Gym
Blah.
I went to the gym again yesterday…
Then I ate half a pizza.
I’m going again today.
Hope it turns out better.
I’ve also gotta write a story tonight for my elective tomorrow. Not excited for that, as I’m super-exhausted today for some reason, despite getting enough sleep. Can’t find a song to cheer me up, and it seems that an extra large coffee wouldn’t help either.
Oh well. Not that I want to be away from Kim, but I really want the weekend to come. I’m in some kind of weird funk today.
Bit.Trip Beat is kind of cool. I haven’t gotten very far but I’m not very good. Could have been that I was slightly buzzed from our green-cider-cause-we-don’t-like-beer night for St. Patties. I’ve never liked chiptune style music, but it just seems to be freaking awesome in this game. More to come on this I guess?
Now… to work on print layouts. Whee!
Updatin’…
So, the last couple of weeks have been busy, not busy, semi-busy… I’m not really sure. I’ve been all over the place lately.
Let’s see… Reading Week / Study Break was last week for me and the rest of Seneca, so I had a week off to… read or study. I did read, though. Go me! It was for a class, though. Actually, A Dirty Job has renewed my love of books, which is saying something. I’ve always loved reading… I read tons of books as a kid… I read at a Grade 12 level when I was in Grade 4… Just somewhere between schoolwork, video games, girlfriend, and the rest of life, the time I used to take for books got phased out. I think I’ll try to phase it back in a bit… even if I won’t be ploughing through the pages like I used to… it’ll probably be good for me!
Also over reading week, I managed to go to the gym. If you actually know me, your reaction to reading that sentence would probably be something like “Gym WUT? CRAIG GYM!?” and then you’d fall backwards out of your chair from the sheer shock of it. Me and exercise are like… two things that don’t mix. I’d say oil and water but that’d be cliche. And they still kinda hang together. If gym was water and I were oil… Oil would have skipped town. But I went. And went on an exercise bike. Samina badgered me into going, but I’m glad she did. Tired legs kinda felt good, not gonna lie. I thought I looked like a bit of a tool in my I-don’t-own-many-pairs-of-shorts cargo shorts, and my regular old street shoes because I only own one pair, but nobody said anything. Or even looked at me funny, really. I statically travelled some six miles on the bike in 20 minutes, which was cool I suppose. Samina and I got out of there once King of Queens came on the TVs. I don’t like King of Queens. I’m not even sure anyone watches it.
So, the “stuff done during reading week” tally has me reading a book and going to the gym so far… it also has me working all day Tuesday. It was such a quiet morning, and it would’ve been great if I’d remembered my book… but I didn’t. I went home to pick it up at lunch, but then I had constant help requests all afternoon, so I was unable to get much reading done. That and the painters had shown up… they were speaking loudly at eachother in Italian so it was hard to concentrate. I say that they spoke at eachother because replies usually consisted of grunts or ‘hmm’s.
I also went to school on reading week. Yes, school. Tim Willison, our Flash teacher, ran a workshop on Wednesday all day. We learned about the Dictionary functions of AS3, and how handy they are. It was fairly fun, and I think I picked up a few things… it was worth going to, I’ll say that.
I managed to contract some spyware or adware or whatever somewhere between using my computer for 5 minutes on Thursday, and then it being off until Saturday night.Which was weird… because I didn’t go anywhere but GMail or Facebook, really… I think I may have dropped by The Escapist forums for a minute, but I trust them. I’m running AdBlock Plus and NoScript in my install of Firefox too, so I don’t even know how it made it by that. I didn’t download anything. I’ve never had ad or spy wares as long as I’ve owned my own computer, so I’m kind of embarassed by it. Spybot Search and Destroy seems to think it’s called Virtumonde, and there seems to be about 2 or 3 variations of it that keep coming up in the scan. I’ve removed it several times over now, even trying to kill it before my computer connects to the internet or even launches anything else when I start it. That seems to work for a while. At least the ads aren’t ads anymore, as they used to come up advertising some bogus anti-virus software and doing that thing that ads do to make stupid people think that they’re part of Windows… I think it’s called being designed to look like standard Windows XP! Doesn’t fool me. It can’t. My theme is different. Hah. I think I’ve nuked most of it… now it just seems to occasionally pop up a window with the title “Windows Internet Explorer”, yet I’m running Firefox so it has a Firefox logo in the top right corner… again, nice try. The window is completely blank, as I’ve scanned like 10 times in 2 days and killed most of the files. It’s terribly annoying. I seem to have gotten rid of it, at least temporarily, for now. I thought I’d got it before, but it just came back a day later. I will not trust it’s totally gone until I don’t see it for at least a week. In the meantime, I’ll just repeatedly scan.
On Saturday, I cleaned my room back home. Like REALLY cleaned it. It’s like, crazy clean now. Like it used to be before I moved out/got lazy. It’s not totally done yet… my “junk table” still has junk, but that’s because I used it to clean the rest of the room… I’ll post a picture of its’ clean prettyness later, maybe. It’s nice to move furniture around once in a while, for a bit of a change. The rest of my house doesn’t really change, except when my parents renovate, so it’s nice for my own little basement domain to switch up.
The end of reading week, I finally got to spend some time with Kim. We’d been apart for most of the week, and I think we were both dying a little inside. Good thing we did, as yesterday we got back to school. The headaches resumed, with an essay for me to write and her brochure printing to mess with. Luckily, that got all done, and we relaxed for most of the night.
I played Opoona for Wii for a somewhat lengthy time last night, much to my enjoyment. Firstly, it was $19.99 at Staples. With Sonja’s discount and generosity, that’s turned into 4 Second Cup coffees. I’ve already bought her one. It’s 1/4 paid off! Yay! Secondly, it’s awesome. It’s cutesy, and takes a lot to get into it at first, with a lengthy intro sequence and sort of guiding you around the first town, but then you’re free to take on missions and fight stuff, using the somewhat unique battle system. I’m really enjoying the fact that the game is basically a full-blown world with all kinds of things going on and many terms and such to remember(which the nerd in me loves), all while staying simple to play and control. You only have to use the nunchuk! I love just sitting back and being able to control the game with one hand. It’s got just the right difficulty curve too. If I were a more hardcore RPG fan, I might find it easy… but its’ difficulty seems to be in the vein of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars so far. I just made it to the second dome. I also have to comment on the music, as it’s extremely reminiscent of Phantasy Star Online, which had an excellent soundtrack. In fact, I think I’ll go get that now for nostalgic value. The game is also similar in feel to that of Phantasy Star Online… although it’s only a one-player experience. Damn, now I just want to get back into that. Still, Opoona is fun.
Damn it all. Just got the pop-up again. For running Winamp. What the hell. Back to scanning for the stupid thing.
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