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Okay, so I haven't been on the internet in a while. Haven't checked my email, haven't even read slashdot. I swear, I turn around for a minute, and someone beats Super Mario Brother 3 in eleven minutes. Yeah, eleven minutes. Damn. Or, as I heard it while googling: "our entire childhood in 11 minutes."
I played that game. I still have our 'regular nintendo' controllers. That WAS my childhood as we know it.
Anyway, it's old news, but I found it humorous enough to let the entire world know about it. Want to read more about it? Don't you even know what google is?!?
I have just spent the past three and a half hours or so indulging myself with the eye candy known as Lord of the Rings. The third and final installment of the epic trilogy came out last Wednesday and I have just now taken the time to go watch it.
All I can say is "I'm tired". And not just from sitting in the broken movie theatre seat. From watching the movie, I mean.
What an eyeful. That movie is one of the best I think I have ever seen. Wow.
I mean, wow. How do you find words to describe something like this? Peter Jackson laid out an awsome ending for the two movies I already know and adore.
Which I hate.
In the back of my mind I keep wanting to think that next December we will pick up where we left off and continue the journey through Middle Earth and beyond, but I know that it won't happen. The only hope I have of watching such masterful work again would be if Mr. Jackson decided to develop the prequel to the trilogy, The Hobbit. We should be so lucky.
Anyway, go see it. I won't tell you what happens, for I do not think I could describe it if I had a hundred thousand words.
Go see it. And if you already have, call me, and we can both go see it again.
The holiday season is full of joy and happiness and love.
And fruitcake and spending and that crazy Aunt Mabel EVERYone has. Oh, yeah, and holiday parties.
As in "THE" holiday party. One of my friends from way back when (Pre-K?) is one of ten hosts for the ~250 kids. At the red lion hotel, as in wear a tux. Not that I don't enjoy dressing up, but this really bites. I guess it started something like 17 years ago by a family that objected to their co-workers saying that the kids in redding had no manners/couldn't dress up. Well, they put on a party and the main rule was "no backpacks". I don't get it either. Anywho, it's a bunch of kids that dress up nicely and hang out or dance or get their pictures taken or eat or whatever. Well, I got an invitation, so I have to go.
Oh, just one little thing more: my PARENTS will be there.
***all sorts of annoying red lights going off about now***
They were invited by my host-friend's parents, so they are obliged to go as well. shit. What can a guy do? murder is not really an option, too many questions... I'll think of something.
It starts at eight or something like that, so I expect to show up at 8:30 and leave by 9.
oh, yeah, i went snowboarding. I am sure many of you think i am dead after not posting when I went up on OPENING DAY at mt. shasta. Well, I did. I am still alive after braving the backside of coyote, the terrain park, and everything in between. The snow wasn't that great, but it was fun nonetheless. I am going up on friday with my sister if anyone wants to go. We should get a bunch of cars to go up caravan style. :)
In less than thirty minutes I will begin my trek up to Mt. Shasta. Yeah, to go snowboarding. I have only been waiting for ALL SEASON!!!
I will be taking up a video camera, but it will be snowing/raining, so I will post pics on monday if I can.
Wish me luck.
"MT. SHASTA BOARD & SKI PARK
PRESS RELEASE FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 9, 2003
OPENING DAY THIS FRIDAY!!
MT. SHASTA - Great news snowriders!! The Mt. Shasta Board & Ski Park will open for the 2003 – 2004 Season on Friday December 12."
This is a direct snippet from an email sent to me from the Mt. Shasta.
I am so ready to go snowboarding. Even as I type, I am getting yelled at from my teacher. Loud voice directly aimed at me. Apparently I did something that everyone hated and the faculty is pissed, and I am firm in my apathetic stance.
But sowboarding. I am ready. Snowboarding. Shasta. Freedom. Snowboarding. Adrenaline. Powder. Air. Jumps. Snowboarding.
I am so fuckin ready I don't know what to type. Words escape me.
All I know is that when I am on the snow with that piece of wood strapped to my feet I am a free man. I can do what I want, go where I want, take risks and reap the benefits of them. The adrenaline rush paired with the rush of air aimed at my face is my place in life. I love it. Again, words cannot descirbe the awsomeness that comes with that trip down the mountain. I live for moments like those.
Which is precisely why I am going to be going snowboarding on this coming friday. For the first time this season. Opening day. When I found out yesterday that this friday was to be opening day, I almost passed out. I jumped, danced, and yelled for joy. I waxed my snowboard last night with my new wax. I tried on my boots for the umpteenth time since last season, just to make sure they still fit. I laid out my snowboarding outfit on the floor to double-check EVERYthing. I am SO FUCKING READY TO GO SNOWBOARDING!!!
Okay, so I just posted then started reading around on other people's blogs, right? I see Tony's. I laughed out loud until I almost started crying. Why? I looked down and saw this:
Wouldn't that suck to wake up one morning look down and have no balls?
I finished the class at the TV station last Friday and it went pretty smoothly. We filmed two half-hour shows, so I had plenty of practice at it. I am really glad I went but I missed working at Op-Test. When I went back for the first day in two weeks yesterday, there was plenty to do, including putting together the very first Thermal Control Board for testing. Basically, this was "my" project for the past couple of months. I was the one who worked (with Dan) to design the circuit, layout the PCB, order the correct parts, and now, put it together. I finished the soldering on it yesterday, and now I am laying it all out on an aluminum sheet along with a power supply board stolen out of an external SCSI drive. So basically, with any luck, we are going to pump some power into it, hook it up to a PC and see if it really does work.
You know, the reason I initially went to blogger to post right now was to rant about school and how much I hate it, but I am pretty sure that if you read this with any regularity or if you know me, you alredy realize that I pretty much hate school right now. So I shall spare you the unnecessary words so that you may click on a "friends" link on the left to go read somewhere else :)
For the past week I have been involved in a four-hour-a-day training course that is going to (hopefully) get me certified as a tv studio guru. I have been rotating positions along with my nine other peers in the class from cameraperson, audio, video, floor director, graphics, actor, and director. We have done a number of six-minute productions as practice for our final, which is today. We're talking 30-minute production with real people which is going to be aired on real tv. I don't care if it is just community access television. I am going to be the friggin DIRECTOR!!! I just hope my multitasking skills are up to snuff when it comes time to actually start the filming. We go live to tape, so there is no editing if anyone messes up. And I am the one who is telling who to do what and when. But no pressure. Deep breath. This is going to be fun. I am terribly excited about it, but I am nervous as hell. Every position is as important as any other, but if I mess up, everyone messes up in a sense. We shall see. I am going to get a VHS or DVD copy of our half-hour final I am told, so that might find it's way onto the internet with hosting from ANTHS.org. We shall see.
Anywho, I'm out. Chemistry is next.
Yeah, happy thanksgiving a few days late from stilldavid.com. I feel as if my life has been pulling me in eighteen different directions and I want to go each way, but I can't. To sum it up: I have an internship for 3 hours a day 5 days a week; I have a full classload at school plus an extra class (online) PLUS two more next semester; and starting today I have a weeklong class for 4 hours a day to teach me everything there is to know about channel 26 and how to make production quality video; I have to finish the program I am writing for the school website and then help Mr. Z set up a new Linux server to (hopefully) set up a program to replace lotus notes.
And I was just wondering why I haven't blogged in a week and a half. Put it to you this way:
I just got permission from the all-powerful Swaggles to put Linux on my borrowed school laptop, and I that was almost a week ago, and I haven't done it yet. And I am a geek! ::sigh:: I think I am done ranting. I will post again when I can gather my thoughts into more than a microsoft operating system.
Speaking of Stephen King, I have to read The Shining for school.