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'What kind of Wing are you?' by. Xera Oh! How I envy you! You got a nice life and friends And you know how to have fun! But just don't overdo it!

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Whelp, I'm sitting here, waiting to go to work. Mark had to go take care of some bank-type stuff before we head off, so I got ready, he found out about the bank stuff, and I'm kickin' it here for a while before we head out I guess. Figured I'd find out what kinda wings I was. Damn I wish that test was 'pick many' instead of 'pick one' though. *giggles*

On other news, I've started work on some semi-pointless, but still-nifty tree models for video games. They're blatant cheats, and it shows, but they look a LOT better than most of the blatant cheats to make trees out there right now.

It's basically taking cylindrical 'slices' out of a high-res tree model in computer rendering software, then 'unwrapping' these slices to flat pictures, then 'wrapping' them around cylinders in the video game. Ends up with around 128 polygons for a 16-layer tree, which is quite low, and quite a lot of layers for the effect, it works with as few as 4 for bushes and such.

On a semi-different note, I've been bitten by the 'swing sharp things' bug again. Pulled out the pair of machettes I used to practice with, starting to clean the accumulated rust off and in general start practicing again. Don't know why, so many martial arts teach, no, rely on a single weapon, but single-weapon never feels comfortable to me. Unless I have nearly dead-equal weapons in both hands, there's a slight to extreme level of discomfort while I'm wielding them.

Yes, I'm sure some of you think I just want to be some dual-katana showoff. I hate katanas. Give me proper fencing sabres, about 30-32 inches of blade and about 6-8 inches of handle, about 6 inches of back-blade and a full-puncture double blood groove down the length of the rest of the blade starting about 1-2 inches from the back-blade.

That is my 'dream sword' for live steel. Viscious fast, perfectly able to turn from a stab to a slash and back again, and the blood grooves serve to drastically lighten the weapon without really impacting it's strength that noticably.

And no, I wouldn't have the blade damascus, or at least not that fake layered damascus that so many sword catalogs tout. I WOULD have the handle damascus-clad, with wood inlay, propably redwood, then silk-wrapped. Katana's got that dead-to-rights, even if I agree with some others that they get too much attention. Yes, they're good, but they're not the Ultimate Sword. :-)

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Anyways, guess I rambled there, huh? Still no Mark, so still no work yet today either. Ah well, he'll get here eventually, I suppose. Guess I'll go bonk my head against Day of Defeat s'more, if I'm gonna get drug off to play it eventually, I may as well play it so I know the controls a little. Right now, I'm lucky to break even on kills/deaths, but I've found my knack, which I share from so MANY other games. Grenades. I have an absolute knack for lobbing arcing shots with pinpoint accuracy, including some bounce shots.

Did I mention I made levels for Quake2 specifically to practice with it's Grenade Launcher? *nods* M'kay, I'm insane. I could pick a Railgun, or a Shotgun to get good with, I learn how to kill folks in Rocket Arena with direct hits from the Grenade Launcher. Not splash damage, impact kills.

Never said I didn't have a touch of the flamboyant in me. :-)

Anyways, maybe I'll get some work done today, maybe not. Who knows at this point? *laughs* I'm off, all. And if anyone wants to call, feel free. 714-539-6547, I'll zing a quick one when I head off to work, then it'll be my cell-phone/NexTel number, which is back in my journal somewhere. >^.^<

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Off to work! Seeya later, everyone. *hugs*

I'm home! *YAY*

Damn, work was long today. Get to get up super-early tommorow and work all day too. Bah, at least I'll make extra money though. >^.^<

Oh, BTW, zorichan?

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Oh, BTW, zorichan? That's only a 2-second loop, one blink. If you want, I can randomize and make it more like a several-minute loop, but it'll boost the file-size to around 16-20k instead of the 8-9k is it now. :-)