Well, got back from church camp finally.
Yea, I'm a Christian, and a member of the Assemblies of God branch to be specific. I can't stress how much I love it there, since they take the view that it only matters what relationship you have with Jesus.
EX: Our pastor took us to see Terminator 3 for an induction to the church. Epic win, amirite? Just a buncha laid back people that I've come to know and love.
This was only furthered with the church camp experience as I went with my youth group and we all had our own dorm. It's really outstanding compared to what you'd associate with camping, like tents and bonfires and whatnot. We went to the pool the grounds have during free time, stayed in air-conditioned rooms, played Ping-Pong, and some EarthBound since I brought my iPod Touch. Great times.
On a serious note though, it was really life-changing this year compared to the rest. I got affirmation that I can go through with my plans and just keep pushing toward my dream of an English teacher in Japan. Ha, kinda low and not much, but I wanna help out the youth as much as I can, and I love the country of Japan. Looking into getting involved with the JET program. Hopefully that turns out well.
Speaking of programs.. and Japan(?) my closest friend is returning home next week, and I've taken Tuesday-Thursday off to catch up.
He went with his rotary club to be an exchange student in Japan, and yea, I'll admit I was jealous to all hell, until the day he actually left.
Those words: "I wanna see what you've done when I come back" have been a driving force for me to change my life since then. It's been over a year now, and I think I've made great progress.
I was the typical shy outcast that watches Naruto, ya know? Ha, but I've been more outgoing this past year than ever, and it's been great. Looking forward to senior year being the best yet.

On the note of the podcast, we've decided to make it two shows a week, since three has proven difficult. Oh well, I think more content would be great, oh, and a crazy surprise in store for all the listeners too. Check it out if you haven't, although I believe everyone reading this is being directed from there.
Gotta run to a July 4th party though, and I wish you all a great day!

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M DREAMING.

So I'm just going about my business on the PC, when I go to check my email, Outlook crashes on me.
"Hmm.." ponders an inquiring Moonstone.
So I restart my computer, to be greeted by my friend, the Blue Screen of Death.
So, I insert my Windows disk, well expecting some repair work, to be struck out of the blue (HA!) again, by my buddy BSoD.
So, all I can do at this point is restart the computer over and over, for like an hour, and hope it works, right?
I finally got the repair dialog up, and ey, went to repair my partition. Everything goes fine, so I log on, again, Mr. BSoD.
So, I decided to make a new partition with my unused space. All worked out fine. I can access my C: drive, so it's coo.
But, I miss my old layout, so let's try to mess with that partition..
I reinstall XP on there, and whaddya know, it worked! :D
So I'm on there for about 30 minutes, when BSoD pops up again..
This has been about 5 hours, mind you.
So I try some repairing again, to yield no results.
At this point, I say screw it, and install Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
The partition manager comes up, and I see 4 partitions I know I didn't create. Weird, right?
I delete those and try Windows again, and to great success. Had Windows up for about an hour, and then BSoD'd. I utterly say fuck it, and just install Ubuntu on everything.

I was able to salvage lesson 5 from that new partition I made with Windows with access to the C: drive, so it just took me a while to setup Audacity in Ubuntu and whatnot. Sadly, I can't watch YouTube videos, and currently waiting for my friend to return to aid in that.
All's going well, and we're looking forward to advertising today. Sharpie on shirts? WIN.

Heh, still loling about this incident.
The chase shall be cut to: Workin'. Drive-Thru dude. Guy orders (as I think it should be called, requested. Like hell I'm your slave dammit. You don't ORDER what you want, you REQUEST it and we deliver). During this time, some people come in and order ~20 coneys, a situation we did not prepare for. So I explain to Mr. Dude, "okay, it'll be a few minutes because we ran out of hot dogs."
Dude replies calmly, "Sure thing."
5 minutes pass, and I return with the desired relics.
I should clarify that he ordered some hot dogs for his kid (whom was in his car the entire time) and an inverted 4-way. The 4-way consists of spaghetti and cheese which are served in a separate container from the chili and onions, so the cheese doesn't melt.
I deliver the items and inform him that, "the chili is in that small yellow container."
Dude man ponders for a second, then exclaims "Oh, alright."
He rummages through the contents of the consumables' container, and shrieks awestruck at me "WHAT?!"
I recoil in horror as this man stares blindly past me, nearing his brow in anger.
"I've come to Skyline for 20 fucking years and they never put the damn chili in a separate container! This is an.. an.. i-INCONVENIENCE~!!"
"Sorry sir, we've always done it this way. You put the chili on when you're about to eat to prevent the cheese from melting."
"Well I didn't pay no DAMN money to MAKE my FOUR-WAY!! I paid money to RECEIVE a four-way!! And you also made me wait!!"
"We had a large party come in, and I let you know it would be a few minu-"
"SO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE'S ORDERS MORE 'PORTANT THAN MYNE?!"
...
At this point I call the manager over the headset. "There's a crazy at the drive-thru."

O hey thar intarweb. I didn't notis u.
This'll be the place for updates on my personal projects most likely, and some funny events and thoughts that happen by.

Using LiveJournal 'cuz I didn't feel like buying another domain. I'll prolly pay $20 just to get rid of the ads; very unofficial.

To the chase: I was still running Windows on a trial, and the key I've been using gave me shiz about using it one too many times. Could've been from that time I reinstalled Windows 5 times in a row. Meb? Meb. But, I has found a way to bypass said shiz, and now running my well-upgraded computer on some fresh Windows. :D Heh, in lesson four I mentioned that it took three hours to export lesson three, yea, took around six minutes with this baby. FTW? FTW.

I saved all my personal projects, all the podcasting stuff and whatnot, and I linked to my video of Iron Maiden's The Trooper in the osu! engine on lesson four. I haven't been working on that as of yet, as I'm still doing some housekeeping from the recent wipe, but what do you guys think? I think I've got the timing down fairly nicely, maybe the crazy hammer-on / pull-off session in the verses could use some work, but overall, I'm lovin' it™.

This was more or less BS to test out LiveJournal.

IT'S TOO BIG FOR THE HOEL!!!11!