Why hello again. I’m Scott, and you know who you are. I’ve decided that speaking in the third person in these writings is not pointless, but extraneous. The reasons to do it don’t outnumber the possible downfalls that may become from it. So, I’ve decided to once again change my writing style. You’ve seen my flirting with bold and italic fonts in the past week or so, but I think I’m going to try to make some sense of these. I’m going to address titles and topics in bold, and supporting lines in italics. Why? I KNOW most people don’t read all of my blogs. They’re too dang boring! The bold text will show you all the topics I wrote about so you can skip around and read what you want. The italics will summarize my main point so you can tell what it’s about at a glance.

I didn’t do much of anything today. I woke up, did some schoolwork, ate lunch, did some studying, took a break and watched a movie (more on this later), finished the movie, did some more studying, and I just finished. Yeah, I’ve been studying all day =op I don’t want to get a B in a stupid world myth class. Vahh! Don’t get me started.

The movie I watched was A-W-E-S-O-M-E. It’s called “Wonderful Days” (pictured here). It’s a Korean anime that came out very recently. It’s a brand new movie that’s really great. It’s half celldrawn animation and half computer animation. It’s really cool to see how they mix the two these days. It had that Final Fantasy / Titan AE / Heavy Metal feel to it with the surreality of Ghost in the Shell and was alltogether a really good movie. The scenery alone was amazing. The plot was pretty cool, nice twist of story, action, suspense, mystery, intrigue, curiosity, and irony. I was disappointed with two scenes in the movie (mainly the one where the truck crashes into the building) and, in my opinion, the movie as a whole would have been better if they were left out. Nonetheless, this movie kicked some serious butt, and I recommend you check it out. A trailer preview of the movie is available online. Check it out, it’s slick: eng_teaser_trailer_high.wmv Once again, it’s a Korean anime entitled “Wonderful Days”.

I’ve been thinking of remodeling this website a little bit. I love the current layout, look, and feel of the site, but I think the top area(s) could use a little scott-touch. I know, the scott-touch, it’s the cause of fatal disasters. However, hey, I’ve got to try ^_ I’d really like to design the layout in a way that I can put larger width images in this area of the site without worrying about people with low resolutions getting the deathly horizontal scroll bar. I don’t know where I think I’m going to get the time. Oh well, it’s coming up with the idea that’s the fun part anyway =o)

Tons of people are checking out how hot Scott is! Ok, so the numbers are small compared to other peoples’ sites, but you gotta realize ScottIsHot.com is only a few months old and doesn’t hold anything of great signifigance. But, in it’s 4 month history (doesn’t it seem like longer?) This October blew away the previous months in website hits. Just in the last 29 days of this month I’ve gotten 2149 unique visitors, 4543 total visits (sessions over two minutes and under two hours), and a nice 103,337 files accessed. For some people, these numbers are nothing. For me, they’re pretty cool ^_ The most any of my old sites got were somewhere around 1500 unique visitors a month. Now I’m over two grand! =o) Pretty cool ‘eh? I linked up to a new person today. Actually, the person isn’t new, the link is. So I linked up to a person’s new link would be the correct way to say it. Check it out! It’s the blue one near the top. Magestyk.com cool.

I was in a conversation a few minutes ago about how I write these blogs. I don’t think I ever wrote about how I write my blogs in my blogs. (weird sentence). But, I’d might as well. Some of you might be able to appreciate the work that goes into each of these posts =o) I don’t go through all these steps every time (if I’m in a hurry) but I try to follow this general guideline when I post:
1.) topic selections - figure out what topics I’m going to hit and write about them, so I don’t deviate into my scott-like rants.
2.) rough draft - I go through and fill out a paragraph or so for each topic I’ve selected. I then arrange the topics to make the best reading pattern.
3.) readover - here, I read my blog posting and make changes to try to make it read fluently. I take out confusing parts, and add extra details to try to clarify fuzzy things. Especially when I talk about myself, it’s easy to say things that could be taken the wrong way, so I have to be careful of this too.
4.) revision - I go over and make sentences better and clearer. I re-write areas that I don’t like, and basically go over the whole thing one more time to make sure it sounds ok.
5.) skimming - I now put this page on preview mode and look at it with the html tags enabled and the images in place. I see if I need to make any last minute changes, and apply them if needed.
6.) post! - I then post the blog for the world to see and enjoy. And, yeah, I know I make a lot of typos I didn’t catch, but hey! That’s me =o)

Interesting, huh?

Lots of people ask me about the truthfullness of my blogs. This is a quite interesting question, because it can take so many meanings. Do the things I write here really happen in my life? Are the thoughts mine? Are the ideas real? Well, yeah, they are. I come here and write about me, my life, my experiences, and my thoughts. Do I lie in my blogs? Sometimes. I usually do it to try to avoid a fight or conflict with someone, or to make someone feel better about something. Usually the lies are subtle details I change to try to catch the eye of the person in mind. Have I toned-down my blogs lately? Yes, I have. You may have noticed it. A few months ago I got royally screwed by a kid reading my blog and taking something I said in a completely wrong way, relaying it to someone else, who relayed it to the parents, who relayed it to MY parents. They freaked from what they heard (which was a far cry from what I wrote) and demanded that I baby them through my whole blog so they could read it all. Naturally (stupidly) I resisted, which ‘confirmed’ to them that their assumptions were true ^_;; The mess was so bad, you couldn’t believe how much trouble it caused. I was actually banned from blogging for a few months =o) Remember that knighthacker.com “computer help” site? That’s what I made when I wasn’t supposed to blog. I waited a month or so until the heat dissipated from the subject, then I turned it back it a personal site with a blog. However, since then, I’ve been very careful. I have to town down all my posts to try to make them as parent-friendly as I can ^_; I’ve learned my lesson of writing things very clearly. It wasn’t that what I wrote was bad. The problem was I wrote blog enteries of only a single paragraph or so, so it left a lot of room for interpretation. Here, with long blogs, I can be 100% sure my point gets across clearly =o) The good thing about this toning-down of my blogs is that I couldn’t possibly offend anybody. The bad thing is that I have to distort history, add in fake events, and leave out things that really happened in an attempt to make this blog comfortable for everyone. I’m hurting this ‘journal’ for myself by doing it this way, but I have to remember that although it’s mine, it’s public, and I have to simply accept some of the strings that’re attached by this fact.

Well, I’ve written a novel today. I’d best get outta here. I have a world myth test tomorrow, I really hope I do well ^_ Goodnight everyone!

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