Playing through

I've not been to PGA. No, not a golf tournament. Paramount's Great America. We started in the afternoon, so we only got to four rides. In part because there seemed to be an exorbitant amount of cutting in the line at Invertigo (or maybe it was just the VIP people, who got to line up at the front), which caused us to miss some popular rides like Top Gun.

But the main reason we were there was to catch the 3rd of July fireworks. My guess is that Great America didn't want to try to compete with SF's fireworks tomorrow. Overall the fireworks were okay; they can't really compare to Disneyland's. Initially, they were horrible since they stopped after 10 minutes. They must have encountered technical problems, since it started up 5 minutes later. The entire show wasn't that bad, though the music could have been louder (perhaps we were just at the wrong place, and listening to sound directly from the amphitheater and not from in-park speakers, if they used those.)

The current plans for my video project call for 4 people stuck in an elevator that has lost power (project is now renamed to Elevator Project). The number may vary depending upon script writing issues. But the first step has been trying to create characters. Temporary names have been chosen for these people. But the more important process of characterizing these people has begun. And thanks to a tip, I've been looking at the Myers-Briggs personality topology (i.e. the Introvert/Extrovert, Sensing/iNtuitive, Feeling/Thinking, and Judging/Perceiving).

I've seen these traits before but never measured what I am myself, and the result is a clear "Don't Know." Two tests produced two slightly different results. I am clearly introverted and clearly perceiving, very likely thinking, but sensing and intuitive seems to be a gray area. Perhaps, I would like to be more of an intuitive but am actually more of a sensor, so the difference comes down to what I would like to do, and thus sometimes do, and what I do if I don't think about it.

Using this personality topology, I will formulate my characters and some ideas on their relationship. Anyway, click the title if you haven't taken the test yourself. Otherwise, it's late. Errrr, early and I need some semblence of sleep.