Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

We have work tomorrow. Nobody asked to be kept awake by your fireworks. People who shoot them off recreationally at night are extremely inconsiderate. 

that I plan to do each year: Art Fight (July) Camp NaNo (April and July) Drawtober (October) 12 in 12 (Playing one video game a month) 52 in 52 (Reading one book a week) I am not going to commit to doing actual NaNo every year yet because I am always in the middle of a different project when it arrives. However, it may be good for getting out a vomit draft while still submitting to my writing group, so I may  do it this year (assuming my thesis is basically done by that point -- need to hurry tf up right now). If it goes well, then I might add it for the purposes of VOMIT DRAFTS and not submitting a crap draft to my critique groups.  Hopefully there will be more to add as well, possibly with various fandoms, but this is what I have currently -- and I am starting now, though I am terribly far behind in both Art Fight and Camp NaNo, having done basically nothing for both this whole month. Because it's July and I'm too busy not being depressed for once. :D But I will do it. 

Lift:  This is going fairly well. All my workouts went well except for abs, because I was up late Thursday night and had to cut into workout time. My arms are still tiny, but progress is slowly moving forward. Every single muscle group is sore right now except my abs. So I think my hypertrophy programming is working.  Run:  Even though we're pulling out of St. George this year, we are doing it next year. I am building a better base of (soon) 5 miles per day and 13-15 on weekends. The longest run I have ever done was this summer, 14 miles. Speedwork isn't happening much but that will change once the base is established.  Code:  Need to pick up the pace on my master's degree and CG studies in general. Cybersecurity is going slowly but progressing daily (still doing the Google IT cert). Control studies have stalled somewhat. General compsci review is slow. I haven't been gaming much, but it's summer. I'll be doing a lot more in the months to come. Working on establ

I'm only a few episodes into my rewatch of the pokemon anime but season 1, episode 8 was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I don't remember this episode from when I was a kid, and that's probably a good thing. I hate AJ a lot.  These guys say it better than I could. It's like the broken Aesop in Outcast of Redwall with Bryony saying that Veil was evil all along after he saved her life.

It will likely take 10 years minimum, but it'll happen and it'll get completed, unless I die in some sort of horrible accident first lol. And maybe, just maybe, the virtual completion will be enough to spur the development of the real thing. Even if not, designing my own virtual theme park resort will be an incredible achievement.  An entire theme park resort based on the fantasy world that I have built ever since I was a kid (and am currently exploring through game design, digital art, novels, and eventually webcomics and visual novels), in order to express my vision of what I wish this world could be.   It will also incorporate every single one of my pursuits.  Computer science: holographic projection, some sort of queueing algorithm, and either C# or C++ code depending on whether I decide to use Unity or Unreal. It'll probably be in Unity. Computer science will be the core behind getting this thing up and running.  Computer graphics: Since it'll be a virtual resort b

Since logging workouts on running2win was basically my PE grade in high school XC/track, I built a good habit and kept logging even after I graduated HS, though sometimes sporadically. I was going to log every single workout I did on my mission, which I tracked on a series of mini notebooks. The notion that I would actually set aside a huge amount of hours to transcribe them all was idiotic and didn't happen for obvious reasons.  When they started charging monthly, despite originally being free, I considered switching to Strava or something similar, but the export feature was broken. I didn't want to lose all of the data from my meticulously logged HS workouts and races, so I kept going.  But something must've happened with the site because the dude in charge is rebuilding the whole thing, and holy hell it is a piece of garbage. Half the site doesn't work and logging in is impossible on Mac Safari and Chrome. I'm paying $3/month for a website that doesn't work.

I can enjoy hikes in nature for hours on end without running out of gas, thanks to my running. Though I might be totally wiped by EOD :)  I can remove my shirt at the lake or the pool and at least see a 4-pack, thanks to weight lifting and IIFYM.  I can help people learn to draw because I practice drawing, 3D art, and digital painting nearly every day. I can troubleshoot people's tech issues due to spending large amounts of time studying programming and computer hardware. I can explain how code, algorithms, and computers work too. I can talk about my novels and the stories I create because I work on them daily. I can socialize and meet new people, even as a major introvert, through music and joining bands and choirs. I'm far from amazing or an expert on anything that I do, but it feels great to see results, even when they are small.  After getting my MSCS, I hope to delve way more into controls engineering, and that (along with cybersecurity) will be the final piece of the puzz

"Given Up" by Linkin Park.  It's about, well, giving up, but it's one of the most motivational songs in my playlists.  It's just too fast-paced and determined. IMO it works well for when you feel resigned but are going to push forward as powerfully as you can anyway. 

I want to listen to music while browsing social media.  I do not appreciate having my volume significantly reduced even when I have autoplay disabled, Reddit. Whoever authorized this update makes sucky UX.