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Wow, I am overwhelmed by all the foo having to do with coming back and moving in. I’m ready for classes to start so I have less to do :-P

I’m more or less moved in. Already filled a suitcase with junk that I’m bringing home over Christmas. Have some more old textbooks I’ll probably take too.

Have not yet seen everyone I wanted to, nor done enough stuff with people, but meh… what can you do? There’s only so many hours in a day.

Yesterday I played ITG with Ben, then went Waterfronting with him, then went back to his apartment to play Student Wars. ’twas fun. Wheee. I also moved stuff in and around and everything.

Today was spent playing ITG and moving in more stuff. Also went to Alisa’s place to take pictures of her kitten. She’s so cute!! Ahhhh! Then was a floor meeting and foo. I feel sorry for Apphia and Mars… they are currently in the process of moving stuff from storage (they rented a UHaul for today), and the weather is crap… it’s been drizzling on and off all day, and it was pouring the last time I went outside. Meh. That’s Pittsburgh for you.

Had horrible bus luck these two days. Yesterday Ben and I waited like 30 minutes for a 64A to Waterfront, and then about 30 minutes for a bus back. Today I waited 50 minutes for a bus to Alisa’s. Meh.

Ben with his coil gun… OF DOOM!

Keith with the best OS book ever… it has dinosaurs! Using computers and iPod-like music player things!

Someone should get pictars of me playing ITG. I want pictars of me playing ITG. Wheee!

Moving in *dies*

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Meh. Yeah so, I haven’t slept for the past ~32 hours (I tried really hard last night). The extent of my food intake has been the meal my mom packed for me, some snacks, and a salad at lunch today. Mrr. This is probably a bad thing.

So first off I want to apologise to anyone who I’ve ignored, blown off, shrugged off, confused, or otherwise made feel unimportant in the past day (in particular Everett, Ben, and Grant). Things have been extremely chaotic, and I have literally been doing stuff since 7 AM this morning on no sleep. There’s just so many of you I want to see and so many things that I want to/had planned to do when I got back, and my brain is kinda overloading right now. The fact that I’m trying to do everything at once (ITG! Moving! ITG! Chat!) doesn’t help matters.

I also discovered that playing a set of 10-rating ITG songs on no sleep is a terrible idea. This should come as no surprise.

Um… so we moved in today (as in got all our stuff), and moving in sucks. Getting our boxes out of Hamerschlag storage was surprisingly easy. Getting them into Keith’s car (OMG it’s a lifesaver) was also easy. Getting the car into and out of the Fairfax alleyway to get the boxes up to the room was hard. Very hard. At one point Keith had his car stuck and wouldn’t be able to move at all until something freed up space. Meh.
Then we helped Ian get his boxes. Blah.

Our room still has way too much furniture in it, and the bathroom still hasn’t been cleaned. I really want to shower tonight… I really need to shower tonight. Grargh.

All my clothes are still at Alisa’s place. Must get them tonight still. Grargh.

I really think that, next year, I am going to hire someone to take the boxes away and bring them back. The cost is more than worth not having to go through this again. *sigh* I really don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t for Keith and his car to help me move and carry boxes.

Oh look, it’s only 6 PM.
Another 6 hours before I can finally collapse into sleep. Another 600 things to do before then…
Dinner. Get boxes at Alisa’s place. Waterfront for supplies. Geagle for food. Unpacking necessary stuff. Showering. Foobar. Sleep
Gaah.
*runs off*

I have pictures, but I really don’t have the time or the energy to post them.

Edit: 12:30, and still not done with everything. Gaaah.
Here’s a picture, at least (the built-in memory card reader on this thing is so fast!!! <3)
This is the main room (the sleeping/working area) with the excess furniture and all our boxes. Bathroom/huge walk-in closet to the right and kitchen to the left.

Foo

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Fiddlesticks has a $0.75 ITG machine.
The Fiddlesticks ITG machine lags such that it is impossible to play. Waste of $0.75.
Fiddlesticks has a $0.75 joint premium DDR machine.
The pads are coming apart to the point where it’s nearly impossible to play. Relative waste of $0.75.
Meh.

In about 24 hours, I will be on a plane home. I suppose this makes me happy, whatever definition that word has anymore. I guess I should pack or something. Meh.

This afternoon will be Gameworks with Josh (assuming things work out). Hopefully it’ll be fun… I have gone to Gameworks about 9 times over this summer, and spent around $75 there, and played just about every game there. Meh. They really need to get an ITG machine.

No picture because I’m lazy. Meh. Lazy lazy me. Also not really in the mood for photography.

Hm… I don’t think there’s really a point to the “Feeling” field in posts anymore, until something changes. Wheee.

Amazing

Memories

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I’ve spent the past ~6 hours going through stuff on my hard drive. There’s things on there from my very first webpage (back in 4th grade) to my first VB programs (4th grade) to my first Java programs (6th grade) to various LPSO board stuff to every photo I’ve ever taken to a bunch of Games Factory games I made with Jim in middle school.

As I read through the various archived forum pages and chat logs, it occurs to me how horribly arrogant and self-righteous I was then. I acted like an ass to so much of the LPSO community, and for that I apologize. In chats, I was intrusive and annoying (hopefully I’m not as bad now… hopefully). Bleh. I hate who I was back then. Stupid stupid stupid.

I look over my old websites and I realize how horribly devoid of content they were. Sure, they featured interesting layouts and advertised themselves as “Fanfics, forums, and much much more,” but there really wasn’t “much more” than that. I think that’s one thing I’m proud of in AlanvDotOrg… it actually has content. Design is important, sure, but it comes second to content. Back in my early web design years, I seem to have forgotten that and used and reused the same old tired layouts as many times as I could just to have many pages up, even if those pages had only a “Coming soon” sign on them.

I was so full of myself… things were created under the assumption that everyone was interested in me… that my site was the one that everyone wanted to come to. I had password protected pages. I had exclusive members-only content. I put together tons of web games and quizzes. I had a page to give out awards to other websites. Meh.

I also stumbed across my first website ever. It’s an animorphs fansite with stuff copied directly from the official site and random animated web graphics. I was a little confused until I remembered it was before I knew to use “index.html” as the splash… so the index is “t1.html”. Odd, but meh. I should upload it sometime in case people are interested… it’s 1.2MB, but only because it contains WAV files.

So yeah, it’s highly amusing to go back and look through my old webpages. I just realized I have screens of them here. Heh. They evolved so much.

Looking over old photos, I’ve really changed.
Here’s me from Halloween 2000 with my Sonic pumpkin

Here’s me from before we even had a digital camera, at my birthday party (probably 5th grade) with Kat, Katie, and Jim

Oh, and me with my 6th grade homeroom class

My photography has also changed a lot… I guess you could say it’s matured. Interesting.
In any case, my folder containing almost every photo I’ve ever taken is now 47.2GB (94,872 photos) and growing weekly.
…
That’s a hell of a lot of photos.
I wonder if I can break 100,000 before December.

Looked over my massive archive of game screenshots from back when I loved posting screens of video games online. There’s over 1.5 GB of horrible-quality 640X480px screenshots from SoAL, Sonic Adventure 2, Animal Crossing, PSO, Grandia 2, Evolution 1/2, Starfox Adventures, SSBM, and Super Mario Sunshine. So much random crap in there. I really should get back into video games… I kinda miss them sometimes. I should also get my video capture card working again. Meh.

Looked over my archive of card games, from the failed games to my first “successful” one, the Starcraft TCG (although the definition of “successful” is debatable). So much potential. I still want to create RPG Get! I think they’re the best set of card game rules I’ve ever created, and the system is expandable such that it can encompass potentially-limitless numbers of RPGs in the game as seperate affiliations. Meh. One of these days I’ll get around to taking more screenshots of the games so I can have enough stuff to create the base set (which I think was supposed to be themed around Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia). Whee.

Ahhh so much more I want to write about, but it’s almost 2 AM, so I should probably sleep.

Edit: Meh, it’s 2:30. I’ve uploaded some (more) old pictures onto Facebook. Go and look. Whee.

New Lappy

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I am writing this from the pretty bright widescreen goodness of my new laptop. The blue lights… the clear black plastic… the way the keys feel. Mmmmmm I’m in love.
Only thing that I’ll have to get used to is the resolution… 1280X800 is the maximum on this, and I’m used to having 1200 pixels of height. Meh. Whatever.
But yeah, finally got stuff set up today and it seems to be working well. Gotta download other drivers and foo when I get back to CMU, but that’s really it.

My camera memory card died again today. Same brand/make/model as the first one. Going to return it and try a non SanDisk UltraII SD 1GB card to see if it’s the camera that kills cards, of if it’s just the cards that are bad. Given that I used a SanDisk SD 256MB card in it with no problems, I’m guessing it’s a combination of the two.

Congrats to Ben (who may or may not read this) for landing an interview for a great job.

Went bowling with Kat, Jim, Tommy, Kendra, and $person today. I would have pictures, but my card died. Bleh.
I’m gonna miss Kat… :(

Um… yeah. I would also post a picture of my laptop, but my memory card died.
*sigh*

Oh yeah, yesterday was KoL run of amazing funnness. Went from mid-level 10 to level 11, beat the sorceress, leveled up to 12 to get the dual-wield skill, ascended, and went from level 1 to mid-level 5. Played over 350 adventures yesterday. Wheee.
This run would be a record run except it’s a myst class… and I always have trouble with level 9+ areas as a myst class.
Bleh.
The fact that I eat all my reagents doesn’t help either.

Oh, I had the weirdest dream the other night. Society thought masochism and torture were sexy and attractive… so I drilled holes in my toes and was chopping my fingers in half (long-ways). Then I woke up. It was the most disturbing dream I’ve ever had.