massive early morning brain dump
I'd say this entry is long enough to put into several cuts.
Went driving on some minor roads and parking lots around UNM today. Went mostly without incident. The bunny only reached for (didn't pull, mind you) the emergency break twice! Heheh. I think with continued practice, I could actually get the hang of this within a month or so! I'll keep ya posted.
Things I find easy now:
*tumbleweed*
things I need to work on:
multitasking [driving AND putting the turn signal on, for example (including passenger conversation)]
parking (entering and leaving spaces)
looking both ways
using mirrors more habitually
not accelerating and breaking erratically...
...
Okay, so I've got a lot to work on. A month might be too hopeful. :P But I've made improvements from my first day, I swear!
Aaaaanyway. Had a fun weekend. We held a faux small-scale gamer's club, which was composed of just Otto, Kate, Bunny, Kris, and me. We took over the large LCD television in the SRCs. It was fairly fun, except when Kris was being an asshole. I don't think he'll be invited next time. He very creepily turned into a very similar persona of Dae, which included very homoerotic contact with Otto, which Kris had never before displayed. Feh. Mario Kart was fun. Otto bought Doughnuts, which were merrily consumed.
Went back to my place for the evening, and slept. Woke up the next morning to find that shajoni had arrived. We were due to travel to Madrid to see my grandmother's art showing. I think it was her first in a looooong long long time. For the past few months, she's been weaving pieces like there was no tomorrow (oh, what deadlines do to artists..) So we drove up there, mingled for a bit. There was quite a bit of good stuff. Seems the Johnsons of Madrid is just as progressive with the arts as anyone can be. There was a woman there (alas, I can't recall her name) who was displaying her digital artwork, composed in Photoshop. Damn, they looked like watercolor paintings! She was very softspoken, and didn't converse much even when pressed. But I was certainly impressed nonetheless.
I exchanged a few words with my mother too. My Cuntish Aunt Kristinn would not talk to me. I couldn't care less. But I didn't see them any of them at all afterwards. No hugs, no iloveyous, just words. I don't care. I've stopped being hurt by her their seeming antipathy toward me. I wasn't there for altercations anyway. I was there for my grandmother. I'd say it was a successful show for her too. She seemed happy to be immersed by the art crowd again. I was quite glad. Kate, bunny, Otto, and I left about an hour before the showing ended. We decided to adventure into an arroyo which Otto and I explored at my grandfather's memorial after he died in 2002. Just to see if much changed. it hadn't, and I'm glad. that's what's good about places like madrid. People are too often taken by the distractions like a coal mine museum that they really don't bother to just walk around and take in the environment. It was a fun fairly mindless excursion, just a way to pass time and fun conversation. Got lots of pictures, and bunny collected presents for his family (chunks of coal) from the bottom of the bed.
We didn't run into any dead mammals, thank goodness, but Otto did discover and collect a neat wasp carcass, which he subsequently picked up and took home. we also collected a few nifty rocks, and a few photos, which I'm sure will be uploaded soon *pokepoke dragoncrescent*
Kate received a call from thechick and an impromptu BBQ was held with lots of good meat. Otto wasn't too horrified and even looked like he was maybe having fun *gasp* ... if he's bored, might drag him along again. That was pretty much the wind down. After that, Kate took us home, and we slept. Woke up the next morning to find bunny playing Wii, and my grandma was gone. we left shortly after, and I went on my driving lesson. Shortly after that, we went to ziabandito555's place where everyone rolled dice and slaughtered poor defenseless monsters in their bedrooms for a few hours. Zia tried to get me into a comic series. Try as he did, I ultimately became uninterested after the first two chapters. Unlike most of my peers, I've never been able to get into comic book series, I really don't know why. I have patience for a 900-page 12pt Georgia type font book with no pictures, but not a comic book (or graphic novel, if you insist) which would take all of an hour for me to complete. Maybe it's the general artstyle that's off-putting, I may enjoy my own depictions of a story, rather than having someone dictate imagery to me instead. But it may just be the story in general, because I can definitely be interested in a story featuring anthropomorphic animals, but not humans. This is probably the most likely reason.
So after they were done slaughtering and deliberating, and distributing experience points in a communist manner, we went home. Bunny's now flopped on the bed, and i'm here writing this entry. Overall a very good weekend.
financial aid gets released this Friday finally. I think I've budgeted fairly well this year that will leave me enough to get food to last until next semester's release. i decided I'm getting a display adapter for my Cinema display so that I can use my laptop with the lid close (hopefully this will increase the life of the interior LCD on my laptop) and a new battery, because I really miss the convenience of having my laptop's clock set to a date after December 31, 1969! Not to mention having to shut it completely off before I leave to go anywhere. Not that it takes a long time to shut down, but sometimes I'm working on a project when I need to hastily go somewhere. I'm also going to buy an inexpensive stand for the display so I can slide my laptop underneath to conserve on valuable deskspace. I'll of course then need an external USB keyboard. I'll see if I can salvage one from school or something.
I think I'm also going to try to purchase a decent used/refurbished digital camera from eBay or Amazon. I quite enjoy taking pictures. It's very therapeutic. i also recently lost a lot of my own stock photography in my recent HD crash. I'd say it's time to start rebuilding my collection. the three I'm looking at are Sony's DSC-H5 and Canon's Powershot SX110is. The former I have experience with and is expandable. The latter is similar, but not expandable, and somewhat cheaper. I'll look more closely when the time comes.
That's about it though.
Hope everyone's weekend was a good one.
Ciao for now!
Love,
Eagle
Went driving on some minor roads and parking lots around UNM today. Went mostly without incident. The bunny only reached for (didn't pull, mind you) the emergency break twice! Heheh. I think with continued practice, I could actually get the hang of this within a month or so! I'll keep ya posted.
Things I find easy now:
*tumbleweed*
things I need to work on:
multitasking [driving AND putting the turn signal on, for example (including passenger conversation)]
parking (entering and leaving spaces)
looking both ways
using mirrors more habitually
not accelerating and breaking erratically...
...
Okay, so I've got a lot to work on. A month might be too hopeful. :P But I've made improvements from my first day, I swear!
Aaaaanyway. Had a fun weekend. We held a faux small-scale gamer's club, which was composed of just Otto, Kate, Bunny, Kris, and me. We took over the large LCD television in the SRCs. It was fairly fun, except when Kris was being an asshole. I don't think he'll be invited next time. He very creepily turned into a very similar persona of Dae, which included very homoerotic contact with Otto, which Kris had never before displayed. Feh. Mario Kart was fun. Otto bought Doughnuts, which were merrily consumed.
Went back to my place for the evening, and slept. Woke up the next morning to find that shajoni had arrived. We were due to travel to Madrid to see my grandmother's art showing. I think it was her first in a looooong long long time. For the past few months, she's been weaving pieces like there was no tomorrow (oh, what deadlines do to artists..) So we drove up there, mingled for a bit. There was quite a bit of good stuff. Seems the Johnsons of Madrid is just as progressive with the arts as anyone can be. There was a woman there (alas, I can't recall her name) who was displaying her digital artwork, composed in Photoshop. Damn, they looked like watercolor paintings! She was very softspoken, and didn't converse much even when pressed. But I was certainly impressed nonetheless.
I exchanged a few words with my mother too. My Cuntish Aunt Kristinn would not talk to me. I couldn't care less. But I didn't see them any of them at all afterwards. No hugs, no iloveyous, just words. I don't care. I've stopped being hurt by her their seeming antipathy toward me. I wasn't there for altercations anyway. I was there for my grandmother. I'd say it was a successful show for her too. She seemed happy to be immersed by the art crowd again. I was quite glad. Kate, bunny, Otto, and I left about an hour before the showing ended. We decided to adventure into an arroyo which Otto and I explored at my grandfather's memorial after he died in 2002. Just to see if much changed. it hadn't, and I'm glad. that's what's good about places like madrid. People are too often taken by the distractions like a coal mine museum that they really don't bother to just walk around and take in the environment. It was a fun fairly mindless excursion, just a way to pass time and fun conversation. Got lots of pictures, and bunny collected presents for his family (chunks of coal) from the bottom of the bed.
We didn't run into any dead mammals, thank goodness, but Otto did discover and collect a neat wasp carcass, which he subsequently picked up and took home. we also collected a few nifty rocks, and a few photos, which I'm sure will be uploaded soon *pokepoke dragoncrescent*
Kate received a call from thechick and an impromptu BBQ was held with lots of good meat. Otto wasn't too horrified and even looked like he was maybe having fun *gasp* ... if he's bored, might drag him along again. That was pretty much the wind down. After that, Kate took us home, and we slept. Woke up the next morning to find bunny playing Wii, and my grandma was gone. we left shortly after, and I went on my driving lesson. Shortly after that, we went to ziabandito555's place where everyone rolled dice and slaughtered poor defenseless monsters in their bedrooms for a few hours. Zia tried to get me into a comic series. Try as he did, I ultimately became uninterested after the first two chapters. Unlike most of my peers, I've never been able to get into comic book series, I really don't know why. I have patience for a 900-page 12pt Georgia type font book with no pictures, but not a comic book (or graphic novel, if you insist) which would take all of an hour for me to complete. Maybe it's the general artstyle that's off-putting, I may enjoy my own depictions of a story, rather than having someone dictate imagery to me instead. But it may just be the story in general, because I can definitely be interested in a story featuring anthropomorphic animals, but not humans. This is probably the most likely reason.
So after they were done slaughtering and deliberating, and distributing experience points in a communist manner, we went home. Bunny's now flopped on the bed, and i'm here writing this entry. Overall a very good weekend.
financial aid gets released this Friday finally. I think I've budgeted fairly well this year that will leave me enough to get food to last until next semester's release. i decided I'm getting a display adapter for my Cinema display so that I can use my laptop with the lid close (hopefully this will increase the life of the interior LCD on my laptop) and a new battery, because I really miss the convenience of having my laptop's clock set to a date after December 31, 1969! Not to mention having to shut it completely off before I leave to go anywhere. Not that it takes a long time to shut down, but sometimes I'm working on a project when I need to hastily go somewhere. I'm also going to buy an inexpensive stand for the display so I can slide my laptop underneath to conserve on valuable deskspace. I'll of course then need an external USB keyboard. I'll see if I can salvage one from school or something.
I think I'm also going to try to purchase a decent used/refurbished digital camera from eBay or Amazon. I quite enjoy taking pictures. It's very therapeutic. i also recently lost a lot of my own stock photography in my recent HD crash. I'd say it's time to start rebuilding my collection. the three I'm looking at are Sony's DSC-H5 and Canon's Powershot SX110is. The former I have experience with and is expandable. The latter is similar, but not expandable, and somewhat cheaper. I'll look more closely when the time comes.
That's about it though.
Hope everyone's weekend was a good one.
Ciao for now!
Love,
Eagle