June 6, 2013

I did stuff today but I don't have much to write about. I avoided cross stitching today. I needed a break. Still trying to get over the setback of having to rip out an entire letter yesterday. Let's hope I can get back into it tomorrow.

I didn't watching any Battlestar Galactica today but I did start watching MacGyver and Sons Of Tucson. MacGyver has really held up for me. Not so much with the special effects when it comes to green screens or crash test dummies in cars, but everything else. It still makes me want to be a Boy Scout and go to MIT. At least I accomplished one of those things. As for Sons Of Tucson, it is still really funny and it makes no sense that it was canceled. They somehow managed to find three kids that were all decent actors (four if you count the friend) and the main dude (Tyler Labine) is always funny. It's a good show to watch when you want to laugh and get pissed off at the same time. The pissed off part because it was canceled. At least Reaper got two seasons.

While I watched that stuff I worked on downloading an emulator onto my tablet. Awhile ago I borrowed Animal Crossing for DS from a friend and got sucked into that for weeks. I was looking up similar games for Android and didn't really see any that jumped out at me but I did stumble across Harvest Moon: Back To Nature, which was on the original Playstation. I had heard of Harvest Moon before but never gave it much thought. Until today. It took me awhile to get an emulator that would run the ROM of the game, and even when I got one it wasn't an official version so the sound doesn't work and a message pops up every thirty seconds or so in the middle of the screen reminding me the license check failed. But I got to try out the game and it is very similar to Animal Crossing but a little more involved. The official version of the emulator I need is about four dollars, which about what I pay for PC games these days, so it seems like a lot, but it really isn't. But I'm going to keep messing around with the game and see if it draws me in and then maybe I'll think about dropping some money for the emulator.

I finally had a visit with the new volunteer kid tonight. It was only a thirty minute visit because the kid wanted to go fishing but it was a good visit. We talked to one of the girls there briefly that the kid has a crush on. He is very awkward around her, kind of like a teenage boy. I got an orange vanilla limeade and it was less than great. The girl finally confirmed my suspicions that Sonic limeades are made with Sprite, so maybe a plain orange vanilla Sprite would be better, without the lime. I don't know. I doubt it. I'm not sure which flavor to get next. I want to stumble onto something amazing but I'm not sure that can happen at Sonic.

Tonight I watched Room In Rome, which on the surface was lesbian softcore with two women who were naked for most of the movie. But, despite that, it was actually a really interesting movie and the music was also really good. The women start the night telling lies about themselves, not wanting to reveal their true identity to each other because they had just met at a bar. But throughout the night they slowly reveal bits and pieces about their lives and who they really are and in doing so, reveal things to themselves. I liked it, and I can honestly say I would have if they had kept their clothes on. The whole movie takes place in one small hotel room and just the two actors (with brief appearances by the hotel staff guy) and the story was engaging the whole time. I'm actually not a big fan of movie sex because I end up just thinking about how awkward it must be to shoot that stuff, and in this movie I found myself wanting that stuff to go by faster so they could get back to the story. In a way it kind of reminded me of my favorite Doctor Who episode, where the entire episode takes place in small train cabin but they cover the whole range of emotions and it keeps you engaged even though it is just one small set. So yeah, I liked it, even though the ending was mildly devastating.

While I watched that I worked on some pixel art that may someday become a cross stitch. It was of Ruby Gloomy's head. At some point I intend to do the rest of her but I probably won't get around to that. Ruby Gloomy is a cartoon that I watched one episode of yesterday and it was alright but not great. It probably gets better but I wasn't really in the mood for cartoons at the time, as it turned out. But I like the look of the cartoon and I wanted to see if I could recreate Ruby's face. I think I did a half-way decent job. Even if we forget I'm biased. We'll see what I think when I see it tomorrow.

And now, much like most of my days recently, it is late, so I am going to go to bed. And hopefully sleep past 8:20AM if Tanner decides not to bark. At least the past two days he has started randomly barking at 8:20AM and it is getting old.