Log 843.49.....

Well since I'm not working because I haven't heard from anyone about work, I guess I'll have to write some stuff in my blog. You'll see a surge of blog posts if I'm not working as much as I would like to.

Yeah, I don't like the feeling of not working because well my body feels like crap. I know when I work and I have to get up early and I stayed up late the night before, my body feels like crap too. But this is horrendous. It feels like I have the flu but really I don't.

I watched It Happened One Night via Netflix's instant watch. It was a really good movie. I laughed and was touched by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. I originally hate watching Clark Gable because of Gone With the Wind. I hated that movie. I also hate the Wizard of Oz. I like very few movies that are older than 1970. The movie was also in black and white -- which was a bit difficult for me because I always feel that black and white movies are the most frightening of them all. I guess mostly they can't rely on using blood to describe a scene. You can't see a gruesome image, but you do hear sounds. Sound effects are mightier than an image. As you can imagine hearing something crawl on the wall comparing to actually watching something crawl on the wall. Some techniques of seeing something works. An example for me? Let's say the camera is concentrated on a character talking, but in the background you see something rising unfocused. That for me is scary because you know what it is, but the character doesn't know. So you're anticipating the reaction. A few more of these funny black and white movies and my view of B&W flicks will have changed.

After watching I decided to do some reading/studying. I love having a pen in hand writing. So I picked up An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski. The book itself is long winded and almost unbearable to read. So I'm taking notes. I'm only taking the important stuff and writing that down in my notebook. I don't understand why it has to be so filled with unnecessary "I want to be a true actor" rubbish. All this stuff about over dramatizing wanting to be an actor is making me feel sick. If I wanted to read some wimp's diary, I'd have picked up a trashy romance novel. So I'm taking what I need and throwing the rest out. Maybe I'll even create a website that has all the vital information from that book to save people from reading bad literature.

I HATE ROACHES!!!

I have done all I can to make sure no roaches enter and still I see roaches in my apartment. And it's not even one of those tiny vermins. It's huge water bug types! *faints* *hyper-ventilates* The building has monthly spraying and when they spray, all the roaches scatter. I think I know where they are coming from. I can deal with mice. I can't deal with roaches. Something has to be done.

Where is my expanding foam?!

New Layout

I had to choose a new layout because it was literally cramping my style. ;-) The main reason? I was trying to add the Playlist.com gadget/widget and the last layout was too narrow. It cut the damned thing in half. I did some HTML rendering and tried to increase more space, but I'm just not as well versed in HTML. I did as much as I could, but darn it twasn't enough.

Just a little update on what's going on right now. My internal Hard Disk Drive (HDD) crashed on my laptop. I lost a whole lotta shit. The good thing is that everything that was important to me that I lost can be recovered via searching through my Gmail inbox or found in several strategically placed locations on the internet. AKA Free Internet Storage Sites. I used to recommend Xdrive, but I found out that they were a subsidiary of AOL. I knew bad things were going to happen there. They did have pretty good programming, but recently altered their programming and got rid of the "upload entire folder" option --which pissed me off royally. I am digitizing record albums for my father using the Ion TTUSB record player and I can't be bothered uploading individual files and creating a new folder for them. They were good also because they offered 5 GB of free space. I tried going back to MediaMax but they shut down. They were offerinig 25GB but only 1GB of monthly usage --meaning you could only download 1GB each month for the free service. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who hated that fact. I found out 2 days ago that they closed! (I'm giggling here because now I know I wasn't the only one.) So I found ADrive.com They are offering 50GB for FREE!

What I did to fix my computer, was to find out where the hard drive is stored. Take it out, take out an external hard drive from the caddy. And then swap the hard drives. I put everything back together and booted up the install disk that I got when my computer was shipped. It's like upgrading your laptop hard drive. The original hard drive was 80GB, I've replaced it with a 120GB one. It's pretty sweet. At the moment I have about 87.5 GB free. Nice.

Losing out on a gig

I wish that people would let potential employees know as soon as possible that they have given the job to another person. I really hate people who never call me to let me know this. I'm thinking that I already have the job because no one has contacted me otherwise. Where did this come from? Some employer who felt too bad about telling a person that they didn't get the job? It's like when a superior fires an employee. I remember watching several TV shows and movies where superiors have a difficult time firing an employee because they fear hurting their feelings.

The truth of the matter is: It sucks getting fired or hearing that you didn't get the job. But it's better than not hearing from the potential employer at all.

So please call me as soon as possible to let me know that I didn't get the job.