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So yeah, I realize that’s pretty much my goal in a nutshell. I want to be the old man at gaming conventions thats so old, he looks out of place until you realize he’s gaming with his kid. I want to have the time and money to sit around the house and do the hobbies that I never have the time or money to do now. Maybe I should push the writing thing more so I can make a crappy career out of it and then work from home. I can paint minis to inspire myself and write game worlds for freelance work. Maybe I have goals and dreams afterall. I always look at people here at the University with career goals and I think, I don’t have any of those. I don’t want to be defined by my job, I just want to work enough to make my free time worth it. But then maybe I just haven’t found the right career. Too bad the things that are most interesting to me are so flaky financially: writing, film production, photography.

I’m not unhappy, I just think I could be happier. But then again, I firmly believe that happieness need not come from your surroundings and standings, but more how you precieve and deal with them. Now if only Heather could see things the same way.

I want to take more pictures… what would you people want to see in my mobolog? This isn’t real photography, but it could be fun given certain challenges – like a one man scavenger hunt.

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I guess I’ve been so busy/disgusted at work that I never commented here that I got a new phone. Saturday, Heather finally decided she had had enough of her phone dying every two days. We had, last week, determined that it was in fact not her battery, but her phone. We both had the same model of phone and we could exchange batteries and mine would run for a week while hers would be dead in a day. Anyway, we went to the Sprint Store to beg for help, but all we got was, “your phone is no longer under warantee so you can buy a new one or suck it bitches!”

Okay, maybe I made up the part about sucking it, but that’s what I heard when his gums were flapping. Anyway, my phone was actually elligible for their upgrade program ($150 rebate on a new phone after you’ve had your phone for 18 months). We finally came to the decision that Heather liked her/our phones enough that she’d take mine, which was older but worked fine and I’d get a new phone, so I saddled over to the counter and peered at the techno-goodness that was soon to be mine. I finally decided on their most recent creation: The Slider (not to be confused with the Slyder). So yeah. I got a new phone that has all kinds of crazy ass features, including a camera that’s worse than the one on my PDA, but much easier to send photos from so expect some more activity on the MoBlog.

If you don’t know what or where my moblog is, you can get to it here. Technically you can RSS it here, but its been broken for a little while. I don’t fully trust RSS anymore, it seems like they break more often than they work.

Anyway, I’m really just trying to waste time until I can go work out at 5:00. I guess that’s only 45 minutes. Maybe I should got and work out extra since I’ve been so lazy this week.

Anyone wanna go to St. Louis and get some White Castle? Maybe we can grab NPH on the way and get some strippers. The Doogie line always works on strippers.

bored and grumpy today. I have been more or less defeated by some printers for the last two days and I’m no longer willing to fight them today. Maybe I’ll go back to it tomorrow. I am trying to set up the B&W printers in the lab more efficiently this semester using a print management software, but the manual is useless and no one else on campus is using it the same way I am. I’m frutrtrated and tired of tinkering with it. I email their support people and I think I’ve been given the cold shoulder on it.

Bah.

I’m getting tired of CoH as well, I fear. I can’t seem to spend more than a half our or so on it at a time. After one mission I’m usually bored and I’m ready to do something else. Problem is, I really don’t have many other games to play instead. I have some single player games, but they usually just make me feel lonely. I don’t want to plunk down the initial $50 investment on another MMORPG, I just want to be able to hang out with friends in person or over the internet and feel like I still have some semblance of a connection with them.

Why do these games feel like they need to charge you $50 to start off playing even if they’re gonna charge you $15 every month after that. I think a $25 initial payment would be more reasonable in light of the long term investment you’re making. I’d love to play some other MMORPGs but not feel like I’m dumping $50 just to see if my friends are going to hang out on that one for long enough to be worth it.

There are two houses near me for rent. Won’t someone I know move in near me so I can hang out with someone without having to drive all over friggin North Texas? Gas is expensive and I’m lazy.

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I haven’t seen Garden State yet, but it’s on my Netflix Queue. The others all get the big thumbs-up.

Its Friday and there’s still a fair amount that has to be done before the labs open on Tuesday. Unfortunately I have no motivation to do anything. If Kiki were here, I’d feel more motivated to get over to ETech and start running network cable. Instead I’m content to sit here and do one quick mission of CoH.

I am a “caged salad buffet who loves to hump hot bitches.”

What Are You?

This song always makes me feel like its all going to work out fine in the end.

Music is cool that way.

The new lab I had to set up this week is pretty close to being done except for the furniture. We ordered the furniture around the same time as the computers but the desks just haven’t shown up yet so I set the lab up on the crap-ass tables that were in there. I have a sneaking suspicion that those tables will show up around 4:00 tomorrow, in which case I will be working both Sunday and MLK day to get them assembled. If they show up any later than that, I guess I’ll pull a weekender some other time and get the lab into perfect condition.

The other thing we’re waiting on is a couple of university work orders. One is to get the projector mounting in the ceiling so we can hang out projector. The other is a power drop so we can plug in the Instructor’s computer. Yes, that’s right, at present, the instructor neither has power, nor a projector, so it really is more of a lab than a classroom. So for now, it looks like we’re going to be using an extension cord and a media cart for the projector. So for this new cutting edge facility, we’re kind of going in caveman style to the first class unless I can get some strings pulled or a windfall of luck.

Otherwise the class/lab is looking pretty good. I’d gush over what’s going in there, but it’s all mac’s so I don’t really care that much. All I can say is they’re expensive and heavy as fuck. I just wish I had as much room in my main lab over here as there is in that huge room over there.

Stolen from gothicsquish

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eXpressive: 8/10
Practical: 3/10
Physical: 7/10
Giver: 3/10

You are a XSYT–Expressive Sentimental Physical Taker. This makes you a Firebrand.

You are volatile, sexy and sexually driven. You’re magnetic and fascinating, but you don’t really enjoy playing the field — it makes you nervous and preys on your insecurites. But when you fall for someone you fall hard.

You tend to over-analyze things, so the slightest comment or action from your significant other can send you into a tailspin. You crave attention and validation from your loved ones, so if your friends don’t like your partner or your partner doesn’t like your friends it makes you suffer. Unfortunately the two are often in conflict — you have excellent insight with your friends, but in a relationship you are blind. Trust your friends!

You blow hot and cold, with big highs and big lows. This makes the bad times very bad but the good times very good, so you tend to stay in a problem relationship much longer than you should. But when a relationship fails, you hold a grudge. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but make sure your grudge doesn’t cloud your vision the other way!

What would help you most in your relationships is confidence. You need someone who can help you feel good about yourself and not worse.

You can be needy and jealous. Fortunately you are cute as hell.

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You Are 25 Years Old

25 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view – and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You’ve had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You’ve been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.