Saturday, February 9, 2008

   Overload
Please reboot/slap me upside the head.

I apologize in advance for the extreme length of this post. It's been a busy two days.

Friday:
I woke up twenty minutes before my best friend's play started. I hurridly got dressed, swallowed my breakfast whole and practically ran up the hill to the school. Got there just as it started. It was entirely in spanish and german (twas a bunch of skits). My best friend was in the german part. Despite hardly understanding any of the words, it was acted very well so it was easy to get the gist of what was going on. I recognized almost everyone in it. They were all former classmates from the years I had gone there, so it was a bit nostalgic. I actually still tend to think of them as my class.

But enough about that.

After the play, I went home then left again immediately to go to robotics. Since I've never worked in this field before I mostly observe. One of the members caught site of one of my doodles (doodling is like white noise for me) though and now I'm designing the team's logo and an avatar for each person. Ay-eh.

No stopping at home this time. With Grandma and Evan (youngest brother) in tow, we met up with dad and Dan at Katze's Deli and went to another event I totally forgot to tell you guys was gonna happen.

A skateboard art show.

Yeah, now normally, that isn't my thing, but this was a benefit for my youngest brother's school, which is kinda struggling at the moment, so I had to go.

The skateboard art was really neat. There were about 200 different designs and supposedly that was only a fourth of this guy's collection. But an art show is still just an art show, and I sat around, doodling, trying to get a handle on what my team's avi's should look like most of the time.

That was until people started asking about the shirts. Mom and I had designed a black t-shirt with a sorta logo one it. At first it was just compliments from the people from the school saying they looked good, but as more guests came, I started getting asked where they could buy one. We hadn't anticipated that. So we quickly set up a preorder form. It would've been better if we'd had some shirts to sell right there and then, but as I said we hadn't anticipated it. We've now got a thing set up on cafepress.com for them though and have been handing out adds for the site, so hopefully it'll work a bit better.

Now mom knows I spend a lot of time here posting and commenting and apparently that news has circled around the school (it's a really small school). Unfortunately, it seems that for working moms and housewives, a teenager regularly being on the internet translates to "tech savvy genius". Nuh-uh. That didn't stop them from asking me to create a blog for the school, however. We're discussing the details of it on tuesday, so I'm not even exactly sure about what they want on it, but just in case, do any of y'all know of a really good HTML tutorial? Not just thereference FounderWeb thing that Adam posted-- but a real indepth one? T'would be greatly appreciated.

The art show wasn't the only attraction, of course. There was a bar and, starting at about nine, live rock bands. The first one was aptly named Crapulence and the second one was little better. Here's the funny bit of all this though. As I mentioned earlier, Grandma came along.

And rock bands play really, really loud.

... You catchin' my drift yet? Of you are. The look one her face was priceless. I laughed my head off. It also helped that she was kinda tipsy otherwise I think she would've had the presence of mind to leave before they started. But she didn't, so we ended up scribbling and doodling on a piece of paper to communicate and to keep ourselves entertained.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, she was perfectly fine. I wouldn't have laughed if she wasn't.

Anywho, got home. Talked with a friend on the phone about life, the universe and everything until about one, which is why I didn't update last night.

Saturday
Again, this morning it was eat and go. This time it was to the second part of the event. There was gonna be a skate demo this time in the parking lot in front of the art building. We helped run things until about seven. Then we ate dinner out and came home. And now I'm updating.

So... How many of you actually read all that/made it this far? Raise your hands if you did, boys and girls!

*shot*

Due to the long nature of this post, I'm gonna skip responding to the comments until next time. Sorry guys.

I hope all your days are less lengthy/insane than mine!

Later, Taters!

~2short
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