everything except himself

Well, this past week has been kind of a long one for me. It started out without me having a computer, but that’s fixed now. In that time, I finished a book, something I recently haven’t made a habit out of doing. I spend most of my off-time hanging out with Jess or talking through AIM or the phone. I get hassled for playing games or being distracted, but she does it, too. Like, she was totally playing Tetris while I was talking to her on the phone. It honestly doesn’t bother me, but she super-hassles me about that kind of stuff if it’s in-person, even though she’s busy with other things. It was a bit of a downer when she wouldn’t let me cheer her up at all after something school-related happened on Thursday, but I told her that, next time, I’ll just get her a manicure and not feel down about it.

In other news, shopping for yarn was interesting. Jo-Ann’s stocks stuff called “bling-bling,” and, albeit not silver, platinum, ice, or gold, it is sparkly. I think the solid colors they stock look better, though. I drew a drowning poliwog during the car ride, and I got an idea for a more serious drawing I could do. I’ve yet to test out drawing with my tablet since I’ve replaced the motherboard and the CPU of my machine.

On that note, my machine runs faster now. I’ve had a hell of a time getting it back up to speed, since ATI’s drivers suck and Windows Update is completely non-intuitive. All the updates brought problems of their own, like slowing down Internet Explorer. There’s a registry modification you can make to lessen the things that load/are checked by Internet Explorer, so it loads quickly again on starting up. NullDC, the Dreamcast emulator, runs Soul Calibur faster now and almost syncs the audio in Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage on time. I’ve yet to run my PS games on ePSXe, but I imagine I’ll be happy to see the little minor hang-ups/frame losses fixed.

As a closing note, Jess is coming over for lunch/dinner this Sunday! Yay for Father’s Day. I’m excited about seeing a movie with her, and going out for ice cream, too. I’m really excited that yesterday was payday, though. I leeched a pen from work earlier to deposit the check, though.

It was you! It was you! It was you I heard,
Though you had not said a word.
Here in this dusky sight,
Wrapped in rays of yellow and white light,
It was you that I heard speak to me,
Though you I could not see clearly.

Quietly,
I let my mind fall into the great eternity,
And here am I granted such a dream,
As real as life would ever seem,
Only to forget when I am just as silently woken,
And the ever-so-secret veil of day-dreaming is broken.

You told me something simple and plain,
But I would have it just the same,
Even if we passed through this for time one-thousand-and-two,
I want to hear the same thing from you,
Something ever-true,
Déjà vu.

Well, I had fun over the weekend. Jess got to come over to my house for Sunday, and I got to see her on Monday. Consequently, I also locked my keys in the car on Monday, so Jess got to go back to my house with me to pick up the spare. In other news, I learned how to put a hubcap back on a car. I also learned that they will still fall off if more than a couple of the holder things are broken, and that spiffy dudes in black trucks, smoking cigars, will honk at you to tell you that you lost your holder-deficient hubcap on the curb.