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!