cheesefest

i went to cheesefest today with jeremy of jeremy's podcast along with his mother and younger brother. i strapped my camera rig. this means that (almost) everything i was looking at was immortalized in (digital) film. with any luck, the entire several hours will be up on teh internets soon. (just a fun little interjection, my spellchecker recognizes the word "internets" as correct). more than likely, it will probably be a huge file.

and now, just because i can (post it), a guy (not me) beatboing on a flute! he is amazing!

Flooding in my laundry room.

There was no post on Sunday. Here is why.

I live in a relatively small part of my volcano. This is due to a long standing dispute with some gnomes, and in order to keep them happy I live in a small southwestern corner*.

A long time ago, I got a new washing machine for my cloths. Now the new washing machines have narrower wastewater pipes than my home. To solve this mismatch problem, I put a large tub next to my washing machine, and it empties into the tub, which acts as a buffer for the two pipes. This tub accidentally clogged, and subsequently filled with water, then (as most liquid containers tend to do when full) overflowed into the laundry room. When the laundry room filled up, it flooded on a biblical proportion into my television/scrying orb room. The old and somewhat ugly carpet became waterlogged. This then took upwards of four hours of cleaning to rectify. It was not fun.


*south south west to be overly specific.

earth day.

it's earth day today. while i don't plan on doing anything today (i am swamped with homework) i do plan on doing something tomorrow (it has just as many 24 hours).

in the mean time, i post a new linky regarding earthday. enjoy!

historical novella: introduction.

in english class we are starting an assignment that last until the end of the year (which is decided by the movement of the clouds and other weather patterns that even my advanced knowledge of prognostication methods has yet to decipher, let alone mere mortals). we are to write a novella 20-25 pages in length, and it must be set in or before World War 2. partly to provide content, and partly to keep me honest about doing this assignment, i am going to post every step i take regarding this. with any luck, by the end of the year i will have written a novel for your enjoyment.

the only thing i ask here is that any content that comes off of this wait until august to reproduce, just so that i can be done with it. i also encourage comment on what i am doing good and bad on, and i have permission to use them to help my project.

in other news, rachel, from the blog are you awake? just yelled at me for telling her how to close her HTML tags (she claims that she already knew...). and i am going to start sailing, so expect more nautical terms in my writing (jib, vang, and bilg) extra credit to the first person i don't know who can name all of the terms i just listed.

what actualy happend

so, as it turns out my prognostication methods need a lot of fine tuning. not only was i wrong about yesterday's story, but i was wrong about my english essay. i got it done with only a couple of hours work, around 13:00 local time (21:00 GMT)(no story because mario distracted me. he started it). it 'twas a piece of pastry/confection. if it was a pastry, it would not be a vegan pastry, it has to have eggs. unless of course it was designed to be vegan (my preferences, vegans can eat what they want), but if it is supposed to have eggs, then it will have eggs. same with milk. and no skimping on the milk/creem. if it is supposed to have cream, no nonfat creme, it must have creme, no exceptions. if you are dieting, just eat a little less. as the old axiom goes, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. and as for confection, mass produced is ok, but it had better be a good product. i mean if it is worth only a piece of confection, it had better be a good confection, because i am not going on a diet any time soon.

hopefully my prognostication method will work this time. i switched over from intense concentration and self reflection (used for last predictions made) and made it intense study of my surroundings, cross-referenced with past experience, and by date of birth, chinese zodiac sign (monkey), the positions of the stars when i was born, bird calls, omens, tea leaves (replaced with coffee dregs, i am not overly fond of tea), spoke coming off of a fire, and \ cryptic windows error messages. with any luck, my predictions will be more accurate.

schedule (to be pronounced the brittish way)

well, spring break is ending. i have today (saturday) and tomorrow (sunday) to write a paper, and a script for a commercial in spanish. i promise that the final versions (with subtitles for the second one) will be posted here. the commercial should be rather surreal if i have any say in the matter. so, expect little scribbling for the next couple of days.

it will be interesting to see how a school schedule will help/hinder my writing. on one hand, it will give me a schedule where i know when i will sit down and get it done, on the other hand, it will make me busy and give me less time to write/blag.

well, i can hear my english essay calling.