Statistical Video

I guess it's fitting that I have a day off for the last entry during my Thirty Thousand Trial. It also seems to be a bit of a bookend for this month as well. The first entry of this month was on a Tuesday, a day I usually get off. Today's Thursday, and I get those off occasionally as well. Both days begin with a "T," so that's another similarity. It also seems fitting that the sky was clear by the end of the day - and while the other side was cloudy, at least it didn't rain.

Anywho, just as a disclaimer, I'm going to warn you right now that a good portion of this entry involves math. If you suck at math, you might not want to read the first section and skip straight to the second (and more entertaining) part.

Regardless, this is tonight's entry and I hope you enjoy it.

Disproportional Return

You know it's going to be an interesting day if the first five seconds of your day started with a tired sign and the words: "I need a drink."

Sunday night looked something like this. Plus three friends. Plus beer. Plus fun.

In all honesty, I didn't drink anything today. (Not yet, at least.) However, it got me thinking about some things, which as we all know leads into more thinking about more things. And then it hit me like a slippery fish: I haven't posted anything yet. Frak! *downs a screwdriver and begins typing furiously*

Quick Writes and Foods

Food is amazing, isn't it? The way it tastes, the way it smells, the way it looks... and yet they come in so many flavors, scents, and appearances. It's awesome, and as such, there's a story regarding food that I'd like to regale to you tonight. It's a short and quick little ditty, but the food results are simplistically satisfactory.

Laws of War

Expect a good entry tomorrow on my day off. Right now, I'm doing what I can to rest, recuperate, just do fun things, and possibly some laundry on the side. And to do so requires me to be a bit of a lazy-ass. So, yeah. Until the 'morrow. Here's some Murphy's Laws on warfare I found and collected over the years.

The Inside Clique

(Author's Note: I don't know what I write about sometimes. For this particular piece I pulled, it was part of a high school English speech I did about cliques. Back then, I really hated the thought of it all, but... now, I just wonder what was going through my head...)

A Look Into the Past: "Upgraded Financial Compromise"

Since I've been up this morning, I've been cleaning house. I'm a bit of a pack rat, and I know that I have a lot of things to sort through. And then it hit me - it's 1400! I have work in two hours, and I haven't posted a blog entry for today yet! Frak!

For lack of time, I decided to look at the past and see a random entry I posted long, long, long ago. It's interesting to look at the past sometimes, and this not only gives me my one thousand word quota for the day, but it also lets you readers see how I used to operate years ago. It's kinda similar to how I operate now, but at the same time there's a level of maturity not present in it.

It amazes me sometimes how I was once like this. But why speak about it when I can show you what I was like back then?

[ORIGINAL POST CREATED ON: Wednesday, August 12, 2006}

Slingshot Entry

Welcome, reader! Today's Friday, May 25, 2012, and it's quite an interesting day!

Daytime Status: cloudy with a chance of sun.

So today ended up as a mellow day so far. Cloud cover threatened a sunny day (which could've been nice as it's a Friday and all) and yet the sun's still strong enough to cause most people (read: the indoors-kind of people) to squint when looking outside. It's the perfect weather to relax and do stuff at the same time. Confused? Good.

Normally, with sunny days, you'd expect people to hang out together and what not. Y'know, soak some rays up, do something aquatic-based (from swimming to snow cone eating competitions), have a great time, and totally do social things. With rainy days, people tend to do the opposite. The more sociable people will attempt their best efforts at organizing some kind of hangout, while the busybodies with projects to take care of will stay inside their shelters and work.

But with this weather... I don't know. While cloudy days tend to put a damper on the mood, there are certain times where it's still cloudy and somehow sunny enough to make it a good day. The clouds are fluffy and mostly white (meaning that the threat of rain is low - unless you're in Seattle), the blue skies break through once in a while, the sun is still able to mercilessly beat down on your eyes.

Maybe I can find a way to hang out with people and work on some things at the same time. *shrugs* I 'unno.

And then the night began, and the sunset looked nice. And then I began typing other things.

Afternoon Morning Countdown

All it takes is a little bit of rain to ruin your sandwich day...

Sometimes, life just wants to rain on your parade. What happens next is up to you - if you decide to take to take action. This was my mission for today, and as can be seen with the rest of this entry, I chose to accept it.

The Dog Show

Sometimes when I'm writing I end up writing way out of order. It's what happens when I try writing chronologically and can't pull it off. It provides a bit of an advantage, as I can flesh out more bits of the plot that happens later on while I still flesh out the characters we learn to cheer or jeer for in the beginning of the story.

It's a common tactic seen with artists making a story on some kind of medium, though writers are usually the most common folk who have to wrestle with that kind of thing.

While I was working on Shock Squad BETA I had a few of those experiences. This was what resulted. (Yes, I'm aware I'm being lazy. It's called "waking up late and realizing you have work in a half-hour right before you finally begin typing up today's entry.)

Saturmonday

Well, lookie what we got here, reader of mine, it's the same in every town - readers with shriveled minds, bored looks, and not a drop of laughter to be found!

Maybe they're not aware that there's really no need for this teary despair. (That the key that they need to solve this sad laughter shortage you and I will shaaaaaaaaaaaare!)

"Folks, it's the one and only, the biggest and the best!"

Yeah, that wasn't a flimflam introduction at all.