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Adventures in Video Games
2005-04-14 16:42:32
Hmm. How should I start this week's journal? I know! I'll prove how much of a geek I am by talking about video games! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Heh heh. Huu. Oh boy. A lesson to remember when playing RPGs, always use more than one save bracket when progressing. If you screw up and can't advance any further in the game, a second saved game will help you out. You'll find yourself at a previous spot in the game and you won't start ALLLL the way back at the beginning of the game when you correct your mistake. I've been experiencing this with F.F. IX. I'm up to the end of Disk 3 and I finally figured out how to give Dagger and Eiko their summon abilities. I can't believe I didn't figure it out earlier. Anyway, now that I know how, I can level them up and level up some more abilities for the other characters too. This will make the final battle easier (thinks back to preparing for three months to beat the final version of Sephiroth(?). Or was it six?) I tried Pump It Up earlier today, at an arcade of all places. I'm amazed our town actually has a decent arcade machine that I can find, next to Tekken 4 of course. For those of you who don't know, Pump It Up is the Korean knock off of Dance Dance Revolution, and it's harder too. Instead of having the arrows point up, down, left and right, the arrows point in the diagonals and there's a button in the center as well. It was really fun to play, but I need a lot of practice before I'm good. Even though I'm a level 5 on D.D.R., with the ability to use hidden and reverse mode, I'm only a level 2 on Pump It Up. Well, practice makes perfect.
I'm extremely late in announcing this, but my secret internet writing project has been posted on April 1st. My entry to the Anime News Network's April Fools articles is the 4Kids License Ebichu article. It was neat writing this short deal, and I'm glad it made people laugh. And I'm especially glad I fooled so many people, HA-HA-HA!
Things are coming along nicely as far as the play goes. I have almost all of my lines for act 1 memorized, I just have a few rough spots to get through, but I'm not worried at all. I still need to remember the real names of the people I'm working with, but I'm still getting along with them fine. Can't wait.
Arigatomina is taking this banner thing too seriously, even more than me. I just think there's too many, but she's just being goofy about this.
-Current Writing Progress: I know exactly where I'm going, for the most part, but the play is making me slack off. -
Opportunities of the stage await me.
2005-04-07 15:22:13
Good news for me. I actually got a part in the play I auditioned for. I'll be playing the part of Brother Felix in the play, "Incorruptible: A Dark Comedy About the Dark Ages." After reading the script, I find that it's extremely funny, but also slightly serious at times. While this is very exciting for me, I'm also kind of nervous because I have so many lines I have to put into memory. I'm almost not sure I can handle them all. To prepare myself, I have been spending a lot of time memorizing the script, but not enough I guess because I'm still doing the otaku thing. I'm also spending less time on the writing and AMV projects because of this. Hopefully rehearsals and blocking will help me out, I just hope I don't forget anything when performance time comes around. Oh, and if anyone was looking forward to seeing me at ACen (I doubt it though), tough luck. You'll just have to see me at Anime Iowa.
Linux is becoming pretty interesting. I'm not sure I could even use any of the command module functions in any real life situation, so a big majority of the work we're doing seems pointless. Besides, we have GUI as a part of Linux, why even bother with the text commands?
After having maybe a year or so with no results, my Divx player works on the school's computers again. Now I can watch more AMVs again, and maybe even contribute to the whole discussion of AMVs in a bigger way. Somehow, Mpeg files have worked again as well. Now I can waste even more time in the computer labs when I should be doing something more productive. Unfortunately, my Divx player won't play XVid videos and I can't download it because the school won't let me download half of the stuff I want. Oh well, at least I'm happy now.
Hey Shayna, if you're reading this, I have become one of those people, and I'm sure you're one of the seven that reads mine.
-Current Writing Progress: Very little progress. I'm know where I'm going with the story, but it's getting harder to describe what's happening. -
Let's see how far I can get by faking it.
2005-03-24 17:26:00
Some slightly big news in the internship search. I found a job post asking for a computer programmer. I came across this listing at a website for a career development center. What they basically do is post want-ads from different businesses, accept resumes from people looking for employment and offer training seminars for people looking for a job. Anyway, I submitted my resume and I hope to hear something soon about it. Problems is, I'm totally under-qualified. They ask for someone who knows Excel and Access, those I know very well. But since it's a programming job, the applicant needs to know Visual Basic, a program I know very little about. Visual Basic is part of my degree program, I just haven't taken it yet. So obviously, I'm not going to get the job at all, the only reason I submitted a resume was so I could get my name out in the open.
Last Sunday, my mom took a vacation out to Texas to see her sister. A few weeks ago actually, this was the same sister who had a minor stroke. She's been doing fine since then, so this wasn't an excuse for mom to go down and take care of her. She's been telling me she had a wonderful time and I'm glad she did, 'bout time she had some fun. Anyway, she comes home today and I plan to ask her how it went.
The audition for the play I want to be in takes place Tuesday. As I've said before, this is something I really want to do. But if I get a part, then my chances of going to A-Cen are non-existent. The funny thing about all of it is, I don't really care one way or another. I'm not excited about A-Cen and I'm not excited about the play. No matter what I end up doing, I'm going to be having fun anyway. I'm sure I'l be more psyched about it come May.
I know you're not reading this Ms. the Boring, but I just want to clarify, it's her finger. (sigh) If you look really closely, you can see her hand attached to it.
-Current AMV Progress: Little to no progress. I want to rush right through this and get it done, but that would mean I made a crappy video and I've seen too many to convince myself never to make videos that way. Expect even less progress next time.
-Current Writing Progress: Chapter 4 is all done. The fight scene is turning out alright, but it seems too short when I read it back. -
Don't kiss me 'cause I'm Irish, kiss me 'cause I'm a cute stud.
2005-03-17 16:57:15
I have been pretty amazed that for the past couple of days, it's been snowing. It's March. It's suppose to be spring. What the heck is going on? I don't know if this has anything to do with global warming, weird climate changes or if it's some nuclear winter. I still like snow, but only during the winter. If we're still getting it in June, I'm going to go nuts.
An old friend of ours has contacted us for the first time in five years to announce that she's getting re-married in October. It was really great to hear from her after all of this time. We've always been wondering what happened to her, turns out she lives in Cincinnati now. Glad to know that's she's on her feet again. Anyway, she has invited us to the wedding and I am really interested in going, I just hope I don't have too many commitments to deal with when the time comes.
Started my Linux class last Tuesday. The O.S. doesn't really seem all that much different from the Windows O.S., but then again I'm just starting out on the class. I understand you have to mount the drives in order to get the disks working, mount the drives? You mean like get on top of them? Anyway, I don't really see how anyone would want to use Linux, it doesn't really look like you can use any software on it. I mean no one ever says that Linux is a requirement to run whatever software you want.
Ms. the Boring, if you're reading this, most people on the internet are fucktards because they were born that way. If I had a mic, and a kick-ass comp to go with it, I'd show them what vocal talent is.
-Current AMV Progress: I think I should just update this whenever I get some substantial work done.
-Current Writing Progress: Things have been turning out better than I thought they would. Fight scenes are actually coming to my mind without too much thinking, with variety as well. Might be close to finishing up the most recent chapter. -
Hmm. Going freelance is probably my best option.
2005-03-10 18:28:59
Nothing is coming up as far as internships go. Once again it has to do with the fact that there are not a lot of career opportunities in town for web design. The company I hoped to get an internship from isn't even offering. I think the only way I'm going to get any job prospects in web design is to actually get a real job, but that won't happen until I get my degree. I'm not going to stop trying though. I'm just going to pester people until they're sick of me.
Went to an awesome musical last Sunday, "Memories of a Non-Jewish Childhood." Adapted from a novel from a local novelist and written by a local writer. How cool is that? The story centered around a day in the life of a young Dubuque boy during World War II, attending classes at a Catholic school, Saint James the Lesser. The title of the musical was misleading though, it had nothing to do with anything Jewish, you'd think it was about a Christian boy growing up in a Jewish majority community, weird. Anyway, it was extremely funny, and I couldn't believe how great the talent was. I worked with the lead before in a show choir group last year, and he couldn't project his voice at all, just relied on me and some of the other older guys to carry for him, but he's really come a long way since then. His voice sounded really great, a lot of the kids in this play were really great. I hope they keep doing this theater thing because I know they could all go a long way.
My mom is really starting to annoy me. It's because of the fact that she never wants to do anything alone, totally opposite from me. Mom wanted to go to Iowa City to see the original manuscript from the novel "On the Road". I know it was something she really wanted to go to, and she wanted me to come along as well. I love going to I.C., any chance I can get, but I couldn't because I already had plans to see the musical. And since I couldn't join in the fun, she just decided not to go at all. Also, there's a live taping of a nice radio program on public radio that mom wanted to go to on Friday, but I'm working that day. It's like she's too afraid to go out in the world all by herself. Why can't she just take her own personal adventures like I do?
I'm in fear of having my lower teeth fall out due to gum recession. Blame it on the fact that I brush my teeth too hard. Whatever.
-Current AMV Progress: Same old same old, slow progress...but. I've finished picking scenes for all of the choruses. I now have over half of my scenes picked out! Expected to have this sucker done by early September, I WANT to finish it by August.
-Current Writing Progress: Secret writing project finished. When the time comes, I will let you know what it is. Average progress going on Soul of Fire Prt.2 Chp.4.
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