Defying Gravity

it's not all that late, but i'm actually genuinely tired. could my plot to start sleeping at a reasonable hour be working? we'll see if i get up at a decent hour to match. let's hope so. today i did a video. it's not one of mine, it's the infamous julieandstacy video i've been talking about making for a really long time now, and it's finally done. it took about 2.5 hours to edit, because it was a lot of material and as organized as we thought we were when we recorded it, it was actually quite jumbled and hard to work through. but alas, it is complete!

my sister says she's getting a camcorder soon, which means we should be expecting vlogs from her and more stuff from julieandstacy in the future. i'm excited for that. i can collab with my sister, how cool is that? how lame is it that i think that's cool? how cool is it that i don't think it's lame at all and don't care about being perceived as being lame? being a nerd is interesting. i think it's liberating. it means i'm free to not worry about other peoples' perceptions of myself, and that i don't draw my self-worth from other peoples' opinions. i wish that were entirely true. i guess you could say that i'm a work in progress.

like everyone else on the planet.

i need to read wil wheaton's 'just a geek' because i've been interested to read it for a really long time. i follow his twitter and listen to his podcast, but i've been avoiding his blog. it's just massive and there is so much content to wade through. i'm the kind of person who likes to get the whole story. i actually attempted to watch all of the vlogbrothers' brotherhood 2.0 episodes in order at one point, and to watch all of wheezywaiter's videos. i got pretty far through them, but i always end up not finishing things like that. i don't want to add a blog to a list of things i want to do but can't find time to finish despite the fact that i have a lot of what mortals call 'free time'. silly mortals.

tomorrow i finish the schoolwork i started today and attempt to not leave the neighborhood for the entire day. today i would've done so, but i ended up going to shop with christin for groceries and ended up spending a lot. but i got stuff we're not going to need for a long time, like a very big bag of rice [20 lb.] and a huge container of olive oil. that was almost half the cost itself! and we got some meat because tomorrow christin is cooking my dad's style roast beef. today she made my mom's style chicken and it was great. just like home. i miss old home... but new home kicks ass.

Black(Coat,Shoes,Hat) + Cadillac = Time Bomb

it's an equation for awesome. so last night, christin randomly started talking in her sleep [which is not uncommon] and she was telling me that she wanted pancakes. not just any pancakes, 'the big ones you get at denny's! get 'em for me!' and i didn't. but tonight, we went to denny's and christin did indeed get her pancakes. they were good! i had some pulled chicken bbq sandwich which was pretty good and only like $6.00 with fries. yum!

denny's has done pretty well to bring their prices to a more reasonable level. i remember they had subway syndrome, which subway doesn't have either anymore now that i think about it. the idea behind what i call the 'subway syndrome' is that no one goes to subway because it's a great place to get a sandwich. they go there because it's cheap. for a while, it wasn't cheap. it was actually really expensive and bad. denny's was the same way, but i'm glad to see they've gone the way of subway and fixed their pricing.

p.s. new video. but watch this one first.

tonight's episode of lost was wonderful, though i can't say i enjoyed watching it. our t.v. service was just pitiful and the whole episode was 'skipping' just like a scratched dvd. drove me nuts. my wife doesn't mind that sort of thing, but it makes it virtually unwatchable for me. at first i thought it may have had something to do with the fact that we were recording it on our dvr while we were watching it, but we did that last week too and had no problems. verizon fios fail. this is fios. this is big. big fail! epic fail! not quite streamy fail, but nasty stuff.

Jump In My Car

today was great! we got a new bed, the toilet got fixed and i ate amazing chicken nuggets for dinner that were made by my lovely wife. i got a nice bed set with a comforter and sheets and everything for like $37, which was rad. i've got tons of nuggets left over for tomorrow, and my new condenser mic came in the post! now i just need a stand. i think for tomorrow's video, i'll be doing a track for mc jin's 2010 hip-hop census mixtape. been meaning to work on that, and i can't think of any other videos to respond to at the moment. not touching pogobat's newest. blech.

got into a 25-man icecrown citadel tonight and downed the first boss, which was all i really wanted to do for my weekly, and it was neat. people kept disconnecting and leaving, so we didn't get lady deathwhisper down, but all in all i had a good time. i think we're going to take a crack at getting our raid team of misfits down to do a 10-man on sunday. hopefully we will do well and have a good time but if we just have a good time without doing well, that's okay too. i should probably either make my wife play and gear up or do it for her. she could use some upgrades!

i ordered a really cheap mod for my camera, it's a magnetic 0.67X wide-angle lens that you stick on the stock lens to make the field of vision larger. it's great for vlogging, because i won't have to hold the camera at arm's length just to fit my head on the screen. it also makes the macro function on my camera work better, since anything closer than about six inches blurs out. after watching a bunch of videos, this is the one i settled on. i could've gotten a big one and mounted it on there, but i'm kind of nervous about using epoxy on my baby. ;-D goodnight!

Ground Control

church was awesome. we're going to be going through the first epistle to the corinthians for the foreseeable future, and today we talked about why the church is essential to spiritual growth. it's great to hear quotes like 'no one can have God as Father without the church as mother' on sunday mornings. makes you think. if you follow me on twitter, you may have seen a couple quotes from the service earlier today. i try and tweet those as soon as we get out every week.

christin and i had lunch at potbelly's sandwich works while listening to a guy play some half-assed covers on guitar. he was okay, but he got the chords wrong for the chorus of 'last dance with mary jane' which bothered me all day. after lunch, we came home and watched a couple episodes of one of our new shows. it's about jamie oliver transforming the most obese city in america, which is rad to watch and especially rad to watch while eating ice cream and drinking soda! go me. bad habits? i suppose.

played wow a bit tonight. it's frustrating, now that the whole 'gear score' thing has complicated the way we find groups/guilds/raids. i want to raid the new content, but i'm just barely undergeared and these days that's completely unacceptable. it's crazy because honestly there aren't a whole lot of upgrades i could be reasonably attaining without raiding, unless i want to wait like a month and just do my one daily and weekly quests to get frost badge upgrades. but i have the spare time now! i want to raid now! oh my. uber sad times, yo.

i could've stayed up a bit more, but i'm going to bed at 1am this time. i've got to start getting up in the mornings at a better time, because i feel like i'd be more productive with daylight for some reason. maybe i'm getting old. but daylight means better filming and easier to concentrate on my schoolwork, which is good because i've got a class starting on tuesday. tomorrow night, christin and i will be sleeping on a new bed, which is very exciting. here's to that! goodnight.

Bayonets Really Sting

well i [sort of] promised a longer post today, thinking i would do it from my brother-in-law's house because we'd be there all night. we were, but i didn't. after the kids went to sleep, christin and i sat on the loveseat and watched like 5 episodes of the big bang theory. it was quite enjoyable! i got to talk on the phone with ritchie and nic tonight, which was great. good to catch up with people from home. hint hint. call me, people! you have my number. and if you don't have my number, you can totally get it very easily because it's public on my facebook.

though i don't think i've ever linked that here.

anyway, it's late now and i think we're going to bed. well, actually, we're already in bed but we're going to sleep soon. christin is playing her ridiculous free sushi game on her phone and i am sitting next to her and writing this blog on my laptop, which i didn't feel like setting back up on my desk so it's actually on/in/near my lap. weird. the cat is making noise, and the dog is looking particularly lethargic at the moment. tomorrow will be a relaxed day, i got about all the exercise i can stand for a day chasing my niece and nephew around today. our church tomorrow. woot!

Frustration Is Killing Me

i've got a lot to say, but i don't feel like saying it. tomorrow night, i will most likely write something long. i'm feeling creative, inspired even, but discouraged in my artistic efforts due to my distinct lack of proficiency in the art of promotion. oh, the world. here comes another one-paragraph blog again. sleep is sounding really good right about now. sleep it off. don't be discouraged. i spent all day on a video and it's still not finished, thanks to youtube. yet the partners' videos i watch frequently seem to come up looking like roses in minutes. no surprise there. bobby said it best: the times, they are a-changin'.

Can't Stand

the raaaaain! 'gainst mah window. actually it's fine, i don't really mind much. it's coming in short bursts. the only thing i don't like about the rain here is what happens to my front yard after it's done raining. it turns into a freaking swamp, inviting bugs of all sorts to feast upon the dank depths of our muddy lawn. it's no bueno. today was kind of uneventful, really. well, there was one event, but it wasn't pleasant.

i had a bit of a scare earlier with my unemployment check, which i absent-mindedly sat on the seat next to me as i drove down central avenue at 40 miles per hour with both windows down. to find it, i conducted a scientific experiment. i pulled over, grabbed a piece of paper about the same size and weight and put it where the check was. then i turned around and started driving, looking on the left side of the road just in case i happened to see it. the paper flew forward, then under my passenger's seat. i pulled over again and there it was under the seat. i was really glad i hadn't signed it.

yikes. i'm just now realizing that i've got to make a video tomorrow and i haven't the slightest idea what i want it to be about.

i'd ask for suggestions in comments, but let's face it, you guys that read this [if anyone but my wife actually does read it] aren't gonna do that. you're too lazy! so i will probably do something strange and it'll be okay. i really hope dan brown puts my response in the big 3 this week, as i'm sure that would greatly boost my subscriber count. that would most likely encourage me to do better work. but my philosophy has always been to treat my artwork, video making included, as though there were a thousand people watching, even if there isn't.

this week, i ordered a usb condenser microphone and stand from amazon. i don't know when it will get here, but as soon as it does i'm probably going to start recording some music again. so i need to make some beats to rap over, since the only thing holding me back from recording the stuff i've written over the past few years is lack of a decent microphone... and beats. anyone make beats or know someone that makes good east coast style beats that wants to do me a solid and hook me up? i'd gladly split any proceeds with them if you do. let me know. goodnight.

edit: happy 50th consecutive daily blog. here's to 50 more.