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I know it’s not my usual style, and this isn’t a photography blog, but it’s been way too long since I’ve just written anything. I need an excuse, and I think this is perfect.

Until the new year, I shall record the events of the month… on film! Digitally!

A list.
A picture every day.
And I encourage you to do it as well, and record (WITH PURPOSE) your last 30 days in this decade… something to remember the last ten years by.

This list is as follows:

Day 01 – A picture of yourself with fifteen facts
Day 02 – A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest
Day 03 – A picture of the cast from your favorite show
Day 04 – A picture of your night
Day 05 – A picture of an old memory
Day 06 – A picture of a person you’d love to trade places with for a day
Day 07 – A picture of your most treasured item
Day 08 – A picture that makes you laugh
Day 09 – A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most
Day 10 – A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with
Day 11 – A picture of something you hate
Day 12 – A picture of something you love
Day 13 – A picture of your favorite band or artist
Day 14 – A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without
Day 15 – A picture of something you want to do before you die
Day 16 – A picture of someone who inspires you
Day 17 – A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently
Day 18 – A picture of your biggest insecurity
Day 19 – A picture and a letter
Day 20 – A picture of somewhere you’d love to travel
Day 21 – A picture of something you wish you could forget
Day 22 – A picture of something you wish you were better at
Day 23 – A picture of your favorite book
Day 24 – A picture of something you wish you could change
Day 25 – A picture of your day
Day 26 – A picture of something that means a lot to you
Day 27 – A picture of yourself and a family member
Day 28 – A picture of something you’re afraid of
Day 29 – A picture that can always make you smile
Day 30 – A picture of someone you miss

Sorry for the horrible quality... it's the only camera I have available to me, today.

Today’s is a lot harder than I’d like it to be — not because I’m against revealing things about myself, but because I have a tendency to reveal WAY too much.  So, in that vein, I’ll try to make it things that are not only facts, but things that a lot of people don’t already know.

1. On a day-to-day basis I tend to flip flop between Christian-leaning-slightly-Agnostic and Slightly-Agnostic-leaning-strongly-Christian.  I think it’s a perfectly normal place for any born again Christian to be, especially one who still has friends that are not, and never will be, Christian.  I never don’t believe in God, but there’s always that lingering feeling of “If this was so important, you’d think it’d be a lot more obvious and more difficult to debate,” which makes me wonder if we’re just making rules to a game we’re all pretty certain we’re playing.  That said, Pascal’s Wager and a life of awesome role models keeps my actions largely in the Christian camp.
2. I’ve come to realize that lying doesn’t get me anywhere, but Radical Honesty can be abused far easier than little white lies. I’m not going into that.
3. I make $26,250 a year as the sole provider for my family. Though we’re about $7k above the poverty line, it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.
4. I made more this year doing music and sound design than every year prior to this — that means there’s hope.
5. Ten years ago I was 100 lbs lighter.
6. Except for when I have a beard, or when I take the time to curl it, I hate having a mustache — I just don’t shave it because I end up with bright-red razor burn that lasts for days.
7. 5.5 years married, and I’m still terrified of commitment, because it used to be par for the course that I’d ruin it. So far so good, though.
8. I’ve been playing guitar for 12 years, sax for 15, and piano for 21. I’m better at guitar than I am sax, and better at sax than piano. I feel like I should be significantly better at all of them for how long I’ve been playing.
9. Because I tend to surround myself with spelling and grammar Nazis, I’m incredibly self-conscious about the way I write.
10. I’m also incredibly self-conscious about my teeth, because I didn’t take care of them in my teen years and I drink a lot of coffee.  They’re not bad, just not good enough.
11. I’m terrified of flying over the ocean — when I joke that I’d rather take a boat to Europe than fly, it’s not a joke; I’d much rather pay more, and take longer, sailing.
12. The way I live is pretty conservative, all things considered, but I vote liberally.  The government that governs the best is the one that governs the least, and who are the lawmakers to tell me what I can and can’t do to my own body, or who I can or cannot marry? What does that have to do with this nation’s security at all?
13. When I was 18, I registered as a conscientious objector. Now, I want to own guns because they seem incredibly fun to shoot.
14. I’m tech savvy — more so than most people — but I still somehow completely bricked my phone.  Honestly, I don’t know how I did it.
15. I only watch about 4 hours of TV/movies a week, and play >1 hour of video games.  For a sound designer, I’m pretty sure this is a horrible practice.

Over the last few weeks, Califer Games has been building a game called Siphon Spirit, a type of casual puzzle game where you control “an aura of purified energy and you need to use that to absorb energy from the demons, purify it, and use it against them.”

I wrote the music and sound effects for it (which I will be uploading here as I get them cleaned up for the final release), and I must say I’m really excited about how it all turned out.

That said, here’s a link to the installer, if you’d like to play the game, yourself.

http://www.davematney.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SiphonSpiritDemo.zip