Aside from my particularly lame Thursday, it's been a cool week. My dvd burner arrived Wednesday, but my dumb sister didn't answer the door when the FedEx guy came to deliver it, so they took it back with them. Thankfully they made their second delivery attempt on Wednesday, and I skipped class to ensure that I'd get my burner. Sure enough the FedEx guy came and I got my burner. I don't have any dvdr's to burn because they're expensive and I haven't gotten around to buying any. I have made a few test cds and vcds and it seems to work fine. Once I buy a pack of dvdrs I can burn off some of the excess junk on my hard drive and try copying a dvd or two.
I went to Billiards Club again Tuesday night. I ended up being there for about 5 hours thanks to my mad skillz. Round 1 I played a new guy who wasn't good at all. Easy win there. Round 2 I played a guy was pretty good. The whole reason I started going there was because my friend Minh from work (aka the AppDev Team Leader™) has been going for a while and got me into going. I usually use his cue when playing, but during game 2 Minh was already playing in a game himself, so I had to use a house cue, which sucked a lot. I was losing bad in game 2, but thankfully Minh lost his game and brought his cue over for me to use. Once I got the good cue, it was all me. I ended up winning off a break, giving me another round win. I kinda felt bad for winning like that. The guy seemed a little in disbelief, because at first he said you can't win off a break. We checked with the officers and once he found out he was wrong, he had kind of a blank face. Round 3 I played a guy who at first seemed good, then went cold. For a while he thought I was hustling him because I went on a nice streak running the table. After every shot of mine he'd say out loud HUSTLER! It was kinda funny. I'm nowhere near good enough to hustle anyone, I just get lucky sometimes. The funny thing is at the end I screwed up a shot on the 8, giving him ball in hand with the and 8 and 9 next to the corner pocket. My first loss of the night, woo. After what seemed like forever I finally got to play round 4. I played a new guy who was really nice. At first he played kinda sloppy so I didn't think much of him. But every now and then he'd make some amazing shots, so it had me wondering the whole game. By that time though it was already really late and I was hungry, so I was playing kinda sloppy too, in hopes that I'd lose and get to finally go home. I blew an easy shot on the 9 giving him the win. I wasn't too sad since I was overcome by fatigue and hunger. I had a good time, but I ended up being there from 6:30 to 11:30ish. Waaaay too long if you ask me, especially since I worked at 8am the following morning. I'm gonna buy a pool cue either this week or next, so I don't have to keep mooching off Minh. I kinda like this one and want to buy it, but I'd feel like a retard using it. I'll probably just get the same one Minh has since it's the only generic one I like. The funny part is Minh gets knocked out his first two games every week, even though he's really good and plays way more than me. I just checked and I'm ranked 14 (out of 52), so that's pretty cool. Minh is ranked 36, hehe.
For those who were wondering about my previous sad post, this is a rough breakdown of my Thursday. I had to wake up earlier than usual because I was supposed to cover for someone at work. That was the pebble that would create an avalanche. I woke up late, so I was in a hurry to leave. As I was backing the car out of the garage, Sam started to walk near the car, so I was looking all over as I was backing out to make sure I didn't run over him. I was so busy watching out for Sam that I didn't notice I was backing out crooked, and I ended up breaking the left rear-view mirror on the car door. It didn't break off completely, but now it's hanging on by a thread and it wobbles like crazy while I'm driving. Since it's broken I can't use it to see behind me while driving, so I have to be extra careful when changing lanes. On the way to UT, the left speaker in the car kept going in and out, adding a great deal to my rage. I managed to barely make it to campus on time, and as I was closing the car door, the wind blew it shut. I tried to grab it and in the process the door bent my thumb back really hard. It hurt for the rest of the day and the following day. It still feels kinda bruised inside. At work, thanks to a particularly incompetent coworker, I ended up having to stay late, making me 30 mins late to class, at which the professor gave a speech about coming to class on time after I walked in. The only other bad thing about that day was that Thursdays are the day I close at work, meaning I work until 10pm, thus putting me home at around 10:30. To make matters worse, I have to be at work at 8am. Compound this with homework and you get a very tired Ant on Friday morning, running off 4 hours of sleep. No fun.
In work news, things are finally slowing down enough that I can start focusing on my own work projects. My boss told me I can start doing some Photoshop and Illustrator work, which is great. I've been meaning to learn Illustrator for a while, but it's really funky and never had the patience to sit down and figure it out. Now I can fiddle with it at work and get paid for it! What a sweet deal.
Speaking of work, my friend Annie doesn't like her current job working at some website that sells baby products/toys, and she's been asking for my help in starting our own online store. She's been talking about this for a while, and at first I wasn't all that interested (sorry Annie) mostly because I don't think I'll have much trouble finding a job after college (but then again you never know), but after talking about it with her, it sounds like a cool side job. As I said, she's been talking about this for a while, with me as the person who handles the site aspect and some of the artistic duties, and her handling the business duties as well as the rest of the artistic side. We had been talking about possible products to sell, catering to Japanophiles such as ourselves. The ideas ranged everywhere from cds/dvds, to food, to calligraphy, to T-shirts. The T-shirt idea was the one that stuck, as it's relatively easy to make T-shirt designs and it doesn't involve importing stuff from Japan. None of this will be happening any time soon, so I have at least a year to think about it and plan. I guess the question now is does anyone know anything about getting T-shirts made? I think it'd be pretty cool to see people wearing shirts with my designs on them. It could be fun.
(don't you love these 5 page entries?)
