Photoshops and whatnot

My big achievement of the day was the start of Rachel J.'s grad card. I attempted drawing first, but that turned into an epic failure XD. Last time I tried to hand draw a card, Pluto got demoted. Granted, I doubt that it was my fault, but still.

So I moved on to Plan B: Photoshop. That turned out a bit better, at least, I thought so. At any rate, it'll make her laugh, though maybe more at my skill (or lack thereof) as opposed to my ideas.

Then I started a side project: the Apathy Sphere. GLaDOS has 5 different personality cores: Morality, Curiosity, Anger, Sarcasm (not seen in game; referenced, though), and Cake. I was talking to Rachel J. and I can't remember who came up with the idea, but someone mentioned different traits, and apathy came up. A screenshot and some tint changes later, and the Apathy Sphere is set for action. Well, almost. It needs some apathetic sayings. Any suggestions?

Then the distractions started to creep in. I started poking around YouTube and watched the Professor Layton 2 trailer (shut up, I know its geeky XD) and clicked on a related video. The title was completely in Japanese (oh, bitter is the law that that haunts me), so I assumed that maybe it was a commercial or something. I was wrong.

It was the first cutscene of the game. The intro. SPOILER MATERIAL!!!

Fortunately, though, it was in Japanese, so I couldn't understand the info. But it still didn't stop the traditional range of emotions that follows spoilers (shame, self-loathing, anger). But later I found the official website and played (if you could call it that) the online demo. 

In real life, the nubbins finally came. Now you may be thinking, "What the fudge-duck are the 'nubbins'?" Good question. An IBM ThinkPad came into our possession. It was used, and old; it lacked Wi-Fi, and a trackpad. Instead, it had a TrackPoint, the little rubber-eraser head pointing thinger that is the ThinkPad trademark. Except, the red rubber part was missing. I had to order some from the Lenovo website, and they took their sweet time sending them. But they came, and with the Wi-Fi card I bought of Amazon (best shopping site ever), its a viable computer again. At least for the fact that it can run RollerCoaster Tycoon.

Finally, it was my last piano lesson today. For 5 years (excluding summer, when I never play ;) ), I have been taking lessons from CMMS, and I ended my lessons with my faithful piano instructor Brenda. It is entirely over, since I have my recital to play for, but the end is in sight, and it's a little sad. But I knew it was coming, and now I have to find and play my own music.