So now I’m going to try and recollect things over a 2-month period. This should be interesting. I’ll use my MotionBox account as a small point of reference. I think I might just post a bunch of videos for this to fill in a lot. Video VS Text has its advantages/disadvantages. Forgiveness to any significant thing I forget as these last couple of months have been busy and eventful. And apologies to those that can’t view the HD footage. As a solution, if you wish to view them, ask me to email you a link to view it in SD. I know I’ll forget stuff so…yeah…can’t do much about forgetting unless someone reminds me.
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KT Tempura Cook-Off – 08.01.09
Our attempt at mixing odd food/ingredients with tempura batter. It came with very interesting results.
Banner
Introduction plus my ingredients
Taste testing Wilson’s ingredients
Teaser (Video Project)
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Linny’s Birthday – 08.09.09
Skating
Skater POV
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Danny’s Going Away Get-Together – 08.12.09
8-Player Daytona Racing
Danny’s Going Away Speech
My Child (Video Project)
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Gianni’s Baby Shower – 08.23.09
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My Birthday – 08.29.09
We played Wii Sports Resort and I had both the players recorded and the gameplay footage captured. But I haven’t had the time to sync and put all the videos together. I’ve only done one so far. But the funniest game had to have been when we were canoeing. The following clip is just us players playing it and not the on screen gameplay.
Canoeing
Wii Sports Resort (Speed Slice) – Ada VS Yvonne
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All Out 2009 – 08.30.09
Illovation
Wyldstyl
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And that’ll be it for videos I’ve taken. Wow, that took up all of August. No footage taken for the month of September, aww. Now it’s time for a text recap.
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Work…boring…
I’ve been cleaning up our website as of late. More on that shortly.
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Health Related
Ah, yes. Fun. For a while I had been having an ear issue. I mentioned it in my last post. Well, my ear is fine now. I went to a different doctor and he was able to extract the large piece of build up (and it was ridiculously large) from my ear and now I hear fine. Unfortunately, all of that build up has made my ear canal larger and it is liable to catch a lot of build up again. I am taking drops to help with some healing and I’ll be going in for a checkup in October.
I was also dealing with a horrible headache for a few days. It was weird. It only effected the left side of my head and it coupled together with strains in the neck if I moved it a certain way. Those are gone now at least.
Now I shall tie work and injuries together. Since I’ve been cleaning up the website at work, I’ve had to do a lot of copy/paste/move over and over. Doing that repeatedly for 8 hours a day as fast as I can with minimal movement in my wrist has garnered pain in my wrist and arm. I thought it would go away after a weekend of rest, but the following Monday had just typing short phrases being painful. I had been wearing a brace on my wrist to minimize any large wrist movement and it had helped, but the pain still persisted. The worst it was was on one night, I couldn’t sleep because I could just feel the heated pain shooting up and down from my wrist to my shoulder. So I took today (09.29.09) off and went to the doctor. Fortunately, it is not carpal tunnel. Unfortunately, I have inflamed ligaments that could lead to carpal tunnel. So I just have to slow things down at work and keep the brace on and I should be fine.
You may be asking how I’m typing all of this with a messed up wrist. Medicine.
I also knocked out getting my flu shot the same day. Yay for insurance paying for it.
This wrist injury came at a weird time. It came after doing a large deal of project related work, but it came at a point when I started to work out more. I started working out more due to the project and I had finished my portion of it. I was going to continue working out to just maintain the build I had, but this wrist thing will have me sidelined from doing anything for at least another week or two…sucks.
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Maria
Maria came to visit over the Labor Day weekend. I met a few of her army friends that came with her. We went to celebrate her mom’s birthday (2 days after mine) at a Mexican restaurant. It was really fun. A lot of her family was there (who recognized me) and our food took forever to come out. They had a dance floor and I danced with Maria once. That was it. We really didn’t catch up though unfortunately since a lot was going on. Perhaps another time.
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Game Reviews
Wii Sports Resort
Contra Rebirth
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
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Birthday
Other than the birthday celebration at the end of August, there was the actual day.
I’d like for the next actual day of my birthday to have no problems at all. Not getting my way…continuing from not getting my way…yelling at a coworker at the end of the work day over stupid things…
But it wasn’t all bad. A couple of friends took me out for a memorable dinner. Good piano player, good food, good drinks, good conversation, pretty waitresses actually taking it upon themselves to do the restaurants’ birthday celebration (thanks Angela and Tina)…yeah. Memorable.
For myself, I ordered (and have since then received) BoA’s re-release of her first English album. Deluxe comes with 3 new songs (technically 2 since Energetic is the MV/Radio version). I only like the new Energetic track they added, but I actually prefer the original version of Energetic. Fan. Support. BoA.
My parents’ birthdays were also this month. Happy birthday to them and others who had September birthdays like Jason (BALLIN’).
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Girls’ Generation
Now you know we’re almost done. Congratulations on reading/watching this far.
HyoYeon had her birthday, yay! She and my dad share the same birthday, yay! She is now 20/21 (depending if you’re using Western/Asian age). Happy Birthday!
I know some of the videos I embedded in previous posts are no longer up. You could find those videos around somewhere. The girls ended their promotions for “Tell Me Your Wish/Genie” a while ago, but they still perform this and other older songs at different appearances. Here is one of their official Goodbye Stages (08.09.09) and the latest performance of that song that I’ve seen (09.25.09) and I’ll also leave you with Soshified’s birthday video they made for HyoYeon. You can see what else they contributed to her in the description in the direct video link.
Take care. Mmbyeeeee.
