Today was quite the strange day. Saturday was so tumultuous; such a day full of things and people and experiences… by comparison, today was a bit drab and colorless. Sometimes, the drab and colorless is just what you need. For you see, I am operating on a little under four hours of sleep. But I’m okay with that.
You see, my dear reader, Saturday was my birthday. A truly frabjous day it was as well. I don’t know how well you know me. In any case, one of your purposes in coming here, besides the free entertainment and my not-so-subtle threats against you if you don’t, is that you want to get to know me better. I am not a party person. Seriously. I’m more of a small groups kind of person; I’m at my happiest with a handful of close friends. I feel more at home there. I feel I shine far brighter. So my birthday began in one of the most perfect ways possible; I awoke in the early afternoon. There was nothing to do, no pressures on me. I logged onto the Internet and was greeted by a smattering of warm wishes on my Facebook wall. I then spent most of the day playing Spore, because I could.
Later in evening, as the Sweesh species achieved sentience and began to unify their home planet of Caprica under one World Government, my roommate and Kitten arrived. And their arms were laden with lasagna ingredients. One of the easiest ways to please me is to make me food. Hell, you just have to give me food. You don’t really need to make me it. Just deliver. And so, with the delectable promise of homemade lasagna in the air, Jason and I left the house to catch a showing of Fanboys.
I had been waiting for that movie for nigh on three years as of yesterday. Needless to say, I was eagerly anticipating the visual delight that I was hoping to receive. We barely made it to the theater in time, thanks to the criminal lack of parking, and comically inefficient queue line for tickets. The movie started just as we sat down. From that moment, I was hooked. The first thing on screen was a crawl; and that crawl started with ‘Episode VII’. Win. The movie was pretty hilarious; in fact, coming out of the theater at 9:15, I would have gladly turned around and gone to the 10:00 showing. The movie was an hour and a half of solid Star Wars references and jokes. In fact, I’d say that without being a fanboy of the Star Wars films, Fanboys wouldn’t be nearly as good. That is why this movie was amazing; it was fan service, pure and simple. I loved it. It is, for me, a must buy.
As Jason and I sped home, we fired salvo after salvo of lines back and forth. The staccato fusillade of one liners and quotes continued until we arrived home, where we found a small bevy of comrades awaiting our… nay, my, arrival. So began a fun night. Jason, James, Kitten, Jenny, Jen, and I hung out whilst Jason cooked. And in short order, Mandy, Tony, Mike, and Rachel showed up. It was quite a bit of fun. There was Cranium to be had, and while Team Mandy and Jake did not win, it was damn close. It all came down to Tony having to act out a blowjob. As all good parties do, I think. Then there was drinking games and revelry until the wee hours of the morning.
All in all, it was quite the entertaining birthday. To everyone who came and surprised me, and to each and every one of you who left me a message, wrote on my wall, or twitted a Happy Birthday to me, thank you. Thank you indeed.
The other big news from yesterday was the fulfillment of one of my “life-affirming commitments” from my very first blog post this year. Commitment Number Two has been achieved. I finally went live with my website, as a birthday present to myself. You can check it out at [http://www.jake-morrison.com]. I finally made the decision to scrap my homebrew blogging engine; it was simple and easy to use, sure… but writing a custom logging and commenting system was sucking up my time. So I turned to a little thing you may have heard of, a certain framework that has fast become the industry standard. Wordpress. Why should I reinvent the wheel? It is good enough for a lot of major names in the web industry, for certain then; it is good enough for me. What you see there is the 0.8 version of the website; this week I plan on arranging and bringing online more of my artwork. I will also be streamlining the code that runs it; over the next week, the site will become leaner and meaner. Once that is done, and a good stable of artwork has been uploaded, and once I’ve updated the ‘About’ section of it to my satisfaction, it will enter 1.0 status. Like all good websites, the site will never be finished. But right now it is in a fragile evolutionary state. So use it, abuse it. Find flaws. Tell me about them. Now is the time to fix them. Think of this like being in the Beta for Jake’s site.
The coolest thing about this site is it will be the home of my blog. That has been my plan from the beginning. There will be a transitional period, however. Right now the blog is posted as a note on Facebook, and a blog on MySpace. For the next two weeks, it will be posted on my website as well. After next week, MySpace and Facebook will see short excerpts of my blog, followed with a hyperlink to my site. I’ll keep that up for as long as I feel is necessary. That could be ‘forever’, or it could be a month. Who knows? Not I. But I am excited at the prospect of moving to my new home.
Also, I would like to speak to last week’s exercise in creative writing. I like to think of it as a success. I enjoyed myself, and judging from the comments, dear reader, you did as well. So I think I will continue the story, serializing it and adding to it every other week. I haven’t decided on the frequency yet; it very well may be a once a month feature. What are your thoughts? Do you want to read more? How often do you want to read it?
So once again we find ourselves at the tail end of the blogging experience. In a shocking and new twist, I humbly ask that you comment on this blog. I desire your ire, your love, your anger, and your glee. But this time, I urge you to make your comments on my website. I want to make the full move to using that site as my exclusive blogging home. And only you can help me do that. I need your help. Ideally, I want a community to form. I want you to comment on my blog, to comment on the comments of others, and so on, and so forth. This will create a primordial ooze of ideas and criticism, a place of heady inspiration and wonder. So, as always, friend me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter @Chiron7936, and now, bookmark my website.