So, wow, yesterday and today I've been praying so strongly: "God, please let the computer be shipped today so I can get it this week and not have to wait till monday".
A little back story: (uh oh, here comes another long post ( sorry people) ) Well here's the deal, I wanted to get a new computer when I graduated - 4 years after starting college, in my mind - and the four years came and went but I didn't graduate, which is fine and not a big deal because of how RIT functions and co-ops and whatever. Anyway, since I've had a job I've been savin up money and whatnot and was starting to think that I'd just get a new computer as this one's getting pretty old and could really use a replacement, 'couldn't you, sir Trustypants?'. So a few weeks ago (like maybe late August or September or something) I found out that new macbooks were going to come out so I decided I'd wait for those and get a new computer then. Well the day of reckoning was last tuesday (October 14) and Apple unleashed some sweeeeet refreshes to the notebook line. Needless to say I was super excited and decided to get the new macbook to replace my current iBook. Well upon careful consideration, I decided to save some money by ordering it through Amazon instead of through an apple store or apple.com. Why? Simply because I'd be avoiding about 100 dollars worth of tax, which, even with a student discount, would be more expensive than not getting taxed at all. And so began the wait.
I could've gone to an apple store on Wednesday the 15th and gotten a shiny, brand new one but I decided to be at least a little bit thrifty and wait it out via the Amazon route. Thursday, the computers finally went on the site and that night I ordered it!!! I was psyched but at the same time a little bit concerned. See, all of the new notebooks on Amazon said 'pre-order' and I thought, well, they'll probably get them tomorrow or something. Now, if you know me, you know waiting indefinitely is one of my pet peeves. Give me a date and I'm happy. So long as I have a set end, even if there's a possibility it can change, I'm way more chill than if I have to wait indefinitely for something. Well that pre-order meant indefinitely in as many senses as that word can have. So of course, the days leading up to this Tuesday were a good dose of self-inflicted torture (I'm sort of dressing it up here haha). Finally this Tuesday, that is, yesterday, the model I'd ordered got into Amazon. I got an e-mail that finally gave me a set date to wait for, but at the same time was a bit of a let down. See, I was ever so strongly expecting to have it by this week so that I could enjoy it over the weekend when I would have some good free time. Well much to my dismay, that e-mail had the following Monday, the 27th as the estimated delivery date. I wasn't crushed but I definitely sighed at the thought of having to wait yet another weekend for what could have been mine practically a week ago. There was still hope though.
I had selected 2-day shipping, which, meant that no matter when Amazon sent it, I would get it approximately 2 days later. So then I really started praying. I seriously begged: God, please please pleeeeease let it be sent today so that I may get it on friday!!! Now, some may scoff, 'hah, so much emphasis put on something material like a new computer' but if you know me, you know I have a sort of obsessive nature when it comes to my focus on the next shiny thing to get. So I get a concentrated pigeon-holed tunnel vision that drives me nuts. (yeah, maybe I should work on that, haha, but it's sort of fun too) The point is, God was nice enough to let me have this whimsical request and went a step further. I just checked my mail and it says It's supposed to get here tomorrow!!! Now, I may not be able to pick it up at work tomorrow but that's besides the point. Indeed God answered my prayer and went a step beyond, even for such a simple thing as getting a package. Now, I'm not Bible thumping with this but really, if that's not a sign of a loving, personal God, I don't know what is. <3
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
MOAR HAIKU
Allo there world, here you go. The haiku for the first 10 days of October!
10/01/08
ten soldiers at play
ten commands to execute
ten children in wait
alt:
octopus hiding
to tear his prey asunder
bereft of pity
10/02/08
memories of youth
the sorrow I came to know
sadness in farewells
10/03/08
even the wild beasts
in this sudden autumn chill
are all but prepared
10/06/08
taken by the hand
I was shown each of the stars
and heard their voices
10/07/08
spiraling downwards
we are stuck in a tailspin
crash course with winter
10/08/08
a treasure most sought
not one of gold or jewels
an unbroken heart
10/09/08
the here and the now
though it is all that we know
is a passing note
10/10/08
stealing hearts with stares
lovers are quite dangerous
breaking hearts with words
© Emilio Gandara
10/01/08
ten soldiers at play
ten commands to execute
ten children in wait
alt:
octopus hiding
to tear his prey asunder
bereft of pity
10/02/08
memories of youth
the sorrow I came to know
sadness in farewells
10/03/08
even the wild beasts
in this sudden autumn chill
are all but prepared
10/06/08
taken by the hand
I was shown each of the stars
and heard their voices
10/07/08
spiraling downwards
we are stuck in a tailspin
crash course with winter
10/08/08
a treasure most sought
not one of gold or jewels
an unbroken heart
10/09/08
the here and the now
though it is all that we know
is a passing note
10/10/08
stealing hearts with stares
lovers are quite dangerous
breaking hearts with words
© Emilio Gandara
Saturday, October 4, 2008
A thought
Every small effort, every intention put into action is like a snow flake being gathered by a little bit of momentum called time. Before you know it, it's all added up into an unstoppable force.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
peace
So I drew this on sunday, I think. It means ease or peace. Please look at the whole thing because it doesn't do it justice to view the small version.
Also, sorry I haven't been updating. I can't believe I only updated once this month. Oh well, busy busy life, mine... I suppose.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Haiku update + bonus sleep away msg
Hey all. I liked this week's haiku so I'm putting them up. (Haiku is a japanese word and as such has no plural so in this case, I hope you presumed that there are more than one, a conclusion you may have supported with the fact that I write a haiku every work day)
09/02/08
a promise was made
an oath that I am under
separate the sound
09/03/08
memories are strange
try not to forget yourself
remembering me
09/04/08
the sun is ready
and the trees prepare themselves
for the coming fall
09/05/08
brilliant morning star
millions of shining mirrors
sparkling as they fall
And finally, because monday was a holiday and you're probably expecting 5 haiku, here's a little extra poem, which is not a haiku, mind you, but at least it's a good bunch of words strung together. (or so I would like to believe)
closing eyes, bracing themselves for the fall
slowly falling, fading as the soft lines tremble
sinking into the door my mind immolates
a thirsty flame restless in deep sleep
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
09/02/08
a promise was made
an oath that I am under
separate the sound
09/03/08
memories are strange
try not to forget yourself
remembering me
09/04/08
the sun is ready
and the trees prepare themselves
for the coming fall
09/05/08
brilliant morning star
millions of shining mirrors
sparkling as they fall
And finally, because monday was a holiday and you're probably expecting 5 haiku, here's a little extra poem, which is not a haiku, mind you, but at least it's a good bunch of words strung together. (or so I would like to believe)
closing eyes, bracing themselves for the fall
slowly falling, fading as the soft lines tremble
sinking into the door my mind immolates
a thirsty flame restless in deep sleep
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
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.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
yet another crazy away message turned poem
I don't think I can say it any better than the title of this post so here you go. For your amusement and bemused wondering:
red roe rubies:
such sweet silliness
that there, though through
unstable, utterly
volatile vixens, visibly vexed
wolves would wildly want.
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
red roe rubies:
such sweet silliness
that there, though through
unstable, utterly
volatile vixens, visibly vexed
wolves would wildly want.
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
the Reals
Hey all! Here's the latest haiku series. You may or may not know but I occasionally will do a series of haiku instead of the usual daily kind. This one was special in that it follows a story rather than a theme. I present you, the tale of numbers.
why would a number
have any reason to fear?
they can be consumed
in the realm of Real
there is a lack of nothing
naught is but a thought
yet the negatives
live a cursed fate and war
bearing the curse-mark
and so they battle
positives and negatives
endlessly dying
until finally
the king of the positives
stepped forth to battle
the legendary
the never-ending ruler
is infinity
but to oppose him
negative infinity
came to decrease all
one by one they ceased
at their own hands or the kings'
only kings remained
a final face down
two endless powers clashing
a new king is born
fear is but a thought
in this world there is Nothing
he is the new king
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Hope it made sense and you all enjoyed it :D Hope I'm not breaking too many haiku rules XD
why would a number
have any reason to fear?
they can be consumed
in the realm of Real
there is a lack of nothing
naught is but a thought
yet the negatives
live a cursed fate and war
bearing the curse-mark
and so they battle
positives and negatives
endlessly dying
until finally
the king of the positives
stepped forth to battle
the legendary
the never-ending ruler
is infinity
but to oppose him
negative infinity
came to decrease all
one by one they ceased
at their own hands or the kings'
only kings remained
a final face down
two endless powers clashing
a new king is born
fear is but a thought
in this world there is Nothing
he is the new king
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Hope it made sense and you all enjoyed it :D Hope I'm not breaking too many haiku rules XD
Sunday, July 20, 2008
You are not safe in the elevator
So, hilarious. Last night I went to Jill's place with a few friends and we hung out and saw Newsies and ate cookies and just had a good time in general. Afterward, Steve dropped me off at my place at around 2:30AM. Well as I was going up the elevator to my 8th floor apartment, it stopped at, I think the 4th floor and a guy and girl come in the elevator. The door is practically opening when the guy gets reeeeally close to me screaming in my face 'nobody loves me!!!' and then goes on a quasi-unintelligible rant about how he went to a gay bar and got no attention. Subsequently asking loudly not only the girl he was with but probably myself too 'do you know what it's like to be gay... in a sea of gays?' Well the girl was rather drunk too (ok that's a soft way of putting it, they were both hammered) and she answers 'not really, no'. But that's all the short trip up to the 6th floor gave us a chance to share. Then as they're stepping off the elevator the girl extends her hand for a hand shake as she wishes me a good night. Of course I oblige and wish her a good night in return. The door closed and my elevator ride continued for two more floors while I laughed in disbelief that what just happened actually happened.
Alternate title for this blog: Drunk Elevator Quotes
Now Listening to: Death And All His Friends
you should watch (or maybe you shouldn't): IOSYS magic
Alternate title for this blog: Drunk Elevator Quotes
Now Listening to: Death And All His Friends
you should watch (or maybe you shouldn't): IOSYS magic
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