Equality

I've been thinking about this post off and on all day.  I meant to post it sooner, before the election was announced but I just didn't have enough time.  Today, Barack Obama was elected the President of the United States and I couldn't be happier.  I think that President Obama will do everything he can to bring about real change in our nation.  A lot of people *coughplumbercough* seem to complain about higher taxes and inexperience, but I think both of those things will work to his credit.  Higher taxes for the rich will bring our country more revenue while taking some of the burden off the people that are working paycheck to paycheck.  His experience is what we need leading our country, we don't need somebody that's been in Washington for 3 decades that's just working for the lobbyists and special interests, we've got a President whose special interest is the people of his country and this will really move our country forward.

Unfortunately, it also looks like Prop 8 is gonna go through, which is a real shame.  I thought one of the basic tenants the US was founded on was that the majority cannot take away rights from the minority, but I guess that all goes out the window today.  This was the first case that rights of a minority group have been voted away and it's really pathetic.  I don't think this is going to be permanent in our nation, eventually homosexuals will have equal rights to marry in every state and the children of that time will look back on this and scoff at the bigotry and discrimination that led to the elimination of rights.

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.

135 Days

Well, it's certainly been awhile, hasn't it? For some reason I just haven't been in the mood to blog much. I think part of it is because of Twitter; I can constantly keep everybody updated on what I'm doing, so why should I sit down and bang out a couple hundred words when I've already done it throughout the day? And I know I'm not the only one too, I've read a couple blogs about how full fledged blogging just doesn't have the fluidness of microblogging throughout the day. Ok, I think I've hit the quota for internet buzz words in one post so I should move on to something else.

It's been about a third of a year since I last blogged, a lot's changed and a lot's still the same. Diana and I are still good, I'm still in school, and I'm still, uh... between jobs. I had a slight school crisis a couple months ago, I wasn't sure what I was going to do about staying at DeVry or if I should find another school, maybe even change my major. I'm still mulling things over, but I'm leaning towards finishing at DeVry and doing what I can to focus on MMO development. I'm playing Warhammer Online instead of WoW and so far it's been great. Kaitlyn got married yesterday (2 days ago now, actually) which was pretty unbelievable, I never would have thought she'd be the first to get hitched out of my friends.

I guess that's enough of a post for now. See you 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.

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.

Desert Storm

What a night! We had a small bonfire yesterday which went pretty well, but when we got to the beach we found out that there was a ton of wind, so we couldn't really hang out outside for very long due to being sandblasted. Once the sun started going down we got the fire going and all was well, except for the wind and the sand still. We had some smores and some laughs up until Albert decided to start throwing model rocket engines in the fire. The first one he didn't even tell anybody and it almost hit me in the face while I was roasting a marshmallow and then after that another one hit Diana on the leg, but thankfully she wasn't burned. He also through a bottle of lighter fluid in the fire before that. I had a lot of respect for Albert before this, but this made him seem like a fucking moron. After that we left to get something to eat but it didn't really work out so we just went back to my house and got some pizza. Everybody got pretty shitty and we played some Smash and some poker before everybody left around two. All in all it was a good night.

Oops

I broke my blog-a-day rule by like, a lot. I guess March just wasn't meant to be as bloggiful as February was. I've been doing alright though, for the most part. I think I blame WoW for making me not blog as much, seeing as I've been playing it a lot recently. Today's been WoW-free though, so go me! I do have class tomorrow though, so I should be heading to bed soonish. I tried to reset my sleeping schedule last weekend by staying up all night and then going to bed early, but I ended up passing out around 7am, I guess I'm not as tough as I used to be. I guess it's working out alright for now though. I did get Robbie to play WoW though, so I've been hanging out with him in the Ghostlands the last few days. He's kind of a newb, but I think he's got potential. I'm playing a mage with him and I've already got him to not attack sheeps! Anyway, I think I'm gonna get something to eat.

Sun

Mornings suck, there's birds singing and so much light it hurts my eyes, I wanna sleep.

Chosen

Diana and I finished watching all of Buffy the other night and had watched Angel all the way through just before that. Although she did it mostly to make me happy I think she enjoyed it and really liked a couple of characters. We originally started watching Angel because I was trying to get her into Buffy and the Jossverse in general, but she just didn't care for the character of Buffy in general. Not wanting to give up I suggested that we should watch Angel, because she really liked that character and it's just as good in overall quality. In between Buffy and Angel we also watched Firefly and Serenity for a break, which was nice. Watching Buffy and Angel been such a regular thing for us for the past several months that I'm not sure what's going to take it's place, but we'll find something, maybe even get into some shows that I haven't been interested in.

Red-Green

I just read some neat stuff on colorblindness. I'm happy to say that I'm not quite as bad as the average color blind person, but I'm still messed up. For instance:

Did you know there's a 45 in there? I didn't until I saw what it looks like to normal folk. This site's got some cool stuff about how color blind people see the world and ways to change images so that we can see kind of what they're supposed to look like.

A Hole In the World

" This goes all the way through to the other side. So, I figure, there's a bloke somewhere around New Zealand standing on a bridge like this one, looking back down at us. All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known." - Spike

I don't really have anything to relate that quote to, I just like it. The other night was pretty good. I hung out with Diana during the day and then some other people I'm fond of into the morning. We didn't do anything special, but it was nice getting to see people that I don't see often enough. Today was a little more downtrodden. Diana had some stuff we needed to work through, but it was nice to just talk. Now I think I'm going back to FreeTime, cause it's more interesting than WoW right now. For tomorrow I've gotta get my FAFSA done cause it needed to be finished by today and hope to find some way to occupy myself while Diana's at school.

March

Well, February was an interesting month. All in all I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Things are going well with Diana and at school, as well as with the rest of things. I still need to get a job but other than that I think I'm doing a lot better. It was full of blogging too, so maybe that helped? I always thought it might but after melo and live journal I just couldn't sit down and blog much, but I managed to get one out each day for the second half of February, which added up to almost as much as I posed throughout 2007. Will it continue for March?

New Shit

I finally did some stuff with my sidebar. I signed up for a Digg and Del.icio.us accounts and posted them over there to display news and sites I look at and all that. I also added a couple other blogs and I hope to add more soon. I think that's all I've got for now.

Who are you?

I'm bored. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I'm apprehensive about playing with Jenn again. I'm sad that my GSP classes are ending (crazy, eh?). I'm excited for my new GSP classes. I'm cold. I'm tired of Tara jumping all over everything. I'm having fun playing The Sims. I'm jonesing for Warcraft. I'm done with this post.