Andrew Speaks/Types

“a spider series”

“that’s a–”

“through the wire”

“sun wave”

“NESkimotion”

“never do you any good”

“look for lights?”

“riser upper”

“open the floodgates”

My camera is broken. It’s been broken for like a week now. The same thing happened to my friend’s PSP, it really blows. What happened was… I had it in my pocket of some tight fit pants, and I guess the screen was facing opposite my leg. It must’ve bumped against something pretty forcefully, and cracked not the screen, but the LCD screen behind the screen. So now, half of my camera’s screen is colorbar instead of picture. Sucks.

So I called Casio (my camera company), and they said that even though it’s under warranty, technically it’s my fault. So, they want to charge me $119 to get it fixed. That’s about $85 that I don’t have right now. So my mom’s taking the camera up to Wolf Camera in Knoxville tomorrow, to see if they can fix it for any cheaper. And if they can’t, tough, I guess. I’m going to have to get it fixed anyways, so I guess I’ll have to get someone to loan me the money to fix it.

I love my camera.

“mic”

“explosions”

“lamp”

“UFO”

“posideon”

“zeus”

“fingers”

“blood”

“among the best of them”

Being very close to my grounding of my iPod, Wii, computer, and camera being over, you’re wouldn’t think that the thing that has affected me most would be not having my camera, but that’s probably the case. I’m able to listen to music by using my CD player (which is a drag, but it works), play Star Fox at night without anyone knowing, and blog on the weekdays at school. But, when you don’t have a camera and see a great photo opporitunity, like a billboard advertising “The Gun Show,” or a high class “Hobo Company Purses” store, you get really frustrated.

It’s the 21st of February, and I get ungrounded on the 29th. Not a whole lot has been going on since I got grounded. Lately I’ve been spending my nights playing Star Fox 64 until the late hours of the night, since my mom hasn’t realized that I still have my Nintendo 64. The guy that I bought the game from had a brother that was really really good at it, and I can’t beat any of his high scores.

Another thing is that I finally got a turntable yesterday, which is awesome. I asked for a record player for Christmas and didn’t get it, so now I can finally play all my parents’ record collection. I have a feeling that the turntable will be a big center of attention for my photography, so after the 29th, be expecting a lot of cool pictures of that.

I’ll probably be pretty addicted to my camera once I get it back. I also have a lot of videos that I took a long time ago I was planning on uploading before I got grounded. I’ll try and get those up soon. Some are humor and some are videos of my friends band.

Man I can’t wait for the 29th.

It seems like at least once a year I get in trouble really bad for something minor but blows up into something major. I am now in a lot worse trouble than I have been for the last few days and now I’ll robably be a crappy bloggert for a good while. I don’t really have time to write tonight seeing as I’m at a friends house and he’s leaning over my shoulder reading out loud every word I type as I type it, but I’ll be sure to give you the whole story behind my grounding tomorrow. It’s kind of a long story. But as of now I am grounded indefinitely from my iPod, camera, laptop, and hopefully not but possibly soon, Wii, and my best bet at when I’ll get all that back will be at the end of February. Which will make weekend blogging very difficult and will drive me insane. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. The only thing I’m sincerely worried about is if I’ll be able to go to The Mars Volta show. Well, got to go. Bye.

“needle me this”

“screech!!”

“perfect score of 500″

“(1, -15)”

“in the face”

“cloverhead”

“overhead”

“greatest cherry cola ever?”

“fresh air!”

“MAX 60 Watt”

“pricey”

“send transmission from the one armed scissor!”

“electricity”

“this is a real photo that was taken by my real camera”

“almost always there”

“stop!”

“tick”

“dine with the lights”

“stealing ideas from a friend”

“watt?”

I hate different file types, and especially Apple for making the .MOV video file popular. No one has a mac. Okay, digital camera companies? Nobody. So don’t make your digital cameras take videos in freaking .MOV format, which is near impossible to get to edit on a Windows computer. Here is a chronicling of my epic journey to get videos on my blog every time I want to do it from now on.

1: I take the video, and the video is in .MOV format, unable to be changed on the camera itself.
2: I import the video into the My Videos folder, still as a .MOV
3: The first time I had to do this, I had to search for a good portion of my life to find a free, working converter that would change my .MOV movies to .ANYTHING_ELSE movies.
4: I then can use my .ANYTHING_ELSE movie file in Windows Movie Maker to add titles and edit the video.
5: Then I have to save it as a .WMMP or something project file.
6: Then I have to save that project file as a .WMV file, which FINALLY makes my video youTube friendly, but this video takes forever to save.
7: I upoload to youTube, normally an overnight process.
8: THEN my blog gets the video.

SCREW YOU, .MOV FILES! SCREW YOU!

I’ll be posting my Go With The Flow video tomorrow.

I don’t have time to write a blog today, or the clock for today is going to run out and I’ll technically be blogging tomorrow, seeing how it’s 11:55 P.M.. I want to have a blog-a-day for as long as I can keep that up, to keep it interesting in here. So, today I’m going to share 5 photographs with you, some I’m quite proud of. Talk to you tomorrow…

“around the world”

“if I recall correctly…slap organ”

“everybody dance now!”

“tock”

“strike to the head”