Sorta New Things

At the end of last week, during work, out of no where I had the urge to play Final Fantasy. But not any Final Fantasy, I wanted to play FFVII (for those that don't understand Roman Numerals, that's FF7). I had never had the chance to actually beat that game before because I never owned it. So I thought that I would pull out my Playstation (the original one) and find a copy of FFVII on Ebay or Craigslist.

I get my Playstation out, plug it all in, and put in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (the first one) to make sure that everything is still in working order. Which it was for the most part. The console over the years has seemed to have quit reading memory cards... no bueno. Plus my controllers don't exactly work the best either. So I figured that I could just buy another Playstation as well.

I find a Playstation on Ebay for $2.50 and end up winning the auction at $8.50, which really wasn't that bad of a deal. Now to find a Final Fantasy. This was easier than I thought, just not as cheap as I thought. Games were ranging anywhere from $30 to $130. Practically falling over in my chair, I checked over at CL to see what people had there and to see if I could find a better price. I was able to find one at $50 that is pretty close to my house. And being impatient, I dealt with the higher price to have the game now. So then all I had to wait on was my Playstation.

And so my Playstation arrived today. W00T! It looks to be in nice condition, about the same as mine... but it still reads memory cards, yay. It also came with two memory cards, two analog controllers and the necessary cables. Only thing is that it smells a little of cigarettes, one of the memory cards is for Playstation 2 and one of the analog sticks on each of controllers are damaged... ooops, more than one thing. Oh, and here is the link to my unboxing pictures and a few others.

Yay. I almost forgot, I think I might get a cat tomorrow. I will tell you about it if I get it, tomorrow.

Quick

Just a quick little write up.

I was just reading over some of my RSS/Atom subscriptions and came across something I would much rather have preferred to never read. I don't think I want to quote what it said but I can tell you how it made me feel.

Very sad. Yes. And it came from one single sentence. It even happened before I finished reading that one sentence. It was like suddenly being stabbed (or something like that). It was so sad even, that I am beginning to feel depressed. Why? Because I know that I could have done something about it. But instead, I chose to do nothing. So maybe I deserve the sadness? I am leaning towards the fact that this is something that I do deserve because of the poor choice(s) that I have made in my life. I guess it is the price that I must pay, but it will be something that I must deal with forever. That is how long the consequences of me not making the one most right choice of my life will be.

I am not exactly sure what to do now. I want to unsubscribe from that feed. But at the same time stay subscribed because maybe it was a bad joke. Then again...

Even stranger, not really (makes sense to me), is that now I have an even stronger disliking of Texas and wish that I had never moved here. Maybe I will write about this more. Maybe not. It is not something that I really want to remember, so I really don't want to look back at this blog years from now and experience the same feelings again.

So much for "Quick".

First Day Of School

Yet again, it is the first day of school. By now I am very tired of this. It is such an old, and now boring, feeling. Although, I am getting a few laughs because of the large amount of lost people. Because this is the beginning of the Fall semester, there are a lot of new students to the school, and what appears to be more than usual. There is actually a guy that is standing over in a corner just helping people find their classroom. I am assuming that he is a student just waiting for his class to begin, like what I am doing now.

Besides those lost students, the classes that I am taking this semester have too many books, hah. Especially my American Literature class. I have three books just for that class. Three heavy books. I guess that makes up for two of my other classes that don't require any books. Maybe I shouldn't be complaining.

Other than school. A couple interesting this happened this past weekend. I guess it deserves to be interesting though seeing that it is the last weekend of Summer, not literally of course. Most of all of the interesting things happened yesterday. I'll just go through the timeline of yesterday.

First, I slept in till about 10:00 or so and then took a shower and got ready to go to Wal-Mart. Haha, that makes me laugh, "getting ready to go to Wal-Mart." My brother and I went to Wal-mart to get a 5-pack of 8cm DVD's that we had hid the day before because they were the last pack on sale and we didn't want to wait in the ridiculously long lines. So we got our DVD's, and then we went to the back of the store to check to see if they had any Wii's in stock. Sure enough, they didn't. Instead of buying a Wii, I bought a new video camera. It's decent. It is very small, records onto SD cards and has a long battery life. After that, we had to get my brothers practice gear and meet him at the park because he spent the night at a friends house. When that was all said and done, it was time for me to get gas. On the way to get the gas, I found a turtle! Crazy! Since the turtle was some type of water turtle, I returned him to a nearby pond. Hopefully that made him happy.

Class starts soon. Later.

Blog Stuff

Ok. My new blog is up. I have decided a name and have two posts up already. Of course, you could just check out my profile and you would then see it, but me being as nice as I am will give you a link anyway.

Enjoy ;)

Not Quite Obvious

Something New

I have been thinking about starting up a new blog lately. This one will basically be for exactly what the title says, "Almost Daily Journal". But there are some things that aren't really a part of my life that wouldn't need to be inluded in my journal, so why put them here? For the last couple of days, that was my only reasoning to create a new blog. But then I stumbled (no relation to StumbleUpon) a few other things this afternoon. I found that I really feel that I need to share my opinion on things. It is a slightly crazy reason, but because I would normally be too shy to let someone know what I think of something directly, the internets (politically corectness please) is where I turn to.

I haven't really thought up of a name for it yet, but I am going to start working on it as soon as I am finished typing this up. So when it is finished and my first post is up, I will have a link over here for you to click and follow me to. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe if you like it.

Something

Multitasking. I am writing a post on my blog and broadcasting on BlogTV.com at the same time. Crazy. Actually, it's really not that hard when there isn't anyone watching your show, so it is pretty easy for me. But if anyone is interested, you are more than welcome to watch my show. I don't really have a schedule, I just get on when I feel like and and when I have time. But you could still subscribe and that way you will know when I will be broadcasting.

Moving on. Something interesting happened earlier this evening, I received and email saying that a photo of mine could possibly end up in a city guide for Salt Lake City, Utah. The company that will be publishing the guide is Schmap. I know, it's a silly name. They seem to have come across some photos from my photostream on Flickr and found a particular photo that they liked. It is really almost flattering. I am no pro at photography, not even semi-pro (Haha, good movie), but the picture seemed to be good enough to be included in a city guide. It is exciting. My name and a link to my full res photo will be added to the photo. But, I probably shouldn't get too excited yet because they didn't say that my photo would be included for sure but that it is a possibility. I actually hope that it makes it and that people find my photos and enjoy the pictures that I have taken. It all sounds cool to me.

What else. School starts back up next week. Bleh. I guess I am a little excited though because it will hopefully earn me my associates degree and I am also looking forward to my digital media class. It definitely sounds like the most fun class I am taking this semester. I will be able to get hands-on experience with Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, Acid (I think) and a couple other pieces of software. I am especially looking forward to learning more about Photoshop and Premiere. I still don't think I have all my stuff ready for school yet, for supplies anyway. I need to get a few notebooks, a pencil and pick up my books from the school. My books are already ready for me to pick up; I ordered them online about a month and a half ago.

Besides school, work is back to it's normal self. Hopefully I won't have to cover any ones shift for a while, mainly because I won't be able to because of school. It is nice getting back to my normal hours though.

By the way. I uploaded some more photos to Flickr, just a few, and added two videos to my YouTube channel. If anyone is interested, please help yourself.

Later.

Hey

Let's see what has been going on.

My sister is always angry at someone... WTF is up with that? That just pisses me off (a vent coming on?). I think I know of a perfect way to fix it, but I would probably be arrested/go to jail for permenantly damaging her face. Anyway, she just happened to be angry at me a few minutes ago. So now I want to hit her with a car...

Moving on. I got my RC car running again. I recieved a brand new engine in the mail, broke it in, and now the car runs great. I still have a few things I need to fix on it though. Things like the bbody mount posts, fuel line, new engine mount screws, and now today (thanks to a stupid neighbor) I am going to need a new steering connecting rod. Even though this stuff needs to be fixed, the parts are pretty cheap and it's fun to fix. I have already had the experience of fixing the car twice. First was the motor (broken connecting rod), second was a bent dogbone along with broken rear differential. Now I get to fix it again. I can't decide if I want to order the parts or just head to the hobby shop and pick up the parts tomorrow. Suggestions?

I have also been covering some extra hours at work this week, and also two weeks ago. I'm happy about getting the overtime because I had to pay off my tuition and books. Speaking of school, I had completely forgot when I am supposed to start and thought it would be a good idea to check. Good thing I did because I start the 25th of this month, that's only a week from Monday. I had no idea it was back so soon. I still need to head up to Six Flags.

No more for now. Peace.

If they keep on doing this shit...

I saw this on Digg. And it all makes perfect sense. What is wrong with the MPAA when they criticize you even when you haven't done anything wrong.

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