Some Face Time and Binary Code

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So yeah. Thursday, 11/13, was a pretty good day.

After choir, Piper was complaining to one of the Jennifers from Chamber Singers, Mama Compton, about how she didn't get invited to come along to JT's one night when everyone was there.

Mama Compton is one of those hey I'm cool with everyone and like to be hyper all the time, but I need my personal space kind of people, which was very odd to me. I hear stories of these misadventures with Mama Compton and how random she can be, but whenever I saw her around some people she didn't know she closes up. It took me all of 2 weeks to try and get a hug out of her. XD

As to Piper's complaining, apparently some of JT's friends, along with Mama Compton and one of the gay Justins, decided to hang out. They ended up going to Molly's to watch Up,which Piper hasn't even seen yet.

Okay, just as a side note: Piper has been hanging out with JT and different variations of Chamber folk/JT's 'friends' at least 3 times a week. We both had hung out with JT for like 2 weeks straight during the summer and we both have grown attached to this style of life. Now, Piper gets the chance to hang out with him more than I do, which gets kind of annoying and sad when you hear about something going on that you were not a part of every night during a phone call, the phone call which usually happens to occupy time until another hang out session is going on.

Piper realized this and decided to orchestrate some hang out time that night and including me. So she calls JT to ask if the four of us can hang out tonight after his Chalice rehearsal.

First, Piper, Taka, and I took a trip to Piper's house to get her laptop and cell phone charger. Then, I went to Statistics where there had been a quiz planned, but it turned out that the teacher decided to postpone the quiz until next week. Notes were clear enough to understand, but the review was a little hard to get a grip on so I'm going to need to study some of that this weekend...

After class, I went back to the cafeteria to wait with Piper. The both of us ended up watching some of Howl's Moving Castle in the secluded cafeteria hallway that echoes toilet flushes from the adjacent bathrooms. The movie seems really good so far I can't wait until we finish it! I did some research online and found out that, not only was I right that the voice of Calcifer was Billy Crystal, but also that Christian Bale, the guy who plays the new Batman, is the voice of Howl. XD

At 7, Mama Compton got out of class. I, begrudgingly, called JT to tell him we were on our way. We walked through the stadium parking and continued off on the road behind the school where it was completely dark for most of the walk. Piper had out my handy dandy flashlight/glowstick/ravestick/rape whistle to lead the way. We talked about random stuff like yoga class as choir sectionals, played the ABC game using random cool words, and even took pictures of a cute little raccoon.

When we got to the edge of JT's street, Piper told us to hush down so that we can all be stealthy ninjas. I commented that we needed our own theme music, and that was when Mama Compton started to go "Wa wa wa wa wa wa waaaa!" in hushed tones. We sneaked into the back yard, in the dirty ditch, and quietly walked through the living room and into JT's room, not distracting the few people singing around an upright piano.

So there we were in JT's room, swish swashing on the water bed and listening to choral music. I sat on the computer, checking JT's then Mama Compton's facebook. On Mama Compton's facebook, I had to play Scrabble for her with a couple of her other friends. She apparently rules at that game. XD

We all went up on the water bed, where Mama Compton and I started making waves and Piper ended up being swooshed back and forth between us. It was an amusing hour in the dark. Mama Compton and I ended up cuddling on Piper when JT walked in and turned on his light. XD

The four of us laid on the water bed for a while, just talking and mulling over what we wanted to do. Piper has been mentioning that JT had made some milkshakes so I definitely wanted to try one of those this time. Mama Compton also mentioned Soul Calibur on the walk over.

So that's what we did. The four of us just pretty much sat on the couch, playing Soul Calibur and drank JT's milkshake. I had made a character on JT's XBox, based off of the nun chuck guy, and we spent the greater part of the night trying to work my character up to a higher level. I'm usually a button masher when it comes to these games. During the night, I started to use some more defensive moves, as well as tried to learn some super cool ones. However, it took me like a half hour trying to do this one move where my character basically windmills his weapon around a few times and comes in to do a vertical attack and sky rocketing the opponent. I kept on going back and forth between getting it almost there and not being able to start the combo at all. XD

JT's character, Fro, had so fit with his personality. Both of them fence, both of them like showing off, and both of them bite other people on the neck. It got kind of annoying when JT kept on poking me to death, but I'm pretty sure he was annoyed with my constant kicking attacks. XD

It was time we had gone home, so, after I failed at descending on the 5th floor, JT drove each of us home. JT had a blister, so I shifted gears for him as he drove me home. We almost got lost. I recognized that, when Mama Compton got dropped off, I recognized some of the streets that connected Natomas to Rio Linda, so I suggested we follow those. We finally ended up by Kaylah's dad's house when I figured out how to get home.

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Updates:

It feels like I'm getting a handle on things in my life, some friendships, some classes, and it has started to become routine. However, it also feels like there's something looming on the horizon. Right now, my biggest worry is our financial situation. No we are not going bankrupt or anything. What it is, basically, is that we need some cash flow at some point to feel more secure and it doesn't help that my move to UCSC is coming pretty quick.

All that aside, it feels I've gotten closer to some of my friends. Ever since I've gotten back from Santa Cruz, I've certainly noticed the increase in texts and phone calls from Kaylah from every once in awhile to once everyday. XD

I'm also glad I've had Taka and Abril the past few weeks, what with the support and insight as to some situations I've been having. They've given me some advice and provided me some good distraction. Right now, I'm having a conversation with Taka in binary code.

It's real easy to do by hand.

01010011 01100101 01100101 00111111

It's like a mathematical formula. You read right to left in each set of 8 numbers. Then, where ever there's a one, you take the corresponding placement number and add them together to get a total.

Take: 01010011

Placement numbers: (126)(64)(32)(16)(8)(4)(2)(1)

Add: 64+16+2+1=83

You take that sum and open up Microsoft Word or any word processor available. Click "Alt+(Your Number)" and the corresponding character will show up.

Result: S

This is how you translate binary.

This was how I translated binary in Taka's note on facebook. Then... I realized about after 25 characters that I didn't know for sure that Taka knew all the fancy number codes to this trick, so I looked up a website that translated text into binary and vice versa. XD

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