Technical Difficulties...
Feb. 19th, 2003 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteMm, tonight didn't go as planned. The first thing I realized when walking (15 minutes late) to FX was that it was awfully quiet for the premiere meeting of FX. It always takes long for the club to get a room on a day and time that everyone can go to; Wednesdays was the day when we used to have Marathon showings, most of which I couldn't go to because of night school; I was too zonked to go to the last hour after I got out of class at 8:00, and got to SFSU by 8:30 or 9:00. Well, now with it being a regular school night, there was barely anyone-- a few noobies, and even one old guy... @_@ Yeah.
My plan to work up the guts to talk to Joe after all this time fell through. He ended up going back to class and never reappearing. I half-hoped Vince could help me out or something, but he was busy trying to get the damn computer to work; at first we thought it was DivX, then Vince said something was wrong with the CD, then we saw how many background processes he was running; he tried to close them, but the computer and all the various media players kept freezing. Sasami even started to play Mahoromatic upside down! All in all, we only managed to watch Jungle Hale Nochi Guu, Full Moon O Sagashite, and part of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. I think... I might have missed something. @_@ I stand by my belief that we should have copies of everything we plan to show on VHS; we can't rely on school systems or even personal laptops to always run as they should; while VHS quality does degrade over time, by the time an anime episode is released (licensed) on DVD with all those spiffy extras and higher quality, you've already seen the show not long after its premiered in Japan and been fan subbed; not to mention it's easier to rent out, since not everyone has a DVD player. I'm sick of people asking me if I have a DVD-ROM or a PS2. NO!
I was too late to go to the arcade and play iD or even some DDR (they upgraded to Extreme, too). Blah. When we decided to kill the meeting at 9:15, I headed to the arcade to tell Jimbo and Cris about leaving their stuff there, and so they headed back; I wasted $1 paying for a game of DDR with Jemmy-- we only managed to play "Saints Go Marching" before the power went down; Gina was right, the girl working the counters was a snot and wouldn't refund even $.25 of my money. Bitch. >_< There were a bunch of fobs hogging the iD machine until Gina played (and she has 6 cards! She beat the game 2 times already! I'm telling you, she's the female champ!) but I didn't have time to get change. GAUGH.
Anyway, Gina and I waited outside for her mom to pick us up (I guess G's on better terms with her now...?) and we ended up talking about everything from cosplay and Fanime to love and friendships that fall through. We noticed that the moon was unusually large and low in the sky; in the twenty or so minutes we were waiting, it rose a lot and got somewhat smaller. Maybe that's why things were so weird and unlucky for people lately. Heh, I always blame stuff on things out of our control; makes me feel better about destiny and "fate."
Hmm... so now I'm at home just typing this... I think I left my headphones at Will's again, because I've been using my weird long-wire pair. I look like a dork whenever the head-band part comes undone; it looks like I have a huge flat horn coming out the top of my head. @_o It's nearly 11:00... wow... I never got the chance to talk to Jer about East Of Osaka's downedness or what's up with my own boards (which he helped me set up). I wanted to play SO2, but I'm kinda zonked... and despite mom having her friend over, I might just head out for the night at 11:30. ZZZZ... yay.
Hopefully all technical, personal, emotional, and work-related difficulties will be resolved tomorrow. I'm looking forward to this weekend; Will will have his cooking final (I'm already scheming ideas on what my not-so-li'l protégé will make) and maybe Amber and I can go hunting around for costume parts. There's some great thrift stores downtown and in Snob Hill. =D I have an essay first draft to write... >_> Damn. Guess I'll be waking up early tomorrow.
Now, back to the layout!
My plan to work up the guts to talk to Joe after all this time fell through. He ended up going back to class and never reappearing. I half-hoped Vince could help me out or something, but he was busy trying to get the damn computer to work; at first we thought it was DivX, then Vince said something was wrong with the CD, then we saw how many background processes he was running; he tried to close them, but the computer and all the various media players kept freezing. Sasami even started to play Mahoromatic upside down! All in all, we only managed to watch Jungle Hale Nochi Guu, Full Moon O Sagashite, and part of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. I think... I might have missed something. @_@ I stand by my belief that we should have copies of everything we plan to show on VHS; we can't rely on school systems or even personal laptops to always run as they should; while VHS quality does degrade over time, by the time an anime episode is released (licensed) on DVD with all those spiffy extras and higher quality, you've already seen the show not long after its premiered in Japan and been fan subbed; not to mention it's easier to rent out, since not everyone has a DVD player. I'm sick of people asking me if I have a DVD-ROM or a PS2. NO!
I was too late to go to the arcade and play iD or even some DDR (they upgraded to Extreme, too). Blah. When we decided to kill the meeting at 9:15, I headed to the arcade to tell Jimbo and Cris about leaving their stuff there, and so they headed back; I wasted $1 paying for a game of DDR with Jemmy-- we only managed to play "Saints Go Marching" before the power went down; Gina was right, the girl working the counters was a snot and wouldn't refund even $.25 of my money. Bitch. >_< There were a bunch of fobs hogging the iD machine until Gina played (and she has 6 cards! She beat the game 2 times already! I'm telling you, she's the female champ!) but I didn't have time to get change. GAUGH.
Anyway, Gina and I waited outside for her mom to pick us up (I guess G's on better terms with her now...?) and we ended up talking about everything from cosplay and Fanime to love and friendships that fall through. We noticed that the moon was unusually large and low in the sky; in the twenty or so minutes we were waiting, it rose a lot and got somewhat smaller. Maybe that's why things were so weird and unlucky for people lately. Heh, I always blame stuff on things out of our control; makes me feel better about destiny and "fate."
Hmm... so now I'm at home just typing this... I think I left my headphones at Will's again, because I've been using my weird long-wire pair. I look like a dork whenever the head-band part comes undone; it looks like I have a huge flat horn coming out the top of my head. @_o It's nearly 11:00... wow... I never got the chance to talk to Jer about East Of Osaka's downedness or what's up with my own boards (which he helped me set up). I wanted to play SO2, but I'm kinda zonked... and despite mom having her friend over, I might just head out for the night at 11:30. ZZZZ... yay.
Hopefully all technical, personal, emotional, and work-related difficulties will be resolved tomorrow. I'm looking forward to this weekend; Will will have his cooking final (I'm already scheming ideas on what my not-so-li'l protégé will make) and maybe Amber and I can go hunting around for costume parts. There's some great thrift stores downtown and in Snob Hill. =D I have an essay first draft to write... >_> Damn. Guess I'll be waking up early tomorrow.
Now, back to the layout!
