So I just got back from the meteor shower of the century… it’s was very cool… if you didn’t see it, you missed quite a show… if you didn’t see it where I did, you missed even more of a show…

Richard and I decided to drive up on the mountain to get a better view, and apparently, we weren’t the only ones… matter of fact, EVERYONE decided to drive up on the mountain to watch. We got there two hours before the peak and still had trouble finding a parking place and a place to sit down. We finally decided to stay on top of one hill near a parking area. Us and about 300 other people. it was interesting, to say the least… guitars, and several sets of bongo’s provided quite a setting to watch the meteor shower, and let me just say that there was far more alcohol and marijuana than should ever be allowed on the side of a mountain. We found a nice comfortable piece of rock to hurt our backs on and began watching. All I can say is that around the peak time, there were so many in the sky that your eyes couldn’t keep up with them all. Made me wonder if anyone there really knew what they were watching, or do we as a society just take stuff like this for granted these days? Are we so used to technology and such that a natural wonder such as this that would have surely signaled the second coming of Christ a few hundred years ago is now commonplace and boring?

Well, one thing about the alcohol and drugs, it makes people exceptionally stupid. Someone or probably some people climbed all over richard’s car while we were on the hill. they crushed the roof in, and dented the hood and trunk. It creased it and did serious damage to it.. I really would have hated to seen what would have happened to those people if they had been up there when richard got back… instead, the cowards just left an empty case for corona beer near the car.

Later…

So I increased my goth standing a bit tonight.. Went and saw Vampire Hunter D bloodlust at an independent theatre in Denver tonight. I highly recommend this movie to any anime fans, and even those who are not anime fans… Just go see it… I think it was better than the original…

bought stuff today… I owe lots of money now… I think I managed to do all of my Christmas shopping in one day with the exception of one person… I have things being shipped to me from all over the WORLD! I am cool… I Rule.

quote of the day:

“See… you’re not all bad… you just dress bad…” — Left Hand

Well, my role playing group almost met last night… we were short one person… he’ll be over tonight to do character generation… here’s an update on how my group is going to look… I think it’s interesting, and oddly enough, I can see it being quite efficient in my world:

ranger/rogue, rogue, rogue/cleric, cleric/fighter, bard… yeah, I know, the bard is an oddball… here’s the races: mostly human, half-elf, human, dwarf, human..

and now I have to tie all these stories together… fun fun fun….

so it was holloween last night… little kids dressed up in costume and went trick or treating… I sat at home bored and gave out candy to the few people that came by… manda sacrified cats… it’s all good…. just so you know, the world does not end on a blue moon on holloween when the 7 sisters are the highest in the sky… it ends on may 5th, 2004. or was it march 15, 2004? anyway, that’s when 6 planets and the moon all line up and surely that’s bad

So I got yelled at by the professor I’m teaching for… that was fun. the short of it is that two students were cheating and copying, and I called them on it, but I did not follow the official policy, and even though there were extenuating circumstances, it doesn’t matter… I had to formally appologize to the students, and then get away with cheating scott free…. only in america… only in colorado?

so my role playing group is starting to come together… I am so very excited about that I have 5 players, including 4 freshman, and also one girl… this is good… I feel my group is complete I have nailed down 2 character ideas and I’ve started on 2 more. I have no idea about the 5th one. this is what I’ve got so far, and I find it quite an interesting mix… I feel this group will be quite capable of doing what it wants… here’s the breakdown:

ranger/rogue, rogue/cleric, cleric/fighter, fighter/rogue, and ??… the races, respectively are human, human, dwarf, elf and ??…

This is exceptionally interesting as there are NO DWARFS in my world. (yes, tolkien specifically stated in his first edition trilogy that the plural of dwarf was dwarfs… I’m not sure if this convention has changed, but hey, can’t go wrong with tolkien.)

ok… I’m gone for now… I take that back… I first want to leave a warning for a certain little shrimp that keeps insulting my girlfriend… if you keep it up.. well… I leave you with the words of Melissa… I know where you live, I have seen where you sleep, and your women will WEEP when they see what I’ve done to you…

yeah, yeah, yeah… I know it’s been a while… I’ve been semi-busy I’ve had homework, papers to grade, tests to fail, and gran turismo to play Yeah, if you caught that, I failed a test… almost… the teacher gave us 15 points back on the test, so I end up with an 89… much better than it was before…

so Christmas is around the corner it must be… they put Christmas trees up in walmart… a bit early if you ask me, but oh well… so I decided to play along and start my Christmas shopping… I’ve got one of Deedee’s presents picked out… of course right now it’s sitting in Europe, so getting it here is going to be a bit of a problem… I think I may have my family’s big present picked out… can’t say what it is on the remote chance they find this site… yeah, right…

I’ve had several things to rant about recently, but can’t recall what any of them are right now for some reason… better for you, I guess… My DVD’s are mailed ina few hours… I ordered 21 of them, so I’ll have something to watch for a while

umm… I’m bored and have nothing else to write?

ebay is addictive… beware ebay… it’s mind controlling… it will call to you in the middle of the night to check and see if you’re winning you’re auction… it will make you overbid… it will make you auction off your first born child… ok, maybe not, but still, it’s addictive…

ok, I’m gone… later?

p.s. I blogged… happy?

here’s a bit of news… my brother (the same and only 15 year old brother to put me on my knees) walked up to my dad this week and spoke these words: Dad, I wanna play football… I want to play a defensive lineman.. I want to kill quarterbacks. My dad nearly had a stroke of joy… My dad has been drooling at the idea of having a football player in the family, and now he’s getting his wish… here’s a snippet of conversation me and caleb had:

TmberWolff: you gonna play offense or defense?

Gemini9999: defense. gonna flatten quarterbacks

TmberWolff: you have to make it through the offense before you flatten a quarterback

Gemini9999: lol,you’re funny. it will be like walking throungh water to do so

Gemini9999: no issue

TmberWolff: lol… right now,maybe, but what about in high school when the guys are not so small?

Gemini9999: hmmmm…

Gemini9999: little deeper water

TmberWolff: lol

gotta love my brother’s attitude… and what’s sad is it’s probably true… right now, there’s not another kid in the school who could stand up to him…. let’s see what happens when you put him in a uniform and give him a lisence to vent his rage, as he says…

And Manda thought she was a basketcase… check out my problems… …

Results:

Disorder Rating

Paranoid: Low

Schizoid: Moderate

Schizotypal: Moderate

Antisocial: Low

Borderline: Low

Histrionic: High

Narcissistic: Moderate

Avoidant: Moderate

Dependent: Moderate

Obsessive-Compulsive: High

Has it really been over a week since I posted here? wow… I feel lazy all of a sudden… you can’t blame me, though… I mean, if you wrote up a 6 page report on the earth’s radiation belts, followed by 12 pages of matlab code modeling the orbit of the international space station, would you want to follow that up with even a sentence about your life at that moment? especially not when your wrists feel like they’re going to go on strike and leave you at any moment… that’s actually starting to worry me a bit… I’ve tried different typing positions, and nothing seems to help… I may have to go back and relearn the dvorak keyboard layout… I know that will help some, but how much? The thought of surgery has come to mind more than a couple of times in the past few weeks… not that I’m ready to go have someone slice open my wrists, but it’s the only true way to get rid of CTS.

surgery also brought me to an interesting thought… it would be so much easier to be healthier if I was already healthy. Sure, I’d like to lose a few pounds and get back into karate and other stuff, but it’s so hard to get motivated knowing that it will be forever and two days before I see any results or feel any better… I mean, if I could go have liposuction tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow, I’d be in kenpo classes and eating salads for lunch it’s the same principle as it is easier to keep a clean house clean. If you walk into a spotless house and knock something out of place, you immediately fix it.. it’s a reaction.. whereas, if you walked into a pig stye and knocked something over, you probably wouldn’t even notice, and if you did notice, it hardly seems worth the effort to fix it.

in that way, I sort of envy Caleb… he can come home, sit on the couch, watch tv, and eat bread (he eats bread for snacks), and he just grows muscles… he doesn’t work out, but he’s managed to grow enough muscle to put me on the ground… something seems oddly out of place there…

oh well.. guess I need to get to sleep… it’s 3am… I only got 4 hours sleep last night… I’m tired… goodnight

Well, I fell up the stairs, again… This one was a bit of a classic. was talking to richard as I was going up the stairs, and I turned to say something to him just as he turned to look at the tv. When he looked back I was sitting down on the top step of the stairs laughing quietly. He was like, “you fell up the stairs again, didn’t you” and I just bust out laughing. What can I say? They don’t make stairs big enough for my feet.

On a related note, I bought a pair of shoes last weekend. they rang up as “one pair boats”… I was depressed…

On another related note, I bought those shoes in starkville, mississippi… how did I do that from colorado? easy, I flew home for a weekend I didn’t realize how much of a down mood I have been in until I went home. I was running all over the place, fighting with my brother and singing out loud through the house… It’s good to go home.

On yet another related note, October 4th was a historic date that everyone should mark on their calendars… Caleb, my brother who just turned 15 two weeks prior, beat me in a game of mercy. I would like to blame it on my wrists hurting, but anyway you look at it, I pulled a muscle in my bicept trying to over power him, and he promptly put me on one knee and I couldn’t get up no matter how hard I tried. He won… sucks… To make myself feel better, I challenged him to a fight… thinking, well… if I can’t over power him with brute strength anymore, I’ll remind him that I can still fight better than he can… It was an interesting fight… shoulders and legs were fair targets… although, after Caleb knocked my hips out from under me a few times, we called off the legs. I have to say that I tried all 7-something fighting styles I know against caleb, and he still not only held his own, but he jarred my jaw loose a couple of times (literally). To make matters worse, no matter how hard I hit him, he wouldn’t give up. He’s more stubborn than I am. We beat each other until we couldn’t lift our arms anymore, and then mom made us stop… I have more bruises on my arms and forearms than I can count, and from what I heard (I didn’t get to see) caleb’s entire shoulders are that deep bruised green color. I guess I didn’t take into account that caleb would never give up… if it came down to it, I think he’d rather die than give in. oh well…

On a not quite so related note (I don’t know? It seemed like a good trend to keep up)… I got to see deedee while I was home. drove down to state and visited with everyone. It was great… forgotten how much I missed having friends… especially people like brian, sam, lorainne, sarah, and seth… but as I was saying, I got to see Deedee…. Deedee is sexy! If you don’t believe me, take the word of the all the boys I had to beat off her with a stick just so I could spend time with her. She’s got guys chasing after her from every direction… Makes me kinda want to puff out my chest and say, “why yes.. yes I do have a sexy girlfriend”… after I beat the other guys into a pulp, of course The one guy chasing her that is so fond of reminding her that I am 1200 miles away and he is right there actually hid in his room all weekend so I couldn’t find him… smart move if you ask me I was already in a fighting mood, and he’s about 1/4 the size of caleb… wouldn’t have been much fun beating him up, but I could have done it anyway

so now I’m back in boring boulder and there’s nothing to do. My weekend starts today, and the only thing I have planned is watching either iron monkey or the bandits, and probably playing (and beating) Final Fantasy II (or IV, same game) on the Final Fantasy Chronicals CD for playstation… fun stuff, eh?

Welp, I’m gonna stop typing now, so I’ll leave you with the wonderful bit of poetry I thought up this afternoon while in class:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

ok, ok… so maybe lewis carroll helped me a little bit, but it’s still mostly my work… mostly….

well, I know I haven’t written in a while, but with good cause… my CTS is acting up something fierce, and it makes typing quite painful. I can only type about a sentence at a time, and then I have to stop and shake out my hands. so I guess I can’t leave many thought provoking insights into my life right now. Suffice it to say that life is going ok and I am very much looking forward to seeing my Deedee in less than a week now I’m also working on a project putting together a video. I’ve already done the sound editing for it, but the video part is going to be a bit tough for me. My roommate, Richard, is quite good at video editing, so hopefully he’ll help me out a little bit, and maybe I’ll put a little credits thing at the end… directed by me, produced by him? something like that…

ok, enough typing… time to go ice down the wrists…