Busy? Who, me? Nooo...

What? You didn't know I was busy? The fact that I didn't update this blog for so long didn't hint at anything? Yeah, some kind of friend YOU are. See if I ever work on a kitchen for you. Well, I might for you over there since you promised you'd fix my lungs in exchange for the kitchen and that's always good in my line of work. =D

So I finally got around to watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. G and P both strongly recommended the movie but I never got around to actually sitting my ass down and watching it. Heck, P even passed it to me. I finally watched it last night and I regret not watching it any earlier. It's such a beautiful movie. I couldn't help from shedding a few tears. Watch it. You'll understand what I mean. Check out the trailer. If you're interested, let me know. I'll pass it to you.

Who did what when where?

So I had 45 hours to start and finish 4 marquetry projects. Actually, make that about 40 hours on account of all the demonstrations and whatnot. It wasn't enough time, not when we also had to make a box. Actually, most of us didn't even get the chance to finish the box. The marquetry is done but the final touches haven't been applied yet.

Anyway, here are two of the four projects I worked on. The first is a nameplate for my nephew's room door. =D



This one here is something P designed for me. I actually had to leave out some elements because of lack of time, even including the amount of time I spent on it outside of school hours at home on the weekends and in the wee hours of the morning. I barely managed to get it pressed to a substrate before having to hand it in. ><



Anyway, let me know what you think!

ARGH!

What do you get when you combine 2 days of work + school, 45 hours for 4 projects and 3 hours of sleep?

Stress, crankiness and a drop away from murdering the next person who asks me "Is it break yet?" GET YOUR OWN FREAKIN' WATCH!

Oh and Brisingr has been released. Bought it and waiting for book 4 now. :(

It's not -that- evil...

So I was browsing on 4chan earlier tonight. Whoa whoa whoa! Chill there and let's not go into shock!

Alright so 4chan -can- be pretty bad and could potentially make you blind (some things you simply -cannot- un-see...) but it really isn't all that bad. So it's up there but there are plenty of other things that are worse such as Man-Faye. ...Oh wait. I first became aware of that abomination through 4chan. Okay, think here... Right, that would wo-... I -did- think of something but I'd rather not traumatize anybody. Let's just leave it at the fact that there are things worse than 4chan. =p

Anyway, I came across an image showing a pretty darn cool desktop. After a lot of hard work digging around trying to find out what exactly were those programs on that desktop that made it so awesome, I found my answer by simply clicking on the REPLY button to see all the other posts.

Now after some fiddling around and whatnot, I present to you the awesomeness that is my new desktop!

The fan of icons sticking out of the folder is my main folder where all my files are. It's not always there but I just wanted to show you how it was. =D Ain't it purty? xD

Now I'm going to head to bed. Had a long day. ><

So where's the butter?

This past module, #14, has been pretty darn fun. Oh and edumacashional. Officially, it's called Patterns, Templates, Jigs & Fixtures. Being the lazy bums awesome geniuses that we are, we just call it Jigs & Fixtures. Long story short, we were making jigs and templates and whatnot to facilitate the making of what we call a butter caddy. What the bloody deuces is that, you ask? Well, shut up and let me finish!

A butter caddy is just that. It's a little tray that holds a 1/4 lbs of buttery goodness. No, not that fake "I can't believe it's not butter" crap. We're talking actual butter here!

This one here is semi-finished, as in it's been sanded but no finish has been applied whatsoever. Nice, isn't it? I won't go through the whole process but suffice it to say it was frustrating at times, especially with certain jigs. GAAAH!


And now this is what happens when you apply two coats of shellac and a very generous coat of beeswax. Mind you, the beeswax was a pain in the butt. No, not because I got stung in the ass while getting the wax. ...Wait, how did you find out about that? >_> There's a spy somewhere... Why was it a pain in the butt? After that generous application of beeswax, I let that dry for about 20 minutes. Then I buffed the hell out of that caddy.


So am I going to put a 1/4 lbs of butter on it? HECK NO! Why? Because we hardly ever use butter. xD Besides, this is more of something you put out when there are people coming over. So what -am- I going to do with it? I don't have the slightest clue. I'm open to suggestions.

Now I'm off to burn a few CDs. No, not for you.

Final Fantasy? Another one?

Yeap, you read right. Yet another Final Fantasy game for the DS. So let's go down the list, shall we? I bought Final Fantasy III for myself when it came out for the DS. G, J, R and P got me Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Right as a surprise birthday gift. Before that, while I was blowing away mass amounts of noise with my sheer awesomeness in The World Ends With You, I also picked up Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates at Gamebuzz. Then last Saturday when I went to Indigo to pick up volume 1 & 2 of Claymore (I also bought volume 1 & 2 of King of Thorn on Sunday), I stopped by Gamebuzz (again) and picked up Final Fantasy IV.

Oh and uhh... Did I mention that I haven't even touched Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates yet? It's still in its plastic wrapper and all. Mint condition. =p

On another note, we're making a butter caddy in school. It's ... more complicated than I thought it would be. I knew that it'd be jigs, templates and fixtures galore. I just didn't think I'd become clinically insane designing and making them. Okay fine, so I'm already insane. That might explain why I was so ecstatic when my routing jig worked better than I had any right to hope for. haha I thought for sure I was going to have to make some major adjustments or that I would need to redo either one or both templates. Turns out I really just needed to make the opening about an 1/8" bigger on one of them.

See how it all works out? My awesomeness balances everything out. Well, nearly everything.

Don't think too hard about that. You might hurt yourself.

School? SURE!

So about a week ago, I had no idea when I was supposed to start school. Actually, let me rephrase that. One of my teachers had told me we were to start school on July 30th so I took him to his word. Then during a mass email about 2 weeks ago, different dates started to pop up and everybody got confused. Some claimed they got those dates from others teachers and one even got his from the assistant principal. So what did we do? Nothing. We just carried on like school wasn't going to start for another month. =D

We actually -did- start on July 30th. A grand total of 7 students showed up. Did the teacher care? Not really. He just had us work on our own stuff the whole time. I love my program. xD

On another note, I need a vacation. Oh shush you. I never had a vacation in the first place. I was constantly working the whole time! And yes, watching The Dark Knight constitutes as work because I had to knock together a few heads to grab primo seating! Okay fine, I didn't actually punch anybody. I just kicked them down the stairs and caused a domino effect.

Oh and Ash? Just for you, I'll burn the image of Man-Faye onto the inside of your eyelids. I mean, he's already something you can't ever unsee but that way, you'll never forget him. XD See how I love you?

Now go dive in the mud in search of frogs. Or whatever it is you youngsters do when you're not knocking old people over.