Sigh

I need to look for work still...

I need to get more than 20-25 hours a week out of 2 jobs...

I need to be able to pay my sister back... 4 months of rent she's covered so far without any of my part.

Gas is ridiculously expensive... it costs me somewhere between $16-18 to go back and forth to school once a week. $44 to fill up the tank from empty. And my car sucks. The brakes are in sorry shape, which caused me to have to really pull out some 1337 driving skills to avoid getting into an accident when a bad one happened a few cars ahead of me on my way to school last week.

But... I do have a CDL and work experience in another field... yet one more thing to put on my resume.

So... even though i'm rather depressed (considering i'm an optimist) the optimism is still there. Now to go get my homework done for my class tonight and to finish catching up in my online class that I fell a bit behind in over the last 2 weeks.

VisualDNA

I saw this on MM:

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The Church of Baseball '07 I

The Brewers made it through the first week 3-3. Ben Sheets had a complete game 2-hitter in the opener, but had a less than stellar game 5 days later. The offense scored as little as 1 run and as much as 9. They had games of perfect defense with amazing plays, as well as games with head scratching moves. All in all, a first week of the season type of week. So long as they keep up playing .500 baseball while they work out some of the kinks, they should stay in good position to make a run for the playoffs. I hope. In other news, the Cleveland Indians are borrowing Miller Park to play their home games in this week, due to the atrocious weather. I wish I could get down to one of them, because $10 for field level seats is a deal I'll probably never see again in my life. Pictured above is JJ Hardy, being congratulated by Prince Fielder on his home run on Wednesday.

I Passed

I Passed the road test to become a school bus driver. Hide your children.

A Post

My busy-ness factor has increased dramatically this week. I'm interested in doing lots of stuff, but, short of doing something like requesting a day off of work, there's no way I could say with any certainity that I'd be able to do something at a given time. That's with only working 5 hours last week too... I'm scheduled a lot of on-call shifts that I get used for just enough to not be able to plan anything during them. I've also started CDL B&C /P /S training this week, and was studying books and taking the written tests for an instruction permit last week. This is on top of starting school, 8 credits worth, just two weeks ago. I haven't even checked my chocobo since the weekend. Well, I got more long-winded than I intended, but, that's wassup. (Also had a couple music practices last week.)

-This is what I posted on the linkshell forum, saying what's goin on.

God Save the Trees

The trees of the world are thankful for the online revolution. Sure, from 1995-2000, Canada doubled it’s paper production, and paper usage has been estimated to have increased by 40% since the popularization of e-mail[1], but just think of the amount of knowledge out there on the World Wide Web; tree-friendly information. A major advantage of online communication is the availability of knowledge without sacrificing our environment.



It’s impossible to say exactly how many web sites there are on the World Wide Web, due to it’s dynamic nature, but, according to Thomas Boutell’s calculations based on there being over 108 million individual websites counted by the Netcraft Web Server Survey in February, there are at least 19.2 billion individual web pages[2]. A ream of paper weighs about 6 lbs, so 19.2 billion pages is the equivalent of 115,200 tons of paper just to print off every site once. That’s a lot of information available without harming a single being of deciduous or coniferous ancestry.



Granted, the accuracy of a lot of the information on the web is suspect, but, having such a huge amount of information at my fingertips, with out defoliating our world is a strong advantage of online communication. Now we just have to get people to stop printing off all of their e-mails.



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[1] The ePaper Revolution; Geographical; Aug2005, Vol. 77 Issue 8, p36-37, 2p, 1c Ebsco Host, Acedemic Search Elite, kwd: paper usage

[2] WWW FAQs: How Many Websites Are There?. Boutell.com, 2-15-2007 Thomas Boutell. http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/sizeofweb.html

That pic

Hmm

I guess I need to stretch out the image a bit to cope with these modern resolutions. But, iirc I made this graphic all by myself way back in the mid 90s (well, except for the X-Wings.) Also, now my font colors seem to be messed up. Don't worry, i'll be going back to the look right before this in a little bit.

My Career Stats

As we're gearing up for the baseball season, I thought it might be fun to post my 'career' softball stats :) Unfortunately, I didn't get 2004 into my database, and I played in a different type of softball league in '05, so the stats don't really compare. Anyways..., let's see if I get this coded alright:

G  AB  H  2b 3b HR BB SO AVG  OB%  SLG   OPS  Year
6  15  9  2  1  1  4  1 .600 .684 1.067 1.751 2002
10 35  23 4  1  1  1  1 .657 .667  .914 1.581 2003
18 60  39 11 3  1  1  0 .650 .656  .983 1.639 2006
34 110 71 17 5  3  6  2 .645 .664  .991 1.655 Career

I think I hit the jackpot with the pre tag :)

It really stinks that I can't find 2004, since that was probably my best year that I can recall. Had a batting average of almost .750 in ten games that I had stats for. Didn't have tournament stats, though. Oh well. :)

While I'm At It

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

The Quiz Disease

You Are Midnight

You are more than a little eccentric, and you're apt to keep very unusual habits.Whether you're a nightowl, living in a commune, or taking a vow of silence - you like to experiment with your lifestyle.Expressing your individuality is important to you, and you often lie awake in bed thinking about the world and your place in it.You enjoy staying home, but that doesn't mean you're a hermit. You also appreciate quality time with family and close friends.

What Time Of Day Are You?

I'm continually shocked at how accurate some of these quizzes are. This one only had 5 questions too.

Whadda Ya Know?

Mike: So, what was last month's adventure?
Lady: *moment of silence* ... I got a tattoo.
Mike: Do we know where you got your tattoo?
Lady: Milwaukee.

Michael Feldman is hilarious. The Whadda Ya Know radio show is in it's 3rd week of Whadda Ya Idol, which is 100x better than that Fox production. If you don't get it from your public radio station, you should check it out online. I'll find the link and post it later. Gotta go get our pizza!

Some RL Stuff

I feel positive vibes that I will be a 'Teller' within two weeks. Failing that, I'll end up being a 'School Bus Driver' in a slightly longer period of time.

There's a 95% chance that I'll be starting at ITT Tech in June, in the Digital Entertainment and Game Design program. Expensive and challenging. Well, going to school to be a audio engineer like I was thinking about doing a couple years ago would be rather expensive too, and a lot lower of job placement and starting salary rate with that kind of degree... The nice thing about the things I'd learn with this program is that, though gaming is the central focus of it, everything could apply to a very diverse set of jobs, from boring programming, to web development or graphic arts. Basically anything to do with computers. I could probably even get into some IT positions with a degree like that.

Now... I just need to get my FT job all set so I can start getting on pace to make more than 8k this year...

A link

I have been remiss in posting this link. My apologies.

LINK

Interesting News

The Swiss Army is on the move!

New Color Scheme, Again

Does this color scheme look better?

Coming up!

Now is the time of year that I start blogging about my 2nd religion... I know that of my fans, 0/3 are also baseball fans. Well... that's too bad. Over the course of the month of March, I'm going to attempt to do some profiles of some of the Milwaukee Brewers, from players, front office personnel, to the broadcasters even. I am going to attempt to do the profiles with as much of the 'RL' side of things as possible, to hopefully give you less than interested viewers an angle that may interest you.

Sweet Myth-tery of Life

The title is a hint to one of the questions on the quiz.

About that quiz... I've been told that the quiz is dreadfully unfair and other such things. Well, too bad! :) However, one of the issues brought up is that I guess it wasn't obvious that some of the questions accept and/or require multiple answers. The one person who's taken it so far, got a score of 9/20, but then I gave them the quiz in FFXI over again, then knowing about the multiple answer thing, and this person improved to 12/20.

So, let this be a fair warning: Some of the questions require more than one answer and you must have all of the correct answers marked to be correct. These are the questions with the square boxes to check instead of the round ones.

Also, this quiz site does not reveal the correct answers. I'm sorry. I've you've taken the quiz and would like to go over the answers with me, join FFXI on the Unicorn server and look for Mophia. Okay... I guess that's not feasible for everyone. I also have yahoo IM over which i could go over the quiz with you. Also, you could take the quiz over and over again until you get it right... It doesn't take near as long as that other quiz site, cuz all the questions are on one page.

Another note: The questions seem to flow easiest in the beginning to hardest at the end.

Do You Know Mophia As Well As...

As my many fans have clamored... I have delivered. I hope all 2 (or is it 3 now?) of you enjoy it. :)

http://www.quizilla.com/score/display.php?item_id=4385674

So much that I should do...

A To Do List...

1. Clean Room - Perpetually at the top of the list.
2. Clean Rest of Apartment - Infinitely second.
3. Write More of I:NJAC - I do do this sporadically, but, really need to...
4. Type Up All That I Have Written - Writing is the hard part, I just need to be less lazy!
5. Get My Taxes Done - The sooner I do them, the sooner I get money! (I hope!)
6. Get Car's Brakes Fixed - New addition to the list, but need to get #5 done first.
7. Change Strings On Acoustic Guitar - Electric guitar all done, now this one.
8. Post More Often Here - Hmm... what's this? ^^
9. Start Posting On Crash-Riding And Make It Look Good - One of these days.
10. Post My Oodles Of FFXI Screenshots - Photobucket here I come!

TTF!