Play Not Thou With Fire

2009-10-19T12:21:00.000-07:00

So this is my favorite anime I've been watching lately. It's really fluid and fun. Lots of random black scenes and little flashes of text here and there. Many weird panning angles.

Oh and the plot is good too.

It is about a dude in high school who was turned into a vampire but got helped out, he in turn helps out other people with their supernatural problems.

In which ingorance rears its ugly head

2009-10-18T08:30:00.000-07:00

So I went with some friends from pocky club to fright night. There was a guy who came up and asked if I was a jedi, I said no I'm a character from an anime.

He said "is that those weird comics from china that you read backward?"

me, "Yeah?"

him, "Haha, you need to get a job"

me, quiet, but angry I told him I had a job but he was already walking off.

Kumoricon 2009

2009-09-21T00:33:00.000-07:00

I was panel staff again this year yay!

I actually went smoother than last, however it was very crowded. Wasn't terribly happy with the venue. Also, the lack of a park adjacent to the hotel was an annoyance.

High point tho was the church service on sunday. Only a handful showed up, but the girl who was running the panel looked to be a teenager. I think it's cool someone much younger than myself has the courage to stand up in front of a group of strangers and share God's word with them. It was cool to hear stories of people and how something like a little service with not flashy productions can work in the hearts of people that might not otherwise be inclined to attend.

Oh, and most everyone was in costume :D

Macross Frontier

2009-08-28T08:34:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated in a while but just got the torrent for Macross Frontier. It is actually quite good.

Some may have known of this anime before. It has been on going sense the 80s. Macross 2 was the very first anime I ever purchased. I still have the VHS sitting around somewhere. It was very epic.

Anyway, as far as genre. Macross Frontier is deff space opera. There are big robots and spaceship cities. The battles are amazing way better than macross 2. Anyway, not too far into it but there some romance and lots of singing. Do like !

Animes I've been watching

2009-06-15T22:02:00.000-07:00

Kurokami, it's about a world where everyone has doubles, but if they meet, fate will kill one of them. There are other worldly being that control the flow of tera (fate / lifeforce) a reclusive high schooler teams up with one to challenge fate.

Natsu no Arashi

What happens when time travel mixes with ghosts mixes with middle school romance? Epic romance comedy. Very amusing anime.

Subversion

2009-05-25T05:45:00.000-07:00

So some of may know I was involved in subversion anime film festival at the clinton street cinema. It was lots of fun, a few people came, and I'm really sore (because I'm out of shape).

I headed down to SE Portland around 10:00am yesterday. We were supposed to do setup at 10:30 but had to fetch a few things. I don't think we started setting up until 11. Not nearly enough time. Also, do to difficulties, most everything I thought would go wrong did.

First, the person who was supposed to be doing the playlist with his fancy laptop flaked out at the last minute. So me and another guy had that thrust on us with no time to prepare. All the anime was put on Meg's lappy which was old and maybe good back in the day but not so much now. She had a 17in dell with 2 gigs of ram and a core 1 processor running onboard video. The digital projector didn't like the vga output so much (Remind me NEVER to buy a sharp projector) Also, the high def files that person-supposed-to-be-projecting caused her computer to choke. We played the first movie okay but it was a lower def file. But only two out of the 15 anime files we had were actually .avi so yeah.

We tried to play some but the sound and video were always off. Eventually we just had to switch to dvds, franticly renting from movie madness and clinton street movies. That worked out okay, but we annoyed the crap out of people at the start of the event with the choppyness. I think we gave 6 people half refunds.

The annoying part was that I wasn't even supposed to be doing projection. I was just going to setup gaming (the last event the gaming was kinda fail). So here all this drama is going on with the projection and the bulk of the responsibility ended up getting set in my lap.

I had plenty of stuff to do gaming but knew it was going to take some time to do. Sadly, I did forget the wii sensor so I had to rush back home at around noon to get the sensor I forgot. I had the projector, projector screen Dave let me borrow (Thanks Dave, it worked awesome!) and the pile of cables / adapters that go along with setting up a wii to a projector and pc speakers. But yeah, the rockband was a huge hit though. People were playing it until about 9pm.

So yeah, equipment comparability issues--check, projection person flaking out---check, forgetting gaming equipment---check. After a few hours of frustration after frustration my nerves were about shot.

Anyway, after we moved to dvds things went nicer. It was nice to hang out with friends, meet new people and hear their stories. The whole thing was a learning experience and while not pleasant at times I have some ideas about what would make it go better if we do it again. Did I mention I'm crazy sore? Yeah running up and down stairs from 11am til 2am the next day will do that to a guy.

monochrome factor

2009-05-13T12:14:00.000-07:00

So I was watching the first ep of what looked like it could be a good anime. However in monochrome factor two guys kiss to unlock a super power. Meh, why spoil this? I'm so *cough* *choke* *Sputter*

I'm so not into yaoi (waits for women to pummel him)

Monochrome Factor

Coming to Korea

2009-02-26T20:24:00.000-08:00

So this is my first time being out of the USA (besides Canada)

I got some things to give as gifts from the made in Oregon store. Also had some stuff from Nick's parents to bring him. So, mostly hardly packed anything. I got some clothes but figured I'd just buy clothing here as it'd be cheaper and I'd have more suitcase space coming back.

Anyway, Michael dropped me off at the max station (Thank you so much!) I took the max to the airport. The lady there was nice enough to reroute me through LAX so I didn't have to spend the night in San Francisco. There was free wifi in PDX so I emailed nick to tell him I'd get there early. As a native oregonian I felt out of place in the heart of california. However, it was nothing compared to arriving in Korea.

My flight left LAX at 12:30 am (just barely wednesday) and we flew up along the coast, past portland, past seatle, past anchorage, past mount McKinney, past japan, then landed in Seoul at 7am about. The airport was a cold empty place with no shops, hardly any people and next to no place to sit. Worse, most everything as written in korean so I felt way more out of place then I did in cali.

By the time I had arrived I'd been awake more the 24 hours with only a few naps here and there (Couldn't really sleep on the plane) So, I had to fill out some paperwork as to why I was there and information about myself. It took me a while fumbling through stuff to get all the information. But I made it out and into Korea proper.

After I got my baggage (took me a while to figure out where to look) I went out to look for a bus and a ticket. There were all kinds of little pay phones that I couldn't read with touch screens and little shops that I had no idea what were about too. I found and bought a bus ticket, and wanted to take out some money exchanged for korea money. They had a global ATM but I had no idea what it said. All the buttons were in korean... I tried to access the internets to tell nick that I had arrived. However, all the wifi was locked that I found.

Next, I walked outside and several guys approached me saying 'Taxi?' but I just replied 'Bus' which thankfully worked. I stood by the bus stop and some guy in a yellow vest came up to me talking stuff I couldn't understand. I said 'Bus' and showed him my bus ticket. He said more stuff I couldn't understand and pointed where I should stand. So I stood there, one bus came and passed, I waited, the next bus came at about 8:10am and the guy who I showed my ticket to urged me to go on, holding his hand out and saying 'go go' encouragingly. Until I was on.

So the bus ride was LOOOOONG, I couldn't believe it. Seoul apparently is a massive city. Much to my surprise, there were lots of places that had familar names, we passed a 7 eleven, a pizza hut and a KFC. I got to Suyu Station at around 10:30 am. Luckily for me, Nick was there. I was a little worried about boarding a bus without telling anyone that I was there but guess I lucked out. I was very glad to see a familiar face.

Korea Ho

2009-02-23T11:55:00.001-08:00

I'll be leaving for korea tomorrow. Good bye everyone

Mew Con

2009-01-08T18:26:00.000-08:00

Well, what's been going on? It's 2009 and I spent it at ben and dora's wedding and then going to out with them and mew con. Mew con was going to be $40 at the door so even though I asked for the time off I was not going to attend due to pricing. However I got a free pass because I was helping out with booth and stuff.

I also got to see Chris Hazelton who writes the comic Misfile. I'd recommend it. According to him it's like Ranma meets Initial D. When I picked him up from the airport he told me that he was working in a job he didn't like, started writing his own comic on the side and then found out he could make money doing that which he did like. Eventually he quit old job and started doing his comic as his livelihood.

Also, one of the things that he did say is that he had some people that followed his work and were fans that were christian and jews. He thought that religious people might find it offensive but they explained that they could tell that wasn't seriously his belief (there is a drunken angel) but it was still a fun story. I thought that was cool.

That was cool, thanks meg and jeff for hooking me up.

And a week later, more snow

2008-12-22T09:15:00.000-08:00

Yeesh, seriously.

Went sledding with jen and troy yesterday instead of church. I'm sore today from being out of shape.

However, going over to jen's Uncle's house was fun. Learned a new card game drunk some hot cocoa and hung out.

Snowed In

2008-12-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

Well, my car has been parked for the last several days due to snow and ice and a big steep hill that I'd likely not make it up. This has left me with a need to be creative with my time. One can only play video games for so long before it gets boring or the feeling of wasting one's life starts to creep in.

1.) I'm trying to get paperwork done for a refinance.

2.) I'm selling old video games on Ebay.

However, I encountered an issue. One of the PS2 games I sold was won by someone in italy. That's right Italy. . . Anyway, I found this out by getting a request for an invoice. I was like huh? It should be obvious how much to pay. However, the international shipping is not needed to be picked to list. So I told them I'd get back to them. I go to the mail store and ask "how much to italy?" They told me around $9 for a package of that size and weight. So I say cool, send them the invoice.

And I get a reply saying that they'd bought games from the states and payed less.

So I reply... ummm if it was any less I'd be losing money on shipping.

So um yeah...

How's your snow day / week going?

Monster Mash

2008-10-31T17:58:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday I dressed up in my Dark Link costume and helped with crowd control. I had a big shield so that helped. Anyway it was cool to see some coworkers families and chat with some other people that I didn't know.

There were people taking photos so I'll see if I can add one to this blog later on. They email I got said there was over 1000 people that came.

Apparently homeless people need beer once an a while

2008-10-19T08:59:00.000-07:00

I was going to a dance last night but showed up early. So I walked up and down main street in Tigard to kill some time and see what was there. Most of the shops were closed down but it still was a nice strip, something that reminded me of a small town.

I was about to call my dad and see how he was doing when I was approached by a woman. She looked middle aged and had a rhaspy voice, looked dirty. So I was thinking homeless. She said her name was Tanya and her friend Tad had gotten hit by a car on 99w. She said she was going to be completely honest with me. I said I appreciate honesty. Doctors didn't think he'd wake up but he did and she wanted money to buy a beer to celebrate.

I listened, listened, listened... she kept talking about why I should buy her a beer. Finally after I got a chance to say something I said, "Will you accept no for an answer." Originally she didn't give me a yes or no answer so I had to ask her a few times. Finally, she said that she'd accept no for an answer.

So, I bought her a beer got myself one too, she knew of this little mexi mart where a huge can of beer was $1.50. So, I went back behind the shop and hung out with her and a couple guys that were her friends I suppose and listened to a guy named dave's story as well about how he used to live in Aloha and all of the trouble he got in while in high school.

Interview with the Vampire on focus on the family?

2008-10-07T11:08:00.000-07:00

So, was listening to the christian talk station and now focus on the family's guest is anne rice. A rather famous novelist, she wrote interview with the vampire.

Anyway, apparently she lost her faith in College at the age of 18 and became an atheist. She said that her novels reflect her moral compass. Like she was convinced everything was meaningless, and identified with the vampire whose life is condemned to the dark trying to find meaning in a meaningless existence . Wow, I gotta call my sister she loves anne rice books.

Dad Visiting

2008-10-05T17:26:00.001-07:00

So, I don't know how much of this I put online but my dad has had some health issue. He has had mobility problems for years, climaxing in his hips becoming fused. Well, the health system in alaska wasn't much help. He came to washington and finally got some answers.

Tough ones, which involved dropping lots of meds

However, said drop of meds resulted in a 70 pound loss of weight this year (he needed it bad and still has plenty more to loose) Well, he got one of his hips replaced and is going weekly to rehab. But he made it all the way down from washington in his truck yestereday.

It is confusing for me to watch him suffer. Please pray that God will be Glorified in all of this.

Dancing at Santoini

2008-09-29T10:29:00.000-07:00

After church I went to the Jonny Martin night again at Santorini. It was cool I got was jiving out to the live jazz music they have there every week and an old lady asked me to dance. They were really nice, I danced with another old lady and they invited me to go sit with them, I talked to a guy named warren that comes out and love the scene. There was another dude that had his own winery too.

Not everyone has to be all secluded and unpleasant with age.

Cosplay Picnic

2008-09-20T23:27:00.000-07:00

Portland waterfront park cosplay chess at the cosplay picnic today. It was cool, I hardly slept though and steve woke me up early. But only a few hours of sleep was enough. After just hanging out we went to old spaghetti factory with the people that did bang bang neko panel.

Also, Charlie explained domo kun, we got to see her lil brother who was excited about the link pair and explained how he needed a deku shield.

Kumoricon 2008

2008-09-10T17:46:00.000-07:00

So about a week ago was Kumoricon. I had lots of fun this year. Last year was plagued with certain rideshare guy that was crazy rude and demanding. Luckily I didn't have to deal with him, in fact I saw him in the halls and said "hi" but he didn't remember me. Score!

Something else new about this year is that I decided to sign up as staff at the last minute. I made some friends over the course of the year that were staffers even last year's con chair. So wasn't going to be staff as first sense really there are no benefits to speak of. However I don't regret it, it was lots of fun.

I helped out with panels staff and also helped out with the info desk answering questions selling tickets to tea parties and the like. I cosplayed as dark link from legend of zelda (er more like shadow link without the body paint) but it was cool. The costume was a bit hot though. Which I am kicking myself because I picked it as a costume that I didn't think would be too hot.

Anyway, I'm hoping to help out with mini k-con events over this next year too. One thing that I wanted to do but didn't get a chance was interview random people about their costume like they did on Kwoon some of those videos are amazing!

Visitors

2008-08-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

So, Michael's sis came out to visit him this week and we've been having fun. Went up to timberline lodge and ate at this pizza place in government camp. It was a nice venue but the pizza was burnt and the service sucked. Mike ordered a "Bottomless pop" and got only one refill which he had to ask for.

I got some videos from the caves though.

Nick with Helium

2008-08-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

I found this vid of Nick on my computer believe it is from Game Night :)

Jen and Troy are married

2008-08-11T17:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday they got all married. I spent some time this weekend helping set up and doing this and that during the wedding. It was good, the ceremony was quite long with lots of imagery. There was singing and dancing too. Troy and Jen left off on the trailer of a tractor.

There was some awkwardness that is still bugging me. Towards the end, it got quite dark as the venue was a farm with minimal lighting. So, I went to use one of the honey buckets and someone forgot to lock, only it was dark and took me a moment to realize that someone was there and I have no idea who it was so I dunno, but it's been bugging me, I apologized and used the next one over. I know it's the person's own fault for not locking it but still...

Searches

2008-08-08T06:01:00.000-07:00

So I'm inspired by mazie and figured I'd post about what some of the people who search for find my blog.

1.) Birth order quiz

Took it, posted results, kinda a boring quiz I'm surprised it is so popular.

2.) ah! my goddess third season

Actually, looking back, it really isn't a third season, more like a special few episodes released to celebrate the series 20th year.

3.) free car diagnose soft

No clue, is a soft diagnose better than a hard one?

Nostalga coming back

2008-07-27T17:46:00.000-07:00

Got back from church a little while ago. It looks like a bunch of what used to be lawn is now building. There are some old faces there that I remember but more people who remember me. More than one lady held her hand to her hips and said "I remember when you were this big"

I liked the church service, yes it was old fashioned and baptist but that is not a bad thing. There are lots of things that they do that Ethnos doesn't. They have sunday school, they have lots of midweek stuff. They have altar calls. There were reports from missionaries, references to missionaries several times during the sermon. There even is going to be a vacation bible school coming up in a few weeks. They were passing out a sign up for who wants to supply a snack for this day or that.

What else? They had a responsive reading. That was cool, the passage that Pastor was preaching on, they said outloud, verse by verse using the same Bible (they had copies in all the pews) It brings back memories, like hymn books I miss those. I can't sing on key so the notes are wasted but still it's neat to see them.

The pastor there was the Pastor of the church I was born into in boardman. He went to start another church in kenewick and my family headed up shortly after (Dad was communiting to hanford so it wasn't a hard decision for him) Now they just had their 25th anversary.. yesh time flies.

Moto Roadtrip to visit dad

2008-07-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

Today I rode my bike the longest yet. From portland oregon, to Richland Washington. It was about 250 miles.

Dad called and said they were having the Hydroplane races on up here on the columbia and it is a short week at work so figured I'd head on up and see how washington has changed over the years without me. All of my friends up there were from freshman year of highschool so I've more or less lost touch with everyone. No backup plan if dad is no fun.

Dad well, he's not been doing well. His hips are fused so he can't move them. On top of that, he needs hip replacement surgury but they didn't want to touch him because his liver numbers were bad. He'd been on very strong pain killers for a long while and had to drop them all cold turkey so he could pull off the surgery safely. This means he is in constant pain, can barely move his legs.

However, do to the fact that he is in constant pain, his appitite has suffered. Over the past few months he's lost quite a bit of weight. Now he's on track to surgery on the 10th. We'll see how my old old church has changed tomarrow, apparently they have a new education wing. I don't know much else.