I promise
Thank the Lord Almighty for Kansas… You know there is just some music that puts you in certain moods, Kansas is a band that does that for me. (And yes Brenna, I still do hate the state even though I’ve had to travel through it a hundred times, my cousin lives there and I visit him often, and one of my favoritest bands is from there… I still hate the state itself). I know today was supposed to be all good and everything, but with everyone trying to make things “fun” it was nothing shy of stressful. I’m not much of a person for doing stuff… I really would prefer to stay home curl up on the couch and watch movies, or play a few hundred rounds of CoH with Jordan since with the job and the site projects I’ve had ZERO time to do so anymore, plus he’s got to be at work by 4am and the way things work out is he gets home from work 2 hours before me, then takes a nap, I get home he’s up and ready to go… I’m not… so I take a short nap, by the time I’m up he’s already done a ton of work on his new site and is ready to mellow out for the night… So Kansas puts me in a very mellow mood, which is much needed after being pulled here and there all day long. Not to mention there were several conversations that do nothing but anger me had today. Don’t ask me why but Brook was brought up several times today one time because my mom was going to get me new headphones for my comp since Brook broke my $80 5.1 surround sound beauties that have amazing sound quality! Yeah, thinking about it doesn’t make me any happier… oh, and Brook & his friend Matt were over here “wasting time” while they wait for the poker game to start watching video’s on MY COMPUTER!!! for the only 3 hours that I was home today when I planned on working on the youth groups website, but no I couldn’t get to the computer because they were “wasting time” while they waited for there buds to get everything together. Then the uh… *caugh* one who broke my $80 headphones (oh, and by the way did I mention that I paid $80 for absolutely the best 5.1 surround sound headphones on the market and only got to use them for 1 month because *caugh* someone broke them?) had the AUDACITY to complain about the fact that all we had were headphones so they both couldn’t listen to the sound on the videos at the same time… well guess what, I built the computer FOR ME! and my needs… I do 2 things, gaming, and building websites… gaming you must have headphones because you can hear people to the left and right of you and actually know better where other people are, or if you’ve got 5.1 surround sound headphones you can hear the EXACT location of that person (say left rear of you) and it gives you a huge advantage… building websites is usually done between the time frame of 12am and 3am (gotta sleep some time before going to work) where I like to listen to music and keep myself preoccupied… well others are trying to sleep so it’s best to have headphones. If you want speakers why don’t you buy some? I mean you can get a pair of computer speakers for $30 at Circuit City (but please, wait until after you replace my Turtle Beache’s… thanks…).
Now, I’m FINALLY working on the youthgroup website and I created this really cool fall EFX where the words drop in from above and fade as they do starting at 50% then moving to 100% oppacity so they fall and fade along with a slight blur EFX looks really cool and smooth you know? When published into flash and put on the site it falls… and that’s it… so I’m thinking, wow the compression REALLY screwed this thing up, no more compression for this intro. Republish it without the compression. This time it’s much better because now not only does it fall but it’s 5 times the size as it was before… but still no fade or blur effects… ok… why not? Fine fine… frame by frame it is (the tweens have a real problem with fade sometimes) frame by frame takes FOREVER to do but you can create stuff that is nothing shy of amazing, it’s how most of the stuff on my banner is done… it’s the only way most of the stuff on my banner CAN be done. I spent several hours meticulously recreating everything frame by frame (15 frames per second each one has to be edited individually… don’t ask how long it is… it’s about half the time of my banner but still). After this whole process I publish it and breathe a sigh of relief as I watch the banner for the first time and the text falls at 100% oppacity ah, success… wait? What? No… that’s not possible…. I just frame by framed that… I know tween’s have a problem with oppacity but ANYTHING done frame by frame should be exactly that… frame… by… freaking frame. Well, I did the lightning in seperate movies, and it is the only thing that really uses a quick fade EFX that wasn’t done frame by frame (it’s also the only way to use tween’s and do multiple things at once). So here we go again… recreating the same thing, just this time the one text box is contained into 3 seperate movies one that controls fall, one that controls fade, and one that controls blur. Guess what it does when I publish it… that’s right… it falls… because I was just kidding about wanting it to fade or blur… I mean when I added the blur effect, and when I set each frame up at a different oppacity level I was REALLY just doing so for fun, because it looks so much better without the two…
In short, always keep a mellow, happy, and fun CD for destressing.
Oh yeah… and “Carry on my wayward son, there’ll be peace when you’re done, lay your weary head to rest, don’t you cry no more.” 