| Artistry |
[Wednesday, 23rd May 2012, 10:21PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | Playin' |
| | Pony Rock Anthem | ] |
I'm neither a Brony NOR a fan of Party Rock, but this effin kicks ass. XD
Also wow, I finally updated my DeviantART. I might actually upload my fancels one day. XD |
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| Rusty |
[Monday, 21st May 2012, 09:56AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  relaxed | ] |
Last week aside, the past few weeks of my life have been as uneventful as they could've been. Last Monday our higher-ups came to a conclusion that the local team drew on day one (Prejudiced? Maybe), which was that the core of the program was not workable enough to get something pretty enough to release, so we replaced the whole damn thing in a different language that I'm unfamiliar with. As of that day, pretty much all of my work time has gone into learning this new thing (C#). I also lost my will to game about a week ago. Generally anything I played, I either sucked at or was just boring. This conclusion was reasonably upsetting.
Last Thursday was a holiday, so I took Friday off and stated some goals for the weekend. They got augmented when I found an angry letter from the landlord that we were supposed to clean up this pigsty or he would have it done on our costs. This ticked me off for a great many amount of reasons: First off, I'm still not over stoner and bitch + entourage that were not capable of living with other people and made our lives a hell, landlord never bothered to come check up when all four rooms were rented out, but now that one of the places is for rent, he's suddenly breathing down our necks, without any prior phone call, more pleasant reminder or anything, and RIGHT after I cleaned the friggin' toilet (which was one of the things he was pissy about). Damn thing was whiter than it ever was (Thank you, Harpic XD).
So I sat there, trying to calm down, only to get more enraged with every second that passed, until I decided to just let it go by calling him. After a pretty intense 5-minute rant about pretty much everything from the last paragraph, he admitted he may have been a little anxious, what with everything not going his way (his store isn't doing well, a couple of his houses are running a loss, pretty much everything I couldn't care less about), he tried to make me see things his way, and justify his angry tone. I proceeded in turning it all around, and explained how I can't help it that he's made some poor choices, and that he shouldn't lose oversight over the great amount of ventures he purchased. In the end he apologized for his tone, and purely for the sake of relations, I apologized as well, even though I meant every word I said.
So I cleaned most of my room, and (with my brother) pretty much all of the house, which also has never been this clean, and Saturday I went out to shop for a floor for the apartment. I ended up ok-ing a slightly more expensive floor, but instead of the planned laminate I went for parquetry, which will apparently increase effectiveness of my floor heater, reduce sound and was only slightly more expensive than proper laminate (discount batch at dump price, win!). Still, it's another financial setback and the laying cost were so high, I'm going to have to do that part myself. Gonna have to buy glue, laying equipment and oils myself. The rest (including floor skirts and transportation(!)) was included in the fees. I did end up spending all of May's paycheck, including the holiday bonus. I have my financial backup though, so I'll be fine. ^_^
The rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful, with generally nice weather (OPEN WINDOWS ZOMG!). Thanks to Steam, I (FINALLY) discovered Assassin's Creed, and I'm really hooked. I now have both part I and II, and might end up buying the other two parts as well, some time in the future, depending on how I finish I and II. I must admit, AC has really given me faith in the modern-day gaming industry again. Even though the game itself is reasonably repetitive and easy, the story and their creative way of showing beautiful maps is a large redeemer. Besides, easy can be fun - especially when you get to pounce a guy and drive a hidden blade into his neck with awesome cutscenes (no pun intended).
Another thing I've been doing is catching up sleep, probably hitting the 48 hours in the last four days, resulting in a shift of my awake hours, which didn't help when I went to bed at 11 last night - fell asleep at 2 and I'm dead tired now. XD Still pretty relaxed, seeing as I got a lot of stuff done. Now I'm slightly anxious about the planning of the apartment. Painting, flooring, kitchen... It's all got to be done in a reasonably narrow timespan, methinks...
Games I've played recently: Dungeons And Dragons Online (Eberron), Total Annihilation Works Project, Audition Online and Assassin's Creed. |
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| Also, tagged by Heather! |
[Monday, 7th May 2012, 08:13AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  tired | ] |
Except, I'm not posting the rules, as they are default. Y'know, post the rules, do the questions, force the meme on x others, etcetera.
1. Who would you like to sit down and have coffee or a beer with? (Real or fictional, alive or dead) And what's the first question you'd ask them? Shampoo. If she was willing to marry me in whichever way possible.
2. Who's been the biggest influence on you, and why? My family, really. I guess they've shown me a lot of things that can go wrong, which form a lot of educational moments for me to improve myself.
3. What's your plan in the event of a zombie attack? Within the next half year, nothing much. Kitchen knives and decapitation. I intend to go down fighting anyway. After that, I'll have my swords at my disposition again. Let the cleaving commence!
4. I've come to your house for dinner. What are you cooking? Random, easy stuff. Stuff that generally takes less time to prepare than to eat. I hate cooking.
5. Who would play you in a movie? Patrick Steward, I hope! He's been a physical role model for me for a while now, and seeing him on TNG again makes me appreciate who he is. :3
6. Best book you've ever read, and why. Harry Potter. Not one of the last three, but before that, the story was completely proofed of everything and very well written. The last three books weren't bad, per se, but the first four were more impressive.
7. Do animals have souls? Discuss. Well, I'd say animals have as much of a soul as humans do. But in such a way souls really just are the electronic relays in the brain, the shocks between the synapses that go out the moment they are no longer being fed.
8. Money is no object, you can go wherever you want - how do you spend the weekend? A weekend? I need more than a weekend to catch up with Hiro and U-chan, really... Alas, money is a subject, and the weekends will be spent at home, gaming.
9. When's the last time you cried? Quite frankly, I can't remember. I think it was at the beginning of this year, over a woman, no less!
10. What's your favourite cocktail? One without alcohol.
11. Tell me your favourite Horror Movie Rule. If it starts with Saw or Final Destination, it's basically hilarious. Otherwise they're either cheap or horrific and I don't find them worth the time of watching. |
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| I'm still alive! |
[Monday, 7th May 2012, 07:56AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  exhausted | ] |
Well, hello there, few stubborn readers that still check if I write something substantial! Truth is, I haven't really done much of that in a while, huh? Nothing interesting could turn this journal into something that isn't the life of average Joe, I guess... So, here's the last two weeks of my life in text:
I've been gradually getting more and more tired again. Today's special, as DDO's Crystal Cove event is ending today, and I needed to finish one more item, I did four runs too many for a decent night's sleep. As a result, my head's light, but the rest of my corpse-to-be is pretty heavy. I've been playing a lot of DDO recently, and by a lot I mean I'm back to the level of before last Crystal Cove, for which I took a week off. Pretty much playing whenever I've got time for it, and obviously, sometimes when I shouldn't have time for it. That said, I'm still hoping some of my friends will check the game out, but it's probably in vain. The game itself requires a basic knowledge of D&D, which most people directly correlate to the nerds in mom's basement. This is an astutely wrong correlation, as most people playing this are actually even older than me and married, with their spouses playing as well. I swear if I ever find someone who's willing to do that I might just change for them!
Shampoo-wise, not much is happening, while I'm getting drowsy again, I refuse to work on a statue that's been gathering dust for half a year plus now, and I've been postponing my celwork until after I move. I did get another statue though, and it should arrive somewhere this month. It's really an exception on my otherwise pretty tight self-funding, which I've come to realize is about equal to my brother's, who works at a local supermarket. What's a diploma worth nowadays, huh?
Segwaying into my work-life: I've not yet gotten used to the fact that nothing substantial is happening right now, I've taken on a sub-project which might vanish during the next couple of months, along with some other advances I was pretty proud of. It's a decent way to waste time, I guess, but otherwise, I really wish people would finally stick their damn head out and make some decisions. On-site, we're being exposed to a ridiculous quasi-school project in which we are "being driven to become more customer-oriented". What's funny is that most people here don't even realize just exactly who their customers are. The reason I'm calling it quasi-school is because we actually have classes in which we are taught nothing at all, but tossed some silly nonsensical assignment straightaway, which doesn't just impede my (our!) working progress, but insults my intelligence AND my customer service attitude at the same time. This month's assignment: Thinking of the stations before and after me to eliminate the weakest link! This is very useful for the IT-branch! Except not really!
I quit watching Supernatural. Season 6 was just too incongruent for me to continue. With that out of the way, I'm not well into Season 2 of Star Trek TNG and I'm starting to see some episodes that I've seen before, on Dutch TV. This is very reminiscent and I'm generally having a good time. Also very nostalgic is the DVD of The Sword In The Stone, which I intend to get soon (I'm waiting for a good store offer), and have pre-downloaded and watched in Dutch. That's right! I'm watching a Dutch voice-over of something! I actually think the Dutch voice-over is better than the English original! What is happening to my world???
On the good-news side of the story I end with this: I've gotten used to my Shampoo shoes, mostly. This is a real breather for me as I didn't expect this to happen, ever, anymore. With the ending of Crystal Cove, I expect to get more sleep this week, which may lead me to finally finish my current statue. I've got two more (soon to be three) that I want to finish. |
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| Random Ramblings |
[Sunday, 22nd April 2012, 12:19AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  sick | ] |
So much weird shit happened recently. First off, I got sick for the first time in over 5 years. By sick I mean more than a one-day flu. Wednesday I was unable to move my body at all in the morning, could barely manage a text when I woke up the eighth time (cough fits and muscle spasms/aches) and very wisely stayed at home. Next day I figured I could take it again, I was still a little sneezy and was still producing mucus at an interesting rate, to say the least, and just to be sure I took friday off, which was a good thing to do, as I was back in my ouchie state when I got home on thursday, which has pretty much remained unchanged until this afternoon. I am now still having major coughing fits (surprised not to have seen any blood coughing yet), and am generally uncomfortable everywhere.
Nothing much else happened to me, per se. I've been playing DDO until my eyes hurt, got rest and repeated the process until it was either feeding time or sleeping time. This country hasn't seen much political turmoil, relatively speaking. We've got that peroxidated omni-phobic attention-whore rambling something every once in a while, and stupid as the press is, they love making headlines of it. No-one cares about the future of this otherwise pretty decent country. They've been blabbering about costs here and costs there, budgetcuts on things regular working folk (also known to them as plebs) or sick people (known as rejects) need. Also education, because who the hell needs education, right? After 7 weeks of that shit, they've decided they can't deal with each other's ideas, because there's only one way. Well, that and the highway. We used to ridicule other countries for their stupid politics, but we're not even able to seperate our own church and state!
Also, two trains collided near Amsterdam CS today and all I could muster up was an admittedly reasonably funny and not entirely out of line (no-one died!) joke. I'm on that verge of going emotionally numb again. I don't really mind right now. I want to feel physically better before I mentally feel better again. ._. |
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| Writer's Block: Fan Me |
[Monday, 16th April 2012, 08:13AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  worried | ] |
I can't remember any fandom before Shampoo. If I had them, they lasted short and weren't worth the memory. As for how I participated... It started with icons, became an image collection, then a cel collection, shirt collection, color affection, suffice to say that pretty much anything in my life is Shampoo. It's something people need to deal with before they can become my friend. She's more of my life than I am. This makes perfect sense, since some things happened to me that I'm still not comfortable writing in public about just yet.
Last week has been horridly uneventful. I am working on a very gay piece of jewelry, which might turn out to look very awesome. Apartment-wise, the only mentionable thing is that I'm considering stepping out of the technical committee. I am very sure I don't have what it takes, but the other member of the committee has so far maintained a perfect radio silence. I feel a little trapped in my own inability to find some decent results and think about the future of the place. It's saddening, although reflecting on my biggest fandom does shine some happy light on it. |
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| Writer's Block: Old School (Followed by a legion of rambling sentences) |
[Thursday, 12th April 2012, 08:09AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  creative | ] |
Crystal Castles. But in all fairness, I played that game mostly on the Atari 2600. Still have that cartridge and console lying around. I've been trying to get myself to plug that thing in for 2 years now, and I'm slowly coming to the realization that until I move to my apartment (a day coming ever closer - yay!) it just ain't happening. I'm too preoccupied with other games.
Speaking of other games, I'm totally back into DDO. Someone helped me pass the rediculously hard to pass levels TR7 and TR8, and after that it all happened so fast I can't properly remember it. Right now I'm catching up with the favor I missed whilst I was being rushed to level TR13, which I've passed at the time of writing. Other games I've thoroughly enjoyed since my hiatus were Star Trek Online and Mass Effect 3. Apparently the call to DDO was powerful enough to interrupt my second play-through in ME3. I guess I'm one of the people that didn't enjoy the ending as much as I wanted to.
I did extend my read list a bit. I want to read that new Mass Effect book, Deception, But I've heard the book is currently undergoing some brutal editing because of consistencies, and I don't want to ruin this franchise any more than necessary right now. I also want to read Kobayashi Maru. The old version, of course, not the fucked-up Enterprise version, which is still a branch of Star Trek I want nothing to do with. Also as per recent mention, I want to read a couple of Tek-books, although I'm not sure which ones and how many altogether. Besides, I'm still slowly plowing through Dune, which is proving to be an interesting, if not complicated, read. I might also go for another set of Eberron books, as the first set I got was both epic and informative on the universe of DDO.
I haven't gotten far into Star Trek TNG yet. I ordered the DVD's about 2 months ago now, and I'm on the third DVD. I could totally get back into that after I'm done with Supernatural, if I wasn't getting bored with that, either. More and more I'm starting to realize that the world is screeching to a halt, culture-wise. There's no more original content as everyone's either too lazy to think up something new, or is too busy making money off old concepts. Yes, I mean you, George Lucas. You suck so many Harry Baals, it's not even remotely funny. Things going as they are right now, the only thing I dare hope for right now is a second Ranma ½ Live-Action with Ryōga and Shanpū in it. This is the first time of me actually writing out their names like this and I hope I'll be able to repeat it. (Note to self: Unicode 0333 and 0363)
Yeah, that's what I get for not updating in a while, I guess. I hope it's still readable for some people, at least. ._. |
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[Wednesday, 4th April 2012, 08:32AM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | uncomfortable | ] |
I've reached one of those point where I loathe pretty much everything I am, or at least just really wish I were different on a couple of fronts, which is reflecting on the rest. Seriously? All that needed to happen was my big project for the apartment ("greener" lights in the hallways) has been shot down because in the end run, they're more expensive. I was faced with some hardly-significant numbers, and at that point I just felt my confidence drop. I'm not sure if the reply I sent to the mail was polite enough and ever since, I've started to doubt whether it was a good idea to apply for technical committee.
People are stressing about mundane things we really don't even have any influence over, yet. We haven't even received any notes about what we discussed last time, when everyone was there. The only reason I looked into the lights thing was because it intrigued me. Reducing our ecological footprint gets shot out of the water because the total extra cost of 23 lights in the garage alone is €400 over 40.000 on-hours. In the situation described (10 on-hours a day!), that would mean 4000 days, hardly noticable, but apparently a good reason to cancel that plan altogether.
I've told my boss how I feel about him leaving, and that I respect him, but that I doubt that there's anyone who can take on this function after he leaves. I'm prepared to quit if I see this project doomed to fail, which will be a horrible thing to do. I'm not thrilled, but it's not as if I really have a chance. I couldn't face my old colleagues if I couldn't present something even just as good as our old LIMS.
I bought another music-influenced game called Turba. Once again I've been smacked in the face by the prejudice I've built up after having played Audiosurf, and this game is another giant buzzkill. The premise is reasonably good - your timer is the beat of the music you selected, and after that, it's essentially a match-3+ game, with some added difficulties. But the beat evaluation algorithm is irregular, and as are the beats, which is annoying if you have countdown blocks, which turn into unusables after x beats have run out. The game should be able to extract a fixed BPM from a song. Missing that, it's just another waste of money (€2, but that's beside the point).
On the plus-side, though, I've finally resumed working on my Shampoo statues and the one I left off with over half a year ago, due to nerve issues, is starting to look really neat. I'm still upset by her freakishly long legs in that weird looking (and still awesome) dress, but generally, I'm really giddy about having her finished next week. It'll be a personal milestone. After that one, I'm going to work on one I've been wanting to start on for about 2 years now - the only 1/8 scale figure that is actually canon to her appearance in shows - no sexy short skirt, no bikini's (although she sometimes appears in them), just Season 1 battle uniform. She will be awesome! |
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| Writer's Block: One Captain to Rule Them all |
[Monday, 2nd April 2012, 05:50PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| | cheerful | ] |
Janeway, hands down. Picard was pretty cool, but he ruined it for me when he started whining about having to travel 300 years to reach home again in an episode from the first season. Janeway gets shunted to the delta quadrant (a mere 75 years, but who's counting at those distances?) and only starts whining to that intensity in the last season. She gets her crew home with much less alien tech per lightyear as well. Besides, YEAR OF HELL, that should tell you everything.
Case in point |
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| RAEG!!!111 |
[Friday, 30th March 2012, 03:04PM] |
| [ | Feelin' |
| |  enraged | ] |
Which Pokemon Type are You?
Psychic type
The wisest and most intelligent type! A highly intellectual person, you enjoy gathering information- catching up on the latest news, researching ancient history, etc. You're also a wiz with technology and often named a "geek" (and proud of it!)
If you were a Pokemon, you would be the database who aims to learn about the enemy before attacking, gaining knowledge of all their strengths and weaknesses.
Psychic Moves that suit you are Calm Mind, Role Play and Psycho Boost.
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For some reason I feel a lot of rage today. Shouldn't be a lot of cause for it right now... Unless... |
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