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House and Camaro
If i had 300 thousand dollars i'd buy a house and Chevrolet Camaro. I'd keep my new car, but i'd also have a car that makes me happy every time i get to drive it.
So plan A. figure out how to get a down payment on a house.
Plan B. be so good at plan A, that i have enough discretionary income to afford a new car. (Imperial Blue 2LT Camaro, silver interior)
I really need a vacation, but it seems every time i do, it costs about 1000 dollars to just leave this place with no destination. Then it costs about 1000 dollars for a week of hotels. Then if i want to eat and do stuff wherever it is i am it costs 1000.
So i have to figure out how to take a vacation without leaving. That's 3k straight away for a down payment.
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External Factor 1: I have no idea where i'm going to be living in a year. Until i do, i can't find a house with a reasonable price. I'm 100% certain that my mortgage will be less than my current rent (1200 dollars a month for a 2br with underground parking, no utilities, no water, no smoking, evacuation points in the bedrooms)
External Factor 2: houses cost a lot of money... stop it. Do you know how to buy a foreclosed house? teach me oh wise people... I would love a 200k house for 100k. Or like the ads seem to indicate a 200k house for 10k.
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How i'm gonna do it:
1. Pay off student loans Next Month WOOOOOOOOOO
2. Pay off credit cards March WOOOOOOO
3. Pay off more of my new car loan this year.
4. work on the rest.
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I heard a story recently about people who tried to get 1 million dollars in a month, i wonder how it's feasible in 5 years...
The math says 200k a year of unspent income, no interest. 548 dollars a day.
how does a person do that?
oh well i'm done rambling, just wanted to say that my 5 year plan is a house and a summer car. I'd say wife and kids, but at this point i'm pretty aware that no women out there are attracted to me. After the 300th woman over the last 8 years or so says no to a date, you kinda give up and go on a bachelor spending spree.
So plan A. figure out how to get a down payment on a house.
Plan B. be so good at plan A, that i have enough discretionary income to afford a new car. (Imperial Blue 2LT Camaro, silver interior)
I really need a vacation, but it seems every time i do, it costs about 1000 dollars to just leave this place with no destination. Then it costs about 1000 dollars for a week of hotels. Then if i want to eat and do stuff wherever it is i am it costs 1000.
So i have to figure out how to take a vacation without leaving. That's 3k straight away for a down payment.
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External Factor 1: I have no idea where i'm going to be living in a year. Until i do, i can't find a house with a reasonable price. I'm 100% certain that my mortgage will be less than my current rent (1200 dollars a month for a 2br with underground parking, no utilities, no water, no smoking, evacuation points in the bedrooms)
External Factor 2: houses cost a lot of money... stop it. Do you know how to buy a foreclosed house? teach me oh wise people... I would love a 200k house for 100k. Or like the ads seem to indicate a 200k house for 10k.
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How i'm gonna do it:
1. Pay off student loans Next Month WOOOOOOOOOO
2. Pay off credit cards March WOOOOOOO
3. Pay off more of my new car loan this year.
4. work on the rest.
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I heard a story recently about people who tried to get 1 million dollars in a month, i wonder how it's feasible in 5 years...
The math says 200k a year of unspent income, no interest. 548 dollars a day.
how does a person do that?
oh well i'm done rambling, just wanted to say that my 5 year plan is a house and a summer car. I'd say wife and kids, but at this point i'm pretty aware that no women out there are attracted to me. After the 300th woman over the last 8 years or so says no to a date, you kinda give up and go on a bachelor spending spree.
Fitness Trackers!
Alright folks i need a bit of help. You see, today Nike unveiled a very sexy device called the Nike+ Fuelband. I'm pretty sure it tracks everything you could ever think of. A math oriented athlete's best friend. Pre-orders sold out within about an hour, and i missed my chance because i was at work showcasing my job to a Senator. Story for another time. We know the Fuelband hits the market starting 22 Feb. My question to you is fairly obvious:
How does it compare to using a fitbit?
Price
Right off the bat a Fitbit (at least the plum colored one) is retailing at 99 dollars for the newest model including free shipping. The Nike+ Fuelband is going for 150 dollars.
Features
Nike+ Fuelband boasts connectivity to every device you use daily, the phone, the ipod, your computer. You set a goal and using its accelerometer and i'm sure other patented technologies, it gives you credits "fuel" towards your goal. You can drum, or do jumping jacks, or walk, climb stairs, and i'm hoping it tracks skydives too. There isn't much other info out there about it, obviously not out in public yet, but i'd love to get my hands on one and see how it shapes the way i workout. Nike+ is a tool i use to track running, but i don't track all my movements all day, and i get no credit for stopping, knocking out 50 pushups, 50 flutterkicks, 50 jumping jacks, and 50 situps before hitting another mile pretty hard.
Fitbit is another product i'd like to get, and up until last night when i heard Nike was announcing something that could augment Nike+ i was all set to buy a Fitbit. Here's what their latest model offers. It looks like a pedometer and an accelerometer had a baby, clips to your belt easily and tracks your basic movements throughout the day. They sell little leashes for them so i imagine they fall off and get lost easily, at that price i would be unhappy. But what you can do with the info from the device seems to be a big selling point. Log activity, food intake, see your goals, and a few other online features help you turn your numbers into something visual and real as opposed to just saying "i had a good workout today". Even the best athletes keep good logs of what they do, makes sense that the statistically motivated/ competitive among us should do the same. One other key feature in the latest model is the sleep tracker. I'd be curious to see how well that info works. I use a similar app on the ipod that slowly wakes me when i'm at the lightest stage of sleep (it's called sleep cycle, and you'll love it). The part i'm not liking about this product is how aimed it is at those people "too busy to workout". It seems directed at those for whom walking will be an upgrade in their workout regime. The ads suggest the demographic might be a busy 30 something soccer mom, but i do have friends around my age using the product for now. Will they switch to the fuelband to track more than just steps? we'll see, but i'd like to hear more stories about fitbit to see how it has helped you achieve whatever fitness goals you have.
Wearability
Nike+ Fuelband is a conservative little wristband, something you can show off if you'd like, but looks no different than a livestrong style watch. Plus it has a usb port built in to charge. Has bluetooth to sync if you want to that way, and works rather seamlessly with the ipod/iphone app.
Fitbit is a better designed pedometer that clips to your waist. it comes in two colors, for some reason plum (looks pink to me) is 10 dollars cheaper than their baby blue color. it has a charging station that also senses your device and automatically uploads your info when you are near it. that's pretty cool.
if i had either i'm pretty sure i'd show it off, i mean half the fun is sharing your successes and failures with these devices. I know that some of my most angry workouts are when i run 5 miles and the nike+ app decides it didn't want to record any of that, and so i miss my goal for the week. I know i did the workout and i feel great, but there is not statistical evidence to back that up.
Anyway, another question i'd like to ask is: what's the recharge time and how long does a charge last for either device?
If you the casual internet person can help me decide which device to go with i'd be very appreciative. If you have stories or more info on these products, say you were sent an advanced copy of the fuelband, tell me what makes it so great! If it doesn't do what it says, tell me that too.
Here are the websites for you to enjoy, if you have a 3rd product (like Switch 2 Health... my s2h watch hasn't properly counted my workouts in about 4 months, hence the need to switch)
http://www.nike.com/fuelband
http://www.fitbit.com
http://www.s2h.com
alright, it's late, i'm tired, and you've all been helpful.
-Jeff
How does it compare to using a fitbit?
Price
Right off the bat a Fitbit (at least the plum colored one) is retailing at 99 dollars for the newest model including free shipping. The Nike+ Fuelband is going for 150 dollars.
Features
Nike+ Fuelband boasts connectivity to every device you use daily, the phone, the ipod, your computer. You set a goal and using its accelerometer and i'm sure other patented technologies, it gives you credits "fuel" towards your goal. You can drum, or do jumping jacks, or walk, climb stairs, and i'm hoping it tracks skydives too. There isn't much other info out there about it, obviously not out in public yet, but i'd love to get my hands on one and see how it shapes the way i workout. Nike+ is a tool i use to track running, but i don't track all my movements all day, and i get no credit for stopping, knocking out 50 pushups, 50 flutterkicks, 50 jumping jacks, and 50 situps before hitting another mile pretty hard.
Fitbit is another product i'd like to get, and up until last night when i heard Nike was announcing something that could augment Nike+ i was all set to buy a Fitbit. Here's what their latest model offers. It looks like a pedometer and an accelerometer had a baby, clips to your belt easily and tracks your basic movements throughout the day. They sell little leashes for them so i imagine they fall off and get lost easily, at that price i would be unhappy. But what you can do with the info from the device seems to be a big selling point. Log activity, food intake, see your goals, and a few other online features help you turn your numbers into something visual and real as opposed to just saying "i had a good workout today". Even the best athletes keep good logs of what they do, makes sense that the statistically motivated/ competitive among us should do the same. One other key feature in the latest model is the sleep tracker. I'd be curious to see how well that info works. I use a similar app on the ipod that slowly wakes me when i'm at the lightest stage of sleep (it's called sleep cycle, and you'll love it). The part i'm not liking about this product is how aimed it is at those people "too busy to workout". It seems directed at those for whom walking will be an upgrade in their workout regime. The ads suggest the demographic might be a busy 30 something soccer mom, but i do have friends around my age using the product for now. Will they switch to the fuelband to track more than just steps? we'll see, but i'd like to hear more stories about fitbit to see how it has helped you achieve whatever fitness goals you have.
Wearability
Nike+ Fuelband is a conservative little wristband, something you can show off if you'd like, but looks no different than a livestrong style watch. Plus it has a usb port built in to charge. Has bluetooth to sync if you want to that way, and works rather seamlessly with the ipod/iphone app.
Fitbit is a better designed pedometer that clips to your waist. it comes in two colors, for some reason plum (looks pink to me) is 10 dollars cheaper than their baby blue color. it has a charging station that also senses your device and automatically uploads your info when you are near it. that's pretty cool.
if i had either i'm pretty sure i'd show it off, i mean half the fun is sharing your successes and failures with these devices. I know that some of my most angry workouts are when i run 5 miles and the nike+ app decides it didn't want to record any of that, and so i miss my goal for the week. I know i did the workout and i feel great, but there is not statistical evidence to back that up.
Anyway, another question i'd like to ask is: what's the recharge time and how long does a charge last for either device?
If you the casual internet person can help me decide which device to go with i'd be very appreciative. If you have stories or more info on these products, say you were sent an advanced copy of the fuelband, tell me what makes it so great! If it doesn't do what it says, tell me that too.
Here are the websites for you to enjoy, if you have a 3rd product (like Switch 2 Health... my s2h watch hasn't properly counted my workouts in about 4 months, hence the need to switch)
http://www.nike.com/fuelband
http://www.fitbit.com
http://www.s2h.com
alright, it's late, i'm tired, and you've all been helpful.
-Jeff
It's 1 30 AM
and i got back from work at Midnight. 70 hours of work between last sunday and this sunday, and i'm tired.
so before i head to bed i just wanted to say it seems kinda dumb how often i like the girls i can't have.
logic 1: i like what i know i can't have
logic 2: the kind of things i like other people like
logic 3: it truly is the case that i don't know what i like until it is too late.
what am i missing here people?
Here's the movie i watched yesterday night:
so before i head to bed i just wanted to say it seems kinda dumb how often i like the girls i can't have.
logic 1: i like what i know i can't have
logic 2: the kind of things i like other people like
logic 3: it truly is the case that i don't know what i like until it is too late.
what am i missing here people?
Here's the movie i watched yesterday night:
I did it
Despite the odds and time being stacked against me, i did the two hypothetical taskers mentioned before plus the third one they added once i got there. All bologna and could have waited until the work week though. Also instructed the 4 hour sim on top of that. Watched the last two minutes of the SF game, watch a few minutes of the Broncos loss, and got home past midnight from work.
Now to undo all the uggy feeling from what was a rather painful for no reason sort of day i am going to listen to the following clip from DCI championship's 2011. The Troopers infinity chord:
Now to undo all the uggy feeling from what was a rather painful for no reason sort of day i am going to listen to the following clip from DCI championship's 2011. The Troopers infinity chord:
The difference is one press of the Space Bar
Hypothetically Speaking,
"hey i know it's a 3 day weekend and no one should be around, but i know you guys will be around cause we suck at our jobs, so here are two One Day Suspense taskers... and by one day i mean i'm telling you about it after lunch and it needs to be done by COB which doesn't exist on weekends so ASAP. Also we're not going to tell you exactly what we want, so you'll probably get it wrong and we'll be disappointed. Anyway, enjoy your 11 day workweek." /Leadership inAction!
One hypothetical response,
Off to work, be there till midnight, same deal tomorrow. They should stop teasing us with federal holidays/weekends, or stop doing Wingman days because it seems to just create additional work and crush morale on weekends. "It's the military, get used to it" Fuck that, they know very well that that excuse is completely legit in scenarios that are life and death, not office work that doesn't impact anyone for at least a month. Every time our leadership accepts this as normal, you convince a subordinate that it is, and it isn't. It really isn't. I'm not complaining about working on a federal holiday, we had no idea that there was one coming, and we didn't expect it off (we work them all the time). But then they say we have it off, even though all of us have stuff scheduled we have to do. I'm complaining about not teasing us with something we can't have when we didn't expect it in the first place.
My lesson,
So with this as a scenario for a leadership lab, i will take away from it that sometimes "things can wait until monday".
"hey i know it's a 3 day weekend and no one should be around, but i know you guys will be around cause we suck at our jobs, so here are two One Day Suspense taskers... and by one day i mean i'm telling you about it after lunch and it needs to be done by COB which doesn't exist on weekends so ASAP. Also we're not going to tell you exactly what we want, so you'll probably get it wrong and we'll be disappointed. Anyway, enjoy your 11 day workweek." /Leadership inAction!
One hypothetical response,
Off to work, be there till midnight, same deal tomorrow. They should stop teasing us with federal holidays/weekends, or stop doing Wingman days because it seems to just create additional work and crush morale on weekends. "It's the military, get used to it" Fuck that, they know very well that that excuse is completely legit in scenarios that are life and death, not office work that doesn't impact anyone for at least a month. Every time our leadership accepts this as normal, you convince a subordinate that it is, and it isn't. It really isn't. I'm not complaining about working on a federal holiday, we had no idea that there was one coming, and we didn't expect it off (we work them all the time). But then they say we have it off, even though all of us have stuff scheduled we have to do. I'm complaining about not teasing us with something we can't have when we didn't expect it in the first place.
My lesson,
So with this as a scenario for a leadership lab, i will take away from it that sometimes "things can wait until monday".
Followup
If you are in the military, you should know better than to show up in uniform to a political rally/event, especially one nationally televised. Corporal Tattoo-a-bunch-of-events-on-your-neck-to-feel-more-hooah spouting your love for Ron Paul, if your supervisors don't chat with you about how you seem to have missed that briefing in your 10 years of service, i'm... well, that seems about par. It was after all a republican event, and he was army.
While shouting WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GUY DOING (tattoo all the way up his neck, spreading Ron Paul's good word!), the feed "cut out". Lucky him. I'd have let him continue, less defense when his supervisors tear him a new ass for being the dumbest member of the military right next to Nubs the guy who chews on his arm to keep the ghosts away.
and CNN, you know better. Come on.
but Jeff, what gives you the right to criticize some corporal who's been in 10 years and served our country proudly and blah blah blah toby keith america bud light blah blah....
Well, one i've got as much time in service as him. 2. i've had the "you can go to the event, just don't go in uniform, and certainly don't make it seem like the Department of Defense supports what you're saying" briefing about a thousand times.
So, before i go for the evening i'd like to remind you...
My views don't represent those of anyone other than myself. No one i'm connected to believes what i do, it makes me a bit of a loner, and in the future this will probably be the evidence used against me, even the line where i point that out. it's irony. not really, it's just plain logic. the only person who believes what i believe will likely be my lawyer, and even he/she will believe it only for the duration of my case. that's a true lawyer. i like them already.
While shouting WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GUY DOING (tattoo all the way up his neck, spreading Ron Paul's good word!), the feed "cut out". Lucky him. I'd have let him continue, less defense when his supervisors tear him a new ass for being the dumbest member of the military right next to Nubs the guy who chews on his arm to keep the ghosts away.
and CNN, you know better. Come on.
but Jeff, what gives you the right to criticize some corporal who's been in 10 years and served our country proudly and blah blah blah toby keith america bud light blah blah....
Well, one i've got as much time in service as him. 2. i've had the "you can go to the event, just don't go in uniform, and certainly don't make it seem like the Department of Defense supports what you're saying" briefing about a thousand times.
So, before i go for the evening i'd like to remind you...
My views don't represent those of anyone other than myself. No one i'm connected to believes what i do, it makes me a bit of a loner, and in the future this will probably be the evidence used against me, even the line where i point that out. it's irony. not really, it's just plain logic. the only person who believes what i believe will likely be my lawyer, and even he/she will believe it only for the duration of my case. that's a true lawyer. i like them already.
Are you effin serious?
To whomever feels the need to place crosses everywhere throughout the gym,
Fuck you. you have a church, you have your house, you have hotels, you have the boy scouts, you have your friends, you have your family. The gym... is not your place to evangelize. If you want to make your religion more public than it has to be, so be it, i welcome the challenge. To those who are religious, this is not aimed at you, i'm sure you'd feel the same if people put pornography on display at your work. If you can't see that as an appropriate analogy, then perhaps you'd feel the same if someone were to post qurans at every bench, or stars of david near the treadmills, or giant flaming dongs that say "i worked out here once, and i love them so much, i thought i'd share these flaming dongs with you".
You get the point. I don't give a fuck what you choose to believe in your own house, i respect your right to believe it, but keep that shit out of the gym, out of politics, out of public schools, out of the grocery store, and out of any area where you wouldn't want someone doing the same thing as you. You think you're right and it's your duty, you're wrong, and you're wasting your time. You invite hate, you invite corruption, you encourage ignorance and the abandonment of logic and reason, you invite those who would use and abuse you and leave you with nothing but your imaginary friend.
I'd love to retaliate, but i'm above that. not above bitching online about it, but anything i would do would only end up with the issue escalating to a level no one would like. know this, not everyone believes the same thing you do, have some fucking decency and keep it to yourself.
Those crosses are disappearing tonight, should they reappear, they will disappear again and again.
Fuck you. you have a church, you have your house, you have hotels, you have the boy scouts, you have your friends, you have your family. The gym... is not your place to evangelize. If you want to make your religion more public than it has to be, so be it, i welcome the challenge. To those who are religious, this is not aimed at you, i'm sure you'd feel the same if people put pornography on display at your work. If you can't see that as an appropriate analogy, then perhaps you'd feel the same if someone were to post qurans at every bench, or stars of david near the treadmills, or giant flaming dongs that say "i worked out here once, and i love them so much, i thought i'd share these flaming dongs with you".
You get the point. I don't give a fuck what you choose to believe in your own house, i respect your right to believe it, but keep that shit out of the gym, out of politics, out of public schools, out of the grocery store, and out of any area where you wouldn't want someone doing the same thing as you. You think you're right and it's your duty, you're wrong, and you're wasting your time. You invite hate, you invite corruption, you encourage ignorance and the abandonment of logic and reason, you invite those who would use and abuse you and leave you with nothing but your imaginary friend.
I'd love to retaliate, but i'm above that. not above bitching online about it, but anything i would do would only end up with the issue escalating to a level no one would like. know this, not everyone believes the same thing you do, have some fucking decency and keep it to yourself.
Those crosses are disappearing tonight, should they reappear, they will disappear again and again.
Videos I like 1 January edition
Happy New Year. Hopefully, some cash has found its way into your pockets and you're ready to lose that 15 lbs or at least convert it to muscle, you warrior you. Anyway, haven't updated this in a while, and i end up not posting lots of videos that catch my attention because facebook isn't the best venue for that. I do normally keep a sort of list of news stories, videos, etc... that catch my attention. Part of it is from news aggregation, some of it is from non-celebs who get sent hundreds of them, and occasionally it's something i make on my own.
So with no particular theme, here is my internet in a nutshell for the month of December... for January:
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sing you a New Year's Song:
Akasha- Bourbon Lassi from a few years ago, caught it in my SXSW album and it instantly brought me back to the vocal percussion antics from high school and from DCI, specifically Cadets 2005. Plus lots of Sitar Rock. Can you say no? you can try.
Cat saying nononononono wins out for random cat video for the month.
To balance it out here is a wolf pup learning to howl.
Snapping you back to reality is the closest you will ever see someone come to dying and yet make it out fine. "When time stood still in Russia"
My Battlefield 3 tactics have been embraced by a whole community of gamers, and it's so widespread now that they made a shweet shweet trailer for EA.
Before any good Battlefield match comes the formality of courteously insulting each other in an attempt to rouse the fighter in one of the contenders, enough to perhaps cause one to request his fightin' trousers.
And to start this year off with a bang i present you with a Gigantic firework (48 inch shell), it's as if the death star blew up and unicorns friggin emerged.
So with no particular theme, here is my internet in a nutshell for the month of December... for January:
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sing you a New Year's Song:
Akasha- Bourbon Lassi from a few years ago, caught it in my SXSW album and it instantly brought me back to the vocal percussion antics from high school and from DCI, specifically Cadets 2005. Plus lots of Sitar Rock. Can you say no? you can try.
Cat saying nononononono wins out for random cat video for the month.
To balance it out here is a wolf pup learning to howl.
Snapping you back to reality is the closest you will ever see someone come to dying and yet make it out fine. "When time stood still in Russia"
My Battlefield 3 tactics have been embraced by a whole community of gamers, and it's so widespread now that they made a shweet shweet trailer for EA.
Before any good Battlefield match comes the formality of courteously insulting each other in an attempt to rouse the fighter in one of the contenders, enough to perhaps cause one to request his fightin' trousers.
And to start this year off with a bang i present you with a Gigantic firework (48 inch shell), it's as if the death star blew up and unicorns friggin emerged.
Friend Zoned! Again!
Hey everyone, happy super consumer day. Hope you enjoy some delicious food and good times with friends or family yesterday. I disappeared for a while having been friend zoned yet again, and now i'm back and i'm feeling much better. Nothing like 2 am black Friday shopping to get that weird part of your brain churning the feel goods.
If you didn't figure it out by now, friend zoned is where a girl says she'd rather just stay friends. Mario shows it best, no matter what he tries, he's never going to make it. It quickly turns what could have been something nice into something that just is, it's basically dating without the physical contact. hooray! So most guys typically just stop talking to whatever girl puts them in that spot, for good reason. If she doesn't view you as dating material she wouldn't really want to be your friend out of anything other than kindness, and that's the sort of weird pressure and awkwardness that both parties should be spared.
Anyway, i haven't written here in a while. Still working through my professional education, starting up my master's degree again in january. Played through Gears of War 3, Batman Arkham City, and Battlefield 3. Playing through Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Lord of the Rings, bejeweled 3. Going to buy Goldeneye and Star Wars the Old Republic.
sure it seems like my life revolves around video games, not the case. It just happens that there isn't much to do around here except work out, drink, and spend more money than i'd like. My trip to CES in January was cancelled, so the money i was setting aside for that got rolled into the Black Friday online shopping spree i had last night. Bought quite a few DVD's, special gifts, and a few things for myself. I love when 30 dollar dvd/bluray things go on sale for like 4 dollars. Sure i could rent it, but this is much more fun.
Looking ahead, i need to take a vacation, looks like i'm already on the hook for my high school 10 year reunion around may in colorado and my 5 year Academy reunion in Vegas in July. How that works out with my work schedule is still to be seen. They can't even say with 100% confidence that i will be tracked one way or another, and i'm real scared to accept additional service commitment time if it means they can leverage that against me. No one knows what i do, or what i've sacrificed, or they play it down a lot. That's fine i guess, feels like i've taken the Black in a Song of Fire and Ice. No one cares we're up here, and we're the fine line between peace and chaos no matter what else is going on in the world.
alright, i'm all nerded out. Catch ya later.
If you didn't figure it out by now, friend zoned is where a girl says she'd rather just stay friends. Mario shows it best, no matter what he tries, he's never going to make it. It quickly turns what could have been something nice into something that just is, it's basically dating without the physical contact. hooray! So most guys typically just stop talking to whatever girl puts them in that spot, for good reason. If she doesn't view you as dating material she wouldn't really want to be your friend out of anything other than kindness, and that's the sort of weird pressure and awkwardness that both parties should be spared.
Anyway, i haven't written here in a while. Still working through my professional education, starting up my master's degree again in january. Played through Gears of War 3, Batman Arkham City, and Battlefield 3. Playing through Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Lord of the Rings, bejeweled 3. Going to buy Goldeneye and Star Wars the Old Republic.
sure it seems like my life revolves around video games, not the case. It just happens that there isn't much to do around here except work out, drink, and spend more money than i'd like. My trip to CES in January was cancelled, so the money i was setting aside for that got rolled into the Black Friday online shopping spree i had last night. Bought quite a few DVD's, special gifts, and a few things for myself. I love when 30 dollar dvd/bluray things go on sale for like 4 dollars. Sure i could rent it, but this is much more fun.
Looking ahead, i need to take a vacation, looks like i'm already on the hook for my high school 10 year reunion around may in colorado and my 5 year Academy reunion in Vegas in July. How that works out with my work schedule is still to be seen. They can't even say with 100% confidence that i will be tracked one way or another, and i'm real scared to accept additional service commitment time if it means they can leverage that against me. No one knows what i do, or what i've sacrificed, or they play it down a lot. That's fine i guess, feels like i've taken the Black in a Song of Fire and Ice. No one cares we're up here, and we're the fine line between peace and chaos no matter what else is going on in the world.
alright, i'm all nerded out. Catch ya later.
Vent
need to vent a bit and don't have an appropriate forum.
They said they would add days on my schedule to protect my few days off since they've been making me work 6-7 day weeks. they added them, and turned them into additional work days. i realized at that point that when they said they would get me a "day off" they were literally talking about getting that day off to work that night. alright, i'm in the military, can't complain too much about that, should have expected it really.
Then the career projection that's been in place for several months after about a year's worth of discussions was tossed out the window (which almost never happens) and in the next day or two i find out if they decided to go a completely different direction with my career. It's frustrating that there is this huge process in place that doesn't even matter at the end. At this point i figure this is the third big decision point where they've asked what i wanted, gave it to me, and immediately retracted it... maybe that's how it's supposed to work.
two quick things that dropped out of the blue that have unpleasant impacts on my next ten years.
and now i'll quit my bitchin.
They said they would add days on my schedule to protect my few days off since they've been making me work 6-7 day weeks. they added them, and turned them into additional work days. i realized at that point that when they said they would get me a "day off" they were literally talking about getting that day off to work that night. alright, i'm in the military, can't complain too much about that, should have expected it really.
Then the career projection that's been in place for several months after about a year's worth of discussions was tossed out the window (which almost never happens) and in the next day or two i find out if they decided to go a completely different direction with my career. It's frustrating that there is this huge process in place that doesn't even matter at the end. At this point i figure this is the third big decision point where they've asked what i wanted, gave it to me, and immediately retracted it... maybe that's how it's supposed to work.
two quick things that dropped out of the blue that have unpleasant impacts on my next ten years.
and now i'll quit my bitchin.
