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Back in town from HACU internship orientation in Washington, D.C. What a trip!

And now I have to get to work. I’m working full-time and going to school… Oh, and I got talked into doing a play…

0.9 miles in 18 minutes == 3mph

So I downloaded a little applet today that may help me track my time better—that’s something I’ve had trouble with. I have to log my time working for AirFire, if nothing else, since that’s a 40hr/wk internship… I’d written down my hours from a couple of weeks ago, but I can’t find that paper right now. So… that’s not good.

Meanwhile, I found an Adobe Air applet that will help me keep track, so I’ve been using it today. Well, when I remembered to. But at least it tells me a minimum time I’ve spent… heh.

I’ve spent more than two hours on math this morning (in fact, I know it’s more like three hours), along with some tasks I haven’t yet started to track (walking, eating, cooking, cleaning)...

I just finished my math quizzes I have to turn in when I go take my test today… so I think I’m going to grab some beef jerky and do my walking, then come back, gather everything, and go take my math test while everything is as fresh as possible… When I get back, check English to see if I can put that off until tomorrow, then get some programming time in…

I’m basically back to 100% health (relatively speaking, of course… heh)

And now I’ve got to catch up on math and take last Tuesday’s test by tomorrow; get my English essay written by tomorrow night; and get some hours in on Loopy (my current internship project) before I leave for Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

So I could use a lot more time than I have. Ugh.

via Mitsubishi offers free goat with ute.

In Australia, they call pickups “utes”, short for “utility [trucks]”. But the other part of the bargain is not slang…

been fighting sickness for something like a week… on the upside now… maybe in a day or two I’ll be well again…

I want to get back and blog so I can encourage myself to be responsible and get stuff done… so I’ll try to start posting what I’ve done and plan to do…

I’m planning to walk every day… Right now, I have a course that’s approximately 0.9 miles in length – closest I can get to a mile without going over (when I’m able to increase, I have a 1.11 mile alternative)...

Yesterday, I walked it in 23 minutes, for an average speed of 2.35mph. Today I decided to try and walk the fastest comfortable pace I could walk, and completed it in approximately 17 minutes, for an average speed of about 3.18mph.

My plans for today:
1. Try to stay awake
2. Get Loopy programming done
3. Get a bit of math done
4. Plan meals for a few days
5. Grocery shop
6. Cook dinner
7. Continue to try and find movies for Wrath of Con… still no leads, thus far.

I wish I could get the violin to sound a bit more natural… meh. So I’m going to release this anyway.

Listen now: Down the Old Country Road (mp3) (or ogg)

YouTube – Pak96comic prev.
I’m jazzed that my music is well liked enough to use!

And there’s a small chance that if we can get OGG support in Simutrans, I might have to sit down and really polish my music up—maybe it might be distributed with Simutrans! I really hope so, because it would completely rock my world.

Video from pak96.comic for Simutrans.

This one uses Guitar II, which is a WIP, but apparently good enough for the vid. I guess this means I should really come back and work on this one, eh?

This one has a lengthy intro. A lot of my music has lengthy intros; in fact, the main issue is that a lot of my music will be longer than it is now… I really like trance songs that go on for a long time, so what do I do?

The intro works well with a nice loud bass (i.e. good headphones or full-size speakers)...

This is definitely not one for the impatient, as there’s a lot of repetition. But I find such to be calming, and good background music to work while listening…

Listen Now: Cosmic Glide

Posting some of my newer music. This one I want to come back and rework a little – the flanger is slightly strong…

Listen now: Yes

...which is latin for “no worries”. I was just trying to think of what I wanted to express with the title here… I wanted something evoking a bit of mystery, and possibly generic religion-in-a-large-echoey-space… that seemed to fit the bill.

It needs a bit of polish, but I’m happy enough with it to release for now, at least.

Listen Now: Nullus Anxietas

Guitar II – just messing around with trying to get a decently realistic guitar sound. It’s difficult on this laptop and with this keyboard…

But I’m also playing around with those two phrases… Haven’t figured out where to take them yet, which is annoying me, because I really want to take them somewhere. Meh. I’ll figure it out in time…

The first phrase in particular reminded me of Railroad Tycoon II music – so much so that I had to go listen and make sure I wasn’t plagiarizing. I’m not, but I can tell which two of the songs did inspire me…

Listen Now: Guitar II

Finally getting around to uploading some videos… Stopped at the Ballard Locks last weekend and caught two boats being lifted:

So, that’s in Seattle, Washington, where I’m at for three months in Spring 2009…

If you’d like to see the video in high quality, here’s the link to it on YouTube: Click here and then look for the “HD” icon at the bottom of the video window…

So I’ve been working on music again… In fact, I’d done some stuff back in 2007, but real life got in the way… But now I have a setup again, and I’ve been working…

This is not the first I’ve done – in fact, it’s the latest… but I thought I’d give you a peek anyway…

Please note that I haven’t determined what kind of license to use, so for now, I retain full copyright, and I allow you to download this for your personal listening. I do not grant any rights to use it in any projects without my express written consent. And I’ll have to take the time to write up a real license at some point, I suppose.

Meanwhile, check it out:

Listen Now: Deep Underground

Feel free to let me know what you think. I’m curious for feedback.

Tamales at last! Tamales at LAST! Thank goddess almighty, I’ve tamales at last!

Okay, okay, I know, that’s abusing the quote – and my apologies to Rev. King; I mean no disrespect, but I truly am excited—I HAVE TAMALES!

I finally thought to poke my head in a little hole-in-the-wall Mexican market to see what they had – and sure enough, they have… well… it’s not even a restaurant, it’s a counter. They sell a couple of platters and tacos… and sure enough, they do tamales every Saturday.

I also got some ancho jalapenos (smoky and not too hot) to play with. And they had bottled Mexican Coke and Senoral—if you ever find Senoral, GET SOME. It’s sangria-flavoured (no alcohol) soda, and it’s awesome. Sugar, no corn syrup…

When I stopped by on Thursday, I got three tacos while I was there – fantastic! Real street-vendor style tortillas with pork, onion (which I had to pick off – can’t eat raw onion), and cilantro, with some HOT HOT salsa. yummy!

So I just picked up the tamales, and I’ve had a few – and I’m about to have a few more – oh, I’m overeating today, but it’s okay every so often…

What’s odd, to me—these are chicken tamales. I mean, I guess you can do whatever you want with the basic recipe—I was worried when I opened the first one and saw that (When I ordered, I didn’t even ask what kind – even BAD tamales, I wanted two dozen!)... and the first one was a little mushy, so I thought “meh, decent tamales…”—but the others have all been quite good, and I have upgraded my opinion. These aren’t the BEST tamales I’ve ever had, but they are quite good. Definitely above average. Worth every penny.

It says something about the power of Ike that we’re this far away from the storm and seeing effects. Winds have been gusty off and on, and we’ve seen a few storms move through in the outer bands and inflow… but also some coastal flooding:

It’s….. soooo….. ssssllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..........................
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/atcf_web/image_archives/2008/al062008.08082218.gif

Can’t keep it a secret any longer. Actually, I’ll let the video do the talking…



As soon as IsaacForPresident.com propagates, I’ll have my platform laid out there, as well as the start on fundraising.

Not quite, I suppose… but a cat fell asleep on an ambulance, and had to go along for the ride – they only noticed the poor thing when they arrived at the emergency call, and it mewed. Aww!

Link:

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/08/22/6423_local-news.html

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