Alucolor & Roksys: We Don't Know What We Are Doing

It's been quite a while since I did a Goal Reflection Day post, so I'm pretty much going to start over here and see how that goes. So here's that! 　 Re-record Demo I'm considering re-recording my demo. By which I mean taking the things from my demo and re recording them each individually to try and get better audio quality. I tried to submit it to castingcall.club a few months ago and they told me it was too quiet, which I thought was odd, but I haven't done anything with it since. So I'll change it from "Do voiceover things" to a more specific "Re-record demo." Oil and Shampoo Beard Regularly I enjoy having a beard, but I'm not good at taking care of things that don't demand attention, so I generally forget to wash and oil it and it gets scraggly and I have to shave it. So I've been better with this run so far and I'm hoping to continue so as to have an actual good beard in a bit. This one doesn't ...

I need to actually do some voiceover stuff. At least put in a few auditions or something. Maybe put together a decent demo. I'm looking into getting some acoustic padding for the closet I record in and I think that will help a little. If nothing else, maybe it will help it feel a bit more like a studio and get me more motivated. I've been in a few things that have had a bit of exposure and I think I'm pretty decent at it, I just have no consistency. You know, like in every other aspect of my life. To make matters more difficult, Alu and I need to start saving money harder, so I don't know if/when I'll be able to get that acoustic padding or anything else that might theoretically help me forward myself in voice acting. I mentioned earlier this week that we're not sure exactly what our plan is for our lives and we might end up having to stay at the job we're at now, but we're hoping that's not the case. I emailed the school we'd go to for man...

Alu and I have so far spent our day at work coming up with enchanted items for theoretical use in a D&D campaign or somesuch. It's a pretty fun way to pass the time and it's interesting what kind of things we can come up with. Some of my favorite ones I've come up with so far are: ~ A pair of armbands which prevent the wearer from feeling upper body strain or fatigue, but also render them incapable of moving anything they are not currently wearing. ~ A stovepipe hat which makes the wearer as tall as their natural height plus the height of the hat. ~ A recipe box which can hold an infinite number of notes written on small pieces of paper, which, when opened, will dispense one (and only one) copy of a random note it has been given. ~ A marble which is 400 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. 　 Though I think my favorite one of Alucolor's is a computer that can only be used by ghosts. 　 Maybe I should compile a doc or a spreadsheet or something. I...

Alu and I are having a difficult time figuring out what to do with our lives. We were looking into taking a manual machining course, but have come to the realization that that's not really a viable career path. Now we're sort of thinking about welding instead. The problem with that at the moment is that the course is three times longer and more expensive. I feel like either one of those would be pretty all right with out the other, but here we are. We've thought a few times about making board games for a living, but that's not particularly easy to get into either, although it would probably be a lot more fun. We're becoming worried that the only way to get out of CaptionCall is to advance within the company to the point where we're making enough money to fund our escape more easily. Sometimes the only way out is down. This morning I weighed 179.5 lbs. Yesterday, I ate: ~  Three pancakes ~ A cup of pasta ~ A cup of yogurt with granola ~ A bowl of che...

As you may have noticed I am more consistent than Rok, hopefully that will change. Here are some goals! Build my first PG Gunpla: Due 12/31/18 I have the entire gundam put together except for the hands I still have to sand, but I really don't want. But after that Rok and I are going to take them apart and paint them! I also still need to paint the two mini figs that came with the kit. But all in all I think I am making good progress. Weigh in under 200: Due 12/9/18 As of today I weigh under 210 lbs, so that is really exciting. I know it is possible to reach under 200 by my birthday but I am not sure if Rok and I will stick with it. I think we are getting better by the week though. Stream on Monday (maybe Fridays too): Ongoing We streamed the last two Monday's and we streamed last Friday, but this Friday our day was suddenly busy with one of our roommates cars breaking down. So that took most of our time up, hopefully nothing like this will happen any time soon and we c...

Rok and I recently found out that we have not been feeding our guinea pig enough vegetables. So now everyday we feed her a bunch of lettuce at 10:30. Meaning she starts screaming at 9 for her vegetables. Which is fine for Rok who is awake and doing stuff, but that means I have been waking up almost everyday to guinea pig screaming for a couple weeks now. I love Jeeves and I want the best for her but we feed her at a consistent time everyday so I don't know how to help her not scream an hour and a half before that. We are thinking about giving her lettuce around 9:30, but I am worried that she will start screaming at 7 in the morning. I don't know if our neighbors can hear her, no one has complained but I don't want to be that neighbor that wakes everyone up at 7 in the morning because of a guinea pig. 　 Today I weighed: 209.7 lbs 　 Yesterday I ate: > A cup of applesauce > A California Protein Cob from Cafe Zupas > A chocolate dipped strawberry >...

As I’m sure you can tell from this blog our job is pretty boring if you have nothing to do, but sometimes the things you do to distract you from the boredom also distract you from the job itself. A common problem I assume everyone we work with experiences. We caption calls for the hard of hearing, and our clientele are more towards the older end of the spectrum. Meaning their conversations are mainly about their bridge games and what medications they need refilled. So it’s a boring gig, some calls are really interesting but most are asking “What did you have for dinner? Oh yeah I had this for dinner, cooked this way with this side dish and afterwards I had this desert, I know I shouldn’t have had but it was a cheat day!” So Rok and I build gunpla, read comics/mangas, mess with our Pokémon decks, and desperately try to watch gundam in between calls, the whole 10 seconds there is. Today I weighed: 210 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A pineapple smoothie > About 2 cups of plain pasta ...

I am sleepy today, I don't know exactly but I think I remember waking up in the night several times. My blanket I am wearing doesn't help, but the air conditioner is so cold in my work building. But I just found myself starting to fall asleep. So here I am typing to distract myself but at the same time it is distracting me from my call I captioning right now. I can't see a better solution right now so I will try my best to caption this call but also type this blog so I don't fall asleep. Which isn't the easiest with this call because the person I am captioning talks a lot in bursts and is talking relatively fast. But I am no longer falling asleep but I can feel it lingering waiting for this call to lull me back to sleep. But I better go now and try to find a less distracting distraction from sleep. Today I weighed: 210.8 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A bite of a milk free pancake > Two black bean sliders with biscuit buns > A yogurt cup > A packet...

Daniel Sloss has got me thinking about relationships. My first three romantic relationships I don't think can be classified as such. My first "boyfriend" texted me to ask me out and then after two weeks in which we did not talk he broke up with via Facebook. My second romantic relationship I don't think I can even call him a boyfriend even in air quotes. We met at a library and met there several times after to kiss and stuff but never really could say that we were going out. My third boyfriend I think I can have the most the most confidence of the three to call a boyfriend. We met in a tree, and we dated for about three months in which we saw each other frequently and I met and had dinner with his family. But the relationship for me was more about the perks of being with him, a lot of video games a place to hang out sometimes and free food. After three months I realized what I was doing and felt bad about it but I think I more realized I didn't like him as a perso...

Rok and I found a new comedian last night, Daniel Sloss. Now he is not my favorite comedian but he had some good stuff that made me laugh and other stuff that made me think. The latter mainly came in his second special we watched, which made it all the weirder because the first special and the first half of the second special were not that thought provoking. It was very similar to Jim Jefferies where he has two really good political comedy bits about gun control and immigration , but a lot of his material is about  poop as he says in all of his specials apologizing for his gun control bit. Sloss was similar to that with me when he started talking about love and relationships. He told us about the jigsaw puzzle analogy his dad came up with to try to explain the meaning of life to an asshole kid. Where the puzzles four sides are family, friends, career and hobbies, and the inside his dad said was the partner piece. Then Sloss talked about how society makes us think we need to be ...

If you follow us on Twitter ( @ Date_Night_Game ) you should know that yesterday I set up a surprise Bob Ross painting night so Rok and I could have a fun little date night. I thought it would a be a fun night, even though we didn't have any of the actual colors Bob uses or any of the correct brushes or even two palates. I put some effort into this date night. We have alone time every Sunday, so I decided that I would make black bean burger sliders on biscuit buns, which took longer than I thought so I had to tell Rok to go back to his office because I was planning something. So after he went back I had to frantically move my one easel , that is not only not suited for canvas paintings (it was meant to hang a pad of paper from the top to paint off of) I had to fashion my easel to hold two canvases so we could paint together. It was some work but I think that it paid off in a fun night for us. Today I weighed: 210.3 lbs (although we weighed ourselves at night opposed to in the mor...

I think today I'll try to post this with pictures. Alu and I are working on our custom colored Unicorn and Banshee models. She's farther along than I am because I've been putting off sanding, so I'm still in that stage while she's already putting hers together. She's also actually had a color scheme concept done for some time now. Unfortunately, as I'm so easily distracted, I've fallen quite behind. So if I want to post my concept alongside hers in this post, I'll have to actually make it first, but in the meantime, here's Alu's Volcanic Banshee: And maybe I'll get to post my Arctic Unicorn at the tail end here. 　 For some reason, we've been having a hard time with today. Saturdays always see us pretty tired from getting up in the morning, but today is particularly bad. I'm sure this type of post is hardly unique, but it always catches us off guard. We're supposed to make it to the gym today, but I'm n...

I feel like the date shouldn't change until like sunrise. Why is it that it changes in the middle of the night? It makes things like this format strangely because it will show as having gone up tomorrow. There's probably some reason I suppose, but I refuse to hear it and will stubbornly continue thinking this way regardless of merit. I say that as a joke, but it will probably end up happening on accident when I forget to look up reasons. It is getting better, more things are giving options for  when the day ends for me, such as Habitica, which is great, because if I check that at one in the morning before bed and I haven't checked off one of my tasks, it doesn't just assume I didn't do it and deal damage. Now I get to check off that I blogged for Friday, even though it will technically be up early Saturday morning. Hooray for technology. This morning, I weighed 184 lbs. Yesterday, I ate ~ A pineapple smoothie ~ A cup of cheesy potatoes ~ A cup of pineapple c...

It's official: my insistence on engaging in children's card games is damaging our house. For the last couple of weeks, our washer has been failing to drain properly, resulting in piles of suds and puddles of stagnant water in our laundry room. As our laundry equipment is rented, it was a simple matter of putting in a work order to have it looked at and the repair person was able to come today while Alu and I were at work. At lunch, I received a voicemail to the effect of "Hello, we were able to fix the problem. As it turned out the pump draining the water was plugged. I don't know if you have children, but we found a Pokémon chip in the hose, so if you have children..." It was at this point that I understood the problem and so I exited my voicemail box chuckling and thinking "Oh good, I'm glad they were to find that metallic Empoleon coin that I, a 27 year old man, have been looking for since I lost it shortly after I received it from a new Imperial Comm...

Alu and I have toyed with the idea of starting a cult centered around dogs. We love dogs and have gone into detail conceiving of a dog heaven, presided over by a giant, benevolent buddy. All dogs go to this heaven and live forever in eternal goodness. All humans end up on this plane as well, however only those who have been good to dogs will be happy there, playing with dogs and doing whatever else they'd like for all time, as long as that does not involve harming dogs or other animals or people. Those who are deemed worthy will be able to summon objects at will, however said objects will disappear the moment they would be used to harm others. All who dwell in dog heaven are accompanied by a designated dog buddy. Those who have been good to dog in life will live in harmony with their respective buddies as well as the buddies of others. Meanwhile, those who, in life, have shown malice toward dog will be assigned their least favorite dog as a buddy. This buddy will disregard his ...

Suddenly our house is pretty hot. A month or so ago, it was similarly hot and it made it difficult to sleep while drenched in sweat and now I'm concerned that difficulty will resume. I don't know why today was suddenly so hot and I don't like it. Anyway. Alu and I have actually been playing the Pokémon TCG, which I think is good, since we're probably going to keep buying the cards. We were actually playing and decided to pause our game for me to come write this. I'm not sure what about this particular game is making it more appealing. It might just be the pictures of Pokémon on the cards, but I'm pretty sure it's a good game in its own right. I'm having a difficult time concentrating with the sweat running down my face, so I'm going to do the food log stuff. This morning, I weighed 184.7 lbs. Yesterday I ate: ~ Four pancakes ~ A trail mix packet ~ A bag of baked ruffles ~ A can of lentil soup ~ A cup of yogurt mixed with oatmeal ~ A ...

It is yet again time for no one to read about the goals I may or may not have accomplished: Build my first PG Gunpla: Due 12/31/18 DUUUUUDE I have the entire bottom sanded and now I just have to sand the torso arms and backpack! Then it is just as simple as putting it together. I am thinking about custom painting but I won't say for sure until I see it put together. Eat healthier: Ongoing I was thinking about this, and while I will still have it as a goal I don't think I will update the blog about it because Rok and I already tell you everything we eat and you can tell whether we have or not eaten healthy. Weigh in under 200: Due 12/9/18 I weighed under 211 for the first time in a while, so that feels really good. I am not confident about hitting this goal but I am hopeful and am going to try and eat healthy and go to the gym four days a week. Stream on Monday (maybe Fridays too): Ongoing We have streamed the last couple Mondays and I am proud of us, I will try...

I don’t really want to blog today, but I realize I should anyway to stay consistent at least to myself. Plus Rok has definitely done at least one blog that was really short, and several days he didn’t blog at all so I feel I am justified in this shorter blog. Today I weighed: 211 Yesterday I ate: > A bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal > A yogurt cup > A pineapple smoothie > A loaded potato griller from Taco Bell > A cheesy bean and rice burrito from the same Yesterday I drank: 60ish oz of water Rok and I have this Saturday off because our work didn’t want to pay us extra hours for Labor Day. So we have been enjoying a laid back day of doing nothing and watching baking shows. So far it has been a good day. Also as a quick side note I am pretty sure this blog is still longer than Rok’s shortest blog. Stay cool

I really like watching cooking shows. I'm not sure why, I don't plan on ever making the food they do, but there is something about watching skilled chefs make beautifully delicious looking food. Rok also enjoys these show so that works out really well for us. More recently we have started to watch more cooking channels on YouTube. We now watch Binging with Babish and Bon Appetit. I used to watch Hellthy JunkFood, but recently their content hasn't appealed to me as much as it used to. We also watch the Great British Bake Off on Netflix, but unfortunately Netflix doesn't offer many other cooking show options that I can find. I have been curious to look into Chef's table but we haven't gotten there yet. Today I weighed: 213 lbs Yesterday I ate: > A 22 oz Aloha Pineapple smoothie from Jamba Juice > ~1 1/2 cup of buttery noodles > A yogurt cup > Two peanut butter and honey sandwiches > A slice of white bread Yesterday I drank: 84 oz of water...

Rok really likes Lagoon and I dislike it quite a bit. But last year I put myself in charge of planning the trip because I am probably the best at planning things within our friend group. So we went fairly early in the summer and it was fine, the lines weren't long and people got to ride the things they wanted. But this year, I formally resigned from planning the Lagoon trip, and now we are going a week before it closes in an attempt to get some rides in. We were going to go tomorrow. That was the solid plan for about a week now. But yesterday we found out that they were closed this Friday. They just had the calendar up all summer and we didn't check it at all. But luckily one of our friends was looking on the website for something and found the calendar. That would have sucked otherwise, driving all the way out to Farmington to be told "Hey we are closed, piss off." I don't particularly like Lagoon but I had made peace with the day and was looking forward to getti...

Our car was broken into yesterday. Well less broken into and more rifled through, as our key fob stopped working and we thought our car was safe from being broken into. We were half right, while they did go through our car, they didn't take anything or even leave our car a mess. We don't keep things of value to anyone besides Rok and I. So the robber must have been disappointed to find we are just two dorks with gunpla and work backpacks in our car. It has left me thinking what the robbers thoughts on Rok and I are. Or rather not the robber specifically but anyone who looks into our car. From our Sonic box (literally a box from the fast food chain sonic), to our bundles of unspun yarn (it is called something specific but I can’t remember for the life of me), our fairly boring work backpacks, and our carrying cases filled with gunpla pieces. We probably paint a picture of two uninteresting dorks. 　 Today I weighed: 213.2 lbs Yesterday I ate: > 2 and a half biscuits ...

Rok and I do yoga to wake up in the mornings. I am a little inconsistent with it though and I think as yet another goal I will try to do yoga, or some approximation such as a morning walk, everyday excluding Saturdays. Our routine is pretty simple and only takes around 11 minutes so it should be easy for me to do everyday, and some days the short length definitely makes me feel like "Hey it's only 11 minutes, I can do that." So I will try harder to get more into doing yoga everyday. The routine itself is nothing special. We use Wii fit to do our yoga every morning and these are the exercises we do: We start with the Sun Salutation because Rok likes the sun and feels it is a good way to start the day. Then we move on to the Chair pose, we used to also have the Palm Tree pose in our routine but thought that we didn't need both. After that is a 30 second plank for me and a 60 second plank for Rok, Rok has a longer time because his core is better than mine. Also I know...

I love Rok but he doesn’t always make it easy. I remind him several times to blog, and he still doesn’t. I ask a serious question and he responds with a joke. He does things very slow when I prefer them to get done quick. Now don’t get me wrong, I definitely have fault in this too. I get easily frustrated when he does a small thing I don’t like. I rush him too often when he is taking a reasonable amount of time. I often ask him to do five tasks and when he hasn’t done two of them I get upset with him. We have talked about these things to each other and have come up with solutions in order to make our relationship work better. But most of these issues boils down to small things like: He plans to blog but time gets away from him. He is just thinking of an actual serious answer but wants to immediately break the tension. He is used to a life of leisure and does things over a longer period of time. On the other hand I also have reasons for why I get frustrated, because I am not used to do...

I'm thinking about flexibility versus stability. I don't know that one is inherently better than the other, or to what degree they are mutually exclusive. At the very least, I think the answer to the latter part is "at least some," and that often gets to be obnoxious to me. Before Alu, I leaned heavily toward flexibility, but now it's more the other way. Things are often planned days or weeks in advance, and while that can be comfortable and helpful, it disallows us from indulging in any spur of the moment activities that may be cooked up by a different group of friends or what have you. On the other hand, if we simply allowed ourselves to live entirely off the cuff, there's a good probability that things will either go off in an unpleasant direction or that nothing will end up happening at all. Another thing about planning things ahead that's a bit of a double edged sword is that, when the time comes, I may end up not wanting to do thing. In which ca...