Bloggity, Blog, Blog, Blog

Why do I stop blogging?  I suppose I don't really have anything interesting to say, but then again, nobody even reads this thing, so that's a pretty flimsy excuse.  I've always seen blogging as more of a therapeutic thing than anything else, I know lots of people get 'famous' on the internet with their blog, but that just never seemed to be very possible for some schmuck in a small, white, Republican town like Glendora.  I don't really have any kind of an answer on why I do this, or why I don't do it, other than sometimes I feel like putting my thoughts into some kind of written document to be saved for the foreseeable future.

School is pretty blah right now, ALL of my professors suck and I'm really glad that three of the four classes I'm taking right now are coming to an end.  Only my DreamWeaver course wasn't a pain in the ass, but it was so short I'd have to call it pointless, as I was telling Diana, I probably could have learned everything we did in one day just playing around with DW on my own.  But then again, I only took it in order to make the twelve units I need for the insurance thang anyway.  Speaking of, I should probably start trying to get a job again in order to start paying bills and/or saving money.  I think I should be getting a check from DeVry within the next few weeks, so that should hold me over until then, maybe I should just get some easy job just to make a few bucks.  But that goes against my whole concept of working, although that's another blog entry altogether.

Also, Windows Live Writer is fan-frickin-tastic.  For some reason I feel better blogging in a program that posts to the internet for me than putting it straight on the internet.  Yeah, I'm nuts like that.

Respect the Narrative Flow

Whew, long time no blog. I think I've started other blogs with that phrase. Anyway, I haven't really had time to blog, or the pressing urge to, so I kinda didn't. I haven't exactly been busy with anything important though. For the last... while I've been leveling up a prot pally in WoW and watching Buffy/Angel again. Having a laptop has freed me of the confines of my room to explore the exciting world of the living room, which has a DVD player in it. The pally's gonna hit 70 within a day or so, and I've been having a blast tanking every Outland instance so far, but my guild is again starting to let me down. A month ago we had a solid group of people leveling to 70 for instances and maybe even raids, but now it's about four of us regularly and a handful of others, without any hope of progression. Nothing scares me more than a lifetime of PUGs. There's also the fact that Age of Conan just came out and Warhammer in the near future.

In the real world I've got two super dull new classes. I was really looking forward to the AI class I was gonna take but it was canceled b/c there was nobody enrolled. My networking class isn't really so bad I'm just not overly interested in the subject. GSP130, however, is the dullest class I've ever taken in any school... ever. The subject matter is about as interesting as fish scales and the professor makes me want to die every time he mispronounces a word. The good thing is that they're both half over and I can get out of there and have a whole week break.

Next week happens to be my 22nd birthday. That weekend we're going to the Stone Brewery in Escondido and then going back to my house for a party. Diana's taking care of the planning so it should be fun. I guess that's about all that's going on, maybe I'll blog again soon?

Been Awhile

Again I go forever and a day between blog posts. This is kinda surprising because there have actually been a decent number of things going on.

Probably the largest event was going camping at Yosemite with Diana, Robbie, and Jen. Yosemite was amazing and made for a spectacular camping trip. The nice thing about going with Robbie and Jen is that they like to hike a lot, so there wasn't much sitting around throughout the weekend. The highlight was on Saturday when we hiked to the top of Nevada Falls. This was easily the most strenuous hike we had ever done and it took us the better part of the day to get up there, but the work was very much worth it. On the way down we got to take a much more scenic and gentle route, which gave us a nice contrast to the 7 million stairs we climbed to get up there.

After this I started a new session at school which has so far been about as boring as watching grass grow. The class I was really looking forward to, GSP290: Artificial Intelligence, was canceled due to not enough people signing up, so I'm stuck in the stupid classes for now. There's also a new GSP club starting up, which I'm not sure if I'm going to join yet or not.

Internet wise, I've signed up for some new sites that have taken up a lot of my time. I finally signed up for (and kept) a FaceBook account, which so far has been way better than myspace. I'm using a new site that hosts flash games and records high scores and little badge things, called Kongregate. For a long time I've had an account on Remember The Milk, which is just an internet To Do list, but the last few days I've actually been filling it out and making sure that I follow through with things, which has been a big help to my lack of motivation. Until just a few minutes ago I had been using the Firefox 3 beta client, but I ended up going back to FF2 just for the Google Toolbar which I love so much. FF3 is gonna be awesome when it's released and websites actually start supporting it, but I just got sick of having to switch over to IE just to use certain pages, like DeVry's eCollege.

I guess that's about it for now, I covered a lot of topics and I'm about ready for bed.

Marching On

Wow, March wrapped itself up pretty damn quick, didn't it? This whole year's been going by pretty fast, it's hard to believe it's already a quarter of the way over. Wow, I was really inspired to blog and now that I've started it I just can't get it going.

Let's see, after Sweeney last week we had a party at my house. It was a pretty standard affair with the usual people, plus some cameos from the UC kids since they were on spring break. The mood was pretty chill, we had a couple good Smash brawls before I ended up passing out and making everybody go home, but all in all I think good times were had. This past week has been pretty shitty because I've been sick since Monday. Coughing, sneezing, fevering, the whole thing, it sucked. I started actually feeling better today but that's when I ended up going to the doctor to get some meds. Unfortunately I went to the wrong one and we might have to pay more for it, which pisses me off because I generally hate privatized health care anyway and this just gives me a personal reason for it. Now Diana's really sick so this weekend looks pretty uneventful as I'll probably just do what I can to take care of her.

I do have a lot of schoolwork to take care of though, so maybe that's for the best. I've got two weeks left in my simulation programming class so our game needs to be totally wrapped up real soon. I've got a whole issue with that project, but that blog can be saved for another time. Well, guess I got through that alright.

Attend The Tale

Way back in December, Diana brought me to see the movie version of Sweeney Todd. I didn't really think much of it going in, just another overly goth Tim Burton movie, but it really blew my expectations away. After Kara saw it to similar results, she pointed out that the broadway version was going to be in LA at the end of March and that we should go. After way more planning and postponing that it should have taken the tickets were purchased and Diana, Kara, Jason, and myself hoofed it out to LA to see the show. I went expecting greatness and left with even more. It was a really cool production, it all took place on one stage and the only thing that moved around were some chairs and a coffin, but they really did a lot with what they had. The actors were also playing the instruments for the show, which was really neat. I don't know if that's standard in the higher up broadway performances or even common, but I hadn't seen it and I thought it was cool. After that we went to eat and Jason and Kara came over to continue the musical theme with "Once More, With Feeling" which is the best musical ever as far as my totally biased oinion goes. A little while after that Jason and Kara took off and now I'm blogging. I wonder if I should play Warcraft....

Sako's Automotive

well my blog break turned into a blog hiatus for some reason. i'm waiting at Sako's Automotive right now so i guess this is as good a time as any other. The last few weeks have been okay, i've played way more WoW than i probably should have, but my lock is 70 and i'm gettin some welfare epics. Diana and i had another rough patch but that can be behind us now. Last night i listened to a recording of the Buffy reunion which was pretty cool, it wasn't the best quality but it beats nothing. I guess i was a little disappointed with it, but that could be just because i had built it up in my head so much, but either way is was kinda neat. Now my hands are hurting from the texting so i'll be playing DS till this is done.