Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Much to my surprise I was able to search for OA in the iTunes podcast directory and have it come up. I assumed that my long period of inactivity would mean that I’d have to resubmit a feed since they’d purge it or something. Anyway, I wouldn’t leave that as the only way of getting the old episodes so you can stop e-mailing me about the archives since they are public again! Did I mention that these are old episodes? Cause they are very, very old. And not great. But there they are and most of the download links, minus YouTube, should be working. I never actually moved any of the files off the server so if you had the feed saved anywhere or knew the episode structure then they were always available to download but now this takes the guess work out of it.
As I say on the OpenAlpha front page, please don’t read anything into this :)
Wheee, that was fun… not. Every time I think that the pain is all well and gone I get a massive headache. Meh. At least I really do have peace and quiet here in res. Too quiet. The only sound for most of the day was my own singing. It’s beautiful and snowy out here and I was very productive and dusted and swept and mopped and went to the gym. I also made the mistake of saying hello to some friends and ended up nearly losing some body parts as a result. Wow. Never talk to teacher candidates when they are stressed. Severe injury up to and including death may occur. Thankfully, not all my friends went nuts this week and I spent a lovely evening rocking out with Nathan and Manny in my first world tour. Since I lent the game to them for a bit it’s not on my gamertag but later on I will convince them to rock out with me or I’ll learn to sing and drum at the same time (or wimp out and sing and play bass at the same time). You would think it would be easy to get people to play with me but some of my friends, sadly, are:
a) rhythm impaired. Not entirely though since I think I can teach anyone to play but they are just too embarrassed to play in front of other people and thus don’t want to try. So that’s frustrating even though you can tell that they do want to get better and do enjoy it. The trick is getting them alone so they can practice without random judgment but these opportunities are infrequent at best. Or I have to get them drunk. Personally, I enjoyed the learning process in Rock Band more than 100%-ing songs these days but my friends are all generally high-achievers and, man, some of them do not like not being good at something right away.
b) think video games are stupid and a waste of time and I’m lame for asking them to join our fun. Funny how these are the same people who have no issue with dropping more than the cost of a game on a night’s worth of drinking. There’s not much I can do here to change their minds. It bugs me more than I want to admit that the people in this category are willing to be my friend even though they will never ever give one of my favourite activities a chance. I’d love to game with them but it’s just not gonna happen. When someone from column (a) is very close friends with someone in column (b), that also complicates matters and I try not to make them choose sides since I know they are stuck in the middle :(
c) decent-to-rockin’ gamers but very busy or hesitant to come down and visit me in my wing ’cause apparently we’re all lepers or something. Seriously. I have 3 friends that have been to my room more than once and one of them is my brother. At least when I lend out Rock Band to people on other floors I’m able to game with them, gather a crowd, and not play solo :)
I have a lot of studying to do for my C midterm on Monday and I do plan to use my reading week to actually do some reading, too. It’ll be nice to work ahead in all my texts to save me time later and I want to redecorate my room as well. With my roommate on a trip for the week and all the non-teachers oot and aboot I get to blatantly ignore loud/quiet hours and do my own thing. It is my duty to live it up and live it up I shall. No more playing Crackdown with headphones. The gun shots shall ring out loud and clear along with the endless screeching as I run over more Volk gang members to level up my driving. Nathan lent me Assassin’s Creed so it will be fun to give that a shot this week after I get some studying off my plate. I keep hearing good things about Lost Odyssey and, of course, my brother will never forgive me unless I get Devil May Cry 4 at some point. And here I thought lending out Rock Band would help me get some work done ;)
I love when a plan comes together. My surgery was at 8:45 this morning and even though I had to be conscious for it I knew I didn’t exactly want to be wide awake and aware of every detail. Thus, I didn’t leave Windsor until midnight and with the driving conditions I didn’t hit Toronto until 4:04 am. I stayed up even longer idly flipping through the channels and the next thing I knew my mom was kicking me out of bed to get ready. Turns out I didn’t have anything to worry about. The surgeon was amazing and while I’m not willing to say I had fun during the whole thing it was, far and away, the best surgery I’ve ever been conscious for. I was having issues with nerve damage in my mouth because I’m a moron. Back in high school I was playing lacrosse without a helmet and took a stick square to the jaw because, again, I’m a moron. I protected the ball rather than my face and paid for it. It used to only hurt off and on but the last few months it was almost constant and enough to make my eyes water. I left the doctor’s office feeling like a million bucks. I still feel great even though the local anathestic has long worn off. Smiling causes a bit of a twinge but I know that will fade with time :)
Once I got back to my parents’ place the long drive and lack of sleep this past week finally caught up with me and I blissfully slept for most of the day. Now I get to relax and hopefully sit and write for the weekend before I head back to Windsor to hang with my teacher friends, play video games, and do some serious studying for my C midterm on March 3rd. Also, my roommate (and 90% of the people on campus) will be away so I can be as loud as I darn well please! Woo, I’m gonna sing and drum all week long!
And it’s in C Programming on March 3rd. Crud. I’m officially on my reading week now since I have no Friday classes but I have to drive to Toronto at some point tonight since I’m having surgery tomorrow morning. I’m not exactly looking forward to it. It’s nothing major and will hopefully put an end to this chronic pain I’ve been having for months now but it’s still gonna suck even if it goes flawlessly. I should be a lot happier than I am right now but it’s just one of those days…
