The Book of Charlie

04:04 pm - Games!

I am off to legacies~! But in the mean time, if someone wishes to play in the Lord of the Rings Online Open Beta, I'm on the server called Silverlode, currently residing in the town of Bree. My character is a human Captain named Daranion.

I don't think my mother will necessarily enjoy playing this game initially, but it is the same format as WoW so my sister should be able to help her figure it out. After a few levels and one has completed the initial quests, you'll be allowed to leave Archet and explore on your own.

08:48 am - Subway employees everywhere take a turn for the UGLY

It has been a long long time since I updated, I'm going to start doing so again.

So much new and different stuff it is hard to say all that has happened in the first few months of 2007, so I'll just go with whats going on lately. At Subway we got these new T-shirts we have to wear. On one hand, way more comfortable than poloshirts...lighter too. On the other...they are canary yellow and hideous. They do not go well with the complexions of 80% of the employees. They are most awful.

Tragically, I am now going to work.

Also, Karate is almost over. I have been waiting a long time and paid a lot of money to that place, and I regret doing it. But I'll be glad to get out of it. Around the same time, the end of march, my mom is going to Singapore for a month. You all know what this means.

PARTY ZUM CHARLIEHAUSEN!!!

Current Mood: cold

03:13 am - Short Notice New Years

Looks like I'll be having a new years gathering after all. I need more people! Contact me if you are looking for something to do for new years! There will be tasty food!

03:00 pm - Christmas Update

So much to talk about....so few updates
Well, I'll find out what needs catching up later. In the mean time, something important!

Charlie's Christmas Wishlist

Internal Hard Drive for my Computer (details later)
New Backpack and Duffel bag (Nothing with wheels or rubber pegs on the bottom....god help you if I find wheel or stands *glare*)
Clothing: Sad to say, I can actually use some new pants and many of my massive collection of old socks are deveolping holes and must be thrown out.
DVDs are good, I'll get a morecomprehensive list of stuff that I don't yet have later.
Games: Video games I almost never play, but board/card games are very good. Again, more comprehensive list later.
Gift Certificates for clothes, movies, joannes, borders, craft shops, or other neat things are all helpful, as well as straight up cash which I'll never complain about.
Books: The George R. R. Martin Series, Empire from the ashes (David Weber), and In Death Ground and The Shiva Option. Both of those sets would be fantastic to ahve my own copies of. Fantasy, mythology, and ancient world reference books or guides are also very neat.
More later, I must away!

11:31 pm - Game System

I am currently working on a tabletop game system. I would like to run some ideas past various people to see if they aren't too complicated or confusing. If anyone is interested in helping me out, pls let me know.

Wisemen and Fools are both useful.

07:03 am - HALLOWEEN!!!

Alright. I love halloween. The candy is nice, but you can get candy at any time of the year. There is candy at any holiday. Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day....its always about the candy.

But Halloween is my favorite holiday. It is the only day of the year I can go out in public wearing a mask and not be a freak. The masks, the costumes, the scaring, the trick or treaters...I love it all! Last year I set up an AWESOME halloween party at my house, and not one person came. Mostly it was just bad timing...no one far away had the time and no one nearby had the motivation. I never get any trick or treaters living in my backwater dark little corner.

Not one of my friends around here cares about Halloween. They are doing homework, playing videogames, and whetever else. I feel so alone in my appreciation for Halloween. I cannot wait for some point in the future when I will be able to actually throw a decent party, or have trick or treaters or do things the way they should be done on halloween. IN the mean time...I have nothing to do. It would be fun even to cruise around and look for a party to crash...any yet....alone, is not so much fun. What to do.

Current Mood: frustrated

01:44 am - Events

Legacies was very fun. My new character was entertaining, and I will be pleased to play him in the future more than just friday night. No one killed him yet, so he is definitely making progress.

My other character's sister was undergoing surgery. She is a Mute, and a surgeon was operating on her throat to let her be able to speak again. They way they role-played this was with a construction over the throat of the player, with a plaster cast base, and then various layers of more plaster, latex, red goo and gelatin, with a hand pump that would make the whole thing gush red fluid when the surgeon cut in. It was extremely disturbing...like watching an episode of ER or something. Now, mentally I know it was all fake, but it looked so real that I had an extreme physical reaction. I barely managed to keep from fainting or throwing up. It was a bit embarassing, but kind of neat because I have never had that happen before for anything. So now I know what its like to faint.

And last bit of news, I asked someone out. We agreed to go out on a date, but I am waiting to contact her to set the day and time. She lives rather far away, but I don't think that matters. It'll just make for some interesting coordination. I have been thinking about it for a long time and finally worked up the nerve to ask her. My philosophy on this is that I shouldn't be nervous because if I say or do something that totally turns her away from me (or vice versa) then we would be foolish to continue the relationship further anyway. Right now, I am unsure what kind of relationship she wants if any. As for what I want, well, thats between me and her.

Current Mood: excited

12:24 pm - Martial Arts and Social Activities

SO the Karate is very fun.  It is a way for me to get a good workout twice a week, as well as develop some better self defense skills.  Some classes are easy, others knock me out for several days after by killing my leg and back muscles.  I go to work and cry every time someone wants the Honey Oat bread (At the bottom of the pantry).  But still...I am unsatisfied with this Karate School.  They seem more concerned about the money than about the martial arts.  Someone described it as a Blackbelt Factory.  And basically, anyone who pays them the proper huge amount of money and is even slightly motivated to try, can get a blackbelt in 3 years.  I am way too much of a romantic about this.  I Don't want to be tought based only on what I can afford...I want to be considered for my potential, my dedication, and what I can achieve.  If this place were a resturaunt, it'd be Dennies.

So I keep imagining making up my own homegrown martial art.  Keeping working at this one, learning Aikido, Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, getting several blackbelts and working on my own style that I could one day teach.  Its probably just fantasy but its a fun one.

Speaking of fantasy, Legacies this weekend!  The costume is pretty much complete, only a few details remain.  THe few who have seen the pictures of it approve, and I think he'll make a good impression there.  After game I promise I'll put pictures up so everyone can see the awesomeness.  I only wish I could claim the costume fully as my own creation.  But I had a very good seamstress make the main part of it, so I can't.

I am reading A Feast For Crows.  I am so happy.  I have waited so long.  A Dance of Dragons had better come out SOON.

04:48 pm - New Things

So as always, I am engaged in several projects.  A new legacies character, the 3rd or 4th i have come up with to play between these last events since I retired my Primary character.  But this one I think I am sticking with.  It requires to completely seperate layers of costume.  The first I am ordering out for.  For 50 dollars I get one large piece that will cover the inside parts completely.  Its a very good deal, and I'm glad to know someone who enjoys making things and doesn't charge as she says, "What she should"  which I agree with.  That she should be charging extra.  But I am on a tight budget and I am happy to partake.

The inner part of the costume, that few if any will see, is far more complex and I am putting it together myself.  Similar to my old Golem Suit, its mostly made of the same materials I'd use for making a boffer weapon.  I put most of my bribe into this character to make him the perfect level.  Every day brings new pieces of the project.  I've finished the over mask...there is a cloth hood that'll go under it which might need some enhancements as well.  The whole piece needs a torso, so I ahve the lower back finished.  I still need to make the upper back.  The front torso is cut out and held together but needs a full covering of tape.  I have a glove for my right hand, but need to make a special claw boffer for my left.  I also need forearm covers.  I am considering upper arm and leg covering as well..its just a makker of how much time and materials it takes.

I realize I am being very vague on the subject, but I promise once its done and has been revealed at legacies, I'll post lictures of the costume in its various stages.

And all this makes me really wonder if there are any good halloween costume contests around here.

Also, I am trying to put together an RPG system that is unique enough to be publishable.  I am very pleased with the results so far, and I wish, oh how I wish, I had a reliable group to test it out with.  My friends locally are really intelligent and could help a lot, but are also busy often, and are not as interested in it as I am.

Meanwhile, the situation with my friend has calmed down somewhat.  He decided, at the request of his father to not go through with cutting us off.  He reveresed the process of forgetting as well as he could, and now has his memories back, but still has lost the emotional connections.

Now, before you start saying, "Well, how suspiciously convenient."  Keep in mind, whether he is telling the truth or not matters little.  The fact that he wanted to do it speaks of some problem he has, some pain that is depressing him.  And he claims that the procedure exists in the face of all logic and science, so...in a way its like if he'd said he'd scene the loch ness monster, or been abducted by aliens.  I may or may not believe in those things, but I believe him because I am his friend.  Whether its just humoring him, or if it is true belief, its his belief that is important here, and our taking him seriously.  

Bonfire tonight.  I'm not sure I want to bother, but hopefully some friends will come over and join us.  That'd be nice.  And its my mother's birthday today, so I'd better get to it.

One last note, I've started taking karate lessons!  Ow!

Current Mood: sore

01:10 pm - "Isolation Protocols Initiated"

What.  The.  Fuck.

Alright, where to begin?   So There is this person I know, named Perry.  You may recall a couple of post previously that I was very angry about someone I was talking to.  Well I now know the reason why he was being difficult, and why at the end he was claiming to not know who I am.

He says he has erased his memory, of every social interaction, since 5th grade.  He literally does not know who I or any of our mutual friends are.  At all.  (For the duration of this post I'm going to assume he is being truthful abut this.)  And he is following instructions left by himself to eliminate all contact with anyone he knew.  He still remembers himself over the years, and his family interractions.  And a lot of everything.  But all of us....Collateral Damage.

He doesn't know why he did it, and he is threatening that if we try to contact him after a certain date that we will greatly regret it.  Regret it as much as losing a friend?  He thinks so.  I don't know what to do or think besides give him the space he wants and respect his wishes.  Whether he is lieing or not doesn't matter, his goal remains the same.  

I don't know what to think.

Current Mood: distressed