Hey all,
Today has been a big day! I just finished doing my taxes for the first time on my own. Yay for H&R Block's semi-free only system to make sense of that whole mess, boo for having to spend a bunch of time on it, yay for getting $$$ from the government, and *fingers crossed* that I didn't fuck anything up too badly...
In even larger news, I'm not going to Cornell next year and I just emailed them today. I feel like kind of a terrible person for doing this, since I told them that I was accepting their deferred admission at the start of February. The decision has gotten a *lot* of thought though and I think that staying in California is what will be best for me. You can IM/email if you want more details.
That is the big exciting life news. Now for other things that happened this week.
Yesterday I went to a videogame music concert with Mike (http://videogameslive.com). It was very nerdy, and very very fun. Basically is videogame music performed live by a full orchestra along with really cool light show + videos. Definitely something for videogamers though. Half of the fun was getting all the references, and it was way more fun to listen to songs I knew (e.g. Mario & Zelda) than those I didn't (e.g. other games that I didn't play as much). That said, the WoW music + epic Blizzard video was amazing, and my favorite songs were the last two: One Winged Angel (the Sephiroth song from FF7) and Castlevania. Both of these were full orchestra + heavy metal style guitar, and were *so* full of energy. It was amazing. And I *really* should go to metal concerts, because I really really like that music (sorry to all you classical music players out there, it just doesn't do it for me).
The concert actively encourages you to take video and put it up on YouTube ^_^. Here is an example of what they do for Mario:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LVJSzt-Ds
Man, I just keep thinking of other highlights from the concert. They had Martin Leung (youtube him) play a bunch of oldschool stuff on the piano (which he could also do blindfolded and at *incredible* speed). They had a Guitar Hero contest and had the winner come on stage and play while accompanied by a full orchestra. He had to get over 150,000 pts on 'Hard' to win a prize, and instead did it on 'Expert' (the audience was screaming & cheering him on. Soooo fun).
Ok, I'm going to stop gushing now. And I think this post is long enough to. Back next week with more updates!
Cheers,
Jason
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For future reference, I've found that TurboTax is a nicer piece of software to use than the H&R Block software. For whatever it's worth.
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