Requiem of the mind

Warcraft!

2008-04-30T12:10:00.002-03:00

I know I talk about this game alot in real life, and im sure I have mentioned a few times on this blog but I love World of Warcraft. Infact I love every game I'v ever played by blizzard. The first game I remember playing from blizzard (atleast that I knew was from blizzard, blackthorne and lost vikings were played before this but i didnt know they were blizzard titles) was Warcraft 2. I use to play that game from when i got home from school until it was time for me to goto bed. I would make maps to play, play through the campaign. Even edit the stats of my enemies to try and make a more challenging game. When i heard about starcraft. (warcraft in space as i and many other people called it) it just increased my love for RTS and blizzard in general i pretty much stopped playing warcraft2 and turned my attention to starcraft. I wasn't the best player out there, but I feel i was the best amoung my friends. After I felt i beat all the game could through at me i started to increase the number of enemy forces i would fight until it was me against 7 computers and still winning. Now I haven't been hardcore into starcraft for awhile now and when i tried to play it last fall i could only compete against 2-3 computers without losing. I still look back to the game as the game that made me just LOVE RTS'. When blizzard announced Starcraft2 i was, like many others, saying "Finally". With starcraft:ghost canceled (pout) been announced a year or so before i needed to believe that the company wouldn't let the francise die. And im glad they didn't

Anyways I'm off topic now. What this post was suppose to be about is me and maybe some friend(s) helping me make a new machinima world of warcraft movie. Most of the design of the first new episode? is complete I just need to work out some kinks in the script and some format,character design, and a few other things down. It is going to be another music video. But this time with original lyrics not me just taking clips from the game to put to a song i like. I have put in atleast 10-20 hours so far on this and im sure it wont be done for a month or more but I expect a much better product then my first video (which was made almost 3 years ago i believe). You can still find it on youtube, look fur zulma pumpkin head.

Anyways thats all that I have to talk about but I did add a new feature to the blog and im curious if it works. So here is the new weapon i just for my druid in Drak'thul.

Loan

2008-04-10T15:03:00.002-03:00

So my student loan didn't give me enough money for my classes. I can't say I was surprised but I was wishing that I wouldn't have to work. I am almost out money so now im looking for work, i got ym resume dropped off at a local car wash, iv applied at the local video stores for work and a near by pet shop. I am now expanding my radius and looking at the mall (ok im not expanding it far :P). I saw that chapters is hiring but i hate having to apply online it seems so impersonal. I've been checking the job sites every day when i get home in hopes of finding a weekend job that will help me pay my bills. heres hoping i find one soon.

It's been awhile...

2008-04-09T13:04:00.002-03:00

But not as long as some.

So what have I been up too? Well since my last update I have gone home atleast twice to spend time with my family which I love. I have got to see my neice on many occasions and it keeps surprising me how much she has grown and every time I talk to her she called me Uncle Aiden. Which I love. I left my job at the grocery store I was working at in the middle of Febuary. Before I did that though I had applied at Compucollege in my home town. I got accepted and am now taking a Human Resources course with payroll. I am enjoying the classes so far. I found out my WPM is 86. However if I push myself i got 122 on one of Mavis' gaming programs, i started to laugh and printed out the picture :P

That's it for today, expect more updates often.

Busy

2007-12-24T08:19:00.000-04:00

Sorry Busy with the holiday season upon us. Ill be back to updating this tri-weekly(correct word?) sometime this week or next. Take care all and Merry Christmas, or whatever you are celebrating. Also if you are looking to get me gifts, you cant go wrong with gift cards!

Tv Shows

2007-12-17T07:49:00.000-04:00

We dont have cable anymore. And thats my Blog about tv shows this week. Also its cold and im tired.

Week ending December 14

2007-12-14T09:31:00.000-04:00

Well lets see what has happened to me this week. I was/am fighting a cold. God bless Nyquil. And my joints and back are very sore, im blaming the long shifts iv been having to work to make up for the people we are missing from over night. But other then that im doing fine. I finished my Christmas shopping for the year and all i need to do now is wrap my gifts for my parents brother and niece. I hope they all like what i got them. For myself im expecting some clothing (much needed btw) and maybe a book or two to read. If dont get a book i can always grab a handful for myself in the new year. Nathan recently emailed Jordan and I about the author they found to finish the Wheel of Time series, which im glad they have found, right now im at the point that i dont care how it ends, as long as it ends. I have the same feeling for the Sword of truth series (which incase you didn't know just ended in November with its final book Confessor). Thats all i have i have to report for this week, take care of yourselves and watch the roads, they are slippery.

Halo nurse

2007-12-12T10:52:00.000-04:00

So around 6-9 monthes ago Jordan and i started playing a Trilogy. Halo. We had both known about the series but never played and after knowing halo 3 would be coming out this fall we decided to tackle halo 1 and 2 before it launched. I have to admit i never thought id be one of those "Halo" fan boys but after playing the game, (both twice) i have to say i really enjoyed and wanted to play more of it, and unlike fans of the first halo i didn't have to wait long for more story and game play. We played both games over xbox live against real people and after a while i was able to do all right, i think near the end i averaged around 1 death 1 kill then we moved onto the second game. This was quite the change, we got new weapons and saw some of our favorite weapons get changed for better or worse but we played through, and kept on trucking, i have to say im not that much of a fan of the duel wielding but it was a nice open when having 2 needlers. The reason why im writing this post about halo is because saturday night Jordan Stefan and myself played some 3 player online play and it reminded me of how much i loved the game. I hope sometime in the near future we can play it again, Stefan was able to pick up the game quicker then i expected and started to make me look like crap. But we had some fun even though it took awhile at first to get the game going. Halo 3 has some neat new features to it. You are able to edit maps and create movies, we showed Stefan some of the movies (And i could tell he didn't seem to care as much as Jordan and I had about them). So yeah Halo is fun. Play it.

I'm sick

2007-12-10T07:39:00.000-04:00

Well this blog post was suppose to be about tv shows/movies/or other entertainment (not gaming). But I believe i am coming down with a flu/cold (i never knew the difference) Im all stuffed up iv got a nice wet cough and im sore all over, my joints and bone hurt, just sitting here is hurting, and standing isnt much better. I tried to get some nyquil(sp?) at the store before i left but since we dont have a pharmacy we dont sell it, so i have to wait for one to open and have my roommate/landlord to drive me up to get some. I guess thats it, being sick sucks.

Week ending December 7

2007-12-07T10:41:00.000-04:00

So lets see what has happened that is worth mentioning this week. Well first off all 6shifts a week sucks really badly, i always get home and just want to crawl into bed and sleep. But if i do that ill either wake up a few hours later or before work, so i wont get anything done. Luckily 2 of us have 2 nights off this coming week so im really excited about that, maybe ill be able to soak for awhile and relax. Probably not though.. I finished christmas shopping yesterday, i spent a lot of money and i cringe when i think about it but well its done, and my bills are paid so thats good. We got almost 2 feet of snow this week and that was fun...*cough* the phone at work was ringing all night and its not a quiet phone, it rings throughout the store and everytime it rings i jump. So i was almost shaking that night. Not to much else has happened to me this week so I guess ill end this with a suggestion. If you have played portal goto www.vgcats.com if you have not. I do not go. I repeat do not go if you have not played portal, spoiler alert, spoiler alert.

Oh look another post

2007-12-05T08:07:00.000-04:00

So we have been playing a DS game for the past few weeks now. Jump! Ultimate Stars. It has popular characters from the Shounen Jump manga magazine in Japan. It is always very addictive. So every week Jordan Stefan and myself have gotten together to play this. We make our own decks and fight each other. Now while im not very good at it, I am having a fun time and I can't wait to get together tonight to play again. I have made a few new decks which i hope might win me a few games, but if not well ill have fun anyways. Also we have been playing some Carcassonne on the Xbox which is also very fun. If you haven't played the board game it is a tile based game. Each turn a place gets a time from the pile and has to place it in a spot where the terrain would match all 4 sides. Then you can place a worker/slave/meeple on either the grass land, road, city or temple. At the end of the game (or when certain tiles are complete) you receive points. And the person with the most win. While i don't win at this game, i can say i dont come in last :D. Lastly we started playing Puzzle Fighter. Which is freaking awesome. Mix tetris with Street Fighter and you have Puzzle fighter. Words can not describe how fun this game is, and whoever is winning can lose at the turn of the hat just by getting the right blocks at the right time. Very fun. Anyways I suggest my readers who haven't tried these games to go out and give them a whirl, and if you don't like them, well i guess it sucks to be you?

Happy anniversary

2007-12-04T08:00:00.000-04:00

Well its been a year to the day since i updated this place. What have i been up to? Well I'm finally working again, so thats new. I had a job at a call center for a month but it didn't last it was giving me headaches so i felt it best to look for another line of work. So after a few more weeks of looking i found a stocking job at a local grocery store and well iv been there ever since. It has been about 6 months now (Which reminds me i should be getting a raise soon....) and it is all right, we are short staffed 2 people right now, one of the guy broke his foot at work while the other person (my boss) is out with a kidney infection and a neck injury. I have been reading a lot of comics recently. Before Stefan left this country to teach english (lol i almost typed engrish :P) in japan he left me 2 huge boxes of comics to read, I can proudly say (yeah thats sad that im proud about this) i have read most if not all of them. Last week he gave me a few more of the Ultimate marvel series (which i love) and have almost finished them. I am still be into World of warcraft (and probably will be for a long time). We still have the 2 cats at this house and i still have them. Even though somedays i tolerate their presence and pet one of them. I got a new neighbor a few weeks back, she isn't loud or anything but every once in awhile i hear a thud from upstairs, I am able to sleep without getting woken up now. I think the most part of it was i wasn't use to someone living above me, and now i am use to it. I probably wont get sleep when She and Jordan get their own place in the new year. Well thats all the news I have right now. I recently downloaded a reminder program to help me with updating this place regularly. Lets hope it works.

I now hate cats

2006-12-04T19:42:00.000-04:00

So we have have two cats at the house now, and I hate each of them now. Today was the last straw. While at my parents for the weekend i made some rolls (to learn how to and to bring half home to have). After I got back i placed the rolls (in thier bag) on top of the microwave incase any human wanted some. I awoke today to see the bag torn apart, shreded if you will, and a cat laying on it looking at me, I could have killed it right there if it wasnt for the fact they put poison on the cat yesterday for fleas, and i didnt want poison on me. So i tossed the rolls out and put a bag ontop of them so the cats wouldnt get into it. So an hour ago i decided to make taco's. I put the hamburger in the frying pay with a lot of hot water to thaw it (since i keep my meat frozen). I come out after 10 minutes to turn the hamburger over and star the other side. I saw the frying pan knocked over. That was it i was chasing the cats down now but they were to fast to me, if i caught them i dont know what i would have done but my god was i and still am so freaking angry. I hate cats.

Lots of things and so many spelling mistakes

2006-11-15T14:32:00.000-04:00

So i went home for the long weekend. Which was a nice break from the next to nothing i do during the week (other then looking for work).

We got there about 6:00pm in the evenning and i went to relax mode right away. I hooked up my PS2. I brought a few games with me, some i was near the others and others i wanted to play. I decided on Silent hill 2 first (i played it before and enjoyed it but never beat it). I started a new game and 8 hours later i beat it. It was a good game but the ending left me wanting more (i found out after i got back it had many endings). So i beat a game, and in only 8 hours, go me. I went to bed after i beat the game.

I awoke the next day with my neice peering over the end of the bed at me. I jumped then greeted with a lazy smile, she yelled and ran out of the room (children). I had a nice home made breakfast waiting for me when i got up (god i love going home). I walked around the house looking at the growth for the year, and sighing the the sad looking raspberry bushes we had (i love raspberries). After an hour or two walk father convinced me to take a trip to the local liqour store (which is about a 15 minute drive away). So I got the keys and drove out, but stopped at my brothers place since i saw he had the tractor. This was a mistake on my part since once he saw me he got me to pick him up some beer at the store as well, so i went drove out there (speeding because they moved the speed limit sign, but i didnt get caught). Once i got back to my brother's he had a big grin on his face, it turns out he wanted me to help him load up a trailer full of gravel by my great uncles place. So i agree, since he was on he tractor is gave me time to return my father's beer and smokes and look for some left older halloween snacks then drive back, only to get there 10 minutes before he got there anyways. So we start filling up the trailer and once we are about half full i ask him, "so how much did you pay for this?" he laughed and told me he didnt. He told me it was his boss' land and he could have it since it was sitting there for the better part of 5 years (so i felt better about that) After we finished my second cousin came over and proceeded with 20 questions (apparently he is a nosey person). After that i went home and had a beer with my father on the deck. He told me some stories about the squirels near by, about how he chased one up a tree and kept him there for a few hours, or how he scared a big grey one up a tree then the squirel proceeded to throw nuts at him. I dont know if i should believe him or not but it was an amusing story or two. That night we watched some shows (some i liked and others i didnt). During the shows i disliked i was able to find time to finish Pheonix Wright (wow finished 2 games).

The next day was the day of my neice's party (In the morning i started Dragon Warrior 7). The party was fun even though it took us an hour and a half to get there. (it should only have taken 30 minutes but we had some driving around we had to do). I was scared she wouldnt like the finding nemo watch i got her, but i got a special thank you for it, so i was whappy. Oh before she openned the presents a bunch of us were watching Shrek 2 (iv seen that movie a dozen times now) and i heard her scream "Daddy there is cake on fork" I for the love me have never heard a child cry because there was cake on thier fork, i had to laugh at that. We left around 6:30 and got home around 8:00 (another long drive back). Mother and i watched Supernaturals and Jericho (sp?) that night, i enjoyed both shows and will have catch more of them.

My last day there was rather un-eventful. Played a lot of DW7 and helped my brother tow his car out of the woods with the tractor. So that sums up my long weekend, i had a lot of fun, a lot of good food, and i actually finished 2 games. Go me.

I'v been watching Hercules

2006-10-11T12:42:00.000-03:00

This is the story of a time long ago,
A time of myth and legend,
When the ancient gods were petty and cruel.
And they plagued mankind with suffering.
Only one man dared to challenge their power,
Hercules.

Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen,
A strength surpassed only by the power of his heart.
He journeyed the earth battling the minions of his wicked stepmother Hera,
The all powerful queen of the gods.
But wherever there was evil,
Wherever an innocent would suffer,
There would be Hercules.

Anyways back to the matter at hand. My computer fucked up yesterday, and I have spent the last 20 hours trying to get it fixed (i say 20 hours because i had a nap).

I have no idea what happened to it but I know 1 thing. Windows XP fix/repair function does not work, and also makes things worse. After trying to fix/repair my computer for about 10 hours i decided to scream "Fuck it" and format my computer and start over. I lost all my anime and shows, bookmarks and the worse of all my resume and job hunting sites. So im fuming right now.

So as you can guess it is up and running now, im just running through old disks trying to find any informationi might have backed up. When i usually format my computer i back-up shit but this time i wasnt possible.

Fuck

2006-09-15T13:25:00.000-03:00

Fuck
Show IPA Pronunciation Vulgar.
–verb (used with object)
1. to have sexual intercourse with.
2. Slang. to treat unfairly or harshly.
–verb (used without object)
3. to have sexual intercourse.
4. Slang. to meddle (usually fol. by around or with).
–interjection
5. Slang. (used to express anger, disgust, peremptory rejection, etc., often fol. by a pronoun, as you or it.)
–noun
6. an act of sexual intercourse.
7. a partner in sexual intercourse.
8. Slang. a person, esp. one who is annoying or contemptible.
9. the fuck, Slang. (used as an intensifier, esp. with WH-questions, to express annoyance, impatience, etc.)
—Verb phrases
10. fuck around, Slang.
a. to behave in a frivolous or meddlesome way.
b. to engage in promiscuous sex.
11. fuck off, Slang.
a. to shirk one's duty; malinger.
b. go away: used as an exclamation of impatience.
c. to waste time.
12. fuck up, Slang.
a. to bungle or botch; ruin.
b. to act stupidly or carelessly; cause trouble; mess up.
—Idiom
13. give a fuck, Slang. to care; be concerned.
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In my case right now. Number 5 on the list.
As i feared i lost out on both jobs. Yay life sucks.

I have no idea what im going to do...

2006-09-13T16:54:00.000-03:00

So I had my second interview at UPS yesterday and i believed it went well. I was told id hear back in the next day or two. Today about an hour ago I got a call back from the Wondalynn. A job I wanted more the UPS job (at the time). They told me they could pay me what I was asking and offered me $2.50. No I'm in a pickle. I'm waiting to hear back from UPS and I have a job offer. The diffrence between the two jobs is now almost 4 dollars. And after a year at UPS it would be 5 dollars. I asked the man from Wondalynn if I could get the number and call him back. I then called UPS and left a message if I could get contacted if im in the running for the new opennings there. I have yet to hear back (and probably wont hear back until tomorrow). I believe there is a law somewheres that if the worse case can happen it will happen (or something along those lines). This has happened to me today. If I wait to long i could end up losing both jobs. If I take the inn job I might lose out on the better paying one. I could almost scream right now.

Also I'm sure some of you are thinking "what dont you take one job and then take the other if you get it". Well because it fucks over the first job i had. And maybe someday down the line i need a job at thats the only place thats offering. Anyways time will tell and mostly likely with my luck i still wont have a job....sigh this sucks.

Steve Irwin

2006-09-04T08:01:00.000-03:00

Most of you probably have heard about Steve Irwin by now. He was filming "Ocean's Deadliest" and got a stingray barb into the chest and it punctured his heart.

Like most of you out there, i watched the show to see him get hurt while yelling at the tv and saying don't be such an idiot and stop pissing off the animal. Now the only time we will see him again is in re-runs or parodies. Well Steve Irwin you died doing what you loved, how many people can say that?

If zombies attacked.

2006-08-08T09:12:00.000-03:00

So say on day you are sitting at your computer having a debate with people about who was the superior captain, Kirk or Picard and then you hear a scratching at your window. You look outside and see a partial decomposed face looking at you trying to get in to feast on your brain. What do you do?

Well I have been been job hunting for awhile and browsing the web looking at anything that peaks my interest and I saw this, from the zombie survival book.

10 ways to get ready for the upcoming threat:

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the stair case, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car and onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on

Now you may wonder we can win against the zombies but can we really? I mean how many zombies could raise from the grave? If the bodies are decomposed enough they would be skeletons or maybe ghouls, at what stage do they stop being zombie and become an animated skeleton with a little flesh left behind?

So we know the sure fire way to stop a zombie is to remove its head. But a brain dies after not having oxygen for 10 minutes (it may be more it may be less but lets use this ball park figure). So if we use a sword to remove a zombie's head would it still be a threat for the 10 minutes? Could it's head roll to you and bite your ankle making you one of the walking dead (we will get back to this part later)? If so it may be impossible to stop the zombie threat.

So from most movies, or should i say soon to be documentaries of the upcoming threat we see that most zombies are slow. Which give us normals a chance to get away from them, but do zombies get tired after slowly walking after us? Mostly likely not. Also they have numbers. So lets say there isn't a higher power controlling them while running from we are most likely to run into more and be doomed. Also in these documentaries we see that a single bite and sometimes a scratch can lead to zombification. So what is stopping this disease from becoming air born? Then even the people who are held up in say a mall would eventually catch the disease and become the walking dead.

So the dead are outside and want to get in. Now these are all people who were dead before. So even if you died of natural causes during the invasion would you really need to be biten or scratched by a zombie to become one upon dead? Mostly likely not. So while running for your lives do you bring friends with you? Knowing that if you cant find food or water they will turn on you or you on them? There is safety in numbers, but remember the zombies have more numbers then you do and thier army is growing.

Now lets say the zombies need living brains to survive. What happens after all human life is gone (After all you know the zombies will win because they have the numbers and well a winning attitude)? Will they starve to death? Well there is a problem there if they did starve to death upon dieing they would just rise again looking for food. So either way the zombie threat will live on.

In closing i know the coming war against humans and zombies looks bleak but there is one small chance of survival. If watching any of these documentaries have taught me anything it is... is... is there a scratching at my window....oh god...

So whats been going on.

2006-05-25T07:49:00.000-03:00

First off 2 new movies for all my readers. One is for Star wars fans, and the other is for Final Fantasy fans.

What have i been up to? Not much just working and playing world of warcraft with my co-workers.

I'm slowly working on building a new computer, this month i got a new monitor (which is awesome). It is a 17 inch Sony LCD one, it is very nice. Next month I'm going to but the tower, power supply and mother board. (maybe some fans then) After that i dont know, RAM or a video card.

Anyways thats it for me. Take care, and enjoy the movies.

Not much to report

2006-04-28T08:46:00.000-03:00

I havent updated this in more then 3 weeks so i thought id post some stuff i have been doing.

I'm working at wal-mart right now, its not bad inventory is over and the job pays my bills so ill stick with it for awhile now.

I read Battle Royale and all of gantz (that has been released to date), both of these series are awesome, you should read them.

I picked up Kingdom hearts 2, which is also awesome and im really enjoying it, go play it.

Lastly lots of World of warcraft, i started an undead mage on a PvE server, its a lot different playing on this type of server then a PvP more laid back, also i know a few people who are playing there so its nice too. Oh i got my mount money by level 27 which was cool, all earned myself.

Something new.

2006-04-04T14:28:00.000-03:00

I thought instead of emailing interesting videos to my friends id just use the many video sites out there that have embedded players to show them to people. I know a few of you dont like these players but well dont watch the video :)

Anyways the first one im showing is Grayson. A fan made trailer for a movie that will never be made. I enjoyed it when i watched it, many of you may now.

Not my proudest moment.

2006-03-19T22:44:00.000-04:00

So yesterday i wake up and hear some people talking in my kitchen i dont really recognize, so i put on my house coat and went out to see what was going on. They were 2 friends of JT that he hasnt seen in a year. They sounded like newfies but they were from PEI go figure. They tossed me a bear and i sat in the lazy boy, and didnt move for 5 hours. After the beer was gone we cracked open the crown royal, some other stuff to i cant remember what. After that was all gone we start calling people. We get ahold of a guy JT knows (and iv met him a quite a few times and he is here right now as im writting this. We are doing a Maraudon run in World of Warcraft). Now Norm lives in chipman, and we convinced him to come to fredericton and buy us more booze. While we are waiting for Norm to show up one of the guy's girlfriend calls and apparently she is pissed that he is out drunk with his friends. So she comes over and takes him away.Norm comes over gets JT and a few others to go buy more booze. Steve and I plop infront of his TV and watch some Angel until they get back (For those of you care it was Fredless, the episode where Fred's parents show up for the first time, its a good episode). They get back and have a shitload of booze, 8 cases of coolers, the largest Captain Morgain bottle iv ever seen, and some fireball for me. Now keep in mind i hadnt eaten at all yesterday, (and in fact i didnt eat until an hour ago at Misu, very good). I had a Mike's, and chased it with fireball. Then i had two drinks of rum, one was a 50/50 mix with coke, the second was a 75% rum 25% coke. This is where things start to blur. I remember JT going into his room and coming out and then its nothing until i wake up in my bed at 1am with the light on. My first thought is oh shit i have made a fool of myself. Then i bent over and throw up in my garbage can(which i was doing alot but ill mention it here). I go out to the kitchen and the place is a mess. In fact it still is but most of it is cleaned up other then some spilled chinses food stuff. I clean myself up and go lay down again for a few more hours. As people start walking up i hear what happens, apparently i got sick on myself (i guess i lied about mentioning it again above) and was twirling plastic heads in a big box (dont ask). After an hour of that i passed out on the floor. A few pictures were taken of me but luckily they are deleted now. After awhile i crawled to my bed and went to sleep. Which makes me feel a little better is that i wasnt the only one who was sick or looked like an idiot. Just about everyone other then the girl upstairs was in as bad a shape as i was.

I feel bad for missing anime with Jordan and Stefan but im glad i didnt go in the state i was in, i would have probably been banned from the place. Oh well one life lesson learned, i dont think ill drink again for a looooong time. Yes i know people say that all the time but im going to try listen to it.

Spore

2006-03-12T22:22:00.000-04:00

I have to get Spore when it comes out.

**EDIT**
For our Chuck Norris fans.

Lots of things

2006-03-08T13:39:00.000-04:00

First of all when I went to pick up the refund from my term's tuition I found out that the money was sent back to the student loan people. So im out of money now, so i have to find a job quickly. Which will probably be back at Wal-mart... Oh well we all have to do what we need to pay bills. I will continue to look for day work but ill work there to get bills paid and caught up.

Secondly I have found a new website I am loving. I have a few files im going to show my room mates when they get up or back.

I see that Nathan has changed his web log in the past week and it looks like I might have to check up on it more often now. Thanks Nathan :P

The End?

2006-02-07T15:52:00.000-04:00

Well for reasons I don't want to get into right now, I will be withdrawing from university on monday or tuesday next week. I will have to start looking for a job now. So yeah...

Happy new years!

2006-01-01T09:57:00.000-04:00

I just want to point out that I love to read. Whenever im alone ill pull out a book and start to read. I figured on my web log (i hate the word blog) i would type what i read over the last year and what i thought about it.

Wheel of Time:
Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Sword, Path of Daggers.

I enjoy this series but the long wait between each book is very annoying, causing me to have to reread the series again. I only read these 8 books because I didnt want to bring my hard covers to class with me.

Book Total 8:

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order:
Vector Prime, Dark Tide 1: Onslaught, Dark Tide 2: Ruin, Agent of Chaos: Hero's Trial, Agent of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse, Balance Point, Recovery (E-Book), Edge of Victory 1: Conquest, Edge of Victory 2: Rebirth, Star by Star, Dark Journey, Rebel Dream, Rebel Stand, Traitor, Destiny's Way, Force Heretic 1: Remnant, Force Heretic 2: Refugee, Force Heretic 3: Reunion, The Final Prophecy, The Unifying Force.

It took me awhile to read Vector Prime. I had to put it down and start it again later. The first time I just didn't like it. I don't know why either after I did get into the series I loved it and couldn't put it down until I was done. I am glad Jordan kept pushing it onto to me to read. All in all great series. Read it.

Book Total 28

The Song of Ice and Fire:
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords

I have read this series many times. When it was first mentioned to me it was said i might not like because of everything going on in the series. It might be to much to grasp. I enjoyed this series because of that. After each chapter I would ponder on what might happen next. This series will probably stay one of my favorites.

Book Total 31

Discworld:
The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Wyrd Sisters

This series is so fun it is hard to put into words. While reading this i had to just laugh out loud. Sometimes this brought made my cheeks brighten because of the people around me. Ah brittish humour. Thank you.

Book Total: 36

Wit'ch War:
Wit'ch Fire

I had this book for years just collecting dust on my shelf. It was mentioned to me by an old friend around 2000. I picked it up then and just didnt get around to reading it. Now that i did i dont know what to say. I'm sure if i hadnt exposed to as much fantasy as i read now i might have enjoyed it more. I doubt ill pick up the rest of the series.

Book Total: 37

Anne Bishop:
The Pillars of the World

She had a trilogy i read when i first started my job at Wal-mart. I was in Chapters one time and saw this book by her. I picked it up and turned it to the back. Right where my finger was placed was my name. I took it an omen and purchased the book. The book was all right. It wasnt bad and it wasn't awesome. I'd probably read the rest of her books out there.

Book Total: 38

Comics:
This list is to is rather large and may not count as "books" to some people but im putting it here and counting them anyways.
Ultimate X-men 1-12
Ultimate Spiderman 1-13 (missing one volume i dont remember which)
Ultimate Elektra 1

I always wanted to read comics when i was younger but a lack of money and a lack of knowledge of where to start kept me from reading. When Stefan offered these to me and told me that they were restarting each series with their own universe I really wanted to read them. I have enjyoed reading these and will most likely keep reading them they are doing some interesting stuff with characters i've loved from cartoons and video games. They are also doing some nice twists with some things i knew of but not everything about.

Book Total: 38 Books, 25 Comics. 1 Tired Brain.

I forgot Catch 22. That was a good book to, I think i might read more by the author.

Book Total: 39 Books, 25 Comics. Still 1 Tired Brain.

What a crazy couple weeks

2005-12-27T13:44:00.000-04:00

I just got back from spending a week at my parents. It's nice to be back at my place though. My bed unmade, my messy messy room. The smell of something i should find before garbage day (yuck).

I checked my marks today from my exams. I failed 2 classes and passed 2. I knew i was going to fail one but the second one surprised me. It was the exam i felt the most comfortable writting and i failed the class. I think ill schedule a time with my prof to talk about what i did wrong with the exam. This is a prof. I enjoy teaching me so im not going in there to butt heads, i just want to go in and see what went wrong.

While at my parents all i did was relax. I didnt even turn on my x-box or ps2. I took about 5-6 games down there to finish and i didnt even touch one. I just enjoyed myself with my Mother Father Brother and Neice (She is talking more clearly now and she is very cute :)).

I dont really have much more to report on it. So everyone who stops by here take care and i hope you have/had a safe holiday season.

Oh and on closing dont get to drunk saturday night ;)

Xenomorphs? No Xenogears

2005-12-14T00:04:00.000-04:00

I was out with Jordan today to get some party supplies and to return a purchase of mine when we stopped in at Gamezilla. It has been atleast a year since I was in there and it was nice to look around there again. We looked at the anime, manga, (i looked at the comics), board games and video games. I saw a game i wanted and i knew Jordan might want it so when i saw it i just pivotted and walked to the checkout to get the owner to get it for me. Jordan didn't know what i saw but was very curious he saw it once i was there asking about it. This is a game i had in the past but traded for another game when i was in grade 12. I regret it to this day. We both saw it at EB once a few years ago for 100 dollars. Thats right a game that was 3-4 years old at the time for about 30 dollars more then it was when it first came out. Anyways it was 40 dollars at gamezilla and im glad i got it. I will be taking it down to my parents with me over the christmas break to play. This is my list of games to play and beat while im downt here. Indigo prophecy (i should be able to beat this game in like 1-2 hours so no problem), Arc the Lad Twilight of the spirits (im at the last level so again another couple of hours). Star Wars: Knights of the old republic (Im rather far in it, maybe playing it for 2 days and i could be done), i may bring my gameboy with me to finish up pokemon if im not done at the time, and then Xenogears.

I'm in my exam run now, i have 3 left, thursday,friday monday. On saturday i'm going to our annual christmas get together and i cant wait. Im going to sing kareokee(sp?) with darcy and i already have a song picked out. Endless love. Atleast i think it will be funny.

Anyways that's it for now. Cya.

What a weekend

2005-12-06T13:07:00.000-04:00

So starting off on Friday i was rather sick (but i seemed to recovered after purging my system and laying down for a couple of hours). After that i went with Jordan to get some food (my stomach had quieted down so i felt good enough to eat something greasy). We continued to play x-men legends 2 which is still very much fun. We finally unlocked a combat mode we wanted for awhile and played that for an hour or more.

On Saturday nothing to exciting happened to me but if you check out Jordan's blog you might find an interesting story. I would have went with them but i was very tired and knew the guys at my place wanted to go out for food the next morning so i declined.

Now Sunday was a very interesting day indeed. I didnt get up until 11 or so. My roommate was sitting in his room playing WoW. I got ready for the day and asked if we were going to goto Cora's for breakfast. He informed me that the landlord wasnt home and the woman who was going to go with us didnt call either. So we just sat around for awhile and as we were about to go i suggested he ask the people upstairs if they wanted to come. He came back down and said they were busy and then about a minute later or so the woman from upstairs came down and talked to my roommate for awhile. We left shortly after that and went to the Big Stop instead of Cora's since we changed our minds. When we got there i ran into my aunt i havnt seen since my grandmother passed away and we talked for a bit. We must have been at the big stop around an hour or so. We got home and saw the landlords car in the yard so we knew he got home. Thats when things got interesting. Apparently the landlord got home and there was 2 police cars in the driveway. (Well a van and a car). It turns out the woman who was (i'll get to the was part) living up stairs attacked her boyfriend with a baseball bat and had her family there for back up. So naturally he called the police. When the land lord got back she was gone and the police were there. He was a little scared because we werent at home and he saw the cops there.

So after all of this happened the land lord kicked both parties out of the house so neither of them live there now. On a side note they have 3 kittens.... or more so we have 3 kittens with us right now. So we don't know if they are coming back for them yet or not.

Well thats all i have to say about that.

P = NP

2005-11-30T12:47:00.000-04:00

In between finishing my last Economics assignment and my last hardware lab i finally got to level 60 with my Troll priest. It was a joyeous ocasion that almost brought a tear to my eye. After having World of Warcraft for a year i finally managed to get a level 60. A few moments later my guild leader logged on and said the guild was breaking up. Well now that wasn't any fun. So a few of people said they were going to join a new guild which was trying to get together for end game cotent, so i signed up with them (i got since everyone needs a priest) and 80-90% of the is level 60 (of the 50+ people in it) so we may start running ZG and MC soon so im happy about that).

The girl who lives upstairs just broke up with her boyfriend. She was really upset the day before last and last night she was just angry. She came down stairs just to talk to the landlord, the other tenant and myself. Not that i minded but i was up an hour later then i had planned and woke up an hour late this morning. After she was done talking she seemed to be in better spirits.

Since her breakup she has left the top door open (which all of us like). This allows the kittens that she has to wonder around the whole house now. I enjoy seeing all these kittens running around pouncing at one thing or another. A few days ago the black cat go into my room somehow. It scared the crap out of me. I was at my computer starting my normal downloads then starting up WoW for a bit when i saw something dart in the corner of my eye. I usually have my door closed when everyone else is sleeping so i dont wake them so i thought it was my imagination. I went back to wow and then heard the cat. It was at the end of my bed looking at me (with its cold dead eyes....just kidding). I went to grab it but it went under my bed. I gave up and went back to my game since we were running an instance. After a pause in the action i start looking for it again and i cant find it in my room at all. Keep in mind that my door is still closed. After awhile i hear my roommate get up so i open the door and ask him if he saw a cat. He promptly pointed to a chair where the black cat was sitting. It creeps me out to think that that cat knows a way into and out of my room with out my knowing...i hope it doesnt sleep on my face and kill me (A La Catch-22).

I have a lab 3:30 again today. There is a lab at 2:30 for everyone who usually have a wednesday lab but their student number starts with an even number, im going to see if i can get in at that time so i can head home early. I need a nap after my short rest last night.

Well I guess im out now. If something hits me (Physically or Mentally) ill let you know.

PS: sometimes i enjoy a title to a posting that doesnt have to deal with the post at all.

PPS: Im sure if anyone gets the subject it will atleast be Nathan.
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PPSS: Maybe Jordan.
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PPPSS: Never John.

Posts Posts Posts

2005-11-23T15:20:00.000-04:00

I have a lab starting in about 9 minutes and as i looked around the room i noticed that it is snowing again. I don't know why this always amazes me when i see snow falling from the sky but it just does. This lab is already confusing. We are writting in assembler today and i thought it wouldnt be a problem but first of all the notes for the lab were incorrect. The pages listed were not the pages need to do this. After looking through the text i was able to find the correct pages and share them with my lab partners. I hope the prof helps us with this so i wont have to be here longer then an hour. I need to head up to my old office from the summer to help some people there with some problems. I wonder if ill get paid hrm...

Anyways the prof is about to walk in and i dont want him to notice im bad mouthing his lab notes. Ill update again when i get some free time.

I laughed at this

2005-11-23T14:22:00.000-04:00

A Canadian, a American, a really hot chick and an old lady are on a train.

They're sitting there quietly untill the train enters a tunnel, and for some reason the lights dont come on.

Now its a long tunnel and after a few minutes of sitting in the dark, everyone hears a LOUD "SLAP!"

Sure enough when the train finally exits the tunnel, the American has a huge red slap mark on his face.

Now the old lady sees this and thinks: "That poor young lady, That American must've grabbed her knee and she slapped him"

The hot chick sees the slap mark and thinks: "That poor old lady, that american must've wanted to grab my knee but grabbed hers, and she slapped him!"

The American is thinking: "That DAMN Canadian must've grabbed the hot chicks knee and she slapped me by mistake"

The Canadian meanwhile is sitting there thinking: "Boy I hope there's another tunnel so I can slap that American again"

2 posts in 1 day? Wow

2005-11-21T20:13:00.000-04:00

So im doing my CS2813 homework and my prof has re-assigned problems from previous assignments but we have to do them a different way. I am very thankful for this. We had a question from assignment 2 (i think) and it involved grey code. At the time i just kept looking about it and i couldnt figure out how it worked. Now that i look at it i just think "Wow im an idiot" it so simple now. I hope when im studying for my midterm that this is also the case. Well back to my work.

Oh If you havnt heard yet Arrested Development isnt "Offically" canceled but that notice could be coming at any day. It had 2 great season (i only say 2 since the 3rd isnt done yet even though so far it has been great). So catch it while you can. Its returning in December.

Over 2 weks Wow.

2005-11-21T19:17:00.000-04:00

So iv has been a little busy over the past while. Well not really that busy since midterms ended i just kept getting distracted so i havnt updated.

I formatted my computer yesterday. I got all my drivers and updates all done now and things seem to be running much smoother now so im greatful for that.

Not to much has been happening around here latly so i dont have to much to comment on. I have some homework i want to get done now so this is a very short post. Maybe i will post again in a few days. I hope to post sooner then another 2 weeks :)

Midterm Anxiety

2005-11-03T10:18:00.000-04:00

Im on campus now trying to cram more information into my head before my next CS midterm. I wish i knew the Pumping Lemma better though. For the most part you just do the same thing for each question, try to prove by contradiction then prove that you can't so it must be true. Anyways I heard this isn't the last class that deals with proofs...yay...

Not for the first time i am writting this update in retooled computer lab on campus. With small (i dont know what they are called, im use to towers but these "towers" are the ones that are laying flat) and the nice 17-19 inch monitors. I love this lab.

I can't wait for tomorrow. Jordan, Stefan, and myself are hoping to finish X-men Legends. I hope we can beat it tomorrow, we only have 1 mission left and unless its as long as the first mission in the game we should. Next weekend im heading home for some long needed rest and relaxation. I plan on taking Indigo Prohpecy home with me to play and (i hope) beat. From what i saw of Stefan playing it (and Jordan telling me about it) it will be really awesome. I played it for a little while when Jordan drop it off at my place and i was impressed.

For my spare time recently iv been playing some of my old Gameboy Advance games. I just finished Zelda yesterday (or the day before i cant remember) and beat the four swords dungeon (which might i add was creative in the way you have to solve some puzzles). I hope to finish pokemon crystal next (I took a break from it because i got tired of leveling my pokemon up). After that i plan to finish my golden sun (1 and 2) and we shall see from there. Maybe then George R.R. Martins next book will be out.

I just took a look at amazon and saw that Martin's next book is due out in 5 days. Hurrah! I will have to stop in at chapters next week and get it before i head home.

This one goes out to Nathan. I'm sure hes fuming about me and possibly Jordan about reading Steven Ericson(sp?). Everytime i sit down to try and read it i can only down a few pages of it 10-20 (if that). I'm sure it is a good book but i just can't seem to get into it.

Well another thing that has just popped into my head. I see that Civ4 has come out (or just about to) and i will need to pick that up sometime in the not to distant future. Also Battlefield2 Special Force comes out in 3 weeks so ill probably wait until then to pick it up. We must be starting the christmas rush for games or something.

Well that is all for now i better get back to studying for that midterm.

Reality

2005-10-23T23:09:00.000-03:00

The reality of the situtation is I'm failing this term at school. I spent 6 hours doing a math assignment to only get it back the next week to see my 7/62. I could have spent that time studying another subject or getting the sleep I havnt been getting all term (anywheres from 3-4 hours a day). A few weeks ago i was at my wits end and near breaking down. While around friends and family i just put on a smile and tried to pretend nothing was wrong. When i finally went home 2 weeks ago for thanks giving i did break down. Luckily after that I was able to compose myself again and continue to try at school. I spend most of my free time studying and doing assignments. I probably should have canceled my World of warcraft account awhile ago from the little time i have been playing it (i went 2 weeks without even logging in before my break down). If i didnt get out to see my friends every once in awhile i might have just colapsed under the presure.

I'v continued to keep studying and doing my work but if i do fail this term there is a very good chance im going to be kicked out of school. My first year at school i rarely went to my class and did little or no assignments. At the end of the year i was put on academic probation (which i am still on since you never leave it once your on it). Most people would probably would crack like i did from this constant preasure pushing down on them. I can just hope that i will do well enough to pass the classes im doing but i probably wont pass. I AM NOT GIVING UP. I am still going to my classes and still doing everything that is asked of me (and more when im trying to understand new topics) but im still not grasping the topics at all.

Today i called home to talk to my mother (it lasted 30 minutes). She told me something that had me in tears and thinking back to it now always has me there again. My father (who does keep his emotions inside like most fathers i know of anyways) told my mother if she would let me know that he is very proud of all im trying to get done and no matter what happens he will always be proud. Now my father and I (for some reason) can never talk to each other like but hearing that he said it and asked mother to tell me was probably one of the best days of my life to hear.

Well i need to turn into soon and try to get 6-7 hours of sleep so i can atleast be awake while taking my midterm tomorrow. If im wide awake i hope i wont make as many mistakes and pass this midterm.

Take care all and i hope to update more often but my free time is limited with all the work i try to for my classes.

Vandal! (No Not John)

2005-10-14T20:12:00.000-03:00

Ill start with the subject then go off onto other things as i usually do...
While walking from head hall to Tiley for my math class i saw broken egg shells and splatter marks along the walkways from toole to carlton. I figured it was just one of the many residents just being ummm idiots? After my Econimics class (which is after my math class) I was walking back home and saw that the vandalism wasnt just the eggs i saw earlier. There was a bench in front of the library (Harriet Irving) that was on the hill and a bunch of concrete all over the large step infront of the building. I noticed that the bench was at an odd angle. I saw the missing leg of the bench a second or two later close to Poet's corner. As i continued my walk i saw that the globe on top of a lamppost had a burnt hole in it. Now these globes must be made of plastic, if not it probably took someone with a blowtorch to burn that hole in it (which probably wouldnt be worth the risk of doing it). So that was my day today. Oh i wrote a math test which i think i aced so im happy about that.

My last two weeks have been a hellish. I almost had a breakdown at my parents for thanksgiving. Yay..... Iv finally caught up to my work load and have been able to grasp the topics we are talking about in all my classes so that is a god sent. I got 4 more assignments this week but they dont look to bad so no more reason to pull out my hair while working (i wish i was joking iv been pulling hair out by the hand full but luckily i have nice and thick hair so its not noticable). Usually im up for typing more then this but im done.

Oh! On closing iv been watching this music video by My Barbarian. Its probably one of the gayest things iv seen but each time i watch it i cant help but giggle at it.

One or two more things. Shockwave and Yahoo have some games iv been playing. Each of which only take a few minutes to play each (10-15 max) and those have helped me keep my sanity.

The Storm

2005-10-03T11:42:00.000-03:00

Sunday I was tired and sore and spent most of it in bed trying to rest up. I knew at the time i should be working on my massive amount of homework but i was also to tired to move. So i watched some tv and sleep in an out for most of the day. Today i awoke late and decided id stay home anyway and get the weeks worth of homework done now so i could have some free time with my friends thursday (if possible) before i go home for the long weekend. I have Math, Computer Organization, Theory and computations, and a C program to do. I'll most likly get the C program done tomorrow after class then spend the rest of the day studying for my midterm the next day. The midterm wont be bad its a 40 question multi-choice test. Which brings to say that almost everyone passes this course and a B in the class is like somewheres between a 60-70 percent. So I better do good in the class. The only thing i paranoid about is missing my Computer Organization class. I'm still not sure whats going on the course so i hope if i can get the assignments done, read the book, and get all the labs done well ill pass the class and never have to worry about it again. So thats been my plan and my last few days. Wee.....

Calm before the storm

2005-10-03T11:33:00.000-03:00

Saturday morning around 6AM i hear a knocking on my window. I put on my house coat and look out the window. There is my brother looking at me with a grin. I sigh close the blind and get dressed. After about 5-10 minutes I go upstairs and see my brother waiting in a truck. He lets me know that he needs some help cutting wood. Im told that mom and dad are away for the so he needs help. So we get to his wood lot around 6:45-7:00 (Just to point out it is a 45 minute drive that only took around 30 minutes or less). After working in the woods for 7 hours and me being pretty ripe from not having time to shower that morning something happens. The truck gets stuck in the woods. We spend sometime trying to get it out (most of the time is me behind the truck getting covered in mud. We give up and start walking to my parents. This takes about an hour and a half. We get there to see my parents are still gone and we dont know where the key is to the garage to get the tractor out. So after sometime spenting cleaning up (i still had muddy clothes to wear but i was clean...until i put the clothes on again). I go outside to see my brother's feet dangling from the window to the garage. I grumble and race out to see how hes doing. I just want to point out here that I didnt check the garage before hand and took my brothers word that it was locked. So once i get there i help him go through the window and unlock the door. Before he locks it he starts to laugh and tells me while the door to the garage was locked the big front door (where we drive the tractor out) was indeed unlocked. So after a bit of swearing on my part we hope onto the tractor and ride out to his place. So its now about 5:30ish. We get the truck tied to the tractor and we get it out without much problem. We clean it off and i drive the truck to the house and my brother takes the tractor back. We then race back to town (i got here about 6:15-6:30ish). I take another shower and contemplate going to bed (because of how tired i am) or to go meet my friends. I decide to meet my friends and we watch shows for the rest of the night. To which id like to point out i did not fall asleep (which surprises me).

Working on math and pondering.

2005-09-29T21:08:00.000-03:00

Been working on my math on and off for the last 2 hours (More off then on). I could have been done an hour ago but my roommate wanted to watch My name is Earl so i watched that. Then showed him my music video.

I was thinking while i was doing my math about getting a tattoo again. I've wanted one for awhile but its always hard to decide on something that will be with you for the rest of your life. I have a few ideas of what i want from something simple to something complex. My list is this so far:

A celtic design going around my arm (about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inch in width)
One of those Japanese words. Probably Baka. (Same spot)
A Tattoo of me getting a tattoo and screaming (Same spot again)

I will probably put it off as I usually do but the list gets bigger and smaller as time goes on. I want something that reflects me and those 3 do that.

I can't wait for tomorrow. We play X-men again and I'm loving that game. It is much better then the game we played before (Tales of Symphonia). I kept meaning to ask Jordan how much i owe him for X-men 2. I'm sure he will read this and let me know.

We are getting Psylocke next (i think) and she is my 4th character. I'm planning on making her a Physical fighter. My other melee character is Rogue who (as stated before) do not like anymore.

I've been reading Catch-22 now for a few days now. I'm not to far into it yet but i am enjoying it. I hope to be finished it in time for Robert Jordan's new Wheel of time book. I'm hoping for a book that is better then Crossroads.

What i'm listening to now: Futurama (Raging Bender)

PS: I remembered something when my math work fell on the floor. I got a friend of JT to buy me a World of Warcraft game card from wal-mart for me. It seems they are selling them for $29.97 for 2 monthes of play. Now for people who havn't played the game probably think this is to much but let me explain. The game costs $14.95 a month american. so $29.90 every 2 monthes american. Wal-mart is selling the game card for $29.97. So they are losing around what? $10 a sale. I don't mind buying gamecards for this price. Go me!

The last few days.

2005-09-27T13:52:00.000-03:00

Friday Jordan Stefan Nathan and myself got together for another action pack session of X-Men Legends. When we first started playing this game I really wanted to be Rogue. Now as we play the
game she is my least favorite character by far. My new favorite is Jean Grey. Maybe this is because she is a red head but more likly it is because she can throw things around with her mind. Which is awesome. She has this AoE(area of Effect) ability that does damage to things around her. Now I don't use this power often. Not because its not a good ability but the way I look at it is. If 2 people are coming at me i can pick on up and throw it at the other person, knocking them both back and dealing some nice damage to them at the same time. While in the astral world ( i forget the x-men name for this place) however the AoE ability she has does double damage to the creatures there, so i just run up to them and spam the hell out of it and kill them in 2 hits (maybe 3). We did a mission in the danger room there and i was just tearing the guys apart left and right it was awesome. Cyclops is my other character who for reasons unknown tries to hide who he is by dating Jean Grey. He is a serious powerhouse (no wolverine or colossus but still) and can do crazy eye beam damage all over the place. He has great crowd control with his knockback and his leadership ability just adds more damage to combo's which is nice (oh and it stacks with Storm's leadership). So that was friday.... Oh Jordan and I took a trip to the blue canoe and had a windmill platter. This is a breakfast plate that comes with Bacon, Ham, Sausage, Balogna (sp?) hashbrowns, 2 eggs, 2 full peices of toast and a pancake. We didnt finish it. I blame this on the milkshake I had to drink while enjoying the meal.

Saturday was a day like any other saturday. I got up. Did some homework. Screamed about the homework i was doing (after i vent im usually good to finish the work and carry on). Went to anime here on campus then went to Jordans for our "extra douse of anime". We finished the first season of Initial D (which i slept through most of the last few episodes). I do feel bad that my snoring was interupting the flow of the show but i was tired and knew i wasnt going to get much sleep when i got home ( i will talk about this later). So with that finished The Twins Stefan and myself jump into Stefan's vechicle (i dont know if its a cross between a car and a van or what) and headed home. I think i got home around 3:00-3:30. I check my email and I think i posted a comment on my comment board set my alarm for 9 then went to bed.

I awake to hear my brother banging on the window. He has decided to show up an hour earlier then he told me. I told him to give me 10 minutes to get ready and he said he would be back in 10. 20 minutes of waiting in the driveway later ( i was ready in 10 minutes) my brother returns. I get into the car and she that while i was getting ready for the day he has taken my neice to McDonalds for breakfast. Great no breakfast for me (Since I haven't stated this before I'm going to do so now. My brother wanted company on the drive to Halifax so I decided to go with him. This being said i still had 3 assignments to get done, 2 for monday and one for today). We are starting to get close to an Irvine and i suggest we stop since i havnt had breakfast. I run in and get a coffee and some sort of rib sandwhich (with a chunk of cheese on top). The place had a big line up for cashier even though there was 2 other spots that could have been openned and 2 of the other works were just chatting behind the desk. I pay and leave angry. Not much to say about the drive down except for stopping to change my neice twice and hearing my brother telling me horrible stories about the time he drove to Toronto and New York.... I never want to drive outside of New Brinswick. We arrived in Halifax in record time (Mostly due to the fact of going 140+ the whole way there). I got to see the IWK and Dal while we were there. We dropped my neice off and left the city. We drove for 3 hours and 30 minutes just to be in Halifax for 10 minutes. Great trip! Again nothing much happened on the way back. I drove for an hour as my brother was tired then we stopped at another Irvine gassed up and finished our trip. Right before I got to my brother's place we stopped for some beer. I got some new Alexander Keith's Red Amber (which is good i might add) and he got some Labatt's. I stopped in at my brothers for a bit and saw his new cat Bowser (explained before in a previous entry). He offered me a beer and i said no im driving home and off i was again. Luckily for me i was able to get home before 7:30 and got my assignments all done and was able to watch Simpsons,King of the hill, Family guy and American dad. Well that was my weekend.

Yesterday i found John finally started playing Final Fantasy 11. I told him like a year ago if he ever started playing it i would play with him. I go to install my game and low and behold just as Nathan said the code had expired after 3 monthes of not being used. I ponder on how a company can run a game like this then remember its all about money. Since i was going to wal-mart anyways for a thermos and a coffee mug i picked up a new copy of ff11 it cost me 40 dollars. I was a little angry about it at first then realized that i get a month free and it comes with both expasions so in reality all im paying is an extra 8 bucks for a new code. Which isnt to bad (atleast for me). The next trial was trying to update the damn game. After 3 tries of doing this i was finally able to start patching my game. It took 10 hours. 10 HOURS. My internet connection was screwy for awhile we will probably need to call them up and get them to take a look at it. I finally was able to log on today and try to get onto John's server. Luckily it only took 5 tries to get a character created in the right server as him. If you create a character and delete it each time you make a new one its on a different server so i was able to play the system to get to the right server. Go me! I made a male Tarutaru black mage. This guy is a creature that is about 2 1/2 - 3 feet tall with pointed eats and a dogs nose. They are the best magic user race in the game so i went with it. Now to find some time when i can play at the same time as John.

In closing im in that nice new lab they openend on campus (which use to be a lab for java then an open lab for everyone only to be a closed lab again). I first thought it was a UNIX lab but it turned out to be a 50% unix 50% window lab. So yeah.

What im listening to now. The sound of my fingers hitting the keys on the keyboard (for the 30 minutes it took to write this).

The day before Thursday

2005-09-21T13:35:00.000-03:00

I woke up this morning very sore and not feeling well. I sat up a little to quickly then quickly ran to the bathroom.

So I stayed home from classes today. I should be able to get most of the notes from people in the class so there isnt a problem there. I just hope I feel well and confident enough to go to my evenning class tonight.

I was able to finish my World of Warcraft music video today. It can be found here if anyone wants to watch it. I enjoyed making it and I hope to make more in the future. My editting isnt the best but all i had to work with was VirtualDub. If i had the the spare money i would have gone and got that Adobe software (it costs like 600 dollars) but i didn't and VirtualDub was free.

I'm about to go lay down for awhile and hope i feel better when i wake up. I was told my brother is/was sick also so I might have gotten this from him. Yay....

A lazy sunday

2005-09-18T16:04:00.000-03:00

Not to much has happened this week. I have had a taste for all my classes now and slowly getting to know what will be expected from me for each of them. The classes I finally ended up with is a good mix. I have 3 CS classes and 2 math. (I call Economics a math, even if it is a very easy math).

I'v been working on a World of Warcraft music video for the past day. I have about 1 minute of the 3 1/2 song done. I would like to get it finished today but it might not happen.

My neice is down at my parents for the week and I wish I could be down here to see her. I never get to see my neice enough. My brother just got her a kitten named Bowser. He also got the kitten to get the mice at his place.

I was suppose to get the car thursday for the weekend but it turns out my brother will need it so he and my neice can get to places they need to go. I would have liked to have the car but since he needs it I don't mind. The only problem I have is that they all decided this 2 days ago and didn't bother to tell me until today. This is not the first time this has happened and it really bothers me. Sure im not always here but we have an answering machine here and a message could easily have been told to me. I'm glad I told my friends I might have the car instead of I would have the car so atlest I don't look like a liar.

As it is sunday I need to start my laundry. I just hope I remember how to use the dryer. (Pokes Mr. Bramble)

What im listening to: Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles.

One plus one equals four?

2005-09-12T12:50:00.000-03:00

I started classes on thursday. My first class of the year was my math class. I use to be good at math then my marks went way down in high school. This was mostly likly caused by my lack of studying and the harder course material. Back to the math class. I get into the class about 5-10 minutes early (as I like to do. It gives me time to relax a bit and maybe read a few pages in my latest book.... Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic). It clock slowly gets to 8:30 and the class is around 3/4 full. I put my book away and wait for my Prof. to show up. 8:40.....8:50...some people leave...9:00...everyone leaves. So now I have 2 and a half hours until my next class. I walk around the building on campus for awhile. I take a trip to the finacial desk to get my loan all worked out but see a sign that says "Go to the South Gym". I figure it would take 2 hours at least to get this done so i figured id wait until friday or monday. After about the 2 hour walk finding out my ID card only works for the UNIX labs and not the window labs (Oh and my UNIX password has changed so i need that fixed). I get to my class and wait. The prof walks in and starts with this speach "This is a hard class and if you dont need it to graduate it is highly recommended you do not take it". If it was anyone else giving this speach I might have been worried. I had this Prof. last year and he was a great teacher and made the subject very enjoyable so I think I'll do good.

Friday

My first class friday morning is a Computer Organization class. I'm sure I will enjoy it but I get nervous when I'm told there is some labs in the year that you can not miss and they do not tell you what the dates are. My second class was the math class again (if you dont recall from the paragraph up top) which started off nice since I was able to remember the topics she was talking about. My next class was a god sent. It was in the same room and right after my math. It seems like an easier course which I am so greatful for. My classes this fall are killer and any course where i think i can do really well in im greatful for. My last class of the day almost made my cry. I need 6 more science credits for my degree so I thought I would try this course. When I got in there all the Prof's looked like nice people who were keen on teaching. I was rather quickly told about the 60% failure rate. One of those look to your left, look to your right 2 of you will not pass this course situations. I stayed for the class and tried to take notes but the Prof went to fast and there was a group sigh everytime he changed the slide. I withdrew from the class this morning.

Monday

I woke up 20 minutes before my alarm and ran to the bathroom. 2-3 minutes later I return to my bed and relax for a bit before the alarm goes off. I get ready for classes quicker then I usually do so I had a few minutes to log onto my favorite MMORPG and played for a bit. I left for class and noticed it was a little warmer then previous days and that I was hearing a strange noise in my ear. I went back inside and removed the shaving cream from the inside of my ear.
Classes started the as friday but just as enjoyable. My CS class passed the same as friday and still seems enjoyable, the same follows for my math.

Now for why the title of this entry is called "One plus one equals four". In my last class of the day I was quietly sitting in class taking notes (as any good student should do) and she asks us a question. The question was if A is 4 and B is 2. If we give up A how many more be can we get. Of course the answer is 2 more B. Then she threw a curve ball (sarcasm) how many B's must be given up to get an A. Now i have sat through many classes and answered many teachers questions, sure I have not always had the right answer but what I heard next blew my mind. Not one person said 2, not 10 people, in fact no one said 2. Over half the class said 4. Thats right 4. I was just sitting there and im sure my jaw was just hanging. I could not believe what I heard. I thought to myself this must be what a elementry school teacher hears all the time, but elementry school was 7 years ago (or more). She looked as dumbfounded as I must have. She asked again and got the same answer, only more people said 4 this time. I was about to pick up my books and leave but im glad I did not. I heard one person say 2. Everyone looked at this person and I sighed in relief that there was someone in the class who was braver then myself and knew the answer. The Prof said it was correct and carried on.

Anyways thats it for the past few days of my life. If this class carries on this way I might have to write a book.

5 Minutes until resurrection

2005-09-05T13:55:00.000-03:00

Well i have 5 minutes to kill awhile I wait for the timer to go down. For those of you who haven't played World of warcraft this is a timer that keeps you from coming back to life to quickly.

I really don't have much of an update to talk about. I still have about 3 days left until school starts up again and I'm trying to enjoy this as much as I can. Which involves playing World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2.

I had a large laundry load to do last night and I was up until 6 in the morning doing it. My room was having a damp smell to it so I cleaned and brought in the dehumidifier. These things are great and also a curse. They give off heat which wouldn't be bad in the winter but in summer its a little much. My room is already starting to smell better so I may turn it off soon.

Oh I have been reading up on an older pen and paper RPG Mechwarrior. I might try and talk my friends into getting together one night a week to give it whirl. I still have a lot more to read up on but I have the character building down which is nice. I have quite a few books on it so if I do get it going they will have a nice selection of mech's they could buy along with some nice weapons and maps to play on.

A new thing I want to do while I update is put what im listening to as I type this.

Today the song is: Beat Crusaders: Hit in the USA. The opening to Beck the anime.

4 days of freedom

2005-09-04T11:42:00.000-03:00

Well I finished work friday. It was a good job and I enjoyed the work. I had my own office (cubical) in a nice building with a/c. My job I had before I started working there was at wal-mart. I enjoyed the work at wal-mart. I was an over night stalker and I believe I got along with everywhere there. When I got the job offer for this new job there was no other option. It was 20% more pay. I got to work days, and I also got weekends off so I could hang with friends.

Yesterday (saturday) I went to anime. It wheres a bunch of people go and watch anime (if you didn't pick that up). I use to go the whole time years ago (or even early this year) but now its just going down hill. Maybe it will pick up with new shows in a few weeks.

On fridays some friends and I are playing X-Men Legends. It is a very fun game and I'm enjoying it. I get to play Rogue, Cyclops, and Jean Grey. We just finished a level on a boat where the brotherhood were trying to rescue Megneto from his prison. After quite a few reloads we were able to finish the mission. I can't wait to play it again this friday. Once we are done we are going to start playing x-men legends 2. I hope its out when we finish.

Well thats about it for the past few days. Whoever reads this take care and don't do anything William Shatner wouldn't do.

What better way to protest "Blogs" then to make my own

2005-08-31T22:09:00.000-03:00

Well I have never had a journal before let alone an online place to put all my thoughts. What to talk about... Well first of all I hate the word Blog. Maddox has a great post about the word Blog I suggest you go there.

Well back to myself. Lets see what do I like to do. I enjoy reading. I have read almost 40 books so far this. I've been playing World Of Warcraft since beta and im still playing strong. It is a very fun and addictive game. I may have to quit with the up coming school year. I have 7 classes this term so it will be hell. I have also picked up Battlefield 2, which I am pleased to say is also a great game. When I need to relax from a long day at work I boot up BF2 and kill a few USMC.

Well its after 10PM and I need some ugly sleep. I have work in the morning. I suppose I should enjoy it while it can my last day is Friday. I don't really know how to end this so I will just put a period in.