Hello out there...
So, yea...I guess you could say I've been gone for awhile. Ehh. I kind of disconnected from the Internet and all things computer for awhile, and then I never really got back into the swing of things.
Well, I'm about to move to Carbondale and I kind of feel like revamping this thing and using it to keep in touch with all my Olney friends. At least, through this and MySpace. I don't really like MySpace as much as I like this site, but seeing as how popular the former is, I'd still use it as a link to this page.
Anyways, if you want to hear a watered down version of what I've been through in the last six months, read on, otherwise, stay tuned for future updates.
So I can't exactly say that the last six months has been boring.
First up, Tina and I are still together. Albeit she's been gone for the last two months. Her Visa expires over summer since she's just a student, so she either has to leave the country and come back in with a visitor status or head back home and seeing as how she already had a paid airline ticket home, she went. So she's been in Switzerland and I've been stuck here. I've missed her, but it's kind of been nice to have some time alone after being crammed up each other's ass for the last nine months. It's given me time to hang out with all my friends before I leave. But, at the same time, it's really sucked ass being without her.
Left Burger Kind in May to work for Subway. I got a random phone call from Michelle (the general manager) asking if I wanted an Assistant Manager spot. After I explained I was leaving for Carbondale in the fall, she still offered me a closing position with a fifty cent pay increase from Burger King, so I took it. I got paid more there as a crew member then I did at BK to be a manager. I basically walked out of BK and started at Subway that night. After minimum wage went up to $7.50 in July, I was really making bank, getting paid well over $8 an hour. And the work was so easy and stress free. I wish I had been doing that job the whole time I worked fast food. After 8 every night, business just stopped. I had to close by myself, but all I had to do was basically dishes, clean everything up and make the safe drops. The computer automatically did the closing paperwork, so that was simply a push of a button. Most nights, I was out fifteen minutes after close. If I wasn't going to school, I would be all over that Assistant Manager spot.
My grandma had colon surgery in June, and she ended up staying in the hospital nearly a month. The "staples" the surgeon used to hold the colon together after the surgery (they removed a foot of her colon that was infected) started to come apart, so she had to go in a second time. Then she had a mental breakdown and the doctors said that she might have had a stroke, but she ended up snapping out of it after two weeks. Then a week of physical therapy and she was released. Those two weeks when she was out of it was really scary. We had actually started to make plans to have her transfered to a nursing home because we thought she wasn't going to be able to return to normal life. Thank God she's back to normal now.
I ended up finishing OCC with a 3.5 GPA. On a 4.0 scale, that's really nice. I'm all set to move up to Carbondale. In fact, I'll be moving in on Monday. I have a good portion of my stuff already up there. I sold my 32" TV to Brian and bought a 26" Dell LCD flat panel TV/Monitor. Got it hooked up to my PC and it's pretty bangin'. Since Tina left, I've pretty much immersed myself in all things PC. I've played through Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and the newest one, Episode One, as well as Gun and Doom 3. All of which rocked...well, I wasn't really all that impressed with Gun. Been watching a lot of TV shows that I download...Futurama, The Sopranos, House, Six Feet Under, Weeds, Kyle XY, and Heroes just to name a few. My computer's like a media hub.
I'm now up to 2.5 GB of RAM, an NVidia GeForce 7600 GT graphics card with dual DVI ports hooked up to my 26" Dell and another 20" Dell LCD, with my AMD Athlon 3500+ processor pushing it. Definitely nothing to sneeze at. A 500 GB Seagate internal hard drive puts me up to 660 GB of storage, of which about 60% is taken up. My next upgrade will be a 1 Terabyte hard drive and Windows Vista, once they get most of the bugs worked out of it.
It's nice, though, to get rid of all that home theater equipment and that big TV. The Dell is about 2" thick compared to the TV, which was 2 feet thick. Instead of having to manhandle two big remotes in order to watch a movie, all I have to do is double click. And I watch more on my computer than I do old fashioned TV. No commercials, no crap. And I have it on my PC for as long as I want.
I'm going to be living in a trailer about three blocks from the SIUC campus. Rents cheap, and I'll be surrounded by other students, so it'll rock. Tina's going to live in a dorm since her Dad will have it no other way, but that's okay. She'll probably stay with me most of the time, anyways. I'm having everything turned on on Monday, and I've got my bed, my fish tank and my computer and desk to move up there, so I should be moved in by Monday night. I've getting 15 MBPS cable Internet hooked up, and I'll have 75 channels of cable, so that'll be nice.
Went to Bonnaroo this summer. It's a big music and arts festival in Manchester, Tennessee. It's was pretty awesome. Got to see Tool, RX Bandits and a bunch of other cool bands...there was about 100 musical acts all together. Plus Lewis Black, and a shitload of other cool comedians. I only stayed three days...I couldn't make the whole thing. The heat, and the camping and I didn't have a comfortable thing to sleep on because my air mattress kept going flat, so my grandparents came down and got me. Got $100 for my armband (the original ticket price was $250) from a scalper on the way out, so that paid for a good portion of the trip.
Other than that, there hasn't been much else. JessFest was pretty rockin' this year. Got good and drunk and partied well into the night. Been doing a lot of hanging out, trying to catch up with people before I leave town, and I think I've done a good job. It's weird thinking about leaving this town. I've basically lived in the same room of the same house in the same town for the last seventeen years. And now I'm going to something completely different. Plus I'm sinking myself well into $30,000 of debt.
Woo-hoo.
P.S. The Used's new album, Lies for the Liars, rocks. Check it.
Well, I'm about to move to Carbondale and I kind of feel like revamping this thing and using it to keep in touch with all my Olney friends. At least, through this and MySpace. I don't really like MySpace as much as I like this site, but seeing as how popular the former is, I'd still use it as a link to this page.
Anyways, if you want to hear a watered down version of what I've been through in the last six months, read on, otherwise, stay tuned for future updates.
So I can't exactly say that the last six months has been boring.
First up, Tina and I are still together. Albeit she's been gone for the last two months. Her Visa expires over summer since she's just a student, so she either has to leave the country and come back in with a visitor status or head back home and seeing as how she already had a paid airline ticket home, she went. So she's been in Switzerland and I've been stuck here. I've missed her, but it's kind of been nice to have some time alone after being crammed up each other's ass for the last nine months. It's given me time to hang out with all my friends before I leave. But, at the same time, it's really sucked ass being without her.
Left Burger Kind in May to work for Subway. I got a random phone call from Michelle (the general manager) asking if I wanted an Assistant Manager spot. After I explained I was leaving for Carbondale in the fall, she still offered me a closing position with a fifty cent pay increase from Burger King, so I took it. I got paid more there as a crew member then I did at BK to be a manager. I basically walked out of BK and started at Subway that night. After minimum wage went up to $7.50 in July, I was really making bank, getting paid well over $8 an hour. And the work was so easy and stress free. I wish I had been doing that job the whole time I worked fast food. After 8 every night, business just stopped. I had to close by myself, but all I had to do was basically dishes, clean everything up and make the safe drops. The computer automatically did the closing paperwork, so that was simply a push of a button. Most nights, I was out fifteen minutes after close. If I wasn't going to school, I would be all over that Assistant Manager spot.
My grandma had colon surgery in June, and she ended up staying in the hospital nearly a month. The "staples" the surgeon used to hold the colon together after the surgery (they removed a foot of her colon that was infected) started to come apart, so she had to go in a second time. Then she had a mental breakdown and the doctors said that she might have had a stroke, but she ended up snapping out of it after two weeks. Then a week of physical therapy and she was released. Those two weeks when she was out of it was really scary. We had actually started to make plans to have her transfered to a nursing home because we thought she wasn't going to be able to return to normal life. Thank God she's back to normal now.
I ended up finishing OCC with a 3.5 GPA. On a 4.0 scale, that's really nice. I'm all set to move up to Carbondale. In fact, I'll be moving in on Monday. I have a good portion of my stuff already up there. I sold my 32" TV to Brian and bought a 26" Dell LCD flat panel TV/Monitor. Got it hooked up to my PC and it's pretty bangin'. Since Tina left, I've pretty much immersed myself in all things PC. I've played through Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and the newest one, Episode One, as well as Gun and Doom 3. All of which rocked...well, I wasn't really all that impressed with Gun. Been watching a lot of TV shows that I download...Futurama, The Sopranos, House, Six Feet Under, Weeds, Kyle XY, and Heroes just to name a few. My computer's like a media hub.
I'm now up to 2.5 GB of RAM, an NVidia GeForce 7600 GT graphics card with dual DVI ports hooked up to my 26" Dell and another 20" Dell LCD, with my AMD Athlon 3500+ processor pushing it. Definitely nothing to sneeze at. A 500 GB Seagate internal hard drive puts me up to 660 GB of storage, of which about 60% is taken up. My next upgrade will be a 1 Terabyte hard drive and Windows Vista, once they get most of the bugs worked out of it.
It's nice, though, to get rid of all that home theater equipment and that big TV. The Dell is about 2" thick compared to the TV, which was 2 feet thick. Instead of having to manhandle two big remotes in order to watch a movie, all I have to do is double click. And I watch more on my computer than I do old fashioned TV. No commercials, no crap. And I have it on my PC for as long as I want.
I'm going to be living in a trailer about three blocks from the SIUC campus. Rents cheap, and I'll be surrounded by other students, so it'll rock. Tina's going to live in a dorm since her Dad will have it no other way, but that's okay. She'll probably stay with me most of the time, anyways. I'm having everything turned on on Monday, and I've got my bed, my fish tank and my computer and desk to move up there, so I should be moved in by Monday night. I've getting 15 MBPS cable Internet hooked up, and I'll have 75 channels of cable, so that'll be nice.
Went to Bonnaroo this summer. It's a big music and arts festival in Manchester, Tennessee. It's was pretty awesome. Got to see Tool, RX Bandits and a bunch of other cool bands...there was about 100 musical acts all together. Plus Lewis Black, and a shitload of other cool comedians. I only stayed three days...I couldn't make the whole thing. The heat, and the camping and I didn't have a comfortable thing to sleep on because my air mattress kept going flat, so my grandparents came down and got me. Got $100 for my armband (the original ticket price was $250) from a scalper on the way out, so that paid for a good portion of the trip.
Other than that, there hasn't been much else. JessFest was pretty rockin' this year. Got good and drunk and partied well into the night. Been doing a lot of hanging out, trying to catch up with people before I leave town, and I think I've done a good job. It's weird thinking about leaving this town. I've basically lived in the same room of the same house in the same town for the last seventeen years. And now I'm going to something completely different. Plus I'm sinking myself well into $30,000 of debt.
Woo-hoo.
P.S. The Used's new album, Lies for the Liars, rocks. Check it.