Also, I find it awesome that she has things posted there such as what she sent in to Slave Labor Graphics to try and get published.  It makes for a nice example, though I wouldn’t think I’d have any real use for it until years from now.  Oh well, still interesting as shit.

Eventually we met up with another friend, and the four of us continued until we came to a small park in a town I didn’t recognize.  The thing had a playground merry-go-round, which was awesome, and a yard with three friendly and adorable Labradors.  At least I think they were Labradors.  I don’t know dogs very well.  But they were adorable.  After some general hanging-out, we left for our mutual friend Spiro’s house, parting ways with one friend, then stopping along the way to, uh, hang out some more…yeah, hang out more.  We spent a fairly crazy and very fun night at Spiro’s, during which the friend we had met up with left.  Afterward, the remaining two of us simply walked to our respective houses.

Well, that didn’t quite sound so exciting and fun summarized as such.  But it was fun when it was happening.

Comments: Was a bit off doing this one. Slept over friend’s last night. Little sore going in. Definitely harder. Not sure anymore if improvement will come so easily. Pushed to beat old max of 12.

my progress

Comments: Just finished day 1, week 1 on rank 2. Think my schedule will be Wed, Fri, Sun. Was worried initial test would be wrong, but after first day, doubt it. Was also unsure if 60 seconds would be much rest after push ups, but again, everything worked out well.  Kind of excited/interested to see progress, ability to do more and more.

my progress

Weird Al (n/a)
Shaimus (n/a)
Eels
Weezer
Luke Ski
Brobdingnagian Bards
Voltaire
Jonathan Coulton (eh…)
Mindless Self Indulgence
mc chris
Lyle Lovett
Dr. Steel

That’ s actually it, right there.  Mostly.  I mean, not all of the 1,255 songs in my iTunes library are from those artists, but those are the twelve I call my favorites.  They’re in no order, and I’ve denoted the ones that I can’t actually buy a CD for, since I own all of the non-compilations already.  As for Jonathan Coulton: I have a whole bunch of his songs spread across all of his albums and such, but own not a single album in its entirety.  I might just buy all of his songs.  Or a few whole things of his.  Something.

I just thought of doing this, right after listening to some Voltaire and remembering my Voltaire phase last year, where I just pretty much listened to his songs all the time.  I have phases like these for pretty much all of the artists up there, but I’m beginning to jump around a whole lot now, not having anyone significantly new and favoritable to obsess over.

I just think it would be a good idea for me to have a whole slew of new, fresh things to listen to when I get out there.  I might even get some CDs from some other artists.  Time to save more money.

I saw Watchmen on Friday, with Spiro and Justin.  Then we played D&D late into the night. That was awesome.

And I’ve been to get myself in decent enough shape somehow.  My first idea was to play Dance Dance Revolution, since that’s actually great exercise.  However, I heard from zefrank about one hundred push ups, and thought I’d give that a go.  Judging by my inital test, I can do maybe six good-form push-ups, putting me at rank 2.  Tomorrow I think I’ll start Week 1.  I also think I might have to re-do the initial test, though.  I think my room screwed me up.

Oh yes, yesterday was Daylight Savings time.  Spring forward!  Whoosh!

For neither of us was it a first-time visit.  I had gone a few times before–at least once before, years ago, taking enough from it to remember certain rooms.  She has been there more times, I think, and remembered more, I also think.

first half of day, with friend  >  second half of day, working at card shop

Later on in the afternoon, I had work.  That sucked, except for me getting a bunch of reading done.  A bunch, but not enough.

Demetri Martin = great mood pick-me-up

Hopefully we will have more fun in days to come.

But anyway, school was actually cancelled yesterday, something that our school is the last one to do.  Our school is weird.  And stupid.  And awful.  Most kids that go here would agree.  It’s not the worst, it’s just…like, an island.  But enough about that.  I had off yesterday, and of course, it was squanderin’ time!  After I stayed up until about 9:30 AM from Saturday to Sunday, then slept until maybe 3 or 4 in the afternoon, I needed to reset my schedule.  I did, waking up at around 1:00 PM, as is common for me when I don’t stay up until the sun rises.  But man, that time ignoring my bodily needs was productive.  I got shit done, mainly NPCs that are pivotal for this game of D&D I and my friends have going sort of.  We’ve only gotten off one session so far, but that’s just fine.  I still have to jam to get more done.

I’ve been wanting to make music and such lately.  My main problem is not being able to keep a tune in my head.  Aside from that it’s an inability to really play any instrument, but that wouldn’t be such a great obstacle had I some rememberance of original melodies and tunes.  Lyrics come well enough, though syncing that with the music itself is difficult.  It’s all hard.  God, why is creation SO DIFFICUUULT!!!!  I found this neat little thing called TinyPiano.  It basically turns your computer keyboard into a MIDI sound-playing keyboard.  I wish I had a good way to record the sounds it makes.  That would be a nice first step for me.

As I was uploading the album onto my phone, the songs cut-off at around song 15 and stopped uploading.  I discovered shortly after that the problem was a lack of space on my phone’s memory card.  So, I deleted some stuff I don’t listen to, and ordered a new 8gb M2 memory card to replace the now-full 4gb one I have.  Doing this, and seeing that 8gb is apparently the largest size I can get of an m2, I know now that I will eventually upgrade to an iPod of a fairly large size.  I wonder how long it’ll take to fill up four more gigs.  Not that I’m anxious; I want as much use from my Walkman phone as I can get.  It’ll be interesting.

We played at Spiro’s house, as seemed natural.  Not only in Spiro’s house, but in the basement, which is just classic for playing D&D.  This is the kind of group and game that we’ve dreamed of, or at least that I’ve dreamed of.  Playing with close friends whom I don’t have to struggle to get along with is really what I’ve wanted, with whom we can all make jokes and just have a great time.

Our next session is sure to be superior, since I’ll have all my shit together then.