miah

I was burnt out on editing and aftereffects before break started. Now that break has washed over me with its refreshing waves I was reset, but couldn’t quite pick editing back up just yet.

Until today.

Today was supposed to be game night, but many people were still busy/jet lagged from summer vacation. The crew was whittled down to just Adam and I making some kick ass sandwiches and watching a movie. We ended up watching Ninjas vs. Zombies. It was a really fun smallish budget film. It was great seeing what Jason was trying to get me to help him do again. The film was the first kick.

There was more.

After the movie Adam told me about a friend of his, Adam (made me laugh) who has his hands in many projects around Oshkosh. Check out his website Gilead Media and the zombie movie he was a part of that was shot for the most part around Oshkosh. It is called Dead Weight. This was the second kick.

And more.

Adam was showing me the promotional videos Gilead’s Adam and his partner made for the Oshkosh Zombie Walk and that was the third kick.

Thanks Adam. I am ready to get back at it.

Had two really good NatGeo moments this past week. First was at summer camp. There was a pretty big spider. Not as big as the one from two years, that thing was as big as a fifty cent piece not including the legs. This ones body was the size of a quarter.
We heard rather than saw a cicada fly into the spiders dinner trap. We watched it struggle as the spider slowly made it’s was down the iron strands of it’s web. We watched as it pounced on the cicada and injected it’s venom into the soon to be meal. After while we watched the spider mummify the cicada and drag it up to the rafters to store it for later.
It was wild.

Last night while sitting around a vending machine cooling down after basketball I noticed an odd shadow on one of the poles near by. This shadow fit nothing I could think of so I asked one of miki’s teammates to shine their cellphone lights on it. It took all of us a couple of seconds to realize what was going on.
A cicada was molting it’s shell.
We started watching from when it was half out of it’s old shell. Like a squishy while alien wriggling it’s way out it’s host organism. Watched until it was completely free and it’s wings fully unfurled. Was creepy but hypnotizing.
It was wild.

So I was excited about Mom and Dad sending me a package and being able to pick up some board games for me and ship them too! Well I still am.

We were sending e-mails back and forth the whole week and at some point in the e-mails I mucked up and instead of it sending to my Mom and Dad it only sent a copy to me… I kept changing my mind and refining my list of games and needless to say the last e-mail didn’t reach them in time because I didn’t send it to them on accident.

It is okay I wanted all of the games on the list, the reason I changed it and took one off was because it is HEAVY. Really HEAVY. Now it is sitting at home. It is okay though.

I have been wanting to pick up some board games for a while now, and that feeling has only intensified after yesterday. Adam and I were watching some Louie after work but once that was done we were talking about board games. Not sure if any of you remember Battle Masters or Hero Quest. I did not, but Adam sure did. They have fortified a dear spot in his heart. We were google/youtube ‘in those and other fun games from the past for a while.

I will have to consult with my sister and her husband, they are really into board games and can give me a good jump start in my search.

A while ago I decide to pick up coding. I wanted to have a bit more of a basic understanding of what goes on behind the bright lights and silicone of my computer. I hit it up pretty good for two weeks then I go bogged with work from non other Work. Since then the drive has died.

I really like playing with photoshop and illustrator so I am going to enact my back up plan. Plan B, to be started should plan A be aborted, was to pick up web design instead of straight up coding. This might be able to hold my interest a little better than straight up coding. Plan A is no dead though. I will come back around to it.

Nope not talking about torrents. I have a handful of cherry seeds I am trying to germinate. Now to stick em in my fridge for about three months.

I have caught some sort of nasty space virus and thus am stuck in my house for a while. It is okay though. I have a book!

Well that is an incredibly cliche title.

The sound of my foot steps ring through the empty room. No one seems to have been here in a while. My searching brings me to a desk in the corner, covered in dust. What treasure lies beneath? I fill my lungs to bursting and sweep it away in a river of air, and under it all…

Well this is interesting. I will have to make use of this.

I at a grapefruit. It was awesome, and it made me think.

I really like having plants in my house, and outside on my balcony. Wouldn’t it be great if I could plant one of these seeds. Just planting a seed usually doesn’t work. I threw on of the seeds into my fish tank to try and germinate it. I checked up on it most days and last week I finally saw that it was starting to sprout! I “fished” it out…(hehe like that pun?) and tossed it in a pot outside.

Now we play the waiting game.