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Logging again

Date: 24-Apr-08 At: 02:21 PM
Subject: Logging again
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Hey everyone.
Wow it's been a while since I wrote a weblog, and to be honest, I don't have much to say, but I figure that I ought to post just for posterity sake. So life has been going pretty smooth lately, been going to work, saving money, trying to workout and such. I got almost $8000.00 saved for my house. Oh yeah, for those who don't know, I plan on buying a house as soon as the recession lets up and I have $15,000 saved. That will be fun, hopefully I can find a place a little closer to work so I don't have to drive so far. Also hoping that some friends move in with me to make it more fun, and also help with the house payments a little.

I am looking forward to getting the cabin opened up again, should be nice when we can go up there. Looking forward to lots of walking around, swordsmanship training and matches, and archery. Oh yeah, me and Khoi bought a compound bow recently, and so we have started trying to learn how to use it. I did some archery waaaay back in elementary school, and I remember the basics, but that was with an old crappy "recurve" bow if you could even call it that. Now I have a nice compound bow, with some decent power. I think the draw weight is a little light, but probably good for a stater bow.

For the past few months Khoi and myself have had a decent schedule of working out 3 times a week, and it was starting to pay off. However recently he has started to flake out on me alot, and it is getting rather annoying. I have been having a very hard time motivating myself to workout by myself, so I really need someone else around. I guess I either have to man up and motivate myself, or find a different workout partner or something. I would hate to have come this far and be so close to my goal and then lose it all. The exercise and shit has really paid off, I've lost about 50 pounds in the last year or so, and gained some decent muscle. I'm still no kelvin klein model, but I look okay at least now, which is nice.

I should be starting my garden again soon, I got some ideas about how to hopefully yield a better crop this year. Try and actually ya know... take care of them, with the weeding and the watering and such. Gonna put em out in the sun more too since peppers enjoy the sun.

This weekend my work is taking us all out to a retreat at treasure island. All about team building, and our plan for the upcoming year, and just having a good time. So that should be pretty cool. Interesting side note, 93X (the local rock radio station) is having a gameshow there the same weekend called "are you smarter than an exotic dancer". So we may end up attending that.

Anyway, that's all for now. As I always say, I am going to try and update more frequently, but odds are I won't. But hey, no harm in trying.
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Mood: Pretty okay

Better today

Date: 19-Jul-07 At: 03:35 PM
Subject: Better today
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Okay, so I may have overreacted in my last log. Work isn't that bad. I don't think I'll want to actually be in the position I was meant to take, cause an I.C. is really just a person who specializes in taxport, which is some software that I don't much carefor at all. I would rather be in IT but for now I guess I can't complain, I mean when there is no calls coming in, this just is pretty cushy. Play ping pong, hang out with the office dog, play roms, listen to music, drink coffee. It's pretty alright. I hate the traffic, but I may a solution for that as well. So either way, things aren't so bad now that I am starting to get the hang of it, and am answering the phone and stuff now.
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Mood: better

Somebody fucking kill me

Date: 17-Jul-07 At: 06:14 PM
Subject: Somebody fucking kill me
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I hate my job. I don't know what I'm doing, or why I am there. I have been tricked into being a god damn fucking help desk jocky. I worked too hard and came too far to end up in the fucking botom rung. Why, why did I get stuck in the same job where any fucking prick off the street can come in with no college, no computer experiance. It's not fair. Fucking 33K a year, I should be getting at least 45. Taxes suck, the whole fucking tax software suit sucks, users are morons, and I don't know what I'm doing there. I was fooled into this job, thinking they had plans for me, but no, I will be help desk forever.

Not only that, my car is a fucking peice of shit. It cuts out randomly, dies in intersections, won't fucking get up and go an automatically change gears. It's the shitties car I'v ever had to deal with, and I dont have the god damn money to fix that peice of horse shit.

Somebody fucking kill me. I will never be happy in a job, I will never be happy with my file. Somebody with any sense of mercy, kill me. Seriously. If you see me walking, belt me with your car, but make it fast. I can't stand this anymore. 2 days of this type of existance, and I already have lost all will to live.
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Mood: HATE

Holy Fucksors Time for life?

Date: 08-Jun-07 At: 03:20 AM
Subject: Holy Fucksors Time for life?
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      Okay, So I know it's been forever since I updated, it's just that I'm so damn lazy. I should really get me some of that voice recognition to typing software... Anyway.. I recently graduated (may 19th) so I am like done with school now, I have my AS degree and I'm in the real world now. I've been kinda half-way looking for a job, but not going nuts over it. My resume is pretty decent I guess, been looking for like 2 weeks now, I've already had 4 real people send me e-mails, a headhunter meet me for coffee, and a temp joint that wanted me to meet me out in bloomington. Good news is that they think they can find me a job at Medtronic which is seemingly a really good company. So that will be cool if that goes through.

      As far as project I have going I've recently been working on a crazy mod for jedi academy that turns all the chars into in video-game and anime chars. Add real swords, more blood, all kinds of fun stuff. Uh, I am in one summer class and my teacher and I were talking and he wanted a program that could allow him to add a printer directly without needing to authenticate to the domain controller in a domain and I wrote it for him cause I'm cool like that. I recently redid the network, and am still working some of the bugs out and trying to make it faster and whatnot. My teacher loaned me some quality cisco gear so me and friends can try to cram for the CCNA (cisco certified networking associate). I doubt I'll be ready for that, but studying never hurt, and hopefully I can help my friends out. I've been thinking about doing more work on the site again, try and finish some of the half finished projects (address book, personal notebook, factions, better filesharing etc...) but I just havn't had the coding itch in a while. Now that my other projects are slowing down maybe I'll get back into it.

      Concerning friends and the like, me and scott are kind on the outs, he wouldn't stop trying to get me to smoke weed with him and I eventually told him off. Khoi left for vietnam for like 7 weeks (he left maybe 3 weeks ago) so still a while before he comes back. Me and joe and cooch are stilling hanging out alot, so that's cool. Me and Kat are doing well, she has been really nice to me lately (buying me things, scratching my back, all those good girlfriend-y things).

      I have kinda changed sword styles, I have changed over to the one handed Chinese tai chi sword. I do love the speed and agility it allows me. The balance is great, two blades is nice. I have adopted the Tai Chi sword, but not the Tai Chi style. Although I have great respect for Tai Chi swordsmanship, I do not wish to take it as my own. I am creating my own style a mix of Tai Chi, and Japanese styles with my own twist. Whether it will be successful or a massive flop is yet to be seen, but thus far I am hopeful. I do need a higher carbon steel though, this sword is a little too flexible to be of any real use in battle.

      I am becoming somewhat nervous about my finacial situation. I have only 50 bucks or so left in my checking account, and a little over a thousdan in my savings. I might as well say I have 400 left in my savings because i need that other money for the road trip in august. I only make 60 dollars a week donating plasma, and much of that goes to Gas, cat food and litter, and car expenses. I am left with very little if any to save, and still have some fun. I'm sure it will work out, especially once I get a job.

      Well I suppose that is all the news that is fit to print for now, I'll try and update a little more frequently from here on in, but who knows.
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Mood: Meh

The Biggest Jerk Ever?

Date: 07-Mar-07 At: 01:11 AM
Subject: The Biggest Jerk Ever?
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     Okay, so recently I've been playing starcraft online. It's normally a fun game, try not to get too into it or anything. Most of the time it is enjoyable, and friendly. However today, I met the biggest jerk ever. Like wow. He was on my team, and near the beginning he was getting rushed badly. So I sent all my troops to go help him out. I saved his ass. Without me he would have died right there. Not trying to sound all braggy, the fact that I was a helpful friend is semi important to the rest of the story. So I keep sending troops and fight with him, we are doing well.

     However, I sent too many troops and left my base relatively exposed. After a large battle, the enemy got in my base, and before I was destroyed I loaded several builders into a dropship and was able to escape. Note that during this time, my friend did not help me at all, he sat by and watched my base get demolished, even though I asked if he would help. So to try and save myself and stay in the game, I started building a tiny base in his base, out of the way, I wasn't taking any of his minerals or anything.

     He then was able to destroy one of our enemies, so that was good. Then after it was clear that he could destroy the other, they left. I was like, alright we win! Then he mind controlled one of my SVC's without asking me (it was fine, but normally you ask first. Oh and mind control just lets him be able to use that unit. So he can now build Terran units and buildings). He then ripped on me about my name (Kenji). I just told him its a name I've been using for a long time. He then called me a Jap.

     After that he the says "Get the fuck out of my base" and turns on me. He proceeded to destroy my base, even though I was trying to move it right after he asked (being terran most of my buildings can fly). I am then down to my last SVC and I just say "Please dude, I helped you out. You don't need to backstab me like this. We can just win, don't betray me". He then proceeded to destroy my last SVC, causing me to lose the game. He gained nothing from me losing. We both could have just won right there. For no reason at all he betrayed me, after I saved his ass in the beginning! It's like.. what's up with that?

     After that I didn't even want to play anymore. Like, I'm not really mad, just confused and kinda depressed. It's like.. what leads someone to be such a giant jerk like that? Eh eitherway, I just wanted to vent a bit after that.
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Mood: Confused