Gwenog Jones

of the hollyhead harpies, i presume? so yeah, google+ is rad. been playing with it last night and all today, and that's great fun. only a few friends got on in the initial invite storm, but we managed to find a loophole and i've got a bunch of people on there with me now. it's like a stripped-down facebook with some notable improvements and only a couple downsides. hopefully those will get fixed, and/or facebook will step their game up and improve their product to make it more attractive than google's offering. as something of a google enthusiast, they've already sort of won me over, but i do like facebook as well.

i guess when it comes to social media marketing, i've pretty much got no choice in the matter but to use both, but if that's the case, i don't know how i've managed to live without tumblr or dailybooth [a.k.a. the beast and the man of sin]. we'll see how long i can hold out. speaking of holding out, i worked an opening shift on about 2.5 hours of sleep, so forgive me while i go and essentially pass out in my bed for a while. i'll likely get up early and begin 'work' on my youtube queue. it's a beast, but i shall conquer it before vidcon. this i swear! of course, during vidcon will be nearly impossible, since i've busted my laptop. double bugger all the way 'cross the sky... so totally un-intense. boo. anyway, sleep now. goodnight!

Fred Weasley

this is a thing that was made by me, which you should watch and enjoy! i spent most of the day making it, fending off all manner of interruptions in the form of broken laptops and broken tripods and crappy sd cards. but alas, i have vanquished the beast of a video, and it is now available for your viewing pleasure! man, i really have been reading too much fantasy. not quite halfway through game of thrones now, and it's picking up. great read. the wife and i are almost through with the series, which we started watching earlier this week. she's liking it.

so i went on ashford's site and it looks like i've maintained the 4.0 gpa afterall. go me! 100% on the final, which is not surprising, but at the same time i wasn't entirely sure about it after i had written it. granted, i'm a bit hard on myself, but i dunno. i guess i did well. now for the waiting game with jobs, applying and hoping, et cetera. can't really look too extensively for anything until after the trip to california. mom and dad are giving me some money for graduation, which is cool. essentially paid for half of my camera, but i may use a bit of it to get a kindle. i like the app and i'd like the actual device a bit more. realistic, like paper, not backlit so i don't kill my eyes. anyway, yes.

i got into google+ today, and it's fantabulous. i'd say more, but it's way too late to be posting blogs as it is, so i'm just going to head off. more on that front tomorrow!

Ernie Macmillan

hufflepuff. that should be an expression, like 'balderdash!' i think i'll try and make it a thing. so today i worked in the day and went to go see super 8 [which was phenomenal] while my wife got a tattoo. a harry potter tattoo, to be exact. it came out really nice, but i didn't want to go watch. she doesn't get why, but i dunno. i'm just not interested, that's all. anyway, it was a full and busy day, which ended with me trying my best to attempt to catch up at least a little bit on my youtube subscriptions. that didn't last long. didn't even get any of the script for tomorrow done! terrible me, i suppose. but alas, it is time for sleep. so short a post.

Dean Thomas

as of this moment, i have completed all of the work associated with my bachelor's degree in english language learner studies at ashford university. i think that means i just graduated. online school is weird. anyway, i don't feel any different, but i do feel a bit relieved to be done with that monster of a final paper. it gave me some trouble, and more than usual, despite my typical 'wait until the last minute to actually find out what the topic of the final paper is' manner. i should probably stop doing that, but i guess i will by virtue of the fact that i won't have to write another one.

ever again, if i don't want to. that's a freeing thought.

so on the topic of trouble, i think my laptop completely died today. the good thing is that i got every bit of important zero and one off of it when i bought my desktop, but the bad thing is that i was using it to write my paper this morning. yep. so i actually wrote this paper one and a half times, as i was about halfway through it when it went 'ker-plunk' and i lost everything. spent a while trying to get it to work again, to no avail. but alas, the paper is done and i didn't really need the laptop for anything in the end. though now there's no way i'll be able to produce video while i'm in california on vacation. bugger. i'll have to pre-film. sleepytime. work in the morning. double bugger.

Cormac McLaggen

what a worthless sunday this was. this morning i woke up and felt absolutely terrible, sort of like my stomach was eating the rest of my guts from the inside out. i have no idea why. christin says it's because i ate too much cake, but i think she's crazy. there's no such thing as too much cake! but in all seriousness, i have no idea what it was, because i didn't eat all that much food at all, let alone the cake in question. just felt terrible. after she got back from church, she picked me up and we went to her parents' house for lunch. hot dogs, rice, baked beans, and iced tea. delicious.

last night, with the help of daximus the brave, i managed to get my cv done. that was a grueling experience, but a good one none the less. i put it to some use, but now i'm not really sure what to make of the whole situation. i'm being purposefully vague here, but there's a reason for that. anyway, to make a long story short, tomorrow is my last day of school and i'm getting a piece of paper that says i'm slightly more awesome than i was before [and a few thousand dollars poorer for it in the short-term], so that's a thing. hopefully i can find a job now! a real job! hooray jobs!

Bathilda Bagshot

remembering the moments

it’s so unclear

re-living it just to disappear

it’s always the wrong way

and never the same

it's dragging and staggered

into a dull replay

lying down in sleepless eyes

wide awake so caught inside

this aimless endeavor

it’s sure to leave its mark

blacked-out and beaten into our skin

deeper now that it's sunk in

feeding on all of this damage it’s done

the deeper you look

the harder it is to find

it’s so safe and so secure

blacked-out and beaten into our skin

deeper now that we've fell in

Alastor Moody

it's friday, yet i feel no compulsion toward 'getting down' as they say in the common tongue. that's probably a positive thing. today i opened the store and headed home to my lovely wife, tired as all get-out. we ate dinner together and then got a call from our friend judy who is apparently back in town. huzzah! she's been out on navy business [intelligence] in europe, so that's a thing. we went to a bar and i had quite honestly the best chicken tenders i've ever eaten in my life. no exaggeration. and probably some of the best bbq sauce as well. man they were good. expensive, but good. the fries were okay...

but man, those tenders were beer-battered awesome on a plate.

after that, we headed back home where christin got a sudden craving for... bread. yeah. so i went and got some bread and a couple donuts and headed back to the house to watch game of thrones episode one [yeah, i'm making her watch it now]. she liked it. we'll watch more tomorrow, but now it's bedtime. bah. i didn't get much accomplished today, but christin is going out with her brother tomorrow night so i'll have time to do it then. excellent. yes. good. great. grood. and now i must sleep for a very long time. goodnight!

Zinc'd

it's been said that there is absolutely nothing notable about thursdays, but that's not entirely true all the time. it's generally true about today, but that's because most of the day was spent working. after my nightmare of a mid-shift, i headed straight to elder ken's where we went through about three short pieces of one section of the confession. it was good times, that's for sure, and i came home and ate 20 chicken mcnuggets for dinner. like a boss! no, but seriously, they were really good. i've finished game of thrones [all that has been done thus far] and started working on the book. it's really good. really, really good.

hard to believe this is my last week of school, possibly ever as a student. weird. christin and i have decided to try and apply for jobs in hong kong now and see how things work out. if i get one that pays enough to justify the move, we will move this year in around september or so. that's exciting, but i'm trying not to get my hopes up since it may not happen. there are a lot of jobs available, but competition can be really steep and i think my being overseas and not british will be disadvantages to them wanting to employ me. not sure. i'd love to do a skype interview though, that'd be wonderfully modern. anyway, it's time for sleep.

Yore, Days Of

it's wednesday. i made this. watch it! it took me pretty much all day, and i worked really hard on it, so if you'd share it around that would be wondrous. i'm not really up to typing anymore about this day right now, so that's going to be it. just watch the video! back to work tomorrow.

Xin Dynasty

it's getting harder to come up with titles starting with 'x,' but this one is particularly interesting, as pointed out by the wikipedia article on the subject. good times. today i slept in, walked the dog, took a nice shower, and headed off to work. it was, well, you know... it was work. becky and i spent the first few hours organizing things and cleaning the stockroom, which was a disaster area. there was way more broken glass on that floor than any of us likely imagined, which is frightening to me. the rest of the day passed incredibly slowly, as we had virtually no business [nowhere near what it cost in labor to staff the day]. bad day for chocolate and coffee, i suppose.

once i got home, i started scripting tomorrow's video, which is going to be loads of fun to record. as i said on twitter, i think i'm really getting the knack for figuring out an overarching theme for each individual video that i can weave into the different sections. it's challenging, but i think i manage it well enough. tomorrow's is all about silent letters, inspired by a commenter. i never thought i'd get enough people commenting on videos to do things like this, but it looks like i'm really doing it now. i love the new format, i love doing youtube, and i hope i can keep doing it. if i could do it full time, i totally would, and i'd love every minute of it. that the Lord would see fit to allow me to do so, i'd be immensely happy.

looking at the day tomorrow, i've got quite a bit to get done, and i think it will be no problem to accomplish. laundry, ugh, but other than that, i predict an enjoyable 24 hours. then it's back to opening the store on thursday and friday, and christin is working friday night as well. but it's not all doom and gloom, i've actually got saturday off, which is exciting. i didn't even ask for it! next week is another story, i have no idea when i'm working. wish i did, so i could plan things. i hope i have monday or wednesday off. monday for the paper, wednesday for the video. but we'll see, and i'm sure i'll manage no matter what. can always write on sunday or film on tuesday or what have you. i'm rambling now. it's bedtime.

Wormwort

one more week of school left. odd. i'm not sure that i feel entirely prepared to move from student to teacher in many ways, but i'm sure i'm more prepared than i was before i began. granted, i may not feel more prepared, but i have faith that the few worthwhile tidbits provided me by my formal education were sufficiently beaten into my tangled mass of grey matter. maybe that's optimism, but it sure feels pessimistic to look at it that way. probably because it is. anyway, i hope i'm able to find gainful employment sooner or later, in an effort to more comfortably ride out the remaining years in the united states.

*sigh* i'm just ready to be back there now, you know?

but it probably is smarter to get christin on track with school before heading out again. she gets so bored when she's nothing to do in the day, or at least she did when we were there before. she thinks it best, so i do as well. look at me, i'm typing like i'm from the middle ages. too much game of thrones, methinks. there it goes again! anyway, work today was dull, but it passed quickly. though most of my day was spent updating the registers and working alone, i did get to work with becky toward the end. i like working with becky, even if it's only for a few hours. came home and hung out with the wife, watching bad television and cooking lasagna. yum. that's about it. i did the last of this week's homework and vegetated a bit. time for bed.

Veegs To The Neegs

so today is father's day or something, and i actually did call my dad. he's doing okay, but he just had teeth pulled the other day, so you know. not the best. anyway, christin and i were pretty much just worthless today. the only thing we managed to accomplish was watching a couple episodes of doctor who together before christin went to sleep. other than that, it was just a lazy day in general. we had a nice time relaxing, though. it was a nice endcap to our mini-vacation, but tomorrow it's back to reality. back to work. blech.

i did my quiz and watched some youtube after she went to sleep, then watched the first episode of game of thrones, which many people have recommended. it was pretty compelling, but i could do without the gratuitous nudity and out-of-place f-bombs. *shrug* we'll see how i like it after a few more episodes. until then, it's sleep time. work at 10am tomorrow. not really looking forward to that, but i am looking forward to depositing my paycheck! huzzah. hopefully my stipend will come tomorrow as well, so we can actually go buy a new car for christin. that'd be wonderful.

Urgencies

we didn't end up going back to the city today. we all woke up way late and decided that it would be a better idea to just relax, get some food, and head down to princeton for the gathering before going back to the house and eating dinner there. so that's what we did! we met up with my friend justin; my youtube acquaintances leslie, amanda, and ev; and my new pals devin, michael, and nikki. it was a great time, and we actually stayed for about 3 hours or so. we hung out on the princeton lawn, and went to a boba/froyo place that sold pretty decent shaved ice. i got green apple, and it was quite amazing.

the idea of passing on the frozen yogurt to get shaved ice was a result of me declaring myself john's vegan brother for the day. i actually did manage to maintain a totally vegan diet for the entire 24 hours of the day, which i'm sort of proud of but in reality it isn't all that difficult. for lunch, i had a boca burger at red robin, and for dinner we had vegan macaroni and cheese, which was almost as good as real macaroni and cheese. like, i'd seriously consider making it just because it tastes great, even though i'm not vegan per se. anyway, we got home and made the mac&veegs and watched clerks. well, we tried to watch it, but netflix was being crappy.

anyway, we had a great last night with julie and johnny, and it's time to bid farewell. i'll see them again in july, but christin won't see them probably until the wedding. sad times! oh well. it's time to sleep and not type more things into a box on the internets.

Thrame Of Gones

ahh, new york city. it really isn't like anywhere else in the world. we checked into the motel 6 in piscataway, new jersey and headed up to staten island where we took the wonderful ferry into the city. as soon as we got off the boat, it was raining pretty heavily, but it passed very soon. this happened a few times throughout the day, so it was a bit annoying, but also kind of neat. it was nice that it wasn't raining non-stop the entire day, though. we saw ground zero and saint paul's, went to the cosby house, ate in chinatown and headed back to the hotel to unwind with some drinks. it was a good day. this is, of course, a gross oversimplification, but it's about all i feel like typing at the moment. goodnight.

Seat Hanger Onner

the following is a list of facts about today:

i slept 8 hours, and it was glorious. i worked a closing shift. i ate a chicken sandwich and two breadsticks for dinner. i played a lot of words/hanging with friends. i had dairy queen before leaving work. i didn't have to pay for it. i came home. i responded to comments on youtube. i watched a few videos. i did my homework. i am up later than i should be. i am going to new york tomorrow.

okay, so that last one's not really a fact about today, but it clarifies the previous one, so i'm gonna say it's good to go. yeah, today was fairly uninteresting, but you know, it's a thursday. tomorrow we head up to nyc for two days [though we're staying in jersey], and that will be excellent. i probably won't have wi-fi, so i probably won't update tomorrow, but that's nothing new. the trip will be fun, because i said so. actually, it's mostly because new york rules and my wife is awesome and my sister is awesome and my sister's fiancé is... well, you get the idea. time for sleep so i don't fall asleep on the way up! goodnight.

Rainn, Will's Son

my wife just walked to the toilet and i turned to see her, but my vision was blurred because there's only one light on and it's right in front of me. well, that and the laptop staring back at me. it's weird that i had to stare for a minute to see if she was even there, because there wasn't enough light and my eyes hadn't adjusted to the lack of light to see even a dim outline of her frame. weird to think about how what we see is really just light reflected off a human body, not the body itself, or anything else for that matter. we see a reflection of what is, and a shadow of reality. weird. it's too late to be thinking like this, isn't it? yep.

just finished writing a paper that i should've written two days ago, and then should've written last night, but didn't end up writing because i couldn't concentrate. this time, since i don't open tomorrow [which i did today], i was able to stay up way later than julie, johnny, and my lovely wife, and get it all done. which i did. it was alright, i guess, but i probably could've written better. anyway, i also made this today, which i'm pretty proud of. i think it came out very solid, and the views [and how rapid they came] seem to agree with that thought.

i finished filming as soon as i got home, which was kind of difficult because i'm not feeling good at all today. i almost got sick in the toilet at work this afternoon, which is bad news bears. managed to keep it down for the rest of the shift. well, most of it really, considering i did go home a half hour early. once i finished filming, i edited for about a good, solid five hours. that's a long time. i probably could've gotten it done faster, but i spent a lot of time talking to johnny during the whole process, as well as a lot of time unnecessarily obsessing over audio sync. i think it paid off in the finished product, though, and i'm very happy with it all.

now it's bedtime, because it's very close to my absolute upward limit of time i can stay up 'til [4am], and i do actually have to work tomorrow, even though it's a late shift. that was a terrible sentence. goodnight.

Queasiful

today i scripted and filmed most of tomorrow's video, which was a blast but frustrating at the same time. i didn't budget my morning well, and ended up sleeping in a bit later than i wanted, so i didn't have time to finish filming it all today like i had planned. on the plus side, i think the audio is going to be much better on this video than the last one, which was still better than the other recent ones. good times railroad! today i worked a closing shift right after getting on the video train to footage town. it wasn't particularly memorable, but working with flanda is always humorous.

i like the way this script turned out. it's not as punchline-driven as the last one was, but it's way more comprehensive and has an overarching theme throughout the show. i won't reveal what it is now, though i'm writing this the next day when it's already been released so many of you probably already know what it is. ha! silly silly. anyway, that's about it for this day. when i got home, we watched some more firefly and called it a night. a good night, of course. goodnight.

Per Formats

monday, monday, monday! i'm behind again, and i honestly forgot what i did on monday besides go to work. blah. i opened that day, and it was pretty hellish because i didn't get a lot of sleep. what else is new though, right? anyway, having julie and johnny around has been pretty cool. christin always goes to sleep pretty early and i always stay up late, so having other people to stay up late with me has been a nice change of pace for me. granted, it's taking its toll on my youtube-watching in the sense that my queue is not diminishing in the slightest, but that's a small price to pay for the nice feature of having a sister and a good friend in your home.

we've been watching through firefly, though i don't think we'll finish the series while they're here at this point. johnny seems to be enjoying it quite a bit, julie as well. it's so good. ahh! i can't get over it. so that's been going great. monday they went up to baltimore to check out the sites for some john waters movies [johnny is a huge fan] and take pictures. they had a good time, which makes me happy. that's about all i have to say about that, but i must say this: epic meal time's got bacon for days, son. it's true.

Operation: Code Kansas

today i woke up at what i would consider a reasonable hour: 11:30am. considering i got to bed at around 5, i think that's pretty good. anyway, we went to the mall to visit becky at work and to eat lunch before heading downtown. we checked out a bit of the sights in annapolis, which was cool, and saw a juggler dude on the docks. he juggled a flaming torch, a huge knife, and a bowling ball while balancing on some ridiculous contraption. it was pretty dinosaurs. anyway, after a bit of that, we went back to town and got some food to make dinner at the house, which julie cooked up into some vegan tortilla soup. it was pretty amazing, actually.

we ate that and watched the first two episodes of firefly, then christin went to bed and johnny and i decided to watch black dynamite. good choice. it's basically a classic 70's blaxploitation film, but it was made in 2009, giving it extra awesomeness. i had heard about it on the nerdist podcast, and had meant to watch it, just kept forgetting about it. then i saw it on netflix instant and we just watched it. now i'm catching up on blogs, and julie/johnny are camping out, watching true lies and basically falling asleep to it. excellent. speaking of falling asleep, i'm gonna go do that. i really don't want to work tomorrow, but alas... i must make money. goodnight.

Newburger

oh, what a long day it was. woke up, went to work, and worked by myself until around 2pm. that was interesting, but by the time nikkie showed up i was pretty ridiculously hungry. i guess she thought she had scheduled someone else, but... nope. after work, i headed off to the laundromat to get the laundry done with christin and watch dumb game shows while waiting for the clothes to dry. beats the jersey shore, which is what's normally playing on t.v. there. headed up to pick up the julie and the johnny, whose flight was delayed two hours [giving us time to finish the laundry, which was good]. got 'em, got the rental car, headed back down to annapolis. good times.

we had dinner at house of hunan, which we've had before but only once. it was amazing, and they have a good vegan menu [for johnny]. i had some of the hunan fried bean curd and it was actually pretty dang tasty. not sure it was good enough to be something i eat every day or even regularly, but it definitely wasn't bad. after dinner, we went to applebee's for drinks, then back to the house to unwind and hang out before sleeping. we stayed up super late, and johnny and i ended up watching the entire plinkett review of the phantom menace. good stuff, man. it's 4:30, so i'm gonna go to sleep now. yeah. good call on that. looking like no church tomorrow.

More, A Torium

the night before something you've been anticipating for a long time always feels longer than other days. maybe that's why the work day felt so long today. i closed with alli, which was fine, but it just seemed really slow. didn't make much money, sales-wise, but that's not a huge surprise. tomorrow julie and johnny arrive, and i'll be opening right before i go off to pick them up. i didn't get the laundry done today, because i woke up late and didn't have time before work. we'll have to do it some other time soon. oh well! time to get a bit of sleep before a long day.

Lark Of Sky

today was delightfully unproductive, but fun. i woke up way earlier than i should have, after getting to sleep way later than i should have [couldn't sleep, obsessing over webshow] and headed to meet the wife and our nephews that she nannies. is that even a verb? whatever. we went to the children's museum, which was less like a museum and more like a cool place to play, and we had a great time. if you're friends with me on facebook, you can check out some pictures of us playing dress-up. christin tagged me. yep. good stuff.

i came home and i was supposed to do the laundry, but i just didn't. i think i'll get up at a reasonable hour tomorrow and do it then, because i can't think of any other time i could get it done in the near future. blah. instead of doing that, i abrogated my responsibility for another day and responded to youtube comments and watched a few videos. i also played a bit of guitar. hadn't done that in a while. i want to keep doing song wednesdays, but i picked wednesday for my show date, so that doesn't look like it's possible. oh well. maybe once a month. after that, we had our meeting with the pastor and watched the rest of season six of grey's anatomy. yeah. it just got real, son. it was crazy. one may say 'bananas.'

anyway, my homework is done [on time for once] and it's well past my bedtime, so i shall head off and leave you with this thought: dinosaurs.

Kirin Tore Up

today i made this. i'm very, very proud of it, and i like the direction my channel is going now. i've got it figured out, in terms of what i want out of youtube and how i want to represent what i do on there, and now all i've got to do is keep making awesome content and promoting it. i can do that better with a weekly show that has a somewhat predictable format. speaking of the format, what you see there is pretty much what you get: headlines, vocab, and a third [or fourth] other section that is in some way english-related. i just happened to get in two segments that talked about the same grammatical rule, which probably won't happen every time. but man, that'd be pretty awesome if it did, huh? i kind of happened upon this one, so don't think i'm a genius or anything.

i spent a good 6-8 hours on this video today, and it was absolutely exhausting, but well worth it. it won't take that long next time, because quite a bit of it was troubleshooting my audio issues, which i think i've got pinned down pretty well now. i'm now using my usb microphone as a boom mic, which i got working very well for this video. the first and last scenes were 'test' scenes, and i had it too low and boosted a lot, which led to weirdness. the other scenes [the ones that were shot in my room] had the boom above me, which worked better, and i recorded them onto my laptop instead of my p.c. i think the settings i chose on there worked out for the better, because the audio was just phenomenal. couldn't ask for better from my equipment.

the days are ticking down until julie and johnny arrive, and i'm super excited. it's been a while since i've seen either of them, almost a year now, and it's just going to be great. we're taking a trip up to new york city next weekend, which is awesome, and hopefully we'll get lots of downtime to just chill and hang out and have some drinks and watch stuff and talk. and. lots of ands. but yeah, i have to clean up a bit tomorrow because the pastor is coming to our house, since ken and debbie are out of town. also need to do something about the whole 'door to our bedroom is completely off one of its hinges and doesn't close properly' thing. tomorrow, perhaps.

Jewne

working is just this thing, you know. this thing you do. and i did it today, too! go me. christin visited me at work, and that was quite wonderful. we had dinner, or rather i had dinner and she hung out with me while i ate delicious teriyaki chicken. side-note: i can't believe i got all of my homework done on monday night. still. i just can't. when i got home from work, after tucking christin in, i went about shortening my youtube queue and writing tomorrow's script. it's going to be great, and i'm pretty excited about this new format. i was getting sick of the old one, with all its pressure and frequency, but that was a good thing to bring me to the point where i'm at now. i'm ready to do this thing, and i'm doing it the right way. life is good.

Investment Of Character

today i spent way too long doing homework. i hope to not do that again in the near future. actually, i will likely do it again in the very near future, in an attempt to get the bulk of this class' work done all at once, since my sister and her fiancé [whose last name, ironically, is class] will be here during the next few weeks of my class. excitement! i worked a closing shift with rachael tonight, which was good but a little boring. we met our sales goals, which is also good. i counted lots of things. i'm good at counting things, actually, which makes sense considering i counted things for a living at anderson's seed company. for three years. sometimes i miss that place.

after completing my paper, which i worked on after work, i watched some youtube videos in a feeble attempt to reduce my monstrous queue to a reasonable and/or manageable level. i got it down to 76 videos from over 100 without deleting many videos that i didn't actually watch. that's satisfying enough, i think. and now, instead of sleeping, i'm messing around with after effects and trying to come up with a suitable cool-looking intro sequence for my new webshow and other little segments slash projects. i like having that sort of thing done beforehand.

i should really go to sleep, though, considering it's about 4:32 in the morning. i'm also downloading the current world of warcraft patch. not entirely sure why, since i don't really have any time to play. i'd like to, i just can't really fit it in between all of the other things i do. granted, now that i'm cutting down my youtube production schedule, i'll have a bit more time for things of that nature, but i probably won't get into it again for a while. i'd like to have 'a life' for a while, which is something i don't feel like i've had for a long time. anyway, it's bedtime. i'm going to get up in 8 hours, watch some more youtube, and go back to work. then i have two days off!

Heroismic

woke up, went to church, came home, watched a few videos, watched netflix with the wife, went to work meeting, came home, spent time with wife, went to sleep. now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about schedules. the youtube schedule i set for myself at the beginning of this year, releasing a video every other weekday for an entire year, is a project i had high hopes for. it's also one i made before deciding what my channel would essentially be about, as well as before i made the decision to vastly improve my recording equipment and thus complicate my workflow. granted, these changes haven't really negatively impacted my ability to record, but they have made me more conscious of releasing bad or marginally good videos.

therefore, in the interest of releasing only the highest quality content i can provide, i've decided to quit my schedule and adopt a much more manageable one. i won't discuss the details just yet, but i will say that there will be at least one weekly video [a one-man webshow] and one monthly video [which has to do with literature]. the former will begin this week, hopefully, and the latter will begin next month, once i've had time to read the first book. i will also release videos as the ideas come to mind, basically the 'just chatting' videos where i rant at the camera or talk about one particular issue. you know, topical stuff. the weekly show will be formatted, with the intent of increasing my viewership. yep, i'm selling out early. get used to it. goodnight.

Gearhead

oh sweet, sweet saturday. the jewish sabbath, of course, in which man is meant to rest. but lo and behold, i must work this day and maketh a wage! i did. it was an 8-hour shift, but 11-7:30 doesn't look like 8 hours on paper, for some reason. it definitely felt like at least ten hours, but i made it! christin brought cheese logs for me and becky, which made things much better, though i had a kind of crappy lunch afterward, which sort of sullied things. blech. after work, i headed home to change my clothes and christin and i went to becky's place to hang out and watch netflix. on the way, christin got a hoagie from wawa [cravings] and i got two corn dogs [excitement] from the carnival down the street from becky's place.

it was awesome. i love corn dogs so much.

we watched a few episodes of grey's, but one of them wasn't working on the almighty netflixness. so we downloaded that while making becky watch the pilot episode of lost. we're trying to get her into it, because it's awesome and she's awesome and awesome people should watch awesome shows. anyway, yeah. she liked it. we watched the episode of grey's that we downloaded and now i'm back at the house. exciting day! not really, but it filled almost two whole paragraphs! is it sad that you can tell when i've been catching up on blogs by the fact that i give more and more detailed recaps of the day as the days go by?

that or, you know, you may have noticed that my facebook wall [where most of you likely are coming from] is plastered with like four networkedblogs posts in a row. i'm so obvious, what can i say? blech. i need to keep on this blog; i need to update daily, and i need to like it. i need to want to do it. i need to write more real things, interesting things, not just blather about my day. i need inspiration. i need to inspire myself to be inspired. does that make any sense? now instead of blathering, i'm just babbling. is there even a difference? are all these rhetorical questions annoying you as much as they're annoying me? i'm tired and i'm going to stop now. it's bedtime. church in the morning!

Fargot, North Dakoter

today was grueling, but highly enjoyable. got to hang with my two friends, justin and cody, in that order for most of the day. i left town at around 10am, got up to central pennsylvania at 1pm or so, and we hung out a bit while dealing with justin's video for the day. he's daily vlogging in june, you should watch him here. anyway, we ate lunch at a pretty okay pizza place, and headed back to the house to record our video. it's going to be amazing, and it'll come out on that channel i just linked on the 14th of june, which is super exciting. then cody got home, i met jaqueezy [don't ask] and we went for dinner at a bbq place that wasn't very good, took pictures in 'africa' and headed back.

that sounds less interesting than it actually was, but i'm probably doing it a disservice by speeding through it because i'm incredibly tired. i just drove three hours home, and the lack of sleep from last night and the night before [about 7 hours, tops, between both days] is really getting to me. i need sleep, but i work tomorrow at 11, so i can't get all that much of it, really. i think i may be making an announcement on my youtube channel on monday, but i'm not sure about it yet. maybe not for another couple weeks or so, we'll see. vagueness is my specialty.

Every Break

june second, two-thousand-eleven. weird. today i did things that were largely uninteresting, but i will wake up tomorrow and drive three hours to see friends and record videos with them. good times. speaking of videos, today i made this. don't watch it, it kind of sucks. well, maybe. i dunno. i'm not overly stoked about it, and it wasn't the most well thought-through or constructed video i've done. not by a long-shot. it's not that i'm not inspired, it's not that i'm not motivated, it's just that i don't have time to do what i want to do [or i don't 'make time' to]. granted, i'm a busy person, but i dunno. i'd rather release something half-baked than nothing at all.

maybe that's a flaw. i'm not sure.

as long as it keeps me working, i'd say it's probably positive. i spent a good deal of time working on this video, but all in post. the audio on this camera is kind of driving me insane, to tell you the truth. i think i got it sounding as best as i possibly can, but i'm still not very satisfied with it. maybe i need to mess with the settings some more. anyway, tomorrow will come early, and i am up late. i need to get some sleep!

Dumb, Found Dead

i just don't know. sometimes i just want to quit this blog and wait to see if anyone notices. i'm not needy or anything, but it seems like every time i get on here, i look at the comments tab and see nothing new. it just makes me wonder if i actually have readers or not. granted, that makes no difference [or at least i tell myself that], the readership level is not the point. but it does keep me motivated. that's why i want to quit to see if people will notice, ask about it, see how i'm doing. i think that maybe if i didn't blog what i was doing each day, or each week, people may ask me more often and try to interact on a personal level. that makes me want to quit, just to see.

but then my o.c.d. gets the best of me.

'cause i know i'd get tired of not blogging after a while and come back and want to do it again, and then i'd see this whole month or so of emptiness and either never come back or want to catch up and blog days upon days worth of drivel. nobody wants that. so you get this instead. you get me telling you that i want to stop, instead of me actually stopping. will it have the same effect? of course it won't. will it encourage people to maybe talk to me more or ask how i'm doing or care verbally? maybe, but probably not. i may be a pessimist, but it's almost always with good reason. people will get by with the bare minimum most of the time, and it takes effort and the capacity for extraordinary behavior to be a friend.

and that's probably why i don't have many friends.