April 27th, 2008
In the Making
So while I was half-sleeping away my Sunday afternoon, I had a breakthrough. A breakthrough in regards to I Woke Up LA.
INCONCEIVABLE! I know. For so long now, I haven’t been very motivated to work through some plot developments, mostly because I haven’t been able to get beyond Mat and Jill MATJILLMATJILL obsession.
But somehow, in a half-dreamy-sleepy state, I figured it out. I figured out the difficult details with the rest of Charlotte’s story, and how to tie it in to everything else going on. UGH, FINALLY! I’ve always had the broad outline of the story figured out, but not the meat in between. I think now I’m at a point where I could actually finish this thing.
Of course, work is keeping me too busy at the moment to start writing or making pictures. But hopefully things will at least cool down this summer and I can finally get it rolling again.
So yeah, not much is said here, and I won’t give away any real details, lol, but up until now this story has pretty much been on unofficial hiatus.
Now I’ve got something to work with.
April 22nd, 2008
Bob Loblaw
It’s truly pitiful that I’m more often than not too lazy to update this blog. I’ve been Twittering more often lately, but it’s lost its cool this week as I’ve come to the conclusion that the website is a horrific piece of shit. Every time I go to pretty much any page, I get redirected to the “something is technically wrong” page. Something has been technically wrong for quite a while now. Seriously, how is this not fixed?
I have no faith in their competency, so I don’t know that I’ll end up keeping up with it much anymore or not. Which is a shame, it started out so fun. Eh, they get their shit together and I stop seeing those messages every single day, perhaps I’ll get over it.
I have a couple ridiculous stories about my apartment complex. For a bit of background, I live in a primarily “college” town, as Texas A&M University is the main attraction around here. However, Andy and I live in a newer area, in some pretty nice apartments that were built around 2001. We’ve been there in a 3rd floor apartment since May 2005, and for the most part it’s been noticeably different than our last apartment complex, where the majority of the residents were students. It’s usually tame here, and many residents are older.
Anyway. We’ve had some new people move in below us, and I could swear that it’s a couple with children, perhaps 5 to 8 years old. Something like that. And interestingly enough, since they’ve moved in, on several occasions I have noticed a rather strong smell of pot.
Whatever, I don’t particularly care what people do, but you know, I’d rather not smell it. But even if I just smell it in passing, that’s not such a big deal.
Well, last week we had very nice weather and I’ve been leaving the balcony sliding-door cracked open. One evening, I stepped out for not more than 10 or 15 minutes, come back and the apartment is filled with smoke and completely reeks of pot. Absolutely and utterly nasty smell; seriously, I’m actually surprised the smoke detectors didn’t go off.
I was very, well, verbal and stomping, when I discovered this, and I think the people below must have heard me (I hope they fucking did), because soon the smell dissipated outside and then eventually I was able to air out the apartment. And I haven’t smelled anything fishy since.
But this whole thing really leaves me wondering. First, who in their right mind smokes pot outside in the open in a populated yuppy apartment complex? That’s just stupid right there. Two, don’t these people have children?
I’m not completely sure it was the people right below us doing the smoking, but I can’t make sense of it being anyone else due to the intensity of the smell.
It crossed my mind that maybe the person has cancer or glaucoma or something? I don’t know, I can’t imagine too many college-aged potheads being stupid enough to smoke out in the open like that. It’s just asking for trouble.
Okay, story two. This Friday, Andy went out and came home sometime after mid-night. He tells me that when he pulled up to park, there was a strange guy standing outside near a small (non-bushy!) shrub/tree. Can you guess what this guy was doing? I did, and frankly, it’s quite sad that I did.
He was taking a pee.
Now, how does this make any sense? First, we’re in a gated apartment complex. This guy would have to either live here or be visiting someone. Either way, can he not use the damn toilet? Second, I like how he choose a small, bare shrub out in the middle of the open parking area to do his business, where if he really wanted to pee outside, it would have made much more sense to go by one of the giant trees in the back, where probably no one would have noticed.
I honestly do not know what is wrong with these loons.
April 10th, 2008
Bob Loblaw
So, I’ve managed to gain interest in Twitter, a silly social site where you just post one-liners many times a day. Haha. I set up an account quite some time ago, but never felt a desire to use it until last week. And now I’m sucked in! It’s quite entertaining. Do any of you Twitter? Let me know if you do; I don’t know hardly anyone on there.
My neck hurts. Lord knows what I did to it. Slept wrong or something. But it’s super annoying and I want to go home. I’d want to go home anyway, but now I just really, really want to go home.
This is such a long week, though immensely shorter than last week. This week at least was broken up by a trip to Temple. I LOVE my bi-monthly trips to Temple. The drive from Bryan to Temple, TX is probably the best drive through the state I’ve ever been on. I travel on farm roads that are very low traffic, and all that’s there are some fields, cows, and wild flowers. It rocks. I’m going to be sad when I finish my work I’m doing there and won’t be able to go as often.
I finally read The Da Vinci Code. I know, I’m so late at jumping on bandwagons here. But anyway, man, what an awesome book! I understand why it was so insanely popular. Kind of reminds me of the show Alias, without all the ass-kicking. I don’t have much else to add to that, other than that now he’s the author I’m going to obsess over. I’m reading Angels and Demons now.
UM. WHAT ELSE? I got nothing. Which sucks, because I don’t really want to get back to work yet. The internet is very boring today, and I apologize for just adding to that, but eh, what are you going to do?
April 3rd, 2008
Bob Loblaw
Ugh. I am so burnt out from work right now. Well, not so much the work as the getting up early and sitting in the office for eight hours. God, that just doesn’t get any easier. Actually, it gets harder. And I’m only 27, so how horrible is this going to be in 20 years?
Sigh. I want a vacation. One that doesn’t end.
Yawn. I think my Wordpress stopped emailing me about new comments on here, so there were some from a while back that I didn’t see until today. Whoops. Well, I’ll just respond here: thanks for the comments; I’m glad others are excited about Sims 3 like me.
I haven’t been able to play Sims 2 a whole lot lately because of work, and last time I played I managed to bore myself; I think because I was at a stage where I have lots of children in various families that I want to grow up together, but it takes forever because they’re on different lots. And this got me to thinking that I will really enjoy the simultaneous aging feature they’ve mentioned for Sims 3. I would just love the option for some of my families to just coast along while I play my main family. Trying to keep up with 3 or 4 side families that only exist to add flavor to my main family is such a pain sometimes. In fact, it is the reason I stopped playing my Tomato family from last summer.
I don’t think I’d always want all the sims to age without my playing them; however, I can’t imagine this feature working without it being optional–like free will. Lots of people are getting their panties in a bunch about this simultaneous aging feature, but I don’t think it will be so extreme.
But, I could be wrong.
How is it not the weekend yet? Last weekend wasn’t much of a weekend for me because I had to work. I have to work this weekend as well, but I don’t think it will be quite so much. Hopefully I will be able to get back into my Flounder family, and send generation 5, Calvin, to Uni. All previous generations went to Academie Le Tour (I don’t even remember is this is the proper spelling–eh, I’ll look it up later), but Calvin has decided to go to La Fiesta Tech. Along with about 7 other kids–his cousin, Molly’s son, I think his name is Billy, Tiki the alien’s daughters, Tiki’s sister, Tina’s twins, and also his girlfriend, a surprisingly cute townie I aged with him since childhood. I forget her name. And lots of the others’ names. This is what happens when I don’t get to play much. 
Okay, time to cut my babbling short. Lunch.