*Turns up the keyboard back light* sometimes I still have to look at keys when I type, I am ashamed of this.
Today I woke up around 10:30am, I felt a slight burn in my throat from the Little Juan Burrito smothered in Cholula I had consumed right before I fell asleep while watching "the Big Bang theory". It's a sit-com my friend gave me. The first joke told in that series is about Port-au-Prince Haiti appearing in a crossword puzzle, weird coincidence. So far I like the show, it reminds me that I should harness my nerdism even more than ever.
I was at work most of the day, a rather boring day it was. I again suffered many distractions in the booth, rather than taking time to do important things, like work on pre-production for my film, or READ! I did listen to "Musashi Miyamoto's Book of Five Rings" on audiobook for the third time (Thanks Nate!). I feel the same instillment of vigor and guiding light as Hagakure did for me many years ago. I feel as if I am in school again, Musashi is my teacher. I am awfully good at taking direction from others, though I cannot direct my own life at my will, this makes me a bad student. The direction I need is in the Book of Five Rings, to apply the strategy's I find in this book are key for growth. The Way is in training.
I arrived at my apartment in the late evening. Opening the door I switch on the light, Helmut is sitting in a white canvas chair with a groggy look on her face, eyes squinting out the annoying overhead light. I give her a pat then walk into my bedroom to set my bag down on the ground, my bed has a huge pile of dirty laundry on it. I gaze at this pile and wonder if my sheets need to be cleaned too. The desk is cluttered with computer tower screws, IDE cabling, CD cases, Hard Drives etc...
I take out my wallet and knife from my right rear pocket and set them down in clutter free spot on the desk, as goes with the following. In my left rear pocket I take out 2 moleskine notebooks, one of those is titled "Tekken 6 Strats Combos and Ideas". The second smaller notebook is for random scribbles and quick notes, it is Lime Green. I also have a Comb in this pocket.
Left Front Pocket, Headphone cloth case, Burts Bees wax lip balm, house keys, change. Right Pocket, Iphone and then on the lip of this pocket I keep a Zebra: JapanF-402 ballpoint pen, it clicks.
On to my Project that I had been wanting to do for a long time. I created 1.33 masking for my 42" Plasma. I procured some black fabric that was used for a cover on a wooden cart that was at starz, the wooden cart was used for a display on how a 35mm projector worked. The projector that was displayed is now in my use for the short film "Cinemeccanica" I am working on, I figure the fabric was no longer needed on this cart. After measuring and cutting the fabric to correct length, I used the factory edges of the fabric on the inner most side of the screen for a true straight line. I used Gaff tape to attach the fabric to the back of the TV, I wanted to use hooks and weights but in reality this is a better way. Gaff tape does not leave residue and is easily adjustable for different aspect ratio's. This masking is easily detached, rolled up and stored behind the TV set. Gaff tape is great at retaining it's stickiness even on hot things like TELEVISION SETS, especially plasma's. It will take a few more minutes of prep work to watch a 1.33 film, but it will surly be worth it!
Next AV crisis. My PS3.
I have had the Limited Edition MGS4 PS3(Gun Metal) for just about 2 years. It's beautiful, I just love it. Although it's very loud. I did a lot of research today and I think I may have found out a solution, and the best part is that it's free! I just have to...
A: Gently take a Hand-vac and suck out dust as the PS3 is on, only around the vents. no open PS3 surgery.
B: Place the PS3 HORIZONTALLY and not Vertically. I was told by many people the vertical was the way to go. I was enlightened with some heat camera shots of the PS3 placed Horizontally and Vertically. Horizontally was visibly cooler, hands down. *Note: When I first bought my PS3 it was Horizontal for a long time, and I don't remember even hearing it. Now it's vertical, I want to kill myself. /Note*
C: Place 2 wood/metal blocks underneath the PS3 to increase airflow around vents. *Important!* Place Carefully so that Helmut does not Knock it over!
D: Find a Place far away from TV. As I stated before, Plasma monitors create a lot of Heat.
I had originally was thinking about buying an OPPO dvd player(The best) but, I really like how the PS3 handles DVD's. Though, I'm sure OPPOS handle them better. I just didn't want to drop 100+ dollars on a used one that's years and years old. Nor did I want to buy a separate Blu-Ray player. I hope this placement trick works, if it doesn't I might have to consider buying a cheaper upscaling DVD player, that has HDMI, Optical Digital out, AND plays PAL.
Things I am Excited about:
Receiving the 2 35mm rolls of film I took to get Developed.
Starting Aikido...Again.
Watching Movies
Fixing up BikeHeisei
Seeing how I do in the next Tekken tournament.
Getting Snow leopard for the New MBP so I can look at the footage I shot.
Getting back on track with Short Film.
Hanging out with buddies more, less girls. (sounds weird I know)
Focusing on being more introverted. (I never thought I would be saying that...Ever!)
I can feel a HUGE change coming along, whether it's good or bad. I think I'll welcome it.
In the hour of the Ox, on the Twenty Fifth Day, of the First Month in the Twenty Second Heisei era.
-Christopher Charles Simpson