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Six Years!?

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Wow.  I knew I haven't been very active on deviantART lately, but six years since my last journal entry is pushing it!

A lot has happened since then.  I won't be getting into most of it, but to summarize:
1. I graduated university
2. I landed a good job as a software developer
3. My high-school sweetheart moved in with me
4. We broke up after about a year

Between work and sporadic attempts to do literally anything outside my apartment, I haven't done much creative stuff lately.  Running a D&D campaign has been soaking up a bit of my time too, but I've spent way too much of it just flaked out watching YouTube.  In retrospect I've probably been depressed.

Going forward, I'm going to try to work on creative stuff more.  I don't know how much of it will make it up to deviantART - my previous journal can attest to that! - but making the effort will hopefully keep me from just doing nothing and feeling bad about not having done anything.
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Hello to all and sorry for my recent inactivity.  I've been going through some of my old photographs that were scanned in January last year, most of them taken in 2011.  I'm not even halfway through that set, and I have a folder copied this January of all my 2012 stuff I haven't looked at yet.  I should have more to submit in the coming weeks.
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Another tag stolen from :iconwindfrost:.  Answer questions with song lyrics.  The original doesn't require randomization, but that's what I'm going to do.  *boots WMP, shuffles current playlist*

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ANSWER USING ONLY SONG LYRICS
(always try to specify the author and title)

1. Who are you?
I'm going to get this fire started
Impossible for you to breathe
The temperatures rising up, up, so hot
And I'm burning up!
- Pyromania Nightcore remix.

2. What do you look like?
Everybody Super Sonic Racing
Try to keep your feet right on the ground
When your Super Sonic Racing
There's no time to look around
- "Super Sonic Racing", Super Smash Brothers Brawl mix.

3. What's your secret?
Dear home town, I never meant to let you down
When I sold my soul for a song.
Dreams are to blame, they still linger and remain
In the heart of a child who's been gone.
Dear home town.
- "Dear Home Town" by Great Big Sea

4. What do you want to be?
When there's lightning
You know it always brings me down.
Cause it's free and I see that it's me
Who's lost and never found.
- "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio.

5. What can you do?
Well, a process man am I, and I'm telling you no lie
I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair
- "The Chemical Worker's Song" by Great Big Sea.

6. What can't you do?
Look around this world we've made
Equality our stock in trade.
Come and join the brotherhood of man.
- "2112: Overture and the Temples of Syrinx" by Rush.

7. Where do you live?
A nobleman's fair daughter went down a narrow lane
And met with Captain Wedderburn, the keeper of the gate.
- "Captain Wedderburn" by Great Big Sea.

8. What is love?
Well I boot you up and my imagination's running wild
Haven't felt this way since I was building Lego as a child
Got my workbench, good to go,
My sticks and planks are all stockpiled
And I feel good cause I've been minin' all day long.
- "Minin's All Day Long" by Miracle of Sound.

9. What is friendship?
Well I'm a pile-mile, deranged, alcoholic space pirate living in disarray.
I've a pissed-off cybernetic robot friend, and man, we're gonna ruin your day.
- "Fire in Your Hole" by Miracle of Sound.

10. What are you afraid of?
But every time I'm looking for sun, I can't find it.
Is this the way? Is this the path that I chose?
Damn!
Why am I living like my heart just froze?
- "Knuckles' Unknown from M.C." by José the Bronx Rican.  (Remix of several Sonic songs).

12. What would you do with a million dollars?
"BOOM!" goes the rocket that I pulled of my pocket
Got an infinite stash and no armour's gonna block it.
- "Shooter Guy" by Miracle of Sound
(To be clear: I don't actually want to blow things up with a rocket launcher. It's just a game.)

13. What would you tell the one who loves you?
But it was long ago and it was far away
Oh God, it seems so very far,
But if life is just a highway, and the soul is just a car,
The objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than the are.
- "Objects in the Rear-View Mirror" by Meatloaf.

14. What would you tell your enemies?
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's read alert.
Something's here from somewhere else.
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.
- "99 Red Balloons" by Goldfinger. (I know it's a cover, but it's what I have).

15. What do you want to do?
I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known.
Don't know where it goes, but it's only me and I walk alone.
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day.

16. Where do you want to be?
There are no roads here
There are no signposts
To guide a man
In this dark land.
There are no roads here.
There is no history.
No written law to stay one's hand.
- "No Roads Here" by Corb Lund.

18. What questions do you ask?
I'm grown up now, three daughters of my own
I let them drive my old jeep 'cross the pasture at our home
Maybe one day, they'll reach back in their files,
And pull out that old memory, and think of me and smile
- "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" by Alan Jackson.

19. What advice would you give?
Waking up, breaking out
This is what it's like to be free
Rip it up, tear it down
This is what it means to be free.
- "Waking Up" by Julien K.

20. What mistakes do you make?
We were far from the shores of England,
Far from our children and wives
To play our hand in the new found land
Where the wind cuts like a knife.
We were far from the shores of England.
- "England" by Great Big Sea.

21. What do people think or say about you?
We owe the crown, so now we'll pay
Over the hills and far away.
- "Over the Hills" by Great Big Sea.

22. What do you want?
Non, mais en expirant,
O mon chere Canada,
Mon regard languisant
Vere toi se portera.
- "Un Canadien Errant".

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There we go.  I don't think this one worked out as well as the standard music shuffle.  I might fill this tag out as intended (i.e. non-randomly) later.
Also, there's a few questions missing or misnumbered.  Windfrost didn't have them either, so I'm not sure where they went.
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Camping

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It's time for my family's yearly camping trip, so I'll be away for awhile.  If you've sent me a message and I haven't gotten back to you yet, sorry! I'll be out of town for about a week.  I'll try to get back here and post a few photos then.
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It's a long weekend, I'm bored, and :iconwindfrost: posted another music shuffle.  I've got a new playlist to try it with, so let's see how this goes.

1. Describe yourself
Tenohira no Melody - Sahashi Toshihiko (The music box in Simoun).

2. What do people feel when they're around you?
Armour and Sword - Rush (Not sure how to take that...)

3.Describe your current relationship:
Prayer - pixietricks (A remix of the Forest Temple theme from Ocarina of Time).

4.Where would you like to be right now?
It Is You (I Have Loved) - Dana Glover (That's neither a goal nor a location.)

5. How do you feel about love?
CHANGE THE WORLD - V6 (Symphonic arrangement of the first Inuyasha opening. I want to change the world!)

6.What is your life like?
Seven Days - Sting (>.<)

7.What would you wish for if you only had one wish?
Pussywillows, Cattails - Gordon Lightfoot (*listens*. Depending on the genie, I could wish for this :)).

8.Say something wise:
Tombstone Factory - TheKrow (Wise != nonsense)

9.How would you describe yourself?
Road to Ruin - Great Big Sea (:sing: We're on the road to ruin, it's the only way to go!)

10.What do you look for in a guy?
A Storm in the Desert - Tyler Heath (LISTEN TO THIS. )

11.How do you feel today?
Happy Boys & Girls - Aqua

12.What is your life's purpose?
Mari Mac (Live) - Great Big Sea (Either marrying a girl or singing really, really fast.)

13.What is your motto?
I Am... All of Me - Crush 40 (Can you see all of me? Probably.)

14.What do your friends think of you?
Schala and the Queen - Ellywu2,pixietricks (More Chrono Symphonic music. Probably not relevant, but I don't speak enough Japanese to be sure.)

15.What do your parents think of you?
Ghost Grove - Platonist (The Hidden Mountain and Forest. Listen here.)

16.What do you think about very often?
John Barbour - Great Big Sea (WMP things I'm waiting for a sailor lad).

17.What do you think of your best friend?
The Nethack Song - Rob Balder (Um, what?)

18.What do you think of the person you like?
One Day More! - [Entire Company] (From Les Mis, but I don't know who recorded this version...)

19.What is your life story?
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - Don McLean (:faint:)

20.What do you want to be when you grow up?
To Far Away Times - Reuben Kee, pixietricks (Who doesn't want to be a time traveler?)

21.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Tenohira no Melody - Sahashi Toshihiko (Close, but this song is a repeat.)

21 Take 2.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Armour and Sword - Rush (Stop repeating yourself, WMP!)

21 Take 3.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
I've Heard Legends - Nintendo (The SSBB Theme. Awesome!)

22.What will you dance to at your wedding?
Pokémon Theme - ? (The first one, in case it wasn't clear. Not the most romantic song, but still better than the other Pokémon openings).

23.What will play at your funeral?
Anthem - Rush (:facepalm:)

24.Biggest fear?
Jolly Roving Tar - Great Big Sea (Just the rigging, actually).

25.Biggest accomplishment?
Break the Fourth Wall - Arcane Addiction (In my writing, or in real life?)

That went about as well as expected.  As posted, WMP started to repeat exactly.  I actually skipped a few more to confirm it was an infinite loop, then picked another random song to start and skipped again to break out of it.
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