I have no idea what to blog about, but I really need socks.

Which reminds me, remember The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks books? Those were awesome.

I think I’m making up for my many years in middle school/high school of not really listening to much music because now I’m just having a blast listening to stuff other people would probably classify as horrific (and decades old =). I’m a bit over my 80’s craze (though I still enjoy that decade of music very much) and I’ve grown a new appreciation for how much stupid fun boy band songs can be. Is there something wrong with me? =)

For some reason, I really like over-dramatic songs. Songs where love and/or heart-break (heart-break’s usually more fun =) are so exaggerated, it’s ridiculous. I really like songs that are easy to sing along to, ones that are fun and silly.

In that tune, I leave you with some Richard Marx (“Right Here Waiting”)… lol:

Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn’t stop the pain

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted,all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter,I taste the tears
But I can’t get near you now

Oh,can’t you see it baby
You’ve got me goin’ crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I’m with you
I’ll take the chance

Oh,can’t you see it baby
You’ve got me goin’ crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

For some reason, this song just reminds me of when I was a kid and never worried about anything this song is about, haha…

July 4th was kinda uneventful, especially in the fireworks department for me, haha. Some of us went down to visit Julie and Nancy on the 3rd and drove back up on the 4th. It was a nice visit, I think. =) I fell asleep on the recliner and got really cold because I had no blanket and attempted to warm myself with a small square pillow. Needless to say, that didn’t work out so well so I snuck into Julie’s room and stole her bed (she wasn’t there, that’d be scandalous ;).

I woke up a few times when Munchie would walk all over me, lay on my chest and pur in my face. The previous day, I wrapped up Zoey in a bunch of rope that I guess Nancy rescued her from (or did she get out herself?), but I think I was forgiven because she sat on my shoulders for a while without trying to rip my head off. Apparently cats like me even though I tease them so. ;)

On the way home, the sky was dark and I think I drove threw a few spots of heavy rain, but I didn’t die, so it’s all good. =) Weather wasn’t so happy, but I think I had a nice time rockin’ out to overdramatic love songs on the way back by my lonesome. Ahhh… vacations are nice.

Edit: Oh yeah, I remember a dream I had while sleeping in Julie’s bed (I think I was too concerned with being cold to remember anything I dreamt of earlier). I dreamt that I was at some cabin/lodge eatery place that was supposedly some college study hang-out. Then, I realized that I was graduating soon and I had one week to finish two self-study classes that I was horribly behind on (physics and…. Japanese?… I think my head must have meant Chinese, but I’m pretty sure the class I was “taking” was Japanese). So I was feeling incredibly stressed out and dreaded waking up, until I actually started waking up and realized that I had already graduated. Then I went back to sleep with a happy smile. =)

I went ahead and played around with the demo version of Photomatix since they’ve got a universal binary now and promptly broke down and bought it. The above image was generated with one RAW image processed multiple times with different exposure compensations. I think it looks pretty neat. For comparison’s sake, the original is here.

I also did another one with Andrew and Van that’s pretty cool too (that was my first attempt). I tried it on that one bridge picture that I thought would work well HDR, but I actually didn’t like the result that much. Maybe I’ll play around with it more…

So Superman Returns was enjoyable, though not as good as I had hoped it would be. I think Bryan Singer got close, but missed a few elements here and there that kept it from reaching “awesome.” Oh well, I still have hope that the next one will be good. I think Brainiac as the villain would be cool. =)

Kathy says that my blog is boring, and I think it is too. I just don’t know what to blog about anymore (this has been a problem for a very long time). I can’t really blog much about work because well… I can’t mention a lot of the things I do, at least not specifics. I think it’s also that since I see all my friends on a regular basis, there’s not a whole lot to blog about that people don’t know already. I had a vision of OliverWEB kinda being my online scrapbook… so I guess I should blog about things even though everyone already knows about it already…

So, tonight Chad finally moved out of The Legacy and after this weekend a decent chunk of us should be living at the new place. We don’t get our internet activated until the 7th, so we’ll be leaching wireless off neighbors with varying success in the mean time.

Hrm, well that’s all for tonight. Sorry, nothing exciting. =)