Say goodbye Joseph

Ah yes, another few days have gone by and I'm at least figureing out this dreamweaver enough to where I can update my the text on here ok. Im starting to see some lag issues with my keyboard on this computer. I dont know why but there is definitly lag coming from the connection somehow. It's really bad in Dreamweaver too, but only with the keyboard, not the mouse.

Joseph went home for the semester with Mono yesterday, so there goes the one reason I had to be in Bruce. He told me to take care of the freshman for him, but exactly who is he refering too? Most of them wont even give me the time of day much less care what I have to say. A few exceptions might be some of the guys and maybe one or two girls, other than that, they can pretty much make their own choises with out me. I told Chloe online a few nights ago that I had been trying to not over stay my welcome over there and she said, "but your the one with all the stories." This is true, but I've told most of them and when I did tell them nobody seemed to care much.

I went to a park tonight with Lili, Chris, and Sarah and it was pretty fun. Me and Lili ended up talking about relationships and life and such which was awesome. Unfortunitly, right as I was really starting to open up Sarah was like, I'm tired can we go? I was like damn it no!! I really hadn't opened up like that to anyone in a long time. I guess we just want someone to listen every now and again. Ok well, a short entry tonight. I'll check back in later.

New iBook, New Bruce

Tada! It finally came in....WOOT!! Ive been using my iBook so much lately that I've been forgetting about my site here. I haven't found a good HTML editor for macs, so I cant update this as much as I would like to. And when Jeremy takes the PC away, updates will stop all together if I cant find one soon. So lets see what else has happened lately...

Classes started up again last week. After the normal fiasco of getting my schedule right and paying for everything, things are going good. I made an A on my first French Lab quiz and have a quiz in French tomorrow which I should be alright at. I'm having to cut back on my hours at work by almost half because of stupid SSI rules. What a pain in the ass. I got on SSI because I couldn't work, now I cant work because I have SSI...bastards.

So lets talk about the dorm... Bruce is very different this year. New hall director that has a giant dog, half of the RA staff is new, and I swear to God it must have only had a 15% return rate...if that! I''ve never seen such a high turn over rate for the residents like this year. Most of them are your typical freshman...excited, impressionable, innocent....all of which will change by the time this year is over. Many of them have already begun to hook up which each other. In fact Josephs new roommate hooked up with some girl in like 4 days! Should be interesting to see how the chips fall in the coming months. I tried to be friends with them at first, but I got the feeling they think I'm the old looser hanging around the dorm still. So I've decided to take more of the Son angle and try to be the cool guy who they see every now and again. The last few days I've made my apperances short and simple. When I am there I dont say much and kind of stand off in the distance and try not to look like I'm trying. Well, thats the idea anyway. Don't really know how its working. I dont want to be "that creepy guy" to anyone especially in the place where I can actually call my home more than the place where I'm living right now. I've spent more time under that roof than any other place my mom or I have lived since i was 16! I just want to make some new friends and try to help out when needed.

and of course....the ex is still around....I'll run into her about once a week or so in kharma....so yeppie.

dun dun duh!!!

I have finally saved up enough money to buy what I have wanted for so long.....the iBook. My new laptop should be arriving hopefully at the end of next week or the first few days of class the following week. I have put it on 2-3 day delivery and the order will take 3-5 business days to begin shipping. I was floating around the web today and wanted to take a peek at what the box will look like when the computer comes and found a really good page with some great pictures. I noticed that he had named his iBook and the PC that he use to have before he switched. I have on more than one occasion thought about naming my computers too. Lets see, so far I have owned 2 PCs and now 1 Mac. The Apple IIe and Gateway PC my family has owned don't count because I didn't personally call them mine. I thought about it for a while and could only think of a name for my new iBook. I had to look at it logically to find a good name though. But of course, it wouldn't be right if I didn't do the introduction properly..........

Cyber space, the final frontier. I am a voyager on the iBook, Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new things, to seek out new programs and new applications. To boldly go where no one in my family has gone before!!

Enterprise is the name of every great exploration vehicle for the last 100 years. The first space shuttle was named this, one of the first steam boats on the Mississippi river was named this, the first nuclear aircraft carrier is named this, Britan's flag ship back in the late 1800s was named this, and of course lets not forget that the first starship from earth was named this. So its only fitting that another Patrick Stewart have another adventure....at the helm of Enterprise.

Happy B-Day Mom

Today was the day we decided to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday....geez...is she really 50? I'm sure she's asking her self the same question right now. I still remember her 40th birthday when I was 12. I got her a book, Nicholas got her a cd, and Jeremy helped her buy a TV. She got a 30 inch HDTV. She just got a better paying job so she'll be making almost $8,000 more a year and since all of us take care of our selves (most of the time) she can save up. She really wants a flat panel that she can hang on the wall. Only problem with that is that they cost a few thousand dollars but she said that her and Jeremy will come back at x-mas and buy one after she has saved up enough money. I mean, hey I guess thats cool, its not like I, Jeremy, or Nicholas need that money now. It's her money.

And now a development in the iBook struggle....

We went to Fry's to look for a TV and after about 30min of keeping my mom company looking at boring TVs, I snuck away to the apple section to check out the iBooks. As I was there, Jeremy came up and I told him that I was saving up to buy one. Well little did I remember that he purchased most of the PC that I am using right now except for the keyboard/mouse, video card which is Travis', and the 120gig hard drive....and he wants them back. Now this is actualy fair game because he did buy them out of his own pocket and I guess its only fair that I give this to him if I get a new one. The down side? I can kiss my days of City of Heroes good bye for good including any hopes I had of playing City of Villians when it comes out next year. The only games I would really be able to play is Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Doom 3. This also means that my days of laning with Travis and the gang are pretty much over unless they play those games. Am I willing to make THAT BIG of a switch......YEP! I didn't need games before city of heroes and I wont afterwards either. I will miss them true, but it will be worth it in the long run. But there is good news about Jeremy finding out...he told my mom. Now why is this good you ask? Well my mom said she paid off my credit card today, which I didn't ask her to do by the way because I was paying it off fine with out her to start with. But that frees up $700 in credit.....hm...... this means that I could pay $700 in credit card and about $600 in cash and order this thing ALOT sooner than I had planned which is awesome!! I could actualy get this ordered by the end of August instead of the end of September! WOOT! Here's hoping......