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And here’s the movie…

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Tags: apple, chloe, imac, imovie, movie, video

Welcome to your new home.

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Couple of months ago, I joked with my hunny when I saw his faded Apple shirt marking the debut of the iMac, “Hey, you think I’ll get an iMac before the 10 year anniversary?”

I kid you not. It arrived on that very date.

After waiting for what seemed like many eternities, I finally got my new 24″ iMac yesterday. I was actually hoping for it to arrive on my day off on Monday, but of course, that was not to be. It all worked out though, because I spent my entire day off cleaning up my cluttered desk. What’s even better was that my hunny helped me do a little “surgery” on my desk since the partition that was there would have made it impossible to fit the 24″ screen.

And as if he couldn’t be any sweeter, my hunny waited at my house for the delivery the next day. As for me, I was checking FedEx tracking on my iPhone like a madwoman during my breaks at work. You can’t imagine how happy I was to be home to find my newest toy in her plain brown box hours later. And at last, she is here in all her 3.06Ghz glory:

And like with many of the goodies I get, I’m giving this one a name. I decided to call her “Chloe.” Maybe you can figure that out.

Tags: apple, chloe, imac

Regurgitate.

Posted by terri | Filed under tunes

Eight years ago, I remember going through the tough time of having my favorite band break up. I kind of felt like a child of divorcing parents (yet again) when LUNA SEA decided to part ways due to creative exhaustion. From the sound of their last album, I could understand why it was time. And though I started out as a fan of Ryuichi Kawamura, the band’s lead singer, I found it sad to hear his solo work come at the expense of the my favorite band. Out of pure fangirl-ism, I had purchased every album Ryuichi Kawamura released following the breakup, but I still missed LUNA SEA.

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Tags: luna sea, ryuichi, 河村隆一

Great Expectations.

Posted by terri | Filed under monku

This week has been one of distress and disappointment. Yes, it was that bad enough to actually start posting in here once again.

First of all, I was put in the unfortunate circumstance of having my flight to San Francisco canceled for my work related trip, and thus my entire week went bust. If you’ve been keeping up with the news, then you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the airline that left me grounded was American Airlines, which had canceled over 3,000 flights due to inspection issues with the FAA.

Despite my expectation for an exciting trip being blown to bits, I was more frustrated for the situation than for myself. As I stood in the ticketing line at the airport hoping to catch another flight (for which I had a snowball’s chance in hell), I saw the frustration of those who stood in line with me, wondering how they were going to get home. I was especially concerned for one girl who was wondering how she was going to eat since she had run out of money while she was visiting here. This being my first taste of airport frustration (unlucky is the one that never has the money or time to travel anywhere post 9/11), I was quite frazzled seeing that passengers really have no recourse when things like this happen. How crazy is it that we are at an airline’s mercy to run their scheduled flights or just to stay afloat? I am in the fortunate position of hopefully being rescheduled to go back to California to the “Mothership” for training; I can only hope that all will go to plan or else my employer will pretty much consider forgetting the whole thing.

Adding insult to injury, after going home from the airport, I discovered that my car — barely even 9 months old — has trouble starting up. It would crank without starting, and I would have to turn it again to start up. My encyclopedia of knowledge that is my hunny told me that it might be the fuel pump. Sure enough, when I did a Google search on the problem, I found many others with the Nissan Versa had the same problem and it was indeed the fuel pump that needed to be replaced. I have to say that I expected better out of my new car, but I guess that’s what warranties are for. My hope is that the dealer will tell me it’s a known problem and replace it with no fuss. If not, I shall add another “monku” post to this blog.

I hope that my expectations for both my car and my trip are met the next time around…

Inspired and…Empowered?

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Living vicariously through others at my job, I am wondering if home video production is something I would like to get into as a hobby. For sure, barriers to entry are lower than they ever were before, but there are still limitations to be found. For many people the limitation lies in their equipment. One blog entry I encountered on the web addressed this limitation with an experiment that brought about interesting results. I then became inspired to actually give it a try with my limited equipment. As of right now, I have a Canon Elura 100 MiniDV Cam and of course my new Canon SD1100 IS. They certainly are not adequate for any HD Quality movie, but I’m really thinking that the Web is going to be my choice of medium anyway, so I think I am actually empowered enough to make some kind of project.Then that leaves me with other obstacles: content and of course, post production goodies. The wheels in my head have only begun to turn, so we shall see what goes…

Sniping away.

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Hurrah, hurrah!I finally got my Canon SD1100 camera from Amazon in the mail after a long agonizing 9 days (silly me chose Super Saver Shipping…tsk tsk.) It was worth the wait as I am now enjoying the fruits of a much faster, more compact camera than what I had been using before. I never really had the desire for a camera until recently when I saw the value my hunny had in taking pictures of anything and everything. I have come to follow suit with my iPhone and now this handy camera which I think I purchased for the fact that it can do fairly decent video. To go with it, I got an 8GB card. The bf tells me that I’m crazy to get such a huge card, but I think for my trip to California next month, it’s well justified.And of course, with one purchase, trickles many others. On top of the 8GB card, I also got the case and a Flickr Pro account. I hope I get the opportunity to get out there and take some pictures.

I don’t have to impress you.

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Here I am, once again….again.

ra-se-n.net, since its inception in 2005, has become one of those domains that houses a blog that is barely updated with content and is more often updated with layout changes and code experimentation. I really don’t know what I have in store this time around as far as content goes. When doing a Google search on “why blogs fail,” I think this blog is headed down that path. When it comes down to it, I guess I don’t really care if it does. Putting this together again and again has been fun and reminiscent of what I really went to college for. For those of you who know what I do for a living now, it’s almost laughable.

The expectation I have for this blog will probably what it always has been; this blog is more for myself than for anyone else.

Here’s to looooow hopes.

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Hello from the island of O'ahu in the beautiful state of Hawaii. I am terri, a local girl who at 30 is trying to make sure that life doesn't entirely pass her by. I've recently become engaged and am enjoying living a great life in paradise.