So, today has been a rather interesting day. Work was rather boring to be completely honest (I’m just going to hope no one that will care at my work reads this). Most of my projects are kind of stuck in machine shop limbo. It’s a little frustrating really. I have some stuff that I have designed/helped design that I’m really excited about and it’s driving me nuts not to have the parts I need to build it all. I guess that’s probably something I’m really going to have to learn to deal with. Anyways, as a result I spent a lot of time at work today doing, well, nothing. It was pretty boring, however, I did have time to be checking the school website every 20 minutes or so to see if my grades had been posted yet. They did, around 10:30 and I got all A’s this semester. :) Granted that’s only two class but what the hell, I’m proud. Next semester I’m registered for full time and ready to kick that into gear. Should be a hell of a semester.
After I got off work, I had plans to go on a bike ride with Jon. He ordered his first road bike recently and it arrived today so I took my cycling stuff with me to work and went to Mom and Dad’s house right after to help him assemble it and get out on the road. This is when the day started to get a little sketchy. Upon arrival at la casa de mis padres, I discovered that I could not find my set of metric wrenches that I thought I had brought with me to assemble the bike I searched my bag and eventually gave up and drove back to my house to find them. This lead to a lot of searching and frustration when in the end, it turned out it had been inside one of my cycling shoes in my bag the entire time. That was nice. So, we finally got the bike assembled and we were off. Jon was enjoying the ride and doing very well on the road and in traffic. We got about a mile away from my house when a sound like a gunshot rang out. I immediately panicked thinking something had happened to Jon, not even realizing it was my own rear tire that had just exploded. We ended up walking the last mile to my house.
Fortunately for the both of us, Katrina and Mike were able to drive my car up to my house and pick us up. While we waited, Jon and I took apart my wheel and discovered that I had actually blown the tire which in turn caused the inner tube to pop. Sweet right? So Mike and Katrina arrived and we set out to load the bike on the car and get out of there. On the way out I got stung by a bee for the second time in a week (I might also mention that this was the second time in my LIFE, crappy luck right?) Just after being stung I heard Katrina calling for me from the back of the house and responded only to find that my roommates extremely angry cat had escaped the house and was only coaxed back in after five minutes or so of scratching, screaming and pushing. It was a rough experience for everyone.
After that things calmed down for the rest of the evening. Had some dinner, watched Arrested Development; good times. Then, I decided it was time to get serious about trying a few things in Photoshop. Holy crap have I been missing out. Gimp is great and you really can’t beat the (free) price but Photoshop is about 3 billion times easier to use and gets much better results with less effort. In like 30 minutes I had created the basis of the show poster for the next mystery show and had experimented with my concept for the main images. I took a few quick test shots of myself and with very little effort was able to come up with a pretty good looking prototype of what I want the actual poster to look like. Once I take some time to get the photos to where I want them I think I’ll be able to get a pretty damn nice poster put together. I’m excited to get a photoshoot done and have the pictures I need to go forward with it. Should be a lot of fun I think.
Anyways, that’s gunna be it for tonight. Later. :)
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