Been watching some of the new(ish) Battle Star Gallatica episodes. I must say, it's like someone created a twisted, underhanded soap opera series and placed it on a space ship. Would like there to be a little bit more romance to it, but outside of that I am enjoying it heavily... Maybe a little too heavily, as one night I stayed up till 7am watching episodes. I'm watching this on netflix, in case anyone is wondering how I'm viewing it.
Just realized I don't talk too much about my friends on this blog. I spend most of my time in front of a computer screen, doing solitary activities like writing, reading (for those two things both academic and for pleasure), and occasionally gaming. I don't exactly know why that is. I enjoy time with my friends more than almost any other thing I could be doing (well, except reading certain books, but those books are few and far between, yet... I don't know. It just never feels like my schedules correspond to that of everyone else I know. I'm either working weekends, or in class, or at my other job. And so, some days, I feel like I'm completely isolated from the world I know. But, if I'm honest, it's probably because I don't make as much an effort to expand my friend base and to try to keep in touch with the people I know through means other than steam/In game chat, etc. And now I'm 24, and find out that my life revolves around a small group of people, and I'm afraid that group will only shrink. To top that off, I don't see of any way to stop being single. And out of everything, that depresses me.
Anyway, I've gotten sidetracked from this blog post (just spent the last hour online with a friend as they tried to find out as much info about me from nothing but my screen names.) That kind of derailed my thinking, and now I want sleep. So ~Night!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
My second post in the same month \o/
Yes, the \o/ is required in the title.
This post is not so much to cover what happened between today and Saturday, it is more to cover everything between now and the previous post in September...
As I have said, I have taken a month long sabbatical from my job up here in Orlando. I'm hoping that such a break will allow me to catch up on my school work, and maybe my writing and independent programming, though I doubt I would be able to catch up on anything more the former (though, maybe a few additional blog posts). I make enough money, barely, from my job back with my parents to pay for my food, car insurance and possible car maintenance, and to make payments to my credit cards. Not much more though, so I'm hoping that nothing goes horribly wrong financially with me.
I am worried about my parents. The station is breaking even... and not much else. Also, the bank is trying to force a refinancing of the station. Technically, it is at a lower rate, but they want to make it from the current 20 year loan to a 5 year loan, meaning a net increase of payments. Not too sure what my folks can do against that. Then my dad also went independent. Although he's doing more trades per month, the group he's processing his trades with are giving him a lower commission, and taking more out for his medical insurance, resulting in a significantly less paycheck per month. My mom is worried he may do something drastic...
On a positive note, I got the 500 dollar deductible from my car accident back in August (ya, it took that long.) Since I've been looking at ereaders for the last year plus (since the release of the Kindle 2), I used some of that money to purchase a Nook (the rest I used to pay off debts I owed). So far I'm really liking the device, and I really love the eInk screen. The interface is a little... slugish though. Though my primary reason for picking it up wasn't book reading. My zune died about four weeks ago, and my car's CD player died about two weeks ago. Since I'm in my car more than I am in class/at one of my jobs, I thought picking up something to play music might be worthwhile.
I'm considering writing some sort of scifi/pulpy story thing. I would try to update it weekly if I did. Still undecided on it though.
Anyway, I need to log. Have some homework that needs doing.
This post is not so much to cover what happened between today and Saturday, it is more to cover everything between now and the previous post in September...
As I have said, I have taken a month long sabbatical from my job up here in Orlando. I'm hoping that such a break will allow me to catch up on my school work, and maybe my writing and independent programming, though I doubt I would be able to catch up on anything more the former (though, maybe a few additional blog posts). I make enough money, barely, from my job back with my parents to pay for my food, car insurance and possible car maintenance, and to make payments to my credit cards. Not much more though, so I'm hoping that nothing goes horribly wrong financially with me.
I am worried about my parents. The station is breaking even... and not much else. Also, the bank is trying to force a refinancing of the station. Technically, it is at a lower rate, but they want to make it from the current 20 year loan to a 5 year loan, meaning a net increase of payments. Not too sure what my folks can do against that. Then my dad also went independent. Although he's doing more trades per month, the group he's processing his trades with are giving him a lower commission, and taking more out for his medical insurance, resulting in a significantly less paycheck per month. My mom is worried he may do something drastic...
On a positive note, I got the 500 dollar deductible from my car accident back in August (ya, it took that long.) Since I've been looking at ereaders for the last year plus (since the release of the Kindle 2), I used some of that money to purchase a Nook (the rest I used to pay off debts I owed). So far I'm really liking the device, and I really love the eInk screen. The interface is a little... slugish though. Though my primary reason for picking it up wasn't book reading. My zune died about four weeks ago, and my car's CD player died about two weeks ago. Since I'm in my car more than I am in class/at one of my jobs, I thought picking up something to play music might be worthwhile.
I'm considering writing some sort of scifi/pulpy story thing. I would try to update it weekly if I did. Still undecided on it though.
Anyway, I need to log. Have some homework that needs doing.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
November's Post!
Well... it's been a while since my last post =(. Been fairly busy with school, work, and minecraft (ok, the last one is not a legitimate excuse, but it still is something I've been busy with).
I can not say school is going as well as I would like it to. I do not think I am doing too well in System Software course, or in my AI course. System software because I keep devoting time from that class to Graphics, and AI because it's in Lisp, which is a horrible programming language, and I can not find an interpreter for that that will run on any OS made since 98. Overall, I don't know how well I'm going to do this semester.
In an effort to do better, I've requested a month off from my Orlando job in the hopes that I can catch up. Though, I return to work a week before finals start. Hopefully that won't be as bad as I think it will be...
I'm going to try to write more. At least, based up anecdotal evidence and my own, skewed opinion, I have full faith that I do better academically and in a working environment when I write. By write I mean anywhere from blogposts to fiction to overly gothy/emo poetry that makes people question my mental state. I'm hoping that the writing will help me get through this semester... Instead of blowing up in my face and resulting in less productivity.
Anyway, I know it's a short post, but I do need to get some sleep. So ~night!
I can not say school is going as well as I would like it to. I do not think I am doing too well in System Software course, or in my AI course. System software because I keep devoting time from that class to Graphics, and AI because it's in Lisp, which is a horrible programming language, and I can not find an interpreter for that that will run on any OS made since 98. Overall, I don't know how well I'm going to do this semester.
In an effort to do better, I've requested a month off from my Orlando job in the hopes that I can catch up. Though, I return to work a week before finals start. Hopefully that won't be as bad as I think it will be...
I'm going to try to write more. At least, based up anecdotal evidence and my own, skewed opinion, I have full faith that I do better academically and in a working environment when I write. By write I mean anywhere from blogposts to fiction to overly gothy/emo poetry that makes people question my mental state. I'm hoping that the writing will help me get through this semester... Instead of blowing up in my face and resulting in less productivity.
Anyway, I know it's a short post, but I do need to get some sleep. So ~night!
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