wednesday!

today was uber great! went to work, had a great day at work, got a lot of stuff done, and got along great with tech and the customers where really nice today. after work i headed to columbus for class. on the way i stopped at the G.I. depot in lancaster and picked up a few things. (more specificly i got a hand grenade, a pair of chemical gloves and a gas mask) after my stop at the G.I. depot, i continued on to school. when i got there i found out that they moved the classroom to the other end of the building so i found the new classroom and got seated (only after i found and outlet to plug in my laptop) tim then showed up right before class started so he joined me in what soon became the heckler section of the class, because as soon as nemo started to teach we both realized how trivial tonight's class was so we ended up talking about our own machines until the break when he ran and got his laptop, after that we ended up doing our own things for the most part. then came lab time, and our lab for tonight was to take apart a computer, identify a bunch of different part and then put the machine back together, and it needed to work when we where done, so tim and i worked together and ripped the thing apart and identified all the parts first, then we put the thing back together, we finished with that before anyone else had identified all the parts required. but when we went to fire it back up, disaster, the machine would not even post! we began trouble shooting it, removed everything but the vitals, tried it, still nothing, so we reseated the CPU and the thing churned to life! after we put everything back together, we found that we forgot to hook the IDE back up, so we went back in and did that, and even after all this trouble we where the first ones to finish! so, all in all, today was quite epic

finally, pictures of my trebuchet!

for detailed specs see a few posts below

all the calculations on my desk

building the frame

just making hole

fixing the weights

final pieces

finished sling

setup at the test site

ready to fire

rest in peace, gygax

trebuchet specs

the day started off with myself picking up sunni and going to king lumber to get 2x4's, we got 4 12' long ones. we then ran over to savings hardware to get wood screws and some other hardware. when we got back to my cave, we started with work. ripping down the 2x4's and making the final choices on the plans. we decided to go with the base being 2' wide and 8' long. the fulcrum point is 3' high and the supports are in the middle of the base with 2 added supports on each stand. for the fulcrum we used a 1.5 inch dowel rod. the main beam is a total of 6' long, the counter weight is about 1' from the fulcrum. and the sling is about 3' long. all in all it will throw a half brick over 50' and over 70' in the air. pictures to follow.

dreams

normaly, i dream about stuff that would make normal people run to there shrinks, and i am fine with this because even tho when i dream most of the time i have no control over the content and it is just off the wall shit i know i am dreaming, so everything is fine. but what really jerks me awake in a cold sweat is dreams that are so close to reality that i cant tell the difference. these dreams really bother me because it is so close to reality that i cant tell the difference until i wake up, and even after i wake up i often have the memory of the dream as if it was just something that happened the other day, so i am thinking of those dreams as actual events and these memorys affect my judgement and i am afraid that one of these days i will be asked something or i will need to refrence my memory and i will draw off of those dreams as if they where actualy real. this really freaks me out because i have started to second guess my memorys about things because i just dont know if that even happened or if i dreampt it.

trebuchet

this is just a quick update about the trebuchet that sunni and i built, i need to get pictures from her and then i will do a detailed write up about the construction, building, and testing!

christmas present

so if anyone wants to get me a christmas present but does not know what i want jlist has a super cool 2008 calender here it is the "2008 bondage nudes" calender and i think that it would look quite nice on my wall for the 2008 year

nice weather

well, it is 12:22 AM EST here at my bat cave, and with it being about 60° f out side i decided to eat my dinner/midnight snack out here on the back deck, so far i have been out here about 45 minutes and it is really nice, i am even thinking about sleeping out here because it is so nice, i played a bit of WoW for the first part of being out here and now i am blogging by candle light, how peaceful. i would like to wish all my readers a nice thanksgiving with your families and friends. i plan on eating thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents on my moms side of the family (dads side of the family are jerks for the most part, so i will not be eating there) unfortunantly i have to work friday, but friday night is the lan party at sasha's so i will be going to that with my kick ass gaming machine (you can read about it a few posts ago) and then i have to worry about paying insurence and then buying everyone a christmas gift, which means i will have no money till after christmas, when i hope to get a ipod touch! setting out here makes me wish i had a tent and a few other midieval camping stuffs so that i could build a nice little fire and camp out middle-age style here on the farm.

well, i cant really make a blog post without updating you on my mental status. i think my brain is starting to loose its edge, i can feel it, i am not as sharp as i used to be, i am forgetting things that i should not be and i am having short term memory loss, the problem is i can feel this degresstion and it hurts knowing that i may be slipping to insanity.

now that you have the update on my conscience, let me update you on my sub-conscience, more specificly, dreams that i have been having of late. for the past 10 days i have been haunted by dreams of Katherine (my ex-girlfriend) and myself being together again. we have been broken up for 18 months now after having dated for 3 years. and i have not had a dream about her for at least a year now, and all of a sudden, i am being haunted by dreams of us as a couple, which has made me quite sad as of late, and i am at a cross-roads of what i should do, i could call her and tell her how i feel and risk rejection, or i could go on with my life and never say anything, the only problem is that i have never felt as happy as i did when i was with her, and i love her so much that i would give up everything for her, i would give up any and all fetishes i may have, i would change anything about myself to make her happy, i would even die for her, and i dont think that i would do all of that for any other person on the planet, there is just something about her that completes me, it is like a lock and a key, that is how happy she makes me, just being with her, or talking to her, it just brings out happiness that nothing else can. i dont know how to put it other than that.

well, it is now 12:46 AM EST and my lappy needs to be plugged in so i am going to leave off here

trauma 2007

so, i went to trauma wednesday october the 31st

it was so great! i really enjoyed it a lot!
they had a dungeon setup and i really, really,
enjoyed watching people get tied up, whipped,
flogged, canned, all of that good stuff, it
was so much fun, as soon as the galleries are
online i will link to them, but i just want
you all to know that it was so much fun!
and you missed out on so much!

new wallpaper

i got a new wallpaper today, about 4 AM EST it is quite nice actually


i also found this one