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Evil Schemes…Revealed
01938 days
by Jason
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I think I may have the coolest friends. One of which has been “scheming” for the past week or so. She’s generally not very good at keeping the fact that she’s working on something a secret, but she’s really, really good at hiding exactly what she’s doing.
For the past week she’s been dropping hints, trying to throw me off. Paper cuts were quickly explained away as “trying to outline the scheme for future generations to admire” or something similar. She had planned on swinging by my place last night on her way home from work to complete the scheme, but I foiled it by going out to dinner with my parents. She then lead me to believe it was something time-limited due to the fact she actually made an almost special trip (not exactly on her way home from where she was anyway) later in the night.
Crafty.
As it turns out, it was a drawing (she’s the artistic type) of my favorite character that I play in City of Heroes. With Penguins!! I had suspected something similar was coming, but then she kept throwing me just a little bit off balance, and with her…who knows what’s going to happen next? 
She’s really the master of thoughtful gifts, just when they’re needed most. I’m not sure I really conveyed exactly how much I appreciated it when she was over last night, since, for me, things like this tend to need a little time to sink in, but I love it. I’d have taken a picture but…well…crappy camera phone really wouldn’t have done it much justice, so too bad! It’s all color pencil-y…and did I mention the penguins?!? (As anyone who, for some reason, might actually be reading this regularly knows, I’m quite fond of Penguins)
Anyway, I need to get a frame now. Thankfully the person who was in this apartment before I was was also a bit artistic, and enjoyed hanging her creations on the walls…so I don’t really have to make too many new holes when I want to go hang stuff.
Oh, and the reason she made it seem like it had to be given last night or the whole thing would have been ruined? Partly to throw me off the trail, partly because she’d probably just come out with it and tell me eventually. Kinda like me actually. I can’t keep things I’m doing for other people a secret…I want to tell somebody!
QotD: Trendspotting
01939 days
by Jason
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Have you ever started a trend? Followed one?
Submitted by It’s Raining Calculators.
I can assure you, any trends that I come across are entirely accidental encounters. I’m not one to start trends, nor am I one to consciously follow a trend. I may end up following one by accident.
Winter Hates Me
01939 days
by Jason
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The snow is out to get me.
We had a lake effect snow warning in effect for yesterday and part of this morning. I was hoping it was going to snow here early enough so that I wouldn’t have to go to class that night, because if there’s one thing worse than driving when the roads are all slick with snow, it’s driving at night with slick roads.
But what actually happened went something like this:
5pm – Leave work to go home and eat dinner. No snow.
5:30pm – Leave house. No snow.
6pm – Arrive at class, snow coming down lightly
7:15pm – The halfway point break in class where the professor says he might let us go early due to the weather
8:00pm – The professor begins the process of finishing out class. He’s about to let us go when some moron asks a question which causes him to launch into a 30 minute response.
8:40pm – Class dismissed. It’s snowing pretty good now, roads are pretty bad. Can’t even see the lanes on two the major highways I use to get home. Don’t even get me started on the back roads
9:20pm – What is normally a 20 minute drive takes 40 minutes. Snow still coming down pretty good when I walk in my front door.
10pm – Snow stops.
So, lets review. The snow starts too late for me to not go to class on account of weather, snows just long enough to make my drive home fun and then stops just as soon as I get home. Blargh!
Winter Wonderland
01941 days
by Jason
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I suddenly got a little more free time this weekend. After checking the road conditions, I rescheduled my trip over to fix the network of the person I work with (mentioned here).
Overall it’s been a really crappy weekend, weather-wise. The roads were ungood yesterday morning when I started off to meet up with my friends for the trip to the city. They were decent out there, but as soon as I started heading home again, they were horrible again. I enjoy snow on the ground, I just wish they invented some way to stop it from snowing on the roads.
Note to self: The Presidente Margarita from Chili’s is GOOD. Really good.
Anyway I’m glad that I’ve got the free time around here now to do my homework for my Western Civilization class because the reading is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. I’ve read two of the three assigned passages right now, but the third is roughly 40 pages long. Erasmus’ two forewords to the Latin translation of the New Testament, written by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516. This is going to be…fun. We need to pick out the thesis of each work, 3 or 4 important points and then write a statement that contains the overarching idea linking all three pieces together. That last bit is going to be the hard part I think…we’ll have to see.
I Feel The Cosmos
01942 days
by Jason
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Ok, while it’s not Katamari Damacy, I did just finish Suikoden V the second time, this time collecting all of the stars of destiny (Stars…Cosmos…get it? Ok, I admit it’s bad…) The final boss was A LOT easier this time, and the ending much more satisfying than the less than perfect one.
My Dad was over earlier this evening for our weekly Madden ’07 Franchise night on the Wii. I had…an embarrasing loss in the second game. Something like 35 to 0. It was horrible.
This weekend is going to be extremely busy for me. Saturday is going to be taken up largely (I think) by going out to Syracuse with some friends of mine. Sunday afternoon, I’m going to play tech support for somebody I work with over at her house. She’s having wireless network issues. And in between all of that, I need to do some reading for my Western Civilization class.
Graphic Design In The Freezing Cold
01943 days
by Jason
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I had my desktop publishing class last night. It was my first time in the school’s Mac Lab, which consists of about 20 or so G5 iMacs. The smaller LCD size.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth it for me to aquire a copy of QuarkXpress (the progam we’re using in the class) for my own MacBook Pro, so I don’t have to drive all the way out there to use the lab computers for assignments.
The class itself seems interesting. We’re going to be doing some work with local non profit organizations for our final project, doing some advertising work for them by making a brochure, a poster and a newspaper ad by the end of the semester. I need to find a non-profit to contact now I guess. It seems to be less work than my constitutional law class at any rate.
Unfortunetly, as mentioned in the subject, I’m missing Grey’s Anatomy to go to this class. So bah! I guess I have to catch the re-runs on Friday for now.
As an aside, it’s freaking COLD out. My hair was still a little wet from my shower this morning when I went out to start my car and by the time I got back in I had a sheet of ice on my head.
Blah. That About Sums It Up
01944 days
by Jason
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The last real update I threw up here was on Monday, so I feel compelled to post again.
I had class Monday night. It’s a Western Civilization course which consists of reading a lot of the stuff written by the great thinkers of the western world and trying to figure out what lead them to their ideas and such. The teacher sounds awesome. The 3 hours I was there just flew by. I found a good teacher…amazing isn’t it? It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of work, but it’s going to be a lot of interesting work.
Tuesday was…not a good day. If you recall, I fell down the stairs Monday morning and my tailbone was bugging me all day. Well, it got worse on Tuesday. I even passed on going home for lunch because I didn’t want to get in and out of my car more than I had to. Other than that, an overall unremarkable day.
Today, I work up feeling better. Not nearly as sore as before. A very, very busy day at work that I thought would never end. I IMed a friend around 3pm: “Please tell me it’s not really 3pm and that my clock is slow” “Actually, I’ve got 2:58 here” “…You’re not helping”. It finally did end and here I am, relaxing at home, not wanting to look at another piece of code until at least tomorrow.
I’ve got a growing laundry list of things I need to do. Call the bank, call cingular to change my cell phone’s rate plan from a regional plan to a national plan, call the hotel I made reservations at for the Washington DC trip to make sure they’ve got the reservations, call my high school to get my transcript sent to my college so I can skip out of the foreign language requirement…
Sigh…I wish this stuff would just do itself.
The Weekend In A Nutshell
01947 days
by Jason
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I was meaning to make a post earlier, but it kept slipping my mind, so I’ve got two days of catchup to play here.
I had some friends over to my place on Saturday where we tried out the new Warioware game for the Wii. It was incredibly fun in a group setting, although very Japanese and very disturbing. Some of the games are…odd… It’s short as well. I think we covered everything we could do in the single player game in the couple hours we played it. It’s still a great party game. I’ll probably pick it up before my next party type thing.
One casualty of Saturday was my wireless PS2 controller (Logitech’s). The X button started sticking which, as one would imagine, could be extremely annoying when trying to play games. But more on that later.
Sunday was taken up mostly by me playing Suikoden V through again. I finished it the first time, but I’m going back through to complete everything and recruit the 108 Stars because I missed a bunch last time through. I’m using the Brady Games guide which is really well done. I’m nearing the end (finally). Almost there…then I can start working on the pile of games that I’ve got on my to-play list.
Going back to the Logitech controller thing, I tried taking it apart yesterday morning to see if I could fix the button, but no dice. Two of those screws are in there tight and I can’t seem to find a way to get them out. Well…they unscrew a bit, but they don’t come completely out no matter what I do. So I hopped over to Best Buy and picked up a 6 foot extension cable for the Dual Shock controller because where I usually sit is just out of the range of the standard cable. I think I’m going to keep going with this system. Wireless is nice, but the Logitech controller (the best wireless one out there) doesn’t really match the quality of the dual shock controller.
And then this morning I slipped on the stairs when I was taking the garbage out and slid down about 4 steps. Sitting down is very painful at the moment and I think I may have gotten a very small stone embedded into my right pinky finger. Today is not starting off well.
No Plan Survives Contact With The Enemy
01950 days
by Jason
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If you’ve stumbled upon my previous post about getting everything straightened out with my schoolwork and having a plan for continuing, it’s time for a little update.
I had my Constitutional Law class last night and…I’m opting to drop it. The professor is an assistant district attorney for the state and he’s teaching the course like law school basically. It’s going to be way too time intensive for me to work full time as well as take that course.
So I’m now going to be taking a desktop publishing type course Thursday nights. Probably a bit more manageable as far as time goes.
Now I’m just waiting for the billing department there to mess up because I dropped a course and added a new one. I figure they’ll be sending me a refund and then sending me to collections because I didn’t pay for the course I added. This is based on my experience from last semester about them losing the payment.
Textbook Shortage?
01952 days
by Jason
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I bought my books for school today (admittedly a little late, considering I’ve got my first class tomorrow). I found the 4 books for my Western Civ class all right. One textbook and 3 novels. My Constitutional Law class, however…
The bookstore didn’t have it, so I took down the ISBN number and checked online. It’s out of stock at both amazon and barnes and noble, so I had to go with ordering it used through one of amazons 3rd party marketplace sellers. Hopefully it gets here asap. And hopefully I don’t need it for tomorrow night’s class.
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