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.

27Sep/090

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Well, the weekend is about to be over. Back to another week of work! This week might be a little more interesting; I got roped into presenting a session on Moodle Administration at the upcoming HECC conference in November. And by interesting, I mean I have to pull a presentation out of my ass on a topic I was going to the conference to learn about. Ha. Still, a trade's a trade: I get to go to a day long seminar on Network Security, so at least I'll be getting something out of it.

Didn't quite make it to 20 on Maelfas, I got sidetracked with crafting and PvP in WoW. Made it to 19.5 though, so the next half level shouldn't be too difficullt to burn out. I was going to go to Morheim to start the campaign quests for level 20, but I can't get most of them yet. Ended up broke and grinding mobs for crap to cash in :) A few brokered items sold though, so I was able to get a NICE shield and enchant it. Should help out the survivability. Still trying to decide whether or not to spend some manastones for crit and attack to speed the damage, not sure if it's worth the cost for the gear that will be replaced in a few levels. Then again the leveling is kinda slow, so it might make that go a bit faster. We shall see.

Raped in WSG for a while on my warrior. People always complain about a level 50 in the 50-59 bracket. Sure, I might not be able to do a lot of damage to a 59, or at least that's the assumption. I threw it in the raid's face every battle though as I was #1 DPS on the ally side. L2play. Not that I'm trying to be elitist or anything, but that's pretty ridiculous to get on my back about being too low to make a difference and yet I'm putting out the most damage of 10 other people. They're all idiots, and I'm apparently better. Maybe that is elitism, but it sure as hell seems to be right to me! My plan for my warrior is to level her to 58 solely through battleground experience, then romp through Outlands and Northrend. Still haven't decided if I want to keep her as a 79 twink, or dual-spec Arms and Prot and replace Haf as my main. Time will tell I suppose, as I've got a ways to go to 80 ;)

Pix managed to find me on AIM tonight so I ended up logging in to WoW to tank Anub'Arak in the Trial of the Crusader 10 man raid. We made significant progress but couldn't manage to get him down. Only a few percentages away from the final phase, but our DPS couldn't stay alive long enough to get him there. Something to work on for the rest of the week, looks like. I was going to back to House-- (Oh my god this show is hilarious. I can't believe I never watched it back then. I'm about halfway through Season 3 at the moment; lolol.) but WoW seemed more fun at the moment. About to watch the new episode of Family Guy and Cleveland before I fall into the blissful embrace of nothingness we humans comfortingly call sleep.

Found out Erin's having a themed Halloween party. The theme is "Famous Historical Figures" -- My original idea of going as Hitler was shot down as some girl already called it :( So now my choices are between Eva Braun (Hilarious, but where do you get a gigantic dress?) and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill! The possibilities of ensuing debate and hilarity sound...intriguing. Just gotta figure out a churchill costume...I suppose I can just find a white suit, top hat and monocle; no one would know! Or maybe that was KFC's Colonel. Hey, maybe that would do >.>

And as I said, the weekend's about over, so I do believe I'll call it a night. Farewell, 1's and 0's!

17Nov/070

Wanna Touch My…WeeMee?

Yeah I dunno. WeeMees for everyone. :D

Josh, Erin, and Dan

10Aug/060

ArdenCrosse (1:33:01 PM): have you tried dvorak?
strangledmelody (1:33:12 PM): once
strangledmelody (1:33:33 PM): i had to beat my hands against a concrete block to make them work again

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20Jul/050

blar!

playing: Zero Wing Rhapsody | A Perfect Circle - Emotive (2004) - 10 - Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums

So, Katie and I are on good terms now. We'll both be 18 in like 9 days, so, we must have a huge birthday bash at Ryn's Basement on the 30th. All invited, bring food and/or presents. Or just your bodies. Or in fact, anyone's body. Alright fine, you don't have to bring anything, just come. Or don't, see how we feel. O_o. What now! Now you're confused!

So, I have a job at Taco Bell. I do things. In fact, I've been training the new recruits. Even though I myself have only been there 3 weeks. So confusing. Carmel Apple Empanadas = Amazing.

Amanda would look hot as a panda. That is all.

6Mar/050

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Wheee! So i spent all day at katie's house. fun fun. except when we were at joannes. Made something for someone. it was interesting.

<3 Katie!

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10Feb/050

February 10, 2005: 7:12 PM

playing: Donna Summers - Forever

So, yesterday was interesting. Our liturgy director had a cold on Ash Wednesday, so Katie and I got to sing. In front of a lot of people. :P but oh well. 'Twas fun.

I've started drawing again too. which is kinda weird. OH! and i got free food today. $40 meal at applebees, completely free. I love their manager now. Apparently, the order took longer than it was supposed to, because they dropped my sandwich. Awesome.

And...making bracelets out of cat4 is really harder than it looks. :/ Anyway, life is good. Back to working on teh websites. Which reminds me, i need to write the admin section for this blog. o_o;

AerynSun63: cool story idea
AerynSun63: now!
strangledmelody: um
strangledmelody: k
strangledmelody: so
strangledmelody: well
strangledmelody: there are these like robots
strangledmelody: and they are attacking these other robots
strangledmelody: and theres this human leading one side, and like, a zarkanoid leading the other, right?
strangledmelody: well, the robots accidentily kill their leaders
strangledmelody: and like, they dont know wtf to do
strangledmelody: so the start fighting again
strangledmelody: but one of them like, starts to feel feelings.
strangledmelody: and discovers some secret
strangledmelody: and brings back the leaders
strangledmelody: and then like, they start kicking robot ass for killing them in the first place
strangledmelody: and so then the robots take sides and attack humans and the zarkanoids
strangledmelody: but teh zarkanoids cant live in air
strangledmelody: so the robots learned how to fortify themselves against water strangledmelody: and now we have this huge war on Earth below water and above it, and the humans eventually triumph and kick enough robot ass
strangledmelody: that they remember that killing humans and zarkanoids is wrong
strangledmelody: and self descruct
strangledmelody: and/or turn into toasters.
strangledmelody: the end.
strangledmelody: now, go write that, before i get tired of waiting and write it myself.

<3 Katie!

10Jan/050

January 10, 2005: 12:19AM

playing: DJ Tiesto - Magik 1 - First Flight - Jake & Jesse - Low Turbulence

Wheee. So. Again with the lack of disk space. Annoying. In other news, happy birthday to Chris, and Sano uses flourescent lights?

Today was fun. Played some video games at Ryns house, took a 6 hour nap...yeah. Manda's home from the hospital. She sounded all drugged up when she called, which is just hilarious. More shit to do this week...dun wanna. :/

Shit I gotta do:

  • Physics worksheet
  • Physics toothpick tower
  • Phillip Powers website
  • Finish Admin section of blog
  • Put away clothes ( I CLEANED MY ROOM. w00t!)
  • Move computers into closet.
  • Clean out desk
  • Find time to sleep, and talk to Katie
  • Entertain thoughts of getting a new hard drive
  • Work on writing stuff.
  • Rearrange room; build some sort of desk/shelving thing so i have a place to work.

Should be interesting, no? Anyway, I'm off to work on physics, then get some sleep. >:S

 

3Jan/050

January 3, 2005: 10:23PM

playing: Evanescence - My Last Breath

So, I guess I've settled back into the scheme of things back at school. As much as i despise said scheme. -_- Hi Katie! And Erin! Seemingly, i have put off all of my homework until...now. Great. I spent today working on dynamicanizing a website for Phillip Powers, and playing some of the games on my blog. AND OH MY GOD! I FOUND WHAT I'VE BEEN MISSING RECENTLY!LEMMINGS! And Combat Flight Simulator. Anyone have a copy of these? I wanna play. :/
PHP. Ugh, I hate the shit. But it's one of those nessicary evils.PHP is the language i am the most fluent in, and yet the one i hate the most. Perhaps it is my fluency in it that fuels my hatred for it. Seemingly, a vicious circle. All my work gets done behind the scenes. If only you people knew how much work goes into making these websites work....aye. Back to the dreaming wessel. Beam me out, Scotty!

<3 Katie!

2Jan/050

zzzOMFGWTFSHIT AIEEEEEEEE!

yeah. that about sums it up. I hate school. Now don't get me wrong, I never used to hate school. Hell, I even used to like it. But this last semester of English has been hell. Absoute, utter, hell. Essay a week, if not more, thinking assignments, "how do you feel about x" assignments, etc. Horrible. Physics owns. Math is interesting. I might even say *GASP* fun. But English, previously my easiest and most enjoyed class, has turned to hell. Over Winter break, we had 6, count 'em, 6assignments. All of them multiple pages. 20 something odd pages of crap to write in our "free time" about shit that no one really gives a damn about. Ugh. And beyond that theres a major physics project due in a week that I haven't even started.
Gay.

I don't really mind the teacher. Just so much work. So, I've decided that im going to IBC to pursue a network admin/business admin degree. Should help with binaryfire, and finding another job as my primary source of income. Dunno which campus yet, depends where Dan/Erin/Katie are going. Speaking of Katie. <3. New Years' was fun.We should do it again sometime. (ha!). Read my game reviews. They own.
Off to finish these touchy-feely journal assignments so I can go to sleep, I guess. Great thing to look forward to. 5 hours of sleep and back to the indoctrination camp--school, sorry, we go. ...