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| Most of you know that I thoroughly enjoy playing the classic Oregon Trail game. Due to this (me liking, not you knowing), I almost started working on a game amazingly similar to this one. It's written up in one of my notebooks somewhere. I'll check it out and update after work. Have a nice day! -tim edit: Here's what I had written in my notebook! 6/29/7 Oregon Trail - keep people entertained/awake - must stay fed - keep gas in car - swap drivers? - stuck behind truck (or heavy traffic) to lose time [drawing of status bars] • bladder • energy • entertainment • morale • hunger • comfort | |
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|  | I'm sitting in front of my computer monitor, pleasantly operating my computer via computer peripherals such as a mouse and keyboard. Suddenly, WHAM! BIRD WINDOW ATTACK! Such an event has understandably startled me, as the attacked window is roughly 3 feet to my left and in my peripheral vision. If you are familiar with my room, it's the window closest to my computer. (There are three windows in my room.)
Okay, bird attack over. Rest easy. Or will it be like that one time a few weeks ago where there must have been ten or more bird attacks throughout the morning/mid-afternoon? Additionally, it's rather nice out and many of the household windows are open, though fitted with screens as to prevent large insect invasions at night. Smaller insects manage to bypass this security measure and often attack my computer monitor, likely attempting to suck out its energy in order to become larger and more powerful. With the aforementioned size and power increase, they would proceed to kill/eat me, chupacabra style. Anyway, yes - screens on windows. Sometimes I fear that the birds will throw a curve ball and aim for the screen instead of the window and fly so fast that their sharpened, piercing beaks, traveling at blistering speeds, slice through the screen - resulting in a bird entering the household. Oh crap, what could we do then? Nothing. We'd have to move out and allow the bird to enjoy its new kingdom.
There must be something very interesting on the roof. Ever since new shingles were applied to said roof, I have noticed birds flying up and perching on the gutter. Their tail feathers hang over the gutter's edge, taunting me. Sometimes they will ascend beyond the gutter to completely unknown areas of the roof. It's an obvious conclusion that either the new shingles are made with bird seed or the roofers sprinkled bird seed on the roof, like a police officer sprinkles crack cocaine on a crime scene. Oh man, two lj entries mentioning crack cocaine in a row! yesss.
Attempting to temporarily scare away some birds, I open the non-screened window and rap a Lazy Stick™ against the gutter. As expected, most birds in sight flutter away from the sound. Minutes later, WHAM! BIRD WINDOW ATTACK!! Same window. I'm equally as startled and decide to lower the blinds, but not close them. Will that help prevent future bird attacks? Only time will tell.
To learn more about bird window attacks, visit the University of Florida Bird Collisions with Windows web page.
-tim |
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|  | Today I was sent out a few times for various errands during my day of work, one of which was a trip to Walgreens to buy a spindle of blank DVD-Rs. Luckily for my employer, the DVDs were on sale - only $8.99 for a 25-pack! Oh boy! The transaction was completed and I walked back out to my car.
As I open the door of my vehicle, a voice chimes out from behind and asks if I would listen. Turning around, I see that the voice was of an uncomfortably thin female who is in her late 30s. She suggests I look at her feet. My first thought: "She's trying to distract you! Don't look!" Good job, brain. I continue to not look at her feet and proceed to close the door of my car. Still outside my vehicle and staying polite, I listen to the female explain she is not from around here and wants a ride to the bus station. As she inches closer, I back up and to keep over an arm's reach between us. There's no way I'm going to let her in my car. I explain that I need to get back to work and apologize that I would not be helping. Seemingly desperate, she claims that she only needs to get to 159th street (or something like that) and mentions that the sun will be going down soon. After a few more "no"s from me and a foolish suggestion of walking, she backs up a bit and becomes pouty. I suggest that she ask someone else (there are a lot of cars in the parking lot) and finally get her to go away.
Let's make up stories about what would have happened if I let this female (who possibly does crack cocaine) into my car!
-tim |
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|  | Yesterday I took some pictures of a bowl of Cheerios in order to put a product on my cereal box design. I used three different bowls of different colors and sizes in order to get a nice selection. After choosing the best photo, it was modified to change the cereal color to something more like what Raccoon Os would look like and the bowl was edited as well. After that was added to the design, I finished up the rest! I am still open for suggestions to make it look better.
( L@@K! )
-tim |
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|  | The last two weeks I've been working freelance for a packaging company in Chicago, putting labels onto bottles of sales samples of a product. Since I signed a confidentiality agreement before beginning work there, I will not give any further detail regarding the product. 11,000 bottles later (other people were doing it too), the job was complete and they like me. I received a call on Friday about starting full time work there doing other things - working across different areas of the company, including design. Further details will possibly be discussed during a later phone call on (possibly) Wednesday, and I assume I will begin work the following week.
Desiring to brush up my Adobe® Illustrator® skills, I decided to make a cereal box. The first thing that came to my head was "Raccoon Eyes", an energy cereal loaded with sugar and caffeine (possibly a coffee-flavored cereal?) with the intent to remove your "raccoon eyes" - as in baggy eyes from being tired and not being punched in the face. The cereal would be dark-colored and 8-shaped. Unfortunately, I don't think that it's a very good product name and might go with "Raccoon Os" instead. I am open to suggestions.
( check it out so far )
-tim |
- tags!!:design, work
- mood!!:accomplished but not french
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|  | Yes, how fun, a theme for this entry. (It's cutting in case you didn't read the title.) Don't get worried, though, there will be no mention of intentional self-destructive cutting from this point on. Right here.
Earlier this slightly afternoon, I was preparing a lunch for myself: peanut butter and banana slices on wheat bread. Very tasty. While slicing (cutting!) the banana, I noticed that I was using the wrong side of the knife to do the cutting. Whoops! Oh, and no, not the handle end but rather the non-blade side of the bladed end. Naturally, upon noticing this I switched to the regular side. It is unknown how long I was using the knife incorrectly.
Cutting thing number two: I cut (cut!) my hairs today. Because it's summer, I cut it slightly shorter than the past few times. It's not current Andy hair short (or at least as of when I last saw it) but ... whatever, I used a #4 "blade" for the sides. Apparently I'm getting better at using the barber scissors because I only accidentally nipped my knuckles twice and I also finished the haircut in what seemed like record time. Woo yeah.
-tim |
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|  | My SNES is well. It is happy. I believe this is so because it knows it's going to be getting some action tonight.
With Resident Evil 4 beaten for the 7th time, and a still sick Wii (which has yet to be sent in because I haven't gotten the shipment sticker thingy yet), I have chosen my Thursday night game to be what is quite possibly my favorite game: Super Mario World. A couple years ago I played this game every day for most of the summer. That was pretty great. Tonight's mission is to complete it in a "regular" fashion, but not necessarily get 96*. Over 11 and 32 for sure, though. edit: I ended up getting 96*
*Different topic*
While the mysterious arm circles have disappeared as of yesterday at the latest, a patch of bumpy occasional itchiness lives on at the palm side of my right wrist. I've been doing a fairly good job of self-control and refraining myself from scratching. Yesterday I applied some "Calahist Clear Lotion" which potentially helped. Such product is readily available in the bathroom I frequent because a couple years ago I was attacked by poison ivy and left it medically untreated for quite some time. It proceeded to become pretty bad. Later, I visited a doctor and received some medication that was splendid. hooray.
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