Well...ive been trying to find a new template, but i havent been happy with anything blogger has. I picked this...who knows. If people like it, let me know. Then again, i dont think anyone even reads it anymore.
Working nights has been an adventure. Depending on which TSS works evenings with me, its either been fun or REALLY QUIET. Some people dont talk much, so it can just be me reading the same damn articles online for the 67th time. No, actually ive been busting ass on this new employee orientation for ITS. Ive hammered out about 7 pages last night, and now i need to take some pictures to put in it before i can go any farther, however i didnt bring my usb cable for my digital camera so i cant offload them. I also cant leave the TSC since im the only person here...so im pretty stuck with it.
I sure do get some interesting calls here late at night. Some guy from the health center just called me asking who wendy was, and why she was sending him information on how to increase the size of his penis. I just have to laugh at those sometimes.
Ive set a goal for myself this summer. Pay off my debt. I know ive been wanting to get an eMac, but i really think i need to pay off my 2 credit cards, get rid of one of them and then pay off as much as i can of my laptop loan. With those things out of the way, ill feel better about buying a new computer. Hopefully this will be easy to do once katie leaves...i like taking her out and doing nice things for her...and if i just work and go home, i should be able to save a few bucks here and there. Also, the 40 hours a week at the new pay rate doesnt hurt.... ;-)
Management is going ok, i guess....im actually learning some things about management that i would have like to have used at RCC. Not because i wasnt managing correctly, but it would have helped me deal with my supervisor a bit better. Not anything really mind boggling or shocking, but just some good strategies. However, this lady who teaches it, while nice....is the kind of person who wants to talk everything through. Why do you have the problem you have, why do you feel that way, etc....it gets kind of annoying and difficult when dealing with situational examples. Everything with her has to do with an employees motivation. It could be motivation to work, motivation to follow company policy, motivation to do the right thing...it just gets kind of old. Just like my blog rambling.
Less then a month untill i get to start the crazy DMB fiasco. 6 Shows in less then a month, how awesome is that. w00t.
I dont know why, but it seems like everyone is acting strange, angry, touchy or really sensitive lately. I dont know why, but its just strange to me that everyone has been acting this way or making crazy decisions lately. I know i have been too, but i think mine has been more reactionary to other people. Today at work was dubbed Ignorant Asshole Thursday for everyone who called in today who not only had no clue what was going on, but had to be total and complete jerks about it to US, the people TRYING TO HELP THEM....i dont get it. Times like these just really reinforce my lack of trust in people.
I beat the Matrix game today, however i was dissapointed that i didnt get anymore girl on girl kissing at the end. However, an extremely good game all around. Definately solid in all my criteria. Great story, Excellent soundtrack, authentic voice acting, great gameplay and somewhat decent graphics. Now on to Vice City...and to wait for Half Life 2. Im not getting as worked up over doom 3 as everyone else is...i guess i didnt get into the pc game scene untill half life came out, so that was my first real foree into it. Unlike my crazy roommate who used to play the original doom untill he eyes bled.
Going to katies grandparents in cleveland this weekend. Kind of scared, hope it all goes well, and i hope everyone prays for me as well.
Have a good friday all, and ill see you soon.
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Positive: Sunny Weather
Negative: people acting funny lately...
Quote: "Man, its Ignorant Asshole Thursday around here..." - Me
Song of the day: Big Eyed Fish - DMB
Cool Mac Moment: Reading more and more on the new ppc 970 powermacs...i cant wait for these things to come out...
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Thursday, May 22, 2003
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
I write for several true crime shows on cable TV, and I spend 12 and 14-hours at a time cuffed to my computer.
Recently, I went searching for a new notebook. I didn?t set out to buy a Mac, but I soon discovered that all the PC notebooks felt like plastic milk crates. Then I happened on the PowerBook, and thought to myself that this was a machine designed to be lived with.
Mac OS X was not a factor in my purchase, but I soon discovered it was a huge unanticipated bonus; it gets out of your way and lets you do your work. I?d rather sit on tacks than go back to Windows.
PowerBooks are a little more expensive, but so is a good pair of shoes ? and you wouldn?t tolerate blisters with every step just because the boots were marked down 25%. I?m convinced that anyone who lived with a Mac for a week would fight to keep it.
After writing my first true crime episode on this new Mac, I arrested my two PC notebooks. Then I booked them on charges: of poor build quality and assault with an operating system.
- Apple.com real switcher story
Recently, I went searching for a new notebook. I didn?t set out to buy a Mac, but I soon discovered that all the PC notebooks felt like plastic milk crates. Then I happened on the PowerBook, and thought to myself that this was a machine designed to be lived with.
Mac OS X was not a factor in my purchase, but I soon discovered it was a huge unanticipated bonus; it gets out of your way and lets you do your work. I?d rather sit on tacks than go back to Windows.
PowerBooks are a little more expensive, but so is a good pair of shoes ? and you wouldn?t tolerate blisters with every step just because the boots were marked down 25%. I?m convinced that anyone who lived with a Mac for a week would fight to keep it.
After writing my first true crime episode on this new Mac, I arrested my two PC notebooks. Then I booked them on charges: of poor build quality and assault with an operating system.
- Apple.com real switcher story
Another day, another dollar.
Or something like that.
Now i dont post untill 5pm, so for those of you early morning blog readers(aka my sister) there is going to be a slight delay in updates. Since im so busy here at nights at the TSC, i figured i should do it now.
I played some more of Enter The Matrix today. What a sweet game. Since i couldnt sleep, i got up early and played way to much of this. Its really an extension of the movie...and im hoping has more information on the next film. The real reason i like it?
Remember the scene where Persephone makes neo kiss her to get to the keymaker....in the game, persephone does the same thing with niobe. Yeah. 2 smoking hot women...kissing....in a matrix video game....with lots of guns...and bullet time....and kung fu....wow...show me something thats better.
Well, half life 2, but its not going to have hot chicks making out, so whatever.
The girl came to visit me this morning. Happiness :-)
Nothing really groundbreaking today in class. I really dont know how i feel about this management class. Not the class so much but the teacher. Shes the annoying kindergarten teacher who had to hold everyones hand. You know that teacher. She has to call everyone by their first name, make us do stupid ice breakers so we have good "class relationships" Im about ready to puke. Ive lost more management skills then this lady has. Today, we also had to fill out "information cards"(i wondered if she was going to tell my mommy if i dont do my homework) and since im not mentally handicapped, i was able to write my name, phone number, p number and email address in under a minute. So i went to shut off my phone in case someone would call me. She then saw me, and told everyone to pass their cards into the "inconsiderate person in the front with the cell phone" Lady, im turning it off, relax. Meh. At least the book is kind of interesting. Although im honestly getting tired of hearing about the millionares that worked so hard, and still work 17 hour days now that they have made their 100th million but dont know how to quit. Kids, not being able to realize when to relax and when to work your ass off isnt a virtue, its a sickness. Working hard is a good thing, but if you are worth anything over one million dollars...retire....travel, relax, enjoy life...dont work.
5 hours left at work....hmmmm...
Katie leaves in about 2 weeks...i dont know how i feel about that....
Have a good evening tonite, everyone. Heres to hoping that Clay wins American Idol, and to watching the 24 season finale after work tonite...even though i know what happens....
Peace...
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Positive: Chicks Kissing In a Video Game
Negative: I hate my management teacher
Quote: PUPPY DOG CAT MANN!!!! - Max, describing the animal that rowd is...
Song of the day: Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
Cool Mac Moment: FInding out i can go to the grand opening of the Apple store downtown chicago in july...how awesome....
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Or something like that.
Now i dont post untill 5pm, so for those of you early morning blog readers(aka my sister) there is going to be a slight delay in updates. Since im so busy here at nights at the TSC, i figured i should do it now.
I played some more of Enter The Matrix today. What a sweet game. Since i couldnt sleep, i got up early and played way to much of this. Its really an extension of the movie...and im hoping has more information on the next film. The real reason i like it?
Remember the scene where Persephone makes neo kiss her to get to the keymaker....in the game, persephone does the same thing with niobe. Yeah. 2 smoking hot women...kissing....in a matrix video game....with lots of guns...and bullet time....and kung fu....wow...show me something thats better.
Well, half life 2, but its not going to have hot chicks making out, so whatever.
The girl came to visit me this morning. Happiness :-)
Nothing really groundbreaking today in class. I really dont know how i feel about this management class. Not the class so much but the teacher. Shes the annoying kindergarten teacher who had to hold everyones hand. You know that teacher. She has to call everyone by their first name, make us do stupid ice breakers so we have good "class relationships" Im about ready to puke. Ive lost more management skills then this lady has. Today, we also had to fill out "information cards"(i wondered if she was going to tell my mommy if i dont do my homework) and since im not mentally handicapped, i was able to write my name, phone number, p number and email address in under a minute. So i went to shut off my phone in case someone would call me. She then saw me, and told everyone to pass their cards into the "inconsiderate person in the front with the cell phone" Lady, im turning it off, relax. Meh. At least the book is kind of interesting. Although im honestly getting tired of hearing about the millionares that worked so hard, and still work 17 hour days now that they have made their 100th million but dont know how to quit. Kids, not being able to realize when to relax and when to work your ass off isnt a virtue, its a sickness. Working hard is a good thing, but if you are worth anything over one million dollars...retire....travel, relax, enjoy life...dont work.
5 hours left at work....hmmmm...
Katie leaves in about 2 weeks...i dont know how i feel about that....
Have a good evening tonite, everyone. Heres to hoping that Clay wins American Idol, and to watching the 24 season finale after work tonite...even though i know what happens....
Peace...
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Positive: Chicks Kissing In a Video Game
Negative: I hate my management teacher
Quote: PUPPY DOG CAT MANN!!!! - Max, describing the animal that rowd is...
Song of the day: Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
Cool Mac Moment: FInding out i can go to the grand opening of the Apple store downtown chicago in july...how awesome....
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Monday, May 19, 2003
What is the longest relationship you've been in?
A Year and a half. Relationships for me either go for a week or ultra long term. The one im in now has gone for almost 2 months now...so i guess its past the one week mark...*checks calendar*
what kind of car do you drive?
1997 Chevrolet Lumina LTZ. A sports sedan. Dont laugh, they make such things. Its blown tiburons off the line in toledo....that hearty v6 in her can ace almost any other non-sports car of her size...nickname is the Green Lantern
what kind of pets do you have?
At home i have a cat, spooker...but thats most likely going to stay with the rents when i graduate. I live with 3 cats now that are my roommates, Bobbins, Toad and Rowdy....bobbins has pretty much claimed me as her own...
toilet paper: over or under?
If this was the biggest stressor i had in my life, id be a happy camper.
cheesecake or chocolate cake?
Dayum. This is hard, however cheesecake is on my diet(seriously, it is) so im going with that.
coffee or tea?
Either one. Im an Earl Gray fan.
caffeinated or decaf?
Pop is trash. End of story.
PC or MAC?
Anyone who knows me can answer this question. Either that or look at the posters in my room.
how many computers are in your house?
Well, i own 3, looking at getting 2 more. I have a Powerbook g4 667, a Powermac G4 400 and a windoze machine running a p4 1.6A Ghz. Max has 4 or 5 more machines. His desktop, his win2k server, raid machine, ftp server, his mac, etc, etc, etc....we have a network so complex in our apartment, we could diagram it and rival many companies business networks.
when you look out a window, what exactly are you looking for?
To see what the hell bobbins is meowing at.
what was the last movie you watched and did you like it?
Matrix Reloaded. F@#$%&! Tight.
what was the last driving ticket you got?
10 expired meter ticket from the assholes at parking and traffic. Dammit P&T sucks.
sleep nude or no?
Woah. TMI. I dont think anyone wants to think about me sleeping naked.
do you smoke?
I used to play the cigar game...but not anymore
have you ever bought anything online?
The question is...what DONT i buy online. Groceries. Thats it. Everything else...online. The instant gratification isnt worth dealing with the public.
have you ever sold anything online?
All the time.
what was the worst place you ever lived?
On a tour bus in drum corps. Wow.
what was the best place you ever lived?
Yeah. I like being here on my own in BG...but goddamn, chicago is the best place ever. If i could live on my own in chicago...wow...id implode and tear the fabric of the space time continuum.(I watched back to the future this weekend, can you tell?)
sunflower seeds - eat the shell or not?
What else is on the menu. I aint no damn forager. Gimme meats.
what was the last book you read and did you like it?
David Pogues missing manual for Mac OS X. Best OS X resource ever.
A Year and a half. Relationships for me either go for a week or ultra long term. The one im in now has gone for almost 2 months now...so i guess its past the one week mark...*checks calendar*
what kind of car do you drive?
1997 Chevrolet Lumina LTZ. A sports sedan. Dont laugh, they make such things. Its blown tiburons off the line in toledo....that hearty v6 in her can ace almost any other non-sports car of her size...nickname is the Green Lantern
what kind of pets do you have?
At home i have a cat, spooker...but thats most likely going to stay with the rents when i graduate. I live with 3 cats now that are my roommates, Bobbins, Toad and Rowdy....bobbins has pretty much claimed me as her own...
toilet paper: over or under?
If this was the biggest stressor i had in my life, id be a happy camper.
cheesecake or chocolate cake?
Dayum. This is hard, however cheesecake is on my diet(seriously, it is) so im going with that.
coffee or tea?
Either one. Im an Earl Gray fan.
caffeinated or decaf?
Pop is trash. End of story.
PC or MAC?
Anyone who knows me can answer this question. Either that or look at the posters in my room.
how many computers are in your house?
Well, i own 3, looking at getting 2 more. I have a Powerbook g4 667, a Powermac G4 400 and a windoze machine running a p4 1.6A Ghz. Max has 4 or 5 more machines. His desktop, his win2k server, raid machine, ftp server, his mac, etc, etc, etc....we have a network so complex in our apartment, we could diagram it and rival many companies business networks.
when you look out a window, what exactly are you looking for?
To see what the hell bobbins is meowing at.
what was the last movie you watched and did you like it?
Matrix Reloaded. F@#$%&! Tight.
what was the last driving ticket you got?
10 expired meter ticket from the assholes at parking and traffic. Dammit P&T sucks.
sleep nude or no?
Woah. TMI. I dont think anyone wants to think about me sleeping naked.
do you smoke?
I used to play the cigar game...but not anymore
have you ever bought anything online?
The question is...what DONT i buy online. Groceries. Thats it. Everything else...online. The instant gratification isnt worth dealing with the public.
have you ever sold anything online?
All the time.
what was the worst place you ever lived?
On a tour bus in drum corps. Wow.
what was the best place you ever lived?
Yeah. I like being here on my own in BG...but goddamn, chicago is the best place ever. If i could live on my own in chicago...wow...id implode and tear the fabric of the space time continuum.(I watched back to the future this weekend, can you tell?)
sunflower seeds - eat the shell or not?
What else is on the menu. I aint no damn forager. Gimme meats.
what was the last book you read and did you like it?
David Pogues missing manual for Mac OS X. Best OS X resource ever.
Welcome to the new week, blog readers...
Had a good rest of the weekend, Met the sister and husband for lunch on sunday, then took Katie on the Clarendon Hills/Oak Brook/Hinsdale/Westmont tour before we finally headed home. 5 hours later, we were back here in BG, dropped her off so she could go spend time with some friends, and i went home to unpack.
Did i unpack? Meh....kind of. Did i play video games like i wanted to? Meh...no. I totally rearranged my room. Moved the bed around, the whole entertainment center(it is now in its new spot, in my closet...sounds wierd, but it works) Im pretty happy with it. I need to get a coaxial cable coupler and extension so i can run cable back to my TV, which of course is in the farthest possible place it could be from the cable jack, another power strip and some other misc cables. This weekend, i think max and i are going to play carpenter and make another small offshoot desk so its kind of an L so i have a place to put my laptop and maybe another computer...;-)
Today, i got up at 930...since my body refuses to sleep in after my schedule last semester...messed around, played some GTA vice, wanted to play Enter The Matrix, but my tv and gamecube arent anywhere close to hooked up, so i showered ate and headed off to mgmt 305. Wow. This class is going to make me dizzy. The teacher seems like shes a throwback kindergarten teacher who wants everyone to know everyone and work well and share and color in the lines. We spent the ENTIRE first class doing an icebreaker where we had to learn something about someone that matched our initials. Yeah. *rolls eyes*
Now im sitting here at ITS, working from 2:30 to 10. This should get interesting.
Seriously, go watch todays strongbad email, it has to be one of the funniest i have ever seen. It makes me think that i go to school at Crazy Go Nuts University. I am a Fighting Dumple.
GO DUMPLES!!!
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Positive: Back In BG
Negative: Screw Classes
Quote: "A little email never hurt anybody, except maybe the cheat.." - Strongbad
Song of the day: CGNU Fight Song - Strongbad
Cool Mac Moment: New iPod dock is sweet.....
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Had a good rest of the weekend, Met the sister and husband for lunch on sunday, then took Katie on the Clarendon Hills/Oak Brook/Hinsdale/Westmont tour before we finally headed home. 5 hours later, we were back here in BG, dropped her off so she could go spend time with some friends, and i went home to unpack.
Did i unpack? Meh....kind of. Did i play video games like i wanted to? Meh...no. I totally rearranged my room. Moved the bed around, the whole entertainment center(it is now in its new spot, in my closet...sounds wierd, but it works) Im pretty happy with it. I need to get a coaxial cable coupler and extension so i can run cable back to my TV, which of course is in the farthest possible place it could be from the cable jack, another power strip and some other misc cables. This weekend, i think max and i are going to play carpenter and make another small offshoot desk so its kind of an L so i have a place to put my laptop and maybe another computer...;-)
Today, i got up at 930...since my body refuses to sleep in after my schedule last semester...messed around, played some GTA vice, wanted to play Enter The Matrix, but my tv and gamecube arent anywhere close to hooked up, so i showered ate and headed off to mgmt 305. Wow. This class is going to make me dizzy. The teacher seems like shes a throwback kindergarten teacher who wants everyone to know everyone and work well and share and color in the lines. We spent the ENTIRE first class doing an icebreaker where we had to learn something about someone that matched our initials. Yeah. *rolls eyes*
Now im sitting here at ITS, working from 2:30 to 10. This should get interesting.
Seriously, go watch todays strongbad email, it has to be one of the funniest i have ever seen. It makes me think that i go to school at Crazy Go Nuts University. I am a Fighting Dumple.
GO DUMPLES!!!
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Positive: Back In BG
Negative: Screw Classes
Quote: "A little email never hurt anybody, except maybe the cheat.." - Strongbad
Song of the day: CGNU Fight Song - Strongbad
Cool Mac Moment: New iPod dock is sweet.....
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Saturday, May 17, 2003
Well, im sitting here at home....in my usual blogger spot. Its nice to be in chicago again for a weekend, if just to relax...and to spend some time with the girl too :-)
Made pretty decent time on friday getting out to aurora to get the girl from BG, then home to chicago. Got home around 10...not bad for leaving at 5. Girl and parents are doing well, they really like her....which is good, cause so do i ;-)
Today, we had breakfast with mom since dad was out running errands, then went to see the matrix with sister, her husband and mom and dad. What a great frigging flick. Had some time before we went to dinner, so i took katie to oakbrook mall and spent time at the apple store since her poor little ipod is having screen issues. I oogled the emac that i want to get and talked to all of my friends that work there. Its funny, cause they seem like they know about the new ppc 970 macs coming out, but cant say anything....they crack me up. Dinner at PF changs, then back here to do laundry and relax. Gonna go to bed, get up sometime, then head back home tomorrow.
Hope everyone is having a good time this weekend, especially those of you who are far away from BG. Have a good one!
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Positive: Being home
Negative: being hungry after eating chinese food
Quote: "I feel cheated" - Dad after the matrix revolutions trailer
Song of the day: Audioslave - gasoline
Cool Mac Moment: Apple store....dayum.
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Made pretty decent time on friday getting out to aurora to get the girl from BG, then home to chicago. Got home around 10...not bad for leaving at 5. Girl and parents are doing well, they really like her....which is good, cause so do i ;-)
Today, we had breakfast with mom since dad was out running errands, then went to see the matrix with sister, her husband and mom and dad. What a great frigging flick. Had some time before we went to dinner, so i took katie to oakbrook mall and spent time at the apple store since her poor little ipod is having screen issues. I oogled the emac that i want to get and talked to all of my friends that work there. Its funny, cause they seem like they know about the new ppc 970 macs coming out, but cant say anything....they crack me up. Dinner at PF changs, then back here to do laundry and relax. Gonna go to bed, get up sometime, then head back home tomorrow.
Hope everyone is having a good time this weekend, especially those of you who are far away from BG. Have a good one!
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Positive: Being home
Negative: being hungry after eating chinese food
Quote: "I feel cheated" - Dad after the matrix revolutions trailer
Song of the day: Audioslave - gasoline
Cool Mac Moment: Apple store....dayum.
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Friday, May 16, 2003
Happy friday everyone...
What a week its been. Its just like BG to take a week that ive been looking forward to since january to be full of drama and all sorts of goofy garbage.
Im finally done at RCC. Again, i went in there yesterday and sat around all morning waiting for a meeting that never happened. I dont know how i feel about the management over there. One thing is for sure, i am damn glad to be done. I worked there for 4 years, and now im just glad to get away from it. It kind of makes me wonder if it is the people over there, or if its me. If its me, i dont know how ill be able to have a steady career somewhere where i dont leave after a few years. Then again, i know better then that with RCC. Hence the 85% turnover in staff this semester. *rolls eyes* Reslife. The only organization in the world that can operate like it does because its on a college campus. Meh.
So, i heard from CTLT. They offered me the job. *insert cheering here* However, i dont think im going to take it. It only pays 6.75(i know im a snob) but for the amount of work and responsibility that isnt anywhere close to decent compensation. Plus, i would have to cut back hours here at ITS during the summer so that i could work 40 hours in the fall as well. I really dont want to do that because ITS is paying me more and because i like the environment here more. Also, if i would go over 40 hours (which i would) because of working 40 hrs at ITS and then 15 at CTLT, the mandatory overtime would come from ITS's student employment budget. Somehow, that doesnt really make sense for ITS to pay money to have me work at CTLT. Plus there are people there that i would rather spend time with. So im pretty sure i have made up my mind. Sure, it would be nice administering 2 os X servers, managing a lab full of macs and learning tons of software that i havent used before....but i dont want to mess with changing everything again this soon before graduation. Meh, im just rationalizing this to myself in my blog...so im sorry if you just read that whole thing.
Katie left for chicago yesterday, and i cant wait to see her tonite. Its definately going to be different to see her out at my place. Its not that i think thats not how its supposed to be, its just odd to see people from BG out in chicago. I use chicago as my escape from BG because its so far. 5 people from BG have been to my house, Maury, Brad, Mandy, Max and now Katie...so i guess its not going to be that wierd... Oh well, this should be a good weekend, somewhat of a vacation for katie and i before she goes off on her trip for 5 weeks. Wow thats gonna suck.
Last night i did a very bad thing. I went to best buy and bought not one but 2 video games. Since when do i have time to play video games. Apparently now. Grand Theft Auto : Vice City and Enter The Matrix. I played both of them all night since katie was gone....both are incredible. The matrix is really awesome seeing as how it has extra footage that they filmed while doing matrix 2 and 3 and the whole game is directed by the 2 guys who did the movies. The production values are great, gameplay is awesome....its quite a ride. GTA is sweet too, riding motorcycles was the MAIN THING i wanted added in the last one...but now there are helicopters and planes too...this is gonna be good. Plus its set in the 80s...who doesnt love the 80's?
So, i gotta give a shout out to red....shes become one of the best friends i could have found around here. Sure we get on each others nerves, but we both do it cause we care about each other. Yay for red :-)
So, now one of the ladies here at work is playing country music....wow....someone kill me fast...
I get to have my performance review here at ITS today. Im not worried, seeing as how i got a raise and a promotion while i was on my probation period, i think i should be ok ;-)
Ok, im gonna stop now, seeing as how this already has been the update of jesus. Sorry if the coke thing scandalized you all...but POP IS BAD FOR YOU! Ok, im done now. Peace out, yall...
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Positive: New video games
Negative: Wheres the girl?
Quote: Whered carly go? - Dave
She quit - Me
She cant quit, slaves have to be sold! - Dave
(she really just went to the bathroom)
Song of the day: Zion - Fluke
Cool Mac Moment: My laptop is such a war horse...
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What a week its been. Its just like BG to take a week that ive been looking forward to since january to be full of drama and all sorts of goofy garbage.
Im finally done at RCC. Again, i went in there yesterday and sat around all morning waiting for a meeting that never happened. I dont know how i feel about the management over there. One thing is for sure, i am damn glad to be done. I worked there for 4 years, and now im just glad to get away from it. It kind of makes me wonder if it is the people over there, or if its me. If its me, i dont know how ill be able to have a steady career somewhere where i dont leave after a few years. Then again, i know better then that with RCC. Hence the 85% turnover in staff this semester. *rolls eyes* Reslife. The only organization in the world that can operate like it does because its on a college campus. Meh.
So, i heard from CTLT. They offered me the job. *insert cheering here* However, i dont think im going to take it. It only pays 6.75(i know im a snob) but for the amount of work and responsibility that isnt anywhere close to decent compensation. Plus, i would have to cut back hours here at ITS during the summer so that i could work 40 hours in the fall as well. I really dont want to do that because ITS is paying me more and because i like the environment here more. Also, if i would go over 40 hours (which i would) because of working 40 hrs at ITS and then 15 at CTLT, the mandatory overtime would come from ITS's student employment budget. Somehow, that doesnt really make sense for ITS to pay money to have me work at CTLT. Plus there are people there that i would rather spend time with. So im pretty sure i have made up my mind. Sure, it would be nice administering 2 os X servers, managing a lab full of macs and learning tons of software that i havent used before....but i dont want to mess with changing everything again this soon before graduation. Meh, im just rationalizing this to myself in my blog...so im sorry if you just read that whole thing.
Katie left for chicago yesterday, and i cant wait to see her tonite. Its definately going to be different to see her out at my place. Its not that i think thats not how its supposed to be, its just odd to see people from BG out in chicago. I use chicago as my escape from BG because its so far. 5 people from BG have been to my house, Maury, Brad, Mandy, Max and now Katie...so i guess its not going to be that wierd... Oh well, this should be a good weekend, somewhat of a vacation for katie and i before she goes off on her trip for 5 weeks. Wow thats gonna suck.
Last night i did a very bad thing. I went to best buy and bought not one but 2 video games. Since when do i have time to play video games. Apparently now. Grand Theft Auto : Vice City and Enter The Matrix. I played both of them all night since katie was gone....both are incredible. The matrix is really awesome seeing as how it has extra footage that they filmed while doing matrix 2 and 3 and the whole game is directed by the 2 guys who did the movies. The production values are great, gameplay is awesome....its quite a ride. GTA is sweet too, riding motorcycles was the MAIN THING i wanted added in the last one...but now there are helicopters and planes too...this is gonna be good. Plus its set in the 80s...who doesnt love the 80's?
So, i gotta give a shout out to red....shes become one of the best friends i could have found around here. Sure we get on each others nerves, but we both do it cause we care about each other. Yay for red :-)
So, now one of the ladies here at work is playing country music....wow....someone kill me fast...
I get to have my performance review here at ITS today. Im not worried, seeing as how i got a raise and a promotion while i was on my probation period, i think i should be ok ;-)
Ok, im gonna stop now, seeing as how this already has been the update of jesus. Sorry if the coke thing scandalized you all...but POP IS BAD FOR YOU! Ok, im done now. Peace out, yall...
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Positive: New video games
Negative: Wheres the girl?
Quote: Whered carly go? - Dave
She quit - Me
She cant quit, slaves have to be sold! - Dave
(she really just went to the bathroom)
Song of the day: Zion - Fluke
Cool Mac Moment: My laptop is such a war horse...
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Thursday, May 15, 2003
For those of you who know how much of a water junkie i am, check this out...
Water...
1) 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half world
population).
2) In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often
mistaken for hunger.
3) Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
4) One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of
the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5) Lack of water = the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6) Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could
significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7) A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy > short-term memory, trouble
with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed
page.
8) Drinking 5 glasses of water a daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by
45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less
likely to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?
Coke...
1) In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke
in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2) You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two
days.
3) To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the
"real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke
removes stains from vitreous china.
4) To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a
rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5) To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over
the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6) To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted
bolt for several minutes.
7) To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy
clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will
help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
For your Info.
1) The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will
dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from
bones and is a major contributor to the rising
increase in osteoporosis.
2) To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the
Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3) The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines of their
trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or Coke?
Water...
1) 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half world
population).
2) In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often
mistaken for hunger.
3) Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
4) One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of
the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5) Lack of water = the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6) Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could
significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7) A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy > short-term memory, trouble
with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed
page.
8) Drinking 5 glasses of water a daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by
45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less
likely to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?
Coke...
1) In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke
in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2) You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two
days.
3) To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the
"real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke
removes stains from vitreous china.
4) To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a
rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5) To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over
the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6) To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted
bolt for several minutes.
7) To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy
clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will
help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
For your Info.
1) The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will
dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from
bones and is a major contributor to the rising
increase in osteoporosis.
2) To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the
Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3) The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines of their
trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or Coke?
Well, if you got here, you were successfully able to navigate the new www.brianwaggoner.com I hope you all enjoy it, ive finally merged 3 websites into one super website. If you want to just bypass that page to get here, here are some links for you to remember.
http://personal.brianwaggoner.com - That will take you here
http://macevangelist.brianwaggoner.com - That will take you to my Mac news site
http://katie.brianwaggoner.com - that will take you to Katies Xanga
http://red.brianwaggoner.com - that will take you to Red's Xanga(LOVE THE WAGS, RED)
If anyone wants a brianwaggoner.com subdomain, let me know. Especially you Xanga clowns who have the hardest URL's to remember. Id venture to say the URL of jesus.
Work yesterday at ITS was so slow i could watch it creep along. Hardly any calls, and its just that time of the summa where nothing happens in BG. NOTHING. This place is so dead. Wow.
Grades came out last night at midnight, i got c's in both kollas classes. THANK JEEBUS I PASSED! Other then that, i got 2 a's a b and 3 c's. Not great, but ill survive. It was the semester from hell. Meh. Now i start classes on monday again, or should i say class...since im taking mgmt 305 for 6 weeks, then fizix 202 for the last 6 weeks. That should be fun. All while working 2:30 - 10 pm at ITS. Still havent heard from CTLT, tho....grrr.
Saw the matrix reloaded last night at a screening in maumee. Damn good movie, but im glad im seeing it again this weekend with the girl at home in chicago. There was WAAAYY too much information to absorb in just one sitting. 2.5 hours of zen, philosiphy and schi-fi tech and fighting...i felt tired. Also, if you go to see it, make sure you stay all the way through the credits, not only to hear the DMB remix, but to see the trailer of Matrix Revolutions.
Sitting here...AGAIN at RCC, when i should be in a transitional meeting, but of course, noone showed up for the frigging meeting. So we are waiting for an hour and a half for them to show up. An hour and a half, and im audi like a tt.
I finally got my new ipod, it is one of the coolest things ive ever seen. Im going to attempt to do a review of it tonite on my mac site, ill let you all know when its done. Expect lots of pictures of it too.
Let me know what you think of the new brianwaggoner.com Either IM me or leave me something in the chatterbox!
Tonight, the girl is going to chicago to spend time with her family, then tomorrow at 5 im leaving here to go to chicago, pick her up and then go spend the weekend with my family. First time having the girl meet the folks, this could be fun. She has no escape route, so shes stuck there with my family....hehehehehehehe.....
May not hear from me untill sunday or monday, but ill be on AIM, and be sure to love my chatterbox, seeing as how it rarely gets love anymore. Poor chatterbox.
Take care, and keep it real......damn im white.
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Positive: Matrix Reloaded - so good
Negative: RCC. Wow.
Quote: "Pet the girl....PET HER...." - katie
Song of the day: Rob Zombie - Reload
Cool Mac Moment: I have my new ipod! WOOO!!!
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http://personal.brianwaggoner.com - That will take you here
http://macevangelist.brianwaggoner.com - That will take you to my Mac news site
http://katie.brianwaggoner.com - that will take you to Katies Xanga
http://red.brianwaggoner.com - that will take you to Red's Xanga(LOVE THE WAGS, RED)
If anyone wants a brianwaggoner.com subdomain, let me know. Especially you Xanga clowns who have the hardest URL's to remember. Id venture to say the URL of jesus.
Work yesterday at ITS was so slow i could watch it creep along. Hardly any calls, and its just that time of the summa where nothing happens in BG. NOTHING. This place is so dead. Wow.
Grades came out last night at midnight, i got c's in both kollas classes. THANK JEEBUS I PASSED! Other then that, i got 2 a's a b and 3 c's. Not great, but ill survive. It was the semester from hell. Meh. Now i start classes on monday again, or should i say class...since im taking mgmt 305 for 6 weeks, then fizix 202 for the last 6 weeks. That should be fun. All while working 2:30 - 10 pm at ITS. Still havent heard from CTLT, tho....grrr.
Saw the matrix reloaded last night at a screening in maumee. Damn good movie, but im glad im seeing it again this weekend with the girl at home in chicago. There was WAAAYY too much information to absorb in just one sitting. 2.5 hours of zen, philosiphy and schi-fi tech and fighting...i felt tired. Also, if you go to see it, make sure you stay all the way through the credits, not only to hear the DMB remix, but to see the trailer of Matrix Revolutions.
Sitting here...AGAIN at RCC, when i should be in a transitional meeting, but of course, noone showed up for the frigging meeting. So we are waiting for an hour and a half for them to show up. An hour and a half, and im audi like a tt.
I finally got my new ipod, it is one of the coolest things ive ever seen. Im going to attempt to do a review of it tonite on my mac site, ill let you all know when its done. Expect lots of pictures of it too.
Let me know what you think of the new brianwaggoner.com Either IM me or leave me something in the chatterbox!
Tonight, the girl is going to chicago to spend time with her family, then tomorrow at 5 im leaving here to go to chicago, pick her up and then go spend the weekend with my family. First time having the girl meet the folks, this could be fun. She has no escape route, so shes stuck there with my family....hehehehehehehe.....
May not hear from me untill sunday or monday, but ill be on AIM, and be sure to love my chatterbox, seeing as how it rarely gets love anymore. Poor chatterbox.
Take care, and keep it real......damn im white.
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Positive: Matrix Reloaded - so good
Negative: RCC. Wow.
Quote: "Pet the girl....PET HER...." - katie
Song of the day: Rob Zombie - Reload
Cool Mac Moment: I have my new ipod! WOOO!!!
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Welcome to tuesday, blog fans.
Im sitting here at RCC, waiting for people to get here, because apparently noone told me that the transitional meeting that im here for doesnt start for another 45 minutes. Im so glad i got my ass out of bed early in the morning to come here and sit. At least i get to post for you all.
Yesterday was a nice day at ITS. It was a day that reminded me that not all days there are pretty days. The difference isnt in who i work WITH, its the people i try to help. Some people can be really cranky with me over things that arent my fault. Oh well. Oh, and moving 9 truckloads of old computers and monitors....thats fun too.
So now my old boss @ RCC just told me that he forgot we were meeting, so noone is coming in to meet today. So i think im going to go over to ITS. Wow. One more day.
Not much else to post about...except my iPod was held in Taiwan(where it shipped from) for a Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay. Yah, i think it has SARS. First SARS killed 3 kds monitors of mine, now its gonna kill my ipod. Great.
Have a good day, yall...im audi.
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Positive: Its summa time
Negative: one more day...
Quote: "Wow, my boyfriend comes with a pause, play, fastforward and rewind button, how USEFULL!" - katie after seeing my ipod release party shirt
Song of the day: BT - Never Gonna Come Back Down
Cool Mac Moment: iPod will be in hand today!
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Im sitting here at RCC, waiting for people to get here, because apparently noone told me that the transitional meeting that im here for doesnt start for another 45 minutes. Im so glad i got my ass out of bed early in the morning to come here and sit. At least i get to post for you all.
Yesterday was a nice day at ITS. It was a day that reminded me that not all days there are pretty days. The difference isnt in who i work WITH, its the people i try to help. Some people can be really cranky with me over things that arent my fault. Oh well. Oh, and moving 9 truckloads of old computers and monitors....thats fun too.
So now my old boss @ RCC just told me that he forgot we were meeting, so noone is coming in to meet today. So i think im going to go over to ITS. Wow. One more day.
Not much else to post about...except my iPod was held in Taiwan(where it shipped from) for a Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay. Yah, i think it has SARS. First SARS killed 3 kds monitors of mine, now its gonna kill my ipod. Great.
Have a good day, yall...im audi.
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Positive: Its summa time
Negative: one more day...
Quote: "Wow, my boyfriend comes with a pause, play, fastforward and rewind button, how USEFULL!" - katie after seeing my ipod release party shirt
Song of the day: BT - Never Gonna Come Back Down
Cool Mac Moment: iPod will be in hand today!
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Saturday, May 10, 2003
Well, another semester officially down. All my exams are done, all the drama of RCC is done, all the garbage of people drama is done too, hopefully.
Its nice to hear from some people that i will actually be missed at RCC. Too bad its not from anyone in management, who dont even seem to care that im leaving. I get a feeling that the transitional work is more of a burdon for them then anything. Well, more of a reason for me to get out of there. Plus, they are giving sloka the run around BIG time with how he is supposed to do work for them during the summer. He is helping them out, and they are givin him grief. As sloka said, if you want to see how the real world is, dont go to RCC. Everything there is ass backward. 2 more days, wags, 2 more days.
I had my interview with CTLT on friday, it went really well. I dont know if i got it or not yet, he said hed let me know asap, but i have a really good feeling. If not, thats ok, i can make everything happen that i need to @ ITS hopefully, but it would be nice to get the experience from this job.
Speaking of ITS, i really got the feeling that ive been given more responsibility. Chad has just been treating me more like a full time person lately, not that he didnt treat me well before, which is definately not the case, just that hes asking me to do more full time things, asking me for more opinions on things, having me do some pretty important tasks. Its funny, because i found out that Mike only wants me to work next tuesday and thursday at RCC, so i called Chad to ask if it was ok if i added more hours on monday and wednesday, and he was more then happy to have me to do that. If i would have done that at RCC, they would give me some serious flack about it. Dont go over hours, if you dont have work, dont come in, blah blah blah. That whole garbage. But to have an employer who is glad to have me come in and help, wants to give me more responsibility because he knows i can handle it and help him out....its just a really nice feeling. One more week before i start my night time work in the TSC.
Seeing everyone leave is kind of a sad thing. All the people who came in with me and are now graduating. Im happy for them but jealous all at the same time. I know i have one more semester, but i wish i could just graduate, get a real job and be on my own. Im getting so tired of school. 19 more credit hours....19 more.....
Had a nice night with katie, we went to dinner in maumee, rented a movie, watched it...then as usual, fell asleep. Weve both had a really stressful week, and it was nice for it to just be over. I saved the world for katie yesterday when appleworks ate her paper, and i was able to bring it back. Seeing as how she told me she would fail the class if she didnt get it into him on friday. Rest assured, we got it in to him :-)
Now im off to go help her move lauras loft to Al's apartment. The parents are coming into town tonight since my dad has a judging seminar in cincinatti today. Dinner with them tonite at El outback(mmmm), spending time with them at their hotel, then mothers day brunch tomorrow at hops. Gonna be good. Hopefully i can steal katie next weekend and we can go out there for the weekend. That would be nice since she has to go to cleveland today for grandparents stuff.
Have a good weekend, yall.
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Positive: Semester Over
Negative: Sleeepy still
Quote: "You got so many bonus points there, you could be a dick the rest of your life" - katie after i saved her resume
Song of the day: Bunnies - Howie Day
Cool Mac Moment: My Ipod has shipped!!! W00T!
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Its nice to hear from some people that i will actually be missed at RCC. Too bad its not from anyone in management, who dont even seem to care that im leaving. I get a feeling that the transitional work is more of a burdon for them then anything. Well, more of a reason for me to get out of there. Plus, they are giving sloka the run around BIG time with how he is supposed to do work for them during the summer. He is helping them out, and they are givin him grief. As sloka said, if you want to see how the real world is, dont go to RCC. Everything there is ass backward. 2 more days, wags, 2 more days.
I had my interview with CTLT on friday, it went really well. I dont know if i got it or not yet, he said hed let me know asap, but i have a really good feeling. If not, thats ok, i can make everything happen that i need to @ ITS hopefully, but it would be nice to get the experience from this job.
Speaking of ITS, i really got the feeling that ive been given more responsibility. Chad has just been treating me more like a full time person lately, not that he didnt treat me well before, which is definately not the case, just that hes asking me to do more full time things, asking me for more opinions on things, having me do some pretty important tasks. Its funny, because i found out that Mike only wants me to work next tuesday and thursday at RCC, so i called Chad to ask if it was ok if i added more hours on monday and wednesday, and he was more then happy to have me to do that. If i would have done that at RCC, they would give me some serious flack about it. Dont go over hours, if you dont have work, dont come in, blah blah blah. That whole garbage. But to have an employer who is glad to have me come in and help, wants to give me more responsibility because he knows i can handle it and help him out....its just a really nice feeling. One more week before i start my night time work in the TSC.
Seeing everyone leave is kind of a sad thing. All the people who came in with me and are now graduating. Im happy for them but jealous all at the same time. I know i have one more semester, but i wish i could just graduate, get a real job and be on my own. Im getting so tired of school. 19 more credit hours....19 more.....
Had a nice night with katie, we went to dinner in maumee, rented a movie, watched it...then as usual, fell asleep. Weve both had a really stressful week, and it was nice for it to just be over. I saved the world for katie yesterday when appleworks ate her paper, and i was able to bring it back. Seeing as how she told me she would fail the class if she didnt get it into him on friday. Rest assured, we got it in to him :-)
Now im off to go help her move lauras loft to Al's apartment. The parents are coming into town tonight since my dad has a judging seminar in cincinatti today. Dinner with them tonite at El outback(mmmm), spending time with them at their hotel, then mothers day brunch tomorrow at hops. Gonna be good. Hopefully i can steal katie next weekend and we can go out there for the weekend. That would be nice since she has to go to cleveland today for grandparents stuff.
Have a good weekend, yall.
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Positive: Semester Over
Negative: Sleeepy still
Quote: "You got so many bonus points there, you could be a dick the rest of your life" - katie after i saved her resume
Song of the day: Bunnies - Howie Day
Cool Mac Moment: My Ipod has shipped!!! W00T!
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Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Well all, hold on, this is going to be one hell of a blog entry.
Ive been hinting at some major things happening with me and my employment status. Ill give you a rundown of it now, since its all out in the open now, and i want to let all of you who care, know about whats going on with me.
Currently im in charge of all of the residential computer labs. Ive been in this position for 2 years, but have worked for RCC for 4 now. Ive seen alot of changes, and ive implimented most of them. ive helped do alot there, and lately, i just dont have the drive anymore. Plus some personal conflict with some management things, how money is spent, treatment of employees, etc...i just dont feel it is the right place for me anymore. Ive been looking around, and today something incredible happened.
As most of you know, i also work at ITS on campus in the technology support center. I was asked today to take a sort of a promotion to assist in the evening running of the TSC. Chad has been looking for a stable way to do this, and he thinks with my experience and my background, that i would be the guy to do it. He is also trying to help me as much as he can to find a full time position within ITS. Hes really looking to help me, and i cant even begin to tell you how appreciative of him i am with this. So starting May 19th, i will not be working for RCC anymore, and will switch to being a full time ITS employee.
But wait, theres more. Ive also been asked to interview for a system specialist position at the Center for Teaching and Learning Technology(CTLT). This is a very Macintosh intensive job that entails server administration for OS X servers, and heading up their windows XP and OS X migration project. It doesnt seem too difficult, so im going to do the interview on friday. Ill hear what the position is, if i like it, ill do it, if not, i have PLENTY of work to do for ITS. Only problem is, i dont know if i can work full time in the fall at ITS, which i need to pay bills and everything. Well, well see.
Worked from 8-3 today. Let me tell you, if this is a snapshot of what this summer is going to be like, i think ill have a great time with all these clowns. Its so nice to see Carly back after her semester in Italy. We are such a bunch of goofballs. Its gonna be an awesome time at the TSC this summer. Just you wait.
Took Kollas 453 final after work. meh. Didnt go well...for anyone in the class. I told dr. kolla all i wanted was to not have to retake the class, and he told me i wouldnt have to. So whatever i get, i guess ill clear the class. Also, Dr. Border emailed me and told me i got 2 A's and a B in his 3 classes this semester. So thats awesome news. :-)
Im damn tired now. Everything is over, and now i just have to work. 8-3 at TSC tomorrow and 3-5 @ RCC. Gotta do transitional things to get all of this stuff out of my hands and into mark and nathans. Going to be wierd to not have to deal with it either.
Well...im going to write my official resignation letter for RCC now then go to bed. Have a good night all, feel free to IM me and ask me more on why im leaving RCC if you wonder.
Peace.
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Positive: New Job
Negative: Leaving RCC(or is this a positive too?)
Quote: 'Well, did you click OK" - Pat @ TSC on my failed attempts to set up a wireless network card
Song of the day: Clocks - Coldplay
Cool Mac Moment: new emacs. I will get one this summer. I will raise 1200 with the hours im working this summer. I WILL DO IT DAMMIT.
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Ive been hinting at some major things happening with me and my employment status. Ill give you a rundown of it now, since its all out in the open now, and i want to let all of you who care, know about whats going on with me.
Currently im in charge of all of the residential computer labs. Ive been in this position for 2 years, but have worked for RCC for 4 now. Ive seen alot of changes, and ive implimented most of them. ive helped do alot there, and lately, i just dont have the drive anymore. Plus some personal conflict with some management things, how money is spent, treatment of employees, etc...i just dont feel it is the right place for me anymore. Ive been looking around, and today something incredible happened.
As most of you know, i also work at ITS on campus in the technology support center. I was asked today to take a sort of a promotion to assist in the evening running of the TSC. Chad has been looking for a stable way to do this, and he thinks with my experience and my background, that i would be the guy to do it. He is also trying to help me as much as he can to find a full time position within ITS. Hes really looking to help me, and i cant even begin to tell you how appreciative of him i am with this. So starting May 19th, i will not be working for RCC anymore, and will switch to being a full time ITS employee.
But wait, theres more. Ive also been asked to interview for a system specialist position at the Center for Teaching and Learning Technology(CTLT). This is a very Macintosh intensive job that entails server administration for OS X servers, and heading up their windows XP and OS X migration project. It doesnt seem too difficult, so im going to do the interview on friday. Ill hear what the position is, if i like it, ill do it, if not, i have PLENTY of work to do for ITS. Only problem is, i dont know if i can work full time in the fall at ITS, which i need to pay bills and everything. Well, well see.
Worked from 8-3 today. Let me tell you, if this is a snapshot of what this summer is going to be like, i think ill have a great time with all these clowns. Its so nice to see Carly back after her semester in Italy. We are such a bunch of goofballs. Its gonna be an awesome time at the TSC this summer. Just you wait.
Took Kollas 453 final after work. meh. Didnt go well...for anyone in the class. I told dr. kolla all i wanted was to not have to retake the class, and he told me i wouldnt have to. So whatever i get, i guess ill clear the class. Also, Dr. Border emailed me and told me i got 2 A's and a B in his 3 classes this semester. So thats awesome news. :-)
Im damn tired now. Everything is over, and now i just have to work. 8-3 at TSC tomorrow and 3-5 @ RCC. Gotta do transitional things to get all of this stuff out of my hands and into mark and nathans. Going to be wierd to not have to deal with it either.
Well...im going to write my official resignation letter for RCC now then go to bed. Have a good night all, feel free to IM me and ask me more on why im leaving RCC if you wonder.
Peace.
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Positive: New Job
Negative: Leaving RCC(or is this a positive too?)
Quote: 'Well, did you click OK" - Pat @ TSC on my failed attempts to set up a wireless network card
Song of the day: Clocks - Coldplay
Cool Mac Moment: new emacs. I will get one this summer. I will raise 1200 with the hours im working this summer. I WILL DO IT DAMMIT.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2003
*burp*
yeah, thats the general feeling around RCC today. Rcc open house, meaning lots of free food and no work to do. Its good to see everyone for one last time before they all go away for the summer or away for good.
*tear* e.shrades.
Nah, seriously, though. Im gonna miss the kid. Hes been an inspiration to me all through my years here. Smart, hard working, easy to work with, very spiritual. I just admire him. Its gonna suck to not see you sleepy every friday morning. Woah. That sounded dirty.
I got the new Pinewood Derby CD from him. For those of you that dont know. Thats his band. It sounds pretty good...ill have to listen to it when its not so NOISY AROUND HERE. *Looks around the office*
I sold my old ipod on ebay today. Not for as much as id like, but for a decent amount. Its paying for over half of my new one, so thats not bad. Speaking of the new one, i got impatient and called apple today, who said it should ship out thursday...meaning ill get it monday. Boo hiss....i want it NOW!
Im fine, i promise.
Going to study for my other Kolla exam, ECT 453 this afternoon with mike, hopefully i can get a decent grade on this one like i hopefully did in 300. I NEED to clear these classes.
New 24 tonite. W00t.
Any of you ever wish some things in your past didnt happen? Not because of how they hurt you or affect you, but because of how they make you act now and how they make you react to different situations? Im glad some of the things happened in past relationships with me because they taught me what love really is, and brought me out of a naieve relationship state, but it makes me react in ways that arent condusive to someone getting close to me anymore. i guess nothing is easy, but this sure makes things hard.
One more final, then im clear as crystal. More news on the job thing coming....be patient all....
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Positive: Seeing old friends
Negative: seeing old friends for one of the last times
Quote: Meh...none.
Song of the day: The Horizon Has Been Defeated - jack johnson
Cool Mac Moment: Waking up this morning, remembering that the new jack johnson CD comes out today, trying to figure out when i can go get it, then checking my email and seeing that its new music tuesday in the itunes music store and one of the new feature downloads is the JJ Cd. paid 9.99 for it instead of the 15-17$ at a store. Woot. I love apple.
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yeah, thats the general feeling around RCC today. Rcc open house, meaning lots of free food and no work to do. Its good to see everyone for one last time before they all go away for the summer or away for good.
*tear* e.shrades.
Nah, seriously, though. Im gonna miss the kid. Hes been an inspiration to me all through my years here. Smart, hard working, easy to work with, very spiritual. I just admire him. Its gonna suck to not see you sleepy every friday morning. Woah. That sounded dirty.
I got the new Pinewood Derby CD from him. For those of you that dont know. Thats his band. It sounds pretty good...ill have to listen to it when its not so NOISY AROUND HERE. *Looks around the office*
I sold my old ipod on ebay today. Not for as much as id like, but for a decent amount. Its paying for over half of my new one, so thats not bad. Speaking of the new one, i got impatient and called apple today, who said it should ship out thursday...meaning ill get it monday. Boo hiss....i want it NOW!
Im fine, i promise.
Going to study for my other Kolla exam, ECT 453 this afternoon with mike, hopefully i can get a decent grade on this one like i hopefully did in 300. I NEED to clear these classes.
New 24 tonite. W00t.
Any of you ever wish some things in your past didnt happen? Not because of how they hurt you or affect you, but because of how they make you act now and how they make you react to different situations? Im glad some of the things happened in past relationships with me because they taught me what love really is, and brought me out of a naieve relationship state, but it makes me react in ways that arent condusive to someone getting close to me anymore. i guess nothing is easy, but this sure makes things hard.
One more final, then im clear as crystal. More news on the job thing coming....be patient all....
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Positive: Seeing old friends
Negative: seeing old friends for one of the last times
Quote: Meh...none.
Song of the day: The Horizon Has Been Defeated - jack johnson
Cool Mac Moment: Waking up this morning, remembering that the new jack johnson CD comes out today, trying to figure out when i can go get it, then checking my email and seeing that its new music tuesday in the itunes music store and one of the new feature downloads is the JJ Cd. paid 9.99 for it instead of the 15-17$ at a store. Woot. I love apple.
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Monday, May 05, 2003
Well hello there...
I know i havent posted in a few days, ive been feverishly trying to get ready for exams. I have 3 exams, and of course, i had to have 2 of them monday 1st slot and 2nd slot. meh, at least i got them over with.
Mgmt can kiss my ass, i didnt think i did too well on it, but as steve used to say, D is for done.
ECT 300. Yes, a kolla exam. Overla and i studied our asses off sunday to get ready for it. He walked me through how to do the problems that were going to be on the exam.....and would you know it, they were on the exam. I rocked it. YES, I SAID I ROCKED A KOLLA EXAM. Now, I walked out of there feeling fairly confident, however, i didnt know as much of the theory as i hoped. So, i left mike to finish, and went to sell back some books. Mike calls me, said he talked to Dr. Kolla about mine, cause he was interested to see how i did since he helped me with alot of it by tutoring me, kolla looked it over, and estimated a B!!!
A FRIGGING B!!!!!
Sorry...im ok now, but this is a pretty huge thing for me. *breathes*\
Some pretty big news about something having to do with me and work. Cant get into more, but if/when it happens, ill be sure to have a HUGE post.
Im selling my ipod on ebay since im getting one of the new ones. I broke down, decided to get it. I want one with a warranty, and since mine is about a year old as of this week, i figured its time to unload it. I got the 15gb model, upgrading from my other 5gb one. I cant wait for it to get here...so fun.
My 3rd replacement KDS monitor should be here on wed...lets hope this one doesnt die....stupid KDS POS crap.
Ok, well i think im gonna go home, maybe play some more jurassic park game...SO FUN.
One more exam, but im not studying for it or even THINKING about it till tomorrow night.
Have a good day, all, and dont let the exam monster get you.
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Positive: B ON MY KOLLA EXAM!!!!
Negative: mgmt exam....meh
Quote: " Whats it going to take?"
Song of the day: Warehouse - DMB
Cool Mac Moment: NEW IPOD COMING!!!
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I know i havent posted in a few days, ive been feverishly trying to get ready for exams. I have 3 exams, and of course, i had to have 2 of them monday 1st slot and 2nd slot. meh, at least i got them over with.
Mgmt can kiss my ass, i didnt think i did too well on it, but as steve used to say, D is for done.
ECT 300. Yes, a kolla exam. Overla and i studied our asses off sunday to get ready for it. He walked me through how to do the problems that were going to be on the exam.....and would you know it, they were on the exam. I rocked it. YES, I SAID I ROCKED A KOLLA EXAM. Now, I walked out of there feeling fairly confident, however, i didnt know as much of the theory as i hoped. So, i left mike to finish, and went to sell back some books. Mike calls me, said he talked to Dr. Kolla about mine, cause he was interested to see how i did since he helped me with alot of it by tutoring me, kolla looked it over, and estimated a B!!!
A FRIGGING B!!!!!
Sorry...im ok now, but this is a pretty huge thing for me. *breathes*\
Some pretty big news about something having to do with me and work. Cant get into more, but if/when it happens, ill be sure to have a HUGE post.
Im selling my ipod on ebay since im getting one of the new ones. I broke down, decided to get it. I want one with a warranty, and since mine is about a year old as of this week, i figured its time to unload it. I got the 15gb model, upgrading from my other 5gb one. I cant wait for it to get here...so fun.
My 3rd replacement KDS monitor should be here on wed...lets hope this one doesnt die....stupid KDS POS crap.
Ok, well i think im gonna go home, maybe play some more jurassic park game...SO FUN.
One more exam, but im not studying for it or even THINKING about it till tomorrow night.
Have a good day, all, and dont let the exam monster get you.
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Positive: B ON MY KOLLA EXAM!!!!
Negative: mgmt exam....meh
Quote: " Whats it going to take?"
Song of the day: Warehouse - DMB
Cool Mac Moment: NEW IPOD COMING!!!
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Saturday, May 03, 2003
Happy weekend all...
Xmen 2 is awesome...go see it. Those of you who may not be hardcore X-men fans, dont get down with the ending...youll know what i mean when you see it.
I bought one of the new ipods today.....more info on that soon...
Im gonna go relax...do nothing...type more periods....
Have a good saturday/sunday. Study hard, BG folk.
Xmen 2 is awesome...go see it. Those of you who may not be hardcore X-men fans, dont get down with the ending...youll know what i mean when you see it.
I bought one of the new ipods today.....more info on that soon...
Im gonna go relax...do nothing...type more periods....
Have a good saturday/sunday. Study hard, BG folk.
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Im going to preface this whole post with....wow.
Wednesday wasnt just some ordinary wednesday. Its the day ive been looking for for over a month now. The minute i saw that Pat McGee Band was scheduled to play at BGSU, i about had a fit. Ive seen these guys live before, and they are so fun its not even funny. As one of my top 3 bands(i say top 3 cause they keep switching order) I was amazed to see they would come play in a town like BG, but i wasnt close to complaining.
I had my last management class in the morning(thank jesus) as well as my last classes with dr. border, the coolest professor ever. Kind of sad, but nice to know that im pretty much done with school....only a few classes to go till i graduate...
Had lunch with katie in the union, and on the walk over, i saw the PMB tour bus parked outside the union. I got pretty giddy, and the whole time she and i were eating lunch, i was looking around, telling her that i KNEW that PMB was the type of band to come down and eat at the food court, hang out with people, etc...she just laughed at me...
I went back to class, then decided to stake out at the union to try to get good line position. HAAHAHAH! If that wasnt the joke of the day. No line formed untill AFTER 7, which is when they said the doors were going to open...yeah. In the meantime, i watched Brian Fetchino and John Small, both PMB members just walkin around the union. Wow was i geeking out, but i was trying SO HARD to not be "that guy"....
Waited for a while with all 10 people in line, then got to go in. Waited for a while, met up with donna, then Alice Peacock came on around 815. Shes ok...nothing that really blew me away. However i was right up at the stage. I felt kind of bad for her, cause stupid college boys decided to yell how hot she was, and that to me just makes you look like a dumbass. Anyways, her set was over, they tore down....and out come PMB. Pat and Brian first, just walking around like nobodys business....just wandering....john small was just kind of hanging out. Now, you have to remember something, the other times ive seen these guys has been in HUGE venues like the House Of Blues in chicago, where they sell out 2 nights in a row, have tons of people there, and security is MAD tight. Now here we are, with them just hanging out like this is like their living room. They take the stage, and the room is eerie quiet. With under 150 people, it was like having them play a show just for me...in my living room....When Brian Fetchino came out, he was totally 3 feet from me, and he and i started chatting. Yeah, i was making small talk with the lead guitarist from Pat McGee Band.
Set list was awesome, opening up with one of my favorites, Passion. After that, they played some new songs...and then did something that made me go nutty. Pat was talking to us about how intimate of a setting this was, and asked for requests. All the jackholes that barely know the band were like "Rebecca"..made my toes itch, but Katie just said "Minute" which is her favorite song...Pat's response? "Minute sounds good", and looks over to us Pat talked to the crowd, people asking "wheres home?" when he said this was the last stop of the tour, and i shouted out "virginia!" and tons of little things. When they went to start a new song, he said "This is a song called Annabelle, we hope you kind of like it"...i said, "oh, im sure we will pat". Pat went "You havent even heard it yet!". After the song, i shoulted out, "we liked it", he got a kick out of it. Played more new and old stuff, switching the setlist up alot, played a pretty neat version of Havent Seen, which was kind of bluesy. Came to the last song, and pat asked again for one last request....and i shouted out Pride, which has to be my favorite PMB song. He looked at me, and i could tell. He turned to the band, said pride, and there we had it. The whole night, i had been messin around with Chardy, the percussionist and Chris the drummer, like chardy would do wild things and id point at him, i got chris to do a drumstick flip, etc....so when i was the only one to start the "woos" during the pride intro, needless to say, Chardy about had a cow. The rest of the crowd got into it, and the song just rocked. Set was over, and chris the drummer took his setlist off of his drumset, came up front, handed it to me and shook my hand. After that, Pat came out, did a solo version of Shine as an encore, and that was the concert.
As far as the rest of the night...wow. I got the setlist signed by the whole band (pictures to come) chatted with each band member for a while, especially Chardy, who has been my hero since day one. All those guys in the band are really cool. They all were totally down to earth. I was just in total shock, cause this sort of thing will never happen again. Im not saying PMB is a huge band, but the chance of having a concert like this with a band like this...wow. Never ever again. Here are pictures from the night...prepare to be amazed...
Now Katie and I need to get our little selves onto the Rock Boat cruise....PMB, Sister Hazel, Edwin McCain....wow..
Well, back to work....heres to another concert as frigging incredible as this.....
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Positive: Could be the best concert experience ever...
Negative: People bringing back memories
Quote: " Mlufkin44: pnp
KKB Firedancer: the whole night, i was just thinking
Mlufkin44: those pics are so classy
KKB Firedancer: luffys gonna love this"
Song of the day: Pat McGee - Shine
Cool Mac Moment: itunes 4...dddddamn.
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Wednesday wasnt just some ordinary wednesday. Its the day ive been looking for for over a month now. The minute i saw that Pat McGee Band was scheduled to play at BGSU, i about had a fit. Ive seen these guys live before, and they are so fun its not even funny. As one of my top 3 bands(i say top 3 cause they keep switching order) I was amazed to see they would come play in a town like BG, but i wasnt close to complaining.
I had my last management class in the morning(thank jesus) as well as my last classes with dr. border, the coolest professor ever. Kind of sad, but nice to know that im pretty much done with school....only a few classes to go till i graduate...
Had lunch with katie in the union, and on the walk over, i saw the PMB tour bus parked outside the union. I got pretty giddy, and the whole time she and i were eating lunch, i was looking around, telling her that i KNEW that PMB was the type of band to come down and eat at the food court, hang out with people, etc...she just laughed at me...
I went back to class, then decided to stake out at the union to try to get good line position. HAAHAHAH! If that wasnt the joke of the day. No line formed untill AFTER 7, which is when they said the doors were going to open...yeah. In the meantime, i watched Brian Fetchino and John Small, both PMB members just walkin around the union. Wow was i geeking out, but i was trying SO HARD to not be "that guy"....
Waited for a while with all 10 people in line, then got to go in. Waited for a while, met up with donna, then Alice Peacock came on around 815. Shes ok...nothing that really blew me away. However i was right up at the stage. I felt kind of bad for her, cause stupid college boys decided to yell how hot she was, and that to me just makes you look like a dumbass. Anyways, her set was over, they tore down....and out come PMB. Pat and Brian first, just walking around like nobodys business....just wandering....john small was just kind of hanging out. Now, you have to remember something, the other times ive seen these guys has been in HUGE venues like the House Of Blues in chicago, where they sell out 2 nights in a row, have tons of people there, and security is MAD tight. Now here we are, with them just hanging out like this is like their living room. They take the stage, and the room is eerie quiet. With under 150 people, it was like having them play a show just for me...in my living room....When Brian Fetchino came out, he was totally 3 feet from me, and he and i started chatting. Yeah, i was making small talk with the lead guitarist from Pat McGee Band.
Set list was awesome, opening up with one of my favorites, Passion. After that, they played some new songs...and then did something that made me go nutty. Pat was talking to us about how intimate of a setting this was, and asked for requests. All the jackholes that barely know the band were like "Rebecca"..made my toes itch, but Katie just said "Minute" which is her favorite song...Pat's response? "Minute sounds good", and looks over to us Pat talked to the crowd, people asking "wheres home?" when he said this was the last stop of the tour, and i shouted out "virginia!" and tons of little things. When they went to start a new song, he said "This is a song called Annabelle, we hope you kind of like it"...i said, "oh, im sure we will pat". Pat went "You havent even heard it yet!". After the song, i shoulted out, "we liked it", he got a kick out of it. Played more new and old stuff, switching the setlist up alot, played a pretty neat version of Havent Seen, which was kind of bluesy. Came to the last song, and pat asked again for one last request....and i shouted out Pride, which has to be my favorite PMB song. He looked at me, and i could tell. He turned to the band, said pride, and there we had it. The whole night, i had been messin around with Chardy, the percussionist and Chris the drummer, like chardy would do wild things and id point at him, i got chris to do a drumstick flip, etc....so when i was the only one to start the "woos" during the pride intro, needless to say, Chardy about had a cow. The rest of the crowd got into it, and the song just rocked. Set was over, and chris the drummer took his setlist off of his drumset, came up front, handed it to me and shook my hand. After that, Pat came out, did a solo version of Shine as an encore, and that was the concert.
As far as the rest of the night...wow. I got the setlist signed by the whole band (pictures to come) chatted with each band member for a while, especially Chardy, who has been my hero since day one. All those guys in the band are really cool. They all were totally down to earth. I was just in total shock, cause this sort of thing will never happen again. Im not saying PMB is a huge band, but the chance of having a concert like this with a band like this...wow. Never ever again. Here are pictures from the night...prepare to be amazed...
Now Katie and I need to get our little selves onto the Rock Boat cruise....PMB, Sister Hazel, Edwin McCain....wow..
Well, back to work....heres to another concert as frigging incredible as this.....
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Positive: Could be the best concert experience ever...
Negative: People bringing back memories
Quote: " Mlufkin44: pnp
KKB Firedancer: the whole night, i was just thinking
Mlufkin44: those pics are so classy
KKB Firedancer: luffys gonna love this"
Song of the day: Pat McGee - Shine
Cool Mac Moment: itunes 4...dddddamn.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Not much to post....cause im going to write a few reviews on my professional blog about apples new music service, the new ipods and a hands on review on the new 12 inch powerbook that katie let me play with last night since her mother just.....went out and bought her one. Lucky girl.....
Class and work today, then going home to get my new 19" monitor...this means i get to move all my machines and cables around...and it also means that katie can watch and make fun of me ;)
MY LAST ECT 300 CLASS TODAY!!!!!!! (unless i have to retake it) Hopefully not...
Well, i think thats all for now...have a good day all!!
Ta
Class and work today, then going home to get my new 19" monitor...this means i get to move all my machines and cables around...and it also means that katie can watch and make fun of me ;)
MY LAST ECT 300 CLASS TODAY!!!!!!! (unless i have to retake it) Hopefully not...
Well, i think thats all for now...have a good day all!!
Ta
Monday, April 28, 2003
Time is winding down for the semester....
Friday was pretty slow. Short meeting in the morning, so i did alot of office work. Got my meeting maker and my ical all updated to december 19th. Hopefully this will be the last time i have to input class information before im audi 5000.
Friday was Katie and my 1 month anniversary. We went to carrabas up in maumee. Pretty nice place, ran into deb wells from ITS up there....kind of nice. Katie also ran into her ex, dan there...which was pretty interesting. The food was good, and it was nice to just have a nice dinner out with the girl. After that we went to best buy, i spent way too much money getting new speakers, a new hub and that jurassic park simulation game that ive been drooling over. Came back, set up the speaks, the hub(mmm, 100mbit connection) and started playing the jurassic park game for a bit. Then it was time to go see one of the craziest things ive seen here at BG.
Campell Hill 45 - Beach Party. The crazy bastards bought like 500lbs of sand to put on their carpet....but they did lay down some plastic sheeting first. Pretty wild. Stayed for a bit, katie got toasted. Listened to "The Band" which was pretty good, saw alot of hooches.....lots of young kids that made me feel REALLY old. Oh well.
Saturday was nice and relaxing. Had breakfast with katie at bob evans, talked for a while anout all the craziness here at school going on. Spent the afternoon doing homework, take home exams, presentations, etc. Katie had a "special someone" dinner for TBS and then went to Mo's recital. I got to stay home, do homework and call my sister since it was her birthday. Had a good time after all of that with red, haus, slooks, al, wilson, laura and donna. Went to beyond 2000 for ice cream, then sloka haus and i went into jeds, sat down, did a tequila shot, then got some beverages at meijer, went back to reds, ordered some pizza then all laid around and almost fell asleep....god wild partiers....
Sunday, sunday, someday. Played the homework game....then i the moment of truth came.
Katies parents invited me over for dinner. Now, ive never really spent that much time with katies parents, other then 5 minutes here and there. This was the first time ive sat down, had them talk to me, ask me about me, what i do, where im from, etc...Went pretty well. Played with the dog alot and talked about all the work i do here at BG for work and school. I think it went pretty well.
I got to fight the exam game tonight, we had 3 to do...got 2 done. Spent more time with katie, then finally went to bed. Meh, need sleepy.
Today is going to be a neat day with apples announcement on their digital music service. Stay tuned to my other blog for details and a review...
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Positive: Good weekend
Negative: I Hate School
Quote: "she put the hood on to hide from the funny" - me to katie trying to hide from the jokes i was making so water didnt fly out of her nose.
Song of the day: Audioslave - gasoline
Cool Mac Moment: new mac announcement today...stay tuned for details....
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Friday was pretty slow. Short meeting in the morning, so i did alot of office work. Got my meeting maker and my ical all updated to december 19th. Hopefully this will be the last time i have to input class information before im audi 5000.
Friday was Katie and my 1 month anniversary. We went to carrabas up in maumee. Pretty nice place, ran into deb wells from ITS up there....kind of nice. Katie also ran into her ex, dan there...which was pretty interesting. The food was good, and it was nice to just have a nice dinner out with the girl. After that we went to best buy, i spent way too much money getting new speakers, a new hub and that jurassic park simulation game that ive been drooling over. Came back, set up the speaks, the hub(mmm, 100mbit connection) and started playing the jurassic park game for a bit. Then it was time to go see one of the craziest things ive seen here at BG.
Campell Hill 45 - Beach Party. The crazy bastards bought like 500lbs of sand to put on their carpet....but they did lay down some plastic sheeting first. Pretty wild. Stayed for a bit, katie got toasted. Listened to "The Band" which was pretty good, saw alot of hooches.....lots of young kids that made me feel REALLY old. Oh well.
Saturday was nice and relaxing. Had breakfast with katie at bob evans, talked for a while anout all the craziness here at school going on. Spent the afternoon doing homework, take home exams, presentations, etc. Katie had a "special someone" dinner for TBS and then went to Mo's recital. I got to stay home, do homework and call my sister since it was her birthday. Had a good time after all of that with red, haus, slooks, al, wilson, laura and donna. Went to beyond 2000 for ice cream, then sloka haus and i went into jeds, sat down, did a tequila shot, then got some beverages at meijer, went back to reds, ordered some pizza then all laid around and almost fell asleep....god wild partiers....
Sunday, sunday, someday. Played the homework game....then i the moment of truth came.
Katies parents invited me over for dinner. Now, ive never really spent that much time with katies parents, other then 5 minutes here and there. This was the first time ive sat down, had them talk to me, ask me about me, what i do, where im from, etc...Went pretty well. Played with the dog alot and talked about all the work i do here at BG for work and school. I think it went pretty well.
I got to fight the exam game tonight, we had 3 to do...got 2 done. Spent more time with katie, then finally went to bed. Meh, need sleepy.
Today is going to be a neat day with apples announcement on their digital music service. Stay tuned to my other blog for details and a review...
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Positive: Good weekend
Negative: I Hate School
Quote: "she put the hood on to hide from the funny" - me to katie trying to hide from the jokes i was making so water didnt fly out of her nose.
Song of the day: Audioslave - gasoline
Cool Mac Moment: new mac announcement today...stay tuned for details....
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Friday, April 25, 2003
blog blog bloggin on heavens doorrrrrrrrr........
What a day yesterday. Work was fun, didnt do much as usual at ITS. My boss decided to get on MY case on why apple doesnt put zip drives in any of their new macs. Cause i have a say in it ;) He was just playin, but i told him, why spend extra money for a zip drive, when cd-r drives come standard in them, cd media is so much cheaper then a zip disk, and waaaay less prone to failure.
Silence from the peanut gallery.
ECT 300 blew as normal, but at least i got to chat with Red on IM and she kept me sane. Im losing sanity at an exponential rate as of late. This time in the semester just plain sucks. People are crabby, teachers are unreasonable, bosses dont want to deal with pissy employees. Boo hiss. Any stress possible come out at this time of the year. Oh well, 2 weeks, and its coast time.
Spent some time in the afternoon with katie. Finally got new laces for my doc martins that have been without for a while now. Got a new mac addict magazine too, big article on the airport extreme base stations...of which i will be a proud owner come june 8th(happy birthday to me). Talked to crazy old JR, whos pimpin the Verizon kiosk, drivin the YZF, bein crazy as normal. Picked up the CD for the band that opened at the sister hazel concert, Pay The Girl. I think this is my new favorite CD. Its very formulaic alternative rock, but its the kind of music i need right now.
Phi Mu Alpha Funk-a-thon was tonite. I wish i would have had time to rehearse with them, they sounded really good. I miss playing stuff like that. Senior night for our PMA chapter meeting too, it was the last meeting ill go to as an active member. All of us old guys sat up in the balcony of the choral room and heckled everyone during the meeting. It was a good time. I tried to say something pithy to all the brothers, but it got runied by the other seniors smacking my ass while i was talking. Meh, oh well....at least i got a cool engraved flask out of it. Ill miss those guys.
Went to myles after the meeting...had a good time, untill people who should just stay out of my life decided to come back and wreak havoc again. Well, scratch that. Its not really them, its what theyve done to me in the past. Its a knee jerk reaction, and i hate it. I just want it all to go away, cause im afraid its going to affect things that are going so well for me right now. (those of you close to me can already tell what im talking about) I am so happy right now, and i dont want anything to get in the way of that. Katie does things for me that i could never imagine anyone ever doing. Shes so caring, so patient, perfect for me in every way. Sorry if im sapping people out right now. But this really has been a life changing thing for me. Shes the best thing to ever happen to me.
So, now that i got that out of my system, im gonna go sit and think about work at ITS. Boss is out today, playing golf...so i get to do phones. Not so bad, i get to do blog updates ;-)
Have a good day yall, i get to speak at another co-op seminar today, have lunch with my girl, work till 5, then going to take katie to carrabbas up in toledo for our 1 month anniversary. Tonight is also the infamous beach party at ch 45, this i gotta see...
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Positive: Katie being the best thing ever for me
Negative: Did i say its stressfull right now?
Quote: "Wags+church steeple+high powered rifle+Res Life= perfect" - Me to red about how much i hate reslife
Song of the day: Pay the Girl - Junkie
Cool Mac Moment: cmoooooonnnnn eMac updates....you know you want to. Think about this. G4 powermac, g4 powerbook, emac, airport, p4 machine...these could all be on the wags network this summa....
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What a day yesterday. Work was fun, didnt do much as usual at ITS. My boss decided to get on MY case on why apple doesnt put zip drives in any of their new macs. Cause i have a say in it ;) He was just playin, but i told him, why spend extra money for a zip drive, when cd-r drives come standard in them, cd media is so much cheaper then a zip disk, and waaaay less prone to failure.
Silence from the peanut gallery.
ECT 300 blew as normal, but at least i got to chat with Red on IM and she kept me sane. Im losing sanity at an exponential rate as of late. This time in the semester just plain sucks. People are crabby, teachers are unreasonable, bosses dont want to deal with pissy employees. Boo hiss. Any stress possible come out at this time of the year. Oh well, 2 weeks, and its coast time.
Spent some time in the afternoon with katie. Finally got new laces for my doc martins that have been without for a while now. Got a new mac addict magazine too, big article on the airport extreme base stations...of which i will be a proud owner come june 8th(happy birthday to me). Talked to crazy old JR, whos pimpin the Verizon kiosk, drivin the YZF, bein crazy as normal. Picked up the CD for the band that opened at the sister hazel concert, Pay The Girl. I think this is my new favorite CD. Its very formulaic alternative rock, but its the kind of music i need right now.
Phi Mu Alpha Funk-a-thon was tonite. I wish i would have had time to rehearse with them, they sounded really good. I miss playing stuff like that. Senior night for our PMA chapter meeting too, it was the last meeting ill go to as an active member. All of us old guys sat up in the balcony of the choral room and heckled everyone during the meeting. It was a good time. I tried to say something pithy to all the brothers, but it got runied by the other seniors smacking my ass while i was talking. Meh, oh well....at least i got a cool engraved flask out of it. Ill miss those guys.
Went to myles after the meeting...had a good time, untill people who should just stay out of my life decided to come back and wreak havoc again. Well, scratch that. Its not really them, its what theyve done to me in the past. Its a knee jerk reaction, and i hate it. I just want it all to go away, cause im afraid its going to affect things that are going so well for me right now. (those of you close to me can already tell what im talking about) I am so happy right now, and i dont want anything to get in the way of that. Katie does things for me that i could never imagine anyone ever doing. Shes so caring, so patient, perfect for me in every way. Sorry if im sapping people out right now. But this really has been a life changing thing for me. Shes the best thing to ever happen to me.
So, now that i got that out of my system, im gonna go sit and think about work at ITS. Boss is out today, playing golf...so i get to do phones. Not so bad, i get to do blog updates ;-)
Have a good day yall, i get to speak at another co-op seminar today, have lunch with my girl, work till 5, then going to take katie to carrabbas up in toledo for our 1 month anniversary. Tonight is also the infamous beach party at ch 45, this i gotta see...
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Positive: Katie being the best thing ever for me
Negative: Did i say its stressfull right now?
Quote: "Wags+church steeple+high powered rifle+Res Life= perfect" - Me to red about how much i hate reslife
Song of the day: Pay the Girl - Junkie
Cool Mac Moment: cmoooooonnnnn eMac updates....you know you want to. Think about this. G4 powermac, g4 powerbook, emac, airport, p4 machine...these could all be on the wags network this summa....
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
So close
So deep inside me
I would be you
And you would be me
Right here
It's now or never
We've come this far
Let's stay together
All this time we never knew
Freeze right here
Turn around
Lean into me
We fall to the ground
We don't even notice who's around
We're getting closer now
Right now
I'm crazy for you
Your playful eyes
I can't ignore you
We're friends
And we're lovers
We're turning on
As we discover
All this time we never knew
You'll be good to me
And I'll be good to you
One kiss
We live for the thrill
We live for the moment
When time stands still
Freeze right here
Turn around
Hold onto me
We don't make a sound
We don't even notice who's around
Freeze right here
Turn around
Lean into me
We don't even notice who's around
Freeze right here
Freeze - Pay The Girl
So deep inside me
I would be you
And you would be me
Right here
It's now or never
We've come this far
Let's stay together
All this time we never knew
Freeze right here
Turn around
Lean into me
We fall to the ground
We don't even notice who's around
We're getting closer now
Right now
I'm crazy for you
Your playful eyes
I can't ignore you
We're friends
And we're lovers
We're turning on
As we discover
All this time we never knew
You'll be good to me
And I'll be good to you
One kiss
We live for the thrill
We live for the moment
When time stands still
Freeze right here
Turn around
Hold onto me
We don't make a sound
We don't even notice who's around
Freeze right here
Turn around
Lean into me
We don't even notice who's around
Freeze right here
Freeze - Pay The Girl
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Good evening all..
I should be doing my ECT 453 lab report now that ive been putting off for weeks, but instead im messing with both my blogs. Oh well.
The past few days have been somewhat exciting. Ive been able to nail down a graduation plan. I dropped the accounting class and math 131 from this summer, going to only take mgmt 305 and physics 202. Shouldnt be too bad. This means ill have calc 131, mkt 442(in place of the acct class) and ect 441 to take. Yes, this means i have to take kollas shitty instrumentation class instead of doing an independant study, but i dont feel like fighting with this man to approve an independant study. Who knows if ill pass ect 453 or 300, so if thats the case, then ill be here to retake these goddamn classes in the fall. Heres to hoping for a nice kolla and a nice curve to the class.
Shit, ill take a d. In the words of steve, an old guy in my ect classes last semester...d is for done.
So yeah, this means graduation date is set earliest for december. Hey, i like cold weather, it should be a nice time for a party. Or not. I just cant wait to get done with school and get a real job and a real life. Dammit, i have so many toys i want to buy with money from a real job ;-) j/k
Talked to chad about my schedule at ITS for this summer, gonna be working alot there, tentatively going to be working some mad hours at RCC, and i might have another oppertunity at CTLT doing mac stuff there this summer. I sure hope that pans out. Heres to a job where ill actually learn things rather then be a sheep hearder.
Today also had another presentation by wags. Todays was on G4 processors in my ECT 442 processor class. I think it went pretty well. Overla did his on intel centrino technology. He was really nervous, and sick to boot, but he did a good job too. Its funny to see people get nervous when they have to speak in public. Its something i just do automatically now since ive done so much of it with the jobs and classes ive had since ive been here in BG. Talking to huge groups of people doesnt scare me, i look at it like an oppertunity. Oh well.
SPEAKING of talking in public, i forgot that today was one of the days i got asked to talk to new co-op students about my experience doing internships/co-ops. Since ive been here 9 years longer then god and have done 3+ co-ops, i got asked to do this. Talked for about 20 minutes on how to act, what to do, and other things that should be self evident to any human with half a brain. It made me feel a whole lot older then i should right now. Those kids look so young.
Tomorrow, only have ECT 300 and work @ ITS. 453 is cancelled because we need to "prep for our presentations". I have to talk for 15 minutes on different types of communication protocols for intdustrial networks and write a 3 page paper on it. I could do that with half my brain tied behind my back, yet people in my class are stressing. So why is it im ok doing this stuff, but suck at the exams, but they rock the exams but stress over presentations and papers.
I think im in tha wrong major. Whatever wags, yer a dipshit.
On that note, i think im gonna go....do something productive. Heres to hoping that my scholarship doesnt die after this semester...
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Positive: Finally have a graduation plan
Negative: School stress, work stress, school stress, work stress... again
Quote: "i can tell when people are bein snakey, and shes rattlin' - me
Song of the day: Pay the Girl - Freeze
Cool Mac Moment: im totally eyeing a new mac....this is not good...but maybe the new music service will make me poor...
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I should be doing my ECT 453 lab report now that ive been putting off for weeks, but instead im messing with both my blogs. Oh well.
The past few days have been somewhat exciting. Ive been able to nail down a graduation plan. I dropped the accounting class and math 131 from this summer, going to only take mgmt 305 and physics 202. Shouldnt be too bad. This means ill have calc 131, mkt 442(in place of the acct class) and ect 441 to take. Yes, this means i have to take kollas shitty instrumentation class instead of doing an independant study, but i dont feel like fighting with this man to approve an independant study. Who knows if ill pass ect 453 or 300, so if thats the case, then ill be here to retake these goddamn classes in the fall. Heres to hoping for a nice kolla and a nice curve to the class.
Shit, ill take a d. In the words of steve, an old guy in my ect classes last semester...d is for done.
So yeah, this means graduation date is set earliest for december. Hey, i like cold weather, it should be a nice time for a party. Or not. I just cant wait to get done with school and get a real job and a real life. Dammit, i have so many toys i want to buy with money from a real job ;-) j/k
Talked to chad about my schedule at ITS for this summer, gonna be working alot there, tentatively going to be working some mad hours at RCC, and i might have another oppertunity at CTLT doing mac stuff there this summer. I sure hope that pans out. Heres to a job where ill actually learn things rather then be a sheep hearder.
Today also had another presentation by wags. Todays was on G4 processors in my ECT 442 processor class. I think it went pretty well. Overla did his on intel centrino technology. He was really nervous, and sick to boot, but he did a good job too. Its funny to see people get nervous when they have to speak in public. Its something i just do automatically now since ive done so much of it with the jobs and classes ive had since ive been here in BG. Talking to huge groups of people doesnt scare me, i look at it like an oppertunity. Oh well.
SPEAKING of talking in public, i forgot that today was one of the days i got asked to talk to new co-op students about my experience doing internships/co-ops. Since ive been here 9 years longer then god and have done 3+ co-ops, i got asked to do this. Talked for about 20 minutes on how to act, what to do, and other things that should be self evident to any human with half a brain. It made me feel a whole lot older then i should right now. Those kids look so young.
Tomorrow, only have ECT 300 and work @ ITS. 453 is cancelled because we need to "prep for our presentations". I have to talk for 15 minutes on different types of communication protocols for intdustrial networks and write a 3 page paper on it. I could do that with half my brain tied behind my back, yet people in my class are stressing. So why is it im ok doing this stuff, but suck at the exams, but they rock the exams but stress over presentations and papers.
I think im in tha wrong major. Whatever wags, yer a dipshit.
On that note, i think im gonna go....do something productive. Heres to hoping that my scholarship doesnt die after this semester...
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Positive: Finally have a graduation plan
Negative: School stress, work stress, school stress, work stress... again
Quote: "i can tell when people are bein snakey, and shes rattlin' - me
Song of the day: Pay the Girl - Freeze
Cool Mac Moment: im totally eyeing a new mac....this is not good...but maybe the new music service will make me poor...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Well, well well.
Here i am, posting away here. Not much has been going on lately since ive been back in BG. Class was class yesterday, work was work. I found out i may get to do alot of Macintosh specialization at ITS this summer, which would be pretty awesome. Working with soley macs and doing what i love to do would be pretty tight.
Got kinda stressed out about everything going on, including work, school, work and school. Trying to figure out if i should try to kill myself this summer by taking 20 credit hours, including math 131 and phys 202 at the same time during a 6 week semester. However, if i dont do it, then im assuring myself that im going to stay here through the fall at least, maybe spring. With the market the way it is right now for jobs, maybe that isnt a bad thing.
Why is this so stressfull to decide? Well, for one, i dont know if i will still have my alumni scholarship after this summer semester. That and i have 2 jobs to work this summer(as i do right now) and both of them have alot for me to do and would like as much time from me as possible. Id love to just work and not have to worry about classes, but i know that isnt frigging fiesable. If that was the case, then id go back to AEP this summer. Which im kicking myself in the junk for not doing....i got all wrapped up in the idea of graduating this summer, instead of thinking about what i REALLY should do.
meh.
So i told Chad, my boss at ITS that ill decide if im going to slim my class load down a bit by next week. I just have to get the balls to do it.
Last night, katie and i went to panera to destress, got some ice cream and watched the new harry potter movie. I wanted so badly to watch CSI miami...but we both fell asleep at 10, woke up at 2. Yah. Wild friggin partiers.
In other kind of big important news, im starting a new weblog. Brian Waggoner, Mac Evangelist Check it out, let me know what you think. Its a news and technical assistance site for Apple Computers. If you have any questions about things with Macs, let me know, and i can create tutorials. I think im going to post some of the training materials ive done for both ITS and RCC to assist people who may be looking for help.
Im off to another frigging meeting. Andy Gross is smacking me in the back of the head with a notepad. Ill ttyl later.
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Positive: New Website
Negative: School stress, work stress, school stress, work stress...
Quote:
Mark: I think we need to institute communal RCC Naptime after this meeting in meeting maker
Me: Does this include cuddling and spooning?
Mark: We could work up to it...
Andy: Youll have to buy me dinner first...
Me: Flowers?
Andy: Nah, i got allergies, but i love to eat.
Song of the day: Happy - Sister Hazel
Cool Mac Moment: http://macevangelist.blogspot.com
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Here i am, posting away here. Not much has been going on lately since ive been back in BG. Class was class yesterday, work was work. I found out i may get to do alot of Macintosh specialization at ITS this summer, which would be pretty awesome. Working with soley macs and doing what i love to do would be pretty tight.
Got kinda stressed out about everything going on, including work, school, work and school. Trying to figure out if i should try to kill myself this summer by taking 20 credit hours, including math 131 and phys 202 at the same time during a 6 week semester. However, if i dont do it, then im assuring myself that im going to stay here through the fall at least, maybe spring. With the market the way it is right now for jobs, maybe that isnt a bad thing.
Why is this so stressfull to decide? Well, for one, i dont know if i will still have my alumni scholarship after this summer semester. That and i have 2 jobs to work this summer(as i do right now) and both of them have alot for me to do and would like as much time from me as possible. Id love to just work and not have to worry about classes, but i know that isnt frigging fiesable. If that was the case, then id go back to AEP this summer. Which im kicking myself in the junk for not doing....i got all wrapped up in the idea of graduating this summer, instead of thinking about what i REALLY should do.
meh.
So i told Chad, my boss at ITS that ill decide if im going to slim my class load down a bit by next week. I just have to get the balls to do it.
Last night, katie and i went to panera to destress, got some ice cream and watched the new harry potter movie. I wanted so badly to watch CSI miami...but we both fell asleep at 10, woke up at 2. Yah. Wild friggin partiers.
In other kind of big important news, im starting a new weblog. Brian Waggoner, Mac Evangelist Check it out, let me know what you think. Its a news and technical assistance site for Apple Computers. If you have any questions about things with Macs, let me know, and i can create tutorials. I think im going to post some of the training materials ive done for both ITS and RCC to assist people who may be looking for help.
Im off to another frigging meeting. Andy Gross is smacking me in the back of the head with a notepad. Ill ttyl later.
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Positive: New Website
Negative: School stress, work stress, school stress, work stress...
Quote:
Mark: I think we need to institute communal RCC Naptime after this meeting in meeting maker
Me: Does this include cuddling and spooning?
Mark: We could work up to it...
Andy: Youll have to buy me dinner first...
Me: Flowers?
Andy: Nah, i got allergies, but i love to eat.
Song of the day: Happy - Sister Hazel
Cool Mac Moment: http://macevangelist.blogspot.com
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Saturday, April 19, 2003
For those of you that are computer geeks, check out Bill Palmer, Macintosh Specialist , his site is pretty awesome. He brings alot of good points up about Apple, computing in general as well as business strategy.
Well hello there, bloggers :)
Hope everyones weekend is going well so far. I know most of you are busy doing family things this weekend, so you probably wont read this till sunday night or monday.
Pictures from Formal!
There are some pictures from the Tau Beta Sigma formal that Katie took me to. We had a good time with good friends, despite the weather, lame DJ's etc. Katie looked beautiful....truely beautiful.
Went home to chicago today...got here around noon-1ish. Had dinner with the family, and now we are watching the new harry potter movie on dvd. Good times, good times. Tomorrow, church, brunch then back home to BG. Hopefully ill get to see katie at somepoint...
Ive been asked to put in here how much my sister pisses me off ;) and something about my dad, seeing as how he is growing facial hair just like i am...pretty funny to see...hehehe...
I found the setlist for the sister hazel concert last tuesday, it was on their message board. Here it is for those of you who would like to see it...
Life got in the way
Just Remember
Change Your Mind
Your Mistake
Champagne High
Beautiful Thing (with intro Ken made up)
Everybody
Strange Cup of Tea
Superman
Come Around
Your Winter
Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company Cover)
All For You >
Happy >
Thank You
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She Talks to Angels (Black Crowes Cover)
Seven Bridges Road > (Eagles Cover)
Swan Dive
So good. Cant wait to see Pat McGee in a few weeks!!!! Have a good weekend, and heres to the easter bunny being kind to all of you...
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Positive: Formal - so fun, katie - so pretty
Negative: Need sleep...
Quote: "Grasp Your Mandrake" - Harry Potter
Song of the day: Sleep = BNL
Cool Mac Moment: being my dvd player on my drive home to help keep me awake...
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Hope everyones weekend is going well so far. I know most of you are busy doing family things this weekend, so you probably wont read this till sunday night or monday.
Pictures from Formal!
There are some pictures from the Tau Beta Sigma formal that Katie took me to. We had a good time with good friends, despite the weather, lame DJ's etc. Katie looked beautiful....truely beautiful.
Went home to chicago today...got here around noon-1ish. Had dinner with the family, and now we are watching the new harry potter movie on dvd. Good times, good times. Tomorrow, church, brunch then back home to BG. Hopefully ill get to see katie at somepoint...
Ive been asked to put in here how much my sister pisses me off ;) and something about my dad, seeing as how he is growing facial hair just like i am...pretty funny to see...hehehe...
I found the setlist for the sister hazel concert last tuesday, it was on their message board. Here it is for those of you who would like to see it...
Life got in the way
Just Remember
Change Your Mind
Your Mistake
Champagne High
Beautiful Thing (with intro Ken made up)
Everybody
Strange Cup of Tea
Superman
Come Around
Your Winter
Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company Cover)
All For You >
Happy >
Thank You
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She Talks to Angels (Black Crowes Cover)
Seven Bridges Road > (Eagles Cover)
Swan Dive
So good. Cant wait to see Pat McGee in a few weeks!!!! Have a good weekend, and heres to the easter bunny being kind to all of you...
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Positive: Formal - so fun, katie - so pretty
Negative: Need sleep...
Quote: "Grasp Your Mandrake" - Harry Potter
Song of the day: Sleep = BNL
Cool Mac Moment: being my dvd player on my drive home to help keep me awake...
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Friday, April 18, 2003
A Characteristic Blog Entry: By Brian Waggoner
Here is where people will normally talk about how they havent had a chance to update in a while because school is so busy right now. Then the ramble would continue to discuss how much we hate school and how we cant wait for it to be over because summer is going to be sooooo fun.
A discussion on someone who randomly said something nice to you and made you feel better about yourself and how you just realized how you never realized how cool they were untill now.
A discussion on how much the weather sucks/is nice right now.
Another rant on how much it sucks to be tired/sick.
Yet another rant on how you cant wait untill the weekend is here.
A long sappy discussion on who your sig oth is and how much you love them and why.
Its Friday, so a long extended discussion on what you are doing this weekend, why it will be the best weekend ever.
Conclude with a list of things that are good, bad, a inside joke quote of the day and whatever music you are currently listening to.
Here is where people will normally talk about how they havent had a chance to update in a while because school is so busy right now. Then the ramble would continue to discuss how much we hate school and how we cant wait for it to be over because summer is going to be sooooo fun.
A discussion on someone who randomly said something nice to you and made you feel better about yourself and how you just realized how you never realized how cool they were untill now.
A discussion on how much the weather sucks/is nice right now.
Another rant on how much it sucks to be tired/sick.
Yet another rant on how you cant wait untill the weekend is here.
A long sappy discussion on who your sig oth is and how much you love them and why.
Its Friday, so a long extended discussion on what you are doing this weekend, why it will be the best weekend ever.
Conclude with a list of things that are good, bad, a inside joke quote of the day and whatever music you are currently listening to.
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Well.....what can i say.
Tuesday. What a day. Went to ECT 300, then went to katies, got her, played with lois for a bit(her turtle) then hit the road to go to columbus. Had a fun drive, we were both so giddy just to get the hell out of BG and out of all the craziness that is here that just the car ride was a blast. Once we got closer to columbus, i started getting really nostalgic about last summer and how i missed columbus. *sniff* We went downtown, went to a mongolian barbeque place that was a regular lunching spot for us at AEP over the summer, had an AWESOME dinner(she even got me to try tofu) and then got ice cream at the ben and jerrys scoop shop in the arena district. We then tried to find the newport music hall, which was kind of a riot. It involved parking about 8 blocks away, then mindlessly wandering around trying to find it. We were pretty close in line to get in, finally got in....and goddamn. I got to see one of my favorite bands from 10 feet away. 10 FEET!!!!!!!!!!!! The set was awesome, Ken Block kept looking at me and smiling since i was totally singing along to all the songs with him, then pointed to me and katie and said how nice it is to see people who can already sing along to the new album...i was goin wild. Did a good cover of Feels Like Makin Love, ended the concert with my favorite SH song, Swan Dive....i dont know what else to say. Easily one of the best concerts ive ever seen.
PICTURES FROM THE CONCERT HERE!! Let me know what you think of them.... I have so many more, i took over 120....
We got home kinda late, went to bed, slept through management so i could be rested and came to class, did the ITS thing, then went and did one of my presentations i had to do. Todays was on bluetooth. If i feel very tech savvy, i might post a quicktime of the keynote presentation.
Tonight was a katie and wags nite. Relaxed, watch some TV, had dinner out. Wild partiers...
Tomorrow i get to do my training for ITS on OS X. My boss told me today hes got a pile of things he wants me to train on. Im kinda stoked, this is a good way for me to get noticed there. Oh well....time for sleepy time. Have a good night, and give me feedback on my pictures in EL chatterbox....
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Positive: What an awesome concert, awesome time with katie, honest to god one of the best days of my life!
Negative: so tired
Quote: "Oh my feet I walk, with my legs I run
In my arms I'll hold another day
With my head I think, from my heart I sing
And with my hand to my face I pray" - Sister Hazel "Strange Cup of Tea"
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Strange Cup Of Tea
Cool Mac Moment: keynote rocking my A presentation, and bluetooth example working flawlessly in my presentation...i love you, little titanium laptop...
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Tuesday. What a day. Went to ECT 300, then went to katies, got her, played with lois for a bit(her turtle) then hit the road to go to columbus. Had a fun drive, we were both so giddy just to get the hell out of BG and out of all the craziness that is here that just the car ride was a blast. Once we got closer to columbus, i started getting really nostalgic about last summer and how i missed columbus. *sniff* We went downtown, went to a mongolian barbeque place that was a regular lunching spot for us at AEP over the summer, had an AWESOME dinner(she even got me to try tofu) and then got ice cream at the ben and jerrys scoop shop in the arena district. We then tried to find the newport music hall, which was kind of a riot. It involved parking about 8 blocks away, then mindlessly wandering around trying to find it. We were pretty close in line to get in, finally got in....and goddamn. I got to see one of my favorite bands from 10 feet away. 10 FEET!!!!!!!!!!!! The set was awesome, Ken Block kept looking at me and smiling since i was totally singing along to all the songs with him, then pointed to me and katie and said how nice it is to see people who can already sing along to the new album...i was goin wild. Did a good cover of Feels Like Makin Love, ended the concert with my favorite SH song, Swan Dive....i dont know what else to say. Easily one of the best concerts ive ever seen.
PICTURES FROM THE CONCERT HERE!! Let me know what you think of them.... I have so many more, i took over 120....
We got home kinda late, went to bed, slept through management so i could be rested and came to class, did the ITS thing, then went and did one of my presentations i had to do. Todays was on bluetooth. If i feel very tech savvy, i might post a quicktime of the keynote presentation.
Tonight was a katie and wags nite. Relaxed, watch some TV, had dinner out. Wild partiers...
Tomorrow i get to do my training for ITS on OS X. My boss told me today hes got a pile of things he wants me to train on. Im kinda stoked, this is a good way for me to get noticed there. Oh well....time for sleepy time. Have a good night, and give me feedback on my pictures in EL chatterbox....
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Positive: What an awesome concert, awesome time with katie, honest to god one of the best days of my life!
Negative: so tired
Quote: "Oh my feet I walk, with my legs I run
In my arms I'll hold another day
With my head I think, from my heart I sing
And with my hand to my face I pray" - Sister Hazel "Strange Cup of Tea"
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Strange Cup Of Tea
Cool Mac Moment: keynote rocking my A presentation, and bluetooth example working flawlessly in my presentation...i love you, little titanium laptop...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
TUESDAY! SUNNY! 85 DEGREES! VACATION! COLUMBUS! SISTER HAZEL! NO ECT 453! SPENDING TIME WITH MY GIRL! SHORTS! NEW OFFICE! NOT CARING HOW STUPID SOME PEOPLE ARE!
Film at 11.
Nah, but seriously, today is a great day. After yesterday being somewhat shitty because of some people deciding to ONCE AGAIN stick their noses in other peoples business and meddle in the affairs of others, we got it all straightened out. Its funny, everything is perfect between katie and i, its other people deciding to do whatever they can to try to make more drama explode is whats becoming the problem now. People that used to tell me how much they liked being around me and how fun i was before she and i started dating now just suddenly now decide im a terrible person. Meh, whatever. Times like this just show someones true colors.
Today will be nice, i had some meetings this morning, now im going to my ECT 300 lab...then katie and i are heading to columbus to de-stress, have a mini vacation, have fun in a big city and see sister hazel. Im so excited i can barely stand it right now. I need to get away from all the stupidness here at BG, so i think this will be good.
Hope all of you have a good day too, Pat McGee Band tickets go on sale tonite! Its a good thing katie can go tomorrow....if anyone else wants to go see one of the best live bands out there here at BG in the ballroom, let me know, they are going to be here april 30th...its gonna be SWEET.
Peace out to tha 9-9.
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Positive: TODAY IS GOING TO BE THE BEST DAY EVAR! (stole the word evar from sean)
Negative: some people.....christ.
Quote: "Hoes, hippies and motorocyles all come out when it gets warm out" - katie
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Everybody
Cool Mac Moment: Making my keynote presentation on bluetooth for my ECT 486 Class...gonna be a good one, kids.....
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Film at 11.
Nah, but seriously, today is a great day. After yesterday being somewhat shitty because of some people deciding to ONCE AGAIN stick their noses in other peoples business and meddle in the affairs of others, we got it all straightened out. Its funny, everything is perfect between katie and i, its other people deciding to do whatever they can to try to make more drama explode is whats becoming the problem now. People that used to tell me how much they liked being around me and how fun i was before she and i started dating now just suddenly now decide im a terrible person. Meh, whatever. Times like this just show someones true colors.
Today will be nice, i had some meetings this morning, now im going to my ECT 300 lab...then katie and i are heading to columbus to de-stress, have a mini vacation, have fun in a big city and see sister hazel. Im so excited i can barely stand it right now. I need to get away from all the stupidness here at BG, so i think this will be good.
Hope all of you have a good day too, Pat McGee Band tickets go on sale tonite! Its a good thing katie can go tomorrow....if anyone else wants to go see one of the best live bands out there here at BG in the ballroom, let me know, they are going to be here april 30th...its gonna be SWEET.
Peace out to tha 9-9.
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Positive: TODAY IS GOING TO BE THE BEST DAY EVAR! (stole the word evar from sean)
Negative: some people.....christ.
Quote: "Hoes, hippies and motorocyles all come out when it gets warm out" - katie
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Everybody
Cool Mac Moment: Making my keynote presentation on bluetooth for my ECT 486 Class...gonna be a good one, kids.....
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Monday, April 14, 2003
Sunday, April 13, 2003
Well Well Well.....what have we here? Blog : Weekend Edition?
Its been a nice weekend. Friday i spent some time with katie before she went off to do the whole girly " sit around and talk bad about boys while drinking" thing....i dont get girls sometimes.....I got drunk dialed and asked to see her later, which was fine with me, shes pretty funny when shes drunk....she also knows how to give me some pretty big scares.
Saturday....WE MOVED THE OFFICE FINALLY!!!!! Im actually sitting in my new office right now, its pretty nice. I hope to post some pictures of it relatively soon, its a really nice place, WAY better then harshman. Once we get the ped issues figured out, itll be even better ;-) After then, katie came over for a bit before she had to go get ready for her concert. She watched me wrestle with all the cables under my desk to try to make some sense of them all. Im sure it was as frustrating for her as it was for me. I went, saw her concert, met up with her after it so that she could get her TBS points for helping do chairs and stands ;-) and then went back to her place. At that point...the moment came.
I got to meet the parents. Now, saying this was the first time ive met her parents is a misnomer. Ive met her dad at one point before we were dating. Also, ive talked to her mother on the phone at one point, where she called me asking if i knew of any technolog savvy college students looking for summer/fall positions working with her at the University Of Findlay. This was the first time ive "met" mom. I always want to work to make sure i have a good relationship with the parents of the girl im dating just because it makes everything else work so much better. I hate friction in a relationship, especially with a girls parents. However, i met mom, and the strangest thing happened. I sat down, we were talking about music, and how she wants to go to the Pat McGee concert. She then started asking me questions about issues shes having with her new 12 inch powerbook (drool) Some of her icons werent responding to her selecting them, and asked me if i had any ideas. I said....hmm, took the laptop, changed the resolution, moved the icons over, then changed the resolution back. Boy she was a happy camper. I think this is the first time i had ever had to show off my skills with computers to attempt to impress my girlfriends parents. However, it went well, and i think i made a good impression. After that, i went with katie to dairy queen with al, red and some other people i didnt know, had some fun conversation and then went back to my apartment....and promptly fell asleep. Yah, we got home at 11, then fell asleep. What wild partiers we are.
Sunday, i got up, went to see SAI's musicale, saw mom again, then spent some time with katie this afternoon. Watched supercross on ESPN, messed with my newly installed partition of OS 10.2 server, eating dinner, etc. She studied for her anatomy exam. Like i said, were wild partiers.....and twice on sundays....
Now im at work, doing work stuff. Nothing huge. Tomorrow i have an 8am management exam, so im gonna have to peruse my notes to see whats going to be on it. Shouldnt be too bad. Hope everyone else had a good weekend. Chatterbox lovin sure has gone down in the past few days....makes wags a sad boy.....
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Positive: Good Weekend
Negative: Weekend is over...boo hiss...
Quote: "Please try to impliment the employment of monkesy to your computer lab tech staff. They would do just as good of a job as the current humans and monkeys are alot cuter." - Comment left in a comment box in one of the macdonald hall computer labs
Song of the day: Flooding Both Of Us - Pat Mcgee Band
Cool Mac Moment: 10.2 server.....wow. So much power, especially when the administrators guide is a 12.5 mb pdf that is over 700 pages....
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Its been a nice weekend. Friday i spent some time with katie before she went off to do the whole girly " sit around and talk bad about boys while drinking" thing....i dont get girls sometimes.....I got drunk dialed and asked to see her later, which was fine with me, shes pretty funny when shes drunk....she also knows how to give me some pretty big scares.
Saturday....WE MOVED THE OFFICE FINALLY!!!!! Im actually sitting in my new office right now, its pretty nice. I hope to post some pictures of it relatively soon, its a really nice place, WAY better then harshman. Once we get the ped issues figured out, itll be even better ;-) After then, katie came over for a bit before she had to go get ready for her concert. She watched me wrestle with all the cables under my desk to try to make some sense of them all. Im sure it was as frustrating for her as it was for me. I went, saw her concert, met up with her after it so that she could get her TBS points for helping do chairs and stands ;-) and then went back to her place. At that point...the moment came.
I got to meet the parents. Now, saying this was the first time ive met her parents is a misnomer. Ive met her dad at one point before we were dating. Also, ive talked to her mother on the phone at one point, where she called me asking if i knew of any technolog savvy college students looking for summer/fall positions working with her at the University Of Findlay. This was the first time ive "met" mom. I always want to work to make sure i have a good relationship with the parents of the girl im dating just because it makes everything else work so much better. I hate friction in a relationship, especially with a girls parents. However, i met mom, and the strangest thing happened. I sat down, we were talking about music, and how she wants to go to the Pat McGee concert. She then started asking me questions about issues shes having with her new 12 inch powerbook (drool) Some of her icons werent responding to her selecting them, and asked me if i had any ideas. I said....hmm, took the laptop, changed the resolution, moved the icons over, then changed the resolution back. Boy she was a happy camper. I think this is the first time i had ever had to show off my skills with computers to attempt to impress my girlfriends parents. However, it went well, and i think i made a good impression. After that, i went with katie to dairy queen with al, red and some other people i didnt know, had some fun conversation and then went back to my apartment....and promptly fell asleep. Yah, we got home at 11, then fell asleep. What wild partiers we are.
Sunday, i got up, went to see SAI's musicale, saw mom again, then spent some time with katie this afternoon. Watched supercross on ESPN, messed with my newly installed partition of OS 10.2 server, eating dinner, etc. She studied for her anatomy exam. Like i said, were wild partiers.....and twice on sundays....
Now im at work, doing work stuff. Nothing huge. Tomorrow i have an 8am management exam, so im gonna have to peruse my notes to see whats going to be on it. Shouldnt be too bad. Hope everyone else had a good weekend. Chatterbox lovin sure has gone down in the past few days....makes wags a sad boy.....
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Positive: Good Weekend
Negative: Weekend is over...boo hiss...
Quote: "Please try to impliment the employment of monkesy to your computer lab tech staff. They would do just as good of a job as the current humans and monkeys are alot cuter." - Comment left in a comment box in one of the macdonald hall computer labs
Song of the day: Flooding Both Of Us - Pat Mcgee Band
Cool Mac Moment: 10.2 server.....wow. So much power, especially when the administrators guide is a 12.5 mb pdf that is over 700 pages....
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Friday, April 11, 2003
Hello all....
Well, interviews are sure over. Thank god. Work has been kicking my ass, ive been pretty burned out. Its gonna be nice just to relax tonite and do whatever. Im done at 5. Thats gonna seem so early for me, since ill be getting home when its light out.
Classes could be going better, i hate kolla. HATE HIM. Ill deal with it, but damn i cant wait to get past his POS classes.
I get to go play at ITS today, woo! I found out that im going to be doing my OS X training for them next week sometime. Thats kind of cool for me, seeing as how i have only been there since last part of december, and they already want me to train their staff. Itll be fun to get harassed by all the full time people there, im not nervous about it at all.
Speaking of presentations, i just remembered this past week that i have 3 huge presentations to do before the end of the semester. I guess the new dean of the college of technology decided that tech majors done have enough public speaking capability, so they want all 400 level tech courses no matter what major to have to do a major presentation. Seeing as how all of my classes are 300+ and half of them 400 level, im gonna be busting my ass on them. Im going to do one on the new intel centrino technology for my processors class, one on bluetooth for my digital communications class, and i god knows what for kollas process control class. This should be fun. Im gonna try to hammer out the bluetooth one this weekend and hopefully get it out of the way.
Speaking of bluetooth, the 10.2.5 OS update came out for MAC OS. Wow. I had fun last night trying to battle with my network. I was using both my powermac and powerbook, and then suddently after restarting, both machines couldnt access my network. I tested different thing, then suddenly had a heart attack where i thought that both machines network drivers got aced from the new update. Then i realzed that i was getting a 169 IP address, which normally means its a network infrastructure problem and that it wasnt a problem with the hardware or software on my machine. Sure enough, i couldnt access any machines in my workgroup in our apartment. I tested my 8 port network switch, and sure enough...dead. So now im using this little ghetto 10mbps hub that only has 4 ports, so just enough for uplink and my 3 machines. Im definately going to have to get a new switch. Especially if i ever want to build a new windows 2k/2003 server or the linux box i want to build or if id ever get my new powermac....wink wink wink....
Also along the computer issues, i found out that i cant use my version of office v.x on more then one of my macs at once. Goddamn i hate microsoft. However, the new bluetooth integration in OS X.2.5 is awesome. Im using my microsoft bluetooth mouse, works 100000X better then it did on my PC. So awesome.
Katie came over last night right after i was done trying to get work done, but couldnt because i had to play network monster. It was good to see her, its always good to see her. I dont know what shes done to me, but i sure like it.
Just got done with my RCC senior lab staff meeting, pretty excited about FINALLY moving to our new office in saddlemire. This office is getting to be a pretty ugly place. New pretty office...woo, too bad we have to move on a saturday...hey, money is good, too bad im already probably going to have 30 hours for this week....
Hope all is well with everyone, im off to ITS.....come visit me today at 129 hayes, if im not there, im out on a ticket somewhere...
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Positive: Weekend is here...
Negative: Nothing to do tonite....
Quote: "Hes not diggin that we dont love it" - Phil talking about kolla being pissed that we werent 100% excited that we got our process control lab working...
Song of the day: BT - Shame
Cool Mac Moment: 10.2.5...wow, how awesome...bluetooth mouse working like a charm....os responding alot faster...damn i love apple swus....
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Well, interviews are sure over. Thank god. Work has been kicking my ass, ive been pretty burned out. Its gonna be nice just to relax tonite and do whatever. Im done at 5. Thats gonna seem so early for me, since ill be getting home when its light out.
Classes could be going better, i hate kolla. HATE HIM. Ill deal with it, but damn i cant wait to get past his POS classes.
I get to go play at ITS today, woo! I found out that im going to be doing my OS X training for them next week sometime. Thats kind of cool for me, seeing as how i have only been there since last part of december, and they already want me to train their staff. Itll be fun to get harassed by all the full time people there, im not nervous about it at all.
Speaking of presentations, i just remembered this past week that i have 3 huge presentations to do before the end of the semester. I guess the new dean of the college of technology decided that tech majors done have enough public speaking capability, so they want all 400 level tech courses no matter what major to have to do a major presentation. Seeing as how all of my classes are 300+ and half of them 400 level, im gonna be busting my ass on them. Im going to do one on the new intel centrino technology for my processors class, one on bluetooth for my digital communications class, and i god knows what for kollas process control class. This should be fun. Im gonna try to hammer out the bluetooth one this weekend and hopefully get it out of the way.
Speaking of bluetooth, the 10.2.5 OS update came out for MAC OS. Wow. I had fun last night trying to battle with my network. I was using both my powermac and powerbook, and then suddently after restarting, both machines couldnt access my network. I tested different thing, then suddenly had a heart attack where i thought that both machines network drivers got aced from the new update. Then i realzed that i was getting a 169 IP address, which normally means its a network infrastructure problem and that it wasnt a problem with the hardware or software on my machine. Sure enough, i couldnt access any machines in my workgroup in our apartment. I tested my 8 port network switch, and sure enough...dead. So now im using this little ghetto 10mbps hub that only has 4 ports, so just enough for uplink and my 3 machines. Im definately going to have to get a new switch. Especially if i ever want to build a new windows 2k/2003 server or the linux box i want to build or if id ever get my new powermac....wink wink wink....
Also along the computer issues, i found out that i cant use my version of office v.x on more then one of my macs at once. Goddamn i hate microsoft. However, the new bluetooth integration in OS X.2.5 is awesome. Im using my microsoft bluetooth mouse, works 100000X better then it did on my PC. So awesome.
Katie came over last night right after i was done trying to get work done, but couldnt because i had to play network monster. It was good to see her, its always good to see her. I dont know what shes done to me, but i sure like it.
Just got done with my RCC senior lab staff meeting, pretty excited about FINALLY moving to our new office in saddlemire. This office is getting to be a pretty ugly place. New pretty office...woo, too bad we have to move on a saturday...hey, money is good, too bad im already probably going to have 30 hours for this week....
Hope all is well with everyone, im off to ITS.....come visit me today at 129 hayes, if im not there, im out on a ticket somewhere...
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Positive: Weekend is here...
Negative: Nothing to do tonite....
Quote: "Hes not diggin that we dont love it" - Phil talking about kolla being pissed that we werent 100% excited that we got our process control lab working...
Song of the day: BT - Shame
Cool Mac Moment: 10.2.5...wow, how awesome...bluetooth mouse working like a charm....os responding alot faster...damn i love apple swus....
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Yeah.....been one busy yatch lately.....
Interviewin after my normally full days, then trying to spend some time with katie. Its been so nice to have her around. Damn this girl is something else. Shes magic, pure magic.
Didnt do that well on the kolla exam i thought i did well on, i dont know whats going to go on in this class. Heres to hoping i dont have to retake it. Cause while i like BG...i dont like it enough to stay here any longer then i have to. Actually, it isnt the town, its the fact that i pay a hoejillion dollars to go here. Booo hiss...
Im really digging using my G4 as my primary machine anymore. Sure AOL IM sucks for mac, iChat isnt that great, but everything else is better. Honest to god, its just better. Im using a 3 year old mac that works better then my almost brand new PC that i built within the last year. Damn. i cant wait untill i can buy a new power mac. Then i REALLY can take over the world.
Good news on the monitor front, KDS quickly RMA'd me a new monitor, should be here soon. Im gonna use that one for my PC, since this old dell gets better resolution and better refresh rates then that KDS POS. Oh well, not that anyone really cares, but im just suprised KDS got on the RMA ball so fast to get a new one in the mail for me.
I have some pictures ive been meaning to post, but i dont have an FTP client on my mac yet, but once i do, ill have a picture fiasco for you all to see. Pictures from our trip to miami to see dave and tim, some pictures of the cats, and i think this weekend im gonna go out shooting if the weather is nice enough. Saturday were moving to our new office for RCC, so that will be nice. Katie and i have been invited to nikki samms party on friday too, that should be fun. I havent been to kamis in a while to see mike either when he works, maybe i can get some people together to do that.
The actual strongbad cartoon that came out this week is a riot......just....looking at a thing in a bag....drinking some drinks.....
Talk about comedy. Checkitout Checkitout Checkitout Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout....hahahha, man im laughing at myself, god knows its late....
Tomorrow will be a decent day. If by decent day i mean im going to bomb kollas shack since im gonna get my ECT 300 exam back. Lets see how shitty i did on that....wooo. Then more interviews at night, then hopefully to see katie, since she can make my day better by just looking at me. Sorry to get mushy, but its true. Ive never met someone who could do this to me....
Baghdad is free, iraqis are free, war is winding down. Heres to finding saddam, finding WMD and making this whole ugly thing going away. I sure hope that this sprouts good democracy in that area of the world. It would be nice if that part of the world would for once be a decent place for the people who want to live there, rather then radical extremists.
AiiiiiIiiIIiiIIIIIIiiiIIIiIIiIIIight....im goin to bed. Id like to work on my imovie project a bit, but im damn tired, and know i will be when i get up too.....I NEED TO GO TO BED EARLIER!!! ;-)
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Positive: Katie. :-)
Negative: Kolla.
Quote: GO TEND YOUR CHICKENS! - Katie
Song of the day: Pride - Pat McGee Band
Cool Mac Moment: I love my G4.
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Interviewin after my normally full days, then trying to spend some time with katie. Its been so nice to have her around. Damn this girl is something else. Shes magic, pure magic.
Didnt do that well on the kolla exam i thought i did well on, i dont know whats going to go on in this class. Heres to hoping i dont have to retake it. Cause while i like BG...i dont like it enough to stay here any longer then i have to. Actually, it isnt the town, its the fact that i pay a hoejillion dollars to go here. Booo hiss...
Im really digging using my G4 as my primary machine anymore. Sure AOL IM sucks for mac, iChat isnt that great, but everything else is better. Honest to god, its just better. Im using a 3 year old mac that works better then my almost brand new PC that i built within the last year. Damn. i cant wait untill i can buy a new power mac. Then i REALLY can take over the world.
Good news on the monitor front, KDS quickly RMA'd me a new monitor, should be here soon. Im gonna use that one for my PC, since this old dell gets better resolution and better refresh rates then that KDS POS. Oh well, not that anyone really cares, but im just suprised KDS got on the RMA ball so fast to get a new one in the mail for me.
I have some pictures ive been meaning to post, but i dont have an FTP client on my mac yet, but once i do, ill have a picture fiasco for you all to see. Pictures from our trip to miami to see dave and tim, some pictures of the cats, and i think this weekend im gonna go out shooting if the weather is nice enough. Saturday were moving to our new office for RCC, so that will be nice. Katie and i have been invited to nikki samms party on friday too, that should be fun. I havent been to kamis in a while to see mike either when he works, maybe i can get some people together to do that.
The actual strongbad cartoon that came out this week is a riot......just....looking at a thing in a bag....drinking some drinks.....
Talk about comedy. Checkitout Checkitout Checkitout Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout
Checkitout....hahahha, man im laughing at myself, god knows its late....
Tomorrow will be a decent day. If by decent day i mean im going to bomb kollas shack since im gonna get my ECT 300 exam back. Lets see how shitty i did on that....wooo. Then more interviews at night, then hopefully to see katie, since she can make my day better by just looking at me. Sorry to get mushy, but its true. Ive never met someone who could do this to me....
Baghdad is free, iraqis are free, war is winding down. Heres to finding saddam, finding WMD and making this whole ugly thing going away. I sure hope that this sprouts good democracy in that area of the world. It would be nice if that part of the world would for once be a decent place for the people who want to live there, rather then radical extremists.
AiiiiiIiiIIiiIIIIIIiiiIIIiIIiIIIight....im goin to bed. Id like to work on my imovie project a bit, but im damn tired, and know i will be when i get up too.....I NEED TO GO TO BED EARLIER!!! ;-)
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Positive: Katie. :-)
Negative: Kolla.
Quote: GO TEND YOUR CHICKENS! - Katie
Song of the day: Pride - Pat McGee Band
Cool Mac Moment: I love my G4.
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Monday, April 07, 2003
Well, i orginally posted a what homestar runner character are you thing....but it didnt work right, oh well.
Im very dissapointed, no new strongbad email today. Theres something there, but no email...im wondering what the boys over at hr.com have goin on....
I was in a pretty sour mood today, just because im tired of feeling that noone is happy for katie and i. All i hear is people talking shit about me, etc...its just really gotten on my nerves. Granted, i dont care what people have to say about me, but at the same time, id like people to be happy that we are happy. For whatever reason, people think this is this huge scandalous thing that we are dating. Whatever. Just whatever. Im tired of people being generally assholes. Im ending this rant now, because i should be happy because katie makes me so incredibly happy, but other people have to interfere lately. Meh.
Full night of interviews, and a full day of classes and work....so another 15 hour day and i have an ECT exam tomorrow for kolla...yah, cause thats going to go well.
Hope you all had a good day, im just waiting for katie to come over now, its been a stressfull day and itll be nice to talk it out with someone.
Good night.
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Positive: Possibility of only a few interviews tomorrow?
Negative: People. Being Stupid. About something thats none of their business.
Quote: "Whats DKBJ, Inc? Is that like Donkey Kong bl......errrr" - Max in an interview to a potential RCC Hire
Song of the day: John mayer - Neon
Cool Mac Moment: Im going to start a new project since my last imovie kind of fizzled. mainly cause i dont have the time to document my day....im working on 2 new ones...not anything huge, but ill post more news on them later....
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Im very dissapointed, no new strongbad email today. Theres something there, but no email...im wondering what the boys over at hr.com have goin on....
I was in a pretty sour mood today, just because im tired of feeling that noone is happy for katie and i. All i hear is people talking shit about me, etc...its just really gotten on my nerves. Granted, i dont care what people have to say about me, but at the same time, id like people to be happy that we are happy. For whatever reason, people think this is this huge scandalous thing that we are dating. Whatever. Just whatever. Im tired of people being generally assholes. Im ending this rant now, because i should be happy because katie makes me so incredibly happy, but other people have to interfere lately. Meh.
Full night of interviews, and a full day of classes and work....so another 15 hour day and i have an ECT exam tomorrow for kolla...yah, cause thats going to go well.
Hope you all had a good day, im just waiting for katie to come over now, its been a stressfull day and itll be nice to talk it out with someone.
Good night.
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Positive: Possibility of only a few interviews tomorrow?
Negative: People. Being Stupid. About something thats none of their business.
Quote: "Whats DKBJ, Inc? Is that like Donkey Kong bl......errrr" - Max in an interview to a potential RCC Hire
Song of the day: John mayer - Neon
Cool Mac Moment: Im going to start a new project since my last imovie kind of fizzled. mainly cause i dont have the time to document my day....im working on 2 new ones...not anything huge, but ill post more news on them later....
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Sunday, April 06, 2003
Wow....i gotta tell you guys, i didnt think anyone really read this garbage...untill i didnt keep up on entries. then everyone and their mom started getting on my case about updating. Well, heres why.
Like i said in the other entries, ive been doing tons and tons of interviews. Were talking 6-10pm every night of the week except friday and weekends. On top of that, working my normal hours, working at ITS and class, ive been pushing myself to the limit. I dont know why i keep pushing for things that only push back, but i guess to me its becoming a way to pay for things. It gets to a point where i can only care as much as it takes to do a good job. I used to pour 100% of myself into any job or organization i was in and lately i just dont feel like i get anything in return. I work my ass off for nothing. Its one thing to be a hardworking employee and a hardworking employee who cares. Im starting to understand why some people just stop caring. Oh well.
Besides work, ive been busting ass with schoolwork too. Friday was nice just to work at ITS. Talking to chad and all the nice ladies over there always helps me calm down. Its such a grown up place to work. Had a good time working with jessie too, she always brings a smile to my face. After work, though, the fun began :)
I went and picked up katie, we went to the olive garden for dinner and had a nice time just the 2 of us out alone. Its so nice to finally have found someone who is on the same level with me and who is just a damn pleasure to be around. There hasnt been a time where ive been around her and i havent been the happiest ive been in a long time. I know this may sound like mushy bullshit, but its all true. For those of you who have known my relationship issues in the past, you could understand when i thought i may not find anyone like this again. Not that they didnt exist, but that i wouldnt be able to open up to someone. Anyways, i digress on that. After dinner, we trekked through the rain to the maumee theatres and went to see phone booth. It was a pretty good movie, and it had some good previews. After that, we came back to my place, watched jurassic park and fell asleep. I couldnt have asked for a more perfect night. *sigh*
Saturday was nice. I finally slept in and caught up on some MEAN sleep ive been missing out on since ive been working so goddamn much. I had breakfast with Mo and Sloka, had to leave early because of family drama, then i went home and I messed with my computers a bit, trying to get samba/rendevous to work better, or not to work better, to get ME to work better to understand HOW they work...then katie came over. I battled the laundry monster, got pissed at my KDS POS monitor because it just up and died....which i am NOT happy about at all. Spent the rest of the night having dinner, watching some movies, going over to CH 45 to do the normal hang out and drink thing, then staying up till all hours talking about important things. What a night.
Today, same thing. Catching up on sleep. I finally made the leap to use my G4 as my primary desktop machine. Ive come to the conclusion that in my experience(and with computers, that is fairly significant) that pc's are just better for gaming. And by gaming, its only because that there are more out there. High power graphics capability on macs only will boost gaming in the future. Am i using a G4 400 MHZ? Is it more reliable running OS X then my PEE CEE running windoze Xp anyday? Eric and i had a moment at our meeting tonight where we bitched about how faulty XP is anymore. It just drives me nuts how everyone is so brainwashed to how great PCs and Windows is. Ugh. Oh well, im not going to ever give my PC up because in my field i need to be able to use it...but if i had 2 grand to spend, Id be running to www.apple.com faster then you could say quicksilver.
I was supposed to have an ECT 300 study group tonite, but it had to be cancelled cause of some people being out of town. Should i go study for it now? Yes. Will i get anything out of it? No. So im gonna study with peeps tomorrow inbetween classes. Hope you all had a good weekend. I wouldnt expect alot of blogging this week...interviews will own me.....
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Positive: What a great weekend. Katie makes me happy :)
Negative: Weekend WAY too short...that and stupid daylight savings time....I WANT MY HOUR BACK.
Quote: SCREW THE CALENDAR! - Me
Song of the day: Jason Mraz - Curbside Prophet
Cool Mac Moment: Are you reading this? Then this is a cool mac moment. All of erics battling with the AC computer in the office today with windoze xp is also a cool mac moment. All it takes is windows dropping the ball for apple to gain points with me anymore. What is this world coming to?
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Like i said in the other entries, ive been doing tons and tons of interviews. Were talking 6-10pm every night of the week except friday and weekends. On top of that, working my normal hours, working at ITS and class, ive been pushing myself to the limit. I dont know why i keep pushing for things that only push back, but i guess to me its becoming a way to pay for things. It gets to a point where i can only care as much as it takes to do a good job. I used to pour 100% of myself into any job or organization i was in and lately i just dont feel like i get anything in return. I work my ass off for nothing. Its one thing to be a hardworking employee and a hardworking employee who cares. Im starting to understand why some people just stop caring. Oh well.
Besides work, ive been busting ass with schoolwork too. Friday was nice just to work at ITS. Talking to chad and all the nice ladies over there always helps me calm down. Its such a grown up place to work. Had a good time working with jessie too, she always brings a smile to my face. After work, though, the fun began :)
I went and picked up katie, we went to the olive garden for dinner and had a nice time just the 2 of us out alone. Its so nice to finally have found someone who is on the same level with me and who is just a damn pleasure to be around. There hasnt been a time where ive been around her and i havent been the happiest ive been in a long time. I know this may sound like mushy bullshit, but its all true. For those of you who have known my relationship issues in the past, you could understand when i thought i may not find anyone like this again. Not that they didnt exist, but that i wouldnt be able to open up to someone. Anyways, i digress on that. After dinner, we trekked through the rain to the maumee theatres and went to see phone booth. It was a pretty good movie, and it had some good previews. After that, we came back to my place, watched jurassic park and fell asleep. I couldnt have asked for a more perfect night. *sigh*
Saturday was nice. I finally slept in and caught up on some MEAN sleep ive been missing out on since ive been working so goddamn much. I had breakfast with Mo and Sloka, had to leave early because of family drama, then i went home and I messed with my computers a bit, trying to get samba/rendevous to work better, or not to work better, to get ME to work better to understand HOW they work...then katie came over. I battled the laundry monster, got pissed at my KDS POS monitor because it just up and died....which i am NOT happy about at all. Spent the rest of the night having dinner, watching some movies, going over to CH 45 to do the normal hang out and drink thing, then staying up till all hours talking about important things. What a night.
Today, same thing. Catching up on sleep. I finally made the leap to use my G4 as my primary desktop machine. Ive come to the conclusion that in my experience(and with computers, that is fairly significant) that pc's are just better for gaming. And by gaming, its only because that there are more out there. High power graphics capability on macs only will boost gaming in the future. Am i using a G4 400 MHZ? Is it more reliable running OS X then my PEE CEE running windoze Xp anyday? Eric and i had a moment at our meeting tonight where we bitched about how faulty XP is anymore. It just drives me nuts how everyone is so brainwashed to how great PCs and Windows is. Ugh. Oh well, im not going to ever give my PC up because in my field i need to be able to use it...but if i had 2 grand to spend, Id be running to www.apple.com faster then you could say quicksilver.
I was supposed to have an ECT 300 study group tonite, but it had to be cancelled cause of some people being out of town. Should i go study for it now? Yes. Will i get anything out of it? No. So im gonna study with peeps tomorrow inbetween classes. Hope you all had a good weekend. I wouldnt expect alot of blogging this week...interviews will own me.....
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Positive: What a great weekend. Katie makes me happy :)
Negative: Weekend WAY too short...that and stupid daylight savings time....I WANT MY HOUR BACK.
Quote: SCREW THE CALENDAR! - Me
Song of the day: Jason Mraz - Curbside Prophet
Cool Mac Moment: Are you reading this? Then this is a cool mac moment. All of erics battling with the AC computer in the office today with windoze xp is also a cool mac moment. All it takes is windows dropping the ball for apple to gain points with me anymore. What is this world coming to?
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Thursday, April 03, 2003
So, i know ive been alittle slow on posting the past few days, the thing is that ive just been super swamped. Work has been murder, doing interviews every night from 6-10 which has been resulting in 14-15 hour days. Sure, im making money...but as someone at ITS called me today, im a "walking zombie". At least ive been able to find an hour or two a night to see katie, who has been INSTRUMENTAL lately in keeping brian sane. Even if its just a trip to meijer to get her Dance Marathon pictures, or to go with her for a bit to keep her company at the life science building while she develops her pictures for her portfolio....it just is nice and LARGELY decreases my stress level.
So, i have an exam in kollas ECT 453 class today. For ONCE in my life, i finally feel somewhat ready for a kolla exam. Have i been able to study for it as much as i needed, but i kind of understand all the calculus bullshit that we do in there, even if i havent taken calc and im avoiding it like the plague....even if it means i take a 1 credit hour penalty for taking it this summer...
More interviews tonight, wooo. Tomorrow will be nice just to have a relaxing day working at ITS. Thats right, blog readers, i think of relaxing days as days where i work at ITS. What the hell is wrong with me?
This weekend is shaping up to be some fun. Looks like there is going to be some kind of get together with sloka, wilson, katie, al, mo, red, et al on friday, could be a good time, then hopefully katie and i can go on our first "date" even though we will have been "dating" for almost 2 weeks by then. I dont know about the titles in relationships, im a boy, OK? I fix things, talk about sports and buy her flowers. I leave the titles up to her.
Hope all of you have a good day. Hopefully ill post soon.
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Positive: Being alive, seeing katie for a bit
Negative: INTERVIEWS
Quote: I just thought id offer my services to you - Me to Red
Song of the day: Dave Matthews - Blue Water
Cool Mac Moment: I love my laptop. That is all.
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So, i have an exam in kollas ECT 453 class today. For ONCE in my life, i finally feel somewhat ready for a kolla exam. Have i been able to study for it as much as i needed, but i kind of understand all the calculus bullshit that we do in there, even if i havent taken calc and im avoiding it like the plague....even if it means i take a 1 credit hour penalty for taking it this summer...
More interviews tonight, wooo. Tomorrow will be nice just to have a relaxing day working at ITS. Thats right, blog readers, i think of relaxing days as days where i work at ITS. What the hell is wrong with me?
This weekend is shaping up to be some fun. Looks like there is going to be some kind of get together with sloka, wilson, katie, al, mo, red, et al on friday, could be a good time, then hopefully katie and i can go on our first "date" even though we will have been "dating" for almost 2 weeks by then. I dont know about the titles in relationships, im a boy, OK? I fix things, talk about sports and buy her flowers. I leave the titles up to her.
Hope all of you have a good day. Hopefully ill post soon.
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Positive: Being alive, seeing katie for a bit
Negative: INTERVIEWS
Quote: I just thought id offer my services to you - Me to Red
Song of the day: Dave Matthews - Blue Water
Cool Mac Moment: I love my laptop. That is all.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Wow...i know ive been saying that alot lately, but damn. Things have been so good lately, and some things have been so bad. Its wierd when you actually long for the ho hums of boredom to come around, because you wont ever be suprised. Oh well.
Monday monday monday. What a day. Classes all day, but the day i have been waiting for since i was born has come. I got to go to see "An Acoustic Evening With Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds". Had a fun drive there, had some Skyline for dinner, then got in line. I took my digimatal camera to get pictures for all you folks, and because i heard on www.anyoneseenthebridge.com that people werent getting searched for cameras. I figured, why not take advantadge. We got to the front of the line around 7, show started at 730. Then we get inside...and everyone is practically being strip searched. Metal detectors like in prisons, wands, latex gloves, the whole shebang. So....im like, well....what should i do...and i watched some people get through with cameras, albiet smaller ones, so i figured i was g money(bling bling). At any rate, gary and tiff go through, i see the dude in front of me go through with a camera in his pants over his junk, blamed it on his belt buckle(that one is for you, e.schrades) and i laughed. So i put my cell, pager, keys, wallet, headset, and camera in the basket, figuring they wouldnt see it with the pile of shit i put in there. So, the little j. crew ween who was in charge of the door i was going through, rifled through my stuff, and made a HUGE production about me having a camera. So i said, fine. What do i do? His answer?
Take it out to your car and come back through the line. Now, the line mind you had now circled around the arena. I about spazzed. So, sloka and i trek out there, put it in my car and then wait in line. 715. comes. 720. 730, and we are still nowhere close to the doors. Then, SOMEHOW, 2 more sets of doors open, and aroun d 5,000 angry college students bumrush the arena. So sloka and i try not to get slaughtered by the stampede, end up getting in...WITHOUT GETTING SEARCHED. Grarr. Oh well. Sloka got to our seats and got ready for the wildest concert ive ever seen. Heres the setlist for you guys. Hardcore DMB fans will get why it was so wild.
Bartender
Best of What's Around
Grey Street
Everyday (#36)
When the World Ends [extended]
Big Eyed Fish
The Stone (Wise Men Say)
Gravedigger
Jimi Thing (What Will Become of Me)
For the Beauty of Wynona
Two Step
Stay or Leave
Tim Solo ~
Grace Is Gone
Crash (Dixie Chicken)
Lie In Our Graves
Blue Water Baboon Farm *FULL w/NEW verse*
Where Are You Going
Don't Drink the Water (This Land Is Your Land)
The Maker
Crush
Tim Solo ~
Christmas Song
Ants Marching
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Dancing Nancies
I cant believe i was there to see the first blue water since 1997. It was so amazing to see a show like this that will probably never happen again. Sloka and i had the best time, and out of 10 DMB shows, this is BY FAR the best one ive been to. The set, the energy, al;skdhf;lakds. So good. Long drive home after that, then to bed.
This morning, fun with meetings again. I got to spend way too much time sitting through and sorting through applications for RCC. Mike, nathan, mark and i ended not going to the senior staff meeting because we needed to get these going. Im starting to get very annoyed with how everything is a huge issue, everything is last minute, everything has to be done now, now, now. I attribute it to poor planning. We have plans in place, then we suddenly have to up and change it at the last minute. Also, getting screamed and swore at is always something that motivates staff, especially when the staff was trying to assist in what the supervisor wanted. Professionalism should have a major part in jobs like this, even if it is a university job. It drives me nuts that people can act this way and its just accepted. Im pretty fired up about this, and it makes me wonder why i work so hard for some things sometimes.
More class this afternoon. Kolla, just something else im looking forward to making my day oh so much better. Then BACK to RCC when i find out i may have to do said interviews tonight. Great. However, katie and i are going to see Sister Hazel later this month and Pat McGee Band is coming to BGSU later this month too, thats gonna be AWESOME. I cant wait.
Oh yah, and according to my degree audit......all of my stipulations for graduation are completed. If by completed they mean almost 44 hours are in progress....(aka this semester and summer semester) But still pretty cool to have it tell me to apply for graduation. Hmmmm...the real world, here i come.
Hope all is well, and jesus, what happened on everyones chatterbox/tagboard last night?
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Positive: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, best concert ever
Negative: Please, treat me like shit some more at work
Quote: "BUSINESS GIRLS!!!!" - sloka
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Sword And Shield
Cool Mac Moment: Portable Titanium and iTunes keeping me sane.
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Monday monday monday. What a day. Classes all day, but the day i have been waiting for since i was born has come. I got to go to see "An Acoustic Evening With Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds". Had a fun drive there, had some Skyline for dinner, then got in line. I took my digimatal camera to get pictures for all you folks, and because i heard on www.anyoneseenthebridge.com that people werent getting searched for cameras. I figured, why not take advantadge. We got to the front of the line around 7, show started at 730. Then we get inside...and everyone is practically being strip searched. Metal detectors like in prisons, wands, latex gloves, the whole shebang. So....im like, well....what should i do...and i watched some people get through with cameras, albiet smaller ones, so i figured i was g money(bling bling). At any rate, gary and tiff go through, i see the dude in front of me go through with a camera in his pants over his junk, blamed it on his belt buckle(that one is for you, e.schrades) and i laughed. So i put my cell, pager, keys, wallet, headset, and camera in the basket, figuring they wouldnt see it with the pile of shit i put in there. So, the little j. crew ween who was in charge of the door i was going through, rifled through my stuff, and made a HUGE production about me having a camera. So i said, fine. What do i do? His answer?
Take it out to your car and come back through the line. Now, the line mind you had now circled around the arena. I about spazzed. So, sloka and i trek out there, put it in my car and then wait in line. 715. comes. 720. 730, and we are still nowhere close to the doors. Then, SOMEHOW, 2 more sets of doors open, and aroun d 5,000 angry college students bumrush the arena. So sloka and i try not to get slaughtered by the stampede, end up getting in...WITHOUT GETTING SEARCHED. Grarr. Oh well. Sloka got to our seats and got ready for the wildest concert ive ever seen. Heres the setlist for you guys. Hardcore DMB fans will get why it was so wild.
Bartender
Best of What's Around
Grey Street
Everyday (#36)
When the World Ends [extended]
Big Eyed Fish
The Stone (Wise Men Say)
Gravedigger
Jimi Thing (What Will Become of Me)
For the Beauty of Wynona
Two Step
Stay or Leave
Tim Solo ~
Grace Is Gone
Crash (Dixie Chicken)
Lie In Our Graves
Blue Water Baboon Farm *FULL w/NEW verse*
Where Are You Going
Don't Drink the Water (This Land Is Your Land)
The Maker
Crush
Tim Solo ~
Christmas Song
Ants Marching
_______________
Dancing Nancies
I cant believe i was there to see the first blue water since 1997. It was so amazing to see a show like this that will probably never happen again. Sloka and i had the best time, and out of 10 DMB shows, this is BY FAR the best one ive been to. The set, the energy, al;skdhf;lakds. So good. Long drive home after that, then to bed.
This morning, fun with meetings again. I got to spend way too much time sitting through and sorting through applications for RCC. Mike, nathan, mark and i ended not going to the senior staff meeting because we needed to get these going. Im starting to get very annoyed with how everything is a huge issue, everything is last minute, everything has to be done now, now, now. I attribute it to poor planning. We have plans in place, then we suddenly have to up and change it at the last minute. Also, getting screamed and swore at is always something that motivates staff, especially when the staff was trying to assist in what the supervisor wanted. Professionalism should have a major part in jobs like this, even if it is a university job. It drives me nuts that people can act this way and its just accepted. Im pretty fired up about this, and it makes me wonder why i work so hard for some things sometimes.
More class this afternoon. Kolla, just something else im looking forward to making my day oh so much better. Then BACK to RCC when i find out i may have to do said interviews tonight. Great. However, katie and i are going to see Sister Hazel later this month and Pat McGee Band is coming to BGSU later this month too, thats gonna be AWESOME. I cant wait.
Oh yah, and according to my degree audit......all of my stipulations for graduation are completed. If by completed they mean almost 44 hours are in progress....(aka this semester and summer semester) But still pretty cool to have it tell me to apply for graduation. Hmmmm...the real world, here i come.
Hope all is well, and jesus, what happened on everyones chatterbox/tagboard last night?
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Positive: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, best concert ever
Negative: Please, treat me like shit some more at work
Quote: "BUSINESS GIRLS!!!!" - sloka
Song of the day: Sister Hazel - Sword And Shield
Cool Mac Moment: Portable Titanium and iTunes keeping me sane.
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