I’m going to the same URL on 3 different browsers (2 of them being Chrome, same version no less) and I have 3 different results/experiences!
WTF IS GOING ON. HOW COME AT HOME ON CHROME I GET NO RESULTS.
YO. THAT’S MAYBE WHY I CAN’T BUY MY SHIT.
and no, I’m not buying that $700 White Phoenix…despite being international, it’s quite a bit more than I’m willing to spend
I went this whole week without screwing up my sleep schedule.
I’d sleep at 4am and naturally wake up around 12. And not sleep the rest of the day. Not bad.
Last night I slept at 4am and woke up at 9:30am this morning. Couldn’t fall back asleep and dev’d til 1-ish…then took a nap til 2:30pm.
It’s 5am now…and I’ve done so much deving in the last 2.5 days…I’m really proud of myself. Definitely did a lot this week and I’ll soon reveal the work I’ve done.
I wanted to do a lot more dev by Tuesday next week but it doesn’t look like I’ll have the time to.
I have 2 thanksgivings dinners, 1 lunch, 1 wedding…within the next 3 days. So it’s pretty busy.
Mental notes for me for tomorrow:
All of these things should be relatively easy…so maybe I can finish after all. We’ll see!
Also: I made shake and bake chicken for dinner tonight and it was SO GOOD. WAY BETTER THAN I REMEMBER. So….yeah, I have a new, easy go-to!
and I’m not really ready…to do nothing.
I only have some things I’m going to do planned right now.
1. Kotobishoujo.com
2. Shows: Watch House S9, The Office S8, The Wire and/or Doctor Who
3. Anime: Watch Steins;Gate + at least 2 other animes: Magical Girl Madoka Magica + Ano Hana(maybe)
4. Movies: Looper, Anchorman, Drive, Indie Game The Movie, The Butterfly Effect, The Goonies, The Illusionist, Idiocracy. I know a lot of these are old, they’re all the ones that have been on my TO DO list for a while.
5. Capture and convert VHS tapes
6. Take pictures of statues on nice days.
7. Play Persona 4, Super Mario Bros 2
8. Organize some documents
9. Go to MasterSteaks, a wedding, stay at a Hotel for a night, Thanksgiving dinner, cook dinner for Z 2 nights this week….
I know I know, it sounds like a really lame vacation (even tho this is pretty much how I spend all my vacations).
I found that I was getting a little too burnt out at work. Too many people asking me questions. I just needed to get away from it all. Have some alone time. Feel like I accomplished some ME stuff.
The development aspect of work doesn’t bother me. It’s the meetings and the answering questions and the production issues and the leading. People look to me to solve and fix everything and it’s damned annoying. By being very reliable, I somehow became everyone’s go to person. And it’s hard. Because the team is so big now, I just can’t get anything done. And that stresses me out. So these guys can fend for themselves for a bit. /rant mode off
Anyways, I can’t wait to go home tomorrow and shut myself off from the world :) That’s how I recover best (mentally and emotionally….tho it’s probably detrimental to my social aspect).
Soon, I will be on vacation!
I finished one big project on Sunday night and plan to finish another project early tomorrow.
I’ve been playing quite a bit of DOTA lately whilst watching Glee Season 3. I’m about 12 episodes in after only 2 days. That’s a lot of Glee.
They’ve grown from a small group of misfits to a rather large group of…well, talented misfits! Seriously, there’s so much talent in the Glee group now!
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I’m reading a book:
Clean Code: A handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
I really like it, it really speaks to me. I think I’ll continue to read that and work on my Secret Project KB during my vacation.
I plan to rewatch Steins;Gate and maybe another anime or 2. As well as watch either The Wire or Doctor Who while I develop.
That’s it. Will write more when it’s not so late :)
I finally got the chance to play Persona 4 Arena tonight. I thought it’d be a simple anime fighter/simple storyline that was the same as the Persona 4 Anime I watched last month.
I was wrong….this story is completely new which is very refreshing…also, there are new characters and many references to Persona 4, the original game + what the anime was based off of. So this seems like a very logical continuation which is really nice to experience.
The problem is man, this game is LONG…for a 2D fighter! I think it took me about at hour of story and cut scenes to make it to the final battle. That’s only about 7 one to two minute battles. Assuming each one was 2 minutes (which is not true, they’re shorter), that’s like…46 minutes of story! CRAZY. And I was skimming as fast as I could read.
And..the “wut?” part? I’m about to face the last battle and then……………….TO BE CONTINUED. I WTF’ed! Cuz I don’t have tons of time to play this game. Anyways, it unlocks a few more characters, I’m only 8% done the game…so I guess I have to play it on a few more level to GET the story of this game. Kinda intrigued, I hope to play a bit tomorrow.
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My last hamster, Monica, passed away today. She’d been having a really tough time the last few weeks so I knew it was coming. She passed away in a really cute pose, the cutest pose of the 12 hamster I’ve had in the last 8~ years. It was nice, she wasn’t all contorted and distorted from rigimortis like the rest of them. She just lay on her stomach, hands out…like she was just lying there, resting.
I’m not sure if I’m going to get more hamsters. I absolutely love them and they’re so cute when they’re young…but it’s a pain to clean the cages sometimes and they take up room. And sometimes I’m bad with cleaning cages on a regular basis and it’s not fair to the hammies to deal with such a bad owner :( I mean, with 1 hammy, you can clean the cage every once in a while but with 5 (like I had 2 years ago), you have to clean the cage pretty frequently. Also, 3/5 of my hamsters have escaped in this last batch. Maybe I’m getting sloppier as an owner.
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I’m watching Steins;Gate right now which I was assuming I’d love. Tho 6 episodes in, I’m terribly confused with everything. I know there’s a rich tapestry/storyline here but it’s purposely eluding. Which makes me intrigued. I think it’s odd, complex, and confusing….and it’s funny, intriguing, and addicting. So 6 episodes in and I can’t wait to watch the next, but I also can’t go straight from one ep to another like Death Note or something. It’s bizarre and the storyline doesn’t exactly continue linearly…it tangents highly which requires some downtime so I can figure out what just happened.
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I tried to take photographs yesterday, despite it being cloudy. It looked like a good opportunity so I took a few. When I was editing though, I DID notice a difference in light between some of the shots. DAMN CLOUDS. WASTE MY TIME. Seriously, I need some clear days PLEASE. @#$%T$@#$@#$ nothing more upsetting than setting up my photo studio, spending an hour or 2 taking pictures, a few hours editing…and then realizing…it was all for nothing. BAH.
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I converted 4/13 Video8 (before digital) tapes to Digital this weekend. I’ve been procrastinating it for a while. Using a USB Capture “Card” converter, hooking it up to analog and recording the video. Unfortunately, capturing video is real time so it took about 8 hours to convert 4 tapes. I still have 18+ hours of capturing to go. During that time, I try not to use my computer, I don’t want any heavy CPU usage to interfere with the quality or video to sound sync or anything like that. I know when you render videos using Adobe Premiere, it’s very good to…not. touch. anything. So that’s been tough. Fortunately I have my MAC here to use. Unfortunately, it can’t do the thing I want it to do:
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Play DOTA2. I’ve been playing DOTA2 a lot this last week. I’m going to try to stop for a while until I’ve finished Steins;Gate and captured by other videos. DOTA2, like all games, can be such a time waster. It’s fun though…and one of the reasons I play it is that you can get “a full game” worth feeling in as little as 30m to one hour. It’s a perfect “I have a moment to kill, before I get to something else”.
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I’ve also been playing The New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS that came out recently. On world 3-something. I’m finding it a lot harder than the first one and I’m missing lots of secrets this time around. I’m usually pretty good at finding Mario secrets but I think the level designers who make this game are getting smarter/they’re making it tougher.
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Anyways, that was my weekend. No plans this weekend FINALLY. So I feel like I was able to accomplish a lot. It was very relaxing too! Next week’s gonna be rough Q_Q
Going to have to work a lot :(