Cream Cheese Warlords

Oh yeah I be back up and running now, with nothing lost but the old case and power supply. the new is much quieter and darker, should be easier to sleep with it running. Thats all. the other news can be gotten by catching me online or waiting for a bit for me to post the news on here. Overall its been a good day.

Figured I'd give everybody an update as to whats going on in my life. I've got one major announcement that I want to make personally to everybody so try and catch me when I'm online however I won't be much because of the second announcement, my computer's power supply has died. I have ordered replacement parts but I'm just praying that it didn't take anything else with it when it went. Lyle helped me pick out a case with a meganormously gargantuanic fan (250mm)[I was denying the temptation to say HHHUUUUGGGGEEEEEAH]It should take care of the few issues Ive been having with it, although they could just be winblows. yeah so catch me on soon or wait around for the blanket update at some point in the near future. and if anybody cares Lyle already knows all of this because of his left coast time zone having him awake and online about the same times I end up hijacking my moms comp.

I pity all the jibba-jabba foos

I just modified the user pages a bit so you won't time out when you're writing a long rant. The default time for a session is 24 minutes, I extended it to 7 days. Let me know if you're still losing posts.

Go vote.

Sorry about the commercial break. I don't really know what happened, but hopefully the site won't crap out again anytime soon. In the meantime, I'm backing the damned thing up.

I've got a few things to talk about, my job, my move, the future and NaNoWriMo to name a few, but the post will have to wait until I get my thoughts together.

Well I guess I got the job. I start on Monday for the 6 weeks of training. Its 10 an hour which is great than after that I work from home well in this case Lyle's parents house. I take calls and do tech support for direct tv. Trouble shooting and returns and basic billing stuff. It should be cool. No stress of being around other people. Seems like a really good place to work for but we know how jobs look before we get them. I have to make it to JCC from Gouvy mon through fri by 7:45 for 6 weeks. Thats going to suck really bad.

Well I made it back in NY. I have been here for a week and its just as fun as always. I have a job interview today with some work at home place supporting direct tv. I will be making 10 an hour though and sitting at home. That will be cool.

I think Leah is liking it here so far.

I also caved and I made a twitter. twitter.com/keldosnick

Um thats about it for now. I will update once I find out if I have the job.

I just wanted to let everybody know that Heather and I went to Niagara Falls over this last weekend and had a great time. We stayed with Aaron and Shannon and really enjoyed ourselves. If you wanna see pictures check out my myspace or facebook accounts, myspace has a few more. Feel free to comment ;)

I went to sitacon last weekend. It was okay... the highlights had nothing to do with anime of course...

I got to meet the chap who started ocremix, and I got to listen to Arm Cannon. Mock me if you will, I am now a follower of Arm Cannon.

=D

If you guys haven't heard, there's a new line of mac notebooks out there. The advancements in their "pro" line are impressive (dual geforce cards. can you say FRAG!) and the price cut on their consumer line is also impressive ($999 for the base version). I don't care about the new touchpad, so I won't comment on that.

But this is why I will never buy a new mac laptop: none of the new line have matte screens. It's not even an option. It's hard enough keeping glare off of your screen, why the hell would you want to make it so reflective you can use it as a mirror? Don't get me wrong, I usually keep my room so dark Mike refers to it as my cave, which would make a glossy monitor screen something I would purchase. No light, no reflections, no glare. But I don't have that option at work or on the go, which is what a laptop is for. I think it's time to revisit OSx86.

*takes a deep breath*

My life is pretty constant right now. Work, sleep, find a place to live. After I get a new place and get settled in, I'll turn my sight back to video games, writing and general fitness. But until then, the hunt continues. One way or another, I should have an apartment lined up by the end of the day. Maybe even two.

tiiiiiiiiim. i emailed you but no response yet. lemme know if you're coming to my wedding shindig.

I just had another random SJCS flashback tonight when I was driving home from Heather's.
Everybody remember CHALICE (the greatest anti drug/alcohol band ever)?
and the crazy singer talking about his coked up buddy decapitating himself by riding a motorcycle through the woods?
and the pyrotechnics setting off the fire alarm?
and the administration canceling the second performance for the junior high?

All I can say is ROCK ON CHALICE! WOOOOOOO! ROCK ON!

Update: I once again have no life.

i may have officially been declared the "fastest white kid to ever work the line at taco bell #4183", but three closes in a row is not conducive to me playing drums well at church.

home from work at 5:15am
band call time at 7:15am

blech!

i do heart mexicans, though.
i do not heart drunk-driving teenagers.

So I went to a NFG concert tonight and it was really fun. I was throwing down during Four Years Strong and I hit someone in the head not on purpose and he turned around and hit me right in the face, I hit him back and then he walked away. Turns out my nose was bleeding really bad. I kept dancing and wiping blood away. I then decided to go to the bathroom and clean up. It was good fun. My nose is broken near the top.

SO whats everyone else too these days.

I am having fun and getting ready for the trip back to NY. As much as it will suck going back to the trap that is NNY it will be great to be with Leah and get to see all my friends again.

Yeah the dating thing is going really well. I am so happy with Leah.

Are we going to do the whole New Years thing again this year because it will be nice to hang out with everyone and let you guys all meet her. Oh and she likes the video games well some the important ones. Like WoW. :)

For some reason, I just had a flash back to 8th grade German. There were skits where people were in a restaurant and were paying for food and things. I believe Lyle was trying to answer Sandy when asked how he would be paying for the food. He attempted to say "too bad," basically that he had no way to pay. Instead he said "zu Bett."

Anyone else remember this? (non Deutsch speakers can look up what that says)

I've gone back to writing longhand. This is partially because it's what Neil Stephenson does (I desperately want to be him) and partially because the last time I was able to write consistently and enjoyed it was in high school and the beginning of college. That was before I decreed it was too much of a hassle to type it all into a computer. I have to edit on a computer anyway, so why not just start there? I'm not sure what it is, but there's a magic that's been missing, an energy I have when I write my outlines and initial character thoughts but stops when I start clacking on the keyboard.

I'm hoping this is the solution, because the other possibility scares me. Maybe I'm just not as creative as I used to be. Maybe I just need to straighten my life around and become involved in the world again, a community, ANY community, anything that takes me away from watching firefly, house and titus repeatedly when I'm not at work, chowing down on Ben and Jerry's while I do so. I've started moving in that direction by biking up the huge hill into work every morning, then weight lifting. I wake up, exercise, work, sleep, look forward to a time when I feel like smiling for no reason other than I'm glad to be here.

How many swift kicks to the head does it take to get me moving? At least a few. The latest one happens today: my office is restructuring. They tried this last December, but all that happened was everybody got laid off then everybody got rehired because they couldn't get their ducks in a row. This could be a good thing. Rumor is, the engineering team is absorbing my team and we're getting a new boss. I look forward to "owning" parts of our product, of designing features from the ground up, of knowing it so intimately that I can honestly call it "mine." I don't get that in my current job, where all I do is customize other people's work to look and act a certain way.

Then again, I could be fired. I'm updating my resume and firing out applications again, just in case. The only question now is, should I seize this opportunity in my job and housing situation to relocate? I'm still on the fence.

I passed my test! I passed my test! Now I just gotta apply for internship and write my bigass paper....meep!

Making us wait til now to hear about the test we took in August is evil. Someone needs to die. But I passed, so I'm happy. They may live. For now......

anyone that wants to come to our wedding is more than welcome! i'm too dern lazy to track down addresses, but yeah, its in aurora/batavia, illinois on november 1st. i'm talking to you, tim! only three hours away. toby's my best man. ben barker is using his artistic ability for our centerpieces and jenn kirby is making us a phenomenal cake. oh and there's free miller. let me know, peeps.

Is anybody getting spam from this site? I haven't, but I'm getting reports, and there's been increased activity in the comments lately. Let me know and if it's a big enough problem, I'll completely remove the notify by email feature.