A Bright Idea...
Decided I'm going to write posts in another proggy and paste them in only when ready to put them up, to avoid such frustrations in the future. Oig.
Finally got around to watching the first episode of Enterprise tonight... (waits for the boos hoots jeers and insults) Go ahead and rip on me, I was a Lt. Data fan, and man Levar Burton with that visor thing, I wanted to be like him when I grew up... The new series appears quite entertaining, has a cool opening sequence with a remix of Rod Stewart's "Faith in the Heart" on it that makes ya want to go and build a science project or something...
My problem with TV shows is I'm never around/available to watch them regularly, and I always end up missing stuff and getting annoyed that I'm out of the loop... Thank goodness for the internet... I've gotten into download TV episodes and even full series lately, the quality is about the same as a VHS tape, and if you have the space or the CDs you can even store your favorites. :) Course the best reason is the people who capture them always edit out the commercials and rifraf, so you can watch the usual half hour sitcom in just over fifteen minutes, or an hour's worth in forty. Makes it easy to watch them back to back to back too, and you don't have to wait a whole week each time. :)
Been stacking up all the episodes of Band of Brothers, the miniseries on HBO produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks about World War II, I've heard nothing but great things about it. I figure it'll be a Saving Private Ryan type great movie, except much more in depth. Each episode runs about seventy five minutes without commercials, and I'm pretty sure there's going to be at least ten, possibly twelve! I'll probably end up watching three or so at a time, dedicate a weekend to it or something.
The people across the hall are having WAY too much fun now that they've discovered hotornot.com, I've been hearing them screaming ratings for like an hour now... You'd be amazed what can hold the attention of certain kinds of people. :)
Haircut today, its been a bit over a month, I figure I'll stick to getting one around the 15th each month, that way I won't let it get too overgrown or waste money getting it cut too soon. Wonder how much money I would save if I just bought the tools and did it myself. A hundred fifty a year, probably. Hm...
Friday, October 19, 2001
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Ew, Midterms.
Sheesh, back to back this morning, the best part being that I woke up three minutes before the scheduled start of the first... Needless to say I was wearing the same clothes I was yesterday, and a hat to hide the "HOLY CRAP DID YOU LOSE A FIGHT WITH A WEEDWHACKER" hairstyle I'm always sporting shortly after waking up. Need to stop lying down to rest in the middle of the day, I always end up napping and then waking up more tired than when I lay down... Hm. Laid down? Lay down? Lie down? Hm.
Discovered I have another regular reader the other day, must fit in a hello to them somewhere...
Hello.
Now that I handled that... I need to find more regular blogs to read, I only keep up with two or three at the moment, must find more interesting people...
Not sure what is it about reading about people's everyday life that's so interesting. I guess its the fact I usually learn something, if not something about them something about the world around me. Its kind of like having an intelligent discussion about a random issue with someone, except you're talking at different times. Guess that makes no sense. GAH MIDTERMS MAKE THE MIND GO MUDDY. :(
Sheesh, back to back this morning, the best part being that I woke up three minutes before the scheduled start of the first... Needless to say I was wearing the same clothes I was yesterday, and a hat to hide the "HOLY CRAP DID YOU LOSE A FIGHT WITH A WEEDWHACKER" hairstyle I'm always sporting shortly after waking up. Need to stop lying down to rest in the middle of the day, I always end up napping and then waking up more tired than when I lay down... Hm. Laid down? Lay down? Lie down? Hm.
Discovered I have another regular reader the other day, must fit in a hello to them somewhere...
Hello.
Now that I handled that... I need to find more regular blogs to read, I only keep up with two or three at the moment, must find more interesting people...
Not sure what is it about reading about people's everyday life that's so interesting. I guess its the fact I usually learn something, if not something about them something about the world around me. Its kind of like having an intelligent discussion about a random issue with someone, except you're talking at different times. Guess that makes no sense. GAH MIDTERMS MAKE THE MIND GO MUDDY. :(
Monday, October 15, 2001
Study Study Bo Buddy Banana Fanna Fo Fuddy...
Went to a review session for CS40 tonight, that's one of two midterms I have on Wednesday... There are multiple midterms in both the classes which is good, acing them both would give me quite the bargaining chip when it comes to final grades which are oh so important this quarter...
Also attended a little workshop meeting thingy in the formal lounge today with the coroner... Was a very informative discussion and slide show regarding alcohol, drugs, and the real life results... Some very graphic pictures were shown, and I could tell it was affecting some of the people in the room as they witnessed what could end up happening when they head to IV on a Friday night. He was giving us numbers like 18 alcohol overdose deaths so far this year, a number that seems huge, one he said you won't read in the papers due to respect for the families involved. Amazing to me that people can make those kinds of decisions about their life.
Had a pretty horrible dream last night, managed to remember it while talking to a friend, although its really one I would have rather not. I'm stacking them all up, I promise I'll get to them at some point when I'm bored. Believe me, it'll happen. :)
Went to a review session for CS40 tonight, that's one of two midterms I have on Wednesday... There are multiple midterms in both the classes which is good, acing them both would give me quite the bargaining chip when it comes to final grades which are oh so important this quarter...
Also attended a little workshop meeting thingy in the formal lounge today with the coroner... Was a very informative discussion and slide show regarding alcohol, drugs, and the real life results... Some very graphic pictures were shown, and I could tell it was affecting some of the people in the room as they witnessed what could end up happening when they head to IV on a Friday night. He was giving us numbers like 18 alcohol overdose deaths so far this year, a number that seems huge, one he said you won't read in the papers due to respect for the families involved. Amazing to me that people can make those kinds of decisions about their life.
Had a pretty horrible dream last night, managed to remember it while talking to a friend, although its really one I would have rather not. I'm stacking them all up, I promise I'll get to them at some point when I'm bored. Believe me, it'll happen. :)
Sunday, October 14, 2001
Wind, Wind, and More
Its been an interesting weekend thus far...
Last night we had the usual poker game which was pretty uneventful, other than me betting the living crap out of someone on a hand that I thought was a straight, which turned out to not be. Basically pure retardation cost me a couple bucks. :/ It happens... Ended up heading out to IV for some eats afterwards, which is significant because in the last couple years here I've never ventured into IV on a Friday or Saturday night... Strangely enough ran into literally everyone I knew while out there... Couldn't walk ten feet without someone calling me over or waving hi, was pretty neat. :) Intended to eat at Freebird's but ended up at Woodstock's, the usual pizza place. Pretty yummy wild bread and cinnabread, still have some of that left over.
Tonight was another trip up to Chumash... The night started off as good as it can, sat down and plunked some money in SpinIt Poker, four aces, boom sixty bucks in the black right off the bat. Unfortunately was pretty downhill from there... Although I did play back at the Seven Card Stud and Hold 'Em tables for the first time, turns out they aren't only for high rollers as I once suspected... Ended up next to a guy going to SBCC who was actually a dealer thirty hours a week... He helped me out a great deal, I ended up pretty even there. It also takes quite a long time to lose (and unfortunately in turn, win) anything. I guess that's a good thing just as much as it is bad, you can spend the usual few hours without suddenly being down a hundred or two... Still haven't gotten that last paycheck from summer in the mail yet, so tonight wasn't so bad. :)
The best part was actually the trip up... We went in my friend's girlfriend's little SUV Jeep type thing by Suzuki, and they took the top back thingy off so that it was basically a convertible back there. I was just livin the good life in the back, enjoying the wind in my hair, the sun in my face, the deafness in my ears... Had a grand ol time belting out "Livin on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi at the top of my lungs. Had their greatest hits CD on most of the way up, they're a really great band for hanging-head-out-the-window-screaming type road trips, their tours are always very audience oriented. I was feeling "Wanted, Dead or Alive" and "Lay Your Hands on Me" rumble through the speakers plenty as well... Speaking of which downloaded another pretty song called "The Dream Within" by Lara Fabian after hearing it on the Final Fantasy movie credits...
Got my webcam working again, so at times the workings of my room are being broadcast all over the world... Kind of a scary feeling at times, at first I was worried about picking my nose or whatever... But then I figured what's the worst that can happen, besides humiliating myself to someone who if they are that important would probably have seen much worse from me already. :) I guess that's why I don't have any problem airing my dirty laundry in this journal of sorts... If the person is going to be the one, shouldn't they know everything beforehand?
Its been an interesting weekend thus far...
Last night we had the usual poker game which was pretty uneventful, other than me betting the living crap out of someone on a hand that I thought was a straight, which turned out to not be. Basically pure retardation cost me a couple bucks. :/ It happens... Ended up heading out to IV for some eats afterwards, which is significant because in the last couple years here I've never ventured into IV on a Friday or Saturday night... Strangely enough ran into literally everyone I knew while out there... Couldn't walk ten feet without someone calling me over or waving hi, was pretty neat. :) Intended to eat at Freebird's but ended up at Woodstock's, the usual pizza place. Pretty yummy wild bread and cinnabread, still have some of that left over.
Tonight was another trip up to Chumash... The night started off as good as it can, sat down and plunked some money in SpinIt Poker, four aces, boom sixty bucks in the black right off the bat. Unfortunately was pretty downhill from there... Although I did play back at the Seven Card Stud and Hold 'Em tables for the first time, turns out they aren't only for high rollers as I once suspected... Ended up next to a guy going to SBCC who was actually a dealer thirty hours a week... He helped me out a great deal, I ended up pretty even there. It also takes quite a long time to lose (and unfortunately in turn, win) anything. I guess that's a good thing just as much as it is bad, you can spend the usual few hours without suddenly being down a hundred or two... Still haven't gotten that last paycheck from summer in the mail yet, so tonight wasn't so bad. :)
The best part was actually the trip up... We went in my friend's girlfriend's little SUV Jeep type thing by Suzuki, and they took the top back thingy off so that it was basically a convertible back there. I was just livin the good life in the back, enjoying the wind in my hair, the sun in my face, the deafness in my ears... Had a grand ol time belting out "Livin on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi at the top of my lungs. Had their greatest hits CD on most of the way up, they're a really great band for hanging-head-out-the-window-screaming type road trips, their tours are always very audience oriented. I was feeling "Wanted, Dead or Alive" and "Lay Your Hands on Me" rumble through the speakers plenty as well... Speaking of which downloaded another pretty song called "The Dream Within" by Lara Fabian after hearing it on the Final Fantasy movie credits...
Got my webcam working again, so at times the workings of my room are being broadcast all over the world... Kind of a scary feeling at times, at first I was worried about picking my nose or whatever... But then I figured what's the worst that can happen, besides humiliating myself to someone who if they are that important would probably have seen much worse from me already. :) I guess that's why I don't have any problem airing my dirty laundry in this journal of sorts... If the person is going to be the one, shouldn't they know everything beforehand?
