ur splng stnx man.

Not that I've received any recently but I've had SO many e-mail that were difficult to decipher, especially from people asking questions about a game (The Hobbit) that I wrote a guide for a while back. Usually it's more of a task trying to figure out what they are saying than to answer the question once you decipher what it is (or at least take a guess at it) . Then I send a lengthy reply and get "huh?" or "thnx" as a response. *sigh* There's a language barrier here folks. It can be found at
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=70765&rid=65494
I've had some people tell me they read it for fun, after they beat the game. That's just plain odd when someone will read through a walkthrough for fun!

Let me see... where to begin. How about with a couple of quotes?
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain

And then on to business. This morning was cold yes. In fact, when Oi got up this mornin' Oi said to mese'f "Sef!: It's cowld." At least it was once I got out of my sleeping bag. Ah... my sleeping bag, just thinking about it gives me delightful shivers, the warm kind, not the cold kind.
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is coming out this week, apparently at midnight tonight or something. I can wait, I'm actually a little nervous, will it live up to the hopes at all? Oh, I hope they didn't mess it up! I have been looking forward to this for so long!

I just decided to watch the 9 minute trailer since I've heard a few things about it. Funny I'd not heard of it before because usually I'm one of the first to see things like that. I guess my head's been elsewhere... as in studies lately. Comments as I go along. The war-times scene I was SHOCKED to see that they Pevensie family had lights on in the house at the time of the raid, although it makes sense if it was the first raid that the Germans made, which is probably the case so I'm probably wasting my breath (or fingers). Never mind. Ah! Peter said "I will mum." I'm happy. As some may have guessed I like the ol' British ways. At least a lot of things. Mr Tumnus looks cold. I had rather hoped he'd be closer to Lucy's size I guess, but he's not too tall as it is. The scene of the mountains, I hope that's of Narnia after it's begun melting or during the Golden Age of the Northern Mountains or something. I bet it is because there's no snow below. Perhaps I should stop this idle speculation but the reader can skip the paragraph I suppose. I'm typing while I think.
It was rather funny when Peter was holding his hand out to the Beaver, I guess that's an example of "cinematizing" a book. I don't know, the Beavers look pretty good (much better than the others that's for sure!) but they still look very digitized. I hope they clean that up before the final print er... tomorrow. But even so I'll be content. He looked better in his home. Hmm, I'll have to admit I liked the other White Witch's looks better er... that is as far as White Witches go....
Her hair is blonde!
The costumes look pretty good, WETA sure does a great job, they are hard workers. Oh man I'd love to have a sword like Peter's! That "For Narnia, and for Aslan" sounded slightly.... Lord of the Ringish.... but then again I suppose so many quotes sound like so many others. I always liked Peter in the books. I took a character quiz once and I think I was him the first time I tried and Aslan the second or something. Which pleased me on both accounts ;)
I liked seeing the Cheetahs streaking out in front, though I don't recall cheetahs being mentions in Narnia. But it was neat anyway. Does anyone else think the mermaids look "fishy"? I guess I'm used to seeing different looking ones. Who was that flowery-pollenating dude?
Whoah! Riding down on a floating chunk of ice? Not only does that look cold, it looks like that's a "new improved" scene! I expected a few of those...
I was told the professor looked like a dwarf. He looked fine to me. Perhaps his hair looked like mine after I've been in a stiff cross-wind but I didn't think he looked dwarfish. I half expected to see a short gnome.

Overall it was VERY impressive, I liked a lot of the music. Everything was dramatic, I guess they want to show how impressive it is but thank goodness the entire movie isn't one non-stop knife-stabbing, battling action like it was portrayed. Every scene (nearly) in the last two thirds had a sword or something like it, or so it seemed. Boy, now I'm excited again.

Calculus class went well today, we aren't allowed to use graphing calculators for the exam (which a lot of people were shocked at) but I don't mind, I enjoy doing everything by hand anyway. Apparently a lot were doing everything by calculator on other exams so she wants to make sure they know the material. I appreciate her trying to help the students understand the material, most will take the classes and get out not caring if they know everything or not, as long as they pass. I have a slightly more long-term outlook on things. I want to do well especially on the last parts of my Calculus class and my Java class because I'm going to have the second parts to those next semester. Which reminds me, for some reason my Java professor thought that I was a Computer Science major, he had some sheets he wanted to give me before class because I was a "Comp Sci" major he said. I told him I was actually an EE and he half turned and said "Oh, well, I hope I didn't insult you then." Or something like that. He has a very dry sense of humour that I enjoy a lot.

Then I worked on today's lab, early like I usually do. It didn't take too long but then I spent the next 3 hours or so banging my head against the keyboard trying to get the final program to work. The instructions are rather vague and at 12:30 he clarified a lot of it and explained it further so I was very thankful. I've now got it almost completely done, just one thing to debug and then test it out! I could probably skip it because my scores on the others are high enough (and that is probably what most students do) but again, I want to understand all this material for next semester, and I would feel dreadfully lazy if I didn't complete it.

The meeting with Pastor went well, we talked about Repentance and Faith today and it was a good discussion. Unfortunately J. Nathan wasn't there, apparently his phone is not working either so there was no way to contact him to let him know of the meeting time. I haven't heard from him at all myself so I hope he's doing all right.

By the time I left campus and got home it was past 5:00 and the only thing I'd had all day was a piece of banana bread (compliments of the Y's) for breakfast at 6:25 that morning. I don't usually drink during the day either but today I was feeling the need for some liquids by the time I got home. Ah.... good ol' Dr. Pepper. But I wasn't feeling bad at all, I suppose going to the Yule's house and stocking up for the next day by eating cake and ice cream is a pretty good thing!

So I did some laundry and finished the very last bit of my Calculus homework. I needn't have finished it because my 4 lowest scores are dropped (so it probably wouldn't have even counted) but I enjoyed it. I did it in the laundry room where it was warmer, in the camper it's 45 degrees right now and my fingers are getting stiff. It's harder to type at 45 degrees I've noticed.

Speaking of laundry, I'd better go get mine out of the dryer, I'm sure it's done by now, then it's off to bed for me. Time to study some more for Chemistry tomorrow! 'Night!