YES!

First semester of college is over for me! Not only that, but for my last paper in English I got a 200/200 points! Yes! Not only that but I got a B on my Cisco final today, and got a 91% for the class (just short of an A). Linux was over a week early. That created less stress for finals. Then for legal reasons, they had to cancel my windows Cerification tests. Well delay them until next year. That took away a lot of stress. So this week I only had a English final, which was just questions like "What did you learn academically in the class", and I also I my cisco final today. And I passed that. I'm pretty sure I passed english. Let's see. 1000 points total. 150/200 for the first essay, 198/200 for the second. A "B" for the third. 200/200 for the last essay. Then the final. Whatever that was. It's a 100 points. So actually it's out of 1050 points. I passed. I don't know what I got for the final in english. I'll find out. I need to return a book to the bookstore tomorrow. So I'm happy. Just wanted to share.

Let it snow

'Twas a wonderful day today. I had the day off from work (one of the few saturdays that I didn't request off) and it snowed as an added bonus. I didn't go outside, but I filled a cup with snow and added some Mountain Dew and that was pretty tasty. I also played a lot of Mario Galaxy. I love that game. Definitely one of my favorite Mario games. I'm at 62 stars right now. Anyways, I came to blog to get my creative juices rolling. I've been busy between work, finals coming up, cysts, and the like. I have a paper due next Friday for English. On the plus side, this is the last and only English class that I have to take (unless there's a hidden english class for a four year degree). So for my two year I only need one English. I tried to write my paper, but I just couldn't get those juices rolling. I have all my notebooks, books, and the like on my bed. Right now my cat is using one of my books to prop herself up. It's kinda funny. I'm gonna take a picture of it. I think I'm suffering from the writer's block. I just I know what I want to say in my paper, but don't know how to say. You know what I mean? My paper is an argument paper and I'm writing it on Video games don't cause violence in children. It's a pretty good topic. I have a couple of sources already. I know what I want to say, but like I said I don't know how to say it. So let me practice here. Right now I have Video games are played by many people around the world. That's all I have. This is what I want to say, I think: 

Many children play video games around the world. Since the number is getting bigger, people are becoming more aware that video games are violent. This makes people make irrational decisions, by placing blame for violence in children on violent video games. People should not blame violence in children on violence in video games.

Something of that nature. It's a rough in the form, and I want to smooth it out. By the way, I'm working on the introduction. The thesis is clear. The thesis is a controversial topic. The reader knows where I stand on the subject. It meets the requirements. I might do something like that. I think I have the juices rolling now. From there on I'll blabber about emotions and logic and ethics. It'll be good and gravy. With that, I bid you a happy snowy December if you have snow where you live.

Gotta Vent

I'm fine right now, but i'll tell you about my cyst later. I gotta vent. My web design teacher is stupid. Why would you have us take a page that was designed with HTML tables, and make it into CSS, when it is easier and better to do this particular page in HTML? She said it took her two hours to convert the page to CSS. I'm like, it took me 5 minutes to create it using tables. In the real world, you would look at those options and go, "Table." I guess if the client has their heart set on tables, i would go "ok" and do tables anyways. as it were I'm not designing websites for other people and if they were to ask me, i'd say ok, but I do choose what form the layout is designed in. I worked on it a little more and discovered something after testing various methods to make it easier. I found one way, that with a little bit of tweaking, that might work. I've also thought htis through. It's five points for every page you don't change to a CSS layout. It almost is worth it to lose 5 points out 50 for this. But I'm too much of a perfectionist. If I get to the point that I'm punching people in the face, I'll just take 5 points.

Pain and Pus

I just have to say this: ouch. Never ever get a Cyst. They hurt. Also, if you drink caffeine on a regular basis, don't stop. I have a horrible headache right now and i assume it's because I haven't had caffeine is a few days. On the plus side, my cyst doesn't feel as bad. Basically this Cyst hurts like a mother. I went to see a doctor and apparently i have to have surgery. That sucks. At least I can cure it, right? Apparently surgeons don't operate on the weekend. Unless you go to the emergency room. I've heard horror stories of Cyst removal and emergency room. Basically the cyst is on my bum. It hurts no matter what I do, especially when I walk, sit, lay on my back, and get in and out of my car. Actually it hurts no matter what, but it is not as bad if I lay on my stomach or my sides. Kneeling on chairs isn't as bad. I have to get the week off from work somehow. I don't know if I'll be able to do that. I'm gonna call our Human Resource person tomorrow and see what she can do. She's nice. I really hate missing work, but I can't work with this pain. I know what happens when people call in sick. They can't find anyone to replace them, and everyone has to stay late. It really sucks being on that end. However it really sucks for me to be in pain. I'm actually sick, unlike some people. I'm gonna lay on my bed and watch tv.

Fairy Tales and Frustrations

It's be again. If i don't post, happy Halloween in advance. Moving on. I'm starting to hate web design even more. It's one of my online classes. The syllabus says something about a final web site that we create ourselves. The topic is on Community or whatever. The thing is, she hasn't mentioned anything about it. There's six weeks left in the semester. She said she should post rubrics and guidelines at a later date. It's just getting annoying. I'm just not going to worry about it. Another thing, she keeps babbling about random stuff that we aren't even doing. Example: we are suppose to do Carolyne's Creations (a website in the book that we are working on) and she said that in the syllabus, and in each assignment week. In her information posts that she posts on the main page of the class website, she talks about Tripsmart at random times. Something about help on number 13 on page 10-24 when the highest number is 4. Then she did a dirty thing to me. 9 weeks into the course she finally switches up her routine and i didn't bother to double check it. For Carolyne's Creation we switched up the layout of just th ehome page, according to the book. In her extra instructions under the assignment she posts doing it for all the pages. I found out by looking at one of her reminder posts about how to do some CSS stuff for the other pages. Luckily she just checks all the pages at the end of the course. But I had to spend a couple of hours doing that today. I was almost done with this week's assignment when i noticed that. Let's just say I wasn't happy. Then it got complicated. I won't go into details because chances are you aren't even reading anymore, but let's just say I took a less complicated way and took her exact instructions to word, even though it meant something else.

On the plus side, my online grammar class is easy. Got a 90% on my midterm. That's the only class I had a midterm in. I miss math, though. A few weeks ago we were doing stuff with binary in Cisco, and I was happy because I got to use math. Aced that test. I love subnetting.

Going back to web design, I came up with a great idea for an April Fool's Day prank on my website. You'll probably forget that I just said that so hehe in advance. Bye.

Coming to You Live from Lappy!

Hey how ya doin'? I hope good. I'm on my laptop because apparently defragging takes a long time in Vista. Granted I had never defragged my 200 Gb partition since I formatted and installed windows, but I didn't think it'd be more then seven hours later. So here I sit. Waiting patiently. Well, I got my online classes done for the week. So that's good. I really don't like laptop keyboards. I also found out where my hard drive space went.

On my Vista partition, I have about 200 Gbs of space. I had only about 50 Gbs left. I had to scratch my head and think where all this space went to. So I figured it out. 53.7 Gbs are in a download folder, 6.1 Gbs are in my Program Files folder, 19 Gbs are in my Program Files (x86) folder, 4.57 Gbs an ISO image of a DVD, 21.8 Gbs is in my Users folder, and 12.8 GBs are in my Windows folder. That comes up to 138.02 Gbs. So add 50 for my free space. That's 188.02 Gbs of space. I still wondered where 12 Gbs went. Then I remembered, I created a backup state for Windows to access if it every died. I'm thinking that's what the extra space is. When I created it, Vista said that it'd be a really really big file. They said it could be 1/3 of my space. I hope that's where it went. I don't feel like formatting for awhile. I am defragging it now, like I said and to ruin that wouldn't be good. What do I have in those files? A lot of crap. Users is where my documents, music, videos, photos, etc are. So that's why that's so big. The x86 program files is where i install programs to. The other one is where programs that don't know what a 64 bit computer goes to when they install. Not very many go there. I don't even know what I have installed in that one. Unreal and Hellgate london, and Stalker, are all installed in the x86, so that's why that's so big. The regular Program Files though, I don't know what takes up 5 Gbs. I have to check that out when it's done.

I just needed something to do so I blogged about something totally random. Later.

Happy Birthday to me!

Ok so my birthday was on Friday, but it's all good and gravy. I think the day was just wonderful, but it sounds boring. My teacher, that I have for three of my classes, was gone and canceled class for friday. So I got to wake up late. While I was eating breakfast, Cartoon Network was like "It's Roy's birthday, let's play Scooby Doo Where Are You? while he eats breakfast. My favorite show. I was happy. Then I opened by cards and got lots of money. Then I had English at 11 so I had to get up for that. Oh well. The class was really easy. Just some peer critiques on our essays. Went out to lunch with a friend. Wendy's was good and we got there right before the rush. I just sat around and watched House. That was good. Then I had to work at 5. That was too bad, but I had a good day. I was in electronics, which makes me happy. It was an easy night, but we were still there until 11. That was a bummer. Still it was a good day. So that was my birthday. I liked it. I'm having a party of sorts today, so that makes up for the lack of party on my birthday. Well I'm gonna go finish editing my essay. Later gator.

That sucked

Let me tell you a story. For the past couple of days I've been sick, and I've not been sleeping well because of it. Yesterday, I didn't have to work, didn't have class in the afternoon, and I got a lot of stuff done that I needed to do. I needed to finish my layout design for the family reunion site, and i got that done, needed to do my online classes for the week, got that done, and I finally got around to installing the forum on my site. So I thought it was a pretty productive day. Watched some Scrubs with friends that night. Went to bed at midnight, was very tired because of lack of sleep and being sick. I don't have class today, so I was happy that night that I could sleep in as late as i wanted. It was going to be a good night. Fell asleep fairly fast. about 2 am, I wake up to being half asleep. I switched to a different position to fall back asleep. Then I woke up completely. From the right side of my neck, to my right elbow, my shoulder was in pain. And I mean pain. It hurt no matter what position I moved my arm. It was bad. I went upstairs, looked through our medicine cabinet. I found some Absobine JR, but I didn't want to apply a liquid on my shoulder. I found Ibuiprofin (however you spell it) and took one of those. That didn't work. At 3 am I finally asked my mom if she had some muscle pain medicine. She had some spray stuff and that helped. Made my shoulder tingle, but masked the pain a little bit. I finally just layed down, closed my eyes and finally sleep overcame me. Slept good the rest of the night until 11:30. My shoulder still kinda hurts. A hot shower made it feel even more better.

I'm hoping that my shoulder will feel better before work today. I'm still sick too. It kinda sucks. Well I'm gonna go do something else. Later.

Cisco's Tough

Hello everybody. I'm getting ticked at Adobe. I just downloaded and installed updates, and i restarted because it prompted me to, and it decides that it needs to install some more things. Then it decides to interrupt my typing. Oh well. I took my first Cisco test yesterday. When the teacher said that they were notoriously hard, he wasn't kidding. I reread the chapter the night before, did the review, took the chapter quiz, and i still got a D+. Freaking adobe. It decided it couldn't complete the install because firefox was running. screw them. It's really the wording of the questions. Then they are multiple answer questions. That didn't make things easier. Oh well. the teacher offers test retake days every couple of weeks. I understand the material, the questions are just worded odd. I'm trying to think of an example. Nope got nothing. The questions aren't anything like the quiz you take online, or the review questions. They're just odd. Anyways, enough about that.

The plus side is that I revived Vista. It's breathing is normal. The thing i dislike about reinstalling Vista is that it doesn't format the partition, it just detects that there's another version of Windows, and creates a folder called "oldwindows" and puts it in C drive. Basically it puts everything, including old windows files, in that folder. So I have 40 Gbs of extra stuff just lying in a folder. The nice part is that I can copy and paste like documents and music from there.

So my friend is looking at building a computer. He asks me for help. So I'm browsing around newegg, and was looking at processors. Well I have an AMD 64 X2 6000+. It's an awesome processor. I paid 513 bucks for it. Wasn't cheap. That was in June. I look at it now, and it's 170 bucks. I was kinda ticked. I couldn't believe it. Then there was one slightly better for 250 bucks. I was thinking about buying it and giving my friend my old processor, but then i noticed the new one doesnt have a cooling device. Processor run hot and I want a cooling device with my processor. Plus I'm not made of money. So I didn't. I found some good stuff for him for a pretty good price. 650 bucks is about what his computer will cost. We bought some parts today because they were on sale and had some rebates. Al together we saved 45 bucks, but those include mail in rebates and those take forever. Anyways I'm going to do some web design work. Later.

Risk

I hate it when people do stupid things. Especially when it's my friends. Two of my best friends got in a car with one of my friend's coworker, and he decided to 70 mph around a bend on a dirt road. I'm no expert of dirt roads, but when my cousin dies in a similar fashion on a dirt road, i know it's not a good idea to be going that speed, especially around a bend. Yes they did get in an accident and they were VERY lucky. I have my suspicions that alcohol was involved, although i haven't asked my friends directly. I figured if they want to tell they will. Either way it was stupid. first off, if there was alcohol involved, they, my friends, should not have gotten in the car. If alcohol was not involved, then my friends should have been intelligent enough to tell the guy to slow down. There's a thin line between stupid and fun, and they crossed it. The driver messed up his spine pretty bad and is lucky that he is not paralyzed, and is still in the hospitol with two rods up his spine and bolts and screws coming out of his body. He's able to walk. My friend in the front has an extra vertibrae in his spine, and damaged a disk in his spine or something like that. He never had to stay in the hospitol but got some pain pills and said to take it really easy for two months. Now he was going to Korea for Tai Kwon Do (i think that's right) in Nov, but not anymore. I don't feel sorry for him a bit. Yes he's my friend, but I don't want to be grieving over someone else who got killed in a car accident. My other friend in the back seat is even more lucky, because he walked away unhurt. Just minor whiplash that he felt for a day and went away.

Now you may wonder, why i think alcohol was involved. Because of stupidity my dear. First off, the driver, who i said had a really messed up back after the accident, walked away and laid (lied?) down at home until the next day when he couldn't move at all. His spine was twisted in ways a spine is not supposed to be twisted. You're not suppose to move a body from a car accident that has a messed up spine. You're suppose to call the police and ambulance. They didn't, and i can imagine that the pain was great, but they didn't want to get caught with a dui and a minor. Actually there's not two. Just that one great argument.

I hope alcohol wasn't involved. My friends are not the type to drink. I'm not the type to drink especially after my cousin's death. But people act differently with other people.

Morally of the story. Don't be stupid. Don't drink and drive. Don't drive fast on dirt roads.

Sincerely,

RoyJ