Yep, that’s the Titan that I’ve been hinting about. I got Vezon and Fenrahk the other day for only $8!
I bet you’re wondering how I managed to get that deal, and it’s true, I am leaving a bit out. Anyhow, my main chore this summer has been to drive my sister to her driver’s ed classes. The building happens to be located next to a Fred Meyers, so once a week I’ve dropped by to see if they’ve got the Mahri yet. (So far, no luck). However, for the past couple of weeks, they’ve had some clea
Okay, yesterday evening was a real tearjerker for me. (No, I didn't cry, but it was depressing) BZPower was offline. Fine. Brickshelf went offline. Not good. Biosector01 was offline. No suprise there, the trick is to find it when it's online. Even Makaru's forum was offline, so I couldn't even check that out. Pretty much, my online community was dead until I IMed Kumata at 1 in the morning.
It's gotten better this morning, as BZP came back for a while, and Brickfest went back up too.
I have a couple of cool blogs I want to write up, but I have no real inspiration to do so. Thus, I am posting a blog to talk about the weather.
But it's cool weather. And not in temperature. This week has been a real hot one. Up to 103 degrees F (I'm not even going to try to spell Farenheights...) Although, at one point, the thermometer recorded 107, but it was probably also picking up heat off the cement. I don't know the conversion to degrees F to Celcius... but it's been hot enough.
I just got a cool new set. It's a Titan. And I got it for eight dollars.
Just something to pique your curiousity while I write up a full review (and play with it some more)
On the downside... still no Mahri.
I come back for a week to find this site in tatters... or something like that. as much as I like BZPower, I think I'm going to take some time off of it to help ease the server load Bink must be dealing with. I'll check up on messages and update my story, but I'll keep it to that. Maybe I'll write something else while I'm offline (or maybe I'll play games)
Anyway, see you all later. And, if you're here and want to read something, I did update my story.
A kinda unexpected on my part trip has popped up... so I won't be around for the next five or so days. I'll be posting a new chapter and updating my blog again once I get back. For now, I'll be adding the next chapter to my epic up... and it has a cliffhanger.
I have just conducted what is likely my largest rebuild of old sets ever…
I can already see a difference. A few days ago, the pile on my floor was opaque… you couldn’t see the carpet underneath all the pieces. First, I separated system pieces from technic pieces… making my pile of system pieces much smaller and easier to shift through, as all the little nitpicky pieces were all technic. Then I spend days rebuilding canister sets by memory, before tackling the instruction books to build so
Well, like everybody else, I went shopping today to see if the Mahri were out. They weren't at my local Fred Meyers. However, I saw some likely sales. A bunch of Lego Bricks were half off, including the Inika (that would tempt me if I didn't already have them all) and Vezon and Fenrakh (that did tempt me...) (And they also had some batman and star wars sets that were 0% off, but still have a sale sign stuck to them. I wonder how many people fell for that) But I didn't have fifteen dollars t
My latest epic, a relatively short account of the Voya-Nui Matoran on (gasp) Voya-Nui. Six chapters long, one posted every other day, so it'll be a short epic but rapidly updated. And all my regular reviewers (all three of them) better check it out, because if they don't, I'll be PMing them.
Story Topic Here. Please review. Second chapter's up tomorrow.
A couple of notes...
1) Summer's started! Yeah, it started last week, but I was helping prepare for my dads big b-day party. We got lucky on the weather... it was suppose to rain but it didn't, so we could have the party outside and not cram everybody indoors. And then the next day it poured down. Ha! We really got lucky there. I was busy parking cars, too, so it would've been really bad if it rained the whole time.
2) Writer's block. I have ideas for like two or three comedies, but
The DVD burner works again!
After defragmentation, uninstalling and reinstalling program, and another four hour wait, I discovered that the DVD burner will crank out DVDs. Now I can complete my project, and I never have to burn a DVD again... until I make another cool movie worth archiving on a disc.
Plus, I have one story almost done (needs some artwork before postation), a comedy planned out (this one needs no art), another idea for a story (but it might never take off) and a set of int
As an update to my entry last week, I have made no progress on burning the needed DVDs for my project. And I've run the program four times since then to burn more DVDs. Each time, while the program is still rendering, it freezes. Then I've wasted two or three hours of my time, and get nothing out of it. I've been running it on my computer twice today. The first one died after two hours, and it said it had one and a half hours to go. Then I cleaned up some spcae on my hard drive and tried a
Finally...
I just cam eback from viewing Pirates 3 in theatres. I wanted to see it when it first came out, but school work and other occurances prevented me... until now. Graduated from high school, got a whole month of summer to look forward-ish to, so why not start it off by watching a cool movie. My favorite part was when...
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «The monkey aimed the gun at the bird, just as everybody else was double-crossing each other
Great movie, can
I thought burning a DVD would be simple. Sure, for my computer, it takes time to render and then a little time to actually burn the disc. But, hey, I can burn four DVDs with ten minutes of info on them in about one and a half hours. How long can it take to burn forty DVDs with an hour and a half of media on them?
Apparently, longer than 12 hours. Three (or more) hours for the program to render. About 25 minutes to burn each DVD, not counting the time I need to switch discs out of thedisc
Finally went to my local Borders and saw it in stock... this is my forth trip though, so the waste of gas probably made for an overall loss. And the book didn't seem to be nearly as good as I was hoping... a lot of characters but it was very fast-pased so they didn't go into as much detail as in some of the past books. I liked Bionicle Legends 6 better, although Bionicle Legends 7 more than doubles the cast of characters. Fortunatly, there were plenty of nifty surprises that make it worth rea
I seem to be lacking in this more and more. Fall asleep late at night... get up early. Stress over projects. According to the sign out in the school's hallway, there's only six days to go... so I'm hanging in.
The school security system finally weeded out BZPower as a bad site (cause it links to other sites, apparently). I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever goes on it, and I've never been caught. But, oh well, I'm only stuck at the school for two more weeks before graduation. Tis no big inconvienence.
No, no, I thought I had it tough having to complete an Eagle Project (you know, if I wanted to achieve Eagle rank) But now my high school is making me repeat the whole thing over again with a new project. Sure, it's less physically intense this time, but it still requires a whole bunch of actual "thinking" and time to crank it out. A couple of notes on it.
1) The project keeps changing. It was originally the writing and / or filming of some sort of fiction. Then it turned into a filming
The Borders online story check thingy said Bionicle Legends 7 was in stock. The shelves and in store computer said otherwise. And their Bionicle section is starting to look skimpy too.
I is annoyed massivly. Now off to Fun Days.
Opening night of the play, for me. For my feelings right now, refer to this blog entry.
Obviously, this play production think isn't working for me.
Back to sleeping...
Now, here's a new train of thought.
Everybody else has some spacial design banners for their bloggy thing. I'm thinking of creating my own this summer, with features like my MOCs and stories and whatnot. But I'm trying to decide what theme I should use. Should I use mini-figure pictures that are or relating to Team J.A.F., or should I use Matoran from Time Disruption? (Jala, Takua, Maku, Huki, Hahli, Nuparu).
Because, you know, this is an important decision that could change my blog fo
I have come to realize that anger is a selfish impulse. You get angry at people for doing something that restricts the action of your getting something. Think about it.
Anger at bullies for stealing your lunch money- you get no lunch.
Anger at somebody cutting you off in traffic- you can't get to where you're going that much longer 'cause they're getting ahead of you now.
Anger at people for releasing pollutants and causing global warming- you don't get to lvie in a clean world
Note, the following are my observations based of my viewing of the shows and ONLY that. I have no idea of what the future storylines / broadcaster licences / big-fan-hoo-ha stuff is about, but I'm posting this to just give off some of my opinions. Take it or leave it, but if you're an expert, don't go around correcting me because you read the manual or something.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way... Oh, and BTW, there are spoilers to the shows if you haven't seen them yet.
For m
On an unmentionable other message board-type thingy (I wonder what you'd call it other than by its name?) Anyhow, I was on, and reading some bulletons from friends. A guy crashed his car, and blogged about it. I read something along similiar lines with somebody else who got into a car wreck a few months ago. I myself posted a quick entry when I had my own little wreck, although I actually failed to say that I got into a wreck, I just posted to say that I was angry. (And, mind you, I've onl
