Month: September 2005

A quick stop at Home depot for wood screws and I was ready to begin my headboard project in earnst. Though, as it turns out, I didn’t get to that part. Took me a while to get everything set up in the front of my apartment and just as I was ready to fire up the circular saw and cut my lumber, my neighbors cames out and started talking two doors down from me. I went back in and started my laundry, then watered my plant, but they were still there. So, I just picked up the circular saw and turned to them until I got their attention. I apolgised for the noise in advance and they said it wouldn’t bother. 10 seconds later they had all gone back into their apartment. Hey, I warned them. The sawing when pretty smoothly, but I thought that the sound of one power tool in the evening would be more than enough, so I packed that project up and started on the soldering project while I still had light.

In between there, I called my mom since I hadn’t been able to get a hold of her yesterday. She was happy to hear from me, but couldn’t talk as they were getting ready for a wedding at the shelter where she has been volunteering. So, I told her I’d call her later and I went back to my soldering.

The new soldering iron I got worked great! I think I might actually be able to produce something worthwhile – though I had a little trouble with the outer edges. Still, not bad for my second attempt. I worked on that until it got too dark to see, then I went inside to have dinner while everything cooled off enough to put away.

Mom called me back after dinner and said that the wedding went really well – and all the “gear” (dresses, cake, tuxes, etc) had been donated. So, she was helping get stuff returned – and apparently trying to chase down the flower girls who were having too much fun.

She’s doing well, but she’s tired and ready to come home. I gues the scheduleing has been weird – alternatly shorthanded and then overflow. She sounded like she’s in good spirits and in her element – helping people and organizing things. 🙂

After talking to mom, I fired up the playstation and made some progress on castlevania: Lament of Innocence. For a vampire hunting game, there really aren’t many vampires so far. I would have also liked to see more selection in the weapons – but the whip will just have to do for now.

Well, I think it’s going to be a busy day for me – better get to it…

Did a little traveling this weekend – went with a friend down to columbus so that he could buy a car from his brother at the dealership where he works. The dealership is about 20 minutes away from where my family lives, so after picking up the car we headed further south and visited my dad and my sister for the afternoon. Spent most of the time out on Dad’s deck and enjoyed the weather and the conversations. Had to head back on Saturday since everyone had plans for Sunday, but it was still a good, if rather short, visit.

On Sunday, I headed to Home Depot to get the lumber for my headboard that I want to build. Had a little trouble with the in-store traffic. Loaded up the car (good thing I have a fold-down back seat) and headed home. I started to get a headache and some distored vision, so I took some Aleave and tried to sleep for a while. Got up, had some dinner and did a little reading before I went to bed. Didn’t get anything done on the headboard, but I think thing should go smoothly this afternoon when I get home from work.

Also, a big thank you to my friend who loaned me a higher powered soldering gun. I’m going to give that a try this evening as well and if it helps, I may get one of my own.

Well, that’s it for me – time to get back to work…

Picked up a new game recently called Psychonauts for the Playstation 2. The main character is a kid named Raz who’s at a Psychic Summer camp to learn psychic powers and earn merit badges. The game play is pretty good – though alternately too easy and too difficult. The best parts are the levels when he has to go into someone’s mind. He has to track down luggage (emotional baggage) and figments of imagination, do battle with mental censors, and explore terrain ranging from Lungfishoplois to a surreal Milkman conspiracy.

Raz learns levitation, pyrokinesis, and a psi-blast – and he uses little clumps of anger for ammo.

All in all, a fun and slightly addictive game. And strangely enough, it hasn’t resulted in any really weird dreams.

It’s been a busy week and the weekend should be fairly busy too. Lots of driving to do. I think, if I’ve got time on Sunday, that I’m going to get some lumber and do a little building. I’ve been thinking about making a headboard for my bed and I’m running out of good weather to work on it outside.

Got a meeting coming up in a few, so I’d best get back to work…

I had a dream last night that I was back in college – though my first class was held in an elementry school. It was an art class and the first project the teacher showed us was a bit of origami. Which would be excellent, since I’ve had a lot of practice in that, and as luck would furhter have it – I knew how make the model the teacher was demonstrating. Materials were passed out and disaster struck. For some reason, everyone else got normal squares of copy paper – and I got a lopsided rectangle with rough edges. And it wasn’t paper, it was a weird mix of velum and a plastic foil. So, it was difficult to make a crease since it tended to unfold and it tore really easily. When everyone else was done with their perfect (and very simple) models – mine was still a hideous work in progress. Everyone was stareing at me when I woke up.

In other news…Mom has been checking in and is doing fine helping at a shelter in Florida. She’s working long shifts, but she’s okay.

Work has been busy this week – so I guess I’d better get back to it….