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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
7:11 pm	Spider Gap ...has been conquered. But I'm hungry and tired now so I'll write up a full report with pictures later. EDIT: Later has arrived, so here's the story. ( Lots of pictures ) Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Cusco - Montezuma (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
1:33 pm	Off to adventure Heading off to Spider Gap for my first overnight trip here in washington. I'm going alone, but it sounds pretty tame, and pretty crowded too, so I probably won't die. It's getting late though, so I'd best quit typing and hit the road Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Vanessa Carlton - Twilight (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
10:43 pm	Almost The last few weeks have been a blur of code, but the game is finally more or less done. We were up until 6am tuesday night/wednesday morning, and sent the build off to NOA for approval to go to lot check. I slept until 2, went out and replenished my food supply, which I hadn't really had a chance to do, and then roamed around at the park for a while. Not surprisingly, I came home to find that we had been rejected with a big list of bugs. Back to it, and stayed until 6am again. Kind of dumb since we didn't get all the bugs fixed anyway, and could have gone to bed on time and then fixed the rest of today. But no, publishers seem to have this thing that they want something done NOW, even if it's not actually going to do them any good. So we decided to ignore them and take today off. Hah! I did basically nothing useful today. Slept too late to go climb a mountain, didn't really feel like drawing, and need a break from programming. Doing nothing is really boring though. Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 25th, 2006
12:18 am	Mount Dickerman For this week's adventure, I wanted to do Gothic Basin. Except that, upon further reading about the trail, you appearently have to cross 3 avalanche chutes along the way. I crossed an avalanche chute once, and have felt very dumb for it ever since, so I decided to go to another trail in that area, Mount Dickerman. 8.5 miles round trip, 3900 feet elevation gain. Should be a good workout. The trail starts off in a nice forest. Medium-large trees abound, and the trail climbs steadily for a couple miles without too much excitement. Along the way, there is what I have dubbed the VLR (Very Large Rock): My stitched picture came out kind of warped. It's maybe 20 feet tall, and makes me wonder how it got there. Moving on, the trail crosses a pretty waterfall: And then comes the snow. Lots of it. I really hate snow, and today was particularly sunny, which makes it all the worse. I almost gave up and turned around, but then I saw it. The peak: And I had to have it. On I go, trudging across several long snow fields, baking in the afternoon sun. A few people went sliding down the snowy hills on their rumps. I wish I would have brought my rain jacket to slide on without getting frozen. There was also a nice blueberry field, although they're only budding right now. Must go back this fall for a feast. After a while, things started to look unusual. The top of the hill I was climbing kind of just ended not far up, with pure blue sky above it. Turns out I was almost there, even though I thought it was still quite a bit further. The view from the top is unreal: Mountains as far as the eye can see, everywhere but back west, where you can see (I think) the puget sound near the horizon. Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, and Rainier are all visible from up here. There were also some massive waterfalls down below, which I could hear surprisingly loudly. After roaming around snapping pictures like mad for 20 minutes or so, I started to head back. Frolicking across snow fields is actually quite fun when you're going down. Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: Vanessa Carlton - Twilight (Comment on this)
Monday, June 12th, 2006
2:41 am	Double header So I was going to actually try climbing mount si twice this weekend when I had this great idea. Climbing the same mountain twice would be boring, so instead I decided to attempt mailbox peak and si back to back. I was quite confident that I could manage si twice, but I was pretty beat after mailbox last time, so this I was honestly not sure I could pull off. About 14 or 15 miles, and 7500 feet elevation gain total. 7am: Alarm goes off. I go back to sleep. 8am: Finally I drag myself out of bed, eat, and hit the road. 9:30am: Arrive at mailbox peak trail, and up I go. 11:45am: Top! 2 hours and 15 minutes, not bad. 12pm: Pretty crowded up here, so I start to head back. 1:30pm: Back at the bottom, and ready for more. 1:45pm: Arrive at mount si trail. 1:50pm: I'm starting to get tired now. 4:20pm: Made it! Not without a lot of time spent flopped on the ground, however. Still, 2 hours and 35 minutes is not bad right after mailbox. 6:15pm: Finally done! Final time, 8 hours and 45 minutes. Upon returning home, I go to sleep. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, just get to the bed and don't move for 2 hours. After that I was pretty much fine. Well, if you don't count my attempt at stretching. It went something like, "I'll put my leg over here and start to bend dow- CRAMP! Owowow. Fine then, I'll do this other stretch. See, that wasn't so bad. Now let's try spreading my legs and stretching downward. I'll just put this leg here and- CRAMP! Pull the leg back! CRAMP IN OTHER LEG! NO! Pull it back too! CRAMP IN FOOT!!!" Yeah, so then I slept some more. Strangely, I'm not really even sore today. It's such a nice feeling to give yourself a true challenge and complete it. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Scorpik - Little fen-fire (Comment on this)
Monday, June 5th, 2006
1:32 am	Crazy plans never work Grargh. I've been spending way too much time at work these past couple weeks. And the worst part is that I was in such a deep state of work-mode, I didn't even realize it. So, Champagne had been talking about going on a little backpacking trip all week, which while it sounded like fun, just never occurred to me that I could ask if I could come too. At least, not until friday night when I was basically sitting there all alone, getting nothing done. So I wandered home, wishing more and more that I'd thought to ask about the trip sooner. REI (the source of all hiking gear) was still open though, so after a few minutes of being all sad and alone after I got home, I decided to call Champagne and ask if I could go. Unfortunately she didn't answer, and I figured it was a bit rude to invite yourself on a trip in the first place, much less at the last minute, so I decided to give it up. My new plan was to wake up early the next day and see just how many times I can go up and down Mt. Si before I can no longer move. At least that way I would get a good workout, since I would likely not accomplish much else that day. Saturday morning I wake up at 7am, with every intention of climbing Si twice or more. Except I was still sad about missing out on backpacking. At this point I decide that giving up so easily is for chickens, and thus the crazy plan is born: go chase them down on foot. Basically 4 possible outcomes: 1) The plan succeeds and we all live happily ever after (yay). 2) The plan succeeds but I freeze to death because I don't have a tent (dang it, at least I tried). 3) I fail to find them, and have a nice day hike (not so bad). 4) I find them, but fail to join the group (sucks). All I know is the name of the trail they're going to. No idea where exactly it is, or when they're planning to get there. Now, keep in mind that this is 2 or 3 hours earlier than I would normally be conscious, so logical thinking is not much involved in the decision to proceed with this plan. The first dilemma is solved shortly, thanks to www.wta.org. The second is not too critical since it was still pretty early, and I doubt they could outrun me on the trail if they did arrive a bit sooner. So I gather up what gear I have and can fit in my normal sized backpack. Enough food and water to survive the 2 days, extra clothes and rain jacket, incase of rain or snow, and a sleeping bag. As mentioned though, no tent. And that will turn out to be my downfall in the end. And so it begins, across the cascades, about 100 miles away, I arrive at the trail. First realization: water is heavy. Not going to outrun anyone today. The trail was fairly empty, only passed by maybe 4 other groups. It's pretty nice though, running by a large stream most of the way. Lots of downed trees to climb over and under though, which would have been fun were it not for my rather plump backpack. Up and up for several hours, I eventually arrive at the first lake. It's big and pretty and blue, so I hang out there for a while, and wander up the trail a bit further. Off to the side I can hear a waterfall. I went off trail for a bit to go take a peek. Trigger jaw drop. It's a large fall springing out from high above a boulder field. My picture doesn't even come close to conveying the glory of this waterfall. I continued up the trail a bit further from here until it looked like there wouldn't be many more cool sights for a while, and decided to turn back. The group may still be behind me, and if not, I've had a nice day already. Just about 15 or 20 minutes back, I spot a couple of burly dudes up ahead, lead by a small, darkly clothed figure, face hidden under a wide brimmed hat. None other than Champagne, so I greet them and explain the situation. The two burly dudes, who I'd never met before, seemed to think me rather stupid and basically told me I'd die. I argued for a bit, and eventually decided to go back. I'm quite confident that I would survive with the amount of clothing I brought, but I didn't particularly like those two, and I'd rather not cause Champagne any undue stress on her long awaited backpacking trip. She apologized several times as I headed back, which sadly was more painful than missing out on the trip itself. The way back was mostly uneventful. We shall see how things go in the coming days. Current Mood: distressed Current Music: Ayumi Hamasaki - Love Destiny (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
10:52 pm	Slowpoke Grargh. Took me all day just to get little groups of spaceships to spawn behind you and fly past along a path. And it's sunday. And now it's almost time to sleep and go back to work. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: LeAnn Rimes - Unchained Melody (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
11:58 pm	Meh. Stressful week. Let's just say it was a combination of a declined invitation and being overworked (E3 coming up and all). But today it's all good again. Went up Mount Si with Champagne (again), since we wanted something with some nice elevation gain, and it's one of the few that aren't still blocked by snow. And for a bit of extra challenge, we hauled 15-20 pound backpacks along. Surprisingly it still felt even easier than usual to me. I must be getting some actual muscles now :) Sadly one of my backpack's straps died to the additional weight. Poor old backpack, it has served me well. Nothing particularly exciting to talk about, aside from a super cute chipmunk and a couple of fluffy birds that Champagne kept tossing food to, but I feel much better now than I was yesterday. Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: Andrea Bocelli - Because We Believe (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
5:26 pm	Mailbox Peak Went hiking with Champagne again yesterday, this time to a mountain called Mailbox Peak. It's a fairly inconspicuous mountain sitting out near Mt. Si, said to be about the same trail length, but abou 25% taller and a fair bit more difficult. We had some trouble finding the actual trail, because none of the descriptions mentioned that it was a tiny split off the old logging road you start on. A couple of ladies with some big and energetic dogs told us the way, so up we went. Shortly into the trail, it started to get pretty steep, and we passed by a couple of guys who looked slightly horrified, and told us that it was just as difficult coming down. As time went on, we started to see what they meant. Most trails have a few difficult steep spots, a flat run here and there, but mostly just a nice uphill climb. This trail is basically a 4 mile difficult spot. It also has several forks, with no markings for which way leads to the top. Luckily one of the ladies with the 2 big dogs was still not far behind us, and the dogs kept running back and forth past us. Appearently she does this trail all the time, because the dogs know all the right directions to take, and kept us from getting lost :) Up toward the top the trail comes out of the trees and you finally see just how high you've climbed. It's an awesome view of the entire area, with Mt. Si over across town suddenly not looking that big anymore, Mt. Rainier off in the distance, and even downtown Seattle was faintly visible on the horizon. Then you look down and your knees weaken a bit. Continuing on upward, we came to what was appearently the top of the mountain, with a big boulder field partially covered in snow. The trail went up a very steep and snowy section, which I honeslty wondered how we'd get back down alive. Then across some rocks and around a bend and all of a sudden the peak comes into view... except you're nowhere near it, and the only way to it is even steeper. Fortunately most of the snow had melted off this section, because even being dry it felt like you were going to fall off and die if you looked back at the trail you just climbed. Up and up, knees getting weaker and weaker from the view behind, we finally made it to the top. And this is not like a nice flat summit to run around on, it's more like the sharp pointy top you always imagined mountains to have when you were little, with a full 360 degree view of the surrounding area. And there really is a mailbox, containing none other than a free trial AOL CD. We sat happily at the top and ate some sandwiches and bananas, and ensured eachother that we really were insane for climbing such a mountain. After a bit of mental preparation we began our descent. It really wasn't as bad as I was expecting, although it did feel somewhat like being at the top of a rollercoaster just before it drops you to your death. Particularly that snowy hill that I was worried about before. That thing is so freaking steep that you can't even see the bottom of it from the top of it. Nonetheless we made it down without too much sliding, and the rest of the way was really not much worse than descending Mt. Si. Those guys we met near the start must have just been traumatized by the view near the top. I've never been so glad for flat ground as I was when we got back to the old logging road. Favorite quote from the trip: "We've met the devil, we've climbed his hills, and made it back down in one piece" :) ..unfortunately, I didn't bring sunscreen, and look much like a boiled lobster right now. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: The Pillows - Nonfiction (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
10:13 pm	Oyster Dome Went out hiking with Champagne again today, this time up to the oyster dome. Very nice weather for it. Thin cloud layer to block out the sun, and a nice cool breeze to keep from getting too sweaty, but not too cold either. The view from the top was probably the best I've seen yet. Up on the edge of a 1000 foot sheer cliff, and the mountain is next to the puget sound, so it's kind of like looking out to sea. A bird flew by at what was a reasonable height relative to the cliff, except he was out above the ground below. I wish I could have seen it from his view :) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Yellow Monkey - Brilliant World (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
3:28 pm	Snowboarding and Mount Si It's been so long since I wrote here, but the past week has been fun, so I will. So, last sunday I decided to go snowboarding for the first time, because I had been meaning to all winter and the season is pretty much over now. Of course, being that it was my first attempt, and that I didn't take any lessons, I fell constantly. I went down the nice lightly sloped practice area at the bottom of the mountain many times until I could at least keep my balance for a while, and make some semblance of turning without falling. Then I went up the lift to try my hand at the real mountain, which I mostly slid down on my rump, between attempts at standing. I went back to the practice area for a while, and then back up the lift again for a second attempt. I finally got one good run in toward the bottom that time that made the whole day worthwhile. The next day at work, I was talking about it with Champagne, one of the other programmers on my team, who does even more outdoor activities than I do. She invited me to come boarding with her next weekend, and since I was only slightly sore, and I don't usually hang out with people very often, I decided to give it another shot. The following friday, I went over to make sure she still wanted to go, and to set up a meeting plan. Unfortunately there had not been any new snow the past week, so she was going to skip it since it would be too slushy. But she asked if I wanted to go hiking instead, because her usual hiking friend was too busy due to his game finalling soon. Certainly fine with me, since I probably would have gone hiking regardless. So the next morning we met up at a starbucks where our routes merged, got some coffee, and continued on to the destination Mount Si. We chatted all day and got to know eachother a bit better. It rained for most of the hike, and got quite snowy for the last mile, but if you live up here, you learn to love it. Our company had a blood drive 2 days before so we were both a bit quicker to tire than usual, but made it to the top anyhow, and found a nice dry place under a rock to sit and eat lunch. Lots of fun, and we're even planning to go up another mountain next weekend :) Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Castlevania SOTN: Dracula's Castle (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
4:25 pm	We've hit shelves! Sims 2 DS (that work project I was pounding away at last time I updated) is out, and doing surprisingly well. There's a cool review at IGN with an overall score of 8.2, and a fun message board at gamefaqs.com, which has been good feedback on what works and what doesn't gameplay wise. They've run into a few of the known bugs though, and some new ones (like having 2 of the same person in a room), but overall most people seem to like it. Now we're starting up on the next project, which is looking to be lots of fun. It hasn't been officially announced yet so I can't say what it is, but it's not Sims at least :) Our DS team has remained mostly intact except for one of our programmers moving to the GBA version, but our new 4th is awesome as well, and the teams do seem well balanced. In other news, I've been having fun climbing lots of mountains in the past few weeks. Quite lazy aside from that though :) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Western Lords - Mithla Overworld (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 9th, 2005
11:24 pm	Me write code. Busy busy. Mere days until alpha on my project at work. Strangely I'm still pretty energetic and enjoying working on everything, despite spending most of my waking hours at it. It's my first time working on a game from start to finish so it's pretty exciting to see it all come together as we struggle to get everything in. I'm somewhat fearful of the bug fixing that will have to be done in the next couple of weeks though, but we shall see how it goes. ...there's really not much else to report, since I haven't had time to DO anything else, aside from the bit of exercising and housework here and there. I wish I had more time to play World of Warcraft. It's crack. Current Mood: productive Current Music: Synthesizer (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
12:54 am	Lots of stuff! Well, E3 was pretty cool, but there really didn't seem to be much next-gen stuff. Just some media-only Xbox 360 stuff so I couldn't play it, and no PS3/revolution at all. Still, plenty of cool games for the current systems, and of course, the women. The place was so crowded you basically just squeeze your way between people the entire time, and so loud you can't think about where to go. It's like an earthquake in there. New Mario Bros. for DS is good, and I played a cool James Bond shooter for DS too. No Metroid Prime Hunters though :( The craziest game I saw was Odama for gamecube, which is sort of a cross between war and pinball. One player rallies hoards of troops with the microphone and DK bongos, and the other player slaughters them with a boulder, pinball style. Go figure. DS downloadables were pretty cool, though would have been much better if they'd set up enough hardware. Just sit there trying over and over for about 5 minutes just to get a connection, and then wait 5 more minutes for it to download. I played meteos, which was pretty fun, and then got the zelda trailer. I decided to keep the trailer in sleep mode until I left for KC to show my family, but then when I was back at E3 the next day, decided to get electroplankton instead. Turns out the trailer doesn't actually go into full sleep mode, and drained my battery. *grumble* KC was lots of fun as always, and so relaxing just hanging with my family instead of going to the MYB seminar. Much as I wanted to go, I've spent most of my time on previous trips at martial arts events, so I needed a break. Still wish I could have stayed longer though. Friday did lots of game battling, and went out to the best chinese buffet in town. Then went out to the old observatory and looked at jupiter and the moon and stuff. Lots of fun cause I've been looking at all the cool stuff on APOD lately. Saturday went out to the woods and did some hiking/running. Had to take a really long detour to get there since the highway was all jammed up due to construction, which turned out to lead us through some really cool country-style neighborhoods. Cooked lasagne when we got home, which was lots of fun. My best batch yet :) Also hung around outside watching far off lightning and talking about stuff. Just like the good ol' days. No time for much on sunday, but I did go swimming with my mom for a few minutes. Good to go off a diving board again after so long. And amazingly easy to remember all my moves. I can still only do a single front flip reliably. Too chicken to try a one-and-a-half, because I've smacked my face on the water more times than I've landed it successfully. Read about 150 pages of Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy during all the flights. I'm well into book 2 now, and it's very awesome. Also worthy of note is the finale of American Idol. All the songs in the last round were worthy of recording as MP3s, but Carrie's last one was just the most awesome thing that ever has been and ever will be^^ Like that one note decided the whole competition. Woo! Current Mood: happy Current Music: Carrie Underwood - Angels Brought Me Here (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
11:36 pm	E3! Goin' to E3 tomorrow~ Current Mood: excited Current Music: American Idol (go Carrie!) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 7th, 2005
12:48 am	@_@ Stayed at work too late. I was writing some sound filtering stuff and got really into it. Almost works, but not quite. I think the tricky part is good though, just a small error in the easy part. Shall be fixed in the morning. Updated my site with a bunch of new music, so go listen to some^^ #174 and #190 are my favorites. I need to get back to drawing though. I started on an oekaki the other day, but it ended up being way too tedious and not fun. And I can't think of any way to make it easier. Could finish it anyway, but I don't really want to. I need to do something cheerful with trees and clouds. In other news, I went hiking up a mountain on sunday. Way too snowy though. I made it up pretty high, but not to the top. Makes me grumpy having to drag slowly and carefully along so as not to slide down the hill to my doom, not to mention being all soggy (especially in the shoes). Still, it was pretty fun, and I needed the exercise. It started pouring snow and getting windy around the time I started to head back, which was exciting. Also entertaining is a very light-thirsty garlic plant that I sprouted. I was cooking some spaghetti or something and peeled open a big clove of garlic and it had a leaf, so I decided to plant it. It was then very happy to not be eaten (and to have such a large food supply in that clove), and grew straight for the little desk lamp on the plant table, at about an inch or two a day until it made direct contact with the bulb. Now it's about 3 or 4 weeks old, with 4 big leaves, and about a foot tall. Day before yesterday, I came home from work a little early and it was still warm and sunny out, so I took the garlic outside. When I brought it in around 10, it had leaned to about a 45 degree angle not toward the sun, but toward the little desk lamp back inside the house, on the other side of the glass patio door... And now it's back fully straight again. It wouldn't be that impressive except that it's so tall, and to bend that much within a few hours just for a small light bulb is a little silly. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Gundam F91 - Eternal Wind (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
2:13 am	I may look dead ...but no, I just haven't gotten around to updating. Things are still good, if a little boring. Mostly just work, and running around in the local forests and nearby mountains. I need to find something fun to do around the city. It seems like such a waste to be up here and not do much. And I still have yet to find a girlfriend >_< Oh, and you know how my car was dying last time I updated? It's still alive and kicking. Turns out it just had an overdrive thing that kept getting stuck on after heating up on the highway for a while. Yanked the plug to it and everything was fine^^' The thing was supposed to improve gas mileage a bit, but I can't really tell the difference without it since I don't drive much anyway. Also, as of about a month and a half ago, I'm an official black belt in shotokan karate^^ Much fun training for the test, and difficult getting to it. I forgot that the highway leading to the airport doesn't really move in the afternoon, and missed my flight. Ended up staying in the airport for some insane number of hours until I caught another one, and made it there in time to sleep before the test at least. There was a large row of black belts for the test, to make it nice and scary. First we did a bunch of pushups/situps/etc to get started, and then basics. All good. Fairly tired, but still hyped up. Then kata, and my brain started to lose blood, due to lack of water during that 16 or whatever hours in the airport. Had to beg for a drink, which after a while of conversing, the black belts decided to allow. Lucky, because it would have been hard to keep going without passing out. I recovered after guzzling at the drinking fountain for a minute. Next was aikido and self defense with an opponent. Of course not the best for me since I hadn't trained with another person in months, but not too bad. I got to practice aikido moves with my first teacher, Tim, who learned them from the same guy I did, and hadn't done them in a long time either^^ Similar to riding a bicycle, kinda wobbly for the first couple of tries, but comes right back to you. Then some other stuff, snacks, a ceremony, seminars from the high-level black belts (very cool), back home to collapse for a few minutes and change clothes, and out again to the banquet. Martial arts banquets involve many rules, and a device known as the grog bowl, which you must drink from upon breaking those rules. It's a mixture of various strong tasting things that don't go together very well. While funny, it gets pretty icky after a few times. I ended up having to drink 3 little cups of it, which pretty much spoiled my appetite since I was already a bit sickly from wearing myself out on the test itself. Made me mad to waste what food I had left on my plate, and not get to try all the things everybody made. Next day, Terry Bryan (one of the highest ranking black belts) taught a class on being an instructor. Some info on the business-type stuff involved, and how to actually work with people and stuff. Really cool^^ Not much time left after that before I had to fly home and continue with life. ...I'm sleepy >_< I'll write more tomorrow (or, you know, 6 months from now). Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
3:24 pm	Deku's Car: :-( Yay, I made a new icon! It's a picture of a giant cedar tree that I took when I went to Olympic National Park a couple months ago. It's my favorite tree I've ever seen, and the biggest too (although I heard there was one even bigger but you have to walk half a mile on a side trail and wade a stream to get to it) Work is slow. Still haven't gotten a new project started up, so I've been having fun writing on the old sound programming article quite a bit. The new issue is coming along nicely but is definitely the most difficult thus far. Also drawing on another realism oekaki, which is about half done but torture to work on due to large numbers of pineapples. In other news, I tried to go to mountain climbing last weekend and the car dropped dead half way there. Fortunately the mountains aren't that far away, so half way is only about a 15-20 minute drive, and after letting it cool down and refilling the radiator, it made it back home. Well, I sputtered into a parking lot and had to let it cool down again as soon as I got off the highway, but at least I didn't have to get it towed. It was acting sickly the other day when I took it out again to see if it was still alive, but I drove it again today and it seemed to be fine, so I don't know what's wrong with it. No matter, I plan to sell it and get a new one anyway. But most important of all: Food. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Mahoromatic - Kaerimichi (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
4:31 pm	Crazy-happy-hyper! Several days ago, the first commercial game I've ever worked on was completed. Not 100% done and over with yet, but the 14 hour, 7 day weeks are no more (until next time, that is). It's taken 4 days of feeling generally icky and not very happy, trying to do fun stuff like drawing and exercising to cheer back up (which didn't really help), but at last I think I'm pretty much back to normal. Sleep is they key, I think. Even if the problem is not moving enough, it still cures everything. That and a nice warm bath. Speaking of which, I'll have to take one here in a while. The air outside is so fresh and cool I could just bask in it all day, except I'm so hyper I can't really hold still either. So much I want to do, but so little time, and too much energy to focus on any one thing. I think I'll draw. After food and the bath, that is^_^ Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: Evangelion - Cruel Angel's Thesis (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 1st, 2004
7:45 pm	I haven't updated since I got here^^ So, all has gone well in job world. I'm here in Washington, happily working my life away on a game. It's not as much fun as being at home, but it's not too bad, and it does come with a pile of loot, and there are mountains nearby just begging to be explored, so that's enough to keep me going^^ One of those mountains has already been explored as of last saturday though, and a cool mountain it was^^ Waterfalls, springs, hairy green fungus, rock fields on steep slopes, ready to slide at the slightest vibration, clouds whooshing in right on top of me, ancient looking moss covered trees, and a crystal clear, ice cold lake on top^^ Well, as close to the top as I went. There was another trail that lead to the real top, but it was more just grass and rocks that you could cling to while scrambling up a really steep hill^^' I would have given it a shot, but for one thing I was along and would have no way of getting help if I slipped, and for another it was raining the whole time, so it would have been very surprising if I DIDN'T slip... Not to mention I was dead tired after taking the other fork to the lake before realizing that that hill really was supposed to be a trail^^' Anyway, my family back home and myself up here have webcams and microphones and cable internet, so I haven't had any loneliness problems at all^^ I've also been getting to experiment more with cooking stuff. I baked an apple pie yesterday, which turned out darn good for a first try. Had to freeze half of it though, I may die of a 50-pound blood clot if I ate the whole thing before it went bad^^ I also discovered that if you put parsley, garlic, onion powder and oregano in Chef Boyardee ravioli, and cook it until it's half way burnt up, it tastes reeeally good. Anyone reading this should try it^^ Current Mood: relieved Current Music: Duke of Earl (Comment on this)