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Accomplishments – March.548 2012 Edition

Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 10:01 pm

Shows / Movies
Spirited Away – Complete
Dawson’s Creek S1 – S2 [Rewatched] – Complete
Big Bang Theory S5 [Rewatched] – Complete
Currently watching: New Prince of Tennis, Glee, Young Justice, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, House, Thundercats – In Progress

Books & Manga & Comics

worldofwarren.com / warrenshea.com / secretproject [to be renamed]

Gaming
Tiny Tower – Level 101
Draw Something – 15 Concurrent games, 405 turns

Web Development and Design
Freelance Project

Other
Going back to my last post regarding my TO DO list, here are the things I accomplished since then (which is 2 days ago):
Complete my March.5 2012 Accomplishments post
Work on complicated form over the weekend
Converting a few more Gundam Seed videos

Notes
Tiny Tower and Freelance dominated my time this month. Probably for the rest of the month. Will get back on track soon.

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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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Design sense…shinka!

Saturday, March 10th, 2012 at 4:36 am

I’ve been doing a lot of design for my freelance and I realized something: My design sense has gotten considerably better despite the fact that I don’t actively improve it very often.

From worldofwarren.com to warrenshea.com to this freelance project. While I still struggle with different design sense (I’m not that versatile), I’m getting stronger in my conceptual and overall design. And I think that it all comes the fundamental principle that less is more. Subtle is better.

I used to design with lots of heavy drop shadows, bevel and embosses, noticeable outer glows and inner shadows (man, do I love those Blending Options in Photoshop). I still like those things…well, drop shadows and strokes, but I think the key is that I use them subtly now. Between noticeable and barely visible. And I think therein lies the key to my design.

I very much like the stuff I’ve been designing lately, for my freelance job.

Anyways…I’ve spent like, 40 hours on Photoshop in the last 7 days doing design and I’ve really been proud of the work I’ve been doing. Maybe I gave up on a design career too soon….although on the other hand, I do still love development so much more. I can’t wait to start developing the designs I’ve been doing :D Can’t wait!

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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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