School and stuff

Awesome, so I have been using this laptop extensively lately and this afternoon it was running slower then usual so I decided to shut it down and just finish my research on my main computer. Then just a minute ago I started it back up to write this post and the main profile didn't load right. I didn't have access to any of the files I had saved but they showed up when I did a search for them. Thank God a simple reboot fixed everything.
O.k. now on with the blog. I had my review this week for my job which turned into perfect timing because my boss's boss went to one of my stores and yelled at my boss because a display (that I was going to rotate next week) wasn't rotated. But my boss and I looked over the display and decided that his boss over reacted. My boss mentioned that I was going to get a raise for my review about a month ago but he didn't mention it in the review and I forgot to ask. I guess I will have to wait and look at my next paycheck.
My school semester is also most over which is good, not because I dislike my classes but because I have so much stuff on the back burner right now. Stuff that needs to get done sometime but isn't that important. Cleaning and organizing my house is a good example of this. Also, counting this laptop, I have files on four different computers. I plan to organize these files and set up some kind of file server so I have access to all my files on any of my computers. Lot more work then you may think. I have to sit down and figure out my finances are. The first two months of this year I have pretty much broken even with income and expenses. Will have to figure out how to lessen my expenses *no not my cable*. I am also working on something as a surprise for everyone. Only two weeks to get that and more done before school starts again.
The semester coming to a means two things. 1. finials to study for and 2. finial projects are due. My plan was to have my finial project done by this weekend but I just don't fell like typing it up right now, I'll do it tomorrow maybe. Next semester I picked up a class which brings me to three classes. Don't know if I will be able to keep up but I will be in school forever if I just stay with two classes a quarter. For those interested, at the end of this semester I will have 13 classes left to take. At three classes a quarter that means I have a year left of school *then what?*.
On a side note I saw an old co-worker from when I worked a Cub on Saturday. He had quit about two years before me and I guess he lives in the same area as me. He followed me from god knows where to me mail box. We hadn't seen each other for almost..... four years maybe *hard to remember, long time ago*. Gave him my number, maybe he will call.
On a sad note my mother dog had to be put down this last week. It's sad but we will see you in heaven (all dogs go to heaven right?) with our other dog Rufus. *Weird, the day before my mom called and told me about her dog I had been thinking of Rufus*

I want to send some good luck to my sister who is leaving for Texas soon (don't think she has left yet?). Flying is the best way to travel and you will be there and back before you know it.

See ya next week all.

The List*

Making a To Do List is a good way to organize your thoughts and prioritize what needs to be done. But Seeing everything that you have to do can be discouraging and you can end up not doing anything on the list.

*Thought of the movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" were "the list" of cars to be stolen is given to a character to look over.

urg....TGIF

Have you ever been in a bad mood? A, the reason I don't own a gun because I would use it on people, kind of bad mood. This is how I woke up this mourning, don't really know why. Maybe it was because of the snow or because I was tired, or maybe both. Then the guys plowing the Hy-Vee parking lot added to my bad mood in ways not worth mentioning here. I was in this mood pretty much all mourning, not because bad things kept happening but nothing could knock me out of being in a bad mood. I am not a people person, I would prefer solitude over being in a crowd, but the only thing that made me forget I was in a bad mood was talking with other people. The Pepsi person at Cub in particular, him and I joked around, made comments about stocking pop, and just chatted. Damn human nature's need to be communicate with other humans. Granted I was still in a bad mood, just not one where I would picked a fight with someone triple my size *you are a small guy*, and stayed in that mood because my sales rep called me and wanted me to go back to Hy-Vee and switch a display when I was almost done for the day. I said yes because I am a nice guy (I blame my mother for this) and I headed back to Hy-Vee. I found the two displays that needed to be switched and they were right next to each other. When I asked why, my sales rep replied "Because the bosses didn't like the Powerade there". Damn managers, I'll show them how much I like "them" when my gun comes in the mail next week (just kidding mom). Here is a pic of the Display, yeah they were that close. But anyways I stopped by Barnes & Noble to pick up a Manga I wanted to read but they didn't have it so I picked up another graphical novel called "The Great Catsby" by Doha. There are six volumes I guess. It looked promising with me initial flip through but we will see. Going to read it quick after posting this and before doing some homework.
As mentioned before I do work this Sunday and will have Wednesday off. I will try to rant about something on Sunday but if I don't there should be one by Wednesday night. Tah tah for now.

Video Games

So I have been thinking lately of my gaming situation or the lack there of. It took me about 15 minutes to think of the last game that really engrossed me and that game was released about two years ago. When I mean engrossed I mean not doing homework till the last minute and losing sleep to play just one more level. Don't think I haven't played other games since then, or thought other games were bad, because I have. I played Halo 3 extensively when it came out but I don't remember losing sleep over it. I also played Fallout 3 which I also played a lot but I stopped when school started at the beginning of the year. I have picked it up once or twice but it is to hard to get back into because I forgot were I was and how I was leveling up my character. I got Mass Effect for X-Mas and, from what I have played, is fun but I couldn't get into like Halo 3 or Bioshock (the last game I lost sleep over). I do follow the games industry and I do see games I want to buy and play. Then I just happen to have some spare time after work and go look at games at Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, were ever I happen to finish work for the day. I see games that I wanted to play and see that they have been out for weeks sometimes months. I don't know if its me or what, I should know the day of the week of when certain games come out. I have a hard time getting into games lately and just finding the time to play them is hard. This quarter in school is very interesting for me, computer programing and Linux. I have taken a different computer programing class before and I find it to be exciting to create stuff like that. Linux is something that I always wanted to learn but is one of those things that is better learned by someone teaching you. I am actually having fun learning what I am doing this quarter. With just those two classes and work I don't have much time sit and play a game for extended periods of time without getting sleeping (when I do play games). It seems that I am spending more time doing homework which is a first for me because I don't really like doing homework. I have been reading web comics a lot lately too, which has been taking up some of my time. I guess we can only see if this changes next quarter when my classes will be generals but then spring is around the corner so who knows.
Last week there was a new Simpson's, in HD no less, and I nearly cummed in my pants. I couldn't wait for Sunday night this week so I could watch another new episode but just my luck nascar is on. Now what am I going to do. Guess I will pop in a game, on second thought I think I will catch up on some streaming NetFlixs. Sorry Halo and Mass Effect.

Lunch

I think I will go move in with my mother. That way I will never have to go grocery shopping or cook ever again.

School

This is taken from an email I got from one of my teachers.
"Lesson A (1 - 22) If you can get all 22 questions right you know everything you need to about sub procedures and functions."
Well duh, to bad we aren't given the answers and never get our assignments back once they are graded.

umm.....o.k.

Wow, this was a very abnormal weekend. I wasn't even going to write about my week, I had something else planned to rant about this week. The week started off normal till about Friday. I had been done with work for a couple of hours when my mother called. She was in town with my Grandmother, and wanted to go to lunch which I did because I was hungry and can't pass up a free lunch. Her and I caught up on up on stuff like usual. After lunch, mom and grandma were heading over to Hobby Lobby and I hadn't been there in awhile so I decided to join them. Well, I ended up just wondering around after I decided to buy a sketch notebook. There sure is a lot of weird stuff that people buy. Another thing I noticed was that there sure was a lot of hotties that go to Hobby Lobby on Friday afternoon. Maybe I will go there more often. After that I went home and tried to do some homework. After reading about five page in my text book I fell asleep for a few minutes and I couldn't really remember what I read so I decided to watch AOTS and XPlay on G4. I finished reading and then went to meet my sister in Waseca because my mother was ging to ride her horse in a sled drawn horse parade *is that really what it was called* (I don't know but it sure sounds close enough). Well just before it started a group of people put a play on in the street. They put something on about some guys were looking for a wanted man which they ended up shooting (with real guns but using blanks) and then the law came and there was more shooting. While play was ending I looked down the street and saw the begining of the parade which was good because my face was starting to freeze. Five minutes went by...I looked down the street and it looked like the parade had started. Five minutes later....I looked down the street, the parade was in the same spot as before. Five minutes later...I looked down the street and the parade had advanced a few blocks but then as I was about to look away I show two horses passing the lead horse with a carriage behind them but not for long because it broke free from the horses and turned sharply toward the curb which stopped it. I can only imagine that the loss of the carriage helped the two horses run faster but I do know that at least one of the horses had been spooked. With nothing holding them back the pair went full gulp down the cleared street. I think they wanted to stay away from large group of people as much as we wanted them to stay away from us. As they past us, it was clear that nothing could stop them. Fortunately or unfortunately there was a city truck parked a few blocks down from us to stop traffic from going down the parade route. From what I heard later was that both horse came out with just a few scratches, which is amazing seeing as how to one of them did hit truck, which is what stopped them. Well this turned into a long post, while there is more it is just not a interesting as what I just wrote. One last note before I go, I switched with a co-worker to work a weekend and I think that it is next weekend so I may post early or late.
*this was the other voice in my head* and then I answered