tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38175022011-04-22T00:32:39.131-04:00Just another web journal. You'll get a little bit of everything here.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09474509066017707326noreply@blogger.comBlogger10411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817502.post-1601111295047701942007-02-17T21:33:00.001-05:002007-02-17T21:35:11.525-05:00

This image was taken from one of the previous issues of The Economist. Basically the graph compares California and other "blue states" (as defined as supporting John Kerry in the previous election), compared to the "red states" as defined by those that voted for George Bush. Now, the Economist, as well as the source for this graph (http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/

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IN OTHER NEWSWorkWork is going ok. I've been having some trouble getting motivated in the morning this week, but more to the point is that certain people in the office (in other departments) have been pissing me off to no end. Luckily, nothing bad happened this time, and it didn't even involve Pam Mingo. So that's good. Instead, the incompetency of some of the other departments (which may be

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ANOTHER REQUEST FOR BOYCOTTThis week, I happened to get gas at Sam's Club because I got a $.05 discount because I'm a member.Big mistake.Pretty much immediately after filling the tank with their "gasoline" (scare quote absolutely justified), I started having issues with my car. Basically, when I went home on Friday, my car stalled driving down a hill. I pulled in the parking lot of a business,

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QUOTES OF THE MONTHHere are some quotes to chew on..."Nei sogni, come in amore, non ci sono cose impossibili." - Janos Arany"El placer es un pecado, pero el pecado es un placer." - G. ByronHey, I never said they'd be in English. But I have some smart friends, I'm sure you guys can figure it out (or use babelfish).

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NEW STUFF GOING ON[Redacted per the request of my father]I also managed to score two tickets to the Wake Forest-Virginia Tech throwdown coming up this weekend. It's supposed to be frickin freezing that night, but clear. I'll be so busy screaming for my Hokies that I won't care about the weather. Unless Virgina Tech throws up another BC-esque performance. In which case, I'm not going to be

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THE HOMOSEXUAL BOWLWhile watching the Louisville-Rutgers game, I was struck by you much "manly" love was going on with the game. I came to the realization that there were quite a bit of fruity goings-on. Here are some reasons why this game could be dubbed... The Homosexual Bowl.Consider the location: New Jersey. The second state to have man-man relationships sanctioned by the courts.The

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I'D LIKE TO THANK...The good people of South Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, Wisconsin, Virginia, South Dakota and Idaho for reaffirming traditional values and banning same sex marriage. Now I know you libertarians out there (*cough*Dan*cough*) think that this is not the purview of the government, that they should stay out of the private lives of consentual adults, etc. However, I am not a

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END OF AN ERAThis week, I'm tag teaming with Luisa to dog-sit. So I got in yesterday and I made the mistake of leaving my Ohio State hat out on the couch. When I came back this evening, the hat was very wet, very smelly and very chewed up. So basically, it's unwearable and is the last remnant of my flag football officiating swag. It's not like I got ANYTHING else out of going to those

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BLACK WOMEN SUCK AT DRIVINGNow, this isn't meant to be a racist post, but if people want to take it that way, so be it. But after nearly getting killed in downtown Columbia, it's got to be said.Black women are by far the most unsafely aggressive drivers here in Columbia.Now, it's not to say that there aren't some dangerously aggressive white males or asian female drivers here, but odds are, if

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STUPID FIREFOXYes, Firefox is still the best browser out there. But that's mostly to the lack of quality competition and NOT the fact that it is in fact a quality browser. Case in point. I was just about to finish up writing 45 minutes worth of college football goodness when the stupid, fucking browser crashes. For no reason what so ever. I was doing nothing (unless the stupid Fox Sports

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WORK STUFFI guess I haven't written too much stuff about work, but that's mostly because I try to keep work stuff at work and the outside stuff outside. But occasionally, there's some stuff that weighs on my mind and just makes things worse.For example, there's a worker... let's call her Pam M. Or how about P. Mingo. Anyway, Pam M. is a processor. Basically, a monkey could do her job.

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SOUTH CAROLINIANS ARE MORONSRemember that chart I had up a couple of months ago showing that South Carolinans have no idea what the rules of the road are. (If not, you can find them here.) This comes up again because in the past week, on a 4-lane highway (each direction mind you), I've seen probably an accident a week. And that doesn't include what ever massive pileups that caused me to take

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BECAUSE LUISA ASKED SO NICELYSince I now have my computer up and running for the first time since I was kicked out of the Profeta residence, I figured it be a good idea to go ahead and put an update up for the first time in... a couple of days. Anyway, I'm still here at Chez Cockroach. Like I said, I took the opportunity with Luisa out of town to get the computer setup and do some of the

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YES, I'M ALIVEWow, an entire two months since I last posted. Well, I'm sure there are some pretty good excuses as to why that's the case. Let's start at the beginning.Around the middle of August, I start getting wind from Luisa that her mom, well, hates me. She has something against me. Luisa has theories on them. Something about the bad roommate theory. I just think she's one grape short

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STUFF SUCKSThe U.S. Postal "Service" sucks. Why, you ask? Because apparently they lost the insurance card that my dad sent down to me for my car. Or at least I hope they just lost it. I wouldn't be surprised if someone opened it so they could rip me off or something. I swear, the USPS is only good for sponsoring bike riders and delivering credit card offers. Seriously. First, what the hell

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ARMCHAIR GM ACCOUNTIf you want to find me on armchairgm.com, look for icemanvt. Duh. I have a feed of all my writings on my page, should you feel so inclined. In fact, here's the link to the page:http://www.armchairgm.com/mwiki/index.php?title=User:Icemanvt

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I NEED TO UPDATE MOREAfter calling my dad, I realized that I haven't post much of anything in the past week or so. Having a job and a pretty busy afternoon/evening schedule will do that to you alot of the time. Work has been going ok. The fact that I didn't have my meds the last half of last week landed me in a bit of trouble when my supervisor told me that I should tone down my emails.

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A REAL UPDATEWell, this week was actually pretty busy, so let me give you the lowdown on my week that was.Because my company is awesome, I had Monday and Tuesday off as paid holidays. Yet, another sign that my work is better than your work. Luisa's definitely on the bottom of the workplace food chain. She had to babysit undergrads. I laughed at her while I was on the first tee of the Richland

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THIRD TIME'S THE CHARMI'll only do a meme if I've seen two other people do it and I like the idea. Thus, I've done it. Go ahead and do it if you like it too. I also apologize for the formatting. It was apparently made for Livejournal, and thus makes no sense. I don't know why this isn't working for me. The HTML looks ok. Oh, well.(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.) × I

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THE GAME OF LIFEI'll have to leave my post complaining about real life for another day and concentrate on what's really important... my game of "Life" with Luisa.She chose to go to college. Become a doctor. Get lots of stocks. Buy a big house.I choose to skip college. Become a superstar. Buy one little stock. Buy a split level. Have lots of kids.Now, the "educated class" would tell you

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A MINI UPDATESears has been a pain in the butt, but at least the wheels are back to the state at which they were when I started this ordeal a week and a half ago. Needless to say, I'm going to really, really avoid Sears Auto Centers from now on. Work has been work. Nothing new on that front. Bowling has been less successful in the last three weeks. I just haven't been striking at the rate I

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A CASE OF THE MONDAYS... OR THE TUESDAYSWell, I haven't been feeling all that great over the past couple of days, more mentally than physically. Monday's league play in bowling sucked the big one. My car is going through more issues, this time with the tires (again...), and I'm unmotivated to do much at work than just sit there with my music and occasionally do work. I was thinking to myself

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INDOCTRINATION AT ITS FINESTNow that alot of my friends are getting married, they're also helping to keep Social Security solvent for my generation bringing little bundles of joy into the world. And as such you need to keep the entertained. Thus, along the same brilliant idea as "Baby Mozart" comes...Team BabyThey have a wide range of teams to brainwash educate your child about. You have your

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WHILE I'M WAITING...For this stupid thunderstorm of death to pass through, I'll send on a link that Luisa sent me last week:http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Insurance/Insureyourcar/P151501.asp?GT1=8288Basically, GMAC did a survey where they asked 5,000 people typical questions that one would see on a driver's exam. In case you don't want to check out the list, here's the punchline:1 Oregon

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BEST SHOT EVERNo, I'm not talking about alcohol. I'm talking about bowling. And it was on a shot in which I only knocked down seven pins. Intrigued?Well, since a picture is supposedly a thousand words, I'll illustrate the story with pictures.On the first ball of the seventh frame of my fifth game of the day, I got to the approach. As I got ready to throw the ball, I happened to see this

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BOWLING AND STUFFThis week, I got my offer from Pace to become an actual salaried employee. Hurray for health benefits (at a lower cost than the ripoff that I'm paying right now). And I get prescription coverage. So that alone is worth $100 each month. Sure, I wouldn't mind if my base salary was a bit higher than they offered, but I sure that can be negotiated once I show my awesomeness in a

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BY POPULAR REQUESTI'll get around to writing an acutal post sometime in the next 24 hours. But for the meantime, here's a little something I think you all will enjoy. Because Youtube is the shit.Just remember, this is the power of actually leaving comments. I respond and find what my audience wants hardcore nudity awesome SNL skits (Sidenote: When the hell is SNL going to release a "Best of

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A REAL UPDATEAs I mentioned yesterday, I got cool new phone. So I've been playing around with that all day. I even downloaded Tech Triumph. Of course, it's a really crappy recording of Tech Triumph, but it's a recording none the less.Other than that, I've been mostly working. Eventually, sometime in the next couple of weeks, Pace will finish up the last of my paperwork so that I can stop

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TEXAS WITH A DOLLAR SIGN!!!!!Youtube is awesome. This is the best SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skit ever. Tina: Now you know. That is if you read the ole blog.

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FREAKING SWEETFirst of all, a little background:Here's a clip of Stewie doing a spoken word version of Rocketman:Ok, so now you know what I'm talking about. I saw this and just thought it was one of those random things on the show that make absolutely no sense.Well, I think that no longer after I saw this video:Shatner! Rocketman! It all makes sense now. I wonder how much other stuff I've

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NEW PHONEI went ahead and took the plunge to completely change my phone situation. I've changed my phone from Verizon to Sprint, and changed my phone number completely. Basically, my area code went from 864 to 803. If you want the other seven numbers, then you'll have to get in touch somehow, and calling my soon to be disconnected phone won't cut it.I'll write more when I get the chance, but

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:-(I went up to DC for the weekend. I had a fun time hanging out with Luisa and her friend from college Tina. We spent an hour trying to strap a bookshelf to the top of Tina's Toyota Carolla. Fun times. And I also kicked some butt at Mini-Golf. Even more fun times.What's not fun times is the fact that my car is going to need some major surgery if it's going to be driven more than 10 miles in

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WORKING STUFFSo another week of working is in the books, and I'm that much closer to being hired full-time, which is good, because I think I'm really going to need to get a check-up sometime in the near future. Between the return of the sleep sweating, and all sorts of intestinal problems, I'm beginning to think that there's something wrong with me. Of course, it doesn't help that my current "

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TRIP TO CHARLOTTE AND ATLANTAHere's an email that Luisa sent out that I should extend to all of youse who read this here journal thingy. If you're interested, leave a comment or otherwise get in touch with me somehow...Howdy Folks,Hope everyone is gearing up for a nice summer thus far (and not getting too burnt yet from the sunlight!)! There are two reasons why I'm writing to you all today.First

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LAZY SUNDAYThat's what happens when you get up 4 PM this afternoon. Unfortunately, it meant that I didn't get the chance to go to church today. :-/ Or alot of other things that I wanted to do today. But I did call my Mom, so you can't get on my case about that. At all. Now, I get to go to sleep so I can get up nice and early tomorrow. Well, not so nice, but at least early enough to get to

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MY NEW LEARNING EXPERIENCEI've taken to learning to type on a Dvorak keyboard, Needless to say this is going to take a while to get the hang of this. I have to resist the temptation to just go back to touch typing. Here, I'll do the rest of post touch-typing. Just to confuse you. ;-POr C ,rt. gl p.annf nay. ydco mrpbcbi hgoy urp yd. d.nn ru cyv Cy ,ao ajygannf Ngcoa-o ldrb. jann yday ,rptm.

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OK, SO IT'S BEEN A WHILESo sue me... Darrin.Ha ha. Congrats on getting your JD. Now I have to call you esquire and have you move down here so I can sue the crap out of every who pisses me off. Starting with...My "insurance" company. I went to the doctor's back in March to get a refill of my psych meds. Of course, I waited until I had coverage to do this (which meant spending $40 to wait

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THE WEEKEND IN REVIEWSaturday, Luisa and I ended up driving up to Charlotte to visit The Discovery Place in an attempt to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are making their rounds about the country. However, we didn't realize that they would be as popular as they were and as a result, they were sold out for the entire day by the time we got up there (it was around 1 PM). So that just meant that

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WOWI can't believe it's been so long since I've last posted on this thing. It's something else. I guess it's a very good thing that I've been so busy that I haven't had the time to write about what I've been doing here in the past couple of weeks. Work related things: I'm still at Pace Global and I've more or less officially moved into an analyst position. I passed the test yesterday with a

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SURPRISE, THE MEDICATIONS WORKDisorderYour ScoreMajor Depression:Slight-ModerateDysthymia:Slight-ModerateBipolar Disorder:SlightCyclothymia:ModerateSeasonal Affective Disorder:Extremely HighPostpartum Depression:N/ATake the Depression TestI would've thought that I'd score higher on some levels than others. But I'm not surprised by the fact that I have SAD. Winter's never been very nice to me

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EMBARASSINGOne of the more embarrassing moments is when you're at a comedy show and you're with someone who's had just enough to drink that they start being the one person who makes all the comments and basically puts all of the attention on themselves. I had to go through with that tonight, when one of the people I went to the club with was being the one person who would say "Woo" or laugh

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WEEKLY UPDATEAs usual, I've been busy with all sorts of stuff, so I haven't had too much time to get online and write about the daily doings in my life.On the good hand, I was able to get to the doctor's and get a new script. Since I've been having the sweating issues, he suggested that I switch from Effexor to Cymbalta. It's pretty much the same thing, and yet there's a bit of irony involved.

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I'M STILL ALIVEYeah, I know it's been a while since I last posted. I was thinking that I wanted to do a 1000th post extravaganza, but that's been put on hold until I actually get around to it. But yes, this is post 999. I've actually put up that many posts on this thing. Rather impressive once I get around to thinking about it.In the meantime, my job has been going pretty well over the past

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BUSY AS ALL GET UPI've been running around like a crazy person the past couple of days. Between work and not work and doing laundry and sleeping in till all hours of the afternoon, I've been rather neglectful of the ole blog. Which is both good and bad. It's good that I haven't been sitting around blogging all the time> It's bad that the teeming hundreds that read don't have anything to

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WACHOVIA HATES MEJust a soon as I get that $75 check from Bank of America, I have to fork $25 of it back to Wachovia for an overdraft fee. Never mind that it took the bastards 3 days to let me know of this and didn't even process the transaction that took me into the red until Friday (or three days after I bought the gas). So tomorrow, I get to head over to the bank and see if I can get that

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BANK OF AMERICA LOVES METhey're giving me $100 dollars to open a checking account with them. I got a $75 credit from them after I found a coupon in my address forwarding thingy. Then I go into the bank and the banker told me that I can get another $25 if I have my girlfriend as a referrer. Then I get another $10 for starting an online banking account, and maybe another $10 for starting a

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WORK AND WONDERLICWork has been coming along pretty well for the past couple of days. I still have to settle in but I've more or less gotten everything squared away at work. I have my own cubicle and I've even downloaded gaim onto my computer so that I'll chat without having to download annoying Yahoo crap onto my computer. Right now, I'm just doing alot of calling of utilities and ordering

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AFTER ONE DAYMy first day at work was pretty interesting. Basically my job, to start, is to call up utilities and get back copies of bills that we don't already have. It's not bad work and the environment helps alot. I think there's a huge difference in my productivity when I have people to check my work ethic against. It's also good that there's alot of people around that are positive and

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A LAZY DAY IN THE HOODFirst, I'm an idiot. While bowling yesterday, I had my phone and wallet in my pocket, so I put them in my bowling bag, which are now in Luisa's car. I never bothered to take them out, so they're still in her car.Which means that I'm not going anywhere today. [cue Snickers commercial]So I'm just sitting here, doing Kakuro and looking at stuff on the internet. Not very

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I'M EATING BRISKETNormally, that wouldn't be something to post about, but I told Luisa after the last time I had brisket that I would buy another one and have her cook it when I got my next job.That time has come.I'll be starting my 8-5 job on Thursday at Pace Global. I'd link to their site but it's rather incomplete at this point. As far as I can tell, they're an energy consulting firm. No, I

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SOME THOUGHTSOf course, the sun didn't come out for the entire day. So that's pretty much how the day went. I got up and did all of my morning ritual stuff. Well, I forgot to shave, more on that in a second.But first, I checked out the online postings and found that there was a big pile of nothing for job listings on CareerBuilder and Monster. I putzed around some more and then got around to

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A BUSY WEEKENDThere's a whole bunch of stuff that I've been up to the past couple of days. I think on Friday, after I hung around the apartment for a while waiting for anyone to call me about employment (nobody did), I went to Luisa's office to pick her up and do dinner. That was pretty much it for Friday.Saturday, I got up pretty late and just spent a chunk of the day at Luisa's office and

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WHILE I APPRECIATE THE PARTICIPATION...It doesn't help on the johari window thing if there's no readily available way to identify yourself. Especially if you've done it yourself and I can't identify you from your adjectives.So in that case, could the following three "people" step forward:someonedownNouthohowrongwayAny clue left in the comments section would help. And I don't think it's the

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MORE COLUMBIA STUPIDITYAfter doing all my work in Luisa's office and after she returned from talking to her advisor, we left to head back to her house. When I got to my car, I found yet another parking ticket on my windshield. This time, it was for parking improperly. Apparently, if your tires are on the white line, then you can be ticket for parking improperly. Of course, this is complete

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POTENTIAL JOBI went into a place called Recruiting Solutions and I met with one of the staffers there and took a whole bunch of tests. I took a Wonderlic exam (I'm not sure if it's the same on NFL draftees take), and scored a 33 on that. The company (I don't know where I'm working yet) wanted someone with a 29-30, so that's good. I also took another test which was basically figuring out the

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STUPID COLUMBIASomehow, after I put in enough coinage to pay for 1:44 worth of time, I came out of the job interview thingy with a ticket on my car. I imagined that I was running late so I got it relatively recently. It wasn't. Here are the facts:I arrived at the parking meter at 1:22 or so. I put in 1:44 worth of change. That means that the absolute earliest they could've given me a ticket

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BOWLING 'N STUFFLast night, Luisa and I went out to bowl with some of friends. I'd have to say that I had a good time, even if a drunk monkey could've bowled better than I could've. A big part of it was that my bicept was killing me after the second ball I threw, so that just screwed up my entire game. I think another giant part of the problem is that my ball is way, WAY too heavy for me right

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VALENTINE'S DAYThis may be the first Valentine's Day that I've ever spent with a girlfriend. While that may not have been the case back in 1999, for the most part, I know that 23/24 years have been spent in singlehood. Which makes this year all that much better, because I have someone to spend it with. Anyway, a few pointers for the holiday that I discovered...I have figured out that the

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NOHARI WINDOWWell, since nobody wants to do my Johari window, which is still here (http://kevan.org/johari?name=icemanvt), perhaps the anti-thesis will work. I give you, the NOhari window. This time, you put down the anti-thesis of who I am. I know, the choices are endless...http://kevan.org/nohari?name=icemanvtNow you have no excuse to ignore me. Do it. It depends on how evil you want to be

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JOHARI WINDOWLuisa says that I wasn't too specific with my previous post, so I should repeat myself.Open a new window/tabPaste http://kevan.org/johari?name=icemanvt into the address bar Or just click the linkFill out the pageWatch as I get all warm and fuzzy insideIf you have one, then I will fill it out as well, thus you become all warm and fuzzy inside.?Profit!It's just that simple. (Perhaps

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IN CONCLUSIONI've finished my treatise on Wal-Mart, or at least my response to the general criticisms of one person. There are probably plenty of stuff that I've missed or hadn't addressed, but Wal-Mart is neither the best store on earth nor the evil corporate giant many people say it is. Here's the link:http://politicalfeedbag.blogspot.com/2006/02/defense-of-wal-mart.htmlI've also done some

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FIREFOX CRASHEDIt's like learning that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren't real.(Note: I could use a simile about the destruction of a certain fruit, but I'm keeping this PG)It's even worse when it happens after you've written about 300 words on a post only to see it go up in smoke. Even so, I don't think it's Firefox's fault. It's the stupid web developers who engineer their sites for IE.

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AND IN OTHER NEWSThe medication post was prompted by my not taking medication yesterday and me feeling like absolute crap this morning. I woke up drenched in sweat (which is something that been happening since the beginning of 2006) and since my body was still operating at around 96°F, I had gotten quite cold. Thus, I didn't want to get out of bed (another day of nothingness sure didn't help

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MEDICATION ISSUESI'm not going to turn this post into a pity party (and comment if it does). After all, I'm not sure where I'd be right now if the SSRIs and their bretheren hadn't been developed. Actually, I am pretty sure where I'd be, but that's not the point. The point is probably more of a commentary on our society and stuff like that.For example, over the past year and a half, I have a

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BOWLING FUNYesterday, I've finally figured out how to put some nasty spin on the ball. Of course, it requires me not using my thumb at all, so that's a somewhat major problem right now. I don't know if I'm just going to do without or try to get the hole redrilled on my hand, but right now, I have a process that works somewhat well, especially when I'm trying to go for the 10-pin.Luisa and I

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JUST ANOTHER UPDATEI finally got check number one from HEI today deposited into my account. Hurray for monies. I can do the things I've always wanted to do. Like buy beverages from Wal-Mart and gas (it was $2.029 at Raceway!!!) So that's always good. I still have to find something resembling a job, but I did go ahead and apply at an employment office in the area so I'll be able to find

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STUFFI did manage to get up on-time this morning, so that's a plus. I think alot of it had to do with the fact that I did take my Lunestra, while enabled me to sleep through the night. So I ended up getting a solid 8 hours in, although, I still think that I'm going to need 9 or 10, but I don't know for sure.Other than that, I haven't done too much today. I did manage to clean up the apartment,

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INCOME TAXESTime for that annual rite of passage. I got my one and only W-2 form in the mail today and my total wages for 2005 was....$282.82That's it. Of course, I managed to spend way more than that. I spent more than that on my prescriptions, which I have to remember are tax deductable.Anyway, since my income is way, way lower than the old standard deduction, I shouldn't have to worry about

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NON-ATHLETEI came to a realization last night after doing absolutely craptacular bowling with Luisa.I'm an athlete trapped inside a non-athletic body. I want to play sports, but I'm stuck with an upper body that, short of steriods or other "performance enhancing" chemical, is never going to be strong enough to play a sport that requires your arms. Unfortunately, that's generally all of them. I

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FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUEQ: Why should you always serve a South Carolina football man soup in a plate?A: 'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away.

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AN UPDATE OF SORTSNot too much has been going on the past couple of days, other than the usual drama of life in general. I did end up going to a job fair last Wednesday, where I dropped off my resume to a bunch of companies, including some temp agencies. I have yet to hear back from anyone but at least they seemed somewhat enthusiastic about my experience working at UIS at Georgetown. Of

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AT LEAST ONE THING CAME OUT OF TONIGHTAs much as I desparately wanted to, I didn't back down or run away when confronted with a situation I wasn't comfortable in. I spoke my mind, even if it wasn't clearly. It also took about 15-30 minutes of conversation with the big guy upstairs to finally get to the point where I could talk, but I did, so that's good. The kicker was the realization that

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ANOTHER REASON I'M AN IDIOTWhen I go to get my haircut, they ask me if I'm a returning customer and then ask for the last three digits of my phone number. So today, I go in thinking that the last four digits are 0273. I tell the stylist this and she says that there's no record of me. I thought this was weird but didn't think too much of it. She just asked me for my info and that was that.It

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AND I'M AN IDIOTBecause I included those last three savings bonds into my account, my "assets" for December totaled more than $1,000. Therefore, I do not get state medical coverage. I have to now grovel to Middlesex Hospital for free bed funds, but now there's officially no reason whatsoever for me to stay in Connecticut. So I'll be ditching this popcicle stand sometime in the next couple of

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ANOTHER DAY (OR TWO) OF NOTHINGNESSYesterday, I, as usual, slept in for the entire day. Well, I did manage to get up at 2:30 or so to call Luisa after my phone rang for the fifth time without me getting up to answer it. I really don't think my dad likes me not going into work, especially when he's relying on me to open the office before he gets there. Especially when it's raining and cold

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THE REST OF THE DAYWell, after spending the first half of the day just reading and writing on the internet, I managed to finish writing the table that I created for another webpage that HEI wanted me to do. So I have that out of the way now. All I have left to do is figure out how to get the programming correct for the last page that I have to do. Not too hard to accomplish, but if it was easy

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TAXI LISTI'm not sure how I want to do this, but I've come to the conclusion that there are certain people that I'm not going to drive around any more. I'm not sure if I should put this list on the net so that everyone can see it, but I'll keep it in my head for the time being.Needless to say, it relates to what went on Sunday night. Those who were involved know who they are and should plan

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SO MUCH TO SAYFirst off, I found out that Jamie got married last weekend. I think I'm going to have to put the shocked face up.=-OThere we go. It's amazing to see how quickly time flies by. It was only a year and a half ago when we broke up by voicemail.Don't worry, I'm going to get much more depressing as I go on.Anyway, the rest of my weekend.Saturday, I slept in rather late and woke up to

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GUESTMAPEveryone has a guestbook. I don't, but that's not me. What is me is maps. And therefore, I introduce to you:Mike's GuestmapYou go to the page. You find where you live (or where you want people to think you live), and you submit your information. Thus, I can see who reads this thing and plan my roadtrips accordingly. Or something like that.Basically, it's another thing to entertain

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IT'S BEEN AWHILESo it's been almost a week since I last posted. But not alot has gone on since then. Here's the highlights:I finally got Linux installed on my machine at home. Apparently, all the problems stemmed from the fact that my video card wasn't getting shit for memory from the BIOS. So I changed that little option and now, Ubuntu is officially on my computer. Which means that, except

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GREATAnother day, another day not going into work and staying in bed all day. I could blame it on the fact that it was another dreary day and cold as hell (if hell froze over) in my house, which makes getting out of bed a process in and of itself. I did do some sleeping, but I don't think I'm not getting up because I'm tired. I'm not getting out of bed because of the depression. It's a repeat

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THE LOW ROADThis isn't a post about my 5 days with Luisa. This is more about the other crap that has been going on in my life over the past week or so.First of all, NEVER GO TO MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. As some of you may know, I'm a connoisseur of hospitals. This would make my fourth one in four years, and Middlesex Hospital is by far the worst I've ever had the displeasure of staying at. The

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A BIT OF AN UPDATESince no one's in the trailer right now, I'm more or less procrastinating. As such, I present to you... me.In other news, I called up the Department of Social Services today to see about my Medicare coverage. The discharge nurse at the hospital told me that I had to go to the DSS office in Middletown to complete the paperwork for the Connecticut low-income health insurance,

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MUAHAHAHAHAHAChristmas has come and gone. I'm a little bit richer for the experience but I want to show everyone my Christmas gift from my sister.It's the Kodak EasyShare C340.This thing is the shiznit. 5.0 megapixels. 3X zoom. Enough features to make you plotz. This thing rocks. I'm going to have to use it EVERYWHERE.And thus, I will give you the set of the first pictures ever taken by ME

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BOWL PICKEM - UPDATE 1I hope everyone had a good holiday. Mine was eventful, and as such, I was unable to put up the results from the pickem.Until now.With a quarter of the games done (number 7 was tonight), we have a very close race at the top, but it's anyone's game at this point. Without further ado, the standings:Name # Correct Total Points Max Points RemainingAllie 6 85 404Nathan B. 5 84

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I KEEP TRYING TO GET OUT BUT THEY PULL ME BACK INSo this is to officially announce my return to the world of online journaling. Or something like that. I'm sure all three of you who read this are happy to see that I'll be posting more drivel. But it's my drivel and that's why you read it.If you're lucky, I'll tell you why I haven't been around. Or if you just get in contact with me. Or just

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BOWL PICKEM 2K5Here it is... the moment you all have been waiting for; the release of my 2005-2006 Bowl Pickem predictions. But before we get to that, I'd like to thank everyone who has entered the contest so far. Seven people isn't too bad for a very not well-publicized event. But there's still time for you to get your friends to join. Just have them go to the link:https://survey.vt.edu/

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THAT'S A RELIEF (KINDA)So it ends up that it WAS my mom who took out the $9,000 in loans. So she's going to pay off that (they had the bills sent to her address). Still, it would've been better (read: less stressful), if she had just gone ahead and looked up the stuff herself instead of waiting until the day before the bill was due to check up on her account. Which means "my" first payment is

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DO PICKEM!Apparently, either all the people who read this don't watch college football, or just plain ignore my requests. So I'm going to mention this again:I've set up a College Bowl Pickem entry form. The link is here:https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1133980239438Go to the page and fill all the information out. Then we'll see if any of you goobers (yeah, that's right. I called you

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GETTING BETTERI got a couple of good pieces of news today/yesterday:South Carolina reduced my student loan payments to about half of what it was. Which is good. Luisa: the A and B columns are what I have to pay on BOTH of my loans. I just wasn't thinking straight when you told me.I got a call from the recruiter at Independence Air for the Ramp Agent position. The training doesn't start until

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IN OTHER NEWSThe V on my Virginia Tech sticker fell off, so now it looks like I go to IRGINIA TECH. So I'll have to scrape off the other letters and just leave the VT sticker on there.Meanwhile, the stupid fucking Clemson parking sticker is still on there. I'll need a fucking blowtorch to get it off. Fantastic.Meanwhile, I did manage to get Ubuntu installed on my tower, but there's still some

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JUST ANOTHER THING TO MAKE ME DEPRESSEDAnother item to remember is that if finances get totally out of control and a graduate decides to declare bankruptcy, everything will be forgiven except student loans. "Those never go away," Tytel says.From this article on MSN on financial problems that shock college grads:http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/Moneyinyour20s/P85589.aspAnd

Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09474509066017707326noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817502.post-1134245327950158082005-12-10T15:06:00.000-05:002005-12-10T15:08:47.963-05:00

MOUSEWRITING ANALYSIS(Note: Due to the limitations of the internet, this really isn't what my handwriting looks like. I don't have a copy of my chicken-scratch to show on the internet. And I'm sure as hell not putting a copy of my signature on the internet. How stupid do they think I could possibly be?)Oh, and the analysis is completely off. And contradictory to boot. Just a warning.What

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ANOTHER UPDATEI'll keep this short and to the point.I'm back in Connecticut after the most uneventful drive yet. I did decide to take the GW Bridge, and will not be repeating that mistake anytime soon. Even so, the drive just took me 14 and a half hours. So that wasn't bad at all.Unlike the last time I was up here, I've been really bad about getting up in the morning. Not good.It snowed 10

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I'M POORI have $14 in my checking account, about $40 in cash, and a whole boatload of bills that are going to come due in the next week or so. So yeah, this is going to be fun, especially considering I somehow took out another $9,000 in loans from somewhere and I have to start paying that back soon too. Hurray.

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BOWL PICKEM ON THE WEBIn an effort to make things easier, I've gone ahead and made a web form with which you can submit to me and Dan your bowl picks. It's incredibly simple:Step 1: Go to this page: https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1133980239438Step 2: Read instructionsStep 3: Make sure you understand instructionsStep 4: Fill out formStep 5: Submit formStep 6: Sit back and wait

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THE HOUR OF DEPARTURE IS UPON METhat is, somewhere between 6 AM and 9 AM, probably falling closer to 8 AM. Hopefully, the rainy mess will be long gone and will not have followed me up the coast, where it is definitely colder than 4 degrees Celsius. There's the possiblity of snow coupled with the possiblity of driving around DC at rush hour, which is not good under any circumstances.However, I

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QUICK RANTBecause it's almost 2 AM and I have a shitload of things to do tomorrow, I'm going to make this rant quick. As many of you know, Virginia Tech lost to Free Shoes University last night. Of course, I only got to see most of it this evening due to previous engagements. So I saw the debacle this morning. So FSU and Brent Musberger/ABC go on my shit list. Why?FSU: Just because. They

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MORE PHOTOSI just picked up the pictures from Luisa's film camera that span 4 months. "Four months?" you think in disbelief. Fine. Just look at the pictures. Go to the pictures page. And look at the pictures that are from the Braves-Marlins game back on Sept. 25. The proof is in the pudding.There's also some pictures from Florida, mostly golf related, that are just now making it to the

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WEIRD DREAMSSo Luisa's pissed at me for my laziness. Not that I wouldn't be in her shoes, considering that she works and I don't. Anyway, it's frickin freezing in Luisa's house today, which is one thing that would prevent me from moving in here. There's no way that I'd be able to live in a house during the winter that doesn't get about 65 degrees. So I'd have to get that straight if I were to

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