Last post of 06

Well, sorry for the lack of posts. I've been kind of busy with friends, Holiday related stuff, and work.

I spent last night painting Warhemmer 40K minatures with Will, and it's been a while since I've last held a paint brush. The minatures we painted where his space marines, and he was hesitant to lend me a brush, since he still remembers my pastel colored Tyranids. Still, I painted by his color scheme, and improved one or two techniques he used. Unfortunately, now I want to get back into painting minautres. Stupid expensive paint.

I probably won't get another chance to do anything with him, since he leaves Tuesday morning and I work both Monday and Tuesday. There were talks about doing something tonight, but.... last night was a good enough ending to his time here. After the mini painting, we even got a few rounds of Halo in. At least I'll be able to see him on CoH after he leaves.

Christmass came and went, and my family exchanged gifts. Actually, I still need to get some of my friends christmass gifts, and I kind of feel bad that I haven't been able to get them anything yet (stupid poor paying job). I already know what I want to get them, it's just the empty bank account that's preventing me. Granted, there's only two friends left for me to get gifts for, and granted that one of them hasn't gotten me anything yet, but I still feel bad.

As to what I got, well, I recieved a few movies, and one or two gift cards. One of the gift cards I'm going to put toward a copy of Viva Pinata. The other one I used on picking up some sleep wear (Do you know how hard it is to find shorts and a matching cami in the middle of winter? Damn Florida waether's tempature).

Anyway, It's almost midnight, so I'm going to call it a night. Night!

Well, He's down

Well, I spent some of the last few days with Will, partly since I wanted to let him borrow a few games and books to keep him occupied. I let him borrow my copy of Dead Rising and my copy of DoA 4, along with the new Halo novel and the third book of the Horus Heresy.

When I let him play Dead Rising, I became disturbed. He had this hideous, evil, gleeful laugh everytime I showed him a new weapon in the game, with the most horrific laughs coming from his discovery of the lawn mower, and his discover of the battle axe. I never want to hear a person laugh like that again, and I'll make a suggestion to his family to never leave him unsupervised with power tools again =P.

I have all the Christmass gifts purchased for my family, and next ppaycheck (I know it won't be until after Christmass) I'll purchase the gifts for my friends. I have a good idea on what to get everyone, so that should be easy enough. I got one of my sisters three classic books that I know she hasn't read yet, the other I got a wireless mouse for her labtop. I got my mom a few things from Bath and Body Works, and my Dad is going to recieve a copy of Poor Richard's Almanac. As to my friends, well, I only have a few ideas right now.

I spent Monday, my day off, at the station pressure washing both the carwash and the dumpster area. I never want to do that again. The amount of dirt that I got off the carwash floor was.... too much. And never enter into a carwash with one of those magnetic clip on thingies on your vehicle. I cleaned so many of those things out of there...

Anyway, I have to go to work soon =(, night... err morning!

Finals are Over =)

Well, first some update news stuff. I added a new christmass flash to my yahoo groups flash holder. It's not much, but it is a flash animation. And yes, I know Christmass ends in only one S.

The other news stuff/update thing involves a blog that was left in my comments section. If you missed the comment he left, you can still get access to his site here. And ya, I know his user pic is kind of... diffrent...

Well, finals and papers are over and done. I only had to take two finals, and I hope I did well on them. As to the papers, I ended up having to turn in the one on Goethe's Faust a day late. Lost a high number of points for turning it in late, but since my grade in that class was a high A, it shouldn't affect it too much. I had to turn it in late because I didn't realize the play was approximately 300 pages, and thus it took a little bit longer to write up then previously expected. I did skim it, at least Part 1, and I still have the book for when I want to read it (it is worth reading, and I think I'd also like to read Marlowe's version).

I currently have a stack of books I want to read, but due to distractions, probably won't get to =(. These include my copy of Livy's History of Rome first four volumes, Plutarch's Fall of the Roman Republic, a shadowrun book I have on my nightstand, and two Dune books. I'd add to that Milton's Paradise lost, but it's just too dry for me to read. At least Livy keeps things entertaining.

Will will be getting down sometime this week, though he won't be able to do anything till the 21st. Part of me is happy that he is coming home for Christmass, another part of me is... I guess aprehensive. I don't really know why, I mean, I've known him since my first year of High School (and as such, it makes him my longest running friend), but... I don't know. In the very least I can probably con him into helping me beat General RAAM on Hardcore in Gears of War.

Well, according to my community college's list of graduating students, I have recieved my AA degree this semester. Of course, that's not finalized till Febuary, and a whole host of things could potentially ruin my standing (such as a bad grade this semester, an overdue library book, and a few other things that I can't currently think of). Still, I am at least on the list of people who might have their AA degree, so that makes me, on paper, smarter than those who don't =P. Unfortunately, I'm only smarter than them on paper. It's kind of like communism.

No, I didn't get to go to the concert last night. I drove by the bar Needlework was playing at, but their was no parking. None, and I was unsure of weather they'd let me in, since I'm not yet 21. So what Gina and I did was we spent the night at Steak and Shake (we actually got decent service for once), then afterwards we swung by my place. She spent the night playing Lummines, and I found an article on a controversial practice affecting america. If you do wish to surf more articles on that website take heed, you will loose IQ points.

Anyways, that's all I got for tonight. Since school is out I'll probably be able to update a little more often. Night!

Work Load

Well, first off, let me draw attention to the somewhat new look of the site. The archive section on the right now functions easier, I've updated my profile blurb text thingy, and I added a new link to my links sidebar. The link is to gamepolitics.com, and it's where I get a lot of my video game politics information. I've been using their site for political intrique for the last 7 months, so I thought I'd finally add a link to it.

I have one of my papers typed up and turned in. It's not the one I've been talking about, but I have at least some of the work done. The other two papers I have are due on Wednessday, and I need to study for my Calc final on Monday. I actually only have 2 exams I need to take, my calculus exam and my Humanaties class. I'm some what worried about my humanaties grades, but I think I'm pulling a B in that class right now, at least I hope I am. Most of my tests have been high C's, but I do have an A and a high B test, so.... and right now my Calc grade is sitting at a C. But my History grade, and my World Lit grade is currently an A.

Been working a lot over the weekend. I worked 13.5 hours yesterday/this morning, along with another 1.5 today (my day off...). My last check, which was for thanksgiving, was a pretty big check, but since I had a few bills to pay, a christmass gift to pick up, and a new volume of Ahh, my goddess, found its way into my anime library, well, I'm where I'm normally am.

Been getting into some Gothic rock/electonica recently for music. Been listening largely to Cruxshadows and Dreamside. Though I have been listening to some new types of death metal/black metal. A friend burned me a copy of Chimera's The impossibility of reason, and I'm anxiously awaiting Black Rose Burial's first albumn. I heard one of their Demo tapes. They have the random, pointless things of System of a Down, but their good, so... at least, some of their stuff is.

Anyway, I have to be back at work tomorrow at 2, so I'm going to call it a night. Night!

Stupid migraine

Thursday saw an eight hour migraine. It was the first one of those I've had in a few years, and I'm not to fond of them. Light, sound, and movement all caused pain. Hopefully it won't be for another few years till I get my next one.

Don't know if I've mentioned this yet, but Will's back in the states. He arrived saftely about a week or two ago, which makes me feel a little better. He somehow got my cell phone number, and called me up a few days ago for tech support on his PC. Considering I had no idea how is PC was set up... kind of weird.

I'm almost finished with one of my papers. I have most of the research done, so all I need to do is organize it, then write it. The writing is the easiest part, and the research tends to be the harder. After I get this one finished, then it'll be on to the next two.

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Sorry, I've been writing this entry in bits and pieces. I started it a few days ago (thursday), and have basically written one paragraph each day. Don't know why I'm taking so long on this one, but I am...

Anyway, can't think of too much else to post, so I'm going to call it quits right now. Night!

More Gas Station fun

I ended up working on Thanksgiving, from 2 to 10 (pm). I know I could use the extra hours, and I did volunteer for it, so it wasn't that bad. And I knew what my family plans were for that day. They weren't going to have a tradtional thanksgiving dinner, instead they hit up a place in Tampa (about 40 miles north)and spent the day up there, and I really didn't wish to do that. On the other hand, I really did want to spend the day with them, and I was kind of saddened that I spent my first thanksgiving totaly uninvolved with my family (until around 11 pm). Besides, work was very slow yesterday, so it wasn't too enjoyable.

The gas station fun isn't about what happened on Thanksgiving though (well, kind of anyways). Apparently the people in Dairy Queen don't know that the emergency silent alarm button they have, shouldn't be accidently pressed (they pressed it yesterday and today), and the station gets charged a large sum everytime it is accidently pressed. And this is the third time it's been accidently pressed, and all three times were in Dairy Queen. Now, they claim they've been leaning against the counter, and that's how it is getting pressed. The person who pressed it today, and the one who pressed it yesterday, will get billed for the pressing. Hopefully that will stop it, though I think if you were to give either myself or my sisters a few minutes with them, my daggers I got at the Medieval fair last Saturday, and turn the cammeras off, there would be a lot less bad things happening in our Dairy Queen, and a lot more employee satisfaction. Plus, head count would trend down. OK, maybe that's a little too far, but still, I'm unhappy at their actions. Espically since I had to do the paper work for the last two incidents.

Picked up Small Arms from the 360's arcade. It's cheap, and it's fun. It's like Smash Brothers for the Game Cube/64, except the characters have some what messed up bios. And that it has live support.

I'm going to have to take my truck in to have it looked at. Apparntly either the battery is faulty, or there is some bad wiring, since I needed to get it jumped when I left the station tonight. The vehicle has a total of 4580 miles on it, so it should be under warranty. Still...

Two good things happened today. The first (and most important good thing) is that I found out there are still people (or maybe just singular) who read this. That, for some unfathumable reason made me happy. The other is that my copy of Ben Franklin's The Poor Richard's Almanac finally arrived, so I got to wear my fox tail at a crowed mall on Black Friday to pick it up at the book store (I might like a little attention now and then.) I've already read through it twice, and I hope to take heart at least some of the wisdom in it. The book itself contains about 5 years of his wisdom, and if you don't know what I'm babling about, you can find out here.

Anyway, it's night time, so I'm off to sleep.

Back in Color

Well, that was an eventfull week, espicially for one not having internet access =(. I dislike that it took a week (Saturday) for them to send a person out to our home. And the major problem was that the ourside box, a box I didn't even know existed, got resetted in one of our common power outages. If I knew that box existed, I probably could have resetted it on my own.

My last day at Wyman, Green, & Blalock was Thursday, and it was one of those days that fit the mood. The sky was downcast and the wind was chilled as it bit into your bones. Everyone there was sorry to see me go. I guess in my time there, they kind of grew attached to me. As any reader of this blog knows, it's not that I partically enjoyed the work there, though I enjoyed it far more than I enjoy the stuff at my current job, it was more the office enviorment that I kind of liked. I had my own, semi-private space (yay! Cubicle) which I could decorate as long as it was work apporiate. My job title also sounded important, and every few months I got to work on a different, exciting project. Despite how repetitive I make IT sound (some of it is), there are a lot of misc, once a year, kind of jobs in that department that keep it somewhat interesting, and it will be not only the private, decorative space I'll miss, but those misc projects and the awe that holding the IT title holds. Well, maybe not too much the awe part. Since everyone ends up asking you to look at their computers if you're in IT, it might be better I no longer hold the title.

As to my current job, well, there's still a lot of just... useless crap in it. Employees who we thought were trustworthy steeling money, others huffing the aresole out of the wip cream cans, and still other things occuring. On top of all that, I get to hear it when I'm at home with family, since it is a family buisness. I don't like being there, and I like it even less when I have to discuss all the crap in it during my off hours. Hope I can get into UCF in Orlando so I can leave this job behind.

There are two major reasons why I want to go to UCF. The first is to get away from home and the family buisness, and the second is for the engineering degree I kind of want. I don't really know if I want to write code for the rest of my life, but it is something I'm good at, so I might as well try to study it, and hopefully get a job in it. As to the leaving home thing, I know I have it pretty nice at home right now, I know that. But still, the urge to leave, the urge to get my own place, the urge to do all that is strong, and has been since Highschool. Though I will desperatly miss having family to talk to when I'm alone at home, at least, non work related conversations.

School is going ok, though in about 3 weeks I have three 10 page research papers due. One is on the evolution of government from the dawn of time to 1000AD, one is on the works of Johhen Van Gothe, and the last one is on Illuminated Manuscripts of the Medieval ages. Right now, all I can feel towards school is apathy, probably due to me switching jobs and deeling with some of the stuff at the other job. Still, I need to get to work on those papers, definatly during the holiday weekend. But isn't that what college teaches you, though? How to write an excellent paper in one night?

While backing up my truck on Saturday night, I kind of backed into another vehicle. It's just a dent in the person's side rear panel, but it's probably going to be expensive to fix. I'm probably going to borrow money from my parents to pay that off =(, since I doubt it even meets the minimum on the insurance deductable. As to why I didn't see the vehicle behind me when I was backing out, well, remember how I complained about how high and big the truck was? Ya... the car was about a foot shorter than my tailgate, and about as long as my vehicle was wide. Hard to see it when your vehicle blocks it.

Also, one of my friends has decided to stop working at Win-Dixie. He's been working there for about a year and a half (about as long as I worked at my insurance company), and has decided that it might be better to take a lower paying job if there's a lower level of stress to it. I've been trying to tell him to do that for the last 4 months, but he doesn't choose to listen to me. Yet when he finally comes to that conclusion... He needs a job change though, though hopefully it'll be one with a low level of customer interaction. He's a good, nice person but he just not too customer oriented. Any place that hires him should consider themselves lucky to get him.

Will's back in the states!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's not in Florida =(, but at least he's safe home again. I actually talked to him on his cell phone today. We had a nice, long conversation about, well, geek culture and how his trip home went, and how he's liking everything. I'm just happy that he's safe.

Gears of War is now playing on my 360. The single player game is decent, but the multiplayer player game is pretty well made. The gameplay itself on multiplayer is better than Halo 2's, but the way they do matchmaking, and that it logs you out to the main screen after each match (they normally last about 30 minutes) really gets on my nerves. Still, it's a fun game.

Anyway, I need sleep because of work tomorrow. Night!

Verizon is evil

OK, sorry for the late, and short post. I'm typing this up in my work's office (Gas station, not Wyman Green), to write that my home internet connection will not be able to be restored until at least Saturday, which will mean that I won't have internet connection at home for at least a full week (lost conection four days ago.) Gah! And there was so much time wasting that I need to do online. At least i have this office computer on some of the days I work.

I'm addicted to the net, so expect withdraw symptoms to start anytime.

Ghosts of Onyx

Well, as the name of this post and color implies, I've picked up and read the new halo book Ghosts of Onyx. The guy who writes it is decent, not as good as the people who wrote the books in the Horus Heresy, but still decent. He'll go down for writing the Halo Novels, but I don't know if his works will otherwise be able to stand by themselves. Still, it entertained for an afternoon.

As you can probably guess, I've finished reading the three books in the Horus Heresy. The next one is coming in March, so I have to find something to do till then. Too bad authors can't write at the speed a reader reads. Still, the books are better than the standard dime store novels most authors produce (me included, though even I don't remember what I've written.)

It's kind of odd, but come Monday I'll be putting in my Two Weeks notice at Wyman, Green, & Blalock. There's a lot of reasons for this, the primary one is because my parents need me to fill a shift hole they can not fix =(. But that's not the only thing, there's the decline of hours, and the fact that Wyman, Green & Blalock will be merging with BB&T banking/insurance (err make that bought by BB&T). A part of me doesn't want to leave the place. Despite the fact that I enjoy whining and complaining about my job there, it is one of the more enjoyable jobs I've had. And I was a specialist, which means people respected my profession. Saying you worked in IT made people think you knew something, and that image of me is going to go now. Sure, I can say I'm studying to be an engineer, but there is a difference between being a student and being employed in that profession. Furthermore, I'm going to miss the people there. There are a lot of good people who work in that company, a lot of good coworkers, and I can't say that about the gas station.

And now, a new point for me to whine about, the station. First off, I don't like working there, and that dislike is compounded by the fact that I'm basicly forced to work there. Though I would feel guilt if I didn't work there when the rest of my family does. One of the things that really annoys me about it, though, is that the station is now the only thing my family talks about. I already work there, and I'm quiting my higher paying and more enjoyable job to work there more. I spend way too much time working there, I don't want to spend even more time discussing something that just.... irks me. Ya, it's bitchy time for me. The coworkers are decent, not the best people in the world, but decent people. Still, there's a reason why they're working in fast food or a convience store at their ages. I just hope it's that life has delt them a bad hand.

Getting off the topic of work =(, I got to go to a halloween party on, well, Halloween. It was pretty enjoyable, got to meet some intresting people, maybe even one or two cute people. My costume was Catholic guise, though, and since everyone there were wiccans, well, I recieved some rather colorfull jokes about the costume. Still, I had a good time and I'll probably start hanging out with those people more often now that I've actually met them.

Anyway, although it's been forever and a day since I last posted, I think I'll call it quits for tonight. ~night!

Oh Noes, the Haxxors have stolen the Internets

I had no home internet access between Tuesday and Friday. Apparntly there was some sort of issue with our home router and the way verizon's DSL was leasing our IP address. At the end of the lease, it seemed to lease it to an individual computer, and not to our router. Anyway, as you can see, the problem was fixed, with out having to call up Verizon tech support, I might add =P. As to why I didn't post last night, well, that can be best explained by combining Oblivian, misc. work stuff, Lumines Live's release on the 360, and the book Horus Rising.

Speaking of the Lumines Live game, I have mixed feelings about it. I'm happy that it's on the 360, in fact, the reason why I got a PSP was for that. I love the game. But there is the other view of the game. The whole 'episodic' crap to it. For example, the vs CPU 'episode' won't be coming out till 07. I don't mind buying the add on, for the game itself only costs 15 dollars, and you get a single player challenge mode, a skin editor mode, vs local, and vs live. I paid 23 dollars for my copy of Lumines on the PSP, and that was after it was discontinued. So 15 + episodic content doesn't really bother me. What does is that it's not there! I loved VS CPU, and I want to try out these 'mission' packs, but... gah! It's like some sort of Arcade Void that defies all logic. Microsoft probly has it on some disc somewhere in their infernal server room, laughing at us because we don't have access to it. But that's enough rambling on Lumines.

No, no story yet. I've determined that if I'm going to be serious in writing, that I'd probably have to give up, or at least seriously mitigate my inolvement in, gaming. I love both of those things, though. Yet I'm far more addicted to gaming than I am to writing. Who ever says gaming is not addictive is a filthy lair, yet out of all the harmful stuff to be addictived to, I'd view gaming as the most harmless one. Still, at least I have my blog to write in. That's something, right?

As to work, well, I'm debating on leaving WGB to work for my parents full time. I would need to talk with both them and the store's manager/co-owner about it. Yet I don't know if I want to do it though. It's just that I know I'm not going to learn too much more from WGB, and that's because of a mixture of lack of opportunities, and because I'm starting to feel that my manager wants to keep IT in demand by prohibiting knowledege of the subject to others. That would include me, to a certain extent. Of course, this could just be paranoia speaking, but still. There are a few other things about him that I find unsetteling, too, but I won't mention them here in my blog. For now, anyways.

Music wise, I've started listening to a new band called Cruxshadows. They're not metal. They're a gothish technoish type of band. I'm normally not too big into Techno, and I'm even less into making a 100 different versions of the same song fgor CD sales, but their lyrics are pretty cool.

I'm sure I've kept you up long enough reading all of this, so I'm going to call it a night. ~Night

Northwind

The first albumn that I have been waiting for anxiously has finally released. It's Falconer's Northwind. The reason why I really wanted this albumn was because it uses their orginal vocalist, which is the whole reason why I picked up their first and second albumns. Overall, it is worth the wait. Gamma Ray is coming out with a new albumn next year, but considering their last two new albumns, I'm a little leary.

Work has not been too good. For the past two weeks I've only gotten 3 hours each week. According to my manager, not much new setup has been needed, and not too many errors have occured. He's been bumped down to part time, so it's not looking too good. At least the job at the station gives me enough hours to pay my bills. Although I don't particullary enjoy working there, money is money. And when you need it, you don't complain about it's source. At least, not to too many people =P.

Will apparently doesn't have a girlfriend. Apparently he told that in order to sound impressive or something. Anyway, his parents ended up finding out about his "girlfriend" (I might have mentioned something to his sister...), and got somewhat angry at me because he had to explain to his parents on the phone why they don't need to change their winter plans. I feel he deserves it. But that just may be a vindictive quality in me.

I'm going to Orlando over the weekend with my family to see the Halloscream thing. It'll be good family time, but I do wish I could be working on Friday instead of traveling.

Anyway, Oblivian is calling, and like a Kajit Skooma Addict I must return to its embrace.

Oblivian

So little time, so much to do in Oblivian. I think I'm officially addicted to that game with the number of hours I spent last week on it. It's also why I have this late post. It's just, it's a good escape from life. Unfortunately, it's not as good as sleep.

Outside of oblivian, I'm also working on another short story. I'll post it here when I finish it. As with most of the drek I write, it's going to be horror. I have the begining, and a good viewpoint on the ending, but I really need to get the middle done. Hopefully I can do that soon.

I might take my 360 offline for a few days, I've spent waaaay too much time on it. If I don't have to work tomorrow morning, I'll post again then, since I have a lot to just vent. That's all I do on this blog, but...

It's Staph, not Staff

Well, you know those things I get on my arms and legs occasionally? Those weird, painfull sores? Well, my family dragged me (almost kicking and screaming) to a doctor on Saturday since I have another on my right hand (hurts to write with a pencil), and it has been diagonesed as a Staph infection =(. Apparently I've had it since the first one, and these things are it's number one symptom. That means I've had it for about a year and a half. So now I'm on 2 antibiotics. And I really dislike taking medicine.

School is going ok. Though I need to devote more time to Calc 3. I did a 79 on the last test, and I feel I need to get a B in the class. I hope to spend tomorrow night studying the course material for the test on next Monday. And maybe some of Saturday.

Anyway, I know it's a short post, but I can't think of too much else I should add right now. Except maybe that I work either too many hours or not enough. Anyway, night!

Long Hours

I have decided that I am starting to despise the station job. I worked about 30 hours there over the weekend, with a Friday/Saturday shift lasting 18 long, tiring hours. My shift started on Friday at 2pm, then, because both 3rd shift people didn't show up (one called in, the other just didn't show), I decided to let my manager go home and work the shift. Then, only one person showed up for the 6am shift, so I had to help her set up that morning. It was long, wearisome hours, and I don't know if I've gotten back the sleep I've lost yet.

Well, I've been sending emails back and forth to Will, and it appears that he now has a military girlfriend =(. On the one hand I'm happy for him that he's finally found someone. On the other hand... well, I'm not so happy. And maybe even a little jealous. I'm normally not too bad in the jealousy department, but... Anyway, he says he's going to bring her down the next time he's able to be in the states, so when he does I'll be able to meet her.

I've been thinking about getting back into minature painting. I use to enjoy spending long hours with brush in hand painting little pieces of metal. Not so much that it had a use, but because I found it to be one of the most relaxing things I could do. Moving the brush against the pewter, getting the colors just right, ect. If I ever get a digital camera, I'll post some of my previous miniture paint jobs online. They aren't that good, but I'm still proud of them. One of the few things I'm proud of.

Anyway, I'll post again, hopefully sooner than this one was posted (I know, I always say that). Night!

Kamelot does a cool concert

First off, I'd like to say that the Kamelot concert was awesome. They threw an excellent concert on Saturday, and the bands that opened for them (Cypric Vision, Ben Jackson Group, and Crimson Glory) were fantastic. I also learend that, with the exception of the Keyboardist and the Vocalist, that the band was from Tampa, which was kind of cool. They don't play as well as dragonforce, but they throw a much better concert, and they also have respect for their fans.

Been working a lot. Also been going to school a lot. And I've been spending a lot of my free time playing dead rising. I've almost gotten through the story of that game, and well, wow. Very few games have been able to keep my attention for as long as this has. Maybe it's the random funness of it. Maybe it's the 360. Maybe it's the sick, twisted humor. Or maybe I'm just a twisted person who enjoys scenes of mass carnage and bloodshed. But what ever it is, my friends no longer trust me near nerf guns and stuffed animals. Also, they have had enough of me yelling the word Zombie!.

Recieved my tax refund check today. Half of it is going into my saving account, the other half is going to pay off the credit card I put the 360 on. I might change those figures around and pick up Dead or Alive 4 though. Since I picked up a second controller to play Halo with a friend (she's about as good as I am at the game, though I tend to do better at long range), and found out just where Microsoft makes back their money that they lose on the consoles. As such, I want a good, solid multiplayer game to make use of the overly expensive controller that I picked up. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post. And no, the PS3 is not a sugestion. Though I am happy that they are releasing Assasin's Creed for the 360 =p.

Anyway, I'm going to log now, night!

Still tired

Ya, I'm still tired. But it's not just a physical or mental tirdness. It's one that has its roots in my core. The 360 has prevented the worse of it, something about being able to get negative emotions out on zombies, but I did relapse into a bad habbit I had in highschool about 2 weeks ago. Right when the station opened up and I was feeling overwhelmed. Still, I haven't repeated it, so that's good.

As to dead rising, just a word of caution before you decide to go pick it up. If you don't have a HD television, you will not be able to read the text on the screen. At least incoming call and item description text. Furthermore, Capcom, in their arrogance, has stated no patch for it. The game's fun though, just not worth the 59 if you don't have a HD.

I'll try to post tomorrow night if I can. I don't have anything scheduled except for some studying of Calc 3, so I should be well set. Also, the concert is this Saturday! Can't wait!

Sooo tired... =(

So tired. Since my last post I've been averaging about 4 hours of sleep each night, due to multiple reasons. The first being the station opening up, follwed by school. Of course, there are other, non-needed reasons.

I know I shouldn't have, but I took a step into the world of next gen and picked up a 360, along with the games Chromehounds and Dead Rising. I would have picked up Kameo instead of Dead Rising, but I hear it's only 10 hours long, and an infinite number of zombies needing slaying sounds like more strech to my dollar. Although I'm not a big fan of giant battling robots (I belive something with that many weakpoints have no place on a battlefield), the squad based combat looks fun. Besides, when Will was down he had a copy of it, and I kind of fell enanmored with it sense then.

I am really, really, really tired, and I have work at the station to do tomorrow. More like transpoting trash in my truck to the dump (I no longer need to worry about repairs for a while).I hope to post more tomorrow, since a lot more has happened in the two? weeks since then. nifght!

Good faith and credit

Ha, only 5 days since my last post. Hopefully I'll be able to get it down to 4 days inbetween each post instead of 7. Then maybe two days between posts.

I do post because it helps calm me release some emotional stuff, at least, when the posts cover things that make my life hectic. I don't post as often as I would like either because of how busy my schedule can get, or due to lazyness. Still, all things considered, this is the longest time running that I've kept a journal/dirary of my life. The second longest one was about a month. So I guess I'm doing something right. Hopefully it's enjoyable to read, and not a chore.

I applied for my first credit card today. The intrest on it is a little steep though. It's 19.5%. Which means that for every 100 dollars I have remaining balance, I'll have to pay 20 dollars in intrest. Unless I am late or over draw twice in 6 months, which would double the intrest rate for I belive 3 months. I wish I could figure out a way to do such a mark up on goods. I mean, think about it. If one pays 30 dollars off on a 100 dollar object, it lowers the bill down to 70 dollars. Then the interest bumps it up to 84 dollars (20% of 70 is 14). Another 30 dollars on the next payment lowers it down to 54 dollars, and when interest hits it'll be raised to 64.80 (10.80 interest). Another 30 dollars lowers it to 34.80. After interest it'll be 41.76 (6.96 in interest.) Another 30 dollars would lower it to 11.76. Interest comes and raises it to 14.12 (2.36 intrest.) Then the final payment of 14.12. Which brings the final price of the prchase to 134.12. With 34.12 being interest. Which is more than a 33% markup. Being able to make anywhere from 33%+ on a buisness model, with out actually having to have inventory, is just... it should be illegale! Following a similar method with, say, a 3000 dollar purchase, the bank would make 1000 dollars in interest. If I ever get the money to do something like this, I'll start my own credit card company and reap the benifits of it.

My parents' buisness (the gas station), will be opening on Tuesday. As such, my sisters and I have been hecticly preparing the place for it, along with a bunch of employees. It's not too bad, except that my mother is worrying waaaay too much over everything, and as such, is trying to micromanage every detail in the place. And she really shouldn't. I still don't want to work there, but with the way things have been at WGB, I really could use the extra money (about 14-20 extra hours each week). That would prevent me from getting another 200 dollar paycheck to last two weeks (180 of which went to vehicle maintence, and 15 of which went to CoX).

Speaking of CoX, I kind of ment to do this announcement about, say, 2 months ago, but haven't got around to it. About two months ago, my global friend's list got deleted. So if you were on my global friend's list, and wondering why I don't recognize your alt's name, that would be the reason. To compound matters, it's only on my end that I don't see your name. To fix it, you'd have to remove me from your friends list, then send an invite. Anything else produces an error =(. So I apologize again about that.

Also, I'm thinking of getting into Eve Online, though I'd probably have to drop CoX to do it. I really don't want to drop CoX, for although I only play it about once a week (3 to 4 hours each week), I still have friends on it. Friends who I enjoy seeing for those 4 hours. I also enjoy the character custamization, something I don't think Eve has. Still, if it's anything like Escape Velocity Nova, it might be worth it.

Anyway, I need to get up early tomorrow morning to type up a paper (no printer at home), so night!

Stupid 8 Days

Sorry for the lack of posts durring the past eight days. I ment to only have six days between posts, but a few stress full envents have occured.

The most stress full event was that, according to the emails he sent me, Will was on a three day suicide watch. When he told me he got of it, he didn't email me for three days afterwards, which really made me nervous. But it sounds like he's doing better now. At least I hope he is. Still, I do feel bad that there's very little I can do here to help him over there. Though I should be sending him a packet of stuff soon. I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid.

Work has become even more tedious. Our scanner girl is going to temporary fill in for our account assistant while she's on her two week vacation, so guess who gets to spend her next two weeks as a file clerk, pointlessly filing away useless documents everyday? That's right, me! With the exception of Friday, I have not done anything IT related in about a month. Which is really naking me think about leaving the company. I mean, I like the people there, I do, and I think they like me as a person, but the work I'm currently doing can best be described as busy work. Like going in and making sure that some policies are scheduled to be rewritten. Or the filing. I really despise filing. A lot. But work's work, and until I get something else lined up, this is what I have to deal with. Not that there is any place close that's hiring. Well, I could always go back to the grocery buisness, but the only place where I'd have job security in the area is the newly opened Walmart, and I don't want to be working for minimum wage. I don't know, I just wish my job made me feel useful. And that its future did not involve filing.

School started Monday. I had to reschedule my Calc class because the canceled the morning one, so now I'm taking Calc 3 at five instead of 10. Which means I'm going to be getting 2 less hours each week because of when I have to leave work. On top of that, I found out that my Humanaties class uses a different textbook then the one I was told to buy, so now I'm going to have to replace it =(. Still, I should do well this semester. I also sent an email to the Engineering Department at UCF asking if they have any recomendations for what I should do to get into their program.

Not all of the week was bad, though. I got to see one of the bands I like, Dragonforce, in concert at the states theater in St. Pete. The show was sold out, so I was lucky to get tickets. It was worth the 16 dollar entry fee. Although it doesn't sound too enjoyable, 750 people packed together in a small space with little AC is fun.

That's about it for right now. I'll try to update this more often since I really would do this twice a week instead of once a week. Hopefully I'll find a way to do that.

Not a doctor

The MOSI muessum, about 50 minutes from my house, has been having this bodies exhibit for the past couple of months. This guy took unknown cadavers, preserved them, disected them, then put them in a muessum. My family and I went to see the exhibit, and I discovered that it's probably a good thing I'm not in school to be a doctor or a surgeon. I was really uncomfortable in the exhibit. Which is odd, since I play some of the most gruesome games on the market.

Right now I don't think my manager cares one way or the other if I'm at work or not. Everything I've done so far for the past three weeks have been things for other departments. I don't exactly know what that means, but right now I don't want to think about it.

I've been meaning to post this for the past two weeks, but a friend of mine (probably the only person who reads this blog) has created a demo project thing of code he's working on. I wasn't a big fan of it (only looked at a few things, and those seemed to be just descriptions of what he was working on), but I figured I'd post it here anyways. Please note that the project is 18+ ONLY. You can download a torrent of it here.

Other than that, and a tickle war with a friend on Thursday (I think it was Thursday), not too much has been happening. Next week will see the begining of my classes though. I'm looking foreward to them though, it'll be something to do.

Oh, and before I log, microsoft will be releasing free video game development tools for windows and the xbox360. Though to actually get it on the 360 will require a $99/year subscription. It seems to me a good idea to produce mods, user created content, and to introduce some innovation to the industry cheaply. Anyway, that's about it, so night!

Rice is yummy =)

Right now, I have a giant bowl of rice and honeyed bacon (I know, sounds weird, but combined it's good). I'm happy. OK, maybe it's not a giant bowl, and maybe it'd be better with something to drink, but it's still good.

I found a working copy of Eternal Darkness, and it seems to be a cool game so far. Not too scary, but fun. When I think of a horror game, I think of something like Silent Hill, where it is better to run then fight. This game rewards fighting by refilling your sanity. So it's not what I expected, but it's different. And it's cell shaded.

I'm starting to put together another entertainment package for Will. I have some anime in it, and I'm going to add some music to it. Any suggestions on what else I should add? Though I probably won't be shipping it till sometime after the 15th (aka payday). Before he left he did say he wanted some more anime to watch.

My mother turned 43 on Friday. I got her two prayer devotional books. She liked them, at least, she liked them better than the cheese slicer she got from my grandparents. So that's good.

I also payed for my classes on Thursday, and picked up the new textbooks I need. World Lit had 4 for the class. Luckily, I was able to get my European History book cheap from a friend. My calc book is still good for calc 3, and there was only one book needed for intercultureal humanities. Hopefully that one will be like my hummanities class in Highschool, so hopefully I should get an A.

I've had some stuff to do at work, enough to give me 20 hours last week. Hopefully I can get another 20 next week, if we have enough form letters to fill out. Otherwise, well, I just want enough to do so that I don't have to pace myself. Right now my posistion is less IT and more Project Lackey. The people there like me, I think, so it's not something against me. I just hope they consider me a valuable employee.

~Night

I ment to post on Saturday

Work's been slow. Very slow, which sucks since I'm payed hourly. For when you're paid hourly, and your boss has nothing for you to do... at least I've been able to catch up on some sleep.

I've started to get into IRC. Been doing some chatting on it, not that there's much else to do on it. Some of the people on it are fun, crazy indivduals, but others are creepy. And not the fun creepy. But those types of people end up making my ignored list.

I've got the labtop working reliably right now. The cost for sodering the new piece on was waaay out of my price range (95 dollars an hour, 2 hour job), so rather then doing that, I fiddled around with the interior of the machine. Now instead of always crashing, it'll continue running if the power cord is in at the right angle. Which is a step up from it dying with out notice.

Other than those things, not much has been happening. So night.

I apologize, been kind of busy

I'm almost the only one in my SG on CoH who isn't romanticly involved with some one. It's kind of weird, all things considered. And I guess that means I'm kind of the geekiest person in my SG. That's one title I really don't want...

Speaking of that, some friends of mine are trying to set me up with someone. I don't really know the person too well, but I already know that we don't have much in common to talk about. I don't mean it in a bad way, but the person and I, we share similar hobbies, but they're different enough to make it so that we don't have intrest in those areas. Kind of like two computer gurus, but one is a follower of Gates and the other is a follower of mr. Jobs. Maybe that's what's wrong with that part of my life. I use computer descriptions to compare personalities. Still, I guess I'd be willing to try it.

Well, Will leaves tomorrow morning. I wish he wasn't. We really didn't do too much important stuff. Just the standard friend type of stuff. You know, just hanging out, talking, making jokes, watching a few shows, just the normal stuff most people do. He's also kind of big into Warhammer 40K, something I got him into, and I let him borrow some of my old models over the weekend to play at his favorite game store. I don't know if he actually used them, but at least he had a chance to play. I do need to get some CDs ready for him, which I'll have to ship off since I won't be able to see him again before he leaves. I have a few bands picked out, but I'll need some other things. Since I have Zim and Dilbert back, I'll probably send him my Crno Crusade and my Lain stuff. I wasn't too big of a fan of them, but maybe he'll like them.

I did get his labtop, I owe him for it, but it needs some drastic repairs. The most important would be it needs a new AC jack, and for that to be replaced, I will need to find someone in the area who does sodering work. The part itself is 6 dollars on ebay, so I'm not too worried about the cost (I'm guessing it'll be a half hour of work). The machine does work with out, but you need to hole the power plug at a certain angle. After I get that fixed I'll need to start clearing some of the crap off of it. And dear god he has a lot of crap on it. He also has some weird stuff on it. Very weird stuff. To put it in perspective, I don't think he knew Furcadia (the fact he played the game is creepy enough)left chat logs on the machine. And he really should have deleted his internet bookmarks. But ya, there's a lot of crap I'd have to get out of there.

Some friends and I are already designing our halloween costumes. I don't know what I'm going to wear yet, since it's waaay too early in the year, but it will be catgirlesq. Who knows, I might be able to get my hands on a camera and post pictures of me in costume. Maybe. Hopefully.

I got my windshield replaced finally. Not because I wanted to, but because the cop who had nothing better to do then to write me a ticket told me I had to. Luckily, insurance covered it, but I still need to pay the ticket. It should drop in price from 74.50 to some price less since I can prove I got it replaced. But still. What really gets me is that Florida is the only state in the union that has that law. Still, at least living in Florida means I don't have to pay a state income tax. But ya, part of my next paycheck is going to pay off that ticket.

As to my flash animations, they were kind of put on hold because Will was down. I'm going to resume them soon. I have two or three in the works. The Will's Life comic one, another MoonCreature one, and some simple Gradius sprite thing. If I could figure out how to recompress the music, and to only choose certain sections, then I'd also do a flash based upon this Canadian folk song. The song is The Last Saskatchewan Pirate. It's performed by a band called Captian Tractor (intresting name...), though it was orginally written by another band called Arrogant Worms. Still, everyone loves pirate flashes. And in case you're wondering on my viewpoint, pirates can beat a ninja any day of the week.

There's really not much else to talk about, well, I could complain about the lack of hours at my job but I won't, so I'll leave it at that. I shouldn't have too many distractions so my next post might actually be on time.

Well, he's Here

Well, Will's down now. I spent Tuesday, Thursday Evening, and Friday Evening with him. I plan on spending some time with him tomorrow too. On Tuesday he picked up a 360. Which means that I'm going to have to save up to get one now, though I'll probably wait till a price drop. On Thursday we saw the shakesperian play As You Like It, and I enjoyed it. We saw it because his younger brother was in it. We really didn't do much on Friday. But I'm enjoying the time spent with him. If I were one to take pictures, I'd record it all in a scrap albumn. But I'm one to type long blogs about the stuff I do, so that's what I'm going to do.

Oh, we also forced him to get a new pair of glasses on Tuesday. He's been using his military glasses which, although work, are aesthetically hideous. There's something wrong when he thinks those glasses were ment to be permenant. Still, his new glasses look nice.

Work has been kind of slow, which I guess is both a good thing and a bad thing. I got Tuesday off to spend with Will (he came down Monday night, half a day later than I expected), but I recieved Wedness day off because of lack of things to do. I spent that day glued to my cell phone in the faint, delusional hope that my work might call and tell me they had some overly repetitive task that they wanted me to preform. It didn't happen though... I worked a half day on Thursday, then spent longer than normal on Friday because of a system update. The net result was about 16 hours this week, when I'm normally use to 22. But this is the second week at my new pay scale, so hopefully that'll make up for it. Otherwise, well, I guess I'll figure out a way to purchase textbooks next month.

I found an archery range today, and spent a half hour shooting off my Grandfather's bow. The bow is a 60 pound bow, which surprised the guy at the range. Apparantly beginners should only be shooting 20 pound bows. As to my accuracy, well, the most dangerous place to be is about 5 feet above, or to the left, of my target. The safest place to be is where I'm aiming. Still, for 5 dollars, I'll probably go back there next Saturday. Eight dollars would buy me an hour on the range, but I don't know if my arms and my fingers could fire off that bow for an hour.

As to where the bow is being stored when I'm not using it, well, my Dad wants it stored in the same place where he stores his rifle. His viewpoint is that, if some one where to break into our home, and find the bow, that they would use it against the family. Now, as wise as those words sound, it's kind of difficult to use a bow. More difficult than to use a firearm. Also, I think if some one where to break into our house, that they would probably be armed with something more dangerous than a bow. I didn't argue with him, though. As to where the fire arms and the bow are, well, unless you were involved in the consturction of a specific room in our home, you won't find them. Though I do agree with hiding the rifle.

I picked up the third installment of the DDR series for the Xbox today, and so far it seems pretty good. Much better than the second one, at least. I got it on sale, which was one of the biggest points of purchase.

Tomorrow, some of my friends and I plan to throw Rob a birthday party. His family is not invited. The reason being is that they have crossed one of my closest friends (his girlfriend) one too many times. They don't view her as his girlfriend, or as a potential family member. They view her as a means to punish him. And they're sadestic. Luckly, their IQ and be counted on one hand, so they often times fail in what they try to do, but everyone is sick of what they're doing, and getting back at them sounds good. What we're doing is first watching the orginal Pirates of the Carribean at my house. Then we're going to a 3ish showing of the second one (I liked it enough to see it twice, no one else has seen it, though), and finally we're going to dinner, probably at RJ Gators (a Chili's kind of resturant). It should be fun.

I've started the fourth Dune novel, God Emprorer of Dune. So far it's good, but I'm only on page 50 something.

Finally, I might be able to get a laptop for 50 dollars. It'd need a replacement battery, but other than that it should be good. If the Windows Disk and the Drivers disk is in good condition, and the only problem with it is the battery, and the specs are decent, than I'll pick it up. I'm hoping those conditions are true.

Anyway, that's all I have to type tonight (not tired for once! Yay!!)~Night!!

A Long Delay

Well, I've been a combination of busy and unstable for the past week, which explains lack of post. Still, I have a few things to post about.

The first is that Will is coming home soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D =D =D =D. Because of orders from his commanding officer, he was "allowed" (err pressured) into taking his two weeks of vacation time on the eigth. Which means he'll probably hit the US on the 10th or 11th (stupid having to wait in Kuwait...). Still, he'll be coming home soon, so I'm so happy about that. I also hope that he brought back with him my copy of Dilbert and Invader Zim.

Indepence Day went by pretty well. My family, along with a some family friends, spent the night launching motar quality fireworks. A few of them exploded on ground level, which was both spectacular to watch and scary. There's a reason why they normaly explode in the air, and it might have something to do with public health. Except for the fact that a friend I invited (stupid coworker and her stupid other plans) didn't show up, it was a blast (hehe... pun not intended). Though we did the celebration on Monday the third and not the fourth.

Well, tomorrow will be my sisters Birthday (the 10th), and I got them some anti-virus software (yes, I know, I'm a geek). Still, that was one of the things they wanted. As I already stated, they're planning to spend their birthday at a hookah bar (tobacco only, I'm sure!). I hope them the best, and I hope they don't do anything stupid on their 18th.

To answer another question, as to playing Oblivian on my machine, well, here's my machine's specs: RAM 512, Video Nvidia Geforce FX5200 (128MB), Processor 3200 AMD Athlon X64. As you can see, I'd need a RAM and video card upgrade if I were to hope to play the game in its glory. Playing it in any manner that did not cast the game in a good light would be blasphemy against all that is good in the video game industry, something I'm not willing to do.

As for my dislike of Outlaw Star, well, I find the concept of Melee Space Combat to be completely laughable. I will sacrafice range and the ability to deliver explosive payloads to have the strategic advantage of being able to armwrestle my opponet's ship. Ya. That makes perfect sense. /sarcasm. There were other things about it I didn't like. I'm not a fan of a lot of combat in my anime. And I like to have good story, and good character development. And angst. I just really disliked it...

Anyway, I hope to post soon.

They're Back...

Well, first off, my sisters are back. I did kind of miss them, but now that they're back I kind of wish they'd leave again. They say they miss Germany, a lot, and that they really want to go back during the winter. I say they're crazy, but I really dislike flying, so that may be why. Still, they brought me back a German Metal CD (Hammerfall, they're OK), and a stuffed animal (I love soft, cuddly stuffed animals! =)), so I won't disapporve of anything if they bring back another stuffed animal.

One of my sisters (Catherine) fell in love with Hookah while over there. I guess it's some sort of turkish way to smoke tobacco. I really don't know, but I'll support any of their vices that make my vices look good. Saddly, their vices are (more often) worse than mine.

Also, their birthday is coming up on the 10th (it's their 18th), so I'll be broke again soon... =(.

Will called on Saturday (not today Saturday, but last Saturday), and that was pretty cool. He said he'd be coming back some time before Christmass. He also said something about wanting to get back into the civilian sector. When he gets done with his term (which will be in a year or two I think...) he said he wanted to go back to college and get a degree in communication systems I believe... with a minor in geology. Geology was his orginal major, but then he realized that he was too addicted to electronics to spend too much time away from civilization. Can't wait till he gets home at the end of the year. I'll need to think of something special to do for him...

I've somehow got my self readdicted to Morrowind for the XBox. It started out as a desire to play a good single player game, then snowballed... Now I want to go out, pick up a 360 and Oblivian... Stupid Bethesda and their stupid game seires...

I've started watching Ahh My Goddess with a friend. So far it seems like a pretty fun series. Really wish I could get my hands on Chobits though, but it's something to do with friends, so I'm not complaining. There are worse things I could watch (Outlaw Star, for example. I really, really, really, really disliked it...).

That's all I have to type so far... ~Night!

Cello Madness!!!

First off, I'd like to wish my blog a happy belated birthday. Because of my best attempts (or maybe despite them), I've been able to somehow keep a year long journal/diary/blog of my life, something I've never done before (the longest before this was a journal I kept for a month). It's been a year full of poor grammar, spelling errors, and crazy talk, but it's been a year.

A friend of mine had me watch her copy of Rent, and I have to say, it's a pretty good musical. From the first song to the last, it's deffinatly worth watching, at least, if you're into musical kind of things (like the Phantom of the Opera or Les Misera). It has a decent story, but the music is fantastic.

Speaking of music, there's a band I recently found, called Apocolyptica. They're known for doing things like playing metalica songs with cellos. I some how got my hands on their newest albumn, and the string insturment stuff in it is to die for. Well, maybe not to die for, but... ya. It's good. The first song is a remake of Enter Sandman, and I swear it's better than the orginal. They do some other songs, (err 23 in this albumn), and another good one is Hall of the Mountain King.Video of hall of the mountain king and a video of their song Path. Please ignore the head banging parts.

The local game store got a new employee. No, it's not me. But he does share similar intrestes as myself. Diabolical schemes are hatching in my mind as I type this... >)

That's about it right now. So ~Night.

Late Again

Well, I know it's been a while since my last post, and I kind of ment to post sooner, but...

I've finished Dune, and the book was excellent. Then I went to see the movie and... well... my eyes still hurt. I didn't like the movie. It lacked the parts from the book I enjoyed (like character development), and replaced them with bad acting. I did pick up the next book in the series, Dune Messiah, and I'll begin reading that when I finish reading Ring World.

Yay!!!!! Just got my flash software last night. My artistic abilites are... well... lacking at best, but I can draw a stick figure and a few boxes. I've started a yahoo group (for the free storage and band width) to post the stuff I make. You can find it here. I'm warning you now, though, that the two files I have right now (a stick figure jumping and two rectangles colliding), aren't too impressive. Hopefully I'll get better when I learn the software better. Still, I'm open to any comments, hints, and critisms.

The first storm of the season hit the area last weekend. Tropical Storm Alberto. Didn't do a lot of damage, but a storm this early in the season isn't a good thing. I'm hoping beyound hope that this season we won't get into the greek alphabet (Hurricane Zeta was the final one last year), but I doubt it. We might even find out what they do after they finish with the greek alphabet this year.

I've been listening to a combination of Evanescence, Nightwish, and Goo Goo Dolls lately. Not the best music combination for me, all things considered.

That's about it for tonight. I'll hopefully post again soon, hopefully when I'm more awake. ~Night

Video Game Legislation

I try to keep my own personal views about politics out of this blog, at least, I think I do, but now, well... I am sick and tired of politicians trying to tell me that video game violence is harmfull. I have played video games for the bulk of my life. including numerous violent ones. I know numerous people who have also played violent games for the bulk of their lives, yet not one of them is a maniac. Not one of them is a psychopathic killer out to rape and plunder the world. Almost all of them are mild mannered... at least, while not plaing the drug of choice. Yet legislators, people who have no history with video games, people who have fealonies against their names, try to tell me that that their five minute study means something more than twenty years of observation? And that, these ethical people with such fealonies, try to tell me what is good and righteous? My response is to hell with them. The only negative impact interactive entertainment has on normal people is the area of social well being, and that impact is the same for people who read too much, or people who watch too many movies. Nay, the movies are worse because at least the books and the games inspire the mind to action. To the politicians, I say keep your noses out of my hobbies and get back to figuring out new ways to rob the people blind. Or better yet, just leave office. We, the people, like having pay checks. At least, most of us do.

Ya... that was a long rant.

Anyway, I wrote up my schedule for my classes in the fall semester. I'll be taking largely morning classes, with the exception of my World Lit class, which will be a night class. I'll be taking World Lit, Calc 3, Intercultural Humanaties, and Europian History 1. My work schedule will become hectic because of that schedule, but since my father will have the station opened by then, maybe I'll be able to pick up some night hours there. Or maybe some weekend hours. Otherwise, I'll be looking at about 15 hours a week for work.

Speaking of work, I had my performance review. It was pretty good review, at least, I think it was. The only place I could use improvement was Job Knowledage, and considering the ever changing field of computers, the fact I'm an intern, and the fact that my manager got the same place marked off on his review, I'm not going to worry about it. Ok, I will, but not too much. I would have gotten the Exceeds Expectations mark for interpersonal skills (something the HR manager said she gives only to about 3 or 4 % of people) if I knocked more often on my manager's door before entering his office. I tend to enter his office a lot, and sometimes while he's on the phone. 99% of the time it's ok, but there is always that one percent. Still, I usually knock on his door when he closes it.

.Been taking care of the mail and scanning for the mail girl. She's on some sort of summer vacation/retreat thing for the week. I don't really enjoy her job, probably due to the fact it's more of a clerical/orginizational routine. I am not an orginized person. I enjoy recieving numerous different challanges. I enjoy doing different things all the time. I enjoy creating. I enjoy those type of things. I find a steady job with no unknowns monotonus. Of course, I would despise a job that had all unknowns, where the field was completely reinventing itself, where the standards changed on a daily basis. The two things I like about my jon is that I rarely do the same job twice in one week, and that since it's largely tech help, I deal with people. Both of those things do have their respective downsides, but they're much better than other options.

That's waaaay too much talk about my job...

Last Saturday, my sisters left for their three week stay in Germany. It's part of a forien exchange program thing. If one were to recall, I believe I mentioned having the exchange students at our house back in October. Now, it's my sisters' turn to be over there. With out them here, the house has become unnaturally quiet. It now feels desloate, devoid of life. Kind of lonely with out them here. Still, I'm going to need to get use to it.

Since I've been reading Sci-fi a lot, its kind of reminded me of one of my favorite games. It's the only shareware software that I felt storngly enough to purchase. I like it for two reasons. The first is the openess of the game. You can do almost anything in the game, including conquoring star sytems. The second is that there is 6 different story lines in the game. Six. And each time through you can only do one. Replayability is the best thing this game offers. The game is Escape Velocity: Nova. You can find it here. And before you tell me it's like Freelancer, well, this game (and its predecessors) came out waaay before that crappy knock off did, they have a better story line, and it doesn't have some obtrusive "level requirment" thing about it. If it wasn't for the fact that I switched computers three years ago, I'd still have the orginal, paid version (they won't send me another code for the game because I switched emails... stupid Austrialian company). Still, it's agood game to look into. I'd recommend giving it a try. All things considered, I'm still half tempted to purchase it again...

Anyway, I think I've wasted enough of your time tonight. ~Night.

Lunar Sanctum

White font tonight. Haven't done that in a while...

No flash software for me, at least, not on this pay check. Apparntly a 30% increase in hours work doesn't translate into a 30% increase of pay. Instead, it translates into an 8% increase. Stupid non-linear income tax. Of course, if we had a linear tax rate, it'd be unfair to the people who work the minimal... stupid tax people who make me angry.

Been reading a lot. I love reading. Too bad I don't get enough time to do it while school is in session. But back when I was in middle school and high school, I read volumes. Where most people have storage bins for tubs or nick nacks, I have them filled with books I've read. And I'm not willing to part with any. One day I'd like to have a library filled with the books I've read, so that if I ever have a family (I'd rather use the word when, but I don't get out much), they can read what I enjoyed reading. They can enjoy the works of Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Wells, Bradbury, Orwell, Tolkein, and countless other authors whose names escape me. I don't know if they'd like the fact that the bulk of it is Sci-Fi and Fantasy, with some other stuff thrown in, but that's what I read.

Currently, I'm reading Sarah Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadow. It's a pretty good fantasy book. I'm only half way through it, though. Still have another 250 pages to go. After I finish, it'll be on to Dune. Then I might try Ringworld. Or maybe that new Shadowrunner novel that came out.

The first horror game for the Wii has been announced. It goes by the name Saddness (yes, I know they announced it back durring E3, but I didn't hear about it until today). The developing company is stationed in east Europe, so it'll be intresting. The game takes place during the pre-WWI era, but after the creation of the Cinema. They're doing the entire thing in black and white to capture the feel of Cinema. I'm hoping they decide to do the conversations in all text, too, since I really dislike voice overs in my games (at least, in most of my games, or at least, the japanesse to english one). As far as I know, no footage of the game has been released. When it does, I'll post a linky. It'll probably be an OK game, but a horror using the Wii's controller... =)

Through out the time inbetween posts on this blog, I think of a thousand tings to say, to write, to type. Yet when I sit down in my chair, and go over to write it all out, to free the thoughts from my head, they escape me. Instead of going into my computer, instead of making the keys clank and the screen come alive with text, they flee like beasts to the back of mind, entering solitude and lurking until after I post, after I've seattled down for the night. Then, while I lay staring at the cieling, they over take me, pounce upon me, and leave me brooding on what I wanted to say. And when I sit back to my desk, and illuminate my world with the monitor, they flee from the light, fearfull of what it could do, and thus repeating the whole process again.

To summerize the last paragraph of text, I don't sleep well because I'm too busy thinking.

As to the crack in my windshield, you know, the one that started at the same time the alternator went bye bye, it's gotten bigger. And guess which state in the union has a law against driving with a cracked windshield? Ya. So I know where my next paycheck is going. And it's not to software.

I guess the reason why I write about my car so often is that I'm in it... a lot. I mean, I probably spend about two or three hours in it every day. Which comes to about 21 hours a week. Which means I have a part time job of just commuting. And yet, I kind of enjoy driving. Not really the driving itself, but the whole being able to think, listen to music, and have something to provide enough of a distraction to not make me antsy, while not enough of a distraction to stop me from thinking, kind of thing. That's what I like about driving. It gives me an area to let my thoughts wander. Of course, since there's a giant crack in my windshield, my thought wander to how I'm going to pay for it. But otherwise, I think about life. And when I get very down, I tend to drive until in a direction until I can brood my self to a better mood. I've once driven 60 miles, one way, to clear my mind. To get out of my house. To get away from everything. I also once spent the night in my truck, but that was because my parents threatend to Baker Act me. But that was waaay back in high school.

I really don't want to leave off on that note, because now I look like one of those crazy people. And, I might be kind of crazy, but I'm not crazy crazy. I'm not a threat to anyone, including myself. And yes, I know what you're thinking, who am I trying to convince, you or me? And I'm not going to answer that thought.

On a happier note, this blog is almost one year old. One year of my ramblings,one year of the stuff that's happened in my life. One year of everything. And one year of people reading about my life, giving it some sort of meaning. When the 29th comes, I'll write up some sort of one year spiel. Anyway, I do need to go to work tomorrow morning, so ~night!

Pop and Circumstance

Well, my sisters have graduated high school. They're class of 2006. They didn't graduate with honors or anything, but each of them have a scholarship, and they're planning on going to USF St. Pete. My family lives close enough to that campus that they can drive up there, albeit, they'll have to go over the skyway bridge each trip.

I wouldn't say I'm proud of my sisters for graduating. I expected them graduate. Granted, one of them though Quebec was in Russia until a few months ago, and the other compared the effects of Agent Organge to the effects of a nuclear weapon, but outside of that, and a few other things, they've had a pretty good record. Better than mine, anyways. They'll also be leaving the country for Germany soon, part of some sort of forien exchange program. They'll be away for about 3 weeks, barring any mishaps.

I hope they'll be ok over there. Europe is a weird place, and the further east you go, the weirder it gets. I don't want aything to happen to them while they're over there. In the seventeen years they've been around, I've kind of grown attached to them. We've had our arguments, our feuds, and a few viscious attacks (Christine attacked me because she spilled her salad on the floor once, though she has the view point that some how I did it...), but they're good people. I wouldn't want anything to happen to them, at least, not on most days.

Sunday was fun. Friends of the family threw a memorial day party. I was the desinated driver for my family. My dad ended up spending the bulk of the party garding the keg. I guess he assumed the safest place for the contents was his stomach. I got to play two games of volleyball, and played a round of horse shoes. My team won the volleyball game both times, while the horse shoes game ended in a draw (15 minutes and neither side got on the score board). During the horse shoe game, I did some how manage to throw the thing through a fence... that was about 15 feet behind the pole. We're still wondering how I was able to throw through the fence with out damaging it, but it'll forever be a mystery.

There was also a lot of good, tasty food at the party, which may be why I attended. They throw one of these every memorial day and every labor day, and each year the food gets better and better. I remember last year we also had fireworks (or was that 4th of July?), and my dad had a little too much to drink. He was launching off the mortors (the fireworks that produce the most spectacular effects), and he some how managed to put one into the thing back wards. It went off on ground level... while the neighbor's dog was sniffing next to the launcher thingy. It was a spectacular display, but I don't think I've ever seen a dog run that fast in my life.

I'm so happy! Two of the bands I listen to will be in my area in the middle of summer (one in august, the other in september). I'm going to see if I can't gat tickets to their concerts! =)

Also, one of my friends invited me to a party on Friday. I'm not going to drink there, but it would be fun to go out and socialize. And if they give me a lot of trouble about not drinking, I'll just leave. I have no desire to ever get drunk, or even drink for that matter. Alcoholism runs in my family, and I don't want to be its next victim.

Anyway, I'm going to log. Night!

Ducttape + car = work

I got my car fixed on Tuesday. Turned out to be the alternator. Cost 400 dollars. So now I'm in debt to my parents of about 380. They needed to replace the alternator, the battery, and one of the battery cables. I don't think they would have replaced the battery if I didn't try to remove it myself. I'm not going to say anything else about my battery removal attempts.

As to what I had fixed, it was a white Ford Ranger (97), or at least, it was white. Now it's more of a dirt gray color, with a few black scratches on it. It has about 117K miles on it, and I plan to put another 85K on it, unless it decides it doesn't want it, in which case I'll be forced to find another small vehicle. As to how I have my truck decorated, well, I have two stuffed cats on my dashboard, and I use to have a fox tail hanging from the rearview mirror. I have my MCC parking permit in the window, along with a NERV parking permit (came with the anime). No noteable bumper stickers on the rear fender.

I did gain another dent on the car Thursday. I was driving to work when another vehicle (a white car), decided to move into my lane. He moved into the lane right where I was, knocking me into the far left lane. I began to slow down, either to park on the side of the road or to get back into my previous lane, when the guy began honking his horn at me. Apparently he was trying to make the turn lane that he bumped me into. Also, judging by his forein look, his driving skill, and his vehicle, I believe he was driving with out a licence. Still, I wrote down his licence plate number. I didn't report anything though, out of fear of an insurance rate hike. Living in a no-fault state means both parties recieve rate hikes, not just one =(. At least I'm glad there was no real damage to my vehicle, espically after I just had it repaired.

The last two weeks at work I did full time, resulting in about 75 hours. Which may result in about a 550 dollar paycheck after taxes. I'll be able to pay my parents back a little, so that'll be a good thing.

Anyway, I need to get some sleep for work tomorrow morning. ~Night~

My car hates me

Well, my car hates me. It died on me Friday night as I was driving home about a mile and a half from my house. Completely dead. So, I ended up walking back to my house, grabbed my mother, and we went out to my truck and waited for the tow truck person to get there. Because of how my vechicale died, and because the battery light turned on the day before, the tow truck guy (whoes name tag said Wayne) thought it was either the altenator or the battery. I won't know till I get it to the mechanic. My Dad is out of town right now, but he wants it taken to a specific mechanic, one that's twenty miles away. They do good, economical work, but that still leaves me carless for a few days. As such, I called up my manager and he's agreeded to pick me up on his way to work tomorrow. Don't know what I'll be doing for lunch tomorrow, but still...

Other than the obvious, being carless also means I'm stuck listening to the local radio. We have about a hundred country stations here, fifty oldie stations, and zero metal stations. The closest we have to it is rock. It's ok, but most of the stuff they play on the radio is drek. Pure drek. If you're wondering what kind of stuff I listen to, well... Falconer's Clarion Call(from falconermusic.com), Nightwish's Over the Hills and Far Away(nightwish.com), Gamma-Ray's Revelation(gamma-ray.com)(don't have this albumn, but their site doesn't have any samples from albumns I do own T_T),Kamelot's Wings of Despair (kamelot.com). I would post a sample of Rhapsody's music, but their site doesn't offer any samples (they just recently changed recording studios...), and the ones I can find play at such a low bit rate that you might as well be listening to a midi. Here's the band's website if you're intrested though (mightyrhapsody.com).

I still need to register for fall course. I need to take a history class, two humanaties, and something worth 4 credits (Calc 3...), and I'll have my AA degree. Then I spend one more semester there to get the rest of my prereqs out of the way (differential equations, Physics 2, More Chemistry), and I should be able to hit either USF's or UCF's engineering school. I want to go to UCF, since it's off in Orlando, but my parents want me to hit USF, which has a few near by campuses. Both are pretty good schools, but I do want to get away from home.

I've started putting my application into other places as well, added it to Office Depot today, and tomorrow, if I had a car, I'd put it into a local computer repair shop. That might be hard to do, considering the shop is about 9 miles away from me, about 3 from my work, and I don't want my manager to know I'm looking for something that pays more. I mean, he does know I've submitted my application in other places, since I told him, but I don't want him to know just how many. I also want a job that has more technical duties then the one I'm doing right now. I'd like to learn more about computers, and that means doing more. But my current job doesn't provide the opportunities for more hands on learning. Setting up PCs all day, although easy, isn't challenging. I know I shouldn't whine about my job, but I like complaining on my blog. It's the only place I get to vent everything out at, since I don't have a place to do this in RL. And even if I did, I don't think anyone would want to read it.

Speaking of reading, I've started reading again, since I have the time for it. Finally read through the newest Shadowrun novel, Fallen Angel is it's name. I thought it was good, but then, I haven't read anything in a few months, so that might be why. I also picked up one of Ray Bradbury's books, Something Wichked This Way Comes, and I'm looking foreward to reading that. I enjoyed his Fahrenhiet 451, but I hear that's his only political novel. Anyway, I hope I'm not disappointed.

Don't know if my friend recieved the package I sent him last Monday. I'll email him tomorrow about it. Along with another friend whom I haven't heard from in a while. She's a depressed goth who's a decent artist. I'm just worried about her since I haven't heard from her in a while. And then there's another one of my friends. He's starting to get into the sticky green stuff, and although I think that's better than alchahol (something else that he does too), I don't think it's too good for him. Supposebly, he's stopped because of a really bad hang over due to the May 5th drinking day thing, Sinco de Myo I think it's called, but supposebly he had a very bad hangover the next morning. and swore off all of his vices. Don't know how long that's going to last, though.

At least I feel better now that I've gotten all that off my chest. Sorry to annoy everyone with my overly pestimistic entry today.

Mailing stuff

Well, auto assault and final exams are not a good combination when updating a blog. Definatly not. But at least I passed my calc final =). So this semester's grades are A, B and C. =) (Physics, Chemestry, and Calculus, respectively).

Like I said, I've been playing Auto Assault a lot. The game is fun, but it defiantly won't replace CoX. Definatly not for a long time. It's not that it's bad, it's just that it doesn't seem to be one of those long term MMO's. I have only been playing it for a week, and already I'm lvl 24. A good portion of the population already has lvl 80's. Of course, crafting wise is difficult, to say the least. No one has gotten to the last crafting skill yet, largely because there is very little reward in it currently. Still, it's fun though.

School is over, and next week I'll be pulling some full time work at my current job. We have a few computers we need to set up still, and we have to get it done by Friday. After that, though, it'll be back to part time. Still, better than all part time.

I decided to take the summer semester off. I'm doing it largely because last semester was hell. Well, not really hell, but still. I'm not a big math fan (yet I'm getting an engineering degree. Why did I decide to do that? Why?), and last semester was nothing but math. I'll have my AA at the end of December though. All I need is two humanity classes, a history, and 4 credits of "electives." Those four credits will probably end up being my the next chemistry class I need. Afterwards, I'll probably see if I can't get into UCF.

As to posting a picture of myself to this blog, I'll see what I can do. I don't have any digital versions at the moment, but that may change.

Anyway, my next update shouldn't take as long as this one did. Sorry for the lack of posts.

A brave, new world

Well, I'd like to first off apologize for the lack of Saturday post. I ended getting distracted by an antivideo bill (HB 647) in the Florida legislation area. So, rather than blog about my life, I instead wrote emails to about 20 different represenatives on why they shouldn't turn the bill into a law. Don't know if it will have any impact, but at least I let my opinion be heard. I orginally heard about the bill at game politics. It's official site is www.gamepolitics.com.

Well, I've decided to continue looking for a new IT job. Submitted my resume to the company that MCC outsources their tech stuff to. I'm going to tell my current manager about that tomorrow morning. I submitted the resume tonight, so I hope he won't take it too badly. Odds are I'll probably won't get the job, but it never hurts to try (in most cases anyways.)

I'm searching for a new job because of financial reasons. I like it at WGB, I like my manager, I like my coworkers, I like the atmosphere, it's just that it kind of sucks when you only receive 150 dollars a week (300 for the BiWeekly paychecks we recieve). More than half of that goes to car insurance, gas, and misc. maintance on my vehicle. The bulk of the other half goes to food and personal supplies (soap, shampoo, razors, occasionally a new shirt), what's left goes to my CoH subscription and maybe a movie/game. Maybe.

Of course, I know the bulk of the problem lies with the fact that my school schedule conflicts with my work's normal hours of opperation. That signifigantly lowers the number of hours I can work (although I think they only budgetted me to have 20...), and because of my own inability to schedule stuff, I get a small paycheck.

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Well, the transition to the new machines is going well. We have about half of them finished so far, and my manager is going to start working on them too, so we will definatly be able to get the job done by May 15. Then we send them off to Dell and hope we didn't forget anything. The only thing that is bothersome about the task is that I have to keep track of all the different Dell serial numbers. And Dell uses a lot of Serial Numbers. Everything has a number with Dell. The computer, the monitor, speakers, mouse, keyboard, power supply, ect. I don't think they care about which perapheral they get back (IE, weather it's the orginal keyboard or not), but we're making sure just in case. Of course, they'd probably have to charge us a refurbish fee on the keyboards. The tops are scratched, and some of the paint to make the letters are missing...

Home life is going on fairly well. I know I don't talk about it too often, but I feel it needs to be mentioned. I love my family, but sometimes it gets frustrating to finally get to sit down to be able to do something, and have to go off on something else completely different because a family member needs help on it. Still, I know where they are coming from, and I would like it if they helped me, so I try to be a help to them. Except... I don't know. It's just kind of frustrating.

Also combine that with the concept that my Dad is starting a buisness soon, and he expects me to be a key employee in it. It doesn't matter that he isn't an official owner (my mother and his partner are the official owners. He did this to ensure that his work doesn't view it as a conflict of intrestes). He will still have a major say in what it is I'll do. And I don't want to get payed 7.50 an hour doing retail. That's a pay cut from where I am now. Yet he expects me to be happy that I get to work for him. He expects me to be enthusiastic to be able to work fast food. He expects me to be looking foreward to doing lawn maintance in Florida durring the summer time. In case you're wondering, the place he's opening up is a gas station with an interrior convience store/Dairy Queen/Subway. I DO NOT want to work in any of those places. Ever. And espiaclly for the manager he's hired to run the place. She's a good person, a great heart, but she doesn't have managerial qualities. Working under her would be like working under some of Albertson's managment again. Anyway, that's my rant on the subject. Luckily, no one in my family knows about this page.

Also, about Silent Hill. The movie was able to capture the feel of the game. Didn't like the whole shove the back story down your throat thing they did at the end. Yes, I already knew the cult was being punished for the murrder of an innocent. Yes, I knew it purgantory. Yes, I did think the last scene was a little too violent. Any other questions?

Anyway, I need to get to sleep if I'll have any chance of waking up for work tommorrow. I have to be there early to set up some obscure location that my manager wouldn't tell me about on Monday. I think it has to do with our Lakewood Ranch location, but there is a large streak of paranoia in me, so... Night!

Been Insanely Busy

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I have been insanely busy over the past couple of days. A lot of work, a lot of school, and a lot of small things that don't really ever get mentioned. In the end, I fear really tired and I still have a pile of stuff to do.

I'm 20 now. Turned it back on the 11th. We really didn't do much for my birthday. Outside of a cake and a few gifts, nothing spectacular happened. As to how I now feel to no longer be a teenager, well, it's kind of, I don't know. My teenage years passed a little too quickly for my tastes.

My leg has been hurting for about a week now. It's another one of those weird sore/insect bite things. It's been getting better since about last Sunday (easter), but it's still there. Which kind of sucks.

Anyway, I'm way too out of it right now to post anything else coherent, and I'm going to go to the Silent Hill movie tonight. I'll post about it tomorrow morning. Night!~

Manatees are grey aqua mamals

Manatee county isn't the most well known county in the country. Nothing earth shattering has ever happened hear, well, recently any ways. Desoto did make his landfall on one of our beaches, and we do have the south west Florida muesum and planatarium in our small county. As to it's physical position, it covers from just out side of Sarasota on the south side to the first half of the Skyway Bridge on the north side. It is bounded westerdly by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the east by... well, I guess another county. Never had need to drive that far east.

Economically, the county is home to the Tropicana organe juice factory. I believe they also have a factory in Texas, and until recently they're corparate head quaters where also based here. I'm not too sure if they still are, or if they moved them to Chicago. We also have Port Manatee, which is one of the largest ports in Florida. There's also a Sysco plant in our county, but judging by their map (here), that's not too uncommon.

Residential wise, if we had snow we'd be the poster child for Sub-Urban america. I doubt there is a building in the area higher than 10 stories. Numerous small houses and such dot the area, and country music is heard from most vehicles (when will they learn that metal is better?). Also, because we're so sub-urban, we will have 4 Wal-mart super centers in our county. Don't ask me why we need them, or why the elderly like to shop there, but we have them. I also don't know if that's a high number or not...

As to the county council members, it is my opinion that they can not find their ass with both their hands and a mirror. I really dislike what they've done with the county. Ineffectual trafic regulations, poorly made city ordinances, and the inability to realize what is needed to be done to create economic growth is just a few examples of what they've done.

getting back on track to normal stuff now, I just got a phone call from Will =). Talked with him for about an hour, which was really nice. He has the nightshift over there, so he gets board a lot. Also, the govenment has filtered which sites he can go to (at least on his work machine. I don't know if it's server wide or just government property), so he's been spending a lot of time on wikipedia. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. He was very happy to finally get to talk to someone who wasn't affiliated with the military, so I'm happy with that. He says he likes his job, so that's a good thing.

Speaking of jobs, I'm thinking about switching to something that I can also get weekend hours at. I like everyone at my current job, and they also treat me very well, but I do kind of need more hours. I know they'd be happy to give me them, except that college kind of prevents that. So what I need is to find a job in which I can also work nights and weekends. My dad is starting his own retailish buisness (a gas station next to the Sysco plant that will also sell subway sandwhiches...), and I know I'll have a job there, but when I do put in time there, it'd be for less pay then what I'm making now (he's offering me 7.50 an hour. I make more at my current work).

School is going ok, I guess. Aced a math test, and I think I did fairly well on a presentation I had on Ozone. At least I spelt it right... hehe.

Also, I stumbled across this, and I think it's worth noting. Anyway, night!

Slowly getting back on track

I'm slowly trying to get back into the habit of posting every few days instead of once a week. Technically this post was posted in less time then the previous post, so I'm on track. I'll try to do the next one in about 3 or 4 days. Of course I won't. But I can believe, right?

Still no sign of my foxtail, which means I'm going to have to search the net for a replacement. I searched ebay a few days ago, and I didn't like what I saw. Not because they didn't have cute foxtails, it just kind of felt wrong. Kind of the same feeling I got when I found out my foxtail was real. You know, the I can't believe I'm doing something so unethical feeling.

Work continues. We're still setting up computers for everyone in the office. We've gotten a few of them done so far, but since the FDISKing of the old machine's hard drive takes a while, the length of time it takes to do each computer has increased. But I should have them done by the day we have to send them back. At least my manager no longer thinks I'm going to completely botch this project.

I'm thinking about getting into flash development. You know, develop flash games and movies (not that type of flash you pervert!). I can't draw worth crap though, so I might get a friend to help with any artwork that needs to be done.The first thing I'd probably do is a game. Not sure what about though. Something simple. Maybe a puzzle game? Anyway, if I do ever write up a flash game, I'll probably post it on New Grounds or some other site like that.

Anyway, I'll post again soon since it's getting late. I haven't been able to get any decent amount of sleep ever since daylight savings time, so hopefully I can get some tonight.

A day after one week

Wow, I have people resonding to posts again... just wow. And thanks. =). As to the Vista thing, well, Microsoft bumped that back to January, and it requires a 64 bit processor. The one my Dad is using is 32 bit.

It's a little latter than I would have liked it to be (by one day...), but still earlier than my previous one. Time has just flown by I guess. Spent the week working on computers, and I spent the weekend running a TF.

Six people showed up for the TF =). I know that's not much in an SG, but it's something. The enemies of Positron's TF were Clockwork, Vahl, and CoT. Two of those groups have the Tenacious Tentacles power. 5 of the characters on the TF were catgirls. You can imagine what happened. One person suggested implementing a Dignity Meter.

I lost my fox tail today... =( =( =( =*(. I was wearing it at the mall when it was lost. Spent a total of 15 minutes there and I know I had it for the first seven. Searched for it after I lost it (had to be five minutes afterwards...), but I guess someone just stole it. So tomorrow during my lunch break I'm going to check the Mall's Lost and Found one more time.

The fox tail means a lot to me. I got it with some friends when we went to the medeval fair last year, and it kind of reminds me of them. It also marks my personality. Not everyone wears a fox tail in public. You have to be crazy to do it. Or non-senseual. Either or. Still, driving home from school with out it hanging from my rearview window was a major let down.

Anyway, that's all I'm going to post for tonight. Sprry for the latter than usual post.

Two Weeks

Wow, two weeks with out posting, the longest yet...

Well, I got into the Auto Assault beta. The game is pretty fun, but it is lacking something. It gets kind of repetitive rather quick. There is only so many times one can destory the terrian with out it becoming boring.

Spring Break is here. I get some extra hours at work, so I'm happy. Well, not really. But at least I'll have some spending money when April 15th comes around. Couple that with the fact that my 20th birthday will be on the 11th...

I'll be turning 20 in less than a month. Kind of sad if you ask me. The most influencial part of my life will be over, and what will be left to me is a dead end job and an empty apartment. I am so optimistic about my future. Really optimistic.

My dad will be having his birthday on the 31st. My mom and I are going in together to get him Windows XP for his computer. He's running Windows ME right now, but he wants to be able to run ITunes, which means he either needs 2000 or XP. Since I like XP more, well, that's that's what he's getting.

Drove down to Venice on Sunday. Venice is about 40 miles south of my house, took about four hours to drive there and come back. I do weird drives like that some times. Only when I'm feeling really... bad. Like... well... I wouldn't be typing right now if I did go through with the thoughts in my head on that day. That kind of bad.

That's kind of because the whole past week I had been getting off work early because of lack of things to do. That made me feel useless. I really dislike that feeling, and if you add to that a new albumn I picked up (Phenomenon by 1000 Foot Crutch), well, ya. On top of that my parents are kind of stessed, and that adds on to everything on my end.

Anyway, I'm going to be logging. Hopefully I'll post sooner than this one was posted.