"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
Hey all.
So I just noticed that I haven't put up a legitimate post in ages. So here's the post.
To address events since the car accident, my transportation has greatly improved. On Monday, my dad finally got a shiny new car: a 2010 Toyota Rav4.
It had like, 32 miles on it when we bought it. I wanted to take a picture of the odometer when it was lower than the temperature, since there's a thermometer reading right next to it, but I forgot. Anyway, it's pretty cool. It's a 4WD V6, and has a lot of cargo space. It came with three months of free satellite radio, which is really cool. Also, the CD player can hold up to 6 CDs! Holy shit! And not just regular CDs, you can compress the files on a CD-RW and it will still play! That's boss. Not to mention it has a little jack for Ipods. I don't own one, but my friend already put it to use. It's got pretty good MPG, and has a display that tells me the current MPG average. It's just a really nice car. I normally don't name things, but the thought of it did come across my mind. I'm sure I'll always just address it as the Rav or Toyota, but since Kat's Mitskuni is a Toyota Camry, it would be logical that this bigger Toyota would be Mori.
My dad is an idiot though, we were looking at the Chevy Equinox for a long time, and my dad was gettin pretty rough on the dealers. That was a nicer car, I thought, and he bought this one for more money. So that made me think a lot less of him than I already do. But whatever, I has car.
I have started working at Target, my first day was Saturday. I'm being trained in Sales Floor and Cashier, and I like cashier better. Nonstop action, though I do mess up a lot. Plus I have to start memorizing code numbers for fruit and vegetables, which will be a pain. Bananas are 4011, by the way. Sales floor is just stocking and zoning, which can get a bit tedious. But I don't care, I still have fun doing either job, and now I'll start getting paid! Woohoo! First payment is Friday, so once my bank clears the check, my friend and I are gonna check out an internet cafe in Schaumburg. Then possibly a Kiss the Sky Records trip. I need new vinyl.
November 21st was supposed to be the last day of my GED testing, but stupid had to happen. Target scheduled me to work at eleven, and I didn't want to say anything becasue 1: It was my first day and 2: I wrote down high school education and some college on my application. Not really a lie, but I'll bet they interpreted that as 'graduated high school'. Anyway, I had two tests, one at 9:15, and the second at 11:00. They started an hour late, so 10:15 was the first test. I already told them I wouldn't be able to make the second, so that was cleared, but this one I zoomed through. Now, because I was taking this at ECC, and not in Geneva where I had until recently been taking the GED, they won't let me out of the room until everyone was finished, whereas they let me do that in Geneva. I completed it in about 25 minutes, (it was the Science, and very little of it was more than what I had learned in eight grade) and waited to see if everybody else would finish by a quarter till 11. Nobody finished it by then, so I got up and walked towards the door.
"If you leave, your test will be voided."
"I have to go. If you guys have started on time, then I would fine."
So that was bogus. Just because they were late to their job, I shouldn't have to be late to MY job, let alone the first day of it. So now it's iffy if I'll finish the GED this year, because the next testing is on waitlist.
I marathoned Code Geass for like, the third or fourth time. That show rocks. I had downloaded it because I was planning to do some sort of show and tell for Anime Club, but that never happened. I eventually used it for a simple 20 second long video, but that's it. I watched it over again because it was tugging at me ever since the Anime Club started talking about group cosplays for Acen. Code Geass would be sweet, I already won the arm wrestle for Lloyd.
There are these two cool non-anime shows that I found called Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection. You can find them easily at www.accursedfarms.com. They revolve around the Half-Life series, and they're really funny, very well done. It's hard to find professional quality game parodies these days, but this dude really nails it hard.
Here's the latest episode of Freeman's Mind. You don't really need to watch the previous 21 episodes, since it mostly consists of whats floating in and out of his thoughts, which is usually sporadic, if not random.
Thoughts on CoD MW2? (or as I say, CoD42)
It sucks.
A lot more stuff happened since Youmacon, but I can't really think of it all...I started and stopped playing Aion. I downloaded and played on a private server, and I got to about level 36 or something before I lost interest. It's a good game, it's just that the private server is in alpha stage, so MANY elements are missing. It was pretty much a huge grindfest when I played. I'll leave Aion on my pc and check back in about five or six months, see if the dude got things running smoothly.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for Americans, which will be kinda interesting. It's at my house, and one of my uncle's is not invited since he's been causing a lot of problems since Grandma died. Politics in my family have a tendency to be rather petty and loud, so I just ignore it. And it's amazing how much my mom talks when she has absolutely nothing to say. Although I suppose that can be applied to the general public as well. In any case, it's see meal, eat meal, then go play games or something for me. I don't wanna deal with it. And I'm pretty sure half of my family thinks I'm a half-wit, so all the more reason to stick to myself. Don't comment on that.
Meh. We'll see how things go.
-Ryu
