i think at one point, somebody said "Let's provide the world a service that they need, they will literally die without it and they have no choice but to use it. Once they've used it, that person has to be our indentured servant for the next fifteen years"
then they made a hospital
I just got back from the hospital. Friday, about 5:30, a wave of pain kind of rushed over me and I went home to lie down, it hurt so bad I couldn't think straight and I actually locked my keys in my car before I went in the house. It was appendicitis. Apparently, I've had appendicitis for about eleven months, and on friday, it ruptured. They had to do surgery on my and I threw up a lot afterwards. A bunch of blood vessels in my eyes popped and now the whites of my eyes are solid red. I don't mean bloodshot, but actually solid, dark red, like if you went into photoshop and did a flood fill of dark red on my eyes, that's what they look like. It's pretty crazy. I'm alright now, it hurts to move around but it's because I got cut into probably... They made three incisions, one in my belly button, one about four inches to the left of my belly button, and one about four inches below my belly button. It's going to cost me a lot of money, because I am a dreg on society with no insurance (that makes a lot of sense, people with good jobs get insurance, people with shitty jobs get fucked in the ass, god bless america), but look on the bright side, if I had waited longer, even a day, I could be dead. My appendix ruptured and was leaking pus and bile into my abdominal cavity, it kind of hurt a little. So yeah, if you guys were wondering where I was or why I haven't logged on in a few days, that's why.
I kind of volunteered to make a new website for our kung fu school, so I've been up all night messing around, and I'm pretty happy with the results.
I'd say it's a pretty good improvement... I'd even go as far as to say that it's the most professional looking site I've made. None of the links work at the moment, I was just creating a layout before I started really working on adding content to the site.
Bleh... I just noticed that it looks different in IE than Firefox... I made it using firefox and didn't think to check it in IE. It still looks good though.
Erik already covered it, but I need to point out that nintendo released their controller (clickable link JP) for the revolution, and it's got me really excited. I know that nintendo can put it to good use, and with the analog stick connected to it, it's the closest thing a console can get to a mouse and keyboard, without actually using a mouse and keyboard. The main thing they have to worry about is third party developers, most of them are lazy assholes and only want to port games from other consoles, not make something completely innovative that takes full advantage of a particular console's capabilities (look at GBA ports to DS for example).
I went to kung fu a lot this week, well as much as I could anyway. The best part is, I went in there monday all pumped up about doing it, and I managed to learn like a third of the form I'm working on, in three days. That's pretty good considering a third of the form is like 15-20 moves. I have a problem though... my arms are just too weak. My legs are like two gorillas on steroids from doing so much stance training and stuff, but I have the upper body strength about that of a fourteen year old girl. So I've decided to start strengtening my arms a bit by doing push-ups and dips. Now, dips are really fucking hard for me. Push-ups, are almost impossible for me. I cannot, trying as hard as I can, do a real, normal pushup. It sucks that I've let myself go that much, but I know that it's not too late to turn that around, so I've started by doing lots and lots of cheater pushups, where you let your knees touch the ground. as long as you keep your body straight while you're doing it, you still get the same workout in the muscles, it's just not as hard because you're not lifting as much weight. So yeah, one step at a time I guess. My goal is to eventually get my arms strong enough to do real pushups so I can start doing those. I think losing weight in my upper-body will help too, so maybe I should start *shudder* running or something. But I hate running so I think instead I'll just practice kung fu forms in my backyard. yay!
(dodging the dog poop is part of the training)
ooooh... at this rate I'll be able to test by the next test session, and you know what that means? BROADSWORDS, MO'FUCKAS. The world will be a little less safe afterwards.
Hey I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while... There's a legitimate reason though, I forgot my movable type password. My old comp had cookies and I never cleared them, so I never had to put it in except once, but I built a new comp about a month ago and didn't know my password and couldn't retrieve it because I didn't set my birthplace.
I'll go over old news first... I broke it off with that girl that asked me out, that was at least a month ago though. I felt a lot less guilty afterwards. I think in a relationship, you have to be at least somewhat excited about it, and I didn't feel anything, except for maybe guilty for letting it go as long as it did.
I built my new comp, and it's awesome. The highlights are the athlon64 3700 processor and themes. I played through Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Fable: The Lost Chapters. I've also been playing lots of single player UT2k4 and Half Life 2. Basically just checki 6600gt video card, and the 250gig hard drive is nice too, I have like 13 games installed right now. I've been spending lots of time playing single player gang what my comp can handle, which is just about anything that's out now.
I also bought Neverwinter Nights with both expansions so I could play on all of the player-hosted servers, and so I could use more stuff when playing with the toolset. I hope to eventually start working on a NWN module that is actually decent. I've been learning how to make cutscenes and stuff, it's cool how much you can do with the toolkit. Of course, I think by the time I learn to fully utilize the toolset, the sequel (Neverwinter Nights 2) will be out and I'll have to re-learn it or continue messing with the outdated one. Kind of like duke nukem 3d and the build engine, by the time I really started to make decent levels, there was a better game out and nobody cared about duke anymore. I never even tried level editing with quake or anything, the game didn't come with a level building kit like duke did and was way less "tile-based" than duke. But yeah, I've been playing the single player NWN campaigns too, just to get an idea on the balance of the game and stuff.
I haven't been playing WoW lately. I don't have a good explanation for this, except for maybe that I just don't feel like playing. Whenever I think about logging on, I think about how I'm gonna be stuck on a quest, or looking for a group for an instance and getting kicked out of said group because a priest is looking. I love playing druid, but in MMORPG's you have to specialize in one thing to be viable in a group, because being well-rounded usually means you're weak at everything. I've been considering playing my priest again for those reasons. I love playing the healer in a group, but I hate being weak when I solo. That's why I stopped playing my priest in the first place. It's also why I loved playing druid until the levels where parties become more essential. If I'm in a party, I'm always the main healer, and I can solo effectively as well. But later on, it seems that druids are just slot fillers, unless there are absolutely no priests around. So that's why I haven't been wanting to play. I can't commit to one character and that has caused me to fall behind everybody.
Work has been interesting, to say the least. I should warn everybody now that, free movies aren't going to be so easy to get anymore. None of the old management works there anymore. I don't have any power there anymore. The name of JP can't be invoked for free movies anymore, and I can only get one person in for free if I ask. I can get lots of people in free if I don't ask, but hey, while we're doing that, why don't we just sneak in the side doors, because it's practically the same thing. As much as I should quit, I enjoy working in projection and am not really affected by the change of management. The people downstairs, on the other hand, are getting screwed left and right, and are quitting by the dozen. Well not by the dozen. Let's just say a lot of people have quit. If they moved me downstairs, I would probably have to quit as well, but I honestly don't think they'll do that. They need me upstairs more than ever, because most of the competent projectionists are gone.
I've been slacking in kung fu lately, only going twice, sometimes once, a week. I think the main reason that's been happening is because of work, but sometimes I just don't feel like going. But I'm actually pretty pumped about going right now, because yesterday I went to Springfield, Missouri and helped with the grand opening of a new kung fu school, started by one of my sihings. Sihing is chinese for older brother, used in kung fu to address somebody that trains under the same Sifu (father/master) as you, but is at a higher level of training. So technically, he's a Sifu now. Just not my Sifu. It was actually a lot of fun and we got to eat some good chinese food. It has me pretty pumped about going to kung fu tomorrow. I'm gonna try to go a lot more often, instead of playing video games and shit. I figure as long as I'm not playing WoW I might as well be exercising and learning kung fu instead of playing some single player rpg or something. Anyway, the more I go to class, the sooner I start learning weapons forms. I really want to learn some sword and staff forms. You don't even know. Kung fu staff forms are the most awesomest looking forms ever, and always look badass, guaranteed. I'll show you when the time comes, it'll rock your socks right off your ass.
What else... got my ps2 working, took it apart and cleaned the lens, and poof it worked again. Warranty's dead now but I don't care at all.