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I know I haven’t blogged in SO LONG.

Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 5:04 am

There’s a reason for that. And it’s not Tiny Tower. It’s freelance.

I’ve been keeping track of how much I’ve done this month, this is what I have tracked (and it’s not over yet).
81 hours: 30 – Design + 51 – Development

81 hours in 23 days! That’s about 27 hours a week….almost another full time job!

As I’m doing this work, we’ve (Z and I) have been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is probably one of the (if not the) best american cartoons in the last decade…all in preparation for Avatar: The Legend of Korra which premieres April 14. Though we all got a sneak preview of the series premiere this weekend and it looks ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. I definitely recommend someone who enjoys a good cartoon to watch that. You won’t be sorry.

As I’m doing this work and Z is asleep, I’m watching….um…Dawson’s Creek, which was THE teen drama of my generation as well as the WB/CW pioneer for other teen dramas including One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls and…um….Fox’s O.C. and that Gossip Girl show. Yeah, I know Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place and Party of Five precede this…but…that was before MY time. Anyways, I only watched Season 1-4ish when I was in highschool. I’ve been meaning to complete the series and I’m glad I am…I really liked S1 and S2 and the rest are…okay. I’ve been meaning to write this blog post regarding some topics it covers in the series finale for a week or two, but I only wanna write it after I actually watch the episode. That’s kinda why I’ve been procrasting blog posts for a while…but I realize that I better write something because it’s going to take a few more weeks before I reach that episode.

I’m excited for freelance to be done. If I spend this much time working on my personal projects…I’d have so many projects! However, I’m not getting paid for personal projects…

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I had that dream again…

Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 11:24 am

That reoccurring school dream where I’m at UWaterloo and I have more exams than I know what to do with. And I’m going to fail them. The stress…ugh.
Fortunately I wake up and realize it’s all a dream and that I did indeed graduate. Whew. That’s always by far the best part of the nightmare. Knowing it’s just a dream and that I’m safe and don’t have to worry. Like srsly, school was 6 freaking years ago! I’m tired of having this stupid nightmare >:( Can’t dream Warren figure out it’s in a dream? What an idiot.

But I’m wondering why I’m having this dream now? I know I have it once in a while but I don’t think I’d had it in a long time.

I was working out timelines for the freelance project I’m working on last night and they’re….tight. Very tight. Manageable only if I work every day. So I was kinda stressed on it. And then I went to sleep… >_< So maybe my stress and anxiety from my real life seeped into my dream. On the plus side: While I’m stressed about freelance or work or anything like that…I don’t think any of it compares to the stress of UWaterloo. So it kind of puts things in perspective. As important as a job is, if I fail a project, there are lower consequences. I can always get another job (if that ever came to be). So I’m less stressed about the freelance project now…tho still have a lot to do.

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My to do list is overwhelming.

Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 1:04 am

Sighhhhhhhh…..I want to be productive. But I’m too damned tired to do anything today. I WANT to work. But it’s too late and tomorrow’s going to be a busy work day (even tho I’m working from home). My accomplishments posts are supposed to keep me motivated but they’ve been more of a historical tracking thing than a motivator in the last few months.

My to do list includes
Finish Tiny Tower
Complete my March.5 2012 Accomplishments post
Work on complicated form over the weekend
Converting a few more Gundam Seed videos
Finish freelance project
Finish warrenshea.com
Research a DSLR camera
Research a new car
Converting my 8mm videos to digital (that this will take hours and hours)
Finish secretproject.com 1
Finish secretproject.com 2
Rewatch Avatar: The Last Airbender
Take pictures of my toys/models
Rewatch the rest of Dawson’s Creek
Organize my video files (and all my files)
Backup my photos and pictures.
Read Steve Jobs book
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Sigh.

I have a nice 6 days vacation (including weekends) next week starting Thursday. But I really wanted to just relax…and sleep.

Okay, back to….slowly wasting my life away :/

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Tiny Tower….I love/hate you.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 2:14 am

I started playing Tiny Tower a while ago. And I’m pretty sure I would have stopped by now if not for a co-worker’s competition. It’s unfortunate but both she and I are stupidly competitive. Also, we both (can) have no lives if we so choose. And I’m definitely one to choose that to win something meaningless and stupid. Pride is…a tricky thing.

While I enjoyed playing Tiny Tower in the beginning, I’m very bored of it now. However, I’m SO unwilling to lose and THAT’S definitely driving me. It’s stupid though, it’s subtly more difficult to level. There are 154 (?) level and I’m at around 96. I wager this battle, in which we’ve only been within 10-7 floor apart for 2 weeks (I’m in the lead), will end only when one of us reaches 154. And it’s going to be me. I don’t like to lose. No, I hate it.

Unfortunately, to keep this lead (in which we both progress quite quickly), we both have to play an incredible amount every day. I’m talking like, 5 hours dedicated time a night, followed by periodic checking at all times of the day. I mean, it would be insane if I were doing it alone. But because she’s doing it too….it’s less insane?

So nowadays, I’m just watching shows: Prince of Tennis, classic Simpsons. I just started playing Draw Something on the iPhone. That takes up some time…but both she and I are playing so that’s okay. And coincidentally, we’re both working on a freelance project together. So both of our time is (equallyish) divided doing that. So there’s not a lot of gaining and losing ground unless one of us doesn’t play. Sigh.

I dislike this situation a lot and I find myself cursing the competition I’m in as well as cursing playing Tiny Tower. And I somewhat curse my need to win…but…I’ve kind of accepted it. This is who I am. This is my sickness. And I’ve got to much pride, dedication, stubbornness, and a lack of willpower to stop.

Once I’m done this stupid game, I’m going to focus back on dev. And try not to let this World of Warcraft type behaviour come up again, at least for a while. I barely have the time or chance to blog and I know my posts have gone down because of this. I swear things will get back to normal.

Even as I’m typing this, I’m playing. Sigh.

JUST GIVE UP ALREADY SOPHIA. Cuz I WILL NOT YIELD.

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This blog is not dead! It’s just resting…for….a long time.

Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 1:29 am

I know I haven’t blogged in a while. It’s like I’ve forgotten what it’s like to open up WordPress and write.

I’ve been pretty busy with a recent freelance project, coming home and either working on that or playing Tiny Tower here and there as a break.
I’m not really doing much else.

My 150 GB/month internet was capped about 2/3 into the month, Z and I have been living off 1.5GB of internet for the last 8 days. It sounds like a lot but with the occasional video streaming, it adds up. So besides doing the freelance and playing Tiny Tower, I’m pretty much trying not to use the internet whenever possible. That includes shutting my computer down and night and during the work day to stop occasional automatic downloads as well as spending my usual time surfing with…well, Tiny Tower. I want to download my weekly anime so bad but…willpower until the 10th! GRR!

For every GB over, I only spend $1 so it’s not much, but it seems pointless to use that when, in a few days, I’ll have another 150GB.

Anyways, I guess that’s it for now :( Sorry, I wish my life was more interesting so that I could write more…I’ve been too focused on work to THINK about the usual stuff I think about. When it starts warming up, I’ll walk to work more often, hopefully think of new interesting things then :D

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