Date:	2008-05-17 10:24
Subject:	Warm up first, THEN excercise... Heh..
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful
Music:	Lord knows I'm a lucky man.

Hokay, so I'm down 3 lbs in the last week. I bought myself a new (second) bicycle. One bicycle stays at home for riding with ShadowCatt-X, the other I took to work for riding during lunch. I've also signed up with CalorieKing.com, and bought their tracking software, to track my calories and excercise... so far it's working well enough that I'm down 3lbs! YAY!!! Now to just keep it going!

Well, I've been having a lot of trouble getting to the Gym after work.. there are so many other things to do. So I bought a new bike (sized to fit me this time) and took my old bike into work.

Today I went for a 6 mile bike ride for lunch. Thats 432 calories burned and I'm feeling pretty good. Much more awake than I normally am at this time of day.

So now I'm going to try and keep up the bike riding for lunch. I think it will do me a world of good.
Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2008-05-03 20:36
Subject:	Aniversery
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy
Music:	Midnight Hour

As some of you might know, ShadowCatt-X and I are celebrating our 5th aniversery together. We each put to gether a celebration for the other, and ShadowCatt-X got hers together first this year.

We are at Casa Madrone in Saucelito, Ca. It is a hotel/spa that has these cute little cabins. Here is the view outside of the dutch doors leading out onto the itty bitty balcony. I took it with my cell phone, so the quality isn't very good.




As I sit here in the tiny cottage we have together, I can hear the gentle strains of soft jazz.. live music from a nearby pub/restraunt. The sun has set now, and I can see the lights across the bay. A cool night breeze wafts through the dutch door, the top door open to catch the night air. The fireplace isn't lit.. I think how nice the warm fire will be in the morning when the mists fill the bay and the hardwood floors are cold underfoot.

ShadowCatt-X is in the bathroom, in the giant shower, getting ready for our dinner tonight. We will be going to Casa Madrones restraunt, our reservation for 9pm. I'm a little tired from our bicycle ride today, we rode up and down the bay, looking at all the little stores and simple enjoying being outside. My mind wanders back to laying beside the bay with my head in my loves lap, her hand scritching my scalp as I look out over the water at the sailboats.. the power boats... and speak of nothing of great import.

I'll close my journal post on that happy memory, the time for our dinner drawing close, and I wish you all a good night.

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2008-04-28 09:48
Subject:	Sick again
Security:	Public
Mood:	crappy

Boojum the brown bunny sighs softly. "I REALLY hate being sick." He says in a gravelly voice, then pauses as coughs rack his small frame. "I had a relapse last week, on Thursday. It pretty much put me on sitting up Bedrest until Sunday. Unable to focus, couldn't drive, and that horrible.. horrible cough."

"I feel bad for work because we are coming up on the close of a project. As QA, I'm one of the gates to product release and I was so sick I couldn't even work from home." Boojum runs a hand through his hair.

He perks his long ears forward. "On the good side, ShadowCatt-X and I are celebrating our aniversery next weekend. She hasn't told me where we are going, but she says to bring some nice clothes and to also bring our Bicycles. I'm bringing a swimsuit as well, 'cause I know she loves to swim and wherever we go will likely have a pool."

Boojum the brown bunny

Well, well, well, I'm certainly have a busy time of late. Since I'm sort of the last person at work working on Netconsul QA it's keeping me very busy. I'm really looking forward to things backing off for a bit after it finally gets out the door... however then I probably will be swinging straight into a new project.

In the meanwhile, ShadowCatt-X and I have been getting the front yard all fixed up. We have planted a bunch of Hedges around the front yard, laid down some lengths of wood (spiked into the ground) and started putting in a new lawn. It's going to look nice when its done!

ShadowCatt-X bought me a bunny for the front planter. It's a bunny sitting upright behind a small pot of Petunias. It's right near the front yard now.

She has come up with her plans for our Aniversery celebration... it looks like we are going to go someplace decadant where we will be waiting on hand and foot! I'm looking forward to it! In the meanwhile, I need to come up with how to celebrate my half or the aniversery.. I've come up with some idea's, but I need to put them into practice. I also need to get her Aniversery Present! After all, presents must be shared!

So, on the fun side of things, the bunny hands and bunny feet for my bunny costume have arrived. They are adorable! They will go with my brown bunny fleece costume from Rabbit Warez. I still need to find a face mask I like, however. I'm worried I may have to build something myself.. which I really don't want to do because I'm not very good at crafts like that.

Boojum the brown bunny

Well, I'm feeling MUCH better today. Good enough that I'm at work. Wow, I haven't felt that sick in a LONG time! Monday I went home early (about 1pm) and went to bed early. I then spent much of the next 30 hours sleeping.

So, now I'm feeling better and need to get busy! We did the Penglai release at Further Confusion. I've updated the Forums to have a new GM's section where StormWardens can post private questions to ShadowCatt-X and myself. I'm also at work and have a LOT of catching up to do!

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2008-01-28 09:00
Subject:	Con Crud strikes again
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

ERRrrrrggggg.. now I'm sick.

The convention was great. Thursday I ran DragonStorm for the West Coast Dragonstorm group. We had Susan VanCamp as a sit in player! YAY! ShadowCatt-X ran all the Friday Tournament games (for which I was very greatfull. It meant I could scamper about and visit the con itself.) Then on Saturday I ran the noon game, while Djagr ran the 6pm game! All in all, a very good weekend for gaming.

But then disaster struck. By the end of the day on Saturday, ShadowCatt-X realized she was coming down sick. She decided to spend all day Sunday playing video games and sleeping. I went back to the con for a little bit more fun and ended up staying all day. I arranged for 2 new Peng Lai cards with Susan.. comissioned a drawing of my new DragonStorm Character..

And I bought a fleecey bunny jumpsuit! It's so CUTE! Whats more, it Fits! I bought it at the Bunny Warez table. It is a new product line for them.. and they happenned to have a brown bunny costume! *giggle*

But then, by the end of the day, my throat was scratchy and I started feeling funky. Yes, I to have fallen prey to the dreaded Con Crud. I'm at work now.. hoping I don't start feeling worse.

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2008-01-04 09:37
Subject:	OOOooOOoooOOoooOooooo
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

The wind is howling outside the building, loud enough for me to hear the howl at my cubical. This morning, when I looked out the back window, I couldn't help but notice the ghostly shards of cloth atop my Gazebo. Thats all thats left of the cloth top now that the wind has gotten ahold of it. Luckily, we have a backup top just waiting to be put up.

The christmas holiday was wonderfull this year! I got to spend a lot of time with my family, with most of us pulling out musical intruments. I think the most we had going at once was a keyboardist, 2 cello's, 1 violin, 1 mandolin, 2 guitars, and 2 singers. It was a LOT of fun!

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-11-07 10:09
Subject:	Shifting hours
Security:	Public
Mood:	ditzy

Ok! I'm shifting my hours to go into work a bit later and, consequently, get off work a bit later. I think I'll take advantage of this time shift to begin going to the Gym before work. For some reason I've always found it easier to go to the gym first thing in the morning instead of after work or in the afternoon.

I've started collecting some more items for Further Confusion! It is a beautifull robe! A han dynasty autumn festival robe! It's so PRETTY!

HMmmm.. Now I need to think of what other acouterments I want to go with it!

In the meanwhile, we lost a WHOLE bunch of people at work, so I'm feeling a bit depressed about that. Work is keeping me very busy at the moment. *sigh*

Still, this Friday is another DragonStorm game (the next installment in the Peng-Lai adventure.. afterwhich I might be able to play a Bunnymorph character (Ren-Shu)! Then on Saturday is Melchars AD&D II game! Sunday is going to be cheat day!

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-11-02 07:31
Subject:	Hoppy Halloween!
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

Wow! Another Halloween come and gone. This year, ShadowCatt-X and I went to her works Halloween party. There was much goings on and the music was VERY loud!

ShadowCatt-X dressed up as an Asian kitty. This is a sneak peek at the costume she'll be wearing to Further Confusion in 2008! She borrowed my white Zentai suit and used black shoe polish to put the spots on (and, let me tell you, the black shoe polish marks through the zentai. I know because I was wearing it at the time! *giggle*)




Now me, I was still fighting off the cold (or whatever) that I picked up in Reno. That meant I couldn't wear my facial appliance (I wasn't about to blow my nose while wearing a bunny mask.) Instead I picked up an inexpensive wizard costume to wear.




Sadly, last night was rough. I only got about 4 hours of sleep so I'm feeling sort of punch drunk. I still have a bad cough from the cold. Today on my way home I'll pick up some of that 12 hour cough suppressent, take it, then go to bed.

Boojum the brown bunny

You know, computers are funny beasts sometimes. They have so many possabilities and so many things can go wrong with them. ShadowCatt-X's computer died over the weekend. From the looks of things, her CPU baked itself. A sad death for a valient warrior.

So its' a trip to Fry's Electronics to buy their $140 Dual Core CPU and motherboard combination. I install the new motherboard (using some of my own RAM because hers won't fit in the new motherboard) and Windows XP won't start up.. the system just reboots over and over again. This meant I needed to repair the install of WindowsXP on her computer. The end of the story is that I finished updating everything at 3am.. so thats when I get to bed. *giggle*

You know, boyfriends are funny beasts sometimes. I spent all day working on her computer, getting it going.. Now I get my reward in head scritchies! I hope, I hope, I hope.. *laugh* Maybe I can convince her to stay up until 3am scritching my head!

Ok, now I'm just being silly, but I'm glad that her computer is working. The RenTau Bunny card she had made for my birthday is about to become a real, guild legal card. Susan needs a write up on the island the bunnies come from. ShadowCatt-X says this is not a problem since she already has pages of info on it all. She's going to winnow it down and send it in! That way we can hand out the cards at Further confusion next year! It should work out perfectly with the Asian Theme!

Boojum the brown bunny

Welcome to another lovely day here in sunny california! So MANY things going on! WHEEEEEE!!!

ShadowCatt-X and I went to saw some movies this week. We went to DragonWars and Resident Evil: Apocalypse! I'll review the best of the two first!

Resident Evil: Apocalypse was a fun movie with lots of explosions, martial arts, and zombies... which are all good things.. however I never felt that Alice was in any real danger (unlike the first two movies.) Also, it sort of felt like a movie built to show how characters you liked would die if they had to die and most of the plot was to show why they died they way they did.

Still, lots of zombies! MMmmmmmm.. ZOOmmmmbbiieeess... *giggle*

Now, on to DragonWars! This is the worse of the two films. Visually, the movie is stunning! The dragons are BEAUTIFULL and the action is mixed with CGI with a masters touch! However, it is a movie better read than listenned to! *giggle* Of course, if you have a girlfriend on your arm whispering snarky comments in your ear about the acting and writing then it makes the movie MUCH better.. trust me! This is a movie best enjoyed at home with friends so everyone can pay as much (or as little) attention as they want while making silly comments. The whole movie became worth it when you get to see a full Eastern dragon! OOooo! It is SO pretty!!!

So, those were the fun things that we were up to this week.. or WAS it? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

My Car got fixed on Friday, so on Sunday it was time for a ROAD TRIP!!! We drove over to Fresno, a nice little 2.5 hour drive, to test things out. There we visitted their underground gardens. It seems that, just after the depression, a man decided it was cooler under ground than above ground in Fresno... so he dug a cellar to stay cool in. Then he dug a second chamber. Then he made another chamber and tried growing a tree in it. Then if one tree would grow, maybe a dozen would grow. Eventually he had an underground garden! Admission is $12 for adults and they don't take plastic. For your money you get a nice tour of the remaining chambers. Sadly, much of the gardens were destroyed by developpers who wanted the land it was on. They had some ins with the city and managed to go to court and get much of the 70 acres of land.

The underground gardens website is at http://www.undergroundgardens.com/ , but is under construction.

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-09-17 12:29
Subject:	Slowly recovering
Security:	Public
Mood:	blank

WHeeeeeee.. Things have been both busy and slow. As some of you know, my car has been in the shop for about a month after a car accident I had. It is currently being worked on at Sturken Auto and should be finished by this friday (I hope, I hope, I hope... I miss my car.)

Beyond this, I've been playing a lot with the new Carrara 6! It's a lot of fun, but frustrating at times because of the bugs in the current version. A service release is supposed to come out at the end of September to fix a bunch of those problems. In the meanwhile, I'm working on Gaston, trying to get some Dynamic Hair working for him! :D He's so CUTE in long white hair! Unfortunately, I got errors in my run last night so I have ugly little black boxes in his hair (and a memory error.) I'll be redoing that tonight and hopefully have something to show!

I'm on the verge of finding out what Boojum (in the Fantasy Hero game in the Boojumbunny.com forums) remembers of his past.. Melchar is agonizingly drawing it out, however. ;)

It's been a long time since ShadowCatt-X and I went to the Peppermill in Reno. We are talking about maybe doing that some weekend to relax and enjoy ourselves. I'll need to go find out what current offers they have. Usually we get our room for free, which is pretty cool, and then pay for our gambling and food.

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-08-13 13:53
Subject:	I had a car crash
Security:	Public
Mood:	sad

Boojum sighs sadly. "My car is broken. I ran into a truck that turned right in front of me. Now the front end is all scrunchled up. Luckily, neither I nor the driver of the truck was hurt. Now my car is in the shop getting an estimate done on how much it will cost to fix it."

YAY!!! Soon, Carrera 6 will be released by DAZ Studio! I'm SO looking forward to it. It has dynamic hair, dynamic cloth, and a whole bunch of other features like water/ocean planes!

Excited enough that I did another picture! This picture was done in Poser 7 and is of a really buff brown bunny (Yes, I really did take the Boojum character, make him 6' tall, and give him really hard.. er.. muscles. *giggle*




Let me know what you think! I've also been busilly entering all of my DAZ purchases into a database that will help me find what I've bought. It seems that I've purchased over 500 products from DAZ! Thats quite a number! Their Platinum Club items are insidious.. *giggle* But I can't resist them.

Boojum

Date:	2007-07-24 09:14
Subject:	Happy times!
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful
Music:	Movin' on up.

Boojum bounces happily, "This is going to be such a COOL week! Friday, Shadowcatt-X and I drove up to Tracy for an RPGA convention, Palish Convictions. There I got to play roleplaying games with my WONDERFULL feline girlfriend. We played Friday evening, then all day on Saturday. Our room accomidations were paid for by Hilton Honors, so we weren't out of pocket for room costs."

"Then on Sunday we headed back down to San Jose to play Xendrick Expeditions games at Game Kastle." The furry brown bunny continues. "Of course, by the end of the Sunday games we were both feeling a bit grumpy." Boojum rolls his eyes. "I think that 10 games in a weekend is pushing it for us."

"When I got home, Harry Potter was waiting on my doorstep!" The bunny giggles happily. "So I got started on reading that!"

"But best of all, VRGHR should be out here now!" Boojum scampers around in a happybunnycircle, wild bunny tail twitching cutely. "He's come out on vacation! ShadowCatt-X and I are talking about power levelling my character with him so that I can take part in the City of Heroes invasion that's going to be happenning soon!" He pokes the Wuff. "So you need to contact me.. 'cause I don't have your phone number or where your staying.. so I can't arrange things with you like going to the Gilroy Garlic Festival this weekend!"

Then he gives a happy laugh. "So all in all, this looks like a very busy and very cool week!!!"

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-07-13 09:50
Subject:	Ooog, sleepy bunny!
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy

The brown bunny yawns briefly, eyes closing for a moment. "MMmmmmm.. Now I want to go to bed." He mentions, openning his eyes again.

"Well.. I finally got suckerred in. EverQuest II is for sale at Microcenter for $3 with 1 month of free play. I bought it and installed it on my computer yesterday." Boojum says as he leans back in his chair and props his feet up on the table to relax for a few minutes. "The end result is that I'm probably going to be playing some EverQuest over the next week or so. We'll see how it works out."

"Of course.." The buck adds with a grin. "Live gaming comes first. On that front I'm running DragonStorm tonight, then playing in AD&D 2nd edition on Saturday in Melchars game, then the following weekend is a convention ShadowCatt-X and I are going to where we will play lots of RPGA games!"

Boojum rubs his eyes. "But for now.. I'm sleepy and want to go to bed. However, work comes first for the moment..."

Boojum the brown bunny

Date:	2007-06-05 07:43
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

ShadowCatt-X and I had a WONDERFULL time this weekend! We went to the beach boardwalk and rode almost all the rides! We bought all day passes so we could have fun all day long.

We also got to go down to the beach and play in the ocean.. though not always willingly. Ever the shutterbug, I asked ShadowCatt-X to keep her face towards me so I could get some nice pictures.. here she is running. Isn't she pretty?




Of course, since she was watching me, she wasn't paying as much attention to the water as she should have been.. 'cause she suddenly noticed she was about to run right into the water.




And then the water hit! I was actually further out to sea than she was, so I was getting wet to!

WHEW!! That was a job of WEEKS of work! It turns out that my power supply must have been going and giving a low voltage or something. The motherboard would seem to power up (even giving a good post code) but nothing would come across the monitor.
I took the new motherboard I bought (because I had swapped out everything except the motherboard and the power supply) back to MicroCenter where their tech hooked it up to the test bench and it started up and posted just fine. So I bought a new gaming power supply and put my system back together at home.
So, end result is that I lost one hard drive (to trying to get the system to come up to many times) and bought an extra motherboard. The extra motherboard will go out into the garage with a dual core CPU that I have, so I don't count that a loss.
Now I get to re-install all of my software! I have Poser 7 loaded in again and began an extra project. I'm adding real fur to my Boojum character! I created an animation of a teddybear with fur (viewable at http://www.boojumbunny.com/animation/bear2.avi as a 13mb AVI file) as a proof of concept. The picture is of a silver furred teddybear going through a range of motion so I could see how the fur responded. I did the Teddy Bear on my laptop (which had a hard time of it.) Now that I've got my big system running I can begin work on boojum!
For those who don't know, my main system is:

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
Motherboard: EVGA nVidia 680i SLI
RAM: 4GB
Graphics: EVGA nVidia 8800GTX

Date:	2007-05-09 08:23
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy

Hi everyone! As promised, here is a picture of Pepper! He's such a cute and gentle bird! ShadowCatt-X particularly likes that Pepper likes her.. *giggle* Of course, whats not to like!




Here Pepper is checking out the play area to see whats going on. I got him out this morning before work in order to take pictures of him... so it was a bit early for him. Still, he seems to be handling the change of environment pretty well!

Boojum the brown bunny