Useless At Present
Hello all.
The title of this post is the actual living experience I am in the midst of this week/end. I feel useless. Why? Because I went and got sick, and it was bad. To quote a study buddy from college, it was Bad News Bears. So, yeah. I am sitting here typing into this text field instead of eating haggis and dancing with a ton of extremely cool Scottish (and wannabe Scottish) folks in Imabari. That’s right, I am missing the event of the year, Burns Night a la Aileen and Chris, because I am sick. Alas, the complete and total lack of a VOICE caused me to call in sick for Thursday and Friday as well. And…provided I get better by tomorrow, that should be all. But if not, I should really get to reading my contract for the extended pages on sick leave. I feel like I would be useless in class when I have no voice. You know? Deas-sensei, please pronounce this list of vocabulary words. *Awkward silence and confusion at the moving lips and sound of a goose drowning.* Deas-sensei, please tell us about your experience with this subject. *Giggles as I try again.* It would be awful. And I don’t want to screw my wonderful island schools out of their once a month visits from me. When I go, I want to be genki. I dunno. I have rescheduled my trip to Omishima. I hope I don’t need to cancel on Oshima on Monday. Murakami-sensei is expecting a baby, so they already have enough to deal with. Oh, yes. Woe is me. Plus, I am bored.
I beat The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess today. There is no more to the game, really. I think I’ll go have a stab at the Cave of Ordeals, or whatnot. But I was frankly a bit surprised by the end of the game. No spoilers, so no worries. All I know is that I spent a bundle of rupees in the 4,000 range to work up to and purchase an item, and beat the final bosses without ever touching it. Come to think of it, I never used most of the special stuff I got. I am too ridiculous about cutting the grass and breaking pots to keep myself at 100% all the time. I think that says something about me. It’s how I live my life, I think. Risks? Sure. But how risky are they when I am walking in armed to the teeth with weapons and things that I’ll never use? Ha ha. Oh well. C’est la vie. No, screw that. I should use Japanese on this blog. So…um….まあ、それは人生だなぁ。No idea if that translates. And it’s written colloquially, so don’t bother BabelFishing it. By the way, LoZ:TP was AWESOME Japanese practice for me. Tons of casual speech, some in wacked out dialects, and some from animals - who speak in katakana laced with kanji. Brutal. Yet awesome. Anyhoo - not much left to do there. It’s over now. Great game, though.
I spent my time today 1) finishing off my first Japanese videogame as aforementioned, 2) becoming a “Pro” quite by accident at Wii Sports’ tennis game, 3) installing WordPress 2.1 Ella and configuring it on my webserver, 4) repointing my domains to the appropriate places, 5) testing a flash-based audio player for future use and abuse, 6) calculating loan payment and plausible investment strategies for this year, and 7) sucking on cough drops. I hope I am better by tomorrow evening. Sigh.
PS - I also moved the text from all of my previous iWeb entries into my databases here. The pictures and stuff are too bothersome, so I am just gonna start anew from the next entry onward. I still have a lot of poking around to figure out photo management in WP. But hey, look how far I have come in this short amount of time. Got a theme, upgraded, backed up databases, worked with MySQL. I’m on a roll.
PPS - Took a quiz to see if I could sort out what was a Star Wars character and what was a Web 2.0 service. Got a 41. To people who got a 41 or 42, the site says: “No, really. Go outside or something. Ride a bike. Run barefoot through the grass. Get a pet. Anything.” Awww….I am indeed a loser. Take it for yourself. I’m looking at you, James, Michael, Nick, etc.