Done

My procrastinating finally caught up with me, as it usually does, but I think I'm pretty much done with everything I was supposed to do. So, I will be able to resume blosting on a regular basis.

I spent about two days "practicando espanol corta y tradusca". For those of you who don't speak Spanish, that is "cut and paste Spanish". Several hundred (I don't have an accurate count because I skipped any I deemed would take me more than thirty seconds, or couldn't be solved using my genius cut and paste method) activities of basic Spanish. Fortunately for me, you could just hit the submit button, and it would tell you how many you got right, what the right answers were, and more importantly, you could retry. So, since the questions didn't change, unlike my math homework, which I consequently rarely do, I simply tried on what looked easy, submitted, copied the answers, returned to the questions, pasted the answers, and bam, done. They even did me the favor of highlighting what ones I had wrong. Even still, I didn't finish. Mostly, it was those listening ones. The multiple choice was easy, and at the end, I was just looking for those to get the points, because one page where you write a paragraph and one page where you answer two true or false questions are worth the same.

But anyways, I'm done now. I didn't feel bad about cheating either, because I could have done them, and I would have gained nothing from it. I shouldn't be in only Spanish I, and I didn't even capitalize on tutoring like I was planning to. The rest of the class is about as bad as I am, only they don't know complex Spanish.

Now, the other big issue; imeem. We may or may not be at war with them. For awhile, we've known that some of the songs won't play the full thing on our blog, but ti wasn't until recently that we discovered that they had updated, and every song already on our blog would only play the 30 second demo. Unacceptable. I realize this is likely due to licensing laws and all that, and while that is all well and good, we've come to rely on it for our music, and it's rather convenient. Also, don't have an embed feature if you don't want people to embed songs on their sites. Seriously.

So, we have found a temporary alternative, that unfortunately uses imeem, but for the time being, seems to embed the whole song, no matter the song, and with any luck, they won't come back later and decide to change it.

This seems a lame come back after my near week of silence, but tomorrow's will be better, I promise you this. Just got to get back into the swing things.

The Blog Trifecta

Here it is folks. The Blog Trifecta. A union of sorts, of three separate blogs, or the authors of three separate blogs, joining together, to still produce three separate blogs. However, there will now be an intermingling of authors.

Two fellow Bloggers, and friends from school, Rusty and Justin, will now be guest authoring for Remaking Memories, and at some point, we may be blogging on theirs.

So, look forward to some variety, and check out their blogs. We may even accept other guest authors. Applications can be left as comments at any time. Sadly, I don't really have anything else.

Also, this song is from Flight of the Conchords, and they are wonderful. If you aren't familiar, do yourself a favor, and familiarize yourself, ASAP as possible.

We Need an Intern

So it has come to our attention that our awesome plans have exceeded our capabilities. This was of course, fully expected, but fortunately, this isn't something we cannot fix. We just need more people, or an unpaid intern.

Ideally, John Lithgow. Unfortunately, we still have to see many, many more of his movies in order to become big enough fans to attract his attention. We just saw "Harry and the Hendersons", after seeing it referenced on "30 Rock". Eventually though, once we have seen everything he's in, we're pretty sure he will gladly be our unpaid intern, but until then, we're willing to set the bar a little lower. Basically, can you operate a camera, take obscure orders, and a sense of humor would be nice.

Basically, our plans have grown, or "ambitified" - well, I got real excited there, because Blogger did not tell me that is not a real word when I thought I had very clearly made it up, but a bit more research proved that no one has made this word up before I have, and it's just so awesome that Blogger chose to accept it. Point being, we have become more ambitious with our Blog, and are being held back by the fact that we are only two people.

I saw on the news that, due to the current unemployment rate, many people are choosing to take positions as unpaid interns, just so they have something on their resume and to learn new skills. I can't guarantee you'll learn anything, in fact, I can almost guarantee you won't unless you, like us, have little to no common sense. And also, working as an intern for us might not be the best thing to put on your resume. It just might cost you a potential job. It could also get you that potential job, but the odds are not in your favor.

Still though, if you just happen to be near Mount Airy and are looking for something to do, let us know.

What're You Gonna Do?

Ben went running with me today. He's in decent shape, or so I was told. Truth be told, I was worried at first; he was gunning it up the first hill, and I was having trouble keeping up. And I couldn't let him put me to shame.

Not to worry folks, I'm awesome, and as per use, I prevailed in the face of utter defeat. That first hill that had me worried nearly killed him.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, but we did end up doing more walking than running.

Still, there were perks to walking. First off, it was good to run with someone else. It was easier to stay in reality, and, biggest bonus of all, Ben's lack of stamina forced us to take a shortcut that revealed something we wouldn't have found otherwise.

The other day, I said I saw what looked like a kite tail about a mile away. Well, today, we found a whole kite, one of the ones I lost when the fishing line ran out, a fully intact Ironman, with fishing line attached! Total score right there.

We did some other stuff later, but more on that later, as I am tired. So I leave you with this, one of the smaller of the many new things coming to Remaking Memories.

Worst Case Scenario

You are stuck in a dumpster with Big Foot, and he's got your gun. What're you gonna do?

Any responses are appreciated. Bonus points if you know what this is from. The winner as judged by Ben and myself could win anything from nothing at all to something awesome, including but not limited to guest authorship on the Blog for a given amount of time, or perhaps a an epic poem dedicated to the winner. I just might do it to, I'm bored, and I want some audience participation here.

Happy One Month Blogiversary

Yeah, I've been at this whole Blog thing for a month now. Not really that long, I suppose. Some days anyways. Time's funny. My year in Pittsburgh seemed at least twice as long as my four years in high school. So I've had my long months. This one though, well, today it seems pretty short.

Well, I said earlier that last night I went to some seminar on communications as technology. It was, well there were some interesting points, to say the least. One of the panelists made the mistake of accidentally implying that Bloggers would replace professional journalism. I think was talking about how online media was replacing print media, but he made a poor seguay to talking about Blogs and other forms of non-professional broadcasting. They were quick to try and clarify, but they weren't the most coordinated group of five people I've ever seen, and their audience was less than wonderful. Still, it was interseting, as most of them clearly saw that while Blogging and the like aren't meant to replace professional journalism, many, like many people among me in the audience, would make that very mistake. I don't know. What I blost here is most definitely not news. I've read some Blogs that are news based, or more specifically, opiniated, unobjective people ranting about the news, but what I'm going for here is purely entertainment. SO if you're looking for news, your're in the wrong place. If your're looking for the antics of a couple of guys who are way too easily amused, yeah, this is the place. Please support us.

One of the other panelists, easily the best one, was very supportive of everyone having a Blog, for a multitude of reasons. The practice in writing alone he said was worth it. I'm mostly in it for the commitment. I'm doing things that I might not normally do mostly because I have committed to this Blog. I'm doing som other things to aid in my commitment issues, but more on that at a later date.

Anyways, I thought I'd just give a heads up on some of the things I'm planning on doing.

Build a windsurfer on a skateboard. It should be legendary.

Run a Marathon. If both of my sisters can do it, so should I.

Help Jo find her birth mom. Or at least, a cat I can convince her is her mom. I'm not perfect.

Learn to play the Guitar. It's something I've been meaning to do.

Build the Solar Death Ray. The power of 1,000 suns!

Learn to do Magic. I probably can't. But I'd at least like to give it a shot.

Finish writing one of my stories. I've started dozens, but never finished. After that, comes publishing.

At some point, a road trip. Doesn't matter where.

And there's a few things left up my sleeve, quite literally actually, that I will reveal when the time is right. After all, I can't let you now everything I plan on doing. Then you would have a little less reason to keep reading what I have to write.

So I'll keep blosting, whether or not you keep reading. I guess I'd prefer it people read, but it's not necessary. As always, suggestions are more than welcome. And if you're in town, give me a call. We'll do something stupid and fun, maybe fly a kite.

On Comments and Following

Nothin' much, just thanking you for reading, and encouraging you all to comment more if you are already doing so, and to start if you aren't commenting at all. Because, after all, only about 70% of this blog is for Ben and myself. And of that remaining 30% or so, 2%, of that 30% mind you, just might, maybe, be for you.

Point being, we read and appreciate the comments. Feedback, be it on my many typographical errors, questions, or suggestions for us. Just today, we decided we needed to do something (turns out we most likely can't, sorry to say, at least not something that would involve leaving Mount Airy) but we were at a loss for what to do. Suggestions, ideas, events we are unaware of, all these things would not go unrewarded. Even recognition of an obscure reference is cause for commenting.

On a related note, according to "Blogger Buzz," someone is following a blog every second of every day, which I took to mean that someone follows a new blog every second. And yet, despite these incredible numbers, we've been stuck at seven, for like, awhile. Pretty much since we started anyways.

So, thank to you who are following, but we're going to have to ask a bit more of you, and that's to encourage others to get in on this; it's going places. I can't say where, or even when, but you know you'd feel guilty if it left and everyone you knew wasn't on board and you hadn't put forth the effort. And if you are reading this but haven't committed to following, get on that. You get out of it what you put in.