errrgh... idiota

I think I have finally come to admit I am officially blind. I try to get away with not having to wear my glasses as much as possible, but once the sun sets I usually end up trading my Oakley's for my "eyes". Tonight, however, I wasn't able to do that as freely as I normally am. I've had a hard time trying to see the computer screen, and I'm not even going to bother trying to watch TV. I can't frikin' see!

Scenario: There's a reason I tell people, "Clean out your pockets before you get in the Jeep." During the summer, the doors are off and the top is usually down. Hats can be lost and things can fall out quite easily. Normally, I'm wearing a pair of cargos, so I don't have to worry about loosing anything I value. Today was one of those days I wasn't outfitted correctly, however. After about 20 minutes of cruzin' back from the mall, I realize, "Oh, shit; where is my Balistics case?" Yup, it's somewhere out on the superhighway of traffic hell. I wasn't even about to turn around and go look for it. At least I had my shades on; I'd have been more pissed if those were lost instead. Now, due to my severe distrust of modern medicine (and the fact that I hardly ever get sick), I tend to avoid doctor's offices and the likes. After I get home, I'm tearing the apartment apart looking for my last CLRX prescription. I'm thinking, ok, I can order some comtacts from 1-800 Contacts, schweet. Been meaning to do that for years anyway. I finally found it, but it's dated 2002 with an expiration of 1 year. Great. Well, the order went through (damn next day shipping cost just as much as the contacts themselves), but they have to verify with "your doctor" before shipping. Well, hopefully, it'll work, and I won't have to try to find an optomologist that supports my insurance AND can accept an appointment, like, immediately.

So why was I insane enough to go to the mall on Tax-Free weekend to begin with? Yeah; I thought it would be a good idea to go get some new shirts for work because of all the sales. I got the shirts. Even found a pair of jeans (which is extremely rare). Oh, well. This just goes to prove I really don't belong at the mall. Actually, the only thing I like about malls is people watching. Go sit in the food court sometime and just observe/evesdrop. You'll laugh your ass off for hours.

On a good note (sorta), I finally put a 360 on order. My projector has started having fits again and rather than try messing with it, I ordered a new one. Of course all this was possible only because I got approved for a Best Buy card. :) At least I know now that my credit is not as foobarred as I thought. Of course, I'll be paying for it for the next year(+) but, we have to have our toys, right? And besides, IT's AN XBOX 360!! LOL. Just have to wait 2 weeks for everything to come in. Yes, I did say I was going to wait, but I also found out Gears of War and Halo 3 are scheduled for relase in mid-November. A day apart, actually. There goes my social life till Christmas. ;)

Well, it's another one of those late niters, so I better get off to bed if I want to get into work at a decent hour tomorrow (today).

l8rs.

video game luvin'

I think I have finally figured out what has fueled my love of video games so much in the last few years.

I have a monthly video game rental pass with Blockbuster. I know, I know. "Real gamers use Gamefly." Whatever; Blockbuster's right around the corner. That's not what this post is about, anyway. Since February, I've rented maybe 3 games, and put in a total of about 10 hours of game time. 10 hours?! Hell, I normally do that on a Saturday, alone. The bulb in my projector, finally bit the dust sometime in January after I got back from my vacation to the Keys. I can't complain too much. It did last the better part of 3 years of constant use. In case you don't know, projector bulbs don't come cheap, and they're not universal. I've been temporarily reduced to 17" flat panel monitor that I had lying around. Needless to say, movies, tv, and gaming just isn't the same. I've been watching more stuff on the 19" on my computer in my room.

Thanks to the gratuitous reimbursement from the IRS, my birthday present to myself was originally going to be a 360; but, given the list of titles, I decided to wait. Next, it was going to be a new projector; one that supports HD. Ooohh, the dream of XBox in HD with 5.1 audio.... mmmmm. Gives me mahogany just thinking about it. ;) Well, my laziness of not keeping up regular maintenance on the Jeep left me having to replace the radiator last month. So, 2 weeks, ~$450, a couple sets of greasy clothes (they needed to be tossed from the wardrobe anyway), and the entire cooling system (minus the heater core) later, I just ended up paying extra on some outstanding bills. I figured I had enough in savings I could wait a couple more months on the projector.

I've been jonesing pretty bad lately to get back into the gaming action, so I finally played Shadow of the Colossus for the PS2 (which I rented almost 2 weeks ago). After about 15 minutes of squinting and griping about not being able to really visualize the intricate detail put into the environment, I've decided to pull what I already have saved and just get a new bulb. The new projector will just have to wait until Christmas.... I really want to try to finish the dotHack series before then. I completed game 3 last November and have been constantly thinking about game 4 for at least 2 months, now. Worst case scenario, I've had a couple of friends ask me about buying the projector when I get the new one. I was just going to give it to them, since there was no cost when I acquired it, but maybe I can make a little bank back on the bulb cost and use it to buy a ceiling mount for the new one (or maybe that 5.1 receiver I've been trying to talk my friend out of for several months, now). :)

l8rs.

Peyton's Podcast

Now I don't know if I've made it apparent here or not, but my sister's got me watching One Tree Hill ...along with The O.C. and a few other shows, but we won't go there.... ;) For those of you out there who watch the show, I'm sure you know about Peyton and her Podcasts she does in relevance with each episode. "She" started shortly after this season began.

OK... so what's my point? I finally acquired an iPod Shuffle. I used to use iTunes a few years ago, when it first came out, but I never cared much for the way it organized the files (call me anal). Hence, I went back to using *gasp* Windows Media Player. This was all, of course, before I started using Linux. In that sense, I still haven't really found a media player that does everything of what I want, yet. Like I said, call me anal... and picky. ;)

NEWAYZ.... I downloaded the Podcasts this week and started listening to them on the train in to work. Interesting little addition to the already twisted plot of the show. What I find the funniest is if you listen closely, there's this "theme" of dealing with depression and emotional hard times. Then, at the end, she offers encouragement saying it's worth going on... or something like that. I never really had it all that hard in high school... or at least, I never felt like I had any reason to be depressed. No, I wasn't one of those snobby rich kids, nor was I a bitter pill that never cared much for anyone. I never really fit into a descriptive "click", which seem to have existed more predominatly back then than they do in today's pre-collegiate (<-- is that even a word?) education. Yah, well, I don't have kids, and I haven't been around a whole lot of non-college students in a while. So, I'm probably wrong in that assumption.

Well... whatever. I just like listening to them. ...The Podcasts, that is. :) Peyton's quite the music lover, so she's brought up a few band names in her rants. Gives me something new to listen to for a while.

Geeze, I work in the technology field; you'd think I'd have already jumped on the Podcast bandwagon by now. Hell, I was even late in getting into this blogging thing. Am I loosing my touch with modernization?

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LOL!

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Hrmph... yeah, so newayz, check 'em out the next time you're poking through the iTunes Music Store for something to listen to. Or, if you don't have iTunes, download 'em from here:
http://peytonspodcast1.blogspot.com
Worst case senario, you've wasted 5 minutes listening to an "episode" of One Tree Hill.


l8rs.

Interesting Read

The web is a wild beast. Searching for a music manager application for my desktop (I run Fedora, btw), I ran across this blog:
Lifehacker Blog
and the article it references:
"Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career"

I've always made it a running joke that I have AADD even though I'll never go see a shrink. My theory is: "I know I'm screwed up. I don't need to pay someone to tell me that." ;) Even so, this was quite an interesting article consider I work in the IT field. I feel like I've found a home, of sorts, there. Even in the last 7+ years, I haven't lost interest in what I'm doing.

Reading over what the good Dr. Quily states:

"Top Ten ADD Advantages in a Hi Tech Career.

1. The Ability to Hyperfocus.
2. Rapid Fire Mind.
3. Multitasking at Will.
4. High Energy Level.
5. Highly Creative.
6. Quick Learner.
7. Stimulus Seeking Brain.
8. Constantly Scanning your Environment.
9. Great in a Crisis.
10. Risk Taker."

most of these fit my personality.

Ok, so that makes this article a little scary. Am I really AADD? LOL! Eh... who cares, right? :)

Newayz, just a little randomness on reality. BTW, it is butt ass cold here. Even got snow flurries this afternoon. Snow? Here? Come on; I live in the South. It's not supposed to be this cold.

So... yeah....
W00t! Margaritas for everyone! ...heh ;)

l8rs.

Cheezypoofs luvin!

YAY! I finally posted some drawings! Go check em out:
http://www.myspace.com/foundprophet
Follow the "View more pics" link under the main picture.

Also, I'm such a game phreak and geek:



l8rs.

Revelations

This is too cool. So, I was sitting around in the laundrymat waiting on washers to be freed up, and I had my sketch pad with me. I doodled a little on one of the characters for Cheezypoofs with a pencil. I decided it sucked and grabbed a pen instead.

I so need a better pencil to draw with! I can no longer draw with .5 lead mechanical pencils. That's the block I've been having! It's taken me almost 3 months of hating my sketches to figure that out..... :p~

I can be such a dork sometimes. ;)

NEwayz, I need to redo the sketch, but once I do get it scanned in, I'll post. No, really, I'll post one this time. :)

l8rs.

Warning Labels

LOL!!! Too true:

LOOK OUT! ïòð

foundprophet is a radioactive squirrel !!

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From Go-Quiz.com

l8r.

Deviations...

Work sucks, so I'm playing instead:

Your Seduction Style: The Natural

You don't really try to seduce people... it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious - a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

3nj0i!

Oh, so much fun!

Dude, this past weekend has been the most relaxing, the most entertaning, and the most amount of fun I have had in soooo long! I got to see old friends and even make a few new ones (I hope, at least). All I have to say is, thanks guys... I needed that. Oh, and:

"Wingman. You now owe me."
"Yah, I do, don't I?"

"Ya'll from around here?"
"Yes sir."
"Oh. Sorry to interrupt your skinny dippin'. Ya'll have a good night!"

"Dude, you're slurring your words."
"Iah noh." *grin*

l8r. ;)

Otherness...

I've switched from using ecto to BloGTK. Mainly, since I run only Linux at home, and I originally tried ecto out at work.

I did finally manage to get around to doing some rough sketches last weekend of the characters for the web comic I mentioned in my last post. I decided on a title, too: "Cheezypoofs". Don't ask... just go with it. ;) I'm going to try something really different with this that you don't see too many (if any) artists doing. I've been on this huge "free software foundation" kick for about 6 months now. I've decided I'm going to "power" this comic using only free tools. For those of you non-techies, here's an example of what I mean: For all general purposes, I chose Fedora Linux as my OS at home. Mostly because I've just been "promoted" (I guess you could say) to restructure our Linux support at work (we just recently entered into a license agreement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). In doing so, I'm using all "free" software. Most artists mention using Adobe or similar licensed applications. I'm going to look into using GIMP and things along that line. Needless to say, I haven't had my scanner hooked up in years, so I'll need to get my hardware set up b4 I can start editing the images on the 'puter. Like I said, the sketches were really rough, so I probably won't be scanning those in newayz.

Otherness... after having rented the game almost 3 weeks ago (I love the Blockbuster Game Rental Pass), I finally got around to playing "Advent Rising". I was a little disappointed with the graphics, but I'm impressed. Cool game! I'm definitely a video game kid at heart (having grown up in the Atari/Nintendo era), so I try keep up with the game industry as best I can. This is one that slipped under the radar on me. I read an IGN review on it this afternoon, and apparently, it's was a hot topic about a year ago. I will have to agree with this note: "Players who are used to constantly maneuvering the camera will find this system to be awkward at first, but as you learn to work with the targeting system it opens up a world of possibilities." I still haven't gotten used to the camera targeting control (too many hours playing Halo), but it is different, and I am enjoying it. There haven't been too many games lately that keep me that interested. Guess I'm finally growing up. :( That or I'm just too much of a seasoned gamer to like simple games.

Well, that's about it. I haven't had any time this week to work on more drawings (sucks having a full-time job), and I think tonight I'm going to either the bachelor or bachelorette party (friends of my sister getting married). Maybe I'll have time tomorrow. I definitely need to get the character designs down. I'm just as anxious as you to see what they'll look like. :/


3nj0i!

Soul Searching

Yeah, I just really don't feel like working today. I've got about another hour before I have to meet with a prof. to fix his Outlook issues. I haven't done much of anything other than read email all morning, so far.

NEWayz....

So something sparked in me today that seems to have sent me on sort of a soul searching mission, again. Anyone who knows me knows I'm so bored with my job, and I'm getting to the point of hating it... again. I've got a feeling of what triggered this soul searching is the course of events from the last 2 days (mostly yesterday).

Background:
I've been throwing around the idea of finally putting together a web comic. Now, I'm no writer, and my artistic abilities are limited, at best. However, being you are your own worst critic, most of my friends tell me I have a talent for drawing. Ideas have been popping into my head for about the last 6 months for story lines, etc., but I've never written them down. The ideas usually come just after I've crawled into bed or on the short rail trip home from work. So far, I've titled it, written the intro, have a general idea of the characters, and stick-figured the panels (about 4 or 5). I haven't done any rough sketching, yet, but I'll probably start soon. I'm starting to push myself more to follow through with this... mostly to keep my sanity. I work with computers all day long; then, I go home and mess around with them some more. I'm to the point I'm almost burnt out. ...Who am I kidding, I am burnt out. ;)

Cause:
Yesterday, my long time post-high school friend got stranded in Atlanta because of flight problems and weather. Up until about a year ago, we hadn't talked for almost 10 years. These days, we talk occasionally, but I have my life, he has his. So, he was headed out to Vegas to Showcase his newly found inspiration to play and write again (music) and meet with a couple of record companies. He's finally following his dream of sharing his music (quick plug, check out http://www.myspace.com/justnoah). I took the day off work, and we hung out (which we haven't had the time to do in years). Finally seeing his change in personality (which I already knew about) and his enthusiasm about his music (which I haven't seen in a long time) got me thinking. Maybe I really do need to follow through with this comic... not for recognition, or for stature, or to compete with the other ones I read religiously, but just for me. I'm just sticking out my job because it pays the bills. I want something new. Maybe this is that something new that I need.

Effect:
We'll see. Do I really follow through, or do I just half-a$$ it like I've done most everything in my personal life lately? I'll update here as it progresses.


3nj0i!