randomness

ok, so I don’t have much to say today, been keeping fairly inactive this weekend

I’m on to book 5 in the chronicles of narnia. yes they’re childrens novels, and yes they’re only about 200 pages apiece, but the fact that I’ve read 4 books in the past week or so is something I proud of. I think it actually helps that they’re shorter. I’m a little ADD when it comes to reading. when I’m reading longer books I tend to obsessively read them until I’m about halfway through and then I just lose interesting.

Did you ever think of me? oh so considerate…

yeah, I’m listening to foo fighters, what of it?

So censorship is something I’m not a fan of. At all. which is why I like being Canadian, as we’re not big on the whole censorship thing. Like take the Rock Band games for instance, every single f-bomb in the game has been blanked out, even when it sacrifices the flow of the song, which it almost always does, however a song like “Spoonman” by Soundgarden (it was Soundgarden, right?) which is unforgivingly about heroin is fine. it’s not even like “heroin is bad” it’s just… about heroin. “all my friends are brown and red” is fine, but “I’ve got this fuckin thorn in my side” isn’t? what the hell. someone’s priorities are way out of wack.

So for now I don’t have to worry about Aubree any more. yay for that

I’m looking forward to my next scheduled day off with jenny. maybe we’ll go see a movie or something. if there’s anything good playing… if you have any suggestions of something we’d both enjoy let me know (even though I know Aubree is pretty much the only one reading this lol I know jenny has looked at it a couple of times too..)

Alright. that’s all for now, I have to run to the store.

friday at last

so i’m just writing a quick post because I haven’t in a while… I’m getting ready for work and it’s friday, my second last friday that’ll actually be a friday until… well… I don’t know when, pretty much forever unless I can find a real job.

I’m a little worried about Aubree right now. I won’t go into details because the only people who are probably reading this know the situation, but I just hope things improve for her or don’t get too bad.

ok… so on the plus side of my fridays no longer being fridays (they’ll be sundays for me soon) is that I’ll get to have a common day off with jenny. which makes me happy, because we have not had a common day off in some time. I really wish my new shift was at least a couple of hours earlier though

anyways, gotta run

I did get the tattoo after all

so Here it is … only a few minutes old, but I’m not going to post any more right now

flip flopping

so it’s been a couple of days since I’ve actually posted anything besides pictures or videos, and I have nothing else to do today so I figured I may as well post.

I’ve been feeling really sad today and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Aubree managed to cheer me up somewhat when we were chatting earlier, but I’m still in this funk. It’s way deep down inside and it feels like the slightest thing could set me off. I’ll get over it, but I really hate feeling like this.

So I finally decided, I am not going to get tattooed right now. Maybe at some point in my life, but not right now. If I don’t have anything I feel that strongly about, or something that meaningful, why would I get it permanently etched on my body? Jenny is pressuring me to get it done, and that’s really hurting me. The one person I thought would never try to pressure me into doing something is doing just that.

Fuck. I can’t write any more right now.

Piercings and Tats

Eyebrow piercing

Jenny’s lamb

so jenny and I got body mod done last night. I got pierced and she got inked. Now she wants me to get inked, but I don’t know about that…

Finally managed to vlog something

ok so I finally managed to work out the snags of getting the camera to work, so here’s the first video entry, hopefully there’ll be more but I don’t want to do one unless I have something to say…

So it looks like I’m going to get a piercing tonight, but suddenly I don’t know if I want to… it almost feels like I’m chickening out, but I already had one done… am I too old to be doing something like this? I dunno… but if I don’t go get money/bus tickets soon, it won’t happen tonight at least… so I’ll keep this short and I’ll try to post a picture of it when I get back.

so jenny and I did Dani California just for Aubree… she asked me to, and I know it’s her favorite in the game… the video is kind of dark and I’m not all there, but it was alright for a first attempt, I think.

Another week is almost over

so I know it’s 2:30 in the morning, and I should be sleeping, but I’m not… it’s not bad though, I got 4 hours earlier, and I got woken up to talk to aubree, which is always a nice way to wake up. One more day of work to go and then I can sleep for a day. That should be nice.

So I tried to do my first video blog this morning but I was talking way too quietly, so I’ll try again in the morning, hopefully it’ll go a little smoother. I was doing it outside, and there was someone walking by, I didn’t want to look like a freak talking into my camera lol… it was kind of weird though, you never see anyone walking through this complex at that time of the morning, and the ONE time… argh. Anyways, as I said, I’ll try again tomorrow.

I’m starting to read the Chronicles of Narnia again, hopefully i’ll make it through without putting it off like I usually do when I read books. I don’t know why I do that… speaking of Narnia, it really bugs me when they talk about it, like the movies, and they get the order completely wrong. First off, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was NOT the first book. It was the second. The Magicians Nephew was the first book. Nor was Prince Caspian the second book. It wasn’t even the third. It was the forth. The Horse and his Boy was the third book. So they’re actually skipping entire parts when they’re making these movies, and then people talk about them like they know, when they actually haven’t checked a single fucking fact. I haven’t seen Prince Caspian yet, but I would very much like to. I loved the first movie, and I really can’t wait for Voyage of the Dawn Treader. That should be sweet.

Anyways, I’m off to read, hopefully that’ll help knock me out, then 8 hours of work left til the weekend! woohoo!

Putting things off, isn’t it fun?

So yet again, I’m not sleeping. I really did try. Really. I laid down and I couldn’t stop coughing. I’ve had this blasted cough ever since I had problems with my allergies back in August. This happens every time too. This cough will be with me for at least another month. At least once a day I cough so hard I give myself a headache and I see spots, so that can’t be good…

So yes I STILL haven’t done my first video post yet, I’ll do it when I have the time, I think I came up with a pretty random half decent rant for when I do it…

I think I’ll use this post to talk about my thoughts on Rock Band 2. First off, I have to say, I LOVE this genre of game. I’ve been playing Guitar Hero since it came out and the fact that I prefer the drums made Rock Band the perfect fit for me.

The first think I noticed was what a lot of the critics did. There is almost no graphical change whatsoever. There’s new venues and new costumes and instruments, but the character models are identical to the first one. I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing, but it is nice to see some sort of leap made when new iterations are released. Since all the old venues are there, when you play a song from RB1, you wouldn’t even know you’re playing the new one unless you have a very keen eye.

Speaking of RB1, the ability to import your songs (save for the exception of 3, 4 if you’re european… like people in europe can afford a copy at those prices ) is an AWESOME feature. The fact that now I have a game that has well over 100 songs in it is really something. It cost 5 bucks, but it was a 5 bucks well spent.

I think one of the biggest things I noticed was, especially in the early goings, the songs were ridiculously easy. At least on guitar. I haven’t had the chance to take the drums for a swing yet, but I will once I have everything unlocked. I think, from what I can tell, that the idea here was to make the game a little less guitar-centric and let everyone else take center stage. There’s a number of songs that have pretty sweet bass lines (you oughta know by alanis morisette comes to mind) that would be pretty fun. There’s plenty of songs that have an awesome drum track (Dani California from RB1 is still one of my favorites to drum to though) and a lot of songs that would be uber fun to sing, if you can sing that is.

There is one new mode that seems pretty cool but isn’t for me. It’s a “no fail” mode, meaning that no matter how much you suck it up you’ll always be able to play the song through to the end… isn’t that what practice mode was for?

I still have a ways to go in it (I got mad at it tonight after it told me that after getting a 97% on a song and 5 stars that I was “sloppy” and I lost fans, so I shut it off) but I can’t wait to have the full set list unlocked.

My last point I’m going to make is a really annoying approval process they have for band names. If the name of your band is deemed offensive, it comes up with a message saying your name isn’t “classy” and won’t appear on X-box Live (since it’s the only version out right now). This is a great feature, don’t get me wrong. Live needs more than a littler censorship, but my problem is, they really need to narrow down what’s considered offensive. My band name is “The Mr. Tickles Experience” (for those who don’t know, Mr. Tickles was a goldfish who belonged to Thunderclese on the Brak Show) and I was told my name wasn’t classy. What. The. Hell. I have no clue how that, under any circumstances could ever possibly be deemed offensive.

Anyways, it’s a pretty sweet game if you’re into the genre. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel by any means but it’s a definite buy if you’re into the genre.

Well that’s all on that subject. Next time I do one of these, I Think I’ll talk about spore… I’ll give it a few days though, I don’t want to burn out on them

working is hard.. work

ugh. so for the past 2 years I’ve been working late at night.. pretty much I’ve never finished a shift before 10:30pm… and now I’m in training for a new job and I start at 8am.  As a result I’m not longer sleeping. Like ever. I get almost no sleep during the week and come saturday I end up sleeping most of it away. Not that I mind the morning thing, it’s actually been kinda nice… when I get home on friday I actually have an evening to play around with, it feels like it adds an extra day onto my weekend. Having the extra time at the start of your weekend instead of the end makes a huge difference.

Anyways, yeah. New job. It’s alright so far, but I think it’s just going to turn out to be the same shit in a different pile. I just keep working in call centers because it’s all I can find. I would even take a massive paycut if I could find a job I like, however those are hard to come by. I’m not made for this office work shit. And I’m not made for the whole factory work either, so I’m really limiting my options…

I know i haven’t got around to making a video blog entry but for some reason I never have time for anything on Wednesdays. I don’t know why… hopefully I’ll get to do one later tonight, and I still want to do a post dedicated to my thoughts on rock band 2.

Aubree isn’t feeling well today, and that makes me sad for 2 reasons:

1. She isn’t feeling well. it always makes me sad when she doesn’t feel well

2.  I didn’t have her to keep me company through texting at work, which I’ll miss once I hit the floor and can’t have my cell phone out. boourns.

anyways, off to continue procrastinating….