Ooh cool stuff happens occasionally
Yes, it's true. COOL stuff can happen, from time to time. And it's time. I'll get to that, though. First off - choir practice on Wednesday. It was a little upsetting. Mainly because I was FIRST to show up there, had my guitar tuned, and ready to go, and then STEVE doesn't show up. Megan shows up and says that apparently he talked to her and said he wouldn't be there, but she's in charge. I'm a little upset at Steve. I don't mind so much that Megan was in charge (although some sort of divided leadership would have been nicer), it's that Steve didn't tell me about any of it. Grr. I helped lead the choir all through the summer (and I daresay I didn't do too bad of a job), as well as leading some of them through a wedding. I just somehow feel unappreciated when I'm left out of the loop for the first major practice of the year. And we had something like SEVEN new members. Mostly freshman. I think there's potential for a very good choir this semester. Megan and I had our standard conflicts, although it's getting a little more lighthearted (which is good), even though she DID make fun of me outright. I think part of my frustration was that I wanted to help lead the new students, teach them harmonies, working them through the melody, but I felt very restrained because Steve put Megan in charge, so it was really out of my hands. Bleah. Hopefully it'll be better next time.

Ah, and the first coolness happened that night. I think - it might have been yesterday, but I'm fairly sure it was Wednesday. Okay, so I have a guitar peripheral made by Line 6 called the PODxt. Well, Line 6 just updated EVERYTHING for the PODxt. The firmware's updated, they changed settings, so forth. And it's awesome. Before, there were 4 user spots, where you could create your own custom settings to get the sound you wanted. They bumped that up a little. To 64 user spots. A total of 128 patches. The sound itself is better, too. Makes me want to start recording again. As a matter of fact, I DID record a bit, just to play. I might post that later. There's more improvements, but I won't get into them here. I'll just say, it's almost on the same level as their crazy Vetta II amplifier. And it's FREE. There are a few extra model packs that DO cost money, and I might upgrade to those, in time, but for now, I'm enjoying the PODxt all over again.

Yesterday was more work, and then kung fu. Class was pretty good. My friend Christina (see comments - she makes some) came to see about possibly signing up. I sparred with the same guy I did last time, named Truman. He's quite aggressive. Every time he keeps the aggression level there, I'm going to start pushing back. I bumped it up a notch yesterday, although I ended up jamming two fingers on my right hand. GRRR. First time in a while. They're swollen nicely, and I can't make a full fist, but hopefully they'll get better fast. Then Justin and I worked through techniques after class, which is always fun. The moves we had discovered last week are still very effective. He said he tried it out four times sparring that night, and it worked every time. Woo! I'll have to try it myself, against some of the other students.

And my friend Embrey leaves for school today, so I got to see her really quickly last night. She made me cookies! I like cookies. They're quite good, too. I think a lot of the Tulsa people are going to miss her. She'll visit, though, I'm sure. She's not TOO far off.

Oh - the other cool thing! I managed to get a spot on the WoW Stress Test Beta. Yay! Sadly, it's only seven days long, and I still don't know when it starts, but I've got a spot reserved. So I'll get to try it out! Best MMORPG EVER. It will be, at least. You'll see.

Okay. It's Friday, but I should do SOMETHING at work. Been doing scripting, trying to optimize a few data processing things. It's cool. Scripts are good. Doing a lot of stuff in one line - that's the way I like to do it. So now I'll have to leave you with your random link. This one isn't so random; you know my love for the guy.

- posted by Pootenheimer @ 1:17 PM | 4 comments