Control

Control

Originally uploaded by etimpa

Sometimes it’s about control.

Break the silence

I can’t believe there’s been no posting around here. Granted I’m the author and haven’t been, but someone has to have been posting. I’ve been busy.
And I never know where to start when I haven’t posted in a long time.

Let’s post a list of things I can recall doing recently….. And then expand on anything.
It’s been months for me and Katie. It hasn’t seemed like it, but it has. Which is great, it’s just common place now, so surreal to be in another relationship.  She’s amazing, that’s not my point. It’s the effortless comfort. Things are in the “see you tomorrow?” stage, and well past the “Would you like to see me this week?” stage. Which is great.
Liv and I have been out with Katie a few times, a trip to the beach for fish and chips, unfortunately got cut short, so we have a planned return with buckets and shovels. I might hide the stuff in an esky or bag so Liv doesn’t know I have it.

OK, other news. I posted Kim’s cd of the photo shoot the third time, and she received it this time. Which was great to know. And still leaves me wondering where the other two ended up……

I posted Sell Me’s cd ages ago. I don’t remember when, it went in the post though. He’s moving up here though, so I guess I’ll give him a new one…… sometime after he arrives.

I pushed forward into a to do list. An EPIC to do list.
It came out as 9 huge goals, 44 tasks as a part of them. Thats 44 tasks altogether, not 44  for each of the 9, eep!
And 177 days. I am currently 2 days behind schedule, but moving nicely on track.

The last completed goal was the creation of a WordPress Theme and at least 4 colour/style variations of the same theme.
I present to you. Delicious. There are 5 variations. My two favourites are watermelon and jellybeans.

You can use the theme chooser on the top left of the theme to pick a variation. There’s some minor tweaking and bug checking and I plan to release these onto WordPress.org later this week.

And I’m pretty damned proud of it all, I’ve never built a wordpress theme before, and this one was based on the Sandbox theme. Feel free to leave a comment here, or on the theme site. I’ve got a few more colour variations of Delicious planned, and then I’ll move onto a new one.

I purchased Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 on the weekend. By purchased I mean used my microsoft points. I had 850 of them sitting on my account since about 6 months back when I bought Burnout 3 as an xbox original. Katie and I played the demo for about 3 hours solid and decided to bite the bullet and get the whole thing. If you know anyone with an Xbox 360, they must play Geometry Wars. It was originally included inside the garage of Project Gotham Racing 3.

Geometry Wars is a space shooter. The entire game consists of simple shapes, Most enemies are a single shape with a smaller shape inside. Graphics are bright Neon colours.
Don’t let the simple sound give you the impression this is simple. This game has every bit of polish and glitz you’d expect from a title with HD branded on it.
Every explosion is a shower of thousands of tiny glowing particles in a neon colour, and you’ll be destroying enemy after enemy. The ultra slick graphics never get tired and with the lights down and the sound up you will be blown away.
I am genuinely recommending everyone who can, gets their hands on at least the demo and try it out.

Movies. Week before last we saw “The Dark Knight”. Incredible experience.
Christopher Nolan has done an incredible job in re-imagining the Batman. (this is one of my favourite touches. “The batman” not “batman”, it’s a title not a name.
The camera work is incredible, especially the Imax scenes. Dinner party camera pans have never been so involving. And as you’ve read all over the net, Heath put in an incredible performance.
Unlike Jack Nicholsons, over the top Joker, this was a real, psychotic, terrifying experience. Many scenes were altered or improvised (clapping in the jail cell) by Heath as a result of his character work.
Prior to performing the role, he lived in a hotel room for 30 days getting inside the Jokers head and reading a few of the harsher comics on the evil deeds of the Joker.
Alas he is no longer with us. Which is a great shame, a loss to his family and to the world of entertainment. While they seem on a very different scale, he did bring a lot to a lot of people’s lives.
JC and I watched “A knights tale” over and over again. Foxtel played it a few times a day for weeks, and then we had the DVD. It was a good background movie and had a real something that kept you coming back to it. And I was a huge fan of 10 things I hate about you. Even if I didn’t really like Taming the Shrew.

Next on my grand to do list is to sort through my Cg art and Photos. I’m going to locate 20 photos to sell as prints (from the hundreds I’ve taken for this purpose). And 5 cg images. I have 4 of the Cg images prepared and a period of time set aside to complete the epic scale of the 5th. I’ll post the CG and the Photos as soon as they are picked out and approved by the commitee.
If they all agree, the range of pics and CG will be voted and sorted by  Katie, The Hen, and Grim. I’m yet to ask the Hen though, so am assuming she doesn’t stop by the blog often enough and I’ll get to her first.

That aspect (including final polish on the CG images) takes me to August 27.

This project takes me 3 hours a day, so as you can imagine, I need to stick to it. I use weekends and simple tasks to get ahead, to make up for days like today where I worked back an hour and a half. But no more of that. I already decided I wouldn’t work back when they asked me to, and Its crept in twice.

We won’t talk about the billing failure that had me at work until 9 on friday night. Yes 9. At night. After starting at 7:45………. I was not impressed.

Ok Timps is out. it’s late, things to do, food to eat and a shower to have. I do miss all of you, comments, emails, anonymous viewers and all.

Comments on the bad movie post: Didn’t see it coming.
People dissapearing into the night: Didn’t see it coming.
Katie: Did not see coming.