Last night was pumpkin carving night. The annual pumpkin carving party is held the Saturday before Halloween. I didn't carve a pumpkin this year; my dad went to town and made a wolf. This event usually consists of around fifty people. For someone with my condition, I don' handle crowds all that well, it was rather difficult. I saw the man in the hat, some cats, and a few frogs. All of them were from my imagination. There was quite a load of kids ranging in age from five to sixteen. There were quite a few intoxicated adults as well. I couldn't get wasted because of the medication I'm on. Even though I couldn't drink, it was still a fun event! I was out there with my parents for about five hours. I can't wait until next year's pumpkin carving party!

The bot project is at a stand still. I just can't decide if I should make it in perl or C++; I'm leaning toward C++. Pictures of my apartment will be posted sometime this week! Here's a random picture of some cosplay!

So today I went to the movie theater with seven of the tenants of Cedar Hill (the appt. complex where I reside). Out of the six movies to choose from, I picked the Simpsons Movie. I am not going to give out any spoilers / details about the movie. That way if someone hasn't seen it won't get mad at me for ruining it! The humor was okay; it ranged from high class humor to shit so dumb that a 4 year old wouldn't laugh. It also has some good, moral lessons. I'd rate the movie 8.75 out of 10. If I were you, I would go out and see it if your theater is still running it. Else, you should rent it when it's out on DVD. Great stuff, right? Moving on to the next order of business.

In the next few days, I am going to start my next big programming project! I am going to make a multipurpose bot in perl. It will feature basic functions such as that found in the header "math.h" in C; it will also have nifty games and a trivia function. I'm not putting a date down as to its completion; I am still learning perl, too

I still have two more boxes to unpack before I take a camera and shoot the place up. Hopefully it will all be complete by Sunday. As I mentioned earlier, I am in the last apartment (#16). It's very peaceful and secluded down at the end of the hallway! Apparently pocket knives are not allowed in the building, or near it for that matter. One of my new friends got gangbanged by the cops because he had one. I very promptly sent mine home this morning. I don't know why the owner is being such a bitch about it, but I guess I have to respect the rules if I am going to be living here.

I had a full blood screen drawn on me a couple of weeks ago. Good news is that I'm not dead yet! Bad news is elevated cholesterol and a hyperactive thyroid. The thyroid problem causes me to gain weight and burn it off really slow. The cholesterol is just plain not good. My doctor gave me a couple of pills to regulate my thyroid and help lower my cholesterol. Top that off with a good diet and intense, daily exercise, and I should be good to go in no time! Plus it's a good reason to just go on out and do shit; become active again!

If you have been following the poetry drama, you know that Segia plagiarized his entry. This makes Paul K. the winner! Here is his poem!

Woe is he who withholds his desires Untold love leaving him far beyond cold. Passion burns the heart worse than Hell’s fires; Has tormented kings and the knights of old. Scour his soul and nothing you will find Behind only the trite life that he feigns. A man who shuns his desire is blind; Leaves nothing but material remains. Live for the moment and savor each breath, For a strangled spirit is worse than death.

Paul K. gets the whole hosting package if he wants it. Now for your delight...here is pussycat!

The blog has been down for at least a week. I was caught up with moving into my new apartment and such. It's all fixed up now, though .

I have been in my spiffy, new apartment since Monday. It's all decked out; it is assisted living, but still offers many freedoms! I'll save the descriptions for later as I am going to sweep thru with my digital camera in a few days and take some snapshots (I still have boxes to unpack before I go ahead though). I also got a new bed to go with my new apartment. It is a queen size; my old bed was a twin. I'll post more about the apartment and the program as a whole later on down the road.

Congratulations to the winner of the poetry contest: Segia! Paul K. took second place; ruze took third. Segia gets an unlimited amount of space with metered bandwidth (yadda, yadda, yadda) whenever he wants. Personally, I think Paul K.'s poem was more well-written, but he just didn't beat the spread. To celebrate, here is the winning poem!

Flames of vagueness Here it is a flame, is a flame and other small amusing flame, Of the vague flame of the flame calls, Of the calls of the duck of the flame of the flame of calls, Of the potato of the mattone of reducing in breads of calls, Of the cake of the cheese of the flame of the flame, Of calls of the fungus of the flame, Of the duck of the flame it was once that treehouse, I it lived in a cake but the rake never saws to the sense the orange, Not slayed that was only three years of the dead men, But it has counted a history and hour listens, The small boy the emergency track it has always seen, That a flame to you to kiss a flame on the calls, Of the flame of the taste of the flame of the calls, Of the flame of the half of the duck of the flame of a flame the flame, Two times the call cultivator does not call it calls in an automobile, In order to alarm the calls that of the flame the duck, Is this how much hour has said? It is all therefore old? It is of the spremuta one of the lemon? The cold ankle of doorknob the hour that my song is taking place to me, Hour has worked thin of the hour makeshift for me in order to withdraw themselves and to make a duck.

That's all for this post. I'll get pics and better descriptions of my appt. later. More congrats to Segia for scoring big with the winning poem! I'm still working on beating Metroid Prime, too .