I've been watching far too much TV recently. USA has its whole "NCIS all day" thing going on, and then they usually follow it up with House... and there's the new season of Scrubs on Tuesdays... and I might be watching Burn Notice as I type this...
So, let's see. First up - a lot of my friends seem to not believe me when I tell them that there are wild turkeys on our lawn every day, eating the bird seed my sister puts out for them. To assist with my case, I've got some photos!
( THAR BE SOME TURKEYS THAR )Let's see, what else...
Well, first let's get the interesting things out of the way. This past weekend was certainly interesting - I went with Bobby and his father up to Vermont to go skiing at Killington. Their family owns one of the condos on the hill, and they tend to go every possible weekend starting in the winter and running until April. Bobby had asked if I wanted to go, and despite my better logic about survival and personal fears, I somehow found myself in their car when we arrived in VT at 1am on Saturday. I've never skied before, and between my awful balance and physique and my intense fear of heights, I kinda sorta figured it would have stayed that way. What I had not expected was that: (1) Bobby is an expert skier who can teach me well and help me from killing myself, (2) there's a free adult learner hill by their house, and (3) they already had equipment for me since, sadly, Bobby and I are the same clothing size for the most part (he's 17, and I'm 22). So long story short, I skied quite a lot. The learner hill is actually borderline between green circle and blue square on difficulty, so it was a good place to learn. I apparently picked up the sport quite fast - by the third time down the hill (which took roughly 8 minutes to run top-to-bottom) I was rarely falling, and after a few more runs I wasn't falling at all. On Sunday, I was almost flawless, save for a few silly spills here and there. I think that I had the most difficult time simply using the damn lift back up the hill. I literally had a panic attack on it the first time; I can barely look down a flight of stairs without freezing, and all of a sudden I was a good 50 feet above the ground in a stupid little metal chair. You know what hurts? When your tears freeze to your damn face. Even worse than the ride up the hill was the whole "getting-off-the-chair" bit. I fell more getting off the goddamned lift than I did almost any other time! Argh. ...But yeah, I really like it. I'm going back with them again in a few weeks, and plan to continue to do so until they stop going in April. I might even buy my own equipment if I can pull some money together for it.
The only other big thing that's happened recently is my latest computer catastrophe. Almost one year since I built my current setup, I finally hit another hardware failure. There's a very long, angry story here filled with potential data loss, panic, and yelling. The final outcome is that my motherboard is to blame, and today I ordered a new one. Going back to ASUS, since I trust them more than any other brand right now. I hope that this will fix things... I haven't been able to use my desktop for weeks, and that means I haven't been able to work on the game project. Only thing worse than feeling like you're a failure as you work at home on a project that might not actually get you anywhere is not even being able to do any of that because the one thing you need is broken. Hah, such is my life - one step forward, three back. I'm just glad my laptop still sorta works.
Well, I'm out of stuff to say. Time to sleep, I suppose.
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