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Hello LiveJournal, how I have neglected you. I remember when posting used to be a daily occurance, posting several times in one day. Now its more like monthly, if that. I guess the onset of MySpace and Facebook took attention away from you. And now that we live in a 160 character or less world of Tweets, Tumbls, and Flicks, your lenghtly entries are obsolete. Why read the whole book when you can read the Cliff's Notes, or more succintly, Wikipedia.
Imagine, as a kid, having to buy crib notes in order to completely avoid reading a book. It was still reading, but getting out of such literary classics as Pride & Prejudice or Animal Farm was worth the price. Never could I imagine that there could exist a web site that would give you all that information for FREE. Granted, it doesn't give you chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, but most entries have fairly detailed entries, plus character descriptions, and other important information like themes and whatnot. I remember going on the computer at the Library with an Encarta Encyclopedia thinking that it would never get any better than that. Oh, how was I wrong.
So here I sit, broken hearted. Paid a nickle, only parted.
I remember pouring out my heart on livejournal on a daily basis. It was very cathartic. Any troubles I had I could vent here and in many cases get good feedback from friends. It was also a good way to keep in touch with friends. At first it was high school, and then college friends. But then of course, everyone slowly stopped using it. I kept on going for a while, but even I ran out of steam. So much of my life has now been unrecorded. Every Starfleet captain keeps a log of whats going on, and at one point so did I.
I think one of the last entries of any substance was right after I was offered my position at Granite Telecommunications. I just read it and had to have a laugh; for a few reasons.
My car hasn't had an oil change in at least six months, I've been driving around with a "Maint. Req." light going off for the past three or four months. Hopefully I won't have any major damage. Heck, I'm at 28,000 mileage, and I haven't had any regularly scheduled maintenance since I'd say 15k.
Well, I'm at something like 52,000 miles on my car, and I STILL have my "Maint. Req." light on. I've added a few quarts of oil, but I've had no maintenance at all... so that makes it like 37,000 miles since my car has even seen the inside of a garage. YIKES! I really should do something about that...
I can start saving up for things like my best friends wedding, my mother's 60th birthday party which I have to plan for next year, and least but not last, my "Lips" fund so I can go to the Sin's RHPS con later this year.
This is probably the most depressing part. I never did really save much money. I had money saved for my friend's wedding, but I still ended up owing a few hundred dollars after the fact. My mother's 60th birthday party was a bust, it was basically a little get-together at my aunts. While I think she appreciated it, it was not the big surprise party that I had envisioned. I feel in some ways I let her down. Oh, yeah, and the "SINS CON". So I was anticipating it being in 2009, but of course its in 2010, and although I managed to put a couple hundred away, I certainly do not have the money for the price of a plane ticket, hotel, Con ticket, transportation, food, and spending money. So, my dreams of making it to this Con are shattered, but only due to my own inability to save money, plus that and pretty much 90% of all my money goes towards trying to get myself out of debt. Even though I said after not being able to attend the 2008 Atlantic City Con that come hell or high water I would be attending the next con... I still let myself down. I guess there is the rumored 4/7/11 Con that Larry hinted at when he was up here for Shock Treatment. A 4 hour trip that only costs about $50 in gas is a LOT cheaper than a $350 plane ticket. Plus I can fufill my life's dream of eating at White Castle... and maybe I can stalk the Four Horsemen...
Despite all being said, I think I am in a much better place now than I was a year ago, but I still have a lot of work to do. Only I can do it, and its not easy, but if I don't I might as well just throw in the towel now.
Imagine, as a kid, having to buy crib notes in order to completely avoid reading a book. It was still reading, but getting out of such literary classics as Pride & Prejudice or Animal Farm was worth the price. Never could I imagine that there could exist a web site that would give you all that information for FREE. Granted, it doesn't give you chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, but most entries have fairly detailed entries, plus character descriptions, and other important information like themes and whatnot. I remember going on the computer at the Library with an Encarta Encyclopedia thinking that it would never get any better than that. Oh, how was I wrong.
So here I sit, broken hearted. Paid a nickle, only parted.
I remember pouring out my heart on livejournal on a daily basis. It was very cathartic. Any troubles I had I could vent here and in many cases get good feedback from friends. It was also a good way to keep in touch with friends. At first it was high school, and then college friends. But then of course, everyone slowly stopped using it. I kept on going for a while, but even I ran out of steam. So much of my life has now been unrecorded. Every Starfleet captain keeps a log of whats going on, and at one point so did I.
I think one of the last entries of any substance was right after I was offered my position at Granite Telecommunications. I just read it and had to have a laugh; for a few reasons.
My car hasn't had an oil change in at least six months, I've been driving around with a "Maint. Req." light going off for the past three or four months. Hopefully I won't have any major damage. Heck, I'm at 28,000 mileage, and I haven't had any regularly scheduled maintenance since I'd say 15k.
Well, I'm at something like 52,000 miles on my car, and I STILL have my "Maint. Req." light on. I've added a few quarts of oil, but I've had no maintenance at all... so that makes it like 37,000 miles since my car has even seen the inside of a garage. YIKES! I really should do something about that...
I can start saving up for things like my best friends wedding, my mother's 60th birthday party which I have to plan for next year, and least but not last, my "Lips" fund so I can go to the Sin's RHPS con later this year.
This is probably the most depressing part. I never did really save much money. I had money saved for my friend's wedding, but I still ended up owing a few hundred dollars after the fact. My mother's 60th birthday party was a bust, it was basically a little get-together at my aunts. While I think she appreciated it, it was not the big surprise party that I had envisioned. I feel in some ways I let her down. Oh, yeah, and the "SINS CON". So I was anticipating it being in 2009, but of course its in 2010, and although I managed to put a couple hundred away, I certainly do not have the money for the price of a plane ticket, hotel, Con ticket, transportation, food, and spending money. So, my dreams of making it to this Con are shattered, but only due to my own inability to save money, plus that and pretty much 90% of all my money goes towards trying to get myself out of debt. Even though I said after not being able to attend the 2008 Atlantic City Con that come hell or high water I would be attending the next con... I still let myself down. I guess there is the rumored 4/7/11 Con that Larry hinted at when he was up here for Shock Treatment. A 4 hour trip that only costs about $50 in gas is a LOT cheaper than a $350 plane ticket. Plus I can fufill my life's dream of eating at White Castle... and maybe I can stalk the Four Horsemen...
Despite all being said, I think I am in a much better place now than I was a year ago, but I still have a lot of work to do. Only I can do it, and its not easy, but if I don't I might as well just throw in the towel now.