Sick But Happy...

Had a fever last night... Woke up with a pounding headache... Miserable day... But I'm with my buddy now, so I'm happy. =) Perfectly content. We're gonna design custom hoodies and order them!

Apologies...

Aaaaaah! Noooo! I didn't write last night before I went to bed! xP I was going to, and then I went to get ready for bed and totally forgot. =P Rawr... Oh well... here's a post for today. I've begun working on 3D stuff again. Slow work. I want this project to be dooooone! xP Still have animation to do... textures to fix... rendering... music to write... [sigh]

New...

Sooooooo, what do ya think? =) I like it. It's much more like me. Now all I need to do is go through some previous posts and fix some linking errors. If you notice, when you click on a couple of the images, you get an Error 404 message. Not a good thing. Also, I've been told that I use too many ellipses ("...") in my writing... perhaps I do... ;) I also use too many emoticons. I'm not sure how formal I wanna want to get here... I'm thinkin thinking I'm going to leave it as is, partially because I don't want to go through my previous thirty-something posts, and mostly because this blog is supposed to be me and my writing style is part of who I am. (Though I will go back and remove the weird inconsistencies like the random signatures I put on some posts and not others.)

Web Browser...

I was once a PC user. I used Internet Explorer. Then I found that there were alternate web browsers! I spent time with Opera. I liked it because it was simple. I bought a MacBook and began using Safari; I didn't like it so much. Then I discovered Firefox. Ever since then, I have been loyal to Firefox... until now. I've had Google Chrome on my computer for quite some time now. In the past few months, I've used Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, depending on my various needs. However today I think my preferences have rearranged themselves because of a wonderful discovery: Chrome works. Now, I realize this is an obvious statement, but I don't mean it in exactly the obtuse manner in which I just stated it. I mean that the highest percentage of my internet usage is spent using applications made by Google. Do you suppose they take extra care that their web browser works extremely well with their other projects? Yes, of course they do! Gmail, Google Docs, and Blogger all work perfectly in Chrome. They respond more quickly, and do not display any kind of arrangement glitches as one will sometimes find when using an incompatible version of a browser. So here is the message I will attempt to convey this evening: Chrome is awesome. =)

PS: I will be doing a bit of cleaning up and rearranging around my blog in the next few days, so feel free to leave feedback about the changes. (Preferably in the comments section of this entry so I don't have to go searching all over the place for your comments. ;)

Few Things...

Okay, so I know it's a huge letdown when you go to someone's blog and they only update like every couple weeks... There's no fun in that. Sooooo! I'm going to try to post EVERY DAY! =P It might not be much, it might be a lot. We'll just see how this goes.
So today we had a strange spike in our internet connection. I mean, it's not "fast" but it's at least reasonable. I hope this change in permanent. Speaking of changes, I have a new guest that reads my blog now and is messing up my stats! Linux and Chrome now occupy a good third or more of my pie charts! x) heheh...
I've given up painting and 3D temporarily......... okay, so I haven't exactly "given them up." I've simply not had enough time in the last couple weeks to do any of either. So it feels like I've given them up. School is now in the second semester and I have GOT TO pull my grades up, so my list of "daily things" will probably change and I may have to give them up. =( ... but I hope not... we'll see.
Ah! I forgot to tell you! I got my SCUBA certification! =D I am now a licensed diver! I can dive to 60 feet and am allowed to procure my own tank and equipment. wooooo! =) Dad bought a GoPro 2 and we used it when we were diving... it's pretty awesome. (Those cameras are soooo cool. The owners' manual even has an entry stating that "if the camera is to be used at speeds exceeding 100 mph, the waterproof backing for the shell should be used as it is more structurally sound"... the very fact that they expect someone to use the camera at "speeds exceeding 100 mph" makes that camera AWESOME, in my opinion. =)

Stats...

I was looking through my "Statistics" tab in my blog's preferences, and I found these neat little graphs... =) They made me happy... mostly cuz I know two people who watch my blog on a Mac... ;) (and their initials are the same! yes, you know who you are... ;) Aaaaaaanyhow, the other interesting thing was on the left... Russia? I have views from Russia?! =) COOL!

Vacation...

Why don't I enjoy vacations? I don't understand... I mean, I appreciate the break, the rest, but I suppose there are things and people that I don't want a break from............ and then I feel guilty for being ungrateful. Really, I have no place to complain: I'm in Hawaii. =) It's warm. It's humid. I'm sure it will get sunny eventually x), though today was mostly cloudy............ but it's 2700 miles from my home. Home is where your family is, people say. No, home is where your heart is. Home is where you feel at ease, safe. Where you go to shut out the world for awhile. Where you spend your Sabbath. Where you can safely change and be changed. Do I feel like that with my family? nope... It's horrid, I know, and perhaps it's because I'm in the stage of life I am in and am separating myself from my family and becoming my own person. But, my home, my family, is... elsewhere. More specifically: it's 2700 miles away and snoring.