December 19th

Alright, sitting at work and waiting between calls so I figured I'd do this update.

Well last week my best friend, Ed Mendez came down for a visit, sadly I blew off work to spend time with the guy, it was a great time though.  We went shopping for our girlfriends and ourselves, I spent about 130 bucks and got a new pair of shoes, 2 new pairs of pants, 2 more sweaters, and another part of my present for Maggie.  On Sunday night we went to the Roadhouse and dance up a storm.  I got on stage when they started playing Heaven and had a bunch of girls scream and whistle, it was great, then Ed joined me and the same girls gave me glow sticks.  Man did Ed and I put on a show for them, it was awesome and we never even been to a club before either.

My laptop is coming soon, hopefully I will have it tomorrow, if not, Monday by the latest.  I'm so excited!!  I also bought a new mouse for it, a Logitech MX 550, that mouse is a god, it's like it was molded for my hand.  Can't wait for that and being able to use it, it's going to take a while to fully set up everything.  I still need to get a backpack for it too because I don't like carrying those purse-like thingies. 

Work has been pretty hectic, it's great though, I get to do this while I'm at work.  40 hours a week is going to be interesting.  There was a final test that all of us had to go through, I got 14/20, the highest is 19/20, but no one has ever gotten the guest to log in.  I did score the highest out of my test group though, which does make me feel a little better.  But I was seriously only 3 steps away from getting him connected, it frustrates me.

Only had one mid-term this week, it was pretty easy and I was done in a little over 45 minutes.  It was COBOL, easy stuff once you get the hang of it.  Anyway, I'm out of stuff to rant about, everyone take care.  If you want to reach me at work john.mach@Unnamed Company.com   Anyway I'm outta here now, happy holidays everyone!

- Sorean
 

December 12th

Well this is new, I'm updating more than once a week :P  But that's only because I'm waiting for a friend to get here.  Well since I started my job I now do 8 hour shifts, the boss as booked me for 3-11 Sunday to Thursday starting the week after next.  Next week I work 1-9 all week.  This is going to be fun, trying to juggle school and work.  Well this is what my new Schedule is going to look like

Well at least this is what I plan to do, no idea if it will fly or not, but if I can handle it it will be great.  I can do my homework and mark and do my other things on Saturday, but I'm just thinking, if I can't handle it, I might ask him to switch me to have a day between my shifts at Unnamed Company, at least that way I will be to catch up on school work in between, then again this is all considering I don't get my laptop, if I do, I can do my homework during downtime at work.  I'm going to completely love my new job, it's going to be great.  I just hope that I'll be able to keep sane.  Anyway my guest is now here, and I'm off, everyone take care and I'll talk to everyone soon.  Your best bet is to e-mail me because I'm going to be way too busy to actually chat.

- Sorean

December 7th

Whoops, looks like another week disappeared on me.  But I do have 2 new exciting things happening.

1.  I got a new job!! It is at www.Unnamed Company.com well that's their company site, but I'll be a Junior Technical Representative, help desk in other words.  I wasn't even really expecting this, but it's just good timing I guess.  I have this Career and Development class that I have to take this semester, and one of the requirements (10% worth) is to go outside and get a mock interview with a company in your field of study.  Well Unnamed Company supplies high speed internet access to hotels.  For those of my friends back home, it supplies the Sheraton Cavalier with this kind of service and if you check their site, it shows a lot more.  Well anyway, two or three weeks prior to setting up this "mock" interview with them our school had a job fair and I was really interested in them.  Well I sent them a résumé then and didn't hear back.  (Yes I realize I made a post about this below, but it's a more elaborate story now).  So I called and set it up, well lo and behold, I have a new job starting this Tuesday.  They called me last Tuesday to offer me a job, John Gordon, my new boss, said "John, I'd like to offer you a job as a Junior Technical Representative.  The starting wage is $14.00 an hour."  Then I'm standing there stunned like a deer in the headlights.  He then said, "Are you interested?"  Then I snapped back to reality and said, "Yes."  I'm so stoked to have this job.  I'll let you all know how it goes.

2.  I bought myself a new Laptop, it hasn't arrived yet, but I'm sure those tech geeks out there will agree that me paying under 1600 after taxes and duties makes it a really nice deal. 

Now to think of what else is new....  Nothing really unless I want to bitch about my job.  Well not all of it, just parts of it.   I'm playing poker online for fun, it's not real money so it's just fun.  www.pokerstars.com it's a good interface and really fun.  I like Texas hold'em.  Oh yeah, that poker night we had last week, I won :)  I beat my roommate who is a pretty smart man when it comes to playing poker.  It was great, we both had a full house on the final draw, but my pair of 9's beat his pair of 5's, it was really liberating because he is a very good poker player. 

Oh yeah, if anyone is playing Diablo II on the US West Realm Message me, Sorean is my account name, a friend and I play to find items and such, we have a lot of set items, but that is it for me so far.  I'm getting tired.  Hopefully I can update more with my new job I'll have a little more time.  Funny how that sounds, but I guess that's the way it works right now.  Anyway, I'm off, talk to you all soon!

- Sorean

November 29th

Good day everyone!!

It be a Saturday and I just got home from work, getting a little better as it has only been 4 days since my last update, but things are still going well.  I have a ton of marking to do, 150 papers by Tuesday... that should be interesting to see if it gets finished, should be semi-easy, 100 math assignments, 50 comp labs, but one set of math is a quiz so that will have to take a little more time.  Well what's new.... I had to do a mock interview on Friday to fulfill a 10% requirement for my Career Development class.  The best part about this thing was that it turned into a real one.  I find out next week if I get a new job, it would be great as it rules, it would be a great entry level tech support for me to enter.  It has potential to rise upwards within that department or to spread to other departments such as installation or software development as well.  One thing I'm apprehensive about though.  Every time that I get a great opportunity, I get totally stoked about it and go around telling people cuz I'm so excited, maybe I should stop, maybe I'm jinxing myself.  But if a job is meant to be mine it will be.

Had to help a student today, it's kind of sad, he said in his class it's all a bunch of cutthroats.  Everyone is out to help themselves and no one else.  They want to do better than everyone else in their class.  I heard that and looked at my class situation, I realized that our class is very close, we all help one another when it comes down to it, sure there are breaks in the circle as a whole, but that's because different people get along with a different group.  But in a complete class, I haven't felt like this since I was back in high school.  It's a close knit class, hell, Roger has a link to this site from his, though I don't really think anyone that frequents his frequents here.  I will eventually have a link to your site Roger, just too pressed for time right now  Now all I have to do is get a bunch of more things done like new layout, more pictures.... *sigh*  where in the world am I going to find the time for all this stuff??  My schedules are all pretty set from the time I get up to about 6 everyday.  That doesn't leave much time for much else, and then there is marking that I do as well, so 20 hours of class, 36-42 hours of work a week, plus homework and labs.... John is on auto pilot.  I wish I could freeze time.

On one hand, I've learned that I can rise to almost any occasion, so far it's 3 weeks and counting, I realize I barely have a social life, but then again I work with Lindsey and Andrea a lot so that's not too bad, but to actually wake up and not have to go anywhere all day would be nice.  But rising to occasions is what I do best, I mean I found I will do what I can, sure I bitch and complain, but I get the job done, when it needs to be.  I've yet to miss a deadline on anything, something I'm very proud of, actually, that's one thing I told my interviewers, I don't miss deadlines.  Don't think of me as bitching about all I have to do, I'm just venting and everyone needs an outlet, this just happens to be mine.

It's also poker night, we're on a break and I found time to copy/paste this from an e-mail I sent to myself from school.  Anyway, I was off to a good start, but now I'm about even I think, but I'm going to try to play smart, it's 10 bucks for the 4 of us, I mean 10 each, but it's for a night of fun.  Anyway, back to the game and wish me luck.

I'll keep you guys posted on my job situation as it develops.  Everyone take care.

- Sorean

November 24th

Alrighty, another week has lapsed and I'm still falling behind.  I feel bad that I still haven't found time to call Chris Nelson's mom yet.  (She called when I was out in BC, but my answering service kicked in as I was answering it, it also didn't leave a number, but Alison got it to me).  I'm slowly settling into my new routine, it's a little stressful, in three days I've already marked up 34 hours, with another 8 before the pay period is over.  Already have a couple of assignments pushed to the next timesheet to get signed.... somehow that's not going to work so well.....  Ah well. 

On an upscale, Maggie is coming!!! Yay!!!  We get to spend new year's together which is great cuz it will be 6 months for us.  Wow.... *comic store guy voice* longest relationship ever.  :)  By the way, I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to get her cuz no one has given me any suggestions :P  I have an idea in mind, but no one else has contributed to a potentially better gift idea.  Oh wait, Frank aka Archangel of Skully called me yesterday and suggested something, but she won't know what that is ;)  Sadly, she won't be out until the 27th, but still, she'll still here for our biannual celebration.

So Jacko is back in the news and I'm sure every person has already commented on it, but here's my 2 cents:  I don't really care, the only thing this story did was make me realize how old I was.  I was flipping through channels the other day and stopped on ET cuz they were talking about him.  They said, "Nearly 10 years ago was when the first allegations arose against him..."  And so on, then a light lit up, "Holy shit, I remember that!  That was 10 years ago?!  Damn..."  Life sure is interesting.

Lindz and I have picked up 5-pin bowling, for me, again.  We go on Monday nights, 5 bucks and you can bowl from 6 to 9.  It's sad cuz after that first night, my legs were sore.  Then again, Joey, Lindz, and I bowled through 9 games in 3 hours.  One thing of note, my highest game was 180 something, only one, I think my average for that night was around a 140 or 150.  Oh yeah, they have a speed thingy there and I found out I can gun a 5-pin ball down the lane at 50 clicks per hour.  Probably more if I can get balls that fit right into my hand and not oversized.  Then again, they probably have regulations on the size of the bowling balls.  Either way, it's fun to see how fast you can throw it down that lane.  Mags brought up a good point here.  I can throw a bowling ball almost as fast as I was going when I wrecked my car, yeah.... sad. 

We went again tonight and I broke the 50 mark, 51.41km/h damn, never thought I could throw a bowling ball that hard, but I had two games over 200, one 225 and another at 244, I'm getting better.  But it was fun, I almost single handedly beat Joey/Lindsey when we were playing teams.  Tonight my legs were sore, more accurately, my hip joint where the leg connects.

Hmmmm what else.... well school work is interesting, I'm finding that I'm having some issues with trying to figure out when I'm going to do certain events.  What takes priority and such.  Of course my homework takes precedence, but there are deadlines that instructors give me when I mark their assignments.  I have too many pressing things, but I figure if I can do it in the right order i can get it all done, unfortunately, I'm having trouble figuring out that order.

Sadly, I don't think many people check this site, I'm guessing less than 10 so I'm just going to use this as a personal venting site for those who wish to check it out.  Mags, Ed, Frank, Alicia far as I know those are the only ones that check this, if you do e-mail me, just so I know I'm not doing this for naught.  Anyway everyone take care.

- Sorean

November 14th

Well it's been another crazy week and after you read all this, you'll understand why with good reason.
My job situation is as follows:

• No real need to find a new job now as I will have around 30 hours almost guaranteed a week
• Things are good with all I work with

Now here's the fun part of my life. I will be at school 7 days a week, here we go:

So that sums up my week, every week for all of this semester, I can foresee myself taking a couple of days off just to recuperate every once in a while. Mainly to keep my sanity. For all the guys I play Utopia with, you now understand why I'm not as active as I once was, I hate to say it, but I'm acting more grown up. Anyway, in my spare time I talk to my amazingly surprising girlfriend Maggie, and I know you read this sweetie, but I'm going to do this anyway, if anyone wants to suggest ideas to what I should get for her for Christmas, please suggest something, and I urge all who read it to, it would be interesting to see what all of you say. Send your responses to [email protected] The only reason I ask is because she has figured out what she is getting me, but I have no idea what I'm going to get her. Probably gonna go shopping with a friend one of these days and find something. Problem with that is, look at my schedule, where am I going to find a day before Christmas. I should hire a personal shopper :P Anyway, I've been doing this for the past 1/2 hour at work, so I'm sending this home and uploading it later.

Everyone take care, if you want to talk to me, get on MSN and try to catch me at work, but on the weekends I'll probably be working on Senior Project, meh, either way, message me and we can chat, but be warned, I will be rather busy and I'll tell you that right now because, as I realize right now, I forgot to mention, I'm marking for... crap I can't remember, how many classes on top of that work. BIS 230, ACCT 347, ACCT 201, CIS 231, COMP 100, MATH 100, and one more class for Roger, and that's the stuff that I remember right now... that's....7 classes for sure that I know I mark, oh wait, there's one for Keith, MGMT 303, so that's 8 classes, and 5 of which I will be keeping marks for as well. This semester will be fun, I know that already. Anyway I've ranted on long enough, but I figured I might as well make up for it as I haven't updated in over a week.

Anyway, you all know how to reach me, if not, take a look in my contact me section, there are some ways to get a hold of me there. Mags, I know you read this, and I don't care that everyone else sees it, I love you and I miss you a lot. To all my friends back home, I miss you guys a lot too, wish you were here. And to all my Utopia friends, I hope you guys now realize what is going on in my life and why it's affected my Utopia performance. I'm sorry you guys, but I have a life to take care of. But you all do mean a lot to me, it's the only reason I keep playing. Anyway, everyone take care and I will talk to any of you when I have the time.

- Sorean

November 7th

Well let me start off by saying ARGH!!! and I'm REALLY REALLY PISSED OFF!!  Well not so much now, but I was when I first got back.  If you read below I had a job to come back to, well that's not the case anymore.  My good friend Lindz got my job and I somehow lost it in the time I was away.  Now don't get me wrong I'm not mad at Lindsey for getting the job, I mean good for him, what I'm mad at is the fact that Keith said I would have a job and now I don't.  14 hours a week, cut from my schedule so job hunting I go. 

Well my week out in BC was very nicely spent :D  I saw my Maggie so I was happy, it was awesome to be able to see her again after sooooo long.  We spent the first day in Vancouver hanging out with her friend Michelle and other people that joined us later (Adam and Tracey).  We shopped for Lindz B-day presents, we got him a desktop chrome golf thing, a silver painted Dragon desk ornament, and a magnet that says, "Fat people are harder to kidnap"  After that, we went back to Squamish where the next week consisted of various outings around the area for food, taking care of her sister who broke her leg and taking care of Maggie's nephew, Ethan.  He's the cutest little thing, he learned how to say "John" while I was out there :D  But I think he's jealous of me, every time I put my arms around Maggie, he would just give me this glare like "Take your hands off her now!"  It was cute though.  Leaving was the hardest thing to do.... but I get to see her again soon I hope.

The ride back plus my first week was fun:

Monday:

Got back into Calgary at 5:35 in the morning, didn't sleep even though my class wasn't until 10.  Went through classes, got confused as hell about my job, worked the used book buy back, went to help a friend with his network, then I came home and slept. 

Tuesday:

Went to class, tried to figure out what the hell happened to my job, worked, went with Lindz to his place to watch Matrix I & II before we went to Revolutions on Wednesday, crashed at his place.

Wednesday:

Went to school in the same clothes as Tuesday, gave up on trying to get my old job back, just wanted a reason now, classes, worked, went to see Matrix (Good ending to the story), went home and slept for the first time nicely in my own bed.

Thursday:

Woken up early by my roommate (he didn't know I had classes until 10), went through classes, find out that Keith is gone until next week, worked, came home and was able to talk to Maggie since I came back, I mean really talk though, we talked for like 3 hours, it was much needed :D.

Friday:

Here I sit with a slice of pizza relaxing and taking it easy, but I am working on my e-portfolio so that's what I'm doing for the rest of the day, e-mail me if you people want to chat or try to catch me online, but even that will be a difficult task now.

So until the next time I talk to all of you, take care, and I should be back to my regular updates now.  Adios all.

- Sorean

PS.  This was in the Simpsons in the episode where Ned Flanders goes crazy after the town decides to try to build back his house but failed, I never noticed it until recently and have decided to spread it around.  It's the part where they show Ned as a kid.  He runs in to a room and starts beating one kid up and says, "I'm Dick Tracy, take this Scar Face."  He then runs up to the next kid and goes, "Now I'm Scare Face, take this Dick Tracy."  After he's done with him, Ned runs up to a third kid and starts beating him up too while yelling, "Now I'm Scar Tracy, take this...."  And the video cuts out, you fill in the blank....  enjoy that one all!!

October 22nd, 2003

Yay!!! I still have a job as an Admin, though for a while I though it would be much nicer just to be a regular FA again, not as much work, nor responsibility.  We have no pay raise, nothing special, just taking heat for everyone else.  Either way, it's a couple of extra hours a week for me now. 

In other news, this will be my last update for over a week as I will be situated somewhere along the coast of the rain swamped BC coast with my girlfriend for that time.  It's 9:37 PM my time now and by this time tomorrow, I should be somewhere close to the Alberta/BC border.  I hope anyway as it's a 14 hour bus ride from here to Vancouver. 

Wrote my last exam today, good old management where the teacher has it in for me, at least I believe he does.  Granted this could be slander as I am posting it, but I don't really care.  Hopefully I'll be done with him and not have him as an instructor anymore. Well I got a couple more things to mark and a little more packing to do, so to everyone, take care and I'll talk to you upon my return!!

- Sorean

October 21st, 2003

Well for 5 minutes, I was technically fired.  But then the boss man knows I'm a good person and I'm better and smarter than that.  So thankfully, I am still an FA so I can still do marking, but I will not be an Admin, unless he accepts the letter I wrote him today.  He gave me the one chance to redeem myself.  Either way, I have the support of most of my co-workers, hell if I go down, I could take down 1/2 of them with me, but I'm not going to do that.  I'll take the heat for everyone and serve as the warning.  *sigh*  Stupid games, got to find myself a job after that allows for a couple of minutes of personal time every hour if I am to continue, I was actually good today, I went for like 10 hours without logging in.  Maybe I can do it after all, my real life is more important than some game, though I know I am letting my friends down :-(   More as it comes....

- Sorean

October 20th, 2003

Well today sucked:

At work, there has been a policy about no games on the computers. While Utopia is nothing serious, it is still considered a game. I was just dealing with things with the other monarch when I was busted by a co-worker. We took it to the supervisor who said that he will come see us later. I went to go deal with some other stuff and during that time, my supervisor came in to talk to us. I wasn't there and he left me a note. "John - Please Leave - Talk to me tomorrow" I know him well enough that it could very well mean my job and I have no excuses, either way, my own stupid fucking fault and I need to try to find a new job, even if I don't get fired, I think I'll still eventually leave.

On a positive note, I got the third highest mark in my VB.NET class, got my A, I'm happy.

- Sorean

October 19th, 2003

This has been by far the craziest week I've had.  I was back home on Monday, attended the funeral for my friend Chris Nelson.  And then came back.  Now here's where it goes all crazy.  My instructor was actually nice enough to let my group and I present on Wednesday because of the circumstances, the best part, we didn't have any prep time, we had time to run over it once.  Then on Thursday, myself, Lindz, McKenna, and Heather had to finish off a 25 page paper.  We had not really done anything, Lindz and I came up with about 6 pages on the road but that was not anywhere close.  Thankfully, after a whole day of slaving, the four of us pulled it off.  Oh keep in mind that we finished on Thursday and had to prep the presentation for Friday... oh god, what did we get ourselves into??  No matter how far in advance we try to prepare ourselves we never seem to get things done early.  Hopefully, that's not the case with our senior project and I know they won't let me down.

Anyway, not much time as I have to study for finals and prep for going out to BC.  Hopefully, the roads don't wash out so I can see my Mags :D  But yeah, this is not nearly what I had wanted to do with my update, but it will have to suffice for now.

Take care all.

- Sorean

October 14th, 2003

I'm now back in Calgary.  It was a sad day for all that Chris knew, never did I think I saw so many people that I did.  I was glad I was able to go, I was able to say goodbye to him.  I still miss the guy.  I was able to see a couple of my friends that I hadn't seen in over a year, which is sad because I hadn't been home in a year.  I just wish that it would had been under happier circumstances.  But unfortunately, I must be going again now.  I will update again later on this week.

- Sorean

October 11th, 2003

Never Forgotten

        Never take for granted those in your life.
            Pay attention to them, through joy and strife.
            You will never know when a life will end.
            It could be a relative, an acquaintance, your best friend.

            Life is precious, savor each second.
            You cannot prepare, you cannot defend,
            For the curves thrown your way.
            When the time comes, what do you do? What do you say?

            A candle burnt, a spark snuffed out.
            What really happened?  A life is left shrouded in doubt.
            But yet, in this pain, we must find grace.
            They must be happier, away from this place.

            They have their reasons, to us they are unknown.
            We should have paid more attention, to the messages they've shown.
            But we never know, until it's too late.
            Then we cry, wondering why they chose their fate.

            We must remember them for what they were,
            A legacy of theirs is what we should ensure.
            Forget them not, though their time did cease,
            Just pray for their happiness, and may they rest in peace.

Dedicated to the memory of Chris Nelson.

Written on October 11^th, 2003.
- Sorean

October 9th, 2003

A moment of silence please for Chris Nelson.  He was a good friend of mine that took his life today.  I don't know why he chose to do so, but I am made somber by his actions.  Life shouldn't be taken for granted.  I guess this makes me come to terms with mortality.  I've never known anyone that had died before, he was the first.  Now I hope he rests well, and is where he belongs.  I'll miss you Chris.

No one knows why he did what he did.
He shouldn't have gone, he was just a kid.
But now he is gone, and we lie here to weep.
We pray to those above his soul to keep.

- Sorean

October 4th

What's this?  Two updates in three days?!?!  What gives??

Well working an 8 hour shift helped :P  I had some time at school so I decided to do this.  My management paper is done, now for the best part, editing..... *ugh*

Yeah so I had a little time on my hands tonight.  I put up some new pics, just kinda threw them in on the page, I'll come up with a new layout and learn to use dreamweaver eventually.  Just haven't had the time.  Anyway my friend Jasmine is here, so I'll be taking off again, later all.

October 2nd

Hurray for an update!!! :D

All of this is just going to be random stuff so bear with me if you want to keep up-to-date :)

Lindz had a party a while ago, that was fun, I have pics from that which I will put up later.

After that party, I realized I don't know what to do with a day off.  Seriously though, I had the following Sunday off, woke up, a little glad to not have to work but then I realized I didn't know what to do. 

I know it's been like weeks since I posted a full update, but it's been fun.  Well actually, maybe not..... it's been super busy as starting this week, I work 36 hours a week, and then there is marking on top of that, if I have any, which I probably will get.

As of today, it is only going to be 22 more days until I get to see my Maggie again :D  I'm going to be happy to be able to cuddle with her again, I miss her so much :(  Was busing home today and saw so many couples, made me miss her even more

What else.... that senior project we had got put on hold.  End of term projects decided to take precedence over it.  An environmental impact assessment paper and a management research paper had to be done.  Good thing my group and I divided up the tasks, I will be working on the Management paper and they will be doing the EIA, it's going to work out to be a total of about 35 to 40 pages of work, with my paper being about 8 to 10.  This is gonna be fun :D  Actually as I'm writing this, I'm almost done, only about 2 more pages to go, depending on how much I plan on elaborating my points. 

A couple of us have decided to form our own little company within the next little while.  But that is all I can tell you for now, don't want to give away too much to all of you ;)

I had some news about Saskatchewan, but right now, I can't really remember it...... ah well.

I have a bunch of new pictures to add, but haven't had the time to add them, also noticed that a couple of my pages are getting kinda big in size so I'm gonna have to do something about it, I'll probably split up my picture section and also add an archive section to the news page.  So expect a new layout soon.  If my creative mind comes to it.  I may also start placing my work online for people to view, I will start developing an online résumé as it will be part of my requirements for next semester.

Only reason I have time for this right now is cuz I'm done my lab and didn't feel like working on anything else.  I'm sorry for neglecting you all :(  So now I'm updating. 

Let's see, what else has gone on in the past 2 months..... I was part of a focus group about the Jubilee auditorium lately, that was fun, also got 100 bucks for 2 hours of my life, wish I had a job that paid that all the time.  That'll come eventually.

Academically has been mentioned before, but there are still some things to do, marks are fairly good, I think I'll get out with 2 Bs and 2 As, if I'm lucky, but I won't get out with anything less than 4 Bs. 

Well here's some humor before I go, I don't have a picture of Franz yet, but he's a good friend:

And if that wasn't funny enough, here's another joke, a little on the racy side, but what the hell, I've had a weird day.

Q: Why did the high school girl sleep with a mexican?

A: The teacher told her to do an essay

I'm outta here now, take care everyone, catch me online, MSN is your best bet.

September 20th

                   Just a quick note to tell everyone I'm still alive, a little busier than usual, but it will all get explained later.  Take care all!!

September 5th

                   Alright, so I'm falling a little behind, but I was just wondering, how many people actually check this site?  If you do, drop me a line at [email protected] so I know if I should keep this up or not.  Well let's see.... mid-term week has come and gone and I've done not too bad.  For the three I've gotten back so far, in each of those classes I've lost 3% of my overall mark, at least I'm consistent :P  What else has gone on since my last update, oh I've been working on a couple of nice little labs, the last one had us make a concentration game, it was kind of neat, of course, me being me, did it the hard way, but it still works, which makes me think, maybe I should put some of these things up here.

                    Got a couple more pics up, another one of my best friends, Jason, finally got a digital camera, and he's become a non-stop shutter bug.

                    The senior project I've been working on with Lindz, Heather, and McKenna is slowly beginning to develop.  We have the database designed, just have to start linking and programming.  Going to have a meeting with the clients next week to determine, exact specifics of what they want.  We've got a name for ourselves too, OME pronounced like ohm, we're Office Media Enterprises.  We're too good to resist.  That might be our slogan, but for the gamers out there, this might be our slogan, "Resistance if futile."  Don't anyone dare take that, I will kill them myself.

                    Oh yeah, I burnt a stand up comic last night at Yuk Yuk's, I mean these guys do it for a living and I was able to stump them!!  It was the greatest time of my life, and it was in front of people from school, and one very important higher up in the school too.  Hopefully they'll take a look at me in a different light now, for the better I hope.

Comic: "So anyone here go to school?"

Me (being the loudmouth I am): "Yeah"

Comic: "So where do you go?"

Me, at this point, thinking, Shit!:  "DeVry"

Comic: "That's cool, what are you taking?"

Me: "Programming"

Comic: "Oh, so I guess that means that you'll be delivering pizzas."

Me, well shit...... So the comic goes into a routine about how bad his business school was.   How hard, and how he made it through with his life still intact.

Comic: "So you mentioned that you go to school.  Got any easy classes?"

Me: "Business"

It was so good I had the entire comedy club laughing, best feeling in my life.  I had people clapping for me on that one.  But that's not even the end of it.

Comic: *walks back to the stool and picks up a glass of water* "Well I'm just going to take a sip of water and rest while I try to think of a comeback for that one"  *Couple seconds later*  "Well I had some easy classes...."

He's got nothing on me!  Good night everybody, I'll be here all week.                   

August 22nd

                   Well another week comes to an end and I'm tired as hell.  But, there is good news as well.  Mid-terms are next week so that means crunch time once again.  Oh, and I found out that I have 88% in my Environmental Science class right now, which is a hell of a lot higher than I expected.  My group and I, Lindsey, McKenna, and Heather, have gotten a final project to do.  I'm thinking I'm going to start working on the preliminary design sometime this weekend when I don't feel like studying.  It should be a good marketable project when we are done with it, hopefully it goes well.  What else has happened... I have the possibility of getting a job as a database administrator for the Calgary Immigrant Women's Association.  First call I made was to a lady who is leaving on vacation for three weeks so I don't get to find out until she gets back.  Who knows, this could be the start of my computer industry career :)  Once again, 6 days between updates so I've been kind of busy to say the least and like I said, mid-terms are next week, yay!  Just want to lock myself away for a couple of days, not just a weekend, maybe spend a whole week not doing anything, but that week doesn't come until the end of October.  Oh yeah!  I'm going to BC at the end of October to see my Maggie!! I miss her so, but I'm really excited to be able to go see her.  Well time has approached and passed midnight and I'm tired as fuck.  So good day/night one and all.

August 16th

      Regular News

                   Couple new  pics up of old friends.  Time is running short as you can all see.  It's been 10 days since my last update so yeah.... been a little busy.  Worked over 40 hours last week, plus school.  That's always fun :P  My friends and I have secured a senior project, we're going to be designed a inventory control system for the school. Hopefully I can get them to swing me a laptop to use on this project ;)   Gonna be a lot more work for us, so don't expect to see me a lot online, I think it's gonna take about 2 to 3 months to finish, but at least we're getting some experience under our belt.  If we're lucky, we can get another one done before we leave school, that would be really cool.  So if you guys know anyone that needs some kind of programming project done tell them to contact me. 

        Utopian News

                    Got us a new hostile going, try your best you guys.  In other news, Tyranny is back with us as Flame and Reality is back with us as Orky, I'm sure that they will restore their names next age.  It's good to have you guys back!!

August 6th

        Regular News

                   New pics up from the summer, many of them with my girl :)  What else is new..... got a total of 6 courses to mark for now so that's always fun :P  Uh.... party at my place Friday for Heather's birthday, she's turning the big 20 and she hates it :)  But I'm sure it will be a blast.  Anyway, that's all for now, gotta catch up on so many more things to do.

        Utopian News

                    No idea what were going to do now, would rather just kinda leave it, I'm growing very tired.... getting burned out over this and school......... so much to do..... so little time...... but I will keep going, I am the leader of the Archangels and will never fail you guys, I will try my best to keep us alive.

July 20th

        Regular News

                 Alright, so now my summer vacation is over and I am back to school.  Taking VB.Net which is kinda cool stuff.  Have myself an awesome girlfriend named Maggie, sadly she lives in BC and I don't know when the next time I see her will be :( 

        Utopian News

               Finally got out of a nasty as war and am being fed like a baby back to health.  It'll be a nice couple of days for everyone to relax.

So I've kinda turned this into a blog site, so my life isn't that interesting, but I'll manage, just like everyone else does. I'll try my best to post here the going ons in my life, so hello everyone and I'll talk to you online.