May Contain Nuts

Random blurbage… didn’t do much at work tonight, and will doubtless have little to do tomorrow as well, since I am unexpectedly and unfathomably not closing on Sunday for what feels like the first time in a year (I know it’s been substantially less, but every week feels like a month at AMC, especially when the low-budget crap movies all come out at once in late winter and again in early fall… really, why do we need a sequel to The Mask?).

Pahket is progressing very nicely… I’ve everything on the construction end completed except for a few more textures to apply and a couple more cameras to rig, and then it’s render time *shudder*. God willing, this won’t take more than 10 days to render, especially since Marcel has agreed to assist me in my quest for graduation. Marcel is a nice man, I should send him chocolates or something :). I can start compositing completed materials on Tuesday when school opens up again after President’s Day, so I can probably set my computer up to render all day Monday (can’t render tomorrow, mom’s apparently decided that tomorrow is plaster-sanding day in my room, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to have plaster dust clogging up my computer fans).

I should note once again my distaste for fast food employees. I decided that since I had a coupon for a buy one get one free dealy at McDonald’s for their chicken selects things, I’d get some for dinner tonight. I asked for a chicken select value meal and mentioned that I had a buy one get one free coupon I wanted to use. So I was charged for and received 3 chicken selects, one of which I got free because of the coupon. Unfortunately, that wasn’t how I’d planned on that going. But, given how well the 3-piece seemed to fill me up tonight, I think the two remaining boxes in the fridge downstairs should last me through a couple meals (probably before work and during break if I’m really hungry, which oddly enough I usually am), making it somewhat, but not entirely cost effective. Or maybe I’m just expecting too much of the graveyard shift, I dunno.

I also added Frodo to the list of blogs in the sidebar, for those of you interested in reading the musings of a roller-blading dragon ;).

Finally, on the employment front, Oscy’s parents may have unearthed something for me in the web field that I can do long-distance on the side. Still in the early stages of things, but hopefully I’ll get a go-ahead on this one, unlike the last two “new job, w00!” false starts I’ve had. Also need to get a portfolio put together for class and after I graduate I’ll try to get a demo reel put together in a few weeks. Planning on using tax return plus any monies from graduation presents to fund a Mac mini I can use for video editing and such (Photoshop will be ported to the mini eventually, after hammering out a software upgrade/platform switch deal with Adobe involving blood, ritual sacrifice, payment of firstborn, and something about a hair curse…)

Oh, and one last thing before I go… does anyone who reads this blog have any idea whether I can use a PS/2 to USB adapter to plug my PS/2 mouse/keyboard into a Mac and expect it to work?

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