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6.25.05/08:57 hitting the one-month mark
Now it's time to play everyone's favorite game: What Does This Raise Mean For Me? Here are the extra things I can now afford every pay period that I couldn't afford before:
4 gallons of gas @ 2.17 a gallon! 5/6 of a CD @ Best Buy! 1/6 of Destroy All Humans @ Target! 1/34 of a 2-way plane ticket from Cairns to Sydney 1/1200 of an airship @ the Jidoor auction house 1/2500 of a new car @ the mazda dealership down the street
As the picture indicates, I haven't abandoned the Daikon Warrior game at all, in fact I've been diligently designing new chipsets and monsters and characters and areas and everything, and I've even been experimenting with some of the coding to try and do super cool things.
Today's project was making some new animations for character skills, namely Clyde's psychic attacks (guess what game that idea came from?). Today I did the medium versions of the spells, the level 2's of them, ones that affect all monsters instead of just one. Here's a list of Clyde's psychic skills:
PsyGenki- lets you heal your characters PsyLit- deals psychic lightning damage to monsters PsyFire- deals psychic fire damage to monsters PsyIce- deals psychic ice damage to monsters 6.21.05/06:31 solstice today, full moon tomorrow I think the worst thing about being blind would be never knowing if someone's watching you masturbate. Sometimes I feel like if I'm wearing sunglasses and I close my eyes nobody can see me, especially when I'm driving.
And I just finished a song for fliptracks and besides, one that will probably be the last track, 12 or 13 or however many it ends up being. It's called 'sandbox,' and despite the limitless possibilities for some dirty way to interpret that, there's none intended. I finished writing it, I mean. It's not tracked yet.
And Destroy All Humans comes out today! If I can get it for a reasonable price, I might pick it up. I've been wanting to play it ever since I saw an article for it in one of Jim's video game magazines like 2 years ago. It's about time somebody made an alien video game from the viewpoint of the winners. Stupid bastard humans. One last question: is it morally wrong to buy a lapdance from a patient? 6.16.05/03:33 peace offering
I drove all the way to Indiana and back between Sunday morning and yesterday morning. I picked this week so I could see Amanda before she goes to Spain. It was good to see you, Amanda!
Oh wait, it wasn't. She's too cool to hang out with me. But I'm not bitter. What I'm bitter about is the absence of my hot dentist, the dentist who has me scheduling all my appointments in Shelbyville instead of getting one out here.
Oh, my tooth fairy, how I miss thee.
Since I'm nowhere near getting the album done, my peace offering is a sneak preview of the cover for the second CD. I might re-do the lettering, I don't know yet. Still, I think the concept is pretty sweet. It keep lots of the same themes from the first cover and just shifts the paradigm right outside the box. [That use of corporate doublespeak was entirely tongue-in-cheek.] 6.9.05/20:56 where's the love, baby?
That's a picture Dedo-san took of Fujisama. Feel free NOT to copy or use it w/o his permission, like I did so thoughtlessly just now. And he tells me So-and-so-san is dating Nani-nani-sensei. Of course, I still hold out hope that someday I can marry Mitsui-sensei. She's so beautiful and already married.
[music FAQ] answering your musical ?'s
And If I don't manage to put up the album tomorrow, then you might not see it 'til Thursday. There's a lot going on this week, and it may so happen that my availability will be limited. Or something. Unless I've already got plans with you, in which case I will be all yours. Mostly.
I can't believe I forgot to say 'no' when they asked if I wanted to join the Returners. That's a Genji Glove down the drain right there. And dammit, those are hard to come by. Maybe I'll find a monster later I can steal them from. 6.8.05/01:53 creating from exile It's possible that you may be wondering where I've been all month. I didn't go anywhere, but I have been doing lots of recording and tracking. I've finally figured out how I want to do all these songs and how I want to set them up, and that would also explain why I took all the solo songs off the song downloads page.
Here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to split all the songs I've done so far into 3 albums. The first one will still be called 'Lucid Pity Decanted,' and will feature eleven songs that all share one glaring similarity. The second album will be called 'Fliptracks & Besides' and will have eleven songs that don't share that glaring similarity.
The last album will be called 'Spite Your Face' and will be comprised of most of the rest of what I've written so far. All the re-done tracks will be acoustic and double-vocals. I don't know how long it will take me to finish this or how long it will be before I lose interest and move on to another project, but so far I've done 3 tracks and I think they sound prooty good, so we shall see. 6.3.05/17:46 they fall like water And another month flashes by in a puff of sour smoke, the memories of six wasted months scattered at the base of my mind like shattered shells from half a dozen rotten eggs at the base of the wall they were thrown at. That's just a fancy way of saying that May has been moved to the archives like every other cashed month that burned briefly in this bowl we call the present.
And what the hell am I going to do with all these surgical masks and D batteries? The fact that it's gone depresses me to no end. Just another old building razed to make way for progress.
We would've known that when we went, but someone wouldn't even go past the treeline because it was too dark. Jesse said 'Don't take a girl because she will get scared and you won't even make it there.' And I laughed at him and said he was being misogynistic, but he was right. That kid is always right, even now as he flees Pittsburgh for sunny Florida. I'm skeptical that he will last down there, but I wish him luck.
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That's one reason why
yesterday was significant. Here are two more things that happened
yesterday: my rearview mirror fell off, leaving me oblivious to traffic
behind me, and I got a random raise at work. It was random because
it had nothing to do with my time served there or my merit, they just
changed the pay ranges and I happened to be bumped up, something quite
fortuitous and unexpected. Here is what that means for you, the
reader...
I'm
not going to lie to you, I haven't gotten very much done this week, due
mainly to lots of time spent playing through FFVI again. But you
have to understand, it's like the greatest game ever and unlike Caesar, my
ambition is questionable.