Well, today I saw the Penny Arcade guys. Seriously. Man that’s cool. Look, I know I’m having a fanboy moment, and I’m cool with that. I got their new book signed, I got there early enough that I also got a free copy of their PAX 2005 DVD set… all in all, very cool. They’re the kind of guys I’d like to have sort of a ‘day in the life’ of, ya know? I wonder if that’s even possible, to shadow them and see what they do for a day. That’d be pretty cool. Anyway, signed stuff, free stuff and a good chat to the guy next to me in the line, who worked for a local image processing company or something over in Fremont and had actually been to New Zealand. He didn’t make it down as far as Christchurch due to time constraints on his trip, but it’s surprising how many random people I talk to actually know where New Zealand is and know at the very least about a city, usually Auckland.

The PA signing trip involved me working out several buses and so on out to Bellevue, the first of which I saw pull off in front of me, then after waiting a little while and ignoring one bus, I realized I needed to go back to my apartment and recalculate (thanks to the internet) my route. I realized when doing this that the bus I ignored was the bus I wanted to take, so I took the next one of those. Over the lake, change buses at the Bellevue Transit Centre then eventually find the Barnes and Noble at the Crossroads mall. When I was going to leave, I had a little time before the next bus so I got a hotdog… then when I went out again I’d missed the bus, so I had to wait in the cold and rain (curled up into a bus-stop equivalent of the foetal position over my prized signed book) for the next one. Turns out the next one I was taking wasn’t even the one I thought I was taking, but it got me to the BTC alright. After that I did some wrangling over timetables and eventually realized the one I wanted to catch was leaving… right now. So I pelted it up the BTC to the right bay, making sure I indicated (not too flailingly) to the bus driver that I wanted on. From there it was relatively smooth sailing back to my little patch of Seattle that I vaguely know, or at least can find my way back to my apartment in.

I realize that by typing this into MS Word first, it may in fact be auto-correcting some of my words into American spelling. Ah well. Bad luck for those who don’t like it, I can’t be bothered going and changing all the auto-correct settings.

I did a bit of catching up on my blog… I’m still a little under a week behind, but I’m getting there… sort of. Really I’m just killing time trying to do something to relax my mind before I get stuck into my homework and work, which I’m really not in the mood for right now. On the plus side, I’ve fixed the archives section so that you can now view everything! Actually, maybe that’s not on the plus side…

I finally got stuck into my graphics homework, this takes a while. I arrange to meet up with Rob to discuss it tomorrow. After a while two things happen: I need a break, and I realize it’s not raining. This means, at 10:30 on a Saturday night, I went grocery shopping. Naturally, I hear you say. WTF!? I hear others of you say. Well, you’re both right. You work it out amongst yourselves.

Back to eat a somewhat late dinner and relax for a little while. I talked to Dad in New Zealand for a bit, talked to Eric in the Azores for a bit… Skype is a wonderful thing.

Did I mention that Andrew snores? Not continuously, thankfully, but every now and again I hear this enormous rasping sound come through the wall. Can be disconcerting when I’m working at my computer to say the least.

In any case after all that I’m going to try and get a relatively early night, as I didn’t sleep enough last night. Then tomorrow it’ll be up relatively early so I can finish off my graphics homework and do some work-work… I hope.

Holy shit, I’m up to date with my blog!