28 February 2005

Happy Happy Joy Joy

It's gonna be another long week looks like. CIS 330 just loves to stomp on morale. Anyhow hopefully I managed to salvage our grade a little bit (my partner so does not deserve to be dragged down because of my incompetence) for this assignment. Do IT people really live lives like this at work? Where everything pops up unexpectedly all the time and nothing gets done in any sort of competent order? My sister says that's how her fiancee's job is but I am somewhat wary because she delights in finding things (whether consciuously aware of it or not) that make me worry or find life harder at times.

Blah. Well I will try to sneak some stuff in here to make the week interesting. Anyone wanna seem some UML activity diagrams for a fictional company?

White-Wolf now has Authocthonians up for pre-order. See the cover there. Looks nice, can't wait as usual. When will I get the chance to read it? Who knows.

27 February 2005

Waste

Well this weekend has been interesting. Not really all that much fun though. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning I got very sick. Sicker then I've been in a long time (by this I mean puking, etc). Now normally when I get sick my nose runs a major marathon and sometime I ache a lot but that's it. I can deal with that. I go through several dozen boxes of kleenex and maybe some ibuprofen. Now when my stomach gets upset I pretty much don't do much of anything until my stomach feels better. Well it must have been some sort of 24 hour flu because I feel alright today (not at 100% but aside from eating I can do just about anything, althoug serving food probably wouldn't be recommended either). Frustratingly I had a very busy Saturday planned that was totally scrapped. I had to miss my shift for work (and don't think anyone actually made it in to cover) and that probably irked me the most cause I overworry about the consequences of missing a shift without cover. My parents were also coming up to drop off some furniture (including a couch, yay!). Well they still came but I was pretty much useless, thankfully my roommate is a scholar and a gentleman (and a loose cannon, he's unpredictable) and helped out alot. All in all though I was frustrated because my whole weekend was thrown out of whack. Being sick just sucks. Hope you had a better weekend!

25 February 2005

Abbyness

Yes, Abby's Livejournal is now here! Anywho, have much to do so must go, try and put an update up here sometime this weekend so check back everyone other second (twice a second if your name starts with a T and ends with an wism).

24 February 2005

Randomisity

While Jenny will probably call me more of a nerd for it I should point out to all who might be interested that PointCon is this weekend in the UC. It starts Friday night (at 5 I think) with a LARP and then runs through Sunday. All sorts of gaming, from tabletop, to video, to card, to more LARPs, to paper and pencil. I think that covers them all. I'll be there some Friday night and Saturday but other then that I am swamped with the rest of life. Feel rather burnt out.

Hanging out with some of my friends at lunch today and I guess with all the new people I feel really, really out of place. I think I'm just old and out of date.

Or a 6.

Or both...

Oops almost forgot they do (ugh) DDR this weekend too.

22 February 2005

From the mouthes of Solars

I WILL DEFEAT THE PACIFIC OCEAN! Yea, only a Solar would say that, mean it seriously, and probably be capable of doing it. Overheard from RPG.net.

20 February 2005

Forgot

XA people, my roommate has also helpfully created a prototype emblem or UWSP XA so go check it out on his blog. It should be fairly close to this date in his blog.

Loyalist and Abby

I'll hit these in reverse because I haven't done many posts that mention Abby yet. Yes Abby. Abby and Julie came over and hung out quite a bit this weekend. Primarily, I think, to make sure my roommate hadn't died and to make him more social (a lost cause). Anywho, Abby and Co. came over Friday but I was heading out fairly quick so we just chatted, they got the $0.05 tour-for free-and then they watched a movie with Twism. Feeling a somewhat bad host I decided to call Abby (I'm out of font modifiers that I know in HTML now) and Julie and see if they wanted to hang out. So we watched Dune. Abby hadn't seen or watched it so she was greatly enlightened. Alas she is hesistant to read the series. Good science fiction not being read is a crime. When I get around to putting the next wave of photos I could put a picture of ABBY(!!1!one!!) on here for your viewing pleasure. Then again no one appreciated my last picture at all. Guess maybe the half a reader I have left doesn't enjoy people pictures. Abby with a scenic view behind her? Now noticeably this entire paragraph is rather silly and doesn't say much about Abby. Oh well.

On to more serious things.

If you know what an Enneagram is, and there are several readers who do, you might be interested to know that I'm a 6. Those who know me (and the Enneagram) would not be survived. For those who don't have a clue, which included me until this afternoon, basically I am what this post title is (minus the Abby part).

Right. I am somewhat less hyper now. Later.

19 February 2005

Life Continues

And work continues apace on the UWSP XA webpage. I tried my hand out at photo-shopping today and that's how UofWSP got added to the logo. However you can't actually read it very well so next weekend (when I am back here in the FAC) I will have to try and do a better job at it. Might play with FontAgentPro and see if I can find a fun font for it. Considering the Mac's have nearly 2100 might as well use it and get some experience at it. Maybe I will be able to help someone someday in here. Happy tho that I managed to get frames working on the site, I think that'll make it look marginally more professional.

So having more or less survived this week with my GPA not down too much thing turned out well maybe slightly better then I thought. I'm feeling down at the moment though (admittedly a minor sense of accomplishment comes with progress on the webpage and my resume) as a Christian and just as a person. Frankly I don't think I've been the best Christian lately, I've pushed people when I shouldn't have and I have not been leading the greastest example of a Christian lifestyle. There are areas I have made improvements in (some of that I am incredibly proud of and hope I can continue, yay me!) but there is always room for improvement. In general I feel my people skills are continuing to cause more messes for others to deal with and clean up. Then there's my common sense and total lack of timing who seem to be able to coordinate splendidly. It's a wonder that I should be left in charge of a webpage or a computer lab much less anything else.

So I'm still a little down but please go out and check out the XA webpage and give me feedback. I tend not to notice stupid things I am doing wrong and subtle hints generally don't work on me as I am not all that subtle, so be direct and hopefully I will not be so bullheaded (which I doubtless am when people are direct thus they attempt subtly instead, are we doomed?) and take your advice. Gotta run.

18 February 2005

Now that I think of it...

If anyone wants a Gmail invite shoot an e-mail to one of my accounts (prefferably my Gmail one but my UWSP is fine). I've had 50 of them for a week or three and well frankly I've given away maybe 5 or so total invites in my near year long tenure with Gmail. So if you want one e-mail me.

Stuff to see

From the desk of Filteau. And from Brent's domain, some deep thoughts.

Enjoy.

14 February 2005

Not Good

And it only gets worse from here. Don't expect much this week unless a miracle occurs (and it won't).

13 February 2005

Inferiority

Talking with Al (who's an actual IT professional) I find that I know very very very very (did I mention very?) little about anything beyond some random stuff for C++, VB.NET, and SQL. I can't do much in UNIX/LINUX, no real ability to fun (if evil) things like hacking, or anything like that. It's dissapointing. That said I put up the replacement Chi Alpha webpage. Hopefully it'll look prettier sooon.

Maybe all I just know is theory. But what good is theory if you can't apply it?

11 February 2005

Nobody knows who I really am.
I've never felt this empty before.
And if I ever need someone to come along,
Who's gonna comfort me and keep me strong?

09 February 2005

Amy Clark and Napoleon Dynamite

Ok first off before I explain my bizarre title: as most of you know (and are probably tired of hearing already) I work (sleep) in the XA office now to help cover hours for people. Seeing as I live waaaay out in the boonies (The Village) I figured it'd be easy if you had some reason you wanted to visit me (you're insane?) to offer an alternative to going there. Anywho (get to the point you long winded moron who enjoys uses parentheses too much) if you do I'm there 9AM-11AM Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. There is 029 UC, the XA/IV/Cru office located past the SIEO desk in that area where all the other student organization offices are located. Feel free to stop by, if I'm sleeping go right ahead and wake me!

I have realized a lot lately that I am incredibly long winded but it's not useful info like when Brent or (sometimes) Lars speaks. It's kinda random blah rambling. Sorry to all those who've suffered this via AIM, e-mail or in person. I am sorta trying to stop but I'm a basket case in this area.

London people. Our own Ms. Amy Clark is running for SGA Veep next year. Let's all vote for her! And if she doesn't win, let's rig it so she becomes Veep anyways. :D

Finally saw Napoleon Dynamite. Filteau had it on the CPS comp so watched it over work. Personal opinion: it's not that great. It does have it's moments, but they're just moments. Glad I didn't spend money on it. Sorry I am not on the "I love it" bandwagon. Not really my kind of movie so shoulda known that goin' in folks.

That's really all for now.

FortwismhereisaparagraphthathasnospacesbetweenthewordsPleasegotohisblogandcomplaintohim!

08 February 2005

County Market Run

So instead of some last minute studying as time runs out on another North Quad late night shift I shall explain perhaps on of the most legendary expierences of my rather dull collegiate career. County Market is the area chain of open 24 hours supermarkets. Up til this very semester I had been to the place dozen or so times. The catch being that everytime I had been here was past midnight. Somehow whenever I went with Lars (and sometimes Twism) I never went during what might be considered "normal business hours". Thus the famed County Market run was born. Why do I explain this quirk now? Cause in about 17 minutes me and Twism are going to County Market.

And we'll tell 'em Boromir sent us.

07 February 2005

Commentary

So my afternoon class got cancelled because my prof is sick. Incidentally now like all but 3 of the IT people are sick. It seems the flu is trying to take us all. Yes I am exaggerating a bit there but still, we have a lot of sick people! Hoping they all get better soon but who knows.

Trying to explain the whole quiet blogs vs. normal blogs sections since it has caused such a pseudo-furor (or it gave something for people to rag me on cause they know I'd overreact, hence this :D). Basically tho if you're on the quiet blogs sure it's a nudge (gentle or otherwise) from me to post more but it also makes it easier for people who uses my blog as a links section and poignantly ignore any other content on the page. This allows them to figure out in an instant which blogs see updates often enough that they should check daily/weekly whereas the quiet ones need to be check weekly/monthly. Anyhow...

Patriots won. It was an impressive game. Let's face it, the Pats to a large extent deserved to win. They've worked hard for this and shown that in an NFL which most of the time flip-flops on whose good and who ain't they continue to be good. It was a nice show but AFC has been the powerhouse for several years now and cheering for the Eagles acknowledges that. Brent is correct in saying that we like to cheer for underdogs even if the side with the upper hand worked hard to get where they were. Besides at least they are consistent unlike my Dolphins...

Life continues apace here in it's own boring little way. With snow on the ground again the lakes and ponds that are the streets and sidewalks of Stevens Point have become camoflauged. Tests are coming up (one this week, two next week) and school is def. in full swing. My schedule is almost down-pat so pretty soon I won't have to think about it. Yea, that's right I like having everything generally scheduled out so I can run on automatic. It's the way I function, I prefer not to have to think about the little things and just enjoy the free-time I have without having to remember where I need to be next. If that made any sense raise your hand and say something in Latin.

Going to get some deeper stuff done later I hope. Asta.

06 February 2005

Yipes

Bloglist updated. :P

05 February 2005

Twism Says He'll Be Saved Soon

I gotta admit, this is hilarious. Oh that's amusing.

Some More Changes

So I decided to put a counter on here. Not sure how useful it'll be. As I've said I use this page as links page so I pass thru quite a bit. Anyhow I'll see about this as I am not completely sold. Homework now. First Friday Fellowship was a blast! Meeting new people who aren't new to Peace at all. Yay more Christians out there! Always a morale boost.

In the opposite end: why can't Stevens Point build a street or sideswalk that doesn't instantly flood? Sheesh, I'll need a canoe soon to get to school...

04 February 2005

So I should bring a movie

Yea, need to ask Grandpa if this thing has a DVD drive and if it does I am gonna start bring movies on Fridays and maybe Saturdays. I should do some reading tomorrow to tell truth but I finished the actual lab work for CIS 323 so not that much homework to worry about.

I finished of my Rwanda book so now I am moving onto the Six Days War (ie Arab-Israeli conflict). I am enjoying digging into actual history a lot recently. In this case though recently would be the past couple months. I have a stack of science fiction books sitting needing to be read so eventually I'll swing back to that I am sure. For the moment though I am trying to expand my knowledge of this world and its problems. Do I have any solutions? Not really, the stuff I am reading about cannot be changed or is something that Americans shouldn't really interfere in. So I will just try to educate myself so I can better understand the world around me. That sounds like a high and mighty goal for the spring doesn't it?

So tons and tons of my co-workers have been getting really really sick. It's a rather new thing for me to be surrounded by a mild epidemic. At the 'Ko it was hard to take down everyone but here we all uses the same base stations so close proximity happens. It seems to me a short-term thing however. Everyone should be back up on their feet by next week. Else we're gonna be really hurting. I don't have enough free time to pick up hours (having only 1 hour gaps between classes) so I cannot even help out much.

This weekend I am gonna try and post some stuff that I have been meaning to do. As to whether I will get to it or not I don't really know.

My superbowl call: Patriots 27 Eagles 13...

01 February 2005

Links (Part 2 of Several)

Oy, today I'll tackle the enormous field (recently updated with help of my ever cynnical and anti-social roommate) of "active" blogs. Short blurbs here cause there are so many. I'll add my pointless humor because that's the way I work.

Katy's Journal: A debator friend who goes to ASU but now has returned to these warm climes for student teaching. Very active Democrat. She likes Dean, but no one's perfect.
Brent's Blog: Current Chi Alpha President and resident deep-thinker. Brent has to be one of the smartest people I know and if you want to argue about religion do visit the eightstar collective and bring stuff up. He also introduced me to Marvin's so of course I must say good things.
Rachel's Blog: Sort of a friend of a friend's blog. Still an interesting read especially about Christian life once you get out of college (something I don't have to worry about for several decades).
Casey's Journal: One of the people from the London trip. Kind of a quirky journal. Casey strikes me as kind of pseudo-hippy and a bit odd at times. Pretty sure she thinks I'm rather odd as well so it's a fair trade. She should talk to Brent tho sometime, think she'd learn a lot.
Laura's Journal: Another London cohort. She's refurnishing an attic. Sounds like fun to me. She and Casey are both graduated folks btw.
Ryan's Blog: An old high school buddy who now goes to Stout. He created this out of the blue in a moment of insanity/angst/boredom and has kept it up since. If he didn't have a gf I'd say he'd be more of a nerd then me. Either way it's still a close race.
Ashley's Journal: Current GASP Co-President. You should read her journal. Why? Well if you know Ashley you should know why. :D It's a good read but kind of seasonal (ie when UWSP is in session things are updated).
Jen's Journal: Allison's roomie. A fresh new journal that's actually kept up. Lars should get lessons.
Twism's Blog: Aka my roomie. Waiting to see if he keeps up with it but look anyways. A long time ago (ie the first two months or so) he posted as Ty in my blog.
BreAnna's Blog: A friend of Ryan's and mine who is currently in France. Go read about a pilgrim in the unholy land.
Nathan's (Europe) Blog: Nathan went to Spain as soon as I got back from England. Coinidence? Probably not. An interesting look at another European country (with my blog, and BreAnna's you can read about a fair amount of Europe!)
Lars' Prayer Blog: A new attempt by Lars at a blog. Remains to be seen if it'll do better. I've got $20 running on it not.
RSB: Aka Rebecca Sean Borgstrom of Exalted/Nobilis fame. A very good writer. I used to have time to keep up with her stories but as of Europe I've fallen completely behind. Incredible short fiction there for the reading if you want. Buy Nobilis too, it's superb.
Scott Taylor's Journal: Aka izzylobo. A former Exalted writer. Very thoughtful person who from his journal at least reminds me a lot of myself. He'll find some beauties of news articles at times.
Chronicles of Neph: Aka Nephipal. A current Exalted writer (working on Alchemicals as we speak). This is his normal journal rather then his Exalted stuff although occasionaly some of that sneaks in.
Adam Timmer's Journal: A form Exalted writer/contributor who happens to live in London. Interesting insites to the UK, etc. Somehow he find my blog and commented. Still amazed by that.
Black Hatt Matt's Journal: A White Wolf writer (although not anymore I think) who did a tiny bit of Exalted and a ton of Dark Ages. Very active gamer with lots of useful GM resources at his website.
White Wolf's Journal: The official WW LJ. Just created but already an Exalted book is talked about. Hopefully this'll keep up!
GoO's Journal: Gaurdian's of the Order LJ. Creators of BESM and Silver Age Sentinels and Canadians to boot. First game company blog/LJ I ever saw so I have a special amount of respect for them.

Ok that's it. Wow, that was longish. Hope that was helpful too and I didn't cause any of the people who write those blog/LJ's to want to cause severe bodily harm to me.

That just killed the rest of my shift, yay!

How long?!?

So. It's been a year. I've been wasting valuable room on the web for one year. Well this is certainly further proof that I am a nerd. But like I told Lindsey last night when "you already knew this". Somehow even though people do I am still socially acceptable although perhaps just over the web and not in person. Even in person too, in small doses at least.

To tell truth I am surprised I kept up this long with things. When I started it was an ad-lib thing. I was poking around Google and found Blogger. Somehow I kept writing it. The Wheel turns ever on.

Now you'd think I would have something deep to say but I don't. Don't really need to look back, I have an absurdly large archive to do that afterall. Not that some of those posts are much good. I wonder how I could write them myself.

Anyhow, for those of you who've kept reading this to some extent for all that time thanks. Hope it was worth your while. If not, well that's what the comments widgets are for!