http://kim.nexgaming.net

See ya around!

It’s up! There’s still a bit of work I need to do (visually and textually)! But, yay! It’s up! So please visit if you’d like.

And, Happy Easter!
(Although I know the drive home was probably horrific!)

<3

“Het werk“ is Dutch for “work”…
Funny, doesn’t it sound so much similar to “hate work”?!

[THE CURRENTLIES]

• Mood / Irritated & lethargic
• Location / Work Office
• Drink / Coca Cola
• Thought / “WP-cache” my ass… and wtf SQL.
• Ambience / Taekwondo school… do the math.
• Software / iMovie ‘08, Adobe Acrobat Professional, NeoOffice, & Adobe Illustrator CS3

[Nexus Gaming (Inc.)] / To those of you who not may have known, I own a small business, specifically an s-corporation. Period. I’ll leave it at that. Well, I’ve been working on the physical/digital aspects of it recently–website, blog, forums, etc… and my gawd, I didn’t think that everything that went so well could go wrong so fast.

Our site blog decided to shit itself about 3 times for 3 different errors; coding errors, of course. I’m taking a break from fixing it this 3rd time. I’m never clicking the WP-cache link ever ever ever ever ever again.

I also have to do a bit of video editing here and there. (Did I mention I hate iMovie ‘08?) I just have a lot of work to do in general… and everything is just… everywhere… lol. o_o”

[THE GRAPHICS BLOG] / I’m working on a graphics blog. I need one. I figured why not blog about my main skill and hobby? Tutorials, freebies, blogging, you know it. I’m not sure when it’ll be up. But soon. I decided to make it a sub-domain off my business site: http://kim.nexgaming.net. It’s just a Coming Soon page right now. But, yeah, I can’t wait to get it up and running. The Nexus site goes first, of course.

[A FRIENDLY REMINDER] / Since it’s an “off ” year, it’s Easter this Sunday. I forgot too, it’s ok. Easter egg hunt at my parents, ftw. Ain’t I such a kid? ^_^

[KUMA THE SHIBA INU] / I’ll have to admit, my Kuma gets more exposure than I do, lol. I guess that’s good. He’s a favorite on Flickr supposedly. I didn’t think people would mind his photos much, but I was wrong. It’s nice, I’m glad they love Kuma through his pictures just as much as I love him in person. He is a snappy little punk when he wants to be though. Too bad he doesn’t know how many people like him.

[SUPER SMASH CAKE] /

Just click it, yeah?

[THE CURRENTLIES]
Mood / Tired and ill
Food / Quaker Oats
Listening / A plane passing overhead & Carey’s (roommate’s) punk rock blasting through the wall.
Location / The apartment living room couch.
Hair / Up in a bun of nonchalance
Downloading / A new web browser called Camino for my Mac (knowing that I already have Flock, Safari, Firefox, & Opera; I’m testing for the best two)
Destination / Ontario Airport around 6pm

I realize how my blog post topics aren’t very liquid, instead more sporadic with a few outliers: this includes “hi” & “I’m bored”. I don’t know why. Maybe because I really treat my WordPress as if it was a real journal, not necessarily here to update on news or anything of the sort. You get general updates on moi. That’s it. Interesting enough?

Here’s a spot of randomosity: a comparison between two of me (along with shitty quick-style Photoshopness)!

Picture on the left: mid sophomore year in high school (so technically, it’s 2001, not 2002). Picture on the right: December of last year. Yeah, the orange hair? Uh… let’s just say my sophomore year was the one (and possibly ONLY) year that I went hair-dying crazy. I guess the color you see here is the “Gwen Stefani” of all that dying. My hair was coming out all sorts of colors. It seemed like forever until all that color grew out. My hair used to be jet-ish black until high school. Nowadays, I haven’t dyed my hair because I don’t want to kill my roots anymore than I have. The color has changed due to dying and constant sun exposure. Now you can see a reddish brown in it when I’m in the sun when is used to just be black.

And what the hell am I wearing around my neck in the left picture? That necklace… I don’t recognize it. I’m looking through all of the other photos taken of me that day… and I still can’t put my finger on it. But, my gawd, I look like a high school girl-girl and look at that Nokia cell phone I’m holding in my hand. That thing is gigantor! It’s the size of my house phone! … Man, I can recall how “kewl” I felt holding that phone back in the day… with it’s annoying midi ringtones.

Whuh… my smile’s changed a bit. I guess I can thank myself for not wearing my retainers like I should’ve (:sarcasm:). And, my eyebrows are thicker? LOL … Well! I dunno, to me it’s like the only thing that changed was my hair (and other things that happen because of growth ^_^). Is that a good thing? What’s hilarious is that I haven’t growth an inch in height since then. Just peachy.

Anyway, I woke up late again (cliché start, I know). I kinda fell in and out of sleep in the morning between 11am & 2pm. Lazy weekend, I suppose. It feel good to catch up on my rest though. I’ve lost a lot of it last week. I guess I feel a little more energized, but still lethargic.

I’ve made mental plans to purchase/adopt another dog in the not-so-distant future, yet when affordable: another Japanese breed, because once you’ve got a Japanese breed, you’ve basically had all Japanese breed. Funny how the Shiba Inu happens to be the smallest of them all with the biggest macho attitude. My luck?

I’ve been wanting to get Kuma (a Shiba, of course) a friend to have at home so he’s not so entirely bored when we’re all busy doing our own thing. Although, we might be getting a cat — well, my roommate might be getting a cat over the summer when his girlfriend finally moves here. Anyhoo, the breed I’ve been looking into is called the Kai Ken, or Taro Dog (“Tiger Dog”). Looks like a Shiba, but always a dark, black splotchy color, and a couple to few inches taller, including a better attitude, lol.

Bear like isn’t it? A very rare breed, I would have to say. Took me an hour to find a consistent breeder. Closest one? Michigan.

Kuma is from Missouri…. *sigh*

Can’t sleep, but here…

I have been having an itch for DOS games. The old point-and-click/text adventures like Monkey Island, Quest series, Discworld, Leisure Suit Larry, and so on. I grew up with these games, especially the King’s Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest series.  I had downloaded Monkey Island 4 for Mac, but unfortunately since I have Leopard installed, Classic mode no longer runs, so I kinda screwed myself over with that until I decide to downgrade to Tiger again.

So… I downloaded DOSBox which is a DOS emulator for all you Abandonware lovers. It works perfect actually, sound and graphic quality. Not too long ago I was playing Teen Agent.

It’s great really. I’ve been downloading a lot of games since I got it. I’m kinda in the mood for old school I guess. I can’t wait to get my hands on Discworld. I love that game.

So, if you’re into Abandonware and you own a Mac, I suggest downloading this besides going through SheepShaver, etc (unless your game can only run on Mac).

Anyway, yeah, lol… I’m happy.

To any of you who know, I have this great deal of sarcasm. It’s a joking sarcasm where I’m never serious unless I’m aggravated. I would usually give a blank stare and go back to what I’m doing.

While I was at work yesterday, bored out of my mind initially after getting my software installed AND working (thank God!) I started drawing a stick figure that somewhat resembled me. Then I ended up drawing to stick figures sitting at a table together. I’m on my laptop and the other guy is talking to me, supposedly a friend.

Then, last night, I started messing around with the scenario thinking about what the dialogue would be. I typed one sentence for the guy, like “hi” and left my side blank. I realized how I figured out how I was going to do it. Adam and Carey thought it was funny because it fit who I was: silently sarcastic.

So, I think about doing one a day, or one every time I blog. It’s always going to be the same panel same to people, same setting, although I might change it up here and there. And mind you, this whole comic was born out of an inside joke, hence the title “Cynical Sticks” so it’s okay if you don’t find them funny. Lol. I don’t care.

So.

Having Leopard has caused me a great deal.  I couldn’t run my graphics software (Adobe).  I’ve been on a search for Leopard patches to get my version to work.  I think I found it, so I should be good actually.  [UPDATE]  I found a patch what worked so now I can use Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. It just took me more time than I needed to.

Adam won the Smash tourney on Saturday.  So he brought home a free copy of Smash for the house.  We’ve been playing it since.  It’s a good game.  You wouldn’t believe which character I’ve picked up on.  I dunno if I would call him my main just yet.  I still need to work out the kinks with Samus and see how she is.

Besides that, I’m exhausted.

Ok, so… I got my laptop back about an hour ago! … Now I’m at work, of course.

They ended up installing Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 for me instead of Tiger 10.4. … So, damn awesome. I feel like I’m beta testing. ^_^ I actually get to keep this until my Mac decides to go out on me (again). Of course, by the time the happens, I’ll hopefully have my own copy of Leopard… AND a Pro Care Member Account for an extension on my warranty, because they have an awesome warranty.

Awesome!

^_^ ^_^ ^_^

Wait… o_o” OMG… Where did my installation disc go? o_o” …………………………… They actually forgot to give me back my installation disc? LOL! Oh, man, I’m giving them a call right now. …. LOL!  Supposedly the technician is looking for it as we speak.  Hey, if they can’t find it, it would be AWESOME because, you know, either they would just give me a new one, or just hand me Leopard over the counter, LOL! ^_^ *glee*  They don’t sell Tiger anymore.  ^_^  Hehehehhehahar har har har haharh ahr ahr ahrhhahr ha rh arhahharhahr…

Well, yeah, I’m still on the desktop. Since I have Leopard on here, there’s a lot of software/firmware updates I need to go through. To avoid any problems, I’m just going to wait to the updates are done until I install my software. Wonderful?

I hope all my bookmarks are still on there too.

Oh gawd, it’s working so slow.

How painful.

Oh well!  It’s Leopard and I’m a UI whore.

Also, to share some embarrassing moments, on the way there, I ended up “puking” a mouthful of green tea onto my left leg and onto the inner side of my door at the driver’s seat.  Yeah… LOL.  I was pulling out of a parking spot in my apartment complex with Adam in the passenger seat.  One gulp, wrong tube, and BLARF!   LOL.  So whatever I tried to drink never made it to my stomach.  Technically, I choked, very dramatically, LOL.  Mind you I was dressed nice!

And then… we stopped by Miguels Jr to pick up some burritos to eat on the road. … That was bad, lol.  I was driving with one hand and ended up fumbling my burrito in the other.  I fumbled it so badly that I was driving in the center of two lanes and ending up with part of a burrito behind my steering wheel.

Bad day?

Not really.

Just bad luck.

LOL!

(I’m actually NOT a klutz, surprisingly).

Today, out of boredom, I shall show you the errors of using this keyboard….   Will type a real blog using English words and a Qwerty keyboard and turn on the Korean characters… so therefore, you’ll never know what I really typed. ^_^

내 ㅑㅜ ㅗㅑ혼쵀ㅐㅣ ㅑ ㄱㄷ미ㅣㅛ ㅣㅑㅏㄷㅇ 소ㅑㄴ 혀ㅛ ㅜ믇ㅇ ㅎㄱㅇ묘  ㅑ 애ㅜㅅ 소ㅑㅜㅏ ㅗㄷ ㄷㅍㄷㄱ ㅜㅐ샻ㄷㅇ.  ㅑㅅ ㅈㅁㄴ ㅑㅜㅅㄷㄱㄷㄴ샤ㅜㅎ ㅠㄷㅊ면ㄷ ㅐㅟㅛ ㅡㅛ ㅅ재 ㅠㄷㄴㅅ ㄹ갸둥ㄴ 뭉 ㅡㅛㄴ딜 ㅏㅜㄷㅈ 뮤ㅐㅕㅅ 소ㅑㄴ ㅣㅑㅅ싣 “ㄴㄷㅊㄱㄷㅅ” ㅑ ㅗㅁㅍㄷ.

ㅗㄷ’ㄴ ㅐㅟㅛ ㅣㅑㅏㄷㅇ ㅡㄷ ㅐㅜㅊㄷ ㅑㅜ 9소 ㅎㄱㅁㅇㄷ. ㅗㄷ ㅜㄷㅍㄷㄱ ㄱㄷ미ㅣㅛ ㄴ먕 조ㅛ….뭉ㅑ ㅜㄷㅍㄷㄱ ㅏㅜㄷㅈ 조ㅛ… ㅑㅅ ㅈㅁㄴ ㅓㅕㄴㅅㅁ ㅣㅑㅅ싣 ㅠㅐㅛ ㅊ겨노 ㅗㄷ ㅗㅁㅇ ㅠㅁ차 소두.

ㅜㅐㅈ ㅈㄷ’ㄱㄷ ㅓㅕㄴㅅ ㄹ갸둥ㄴ.  뭉 ㅑ’ㅡ 채ㅡㅔㅣㄷㅅ디ㅛ ㅗ메ㅔㅛ 쟈소 솜ㅅ.  ㅑ ㅜㄷㅍㄷㄱ ㄱㄷ미ㅣㅛ ㅈ뭇ㄷㅇ ㅁ ㄱ딤샤ㅜ노ㅑㅔ 쟈소 ㅗㅑㅡ 새 ㅠㄷ햐ㅜ 쟈소.   ㅑ 혇ㄴㄴ ㅑ ㅗㅁㅇ ㅡㅛ ㅐ주 ㅣㅑㅅ싣 햐기 ㅊ겨노 ㅐㅜ ㅗㅑㅡ 새ㅐ!

쫌ㅅ’ㄴ ㅕㅔ ㅑㄴ 솜ㅅ ㄻㅊㅅ ㅗㄷ ㅓㅕㄴㅅ ㅁ낟ㅇ ㅡㄷ 갸홋 ㅜㅐㅈ ㅐㅍㄷㄱ 먀ㅡ ㅑㄹ ㅑ ㅣㅑㅏㄷㅇ ㅗㅑㅡ ㅠㅁ차 ㅑㅜ ㅗㅑ호 ㄴ쵀ㅐㅣ.

….. ㅑ 쇄ㅕ홋 ㅑ ㅡㅁㅇㄷ ㅑㅅ ㅐㅠ퍄ㅐㅕㄴ 조두 ㅑ 양.   ㅑ 혇ㄴㄴ ㅜㅐㅅ.  ㅣㅒㅣ!

Ok, I typed everything above me about “something” and typed on the keyboard just as if the Korean characters weren’t on.  Using Babelfish.Altavista.com to translate.  Everything above comes out to:

Inside soul America smallness tongue grave child smallness. sya Cotton re-kya Doong Moong til myu smallness Sid “”. ‘ 9 smallness. America myang trillion…. Moong trillion… Sid chaff scull car smallness two. ‘ kya Doong. Moong ‘ not yet the D maul cya the smallness cotton. America mwus tim sya scull cya smallness bird hya cya smallness. gong week Sid hya flag chaff scull bird! ccom ‘ cotton Nad kya Hos mya car Hu.

….. sway Hos phya 1000000000002 sheep. gong. !

LOL!!!!!!  Wow, in that case, I guess you’ll just never know!  HAHAH!

[Bored.]