A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

I put up a few donation links around. One on my home page, one..somewhere…, one on spling’s site [he told me to take it off later], and wanting to put one on npwiki’s donation page soon.

Yeah, funds go right to the BOOX. But uhh, if I can’t get enough funds then I can’t pay for the server. Not only have I delayed my PC upgrades for 3 months, but my mom is getting annoyed about paying for it now. x.x [But it's my allowence? Yeah, well it's her credit card. More bills etc. I donno, when I'm older I guess?]

Anyway, hopefully I’ll get at least half before next billing period. And if spling sends me his long-promised donation, then we’ll be fine for a bit, though I wanted to use it to help releave what I had already paid for the server, I may just keep it strictly for the BOOX.

So far, thanks so much to Nightmare for donating the first $10. By the way, since my paypal account also accepts Credit card etc, paypal takes a 6.9% fee for processing [huh? On both from paypal to paypal and credit? Yeah. Bleh.] So that $10 turned into $9.31 USD. Hm, come to think of it, that’s really rather annoying.. Whatever, if I get exactly $85 donated to me, I’ll pay for that fee.

Visited NDC again. It picked up, some staff bickering [as all good sites would!] but things seem to be going quite nicely. I got a nice warm welcome in the shoutbox.

And… Homework is bleh. Uhm… Shoot.. Gotta go.. x.x

-micksam7

Today wasn’t a best.

First off, I got sick this morning, and like, I had to stay home for a bit. I eventually went to school [last class period x.x]. The last class period of the day was more… research and stuff.. what seemed to me like busy work. x.x That and me not being there all day, I was out of it and well.. bleh.

Next off, had to rush to drama club and then back to Ecology club. Meh. And such.. I realized I forgot my tools that I was gonna use to work a bit on the lights and such [changing light bulbs and such]. Well… meh.

Well what really upset me is that some of the actors decided to invite themselves into the control booth, when I wasn’t there. I asked them to leave, but they didn’t. And well..

Generally I’m head tech at the drama club, so I ussually keep my stuff in the control booth, and hang out in there when I want to be alone. I’ve got my $700 laptop with my stuff, that and I’m responcible for the equipment in the control booth. So obviously, I don’t want anyone else in there that I didn’t authorise.

So yes, I tried to tell them to leave. They didn’t. And in real life here, when I get upset, I can’t think.

Generally I’m Highly Functional Autistic, I’m just really good at hiding it, but when I get upset, it comes out and I can’t speak serious or strait. I tried to tell them to leave a second time, try to explain exactly why, but nothing I could get myself to do worked.

Yeah, I tried to tell our drama teacher, but that didn’t work either, they didn’t budge. I didn’t want to bother her much more during rehersal either.

After being stressed out, and not winning either, I just decided to leave. Yeah, I could have tried more, but, I couldn’t bring myself to do anything else, except give myself a break and mope around a bit, which didn’t help.

No one really noticed I left. While waiting outside to be picked up, someone looking for somebody in drama talked to me, I told them to let our drama director know that I’ve left and that some people are still up in the control booth.

Ok, I got that out. I’m still upset hours after, and have been. I donno, it may also be because I’m sick and such. I think I’ll just stay home the entire time tomarrow.. forget drama. I’ll see them on Thursday, hopefully by then the drama director will realize what happend, if not then I’ll be there to explain why I left them in the dark. The people in this drama program are starting to turn out just like the people in my old school’s program. Joke around too much and take it too far [like Anonnerz does, sorry to bring it up but I had to make the connection].

Ok.. I’m done there.

The BOOX

That’s my server. It’s awsome. But not always..

First off I got the soundcard in it to work finnally.. hopeing it’ll get shoutCast to stream at the right speed, but nay. Windows 2003 forced the RDP emulated soundcard on all programs [including shoutCast]. RDP is the driver for sound on Remote Desktop, so sound goes to the accessing pc. Anyway, so soundCast is totally broken on the server. Unless someone has a work around? Anyone? No? Of course not, no one reads my blog.

I have gotten some stuff up for Kahvi, my favorite netlabel. Then put in my random playlist generator, and some more links to my mirror.. I’m thinking about doing more for them later on.

But.. big drawback.

My BOOX, is costing me too much money, and giving not much [$0.00] in return. I’m afraid to ask those who I host for some donations, so forget that. [But if your reading this then e-mail me if you want to donate a bit ^-^] Anyway… 17th of next month is the deadline. All will be transfered to temporary locations. Offical annoncement will be the end of this month. By the way, it costs $85 a month, so it isn’t much if I get say $25 from everyone I host here, but as I said.. I’m afraid to ask, it just seem rude.

Bleh.. -.- I’m still in not a very good mood. Just got invited into a 15 person convo on msn. Why does MSN not give a option. Yeah and they started saying bad things and all. I just blocked them all and told them that it’s annoying, that I know that they don’t care, and that they are morons.

Yes.. I’m tired, and not feeling well, kinda in the dumps right now. Allwell.

-micksam7

Wow.. it’s been a while.

Well, I’ve been doing stuff at school, which has been really taking up most of my time. Generally I joined too many clubs.. and I’ve been missing them too.

I’m in drama tech, it’s a lot of fun. I’m there during the rehersals to get the audiorium preped and ready. The freshmen tore a lot of things off the chairs during photos for one. Next it was hardly used to it’s potential last year. This year we hope to get at least 50% out of it. No more simple on and off of the lights.

I’m generally getting myself aquanted with the audirorium and getting things preped for the rest of the tech crews. I’ve already checked the catwalks, checked features of the lights, figured out the light board’s file system and a few of it’s many features [enough to use it the way I want], begun to tune the sound system, cracked the baton system [figured out how to turn it on without the keys..], setup the 80 pound short-throw follow spot [which has been sitting in a closet for a year], found one of 2 stashes of lamps for the auditorium [lamps == the bulbs for our lights], figured out how to open the lecture hall’s half-walls [without the key again, but only paritally], COM, and well.. a lot more.

What I plan on doing next week is lowering one of the electrics to check what kind of lamp the fernels take, and also seeing what is the model on our cannons on the first electric [hopefully it matches the ones in the catwalks], replace burnt out lamps, put on the washers I forgot on the follow spot [will need to get my 3 helpers back again], learn the rest of the show, bring my toolkit, check what kinda lamps the cannons take, take out the lamp for in the strip lights with a missing gel, check out our floods on the last electric [get their lamp type too], inventory our spare lamps and sort them, setup a supply elevator to the catwalks [we don't want to try to carry them up with us, so we use a bucket and a string], tune the audio system, and then figure out what else I need to do.

Yeah.. I’m kinda head tech there. This year the teacher generally lets me do what I want, so I’m making sure I report back to her if something goes wrong and such. There is one thing with our auditorium.. The band is generally in charge of it, since the person in charge is the director of band. He didn’t like me doing anything last year, and everyone seems to be a bit scared of him. Despite that, I’m going to do what I need to do to make our performence successful, using what I learned from my 9th grade experience with Climent High School’s Theathre group. I’ll be making sure band won’t get upset, I’ll reconfigure their show files on the board so that they continue to have a even wash on the stage when I change the lighting setup.

Oh, another thing I need to do next week.. SAFETY GUIDELINES. I’ve already got 4 stratches this week from some of my typical carelessness for myself, so for the better health of myself and others I’ll need to discuss some safety guidelines with the cast and crew.

General stuff, like don’t touch the lights without the light crew’s permission, don’t touch the mics without the sound crew’s permission, stay clear of the batons when they come in, and keep your hand off the right rail in the catwalks [things are bolted to that rail and I've cut myself on them a few times], and such.

Hopefully I’ll show the person in charge of the auditorium we know what we are doing and we can put on quite a show.

Yeah.. anyway.. enough about drama.

I’ve been wanting to e-mail my old drama teacher back at Clements, let her and the crew there know what’s up with me. I kinda miss that school..

Anyway.. Homework has been quite a bit hard on me lately. I’ve been sorta keeping up with it so far though.. [meep] And the clubs I’m in doesn’t help much either. I’m in the SCA, TSA, and the Ecology Club.. And balencing them out is hard. I’ve missed my last meetings with the SCA.. and had no clue when or where they were anyway.

Right.. Well.. time for personal life stuff…

I’ve finnished a rough on my character profile for roleplays. The character is me.. Mick! I’ve changed up my water dragon stuff again and this time it fits nicely. In other news, I’ve gone and did a random playlist generator for Kahvi.

And.. that’s it. Besides that comcast is comcrud again and I’ve got no internet service from them. Bleh. Ok, bye.

-micksam7

I’ve been searching through deviant art. Went through about 3000 dolphin pics.. I have my own little collection of dolphin pics on my pc. It’s actually filled with images from google. This time around on deviant art, I just searched up dolphins [yes deviant-search is working again!] then looked at stuff, saved things I liked. Typically I like really cool photos or drawings of dolphins, I also like stylized to some extent, including Anthro/Furry style as well as other things such as giving dolphins strange markings and such. There are a lot of really cool artists out there, including a few that actually came close to the style of furry I designed for my own characters at one time [yes I did roleplay for a month on FurryMuck as a orca, named Orcinus (not to be confused with others named Orcinus, this was last Fall), but left soon due to a lot of non-pg-rated stuff going on]. I hope to finnish my characters sometime. I’m kinda lazy you know.

You know what, I’ll actually get to work tonight in finnishing my character. I’d like to also draw a normal old dolphin as well.. get two of my “forms” done. I’m a perfectionist, so it’ll take a few days to get the shading done right. Hehe. To see my colored but unshaded version, see my deviant on DeviantArt.

Hm.. I transfered NDC over to Weirdbro yesterday. I haven’t been working on it for a while.. So I thought.. why not? I’m not doing anything with it, spling isn’t either.. give it to someone who wants to do something. Me and spling still own it, but letting others work on it now. Fwee?

Hm.. There’s something I really want to say here.. But I can’t think of it.. Hm.. Bye.

-micksam7

A blog on my life.

Listening to some nice sounds at the moment. The new release from Kahvi is out. Kahvi is a non-profit netlabel, I suggest you check out their sounds. You can see my mirror or visit their site. You’ll need a ogg decoder such as this one for media player and most other Windows media players, iTunes for Mac should already have ogg support [maybe?], *nix users: Ogg is opensource.. I know you can find a player for it.

I added my PC screenshots into the Image gallery. I thought it’ll be a bit better in there then in a place where no one can find them. Heh. Check them out.

I’ve been piled on with homework.. Darn it. I’ll probally need to drop out of drama tech to actually get myself to do the stuff.. Hm.. I better get myself to actually do something this time.. last year wasn’t very fun with my ways of this. That and I worked on homework last night.. which was rather hard.. and then just couldn’t get it all done.. besides me last week forgetting some work at home. *sigh* Bah.. enough.. I’ll get myself to do something if I can’t think week. I really need to get homework done.

Right.. well.. This morning I made a nice page in 2 minutes in Multimedia.. We were suppose to do a html coding tuterial.. but I skipped that and just made a web page from scratch and showed that I already knew the stuff. Hehe.

Strand Lighting [the company that makes the lights and such in the auditorium and drama room at my school] released a nice new online manuel for their board.. Well.. not that nice.. but it’s better then pure PDF. I gotta read up on that and figure out how to do… Sub-masters… show saving.. cue and such. I reviewed it and found a great page on it on how to fix a problem I’ve been having with the board loosing control of some dimmers. I still think [know] their systems don’t work correctly.. hehe. Hopefully the new guide will help a bit.

Alright.. Plan for tomarrow: Do school, actually DO work in my Teacher Aid class, then during call backs in Drama tomarrow do homework in there as well [in the booth.. quiet and all :D].

I’m gonna need to get a cheap speaker system for the aud. booth.. as a sound board monitor… and music for when we [the boothies... aka techies in the booth] are bored. Teehee. Yeah.. my original year in drama tech.. I didn’t get to learn much with the board they had [back in texas], so I had to figure out as much as I could.. which was really limited.. last year. This year.. I’m going to be testing stuff with that board as much as I can. I NEED to..

Erm.. Whops.. I better get going..

-micksam7