How Do You Set the Time on this Thing?
how do you set the time on this darn thing?
how do you set the time on this darn thing?
Well after getting a few hours sleep (, I never sleep,) and tweaking this blog a bit more I think it i can tolerate it.< /p>
When i get back from the JOB I will try and see what else i can do with it. Again, I gotta thank all the gnomies for there patience and help.
Well, today was "one of those days" It started off normal enough, well maybe normal is not the right word.. (I was up all night getting this blog page to look the way I wanted it to.)
It certainly turned south when I got to work. For those of you who don't know I am a Community Service Officer at my University, basically I walk you to your car, keep an eye on the campus and lock it tight at night. I am also one of the student supervisors for the job. This means that my main frustration is doing the schedule.
In summer, with a skeleton crew, it is fun, to say the least. I had to deal with 9 schedule changes in two days. The end result was a nicely printed black and white schedule with more red ink corrections and un-staffed positions than black print. Thus began my shift. I had to juggle everyone around 4 times in like ten minutes. Somehow, mainly because we have a good crew, we managed.
Today was as opposite of yesterday as it could have been. I didn't start out normal at all, instead I slept in which is something I normally never do especially two days in a row.
I then spent some time in the gnome room and updated my site. I spent nearly an hour cursing over an end tag I forgot to place in the code which is, again, something I usually do not. (I usually place both tags and insert text in between.)
I then went to a Commodore site which crrj suggested. The emulator link was broken but I did find a kool wallpaper and set it as my current desktop. This reminds me, Vorex get screenies fixed!
I had a long hard day. I worked too much yesterday and pulled a twelve hour day today and I felt much like complaining but then I got word of some foul smelling stuff hit the fan both in the states and the UK. I can no longer rant tonight.
Mim's situation and Dill's are far worse than mine. For those of you who pray, pray. Sometime few words are best! G'night
Today is one of those "so far so good" days. Things could be going better, things could be going worse but at least they are going. I did manage to update my site, catch up on my e-mails, tweak my schedule, do my laundry, prep some good meals and deal with some other basic chores.
I hope to continue with this burst of motivation. (I am, to quote my friend Eric, having a bust of motivation amidst my typical state of apathy.) I need too, my Lincoln Essay is due soon and I have not even really started to make it very solid and still have mega-reading to do on his fascinating life. I am having a particularly hard time doing this essay because the theme is Lincoln as portrayed in the media. This means, movies, advertisements, magazines etc.,
Today was "mostly" good. I woke up early and got a good jump on my Lincoln essay. I watched a good PBS video regarding him. Dug through tons of archives to start my search for newspaper article regarding him and, basically, made a lot of progress and learned much.
Work was next on the day's agenda. I was on the bike and the weather was perfect. A nice cool breeze, little foot traffic on the campus and it was a good five hour bike patrol. Only minor schedule problems and a few students even complimented me on my web site and blog. I felt like I was on a roll.
Nightfall approached and I put the bike to bed and returned to reading Lincoln's writings. All good till the end of shift. Went home and found a letter from the IRS in my mailbox! Thus "mostly" good, at least I have all the gnomes to chat with and laugh about it with.
Tune in tomorrow for my next blog and be sure and watch out for "Lumpy vs. IRS" Later.
Well, I finally finished it. My Lincoln essay is done and my life can return to semi-normal. I am sorry I haven't blogged lately but one has to have priorities. Pursuit of a scholarship has to come first.
I will not go into too much boring detail but this endeavor has benefited me even if I do not get any scholarships. My writing and typing skills are now better than ever. Besides, I learned a great deal.
Short of writing, reading and rewriting not much else has been going on in the Lump's life. I am to take it easy tonight and enjoy a nice cold beer while I catch up with all the gnomies. Other than that, you will have to check back tomorrow.
Well, I did have a pretty good day all in all. I am finally starting to get the hang of this XHTML and actually generating pages as a pretty decent rate. Work is going much better, things are starting to get real organized and we have a good crew.
Considering it is 3:30 AM, I am going to bed short tonight. Hopefully, I will have more to say tomorrow.
First Thursday`s at Becky`s. I realize that most of you do not have clue what that is, so in the interests of having you read on, I will fill you in.
Becky`s is neighborhood bar and grill. It has a nice atmosphere and is not too pricey. It is also where the TeKE GCAA meets on each first Thursday of each month. TeKE GCAA is the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity's Greater Cleveland Alumni Association.
For those of you who know me little and might only know that I am currently in college, it might seem strange that I am going to an alumni event. The fact is I joined this fine Fraternity almost 20 years ago and this my second go at college. I have known most of these men that long.
The 14th of August was going to become a day I will remember long and well. I was already busy enough but had to push myself to get some high priority stuff done. I had to prep for a meeting with my boss. We had to discuss the hiring of more safety escorts for the campus police department. Safety Escorts work for the police, they provide safety escorts, patrol the campus, staff sign in desks, help to lock and unlock the campus and are, basically, extra eyes and ears for the Police Department. Formally they are called Community Service Officers, we generally call ourselves CSOs. I am the student supervisor for the program. Fall semester would soon be upon us and we needed to rapidly fill our roster. Reviewing applications would be my life for the next few days or so I thought.
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Forget about grammar and spellin' here this is just for information
Saturday
Well, things are off to a poor start. I am now at the school trying to bang out all the schedule changes for this upcoming semester. Thought it might help if I got out of the house for a bit and sought out some air-conditioning.. Not the case.
I thought some music would help so headphones were given to me by the lab monitor. Of course you have to plug them into the back of the desktop PC, which attached to the desk. This leaves you no choice but to do it by touch and then the cord is so short I can barely move. But none the less, here I am my face pressed against the monitor like a bug smashed against a windshield... complete with streaming audio that skips like every two seconds.
Actually there is more reason to being here than just AC. I need to be accessible. I have a lot of people just hired and quite a few quitting... Such is and so be it.
Sorry I have not blogged lately, thing have been difficult to say the least. I did much worse on my modern physics exam than I should have today because I have been too preoccupied with other things. Fighting with financial aid, too many courses, too much work and all of life's other BS... Then yesterday...
Yesterday was, to say the least, a bad day. My day started with an e-mail which read...
Some sad news to pass along. I just learned that John Cooper who was active in the
early 80's passed away yesterday. Not sure of the cause of death or details of the funeral. As soon as I find out the details, I'll pass that along. Many of you know that both his brothers Jim and Gus are also TKE's.
Being my nature, it did not first apear to hit me. I subconsciously made sure I got on the bike and biked for two straight hours when at work. Basically the foul mood just stared... I should have spent more time studying but the other needs outweighed that. I pedaled hard and continuously for two and a half hours... It worked yesterday but now I am a wreck.
Well I finally got the "look" right.
Thanks to Geek, Dil, and diligence all you Internet Explorer users can even read it now. Funny what comment lines can do to ie.....
I have spent a few hours tonight modifying the blog rollling list so that will be all until after Christmas weekend. I will be going home to my parents and doubt I will blog much then. But when I get back, I plan to write like the fiend I am.
Well the good news is that his page is now 100% valid....
The bad news is that somehow i lost most of my recent entries on this page.
Oops.
Oh well they are all still in the individual entries and the archive but i dunno what happened exactly so i do not know what to fix.
First of all, sorry i have not blogged much of the late. I just do not have the time i used to with my academic schedule and even when I am not in school I am too busy working 60+ hours a week.
There are still times when i feel the need to write. Today is one of them. And, actually, there have been many of them since i last blogged. I have dozens of drafts sitting in my "Drafts" folder. I guess the need to write was just not as strong nor important as it is today. I just had to say what i have to say before i went to sleep.
And my title is likely to give away just what this blog is about... Definitely something I have much experience with... Seems I am far from alone in that boat. I noticed a couple of my internet IRC buddies showing me just that.
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Well it is 0439 hrs Saturday, 10 July and my life is finally starting to calm down a bit. Since sometime in the afternoon on 7 July it has been a rather rough and bumpy road. I knew it would be a rough couple of days since I was scheduled to work right about 70 hours between my various jobs. (Sleep is such a priority now that it is actually now 0218 Sunday as I put the finishing touches on this blog.)
When the alarm clock blared Wednesday it rapidly became clear that it was turning out to be "one of those days". My day began by waking with a pounding headache. I did not want to get out of bed. I think that feeling was some type of psychic premonitions of things to come. I think my first error was taking some aspirin and getting out of bed.
Despite my almost steady state of n00bness, I am trying to got an IRCbot up and running. This, frankly, is something I know nothing about. It proceeded to progress in the spirit of the day.
I know I have heard a good bit about my web site lameness of the late. Well I am finally getting a chance to try and remedy that SIN on my part. (Honestly, I never recalled promising to write any minimum number of blogs but since I have heard about it so much it must mean that someone is reading what I write.. go figure...)
So what is new? First off, I have added a "personal" blog due to some repeated requests. Second, I am adding a new category to this already clustered mess I refer to as a web site. That is where this little mess of a blog falls to the category is "general Site News". (I also never promised to be overly creative.) And no, that is not all there is... If you know me, of course, more... Just keep your pants on OK?... (well most of you anyhow, those of you who I wish to see pantless already know who you are and are free to do as you wish. :)))
First off this blog was meant to be several separate entries...
Unfortunately, there seems to be a discrepancy in exactly what the word "complete" means between the server company and I...
So, now compiled, here are my last few blogs...
It looks like my life will soon return to its "normal" schedule. I am really looking forward to only working about 50 hours a week and two classes... heh
God blessing hearts
Serendipity
Two paths touching and merging
Childlike giddiness
Smile
Warm, sweet and beaming
Pure, perfect, infectious
Nice epidemic
Untitled
Whispering calm
Passive honesty rules all
Awesome beauty
I know, I know... I haven't blogged lately. I have just been so busy. Busy but happy. I love my job. School is good. The news in my personal life deserves a blog of it's own so it will wait.
Things have been updated here. Most of which are server side thingies and behind the scenes but things have been updated. Firts off, I screwed up a few things and messed with the validation for this site. Now all is kosher again.
A few things of note on the "administrative" updates;
A dear friend of mine, in her own very special passive manner reminded me of a certain type of poetry. I was once required to write such verse, years ago... I had forgotten just how difficult it was to say much with little. Equally forgotten was just how rewarding it can be if it all makes sense. The haiku is a simple, honest and beuatiful thing. My friend is very much reminding me of a haiku.
I will finish up with the dozen or so drafts soon. I "promise"... Not like we aren't hearing that enough lately... Remember to vote my US friends. The only reason your vote doesn't matter is because most of you do not cast them.
It is funny how things work out sometimes. The past 48 hour would be best termed "if anything can go wrong it will". I mean to the point where Colonel Murphy (the originator of the famous saying) would now have been promoted to the rank of Supreme Military Commander of the Universe.
I am generally not one to complain and that is not what this post is actually about. So if you are the pessimistic type looking for someone else's negative opinion (cough* dil*... j/k), read no further. (I do however like to write rather satirically.) A lot of people act as if I have it hard, they tell me that they couldn't do it and act as if I deserve sympathy. I don't get it actually and this is a blog about why, I guess. If you wanna learn about that, read on. But please don't expect too much for rarely do I make sense...
Yes, it has been quite a while since I have bothered to blog. I do, actually, have many a draft already posted to this blog and my other two as well. I have just been too busy with some other matters in my life to get to finishing them.
And equally YES, the truth need be told. For those of you giggling, whispering and what not, I shall, at the minimum, post this entry to de-cloud what is blatantly obvious.
I am, however, going to break my anal trait of only finishing my oldest blog first and push through this one. I simply must put this up on my personal blog and make it official. Now for the official statement;
I am still the irregular blogger. I have done some work on the site of the late. Most of my recent blogs have been in my My Personal Blog (UPDATE -- I simply keep it all here now) which, I feel is my the most boring thing I work on. So if you are anxious for an update or suffer from insomnia, go there.
Short of that I have been busy dealing with a rather harsh barrage of spam comment posts to my blogs. Do they really think that people who are reading up on hard drive partitions and backing up data are concerned about the length of their penis? Furthermore do they really think that this site actually gets traffic?.. heh
The evening of nine October is one of those night that, despite the fact that I may not recall the date years from now, I will never forget. It was one of those night when something you were well aware of for some time finally "hit" you. First off, it was one of my typical 24-hour runs due to two jobs. Secondly, tomorrow was going to be the same. I was already on the clock and only wanted to horizontal on the mattress.
I mentioned in a previous blog that I am quite cooked in matters of the heart. This is rather nice because it is very much mutual from what I see and hear.
Now please do not think that it took us this long to realize that we had feelings for each other. Although I am quite thick and blind in that area, I doubt I could miss this. (And Nicole K. and Halle B., I am sorry I didn't notice you throwing yourselves at me... I know I could have spared you a lot of grief in bad relationships. For that matter, you could have saved me from the few bad relationships I did have myself.)
No this one is very obvious. It is obvious to the point where there is no denial. We are in a state of mad about each other. This is SOOOOO unlike me. This never happens to me. The same, I have been informed, is true. Still here we are. And I know I have not really let you know much more than you already do. "I know."
I spent the day with the lovely lady previously mentioned...
It was nice.
I took her to meet my folks. They like her as well.
Stick a fork in me...
Today's blog is going to be sweet, short and mysterious. I am simply going post it as a "Thank You" for what someone has recently done for my life.
I feel enriched, uplifted and more fulfilled because of you. I love you and I thank you.
Just for the record, the past two days have mostly sucked. They would have totally sucked had it not been for a certain heroine named Nami. Although, I suppose that a fool could argue that part of it could not have happened with out here either.
Turn the way back machine to yesterday. It was the date of another first in the ballad of Lumpy and Grinny (Grinny is my pet name for Nami who weighs in at about 98 pounds and 99 of them are teeth and grin.). The stellar event was out first "falling out".
For those of you who know me personally, you all know that money is very tight for me right now. I have sacrificed almost everything to return to school and, I don't care if this offends my university, "false promises" made by the financial aide department have left me in a world of hurt.
If it were not for the grace of my Fraternity, Family and Friends, I would have been dead in financial Dire Straights long ago. I have a newfound appreciation for sympathy and understanding because of this experience.
The "day after" is always the worse for me. The day after I visit the deathist, er dentist, is always the worse for both pain and fatigue. It was even worse than I expected. (I did expect pretty bad too; after all, at one point in time during the extraction the dentist DID ask for a mallet.)
I missed class. I drug arse at the first job. I slept like a baby after the first job.
Now for the good part. I feel better.
Better than I did before... With the constantly infected teeth removed, my sinuses are actually clearer. I feel more alert and well... Life is good.
Yes, it is that time again. I am at work and things are going smooth as silk, my missing teeth are doing fine and I am listening to the Prairie Home Companion 1996 Joke Show. I am going to spend the next hour or so doing some site work and the point of this post is FYI.
As far as what is new here, most of the updates are on my Personal Blog. If you look to the left (thanks Sari!), you will notice many additions to the blog roll. I decided to take and hour and search for more blogs to add. Check them out. I try to make the choices have only quality in common and be as eclectic as possible. Heck, I even included a Kerry supporter.
It is a strange type of night for me. I am current in my Differential Equations class and have no laptop to work on programming on. I am going to use the time to do this update stuff and job hunt.
Anyhow enjoy..
Today is just more of the same. My mouth still hurts, money is still and issue and there is still not enough time.
Do you wish to hear more?
Tough.
All right. It is just this simple.
No matter how good things go. You are going to have bad days. Buddha I am not and I, correct me if I am wrong, believe he is a myth.
My mouth hurts, my program won't run and I am losing ground on other things as well. The best part is I get to have another one yanked on Tuesday. If you don't notice post here it is because either (a) i have finally gotten so sick of it all I can't stand it or (b) I am just trying to deal with everything.
Well, I am back to more pain.
Figures this PC finally starts working right just when it is time to leave.
I know I vented mucho the last few blogs. I am STILL in pain but what do you expect? They took a mallet to my jaw.
I am in better spirits. I saw a few people baptized today, the music for the service was really good and I spent most of the day with my Nami.
. Nami and I spent some time with a book the church has been using. I must confess that it has been quite some time since I have been serious about a church. It has been even longer since I was serious about a woman. Be afraid.
Now, don't get me wrong, Pastor Gordon does a great job with the campus ministry. But it is, just that, a campus ministry. Where people come and go as they transfer schools, graduate and drop out.
Otherwise
I am REALLY tired. This is the last weekend third shift I will be working because staying up for 26 hours straight, getting an hour and a half nap and then working another six and a half hours is just not going to work at "forty something".
I am looking forward to a somewhat more normal schedule in the near future. I am going to get there. I have faith. For that, I am thankful
Well I was.
But I had another tooth yanked today. They cut bone! Did you know smoke leaves your mouth when they drill bone?
Five stitches to to close the wound.
Lumpy is now known as Mr. Vicodin.
I am still alive but have just been busy. An update will be coming soon.
Hey all...
Real busy in the real world...
:(
Sorry bout the lack of updates but. if you know me, you know I always have some type of music on. Scroll down and look to the right.
;)
l8tr
I am about to get my license back. Funny thing is the identifications I need to get them. My old drivers license is expired. They won't accept it despite the fact that I am obviously the one in the photo.
No, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles will only accept a social security card and a birth certificate. Does that make sense? Give me a decent color printer and I can make those.
Go figure. Leave it to the State of Ohio to think of something like that.
Well, it is getting to that time of the year again. The malls are packed, waistlines are expanding, snow is falling, traffic is not moving, and Christmas shopping stress will be replaced by the stress of Christmas returns and bills. Then some of us will be thinking of New Year's Resolutions only to, soon after, fail miserably at them. Actually, I am sure that many of us did just what I did years back and resolved to never make another resolution again... That particular resolution certainly made it easy to keep... I am afraid, however, I am going to fail on even that simple resolution.
In fact, I feel it is a good idea to go back to a process I used to practice years ago. I used to, rather than resolve to not do things, set 12 goals for the year. These goals were meant to help me focus on things relevant to where I should be in life. They were not meant to be public and shared but I have been known to behave a bit differently than most. (Truth be told, I have rarely been known to behave and have seldom been referred to as "a bit different". The descriptions are usually far less friendly.) They were, however, meant to be written out and progress toward them tracked. So why not post them for everyone to see?
Why now should I all of the sudden decide to do "resolutions" after so many years of swearing not to? I am itching to make all kinds of improvements in my life. It seems that every 8-10 years or so I seem to go on an "achievement binge"... The bug is here again. I am tired of the way the things are, I want things different and like an itch behind my ear, I am going to solve it by scratching it. I believe the best way to achieve desires is to write them out and make a plan for them.
New Year's Day
Well it is the first day of the New Year and according to my PC clock it is just shy of ending in 13 minutes... How appropriate. I am tired but living up to my resolution to write, at least, daily.
I hate moving. Even when "I" am not moving... kinda... It is a long story I will talk about it more tomorrow. For now, I must sleep. I promise you I shall keep my resolution and write daily. Keep in mind though, I never promised to blog daily but just to write daily. My life is changing a bit at present and I will not be able to log on each day therefore no daily blogs.
15JAN
Great day. Nami and I had a huge spat. Her and I have both been stressing out big time; my work schedule and her school schedule just make it so. I hate seeing her cry though and I will do whatever I can in the future to assure that never happens.
I did have a good day at work and finally got started on my Fraternities web site. At first, I though I was going to be a web janitor with it. After further inspections, I have concluded that a web trauma surgeon would be a better decryption.
Most of information is bad, the phpbb is obsolete and disabled due to security risks, the CSS and XHTML are not valid and I spent most of the night just making it look the way the president desired.
My shift at work went well and quick. Now came my "RTA adventure". I think I will simply say that I am always amazed at the people I meet on the public transit system.
I am just going to be brief, blunt and honest. I am having lost of fun with dental work and keeping busy with www.tke-csu.org and six trips to the denttist in two weeks.
In otherwords, busy and in pain. Well at least I get one of the two things I like.
It has been one of those days. A day where I desperately needed rest but could not find it. Actually I could find it fine but nobody was going to let me get there. What part of "I work nights and need to get some sleep" is so hard for whole world to understand? I am so annoyed by it. Wait... I never sleep anyhow so that can't be it.
Hmm... I wonder what is it?
I wonder if it is the website? The reality is that I should be used to it but, despite making some real progress, I am getting frustrated by my own desire to improve things. Is that it? If you read my previous post, you will see that I am fed up with my php efforts. Should I be?
Maybe, but I have learned a lot and, lets be honest, the last time the site worked was about two years ago. Maybe it is the moving thing?
I am not really moving so to speak though. I am simply moving most of my stuff out of storage and into Nami's place. I am simply getting my room at the Fraternity house where it always to where it always should have been, a temporary place to stay while I attend school. N0T a place where you stack all your possessions up like cases at a warehouse.
I had hoped to finish up with this by the end of March. Hey, wait its still February. Guess that is not it either.
Hmm...
Could it be that I just turned 41 and am getting cranky? NOT, people who have known me for years will vouch for the fact that I have always been a crank. Besides, I am referring to myself being crankier than normal here so normal crankiness does not count.
A few days ago I bloged about what I felt to be a rather interesting characteristic of our modern culture. That would be the existence of even more communication technology and what I perceive as a desire to do exactly the opposite. After conversation with my cell phone company and recent experiences with SPAM, I am less perplexed. I find myself wanting to sever all communication ties with society as well. In this blog, I am going to share my newfound understanding of "Sprint Sense". (I am going to write a series of blogs on SPAM in the near future.)
First of all, you will need a little background information. I live in Cleveland, which also happens to the poorest major city in the country. My girlfriend and I are both college students and not necessarily financially wealthy. Living in Cleveland, however, anything above the poverty level puts you in the upper half of the population. In other words, my income is considered "not that bad". My girlfriend is very good with our limited funds but things are nonetheless rather tight financially.
The other piece of background information is that I split my time between two residences. My girlfriend lives on the near west side and I have a place downtown. We share her car and bus frequently.
The above two points considered, it should make "sense" how important an economical cell plan is to me. My objective is simple. No landline and the cheapest possible cell phone. I look over the monthly bill and try not to buy more minutes than I actually use. If my usage would change, I adjust the plan accordingly.
well that was annoying.
Seems that when i use an achor tag for a photo an old extra tag for blog body would over ride it.
I really thought that the in-line tag would have precedence. Never thought of getting rid of the redundant tag so it took forever to locate but now photo links are different than page links.
Every once in a while one should take stock of the blessings in one's life; one should pause and actually think about them.
I just wanted to take a mo