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I have been a bit depressed the last few days.
We had a small concert at our church this last Sunday. The music affected me a lot emotionally. I had tears forming in my eyes and my voice was wavering and my lip started trembling. Good music.
I watched The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A good movie if you like the stranger ones. I felt like I knew what Joel was going through at the beginning of the movie. I could see many of the things that he did would be exactly the things I would do in the same situation. It was kinda wierd like I could have been looking at myself in that situation. It also kinda made me feel down as I was watching the movie because I connected so much with Joel.

I need someone that wants to talk about things and is willing to dig a bit to get me talking. Any takers?

I did not make it back to the archery range. I hurt my left shoulder last Sunday when we were setting up for a concert after church. I was reaching up to grab chairs as they were being passed down from the loft and my shoulder just started hurting a lot.
After setup we went to a friends house and did our usualy workout. I skipped the bench presses because my shoulder hurt to much. After the exercising though my shoulder was feeling great. Until we put the chairs back up. My shoulder finally feels back to normal today.

I picked up Elder Scolls IV: Oblivion yesterday and when I got home I saw my brother playing it. Lol, I guess I get to return my copy. I did not get much of a chance of playing the game yet, but it sure has some nice graphics. Just walking through the forest is pretty. I am going to turn the terrain draw distance way up and see if my PC can handle that. It should look gorgeous.

I think a group of friends and I are going to head on down to Mitsuwa food market this Saturday. I always have a good time there. I definitely am trying some things from the bakery this time. There is such wierd stuff there and I always get so full eating other things taht I never make it to the bakery. I should look up a few recipes and write down ingredients to buy. Will do that tonight.

Other than that not much going on. How you doin?

A couple of interesting things happened recently.
First off my sister who moved to Colorado stopped by without notice. It was nice seeing her and her husband. They seem to be doing well. We bumped into them at the Borders books store the next day. I hope to see them before they head back to Colorado later this week.

Second, I recently got an interesting email from one of my gaming buddies who I will refer to as GG.
Apparently GG thinks pretty highly of me, so highly that he ended up telling his wife's cousin all about me and suggesting that we would be good together. I am pretty flattered by that.
He was just letting me know that that had been on his mind lately, but he was not trying to go step over the friendship line by trying to hook me up (I am not sure where this line would actually be). I actually would not mind someone trying to introduce me to people every now and then. He has been trying to imporve himself as a person and improve relationships that he has with people by being more open with them.
This is something that I really need to work on too. I rarely tell people what I think or am feeling, I instead end up giving non-commital answers or not saying anything at all. I think I will send him an email reassuring him and saying that it is cool and that we should get together and hang or go and do something. I need to get out more and go out with people rather than all by myself.

On to other news. Last Saturday I decided to go to an archery range and fire some bows. I ended up trying a traditional recurve. I had a great time despite forgetting to put on a bracer and finger guards before it was too late. My left forearm was pretty swolen and black and blue. My right hand's fingers were numb and still are a bit. Still I had a great time and think that this is something that I can really enjoy doing on a regular basis. I went back on Tuesday after the tendons in my right hand were pretty much recovered. I shot for an hour and a half Tuesday and my fingers are not really sore at all today. It is not that expensive, $8 an hour for using the archery range and 5 for rental equipment. I think I may get my own equipment as it would be more enjoyable and I can learn my own bow's behaviour. There is someone at the range that is looking to sell a decent beginner bow, but he usually shows up on Friday evenging which are pretty busy for me. I will see if I can't catch him some other day.

Later.

I am loving my Netflix subscription. So many foreign Japanese films to rent and watch. Plus I don't have to scour several different stores to find one that has a show I want to watch. I just queue them up and wait for them to arrive.
So far I have gotten:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Lost in Translation
Millenium Actress
Ringu 0
Tokyo Godfathers
King of Comedy

I loved how they made Millenium Actress. Check this animated film out.
I am liking Stephe Chiao movies and I think I will end up watching them all. They have a strange otherworldliness to them while at the same time being fairly realistic.
Ringu 0 was interesting and certainly explains more of what happened in the Ring. I am getting the original Japanese version of Ringu to compare with the American version. I anticipate liking the Japanese version because I enjoy the pacing of Japanese films.

I was ill yesterday, so I watched the last three films on that list. I also saw several shows that were saved on my Tivo and watched a couple DVDs that were still shrink wrapped. I may catch up eventually.

I finished Scrapped Princess and Gantz. I liked Scrapped Princess and was fairly impressed with the ending. Gantz on the other hand let me down at the end. I still want even a glimpse at what exactly is going on.

Hi my name is Kevin and I am a MMORPG addict.
I had stopped playing World of Warcraft close to 6 months ago after reaching level 60 and not being all too interested in the massive raids or the PVP which is all that was left to do. I ended up playing again for a week or two, but was not grabbed by the game like I was originally.
However I noticed this neat try Everquest II for a month free offer from File Planet. Dang it! They had to tempt me didn't they. As I had just recently finished playing DragonQuest VIII on the PS2 I had nothing soaking up all my spare time. A couple of clicks later and the EQII files were working their way onto my hard drive. Now I am spending many hours exploring the lands of Norrath. I have also been spending many hours with the crafting system. It is kinda neat, yet a little aggravating at the same time. All the components have to be crafted or refined from the raws that are harvested. And then you can gather the components together to create the finished piece.
I ended up being a Berzerker / Carpenter. I like being able to craft furniture and place them into my inn room. Very cool stuff that WoW did not offer. Plus making things is much more involved and entertaining than WoW's version. We will see how long EQII has a stranglehold on me.

Actually I have been doing quite well in regulating my playing time to a moderate level. I have been reading the newest Eberron book by Keith Baker. Great book so far. I have also started going through my stack of manga and anime that I have bought and not read/watched.

I also signed up with Netflix. I saw the amount of anime that they have as well as the amount of foreign films including some that I have had trouble finding. I can watch quite a bit of shows at a fraction of the cost of me buying them. I hated renting movies from places like Blockbuster because they never seem to have the type of movies that I like watching and then I feel pressured into watching them right away when I would rather watch them in a day or so. Seems like a match made in heaven. There is about 50 movies in my queue nad over 100 suggestions. They were fast in getting the first group of disks to me. So far I am impressed.

When my siblings are eating up my precious EQII playing time (usually by playing it themselves) I have also been playing some of the PS2 games that I have not finished yet, like Digital Devil Saga.

I have also gotten a book on making paper origami flowers. I like origami and some of the flowers in the book are amazing. So far I have made a couple roses that ended up being sent to my grandparents. When I feel a bit down, something like this is a great way of getting a little pick me up.

After watching the movie The Weatherman I have a strong urge to learn archery. I have always been interested in bows and archery, but have never really done anything about it. This Saturday I am planning on going to some local archery shops and see if there are some places that have ranges and offer lessons. It sounds like a nice thing to get me outside and get a little bit of exercise also.

All in all, keeping myself busy in a huge array of different things all at the same time.