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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
update - saturday
Most everybody is out of town today. Dillon, Steve and Jill were over in Chicago with Kate and Kathy. Jeremy was in Connecticut visiting his parents and doing something with his car. What it all means is I had today aaaaaaaaaaaaall to myself. I can definitely appreciate a good free Saturday. I did a ton of things today including laundry, grocery shopping as well as buying some things in the pharmacy. For the record, I really don't like the fact that there are 2 CVSs (lol I almost called it scv's a la StarCraft) in East 9th street, basically 1 or 2 blocks from each other but about 10 blocks from where I live. Oh well, I didn't really mind a nice walk with some good music. You know, the kind I lip sync to while nobody else can hear it and it makes me look insane, I betcha.
I also did something somewhat adventurous (in a geeky sense). As some of you may know, I use the Dvorak input. Well I touch type so it doesn't tend to be a problem that the keyboard's set up QWERTY style. However, I'd been thinking about changing the keys around into Dvorak input for whatever reason and today I did it. It was pretty friggin scary though because I didn't know exactly how to remove the keys and I was scared to death of defacing my keyboard. Even though it's dirty, having a hole instead of a key somewhere would surely decrease resale value by quite a bit and I do intend to sell this guy around next summer when I go to get a new one to replace ol' faithful here.
Well I decided to test out how to remove keys with the '\' key. That's one I don't use often so I figured if I did break it, I wouldn't miss it as much as, say, the 'a' key. Well I pushed and pulled cautiously though intently until it finally came off with a click. Thankfully I didn't break it but I wasn't sure how I'd gotten it off so I put it right back in to try again so I could see how to best take it off. The second time, I must've done it wrong or something because the little mechanism under the keys that keeps them bouncy came undone, much to my horror. I spent the better part of the following half hour trying to put it back together between thoughts of whether it was futile and trying to figure out exactly how it was that this insane engineering actually happened (I may be giving them too much credit). Well after a while, I was able to put it back together and one good thing that came of having to stare at the contraption so long was thinking of a way to remove the keys more easily. So I tried it on a different key, this time one that I would be moving about for the change into Dvorak and it came off with little to no hassle. *phew* So I got to work removing most of the keys, as 'a' and 'm' are in the same place in both inputs, and after a few minutes I had myself a Dvorak input keyboard :D.
What else, what else? Oh yes, today is the first day of DS∑3713, the Square-Enix event featuring trailers and demos of two of my favorite game series: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Specifically the new games coming out, for the most part, no sooner than march of '09. Darn you Squeenix for making up salivate for months. Oh well, at least by then I'll have finished all my Japanese classes, which only means I'll better be able to understand the dialogue by the time I import those titles XD, coz you know I'm not gonna wait until they localize them. That was a fun parenthesis!
Oh, yes, also today I did a new piece of Japanese calligraphy. It's the character 優, which means a ton of things, but I chose it because when read as 優しい (yasashii), it means 'tender, gentle'. Although to be honest, the fact that it also means 'to excel' when read as 優れる (sugureru) is pretty darn cool. It's like sweetness and pwnage all at once XD. Ah, the story of my life (wait, where'd my modesty go?). Actually, after finishing it once, I realized I'd learned the character the wrong way and had to redo it. Again another thing going wrong in my exploits today, but like the last time, it too had good in it as now I know how to correctly write that character. Although actually, if I remember correctly, this happened before the keyboard event, hehe, but it still holds! And so here it is, for your viewing pleasure~
I must be working in retrospect. The last thing I'm gonna mention is I played a good bit of soul calibur 4 this morning. That was fun but I don't think anybody else cares so I'll leave it there hehe and this has been a pretty long post as it is so it ends now!!! Have a good one y'all.
I also did something somewhat adventurous (in a geeky sense). As some of you may know, I use the Dvorak input. Well I touch type so it doesn't tend to be a problem that the keyboard's set up QWERTY style. However, I'd been thinking about changing the keys around into Dvorak input for whatever reason and today I did it. It was pretty friggin scary though because I didn't know exactly how to remove the keys and I was scared to death of defacing my keyboard. Even though it's dirty, having a hole instead of a key somewhere would surely decrease resale value by quite a bit and I do intend to sell this guy around next summer when I go to get a new one to replace ol' faithful here.
Well I decided to test out how to remove keys with the '\' key. That's one I don't use often so I figured if I did break it, I wouldn't miss it as much as, say, the 'a' key. Well I pushed and pulled cautiously though intently until it finally came off with a click. Thankfully I didn't break it but I wasn't sure how I'd gotten it off so I put it right back in to try again so I could see how to best take it off. The second time, I must've done it wrong or something because the little mechanism under the keys that keeps them bouncy came undone, much to my horror. I spent the better part of the following half hour trying to put it back together between thoughts of whether it was futile and trying to figure out exactly how it was that this insane engineering actually happened (I may be giving them too much credit). Well after a while, I was able to put it back together and one good thing that came of having to stare at the contraption so long was thinking of a way to remove the keys more easily. So I tried it on a different key, this time one that I would be moving about for the change into Dvorak and it came off with little to no hassle. *phew* So I got to work removing most of the keys, as 'a' and 'm' are in the same place in both inputs, and after a few minutes I had myself a Dvorak input keyboard :D.
What else, what else? Oh yes, today is the first day of DS∑3713, the Square-Enix event featuring trailers and demos of two of my favorite game series: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Specifically the new games coming out, for the most part, no sooner than march of '09. Darn you Squeenix for making up salivate for months. Oh well, at least by then I'll have finished all my Japanese classes, which only means I'll better be able to understand the dialogue by the time I import those titles XD, coz you know I'm not gonna wait until they localize them. That was a fun parenthesis!
Oh, yes, also today I did a new piece of Japanese calligraphy. It's the character 優, which means a ton of things, but I chose it because when read as 優しい (yasashii), it means 'tender, gentle'. Although to be honest, the fact that it also means 'to excel' when read as 優れる (sugureru) is pretty darn cool. It's like sweetness and pwnage all at once XD. Ah, the story of my life (wait, where'd my modesty go?). Actually, after finishing it once, I realized I'd learned the character the wrong way and had to redo it. Again another thing going wrong in my exploits today, but like the last time, it too had good in it as now I know how to correctly write that character. Although actually, if I remember correctly, this happened before the keyboard event, hehe, but it still holds! And so here it is, for your viewing pleasure~
I must be working in retrospect. The last thing I'm gonna mention is I played a good bit of soul calibur 4 this morning. That was fun but I don't think anybody else cares so I'll leave it there hehe and this has been a pretty long post as it is so it ends now!!! Have a good one y'all.
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