It's a good thing the American school system doesn't have the work ethic of our Post Office. All that to say that snow and sleet and hail are responsible for me having a very nice week so far.
I think it's about 2 to 2.5 feet (in meters, that's like… what, 0.6 to 0.75?) depending on where you stand. This is the worst snowstorm we've had in our little patch of godforsaken wilderness (known to the layman as "Idaho") in twelve years.News On Things You Should Actually Care AboutNothing to report. Unless you count the state of the union address.Creative ThingsI've been writing some songs that I actually like, and recording pieces of them. You can't hear any of them, though.I haven't really worked on anything GM related in about a month. I just don't feel very interested in it these days. I dunno; I still like the idea of making games, and I have some projects that I want to finish and some ideas I want to flesh out, but I think I might be on my way out. I don't have that much free time these days anyway. Maybe my interest in it will come back, in time. Who knows. I hope so, but oddly enough I'm not really in control of that.Misc.I've been very frustrated with my fellow man lately (I almost shudder to call some of them that). People seem so very quick to accept mediocrity, to seek acceptance, to be like everyone else. There are so few people I know who are worth spending time with, and half of them are related to me. It's depressing.Also, I was disturbed to learn, recently, that television viewership has been virtually unaffected by the writers' strike. I knew people were undiscerning, but is it so bad that they don't even care if their television is scripted or not? Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I don't find reality shows even interesting at all.So it turns out that the best thing you can do to help the strike end is turn off your TV.Happy January 29th, everybody.Oh, also, my favorite band (Sun Kil Moon) is releasing a new album in April, called April.
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2.5 feet sounds like a decent amount of snow. We're lucky to scrape an inch here =/.You're not an anomaly, I don't find the so-called reality shows interesting either.Happy January 29thTwistyWristyI'm lucky if snow forms, let alone if it lays, and when it does lay it's usually melted by 10am the next day =/
@Creative things: Yeah I feel the same about GM. I just don't have the drive anymore.
All the cool people don't make games :)
I watch a few TV shows, but overall I despise it.Buy their first album, Ghosts of the Great Highway. I'm sure this new one will be great (the one song I've heard is beautiful), but if it managed to beat Ghosts, I'd be very (pleasantly) surprised, since it is one of the best albums I have ever heard. It's so beautiful, so evocative, flows together so perfectly, it's almost hypnotic. I find it hard to believe that he didn't just write all of the songs at the same time, they fit together so well. It was the first album I ever listened to with very long songs where I found I didn't care or even really notice. Now I love long songs. But enough about that. Buy it; it's good.
Oh, I find them pretty annoying, also, but it's mostly because of the things I said above. And the fact that, amazingly, they seem to lack proper sense of humour.
I seem to be one of very few people in the world who really has a whole lot in common with my siblings. I mean, when we were little kids, no one else really seemed to exist for us. Maybe I've been damaged psychologically by that, with the result that I have trouble forming proper friendships with anyone I haven't already known my whole life. I dunno. But I wouldn't go back and change it. My brothers are the smartest, most creative, and most interesting people I know. I even like my parents. Weird, I guess.