A total of 6 hours sleep in 48 hours

This cannot be good for my complexion. Not that I'm into all that girly mak-up, skin care stuff. Okay...I lie, I am into the skin care stuff, but only because I eat healthy and still get friggin; spots!

Anywho, yes, my internal battery is charged with 6 hours sleep in 48 hours. It's actually a hazard because I almost fell asleep while driving home yesterday. I have no-one to blame but myself. Why? Because I stayed up until 6am yesterday doing my Development Project coursework, and it's still technically not finished, since I skimped out on a lot of the design sheets. I also stayed up until 4am today finishing off my 3D Animation coursework. I had to render, animate and write a report all at the same time! It's a good thing my mum bought me a computer, and opted for the one with the better specs, despite my regression into childish behaviour when we went computer shopping. I have no idea what possessed me to act like a stupid kid. I behaved like I did when I was like 8 years old and really wanted the Lion King boardgame!

Actually, I have some idea. I was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't know how deal with it. I felt very pissed off and upset about the night before, when I animated and rendered the first part of my animation, only to get told off for spending too much time on the computer. It's not exactly my fault that it took almost 2 hours to render what I had animated. That, and it was my first time making a character walk so it took a while to get to grips with that.

Anywho, I have my own PC and I'm in love with it, though I still feel ashamed at my behaviour. It was like there were two people inside, and I didn't know what to do. One was the immature, childish side that kicked a fuss over a tiny thing and completely forgot the skills I had learned to fix whatever bugged me, and the other was the mature and understanding one, chastising the immature one about their behaviour and telling them that they should be thankful that my mum was even buying me a computer. I think I shut down for a while, as the two ended up duking it out, and the mature side came out the winner.

Well, my if you remember, the family PC, having 1.25Gb RAM and something like a 256 Graphics Card, rendered a 240+ frame in almost 2 hours. My new PC, with specs of 1GB RAM and a 512 Graphics Card rendered the same thing in 20 minutes. 20 FREAKING MINUTES! That's like 3/4 of the time shaved off! So yeah, the rest of the animation that I did this morning took between 5 and 20 minutes to render, so it's all good stuff.

I think I busted my right wrist. It aches like anything, and it's been doing that since yesterday. The pain became apparent after I researched Carpal Tunnel, which sounds really nasty by the way, and so I think my body is tricking me into spending less time on the computer by faking Carpal Tunnel. It's what it does you see. Like for example, I always get a stomach ache when I'm nervous, or really stressed out. The pain is like no other pain and it feels like my gut is eating itself, like an ulcer. I know, because I am a psychologist (well...studied the subject anyway), that ulcers are a common result of stress. However, in my case, as soon as I get over what was causing me worry and stress, the pain goes away like it never even existed. It's like my body is conditioning/threatening me that if I get stressed, I'll get an ulcer and die. I only found out last night from my brother that ulcers don't get better, they have to be surgically removed *shudders*

Well two of my three courseworks are finished, all that's left is XML. Only a few more days before I fly away, only to return two weeks later.

Here's something for you Firefly/Serenity fans. They're making a Multi-Member Online Role Playing Game based on the series, or set in the series world. Something like that.

Going HD

Two posts in a the space of a few minutes! Why? Because I didn't feel that lumping this post with the other would work, so I made a second post.

We've gone HD! Whoo! I am full of so much anticipation with playing all my games on this TV, and watching Advent Children! It should be extremely mind blowing :) Well I hope it is, I don't really expect much do I?

Scanning for the channels takes a long time to set up. I was doing it last night, and got fed-up and used the AutoScan feature. I hate AutoScan. It just searches for the channels and doesn't even bother ordering them, so I had the following:

Channel 1 = ITV
Channel 2 = BBC1
Channel 3 = CH4
Channel 4 = BBC2
Channel 5 = Video
Channel 6 = CH5
Channel 15 = Sky

I fixed the channel set-up today and that took like an hour at most ¬.¬ AutoScan took 5 minutes. Another thinn that bites is that the Sky remote won't control all those TV functions I've gotten so used to controlling. Why? Because Sky doesn't have the make of our TV listed, so no codes were available. I also noticed that I couldn't spot some of the well known HDTV brands either...so, maybe they haven't gotten around to accommodating all of them yet, or maybe it's because our brand is not known.

Watching live-action stuff on HD is weird. You can see the motion movements and it bothers me. I'm so used to the sharpness provided by...Low-Definition(?)/Older TV's that this new HD gadget is just weird. Guess it takes a while to get used to, unless there's a way to fix the lack of sharp-ness. Mind you, cartoons and stuff look very sexy on the screen.

Grarr! *insert angry incoherent babble here*

Grarr! I am pretty peeved right now. I bought the entire anime series of Fruits Basket late last year, convinced that we would never get the Boxset released over here. Looks like I was wrong. I browsed Play.com a few days back, with the intent of checking out the availability of the Limited Edition Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 6, which comes with a metal tin case/box thinger that you can house your DVD's up to this point in. What do I find? The pre-order to the Boxset of Fruits Basket, which is available sometime next January. I am peeved. Very peeved. I don't know who at, probably me, but I really wanted the snazzy box to house my DVD's in! Fruits Basket has been available here for like 2 or 3 years now, and I was prepared to buy the Boxset in New Zealand when I went last Summer, but couldn't because the order would come in the day after I left for Fiji.

Well, I guess I'm on the hunt for the box cover of the series, 'cause since I already have the series, all I really want is the box. I wonder if I can even purchase just the box, minus the DVD's. Guess that's something I'll have to look out for when I fly away to America. I really need this holiday/break. I didn't get one last year because I spent it completing my Java Program, and that's purely my fault. I need a break, because I have noticed that I've gotten a bit more pissy and a pain-in-the-ass. Although I don't think it'll do much good, but you never know. I have also made a lot of typo's during the writing of this post, and I have been doing that a lot. I don't even know what's the cause of the whole thing, but I really hope this holiday does something to fix me a little. I just need a break and relax. That's something a lot of us need; I know I'm not the only passenger on this boat :p