Up and at'em.

Ok, there was no way I was going to stay in bed all day again today. I didn't go downstairs until like... 9.30 pm last night. And that was for an hour or two. I can do that for a day. more than that is excessive. So, I stayed in bed until about 2 today (didn't wake up in the middle of the night in pain, either), and then got up, took a shower, and put on some clean clothes. So, I'm functioning now. Not that I couldn't have yesterday, but I had no reason to. So, I'm clean and I don't stink anymore. I'm still a little bit high from all the (prescribed! It's in my pain meds) codiene (well, technically it's hydrocodone), but as long as I don't lean over too much I'm fine.

So, it's time for a normal blog post now.

I guess I'll mention a bunch of things that I've been meaning to mention...

New band. 30 Seconds To Mars. This one is also thanks to Kaisha. So good that I actually bought the CD the same day she told me about them. Again... On PureVolume. Actually, the entire album is on PureVolume. I think that's to make up for all the evil copy-protection on the CD... if you're trying to play that cd on a computer, good luck. The most uncooperative bastard I've ever encountered, really.

On that note, I guess I'll prop a bit of software that is quite nice... AnyDVD and CloneCD by SlySoft. Look them up. The first software I've gotten in a LONG time that actually worked *perfectly.* Allowed me to make a clone of the 30 Seconds To Mars CD without copy-protection so that I could load it onto the Ipod, etc... Don't download it until you need it, though, because the trial period is 21 days and the software itself costs upwards of $50. Just make a mental note.

When I posted that petition for Mr. Barnard (school board stuff, you remember) on Real World Blogosphere, I got a comment from one TattooDad... It looked a lot like spam, but it did have a reference to the actual post int he comment, so I checked out his site...

The Tattoo is an online newspaper by teens, for teens, etc. The writing is a little bit ameteurish, but the content is good, and something that really captured my attention was the Hurricane Journal by Samantha Perez. She lived in St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, right under the eye of Katrina. This journal logs her struggle from the day of the hurricane to the present. It's still being updated. Don't read unless you've got a lot of time, and be warned. It's pretty depressing.

I haven't written very much lately. I just haven't been in the right mood, really. I've been more in the Finale Notepad frame of mind... although, I have written one song (lyrics and melody only), but it's of the sort that the lyrics alone are pretty useless... It would only work if the entire song was attached to it. Which I haven't done. So no song for you.

I have done a few things with photos, though, and in case you have been too lazy to check out my DeviantArt, I'll post some stuff here.


This was once a view from the Dumyat walk near Alva, Scotland... I kinda butchered it, but I think it looks cool.


Just some random icons. Remember, if I want to describe my life, I write poems or songs. Icons... I just make randomly when they come into my head. So, don't make any assumtions about my icons being related to my thoughts. They probably aren't.


Just water dripping onto a plate full of water... Yeah. CURSES BE UPON AUTOFOCUS.

And that's that.

Now for some just normal blogging.

I feel like a party animal. Lol. I went to parties on the 17th and the 21st, and I'm gonna go to one one on the 31st, and possibly the 7th. Heh. That's weird for me. But I like it.

It's interesting how life goes on through Christmas Break, but it's so much more private. Nobody knows anything until they get back to school. Just a random thought there.

I think I'll be done here. This entry felt a little bit incoherent when I was typing it, but I can't be bothered to battle the codiene. So you'll just have to figure it out.