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Watching Sports + warrenshea.com Updates

Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 11:53 pm

I’ve been meaning to get into [read: watch] some kind of sports for years. It’s tough, I’m so out of it.

I wouldn’t mind getting into either:
Hockey
Basketball
Tennis
Football

As far as sports go, I’m actually interested in watching those (above) and probably not in any other. I have fun watching them, despite not knowing much.

This wouldn’t be the reason why I want to watch sports but sometimes…it’s just nice to be able to converse on a different topic than what I regularly talk about. I have TV shows, movies, anime, video games, comics, toys, electronics, web development. Those are my easy topics. I have topics I generally avoid, religion or politics. And somewhere in between that would be food, photography and sports.

Even when I watch games, I don’t know who’s playing. I see a good dunk, a great goal, a smart play, a nice break….I see physical feats and interesting circumstances that lead to a goal/score/point/whatever but….it’s hard to really talk about it w/o knowing more.

Next season, hopefully I can get more interested….start getting into something else. Open up a new world of knowledge and interest. I’m getting bored with what I currently know. I’m tired of being left out in conversations that I’m interested in, but just so lost that I can’t keep up with the conversation. It’s not a feeling of stupidity, more a feeling of lack of knowledge. I don’t like it at all.

Kind of weird combination of posts..but as I was watching hockey tonight (Stanley Cup Finals Game 3), I was also working on my warrenshea.com design. I’ve been super frustrated lately with what I’ve done but I finally feel like I’m coming up with a winning conceptual design. In my previous design, I really just found something interesting and started to dev right away. Mistake. I should have spent more time on conceptual design…because what I had ended up as a design failure. I’m finally doing something I’m satisfied with. More ME. I’ve been avoiding doing work because of my mental block but now that I’m enthusiastic about my work again, hopefully I can make some real progress!

/back to work

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FanExNO?

Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 2:01 am

See what I did there? Instead of writing FanExpo, I wrote FanExNO, meaning that I might not go to FanExpo this year.

Shortly before FanExpo last year, I decided to make my wish list. I crossed items out after the con but basically: I got organized.

I got organized with what I want. I generally no longer hit the “Reserve or Regret” thing, in which you pre-order at cost, otherwise you risk the item being rare, marked up, and regretting not getting it when you should of. Case in point, a $240 Power Rangers Megazord which, at retail (in 93) was $50. And a $118 Dragonzord (instead of $40). And a $214 Adam Hughes Wonder Woman (instead of $80). Anyways…the point is that I generally try to avoid that mistake.

Got side tracked. Right now, I’m on the top of my game, and if you see my WTB (Want to Buy) LIST, I only have 4 things on my wish list (way at the bottom) and 3 haven’t come out yet. I’m the type of person that goes to FanExpo and does the dealer rooms more than anything else. Sure, I like the free stuff…I like the exclusives, but there’s nothing I can’t get via eBay. Basically, anything I buy will be impulsive, or not along the lines of the wish list. So while generally I go there for a purpose…to buy things, this time it seems like a money hole.

Wait, I also go to artist alley, I love commissions and prints…I love seeing talented artists. But that’s probably not enough reason for the entry free.

Anyways, I’m still debating. It’s not like I go every year…but last year I went for 3 days (usually I just do one) and I had a lot of fun. And got a lot of stuff. But this year is different.

I’ll think about it more…

4 posts today! whew!

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WTB#8 – June 2011 Edition

Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 1:45 am

Things I’m expecting in June – Total $401.94

Kotobukiya DC Comics: Wonder Woman Bishoujo Statue
$51.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date April 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

D-Arts: Mega Man X
$39.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Jan 8, 2011
Release Date May 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

GUILTY GEAR XX – Dizzy – Alter
$155.98 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Ordered April 30, 2011
Release Date Apr 2011
Purchased at Kid Nemo

DCUO: Wonder Woman Statue
$76.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date Feb 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

DCUO: Black Canary Statue
$76.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Release Date June 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

Things I received in May – Total $713.11

X-Men DVDs
$79.39 – Price I Paid (total)
Ordered May 31, 2011

Received June 2
Purchased over Amazon.ca

Megazord
$239.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Ordered May 22, 2011
Received June 2
Purchased over eBay.ca

Kotobukiya Marvel Comics: Ms. Marvel Bishoujo Statue
$51.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-orderered Feb 22, 2011
Received May 24, 2011
Purchased at The Big Bad Toy Store

Dragonzord
$118.61 – Price I Paid (total)
Ordered May 12, 2011
Received May 25, 2011
Purchased over eBay.ca

Roll (Plastic model)
$46.13 – Price I Paid (total)
Pre-Ordered Feb 19, 2011
Release Date May 2011
Received May 11, 2011
Purchased at Hobby Search

Rebuild of Evangelion Makinami Mari Illustrious 1/6
$177.00 – Price I Paid (total)
Ordered Apr 26, 2011
Received May 2, 2011
Purchased at eBay.ca

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Accomplishments – June 2011 Edition

Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 12:53 am

What I accomplished in May
Shows / Movies
Neon Genesis Evangelion (entire series) – Done
Thor – Done
Fast Five – Done

Books & Manga

worldofwarren.com
Moved contents from warrenshea.com!
Lots of site updates….I think the timeout issue is MUCH BETTER!

warrenshea.com
Began development…but haven’t made much progress

Gaming

Web Development and Design

Other

Notes
May was a busy month. Bachelor party took me out an entire weekend. Wedding took me out another. Allergy fatigue took me out a day plus made me weak, slow, and lazy for most of the latter half of the month. I spent most of the nights catching up on House…it went brutally slow near the end….but only a few more episodes (less than one season left) and we’ll be caught up to the current eps…despite the season ending recently. Season’s over so no more How I Met Your Mother, no more Smallville, no more Big Bang Theory, no more House. Time to catch up on other stuff.

Made some big progress on my websites, worldofwarren.com and warrenshea.com. warrenshea.com stills needs a rework and a redesign, I’m not happy with my design anymore. Made quite a few major cleanups…took the blog and twitter portion out of WordPress and PHP and now use AJAX requests. Very nice.

Since I got my TV Hub, and since the PS Store was down, my PS3 got almost no use this month. So sad. Gradually learning some web stuff here and there….but overall, not too much accomplished.

What I want to accomplish in June
Shows / Movies
X-Men First Class – To Do
Green Lantern – To Do
House (entire series) – In progress – S07E04 and catching up…
X-Men Cartoon (entire series) – To Do
The Office (last season) – To Do
Either: Jersey Shore or Glee or Game of Thrones or Community or Parks and Recreation or Modern Family
Also: At some point, catch up with Mad Men or Chuck

Books & Manga
Azumanga Daioh – To Do

worldofwarren.com
Remove Portfolio and Resume
Thinking about building or adding some kind of calendar function to keep track of my daily life…

warrenshea.com
Complete this site – To Do

Gaming
1. Play more DDR – To Do
2. Either
– Finish Zelda: Majora’s Mask (N64) – To Do (after House)
or
– Finish Kingdom Hearts (PS2) – To Do (after House)
or
– Batman Arkham Asylum (PS3) – To Do (after House)
3. Start and maybe finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the 3DS (June 19) – not going for 100% this time…just to complete the game quickly.

Web Development and Design
Start Smashing Magazine Book 1 – To Do
Start Smashing Magazine Book 2 – To Do
Start ASP.NET 4.0 book – To Do
Start my HTML5 book – To Do

Other
Learn my Mac OS

Notes
Another busy month…
June 05 – X-Men First Class
June 10 – Some pore scrubbing facial
June 11 – Wedding this month
June 15 – Eye Doctor
June 16 – Green Lantern
June 17 – Karaoke
June 18 – TFC Game

We’ll see how much I can do….

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Lack of updates

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 at 11:13 am

Ugh….Sorry for the lack updates.

I was supposed to do my Accomplishments post yesterday and my WTB post today. I’ve seriously felt terrible the last few days. Not sick…but my allergies are just wrecking me. I’m tired…and just overall unhappy. I wake up with itchy eyes. My nose is always 5x more sensitive during allergy season so it tends to bleed for no reason. I could honestly just be sitting somewhere, I think my nose is running (from allergies), and when I check, it’s blood. Ugh.

Yesterday…went to Shoeless Joe’s for dinner. Came home, blew my nose. It was bleeding so I went to lie down. Ended up sleeping from 8pm-ish to 8:30am today. I thought maybe…if I slept a lot, allergies would bother me less. They’re actually not to bad today, so I’m not sure if either that theory plays out…or the 14 degree C weather is the cause. Cold = less allergies….so I’m thankful for that today.

Anyways…will write more later today and tomorrow….hopefully.

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