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Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 1:09 am

Catching up on blog posts…was able to do my monthlies!

In 3 weeks, I have to do my “…in three years…” post. That’s one of my longest posts…I need to start prepping.

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My cold is gone but I still have a crazy amount of chest congestion. I went to the doctor on Monday, he said I would be fine and if not, come back in a few days. If I don’t have a decent improvement by tomorrow, I’m going back. Been coughing up a bit of blood the last 2 days too. That…can’t be good.

Waiting to get my lung capacity back before I start doing some heavy lifting and clean my condo.

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I have a confession to make. I’ve been playing a bit of World of Warcraft in the last 2 weeks, while I’ve been sick. I needed something to do that would pass the time, that wouldn’t be mentally difficult and that I could easily drop whenever. I played a bit but now that I’m getting better, I think my World of Warcraft craving is gone again. Back to blog posts. Back to watching shows. Back to photography. That’s where I wanna be.

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Been watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon from the 80s/90s. It’s….a pretty bad show all over. After this is done (only a few more DVDs to go), 3 seasons of The Might Morphin Power Rangers. I expect the same reaction to TMNT. And while watching these, I’m rewatching House…again. I’m on S4E08. I absolutely love the characters in this show, especially House. He’s one of the best characters I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching.

That is all, time to sleep :)

Is it the 11th already? :(

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 1:31 am

I’m on the tail-end of my common cold…went to the doctor today incase I was getting a chest congestion or, like last year, pneumonia. He said I was gonna be okay….but I don’t believe it :S I guess we’ll see who’s right in a few days, me or the trained professional (I still think me-not really).

Common cold averages 7-10 days…today is the 10th! So I’m average. Sigh, every year I say I’m gonna document what I did good and what I did wrong so that if (bad thing like dry hacking cough) happens, I’ll be able to remedy it next time…but I never do. Mostly cuz when you’re sick, you don’t wanna do anything, much less document some crap.

I had to postpone my trip to the US due to this sickness. Not sure when I’ll be able to go now…I just want to go when the roads aren’t icy and scary.

The good part about being sick is that you have a renewed passion/appreciation for your hobbies…cuz you can do them again (it’s been so long since I did them!)

Anyways…just wanted to provide an update…

Slept at 9pm today but had to wake up around 12am to work :( Back to bed for me!
Dreams are where I live lives not currently lived, are chased by zombies, have the superpower of flight/float, or any number of wild and ridiculous things!

Is it the 5th already? :(

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at 2:06 am

I know I’m so behind on blog posts. Still have to do my monthly posts…

So, on Friday the 30th, I went to this huge work party. You probably saw the pics on Facebook :)
I was awake my usual time Friday…but I stayed up til 6am. Not too bad…except…I spent 6pm-3am drinking and partying. So it was tiring.

But that’s not all. See, one of our friends got pass-out drunk. It fell on Z and I to take care of her cuz we said we’d drive her home earlier than night.

Story missing

I slept at 6am after a 2-3 hour shift of taking care of her, making sure she was okay while she slept.

We all, including my drunk friend, woke up at 9am and we drove her home.

3 hours of sleep, after a 21 hour day, 10 of which was partying. Came home, slept about 45 minutes before having to go to another commitment.

Anyways, it was dumb of us…but surprise surprise, I got sick. I have a cough, which I’m trying to get rid of ASAP.

I have an expectorant. Used a Netty Pot a few times a day. Have a humidifier. Some Vicks Vapor Rub. Neo Citran. I’m drinking warm water around the clock. Just took an antihistamine. I’m doing everything I can to get better. If I could just get tired and sleep…I’d be happy.

That’s it for now. More posts to come, I swear.

Good night!

Accomplishments – December 2012 Edition

Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at 11:59 pm
What I accomplished in November

Shows / Movies
Good Will Hunting
Gone in 60 Seconds
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3
TMNT
Turtles Forever
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
Independence Day
Jurassic Park
Catch Me If You Can
The King’s Speech
Pursuit of Happyness
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Iron Man
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cartoon – S1E1-S1E6 & S2E1-S2E8
City of God
Currently watching: Walking Dead S3, Initial D Fifth Stage, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory

Books & Manga
Neon Genesis Evangelion – Vol. 13

worldofwarren.com / warrenshea.com / kotobishoujo.com
warrenshea.com – fix up some items, write new skills

Photography

Writing

Gaming
Zelda: A Link to the Past [Replay] (note: already did this…5H 10M)

Web Development and Design
Facebook Project

Other

Notes
Was able to watch quite a lot while working on a Facebook application…

What I want to accomplish in December

Shows / Movies
Drive
House S9
Office S8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series
The Walking Dead S3E06-S3E06
Currently watching: Walking Dead S3, Initial D Fifth Stage, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory

Books & Manga
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

worldofwarren.com / warrenshea.com / kotobishoujo.com

Photography
kotobishoujo.com – Photography

Writing

Gaming

Web Development and Design

Other

Notes
I hope I don’t get sick this month or I won’t be able to do much. Ouch. Too late.

Backing stuff up is serious business

Thursday, November 29th, 2012 at 3:15 am

I recently bought 2x 3TB External Hard drives…for backup purposes.
For me, being as careful as I am, I need 2 backups. That’s always been my plan..though right now, I only use 1. Backups are the type of thing that you regret not having when it’s too late. I can’t be caught unprepared!

My plan is:
4 frequent backups of important files a year
1 backup of important files + less important files a year

Both sets of files above, including the drive with the original files, will mean I need 3 Hard Drives.
Because you never know when your hard drive might fail and it’s happened enough to me, and my friends, to know I can’t be caught unprepared.
And you never know, someone might break in to your place and steal your computer too…

Realistically speaking, these are my “need to backup frequently, cannot be replaced” items.
80 GB of VHS tape conversions
35 GB of Backup files (can’t be replaced, accumulated in the past 16 years – seriously, i still have .wav files from 1996…)
19 GB of Development files (all my professional and personal web stuff and photoshop stuff…20 GB worth of files)
29 GB of Camera Photos
It’s only…about 160 GB worth

My “Nice to backup” includes
36 GB of Kotobishouho Bishoujo PSDs and images (and this is only like, 1/6 of the files)
17 GB of images/”my stuff” (cool images from anime, comics, fav artists, etc)
17 GB of Anime Intro/Outro files (i can re-make these, if required…though I wouldn’t want to)
40 GB of Programs
That’s about 110 GB

And then all my media files:
22 GB Comics
6 GB Manga
542 GB Movies
21 GB Music
2.55 TB (Terabytes) of Anime, Cartoons, and Shows
and while that totals a lot, 80% of it can be re-obtained so I don’t care if I lose them. I just need to create an inventory list of these items with a little help from my friend Command Prompt: dir /b /s > inventory.txt

Anyways, I need to figure out, how these hard drives will all work together. so that I can backup my stuff on 2 separate hard drives. And for the one I only do once/year, I will try to keep it unplugged and far away from my other computer stuff.

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I know it sounds SO OVERKILL but as a person who spends…a lot of time on the computer, I really don’t want to risk losing my stuff.

Okay, that’s all. Need to sleep, have a 1.5 hours development presentation tomorrow (that I’m leading)! YIKES!