Random Ramblings

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Rendering…

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It always seems to take so long.

But hey — it allows me to multi-task. Sort of. Okay, I admit it. My blog has nothing to do with my job. But, I figured I’d kill two birds with one render.

I just read over at FirstShowing.net that Joss Whedon is in final negotiations with Marvel to direct the Avengers movie. I admittedly don’t know much of Whedon’s work, but Kalena enjoys what he does. I think our friend Cat once said that he has the Midas touch. At any rate, I’ve heard enough people rave about his work, so here’s hoping that he does a good job!

On another note, I’ve been thinking of coming up with a regular update schedule for my blog. That way, it’ll help keep me on track, and hopefully help me come up with better topics. Maybe I’ll even post a pic or two along the way. Of course, if something tickles my fancy, I’ll randomly update here and there between scheduled postings. I’ve been thinking of maybe a Monday / Thursday update. Is that something that would interest you? I think maybe only like 3 people read my blog (including myself, for editing purposes). Maybe I’ll organize it a little better and keep the regularly scheduled posts on a separate page.

Hehe. I don’ t know. I don’t get paid to do this, so the whole thing might just go out the window.

We’ll see.

Power outages…

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I hate them. But oh well, what can you do? Times like these, I’m thankful that I own this Droid. Because now, I have no electricity, but I can still blog.

Also wanted to mention that Kalena took home three awards tonight. Two awards of excellence, and one merit award. No Pele, but that’s okay. Her classmate Quintin took home the Pele for the student advertising category with his Bob Marley CD packaging. Congratulations all around!

I’m stopping here, because it’s a little difficult to blog with this thing. Good night, all!

Score!

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While wandering through Wal-Mart, I found that they were selling “Mirror’s Edge” for the Xbox 360 for only fifteen bucks!

That was a definite score! I’ve been wanting to get the game since it came out. However, I didn’t think it was sixty bucks good. I even passed it up when Best Buy had it for $29.99. But hey, fifteen bucks? Yes, please!

Also picked up Battlefield Bad Company 2, because it was on sale at Best Buy. It’s pretty good so far. I still think Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 feels a whole lot better, but I have to play the game more to really find out.

Other than that, movie night tomorrow. It’s Kalena’s pick. We’ve all been kind of harassing her (in fun) to pick TRON, but I believe she said some Muppet Movie was in order.

Thank goodness it’s not Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — the director’s cut, because I would just enforce an early bedtime for myself.

Darn you, Bejeweled Blitz…

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I’ve been playing Bejeweled Blitz for almost an hour. Why? I don’t know. It’s more frustrating than fun.

Eric and Joel will tell you, that game is a frickin’ waste of time and energy, and they’re right.

However, when I see people posting scores over 500,000 it makes me wonder how the hell they do it. I know I’m not that good, but I only scored 120,000 tops!

Well, I’m gonna go back to it. So much for blogging, huh?

Long weekend too short…

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Ah yes. A three-day weekend. It’s the kind of thing you cherish if you’re a Monday – Friday kind of worker, which fortunately, I am.

Not too much going on this weekend, but I am sad that it’s pretty much gone now. Had a small, yet nice, birthday BBQ for Kaulana, and we still managed to fit in movie night. Went to see a friend’s band play at J.J. Dolan’s — they sounded great and hey, the pizza was pretty darned good, too! And wrap the weekend up with Shakedown rehearsal. Oh, hey, even got to mow the lawn.

I remember before my father passed away, I used to try and stay as far away from home on the weekends. I guess that’s because I knew that I would have to do stuff around the house if I just stayed home. The freedom to do what I want when I wanted wasn’t there. As one would expect, it’s very different now. Of course, if I had the choice, I’d much rather have my dad still be here and alive. I really miss him. I’m happy that our relationship really improved before he died, but I’m sad that it took that long. Anyhow, that’s another story for another blog.

I’m kind of a homebody now, though I love to see and hang out with my friends. I guess that’s why I’m kind of spoiled when it comes to movie night. Everyone comes here. I feel bad that Kenny has to drive all the way from Pearl City every weekend.

But yeah. This long weekend was too short, as they always are. That’s alright, because there’s always another one coming up.

Random Filler…

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Here’s one of those posts that I consider random filler.

It’s pretty much a post for the sake of a post. You see, if I don’t do this sort of thing just to keep up, I’m pretty much just going to stop. It’s always been that way with personal projects.

I’ve really been wanting to get back into making short movies again. A friend of mine has been writing short scripts that we could possibly shoot.

I’m not going to say “Oh, I just don’t have time to do it.” That would be a lie. I do have the time, but I lack the motivation. Sure, I got the want to do it, but not the drive. I don’t know why. I love doing it!

It’s probably high time to kick myself in the butt and just do it. I mean, why not? I have a lot of friends who would be willing to help.

Anyone here willing to help out with some short movies over the next few months? I can’t pay, but I can probably buy you lunch!