrong thing to say. Apparently he cares. And I should be working on something productive, instead of playing games. Working. On a saturday. And I should be working on homeowrk, which isnt due until Monday, and I should be studying for my certifications, which I won't be taking until I have an extra $200-1500 to blow on worthless tests.

So I guess I'm just trying to decide whether I should get all my bills paid off before moving out, or if I can even last that long. We'll see.

6Aug/060

strangledmelody : i love utterly destroying peoples hopes and dreams.
bloodmune79 : ?
strangledmelody : this guy posted this video of some interpretive dance. and i commented on it: "your a fag. quit dancing around like a fairy and get a job. better yet, dance some more and choke on your own vomit."
strangledmelody : and he responds: "*cry*"

bloodmune79 : my big toe is spurting blood
bloodmune79 : its annoying
strangledmelody : um
strangledmelody : cheetos?
bloodmune79
: what!?
strangledmelody
: indeed, i find your proposal very interesting.
bloodmune79 : wait!!....WTF@!#$
strangledmelody : however, i find your methods of effectively communicating your goals to be lacking, and in need of desperate repair.
bloodmune79 : ....
strangledmelody : ah, ..., i agree wholeheartedly
bloodmune79 : ....
strangledmelody : indeed.

strangledmelody : c|:-= OMG IM AMISH

strangledmelody : you know, the site thats so cool it could be your homepage if you werent frozen in awesome fear each time it loaded.
bloodmune79 : it...it is my homepage...
strangledmelody : ah.
strangledmelody : good.
strangledmelody : all is going according to the plan.
strangledmelody : soon, the WORLD will be MINE!!!
strangledmelody : ...yeah, its mine too

 

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15Apr/050

Friday April 15, 2005

8:29 AM

Siiiiiiick. I've been periodically throwing up for the pat several hours -- let me tell you, that's not pleasant.So thirsty too, but I don't have any dew. I guess I'll have to drink water. It's freaking friday too. Goddammit.

I feel that I simply have to repost from yesterday. so:

*rachel threatens danny and i by turning up radio.*
*she waves her hand in a 'lighter'-like position*
Me: "This isn't music you do that to. This is country music. This is music for burning the flag and persecuting blacks!"

<3 Katie!

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14Apr/050

Thursday, April 14, 2005

*rachel threatens danny and i by turning up radio.*
*she waves her hand in a 'lighter'-like position*
Me: "This isn't music you do that to. This is country music. This is music for burning the flag and persecuting blacks!"

XD.

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11Apr/050

Monday April 11, 2005

So. The talent show was a fiasco. my hosue is hot. katie is awesome. prom is on the 22nd. and...i have beef jerky and orange soda. life. is. good.

I have officially taken over the technical aspect of the musical. This means, if you have something cleared with Prather, come tell me so I can make sure it happens.

Danny might come live with me. o_O

DDR! CONVINCING PARENTS MODE ALMOST COMPLETE!

<3 Katie!

14Feb/050

February 14, 2005: 12:56 AM

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is my official Valentine's Day post.

Well, it's that time of year again. Time for candy, flowers, professions of undying love, etc. Fun fun. At least for the girls. :-P

Being the in the mood for it, and bored at 12:30 this morning, I decided to scour the Internet for images relating to V-day. And below are the best results:

And there you have it, the best images of the season. :-P . A happy Valentine's day to all, and especially to Katie. You make life interesting.

Well, happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Katie and Dan and I had a wonderful dinner at: Taco Bell. :P Awesome. And i finished that Cat5 bracelet, with some help from Katie. (Ok, a lot.) I may post some pics of it sometime. or make a new one. something like that.

I FOUND THE SONG THAT HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD FOR 3 WEEKS NOW.
Eric Clapton - Leila
Awesome song. Go buy it. $1/song, almost anywhere you look.

<3 Katie!