Caleb @ The Signal

NaNoWriMo!

Or, National Novel Writing Month. It’s where people throw together 50,000 words, hope those words make sense when put together and call it a novel. It happens in November.

Fun fact, that one story I did with the psychic, government agents, a girl named Felicia, and what-not was supposed to be a novel, but since the entire thing was created on a whim, I didn’t have enough material for it.

This time, I won’t be stupid enough to only have one real copy of the thing and lose it in a hard drive crash.

(I’m not rewriting it, it’ll be something new this year.)

I feel like Macgyver

…except totally not. The DHCP server for some part of the SBC network (which I’m connected through) is down so I had to manually assign myself an IP in order to get back online. Sadly, this means I’m on gimpy proxy access until they fix the DHCP server so I can authenticate my MAC address.

Ansell’s birthday is/was today.

Wants… and other random stuff

I kinda want a MacBook Pro, still. The only reason is that I’m itching to learn the ropes of another OS. It’s a very geeky reason, but it’s still a good one to me. Too bad no one’s going to be funding me anytime soon.

My beatmania side is pleading for me to buy a PS2 and Guitar Hero I/II. Simply put, it’s like playing an air guitar, but it’s plastic, and you’re playing along to actual music (and if you screw up notes, there actually is no guitar part wherever you messed up… so if you screwed up that power chord, you’re not hearing it). The second rendition because it’s newer and it has Foo Fighters. I’m a sucker for Foo Fighters. The first because it’s also awesome, even if I hardly know any songs (okay, I don’t really know anything else on the second one other than Foo Fighters. >_>) And getting a PS2 means I can actually play the DDR game I bought (and brought to Sg.) in the States (yes, while I didn’t have a PS2). And I think I still have We <3 Katamari somewhere around here.
Another geek thing I want is a dedicated server, it’s about $60 USD a month, and I definately don’t have that kind of money on me. Maybe when I get a job whilst back in college in the States.

Currently considering (in alpha. order): Azusa, Baylor, Rice, UTD

- Azusa both scares and interests me because of how it’s in California, which makes me away from my home state and closer to Canada.
- Baylor and UTD are cool because I think it should be easier reapplying (did an application to both last year).
- Rice is there because Houston is awesome and it’s fun aiming high. Oh and I would totally want to live slightly off campus somewhere so I could stay all year round. >_>

Apparently Xboxes make good media centers. Hm.

Unfinished Business

This past weekend I really figured out some things that were bugging me. This whole “moving back to Singapore for a year” thing has been really shaky for me. I mean, sure it’s great to be back, see old friends and all, but there was/is always that something nagging at me about the States.

I didn’t build a raft. :p

Okay, fine, I don’t remember what any of the letters stand for, but one thing that keeps sticking out, becuase I didn’t do a very good job of the situation the last time I left the States, was that there was so lose ends I hadn’t wrapped up. I had no idea I’d be where I am now at this point in time, and I suppose that’s just screwed up alot of things. I’m just having trouble moving on in some aspects of life.

Did you update? Why yes I did…

T: “Is your wardrobe filled with only black shirts?”
C: “What? Oh, no. It seems like it though. … I’m actually getting tired of plain black shirts, so you’ll notice the one I’m wearing has text on it.”
T: “Uh-huh. Still no color.”
C: “Well, eventually, I’ll move on from black shirts with logos and what not.. and eventually get to colored shirts. Hah!”

>_>

<_<

Eventually.

So I was chatting with this girl who graduated from the same high school I did. She’s still at Baylor and really recommends it and she makes it sound pretty good.

Cold - A Different Kind of Pain

Before I let you go, give me just one more night to show you just how I feel.
I lost all my control, if it takes my whole damn life I’ll make this up to you.
Kind of like the waves, that roll their whole life towards somewhere crashing on the shore
That’s blown in by the wind that carries the clouds to hide my wish on a fallen star

A different kind of pain, is someone there to hold you
Is someone there to take you away from me.(x2)