New Hobby?

11.19.2007

I've been trying to get a/more non-computerized hobby(s). Spending all day in front of a computer, I need to get away from it sometimes.

Playing HeroScape has been a nice, non-computerized diversion. The best part is putting the board together. It makes me long for the days when I was going to put together scenery for the various miniatures games that I have (yet have mostly never played).

I found myself at Hobby Lobby after lunch today, wasting time and not going back to work promptly. I wandered through the manly aisles of art supplies and scale train sets. Looking at all the stuff for train scenery, I started thinking of those aforementioned games. It would be so easy to pick up a little something and make gaming scenery out of it. Heck, I bet that's what most people did.

So I looked for something simple to start out with. Rocks. Rocks are cool. Rocks should be easy. The one piece of terrain I bought previously was really a rock that goes in an aquarium. But this was going to be a learning process! So I bought myself a rock mold and some lightweight hydrocal plaster, followed up by a video tutorial on making the rocks and an extremely detailed how-to guide..

Now I'm just waiting for a 4-day weekend to see how horribly wrong this can all go.

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Wookie Wookie

11.07.2007

After my Wookie Xmas memories from yesterday, I came across people singing who I'm pretty sure don't know English.

I can't help but laugh when I watch it. Or hear it. Maybe this is the new song to get stuck in my head while I wash dishes?

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Of Xmas & Wookies

11.06.2007

It's nary a week into November, and all around the stores are prepped for the sill season of yuletide cheer. Thanks to a childhood and adolescence of listening to the Dr Dimento Radio Show , I don't normally have Jingle Bells or White Christmas in my head once the Christmas season arrives. Instead I have Christmas Dragnet and my perennial favorite What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb?).

There's nothing worse than to be standing by the sink, washing dishes and singing that Wookie song. I should know, I've been doing it for 20 years. But it brings back fond memories (of what in particular, I have no idea) and makes me smile. So for better or worse, that is my mantle of Christmas.

Now to see how deep I can sing And he doesn't need shaving foam...

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Answers

10.25.2007

I've been studying to take the Zend PHP Certification Test, thinking it would be pretty easy since I've been writing PHP for years along with having a handful of sites running PHP without any problems. I took the self test and scored 1 out of 8. Then I went back and randomly selected answers and got 4 out of 8.

Evidently I'm stupid.

Luckily I tracked down the answers to help find out why I'm so stupid. I'm also reading through a 250 page study guide now, too.

But scoring 4 times better by randomly picking things, that's a blow to my ego right there...

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Not An Update

10.24.2007

Just for anyone checking, there won't be anything of note happening on the site this week (and maybe next week) as I get everything together to move to a new server.

To complicate things, my home PC is acting all goofy and I'm about to have to try taking out an IDE card and reinstalling Windows, followed by reinstalling a lot of drivers and sundry programs.

My life: chock full of excitement!

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