Geek On The Mountain

Yeah. So I’m still around and all. I try to post more than once a week but I got the best of me this last week. Maybe next week I’ll come out ahead.

So what have I been doing all week that’s made me so busy? Nothing really. And by nothing I mean playing games. Milenka’s been getting more and more into games lately (specifically PS2) and therefore I’m going in the same direction (that is to say, she’s been holding me back all these years.. ). To be very specific, I picked up a copy of GTA Vice City (I never got around to playing it a couple of years ago there when it came out….I’ve actually been wanting San Andreas, but it’s so new that it sells for way too much even used still….I’ll give it 6-12 months) used for cheap cheap cheap (hell, it sells new now for $20). I’ve been playing that, a game called Primal that Milenka got for herself, and Final Fantasy X. I’m almost done with FFX finally, though from what I gather the end battle crap (plus the movies that are sure to accompany all of that) will surely take at least an hour to do and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was closer to 2. The actual storyline itself has ended up intriguing me, but I still hold that the best FF ever made was number 6 (originally released as FF 3 for the SNES in the US). The funky futuristic thing that they started doing with 7 isn’t my favorite thing.

Beyond that I can’t say as though I’ve gotten anything specific accomplished. This is sad in a way, but it hasn’t all been bad really.

As for today, Milenka did that working thing she’s been doing the past couple of days and when she got home we went out to eat, which was nice since it seems as though we haven’t done so in a while, even though I know we have. Also, I discovered RSS feeds, which I already knew about but not really. More on that later though. Otherwise I’ve just been doing some cleaning which I’ll also be doing tomorrow. I had wanted to go and see the Hitchhiker movie, but I’m sure I won’t this weekend, if at all. For starters, I have no one to go with as Milenka doesn’t want to see it, but that doesn’t necessarily stop me. Probably my biggest thing is that I haven’t finished re-reading the books yet. About 6 months ago I got a thick hardcover with all of the books in it. I previously had some paperbacks and when I saw it in the bookstore I figured it would be nice to have them all together. I actually hadn’t finished the last book and a half when I started reading them a couple of years ago. I don’t remember why exactly. After I bought the book I got caught up on some other things (like the wonderful Anita Blake series…) and never got around to reading it until a couple of weeks ago I saw the movie was coming out soon and I figured I should hop to it (it also didn’t hurt that Milenka had stashed the next book in the Anita Blake series someplace and I couldn’t get my hands on it right away ). I finished off what I hadn’t read but then it occurred to me that I should re-read the whole thing and then I can compare the movie to the books (which means nothing really since the books don’t even match up with the original radio shows and even contradict one another at times… it’s part of the quirkiness of the series (plus I’m sure it’s easier to edit it all that way) ). Maybe I’ll see it in a couple of weeks or maybe I’ll just wait 6 months.

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So weather is smalltalk. Blogging about the weather is kind of lame. I know I’ve done it before, but not usually in a post of it’s own. But damn it, I enjoy talking about the weather….

We have snow. It’s covering the ground (about 90% anyways). It actually snowed all day yesterday, but for the most part it was too warm to accumulate. On the other hand, when I got out of work at 10:00 last night, I had to scrape my windows, though the roads were just wet still. It’s supposed to snow more today and I see that we have a high of 36. On the other hand, tomorrow we’re back up to 49 so anything we actually get will melt right off.

This is of course no big deal accept that it’s the end of April. It usually doesn’t snow at the end of April. This past Wednesday it was 80 (unseasonably warm, although I see it was that warm last year at this time as well for a period). Now it’s snowing. This is the crap I have to deal with. Pfft.

The saying is April showers bring May flowers….where the hell does the snow fit in?

(It’s actually funny as well, because I was looking at the average monthly rainfall for P-Town here and our rainiest month, on average, is actually August, which I’d think one of the driest..)

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I happened to see a commercial (it amazes me how many commercials I actually see since I do skip over them…) for VW’s Jetta yesterday and I heard something familiar. The commercial has this guy driving his business partners (or something) to the airport in his Jetta. The guy sitting in the passenger seat (old conservative looking guy) reaches over and turns on the radio at which time about the first five seconds of a metal song plays. The clip is so short I had to listen to it a couple of times to be sure it was actually something I knew, and it was. A few minutes with my iPod confirmed that the song was Diecast’s Rise & Oppose. Googling it, I found that they make mention of it on their website (it’s actually under their news section, but is shown on the mainpage for now…..there doesn’t seem to be a way to link to individual news items ). You can also check out VW’s commercial’s if you haven’t seen it. This one is called airport.

The funny thing is that they play about the first 5 seconds, and the idea is for it to come off as shocking, yet in the next 5 seconds or so they start screaming and the bass drum hits about 4 times a second….too much I guess. And not to be picky (that’s a lie of course…), but the radio shows the song as being “track 4″ while the actual song is the 5th track from the band’s newest album, Tearing Down Your Blue Skies.

I thought this was rather cool because Diecast is a not terribly popular metal band on an indie label. It’s cool to see them get something in the mainstream, even if no one will recognize it who hasn’t heard it frequently already… I thought the song choice was odd as well, but according to their site they were due to premier a video for the song at headbanger’s ball, er, today I guess. Good for them. They’ve got some good shit.

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I tend to be at odds over whether or not I should be social. Generally so speaking, I’m somewhat of a recluse. I can just stay at home most of the time and be perfectly happy, or at least as perfectly happy as I ever am. I’m actually fine with that part on any level. I have no great desire to go out to places with people on a regular basis. I tend to be a recluse even when I go out though. I tend to keep to myself at work, school, and wherever I go. My iPod has actually been infinitely helpful in this regard when I go to the store as it helps to tune out the masses of people that are there.

There’s a part of me though that doesn’t exactly want that. That part of me wants to be more friendly and talkative. Why? In a way, it just seems like the right thing to do. Socializing can make me feel better than just keeping to myself sometimes. On top of that, it seems desirable on several levels to know lots of people and be able to “network” if you will. I’m afraid that I’m doing a poor job of explaining what I feel (who, me?) so I’m guessing that some people will read that and not exactly understand what I mean.

Furthermore, being social or not social seems to be related to the two me’s. I’m sure that most people when they’re in a “bad” mood don’t really feel like talking to people a whole lot, so I guess it makes sense. On the other hand, I wonder how much it directly contributes to each me.

I have no idea what the real answer is. Of course the actual problem isn’t as black and white as the title suggests. There are different levels of “being social”. On a scale of not social to social, I’m definitely quite a ways towards the left. I’m pretty sure I’d be better off towards the right, I’m just not exactly sure how far.

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I got home tonight and picked up Simon here. He’s perfectly fine, but after I picked him up I found out that someone(I won’t name any names�) had closed one of his paws in a cabinet door at which time he squealed out in pain and proceeded to fall from the top of the refrigerator to the floor. Apparently he didn’t land on his feet. Poor guy.

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