Caught In The Whirlwind
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Been A While
Mar 4th 2011
It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated here. I’ve just been busy and haven’t felt like writing so much about myself.
General Life Update
The house that my roommates put in an offer for that I mentioned in my christmas post was accepted and they’ve gone all the way through the entire process to where they’re waiting for the closing date. The deadline in the contract is March 16th, so there will be a house by that date assuming all goes well. Just need to wait for the relevant people to get together to actually close. I’ve been spending time packing and such the past couple of weeks so that’s been fun. We’re moving out of this hell-hole of an apartment at the end of the month.
As it turns out, so is everybody else. Our downstairs neighbor moved out over the weekend and the people across the hall are looking to move too. Must be because of our neighbors from hell. Ugh. Anyway, it’ll soon be over with.
School Stuff
We’re in the middle of another school semester and as I think I may have mentioned here, I’m taking General Drawing this time out. It’s going about as well as expected considering I don’t really have any drawing skills to speak of. Half the class is perspective drawing and the other half is still life. The perspective stuff is a lot of fun for me since it’s all creating a composition, measuring and then drawing it out. I can do that sort of thing. Still life is…touch and go. Some weeks are better than others.
In other news, two of my photographs from last semester ended up being shown in the MVCC Faculty Select student art show.
I was hopeful that I could get something in but the deadline had unknowingly passed and the show was coming up. I spoke with my instructor and she managed to sneak these two into the show. If you’re local and want to swing by, it’s in the Information Technology and Theather building on the Utica Campus on the second floor. Tuesday-Friday 1pm to 6pm until April 7th. My roommate has a lot of stuff in there this year as well.
New Toy
And last, but not least, I have a new technological toy to play with! If you’ve seen my facebook status updates at all, you’ll probably know this already, but I’ve purchased a brand new Apple Macbook Pro.
My old laptop was the original Macbook Pro from 2006, bought a week or so after they first came out. It was still performing all right, especially in non game tasks but it was starting to fall apart and the wireless was REALLY spotty (aka, works fine one minute, next needs to be within 3 feet of the router in order to pick up a signal). It was time to put it out to pasture, as good of a laptop as it had been for me over the years. With Apple being rumored to update their laptop lineup relatively soon, I hunkered down and waited.
Finally the day came and I pounced on the store as soon as it came up and came away with an order for a new laptop. The spec bumps in the 15″ MacBook Pros were…incredibly impressive. I came away with a 15″ MacBook Pro with a 2.2ghz quad core sandy bridge i7, 4GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon 6750m with 1GB of memory, the 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive option and the high res (1680×1050) anti-glare display.
It was delivered on Wendsday and all I have to say is, OMG this thing is FAST. I haven’t been able to find anything I do that really taxes it yet and when I boot into windows for games…wow. I’m playing Half Life 2 with everything enabled at over 100+ FPS at 1680×1050. City of Heroes with ultra mode enabled for almost everything works silky smooth. I’m REALLY impressed by the graphics card they put into these as historically apple tends to skimp on graphics.
I’m VERY happy with my purchase. This thing should last me another 5 years. Sure they’re expensive laptops, but if I’m only getting a new one every 4-5 years, it works out pretty well.
Evil Schemes…Revealed
Jan 31st 2007
I think I may have the coolest friends. One of which has been “scheming” for the past week or so. She’s generally not very good at keeping the fact that she’s working on something a secret, but she’s really, really good at hiding exactly what she’s doing.
For the past week she’s been dropping hints, trying to throw me off. Paper cuts were quickly explained away as “trying to outline the scheme for future generations to admire” or something similar. She had planned on swinging by my place last night on her way home from work to complete the scheme, but I foiled it by going out to dinner with my parents. She then lead me to believe it was something time-limited due to the fact she actually made an almost special trip (not exactly on her way home from where she was anyway) later in the night.
Crafty.
As it turns out, it was a drawing (she’s the artistic type) of my favorite character that I play in City of Heroes. With Penguins!! I had suspected something similar was coming, but then she kept throwing me just a little bit off balance, and with her…who knows what’s going to happen next? 
She’s really the master of thoughtful gifts, just when they’re needed most. I’m not sure I really conveyed exactly how much I appreciated it when she was over last night, since, for me, things like this tend to need a little time to sink in, but I love it. I’d have taken a picture but…well…crappy camera phone really wouldn’t have done it much justice, so too bad! It’s all color pencil-y…and did I mention the penguins?!? (As anyone who, for some reason, might actually be reading this regularly knows, I’m quite fond of Penguins)
Anyway, I need to get a frame now. Thankfully the person who was in this apartment before I was was also a bit artistic, and enjoyed hanging her creations on the walls…so I don’t really have to make too many new holes when I want to go hang stuff.
Oh, and the reason she made it seem like it had to be given last night or the whole thing would have been ruined? Partly to throw me off the trail, partly because she’d probably just come out with it and tell me eventually. Kinda like me actually. I can’t keep things I’m doing for other people a secret…I want to tell somebody!
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