Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

Same with "someday".  

I know, I have a banner with autumn/wintry trees on this blog, and I do like dark, gothic, and spooky things.  But summertime will always be my favorite…  I love it. I love riding roller coasters. I love riding water slides. I love relaxing in the shade. I love going swimming and kayaking and paddleboarding. I love the zoo and summer carnivals and the smell of things barbecuing. I love taking a walk in the heat, then getting back into the air conditioning and coding or doing something creative. I love getting shaved ice and ice cream. I love going to lakes, rivers, and beaches. I love looking at water features and getting splashed by sprinklers and misters. I love driving with the AC blasting and music blaring. I love two-hour long runs in the canyon and looking at the waterfalls. I love Friday night gaming sessions while thinking about my long run the next morning. I love never having to wear anything other than shorts and a t-shirt for months on end. I love the late sunsets. I love t

Getting ready for bed. I turned on my lamp and it made no difference because it’s still light out. I LOVE it. I would love to be outdoors appreciating it more but I need to get to the gym early. I also love watching the sunrise as I walk over to the gym and start exercising. 

I have always disliked using the term "hobbies" to describe what I do, when I'm not working or at school.  But I wasn't sure what I disliked about it. I think it was due to the fact that "hobby" implies that I'm not serious about it, and I do it to unwind, which isn't true with the majority of what I do. I don't write "for fun". It is  fun, but I write because I want to get published. Similarly, I hate calling art a "hobby", because despite being a CS major, I really want to start making money off of commissions and Patreon once I'm good enough. And it's frustrating that I'm not there yet.  These aren't "hobbies". "Hobbies" are when you are bored on a Sunday afternoon and you randomly decide to start crocheting or something. When I say I want good work life balance, it's because there's a ton of goals I strongly desire to achieve outside of work. Not because I want more time to just

Perfect summer weather! Now THIS is what I want to see. If only those partly cloudy days were fully sunny, it would be perfect. But I still love this! And I hate that it took so long to get to this point this year -- but at least it's here now! 

A few nights ago, I woke up in the middle of the night. But I opened my eyes in a completely different world.  I looked up and saw a deep blue night sky, painted with white stars. Along the horizon was a row of dark mountains. It was a beautiful and peaceful scene. The stars twinkled and shone.  It felt like my previous experiences with "astral vision" -- when you wake up in the middle of the night, and you know  your eyes are closed, but you can still see the room around you. Small inconsistencies and differences, or the scene being somewhat unstable, etc. are how you know that you aren't actually awake.  I decided to try and astral project, to explore more of this world. I failed, and woke up in my bed shortly afterwards.  I hope I can go back to that world. In addition to wanting to project into Lagoon after hours and fly over the lake, and to visit that place in Turtle Bay where the fire burns over the water -- I want to go back to that starry place. I hope I can agai

I would sometimes take a normal dose, not any more than recommended, when I ran out of Sudafed. It helps me to sleep really well, and either it helps my allergies or it knocks me out so I don't notice them. I either don't remember a single dream or I have really vivid ones. And it's usually the former, unfortunately.  But the long-term side effects are really bad. Similarly, today it made me super tired and dissociated, with a mild headache, so. No more of that.  Hearing it could reduce your IQ or cause dementia in high doses freaked  me out. Of course, the dose makes the poison, but I think it's better to not take it more than maybe...once a year.  While I exercise regularly, I don't really take very good care of myself. I guess I should get better. 

...is when your music automatically stops playing the moment you open them up. Looking at you, Reddit and Facebook. Who on earth actually LIKES this awful feature? 

(Minus the kiddie rides that you wouldn't fit in) I am still trying to figure this out, actually. Especially if you want to ride some things twice, this becomes hard to do. But even if you ride everything just once, it's tricky.  Especially because I also like to get food, look at the shops, and walk around Pioneer Village for a bit.  Yesterday, I missed the 3 serpentine slides, the dry-side water rides (Log Ride and Rattlesnake Rapids), plus maybe 5-8 flats that I wanted to do (I blew off a few in favor of a few coaster rerides at the end of the night) but overall, I did a TON of stuff. I even walked the Lagoon Trail a bit beforehand, and still made rope drop. I am refining my strategy.  I did do the following:  Rode 27 rides. Did 3 rerides (Cannibal, Roller Coaster, and Tidal Wave because it was the last one to close) which brings the true total experiences up to 30 Walked 1.5 miles of the Lagoon Trail Went swimming in the Blue Lagoon at Lagoon-a-Beach Drew in my sketchbook a

(And you really shouldn't be imo, because it makes the game more about luck than skill) If you need to eliminate consonants, like you get a dreaded pattern of O and E or maybe A with another A at the end, I use CRWTH. Yes it's a real word. It's an instrument. And it has saved my butt many times lmao.

Trying to get my life under control and FOLLOW A SCHEDULE, including getting to bed in time, but it is very hard when there are fireworks being shot off. The 4th is over, but this will go on for at least another week. Until the neighbors run out of fireworks.  Our apartment complex doesn’t allow fireworks. But there are houses closer to me than other buildings in the complex. And the houses don’t have any rules against fireworks. So guess who gets the crappy sleep. Everyone in the apartment complex lol. They’re being shot like 0.1 miles away from me. Right outside the window. Ah, joy. Like I guess I could stay up, turn my PC back on, and start coding or something but my brain just doesn’t operate well at night. I’m a morning person. Plus I already shut down.  This is going to suck! :D Oh and it will happen again around Pioneer Day lmao. And again on New Year’s. 

If someone ever complains to you about disliking programming because they spend hours trying to fix a bug until they realize they were missing a semicolon, then they are either a beginning programmer or they dropped out of their intro class. Like...your IDE is going to tell you if you're missing a semicolon lol. It should take less than 20 seconds to diagnose. Maybe longer if you normally use Python or JavaScript and aren't used to semicolons (though you SHOULD be using them in JS). Or they use Vim as their primary IDE. But the crazies, the absolute masochistic psychopaths who do that generally don't miss their semicolons either.  The real difficulty is in implementing good algorithms. Not syntax. It should hardly ever be syntax. 

everyone loves fireworks. I sure do, except for when I'm trying to sleep and I can't because there's a series of constant fireworks going off. When my pyromaniac neighbors set them off it also tends up to light up my whole room, making sleep even more difficult than it was already due to the noise. So that's pretty cool. 

I turn 29 in 2 weeks. And I am not looking forward to it. I love the summertime, but I don’t know why I’m supposed to be excited about my birthdays. All they do is remind me of my own mortality. And how far behind I am.  I was supposed to spend my 20s getting in amazing shape, running fast, making incredible works of art, submitting my writing to publishers, improving my musical abilities, learning hacking, and finishing various coding projects — such as video games, websites, and apps. I was hoping to find the romance of my dreams as well. But where am I now? Still not ready to start my MS thesis because my math background is not where it should be, so I’m working desperately through Khan Academy. Didn’t get rehired at my last internship because my ticket velocity was too slow. I’m terrified the same will happen at this current internship. Had to turn down 2 other offers that were basically dream positions because the logistics weren’t going to work. Still not done with my introductor