June 9, 2008

• an uneventful weekend

  Let’s try a boring journal-like post today:

  Last weekend was completely laid back. It was peaceful and quiet in the good kind of way.

  I spent most of the days caught up in browsing the internet and chatting online. Really it’s amazing how much time can be wasted just online. I wasn’t even doing much Xanga-ing which we all know can be a huge time sink. Nor was I playing facebook games which can be similarly addictive. Or any online games. I was just browsing the web. Just browsing and reading and chatting and downloading. That’s it. That was the entire weekend.

  OK so that’s not ALL I did this weekend. I managed to run some necessary errands, pay my bills, clean up my kitchen and bathroom, and do other tedious day to day activities that bore me to death. It felt good to get them out of my way though. I also wasted a lot of money ordering stuff on ebay. As my friend constantly says, “Ebay is Evil”.

  I don’t really watch TV, but I did manage to watch 1-6 of season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. That show is as crazy and twisted as ever. The weird pseudo-religious themes that have been present all along are becoming even stronger now.  And I have no idea what is going to happen next which is just the way I like it. It’s a good show. Dark as hell though and I understand why a lot of people hate it.

  I also watched the last couple of episodes of Bleach to be fan subbed. The stupid fillers continue. -_-   But these fillers aren’t as bad as the last filler arc at least. And no where near as bad as Naruto fillers.

  I read some too. I finished Card Captor Sakura manga part one on Friday and that was beautiful and awesome and I loved it. I also finished Chobits manga on Saturday.  That… I don’t know. I think I need to write a whole entry just on it. I found it unsettling overall.  I tried to read some Clamp School and X/1999 on Sunday but I couldn’t really get into it. I think maybe I’ve reached my clamp limit for a while. Luckily I have a lot of other Manga I can read.

  I found out D&D 4E came out. I’ve been out of it so I didn’t really notice. I haven’t played in a long time. I downloaded the new version to take a look though. I haven’t had a chance to look at it, but I’m sure I will derive hours of amusement reading the hate filled bile spewed at the creators of D&D on the D&D related forums. That’s always fun.

  On Sunday one of my online friends convinced me to do some online roleplaying with them. Now I’ve only role played online a couple of times before so I had no idea what I was doing really. But it was fun nonetheless. Really similar to collaborative story telling and brainstorming ideas together for books, something I love to do and I’m always trying to get my other friends to do more of.

  This time we did a weird Naruto alternate reality role play. [Begin Spoilers] Basically we had Sakura die during the Sasuke retrieval arc. But this death keeps Sasuke from joining with Orochimaru. He feels deeply guilty over her death. Also casualties include Kiba, Tenten, Kankuro, and Chouji’s Dad. And Kakashi is missing and presumed to be dead. All of this happened when the Kyuubi got unleashed and during the fight with Orochimaru and much of Konoha was devastated.  But Orochimaru was eventually defeated and killed by Naruto and Sasuke working together.  And three years later, Konoha is plagued by constant war, Hinata and Ino have been training directly under Tsunade and Naruto and Sasuke have been training directly under Jiraya.  All of the characters have been radically changed mentally and emotionally by the events of the past and radical change is about to occur. [End Spoilers]

  I know it’s a pretty clumsy plot line but it was the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment.  But it was fun to role play the mission assignment and all that which is all we got through yesterday. I’m looking forward to continuing it, but I also want to get back to some of the more original stories I’ve been working on and come up with some more. Not sure when I’ll have time to do it all.

  It was weird also that a bunch of people I hadn’t heard from in a while happened to contact me again. Old friends and family. I missed most of the phone calls though. But I answered emails and chats at least a little. Not sure what it was about last weekend that made everyone feel like reaching out to me. But then I guess it rubbed off cuz I reached out to another friend who I hadn’t heard from in a while that weekend too. I probably shouldn’t have though.

  I still haven’t set up my video game consoles. And I’ve got a lot of packages I’m supposed to mail out that I haven’t done. But I was feeling really lazy about it this weekend. I’m also suppsoed to be fixing computers. And I did do a little of work on that, but  not a lot. It’s annoying cuz I need  to  disconnect my internet  connection to work on it and I hate being disconnected. I’ll probably try to finish that today and tomorrow though.

  I was taught a little lesson on smileys and how to read music. Heh. Two things I should have known a lot about a long time ago. I felt stupid learning these things now but I was grateful to have someone actually be willing to explain it to me.    The same person also tried to teach me how to let go… but I haven’t really learned that lesson completely quite yet.

  I burned a bunch of music CDs and ripped a bunch of music CDs I borrowed too. The ones I burned were mostly utada hikaru CDs and a few others.

  And I ate pizza all weekend long and slept a lot.

  That’s pretty much the entirety of my weekend.

  Overall it was a good weekend.

  And now back to work.

  • 10:19 am
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