Is flock the sickest browser ever? Does it let me post things from an uber covenant editor? HELL YEAH IT DOES
I havent been this excited since I downloaded firefox 1.5 forever ago (best part is its based on firefox, so really I'm not even defecting)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Lost Wallet
So at some point on saturday night I lost my wallet. Blah blah, that sucks, I know. Its a major pain in the ass to loose your wallet because you have to make tons of phone calls to get cards canceled, and worry about your ID turning up somewhere... with someone else. And yeah there was 20 bucks in it, that sucks too.
But whats really started to get to me is how important that bunch of crap in my back pocket really is. I mean, granted I'm only inconvenienced for a week until my new cards come, its taking a serious toll on my psyche. All the sudden I'm no one. I have no ID, no transportation (charlie card was in the wallet), and absolutely no money. I cant get home, because even if I had money for a train ticket, or someone bought me one, I need ID to actually pick it up.
And its scary. For the first time in my life I feel insecure about going out, and scared to death if anything should happen. I had to borrow two dollars from my roommate today just to get downtown. When I got home I went to the coinstar machine to cash in all my change (5 dollars, granted it was all pennies and nickels).
Also, I had to make a concious decision to not eat as much food as I wanted, because it has to last me until my first credit card comes in the mail. I never even had to think of not having food before. Worse case senario I could charge it, worry about the bill months later. Now... Im eating pasta with butter for the next few days.
I'm not looking for pity, or anything near that. There are people off wayyyy worse than me everywhere, its just that for the first time I feel kind of closer to them. I have a roof over my head, and I'm typing on a computer, but all the sudden I just feel so useless and alone. Its really scary what a few pieces of plastic and ink can do to you, and what they can make you.
But whats really started to get to me is how important that bunch of crap in my back pocket really is. I mean, granted I'm only inconvenienced for a week until my new cards come, its taking a serious toll on my psyche. All the sudden I'm no one. I have no ID, no transportation (charlie card was in the wallet), and absolutely no money. I cant get home, because even if I had money for a train ticket, or someone bought me one, I need ID to actually pick it up.
And its scary. For the first time in my life I feel insecure about going out, and scared to death if anything should happen. I had to borrow two dollars from my roommate today just to get downtown. When I got home I went to the coinstar machine to cash in all my change (5 dollars, granted it was all pennies and nickels).
Also, I had to make a concious decision to not eat as much food as I wanted, because it has to last me until my first credit card comes in the mail. I never even had to think of not having food before. Worse case senario I could charge it, worry about the bill months later. Now... Im eating pasta with butter for the next few days.
I'm not looking for pity, or anything near that. There are people off wayyyy worse than me everywhere, its just that for the first time I feel kind of closer to them. I have a roof over my head, and I'm typing on a computer, but all the sudden I just feel so useless and alone. Its really scary what a few pieces of plastic and ink can do to you, and what they can make you.
Friday, September 5, 2008
I forgot everything in math. We had a first day quiz and I burst out laughing because I didnt understand anything. Luckily about a half hour into the lecture I remembered how to do quadratics (topic of the week) so I'm doing quite well. I really do like algebra, solving equations is fun.
In other news boston is still REALLY HOT. That hasnt changed. how this city is able to keep its heat is beyond me, but my air conditioner hasnt gone off yet.
Allright, I'm off to take a shower and go buy some books and get my cell switched (I left my normal one at home)
maybe I'll look into getting an every 2 as well. PUBLISH!
In other news boston is still REALLY HOT. That hasnt changed. how this city is able to keep its heat is beyond me, but my air conditioner hasnt gone off yet.
Allright, I'm off to take a shower and go buy some books and get my cell switched (I left my normal one at home)
maybe I'll look into getting an every 2 as well. PUBLISH!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Fuck I forgot to update for a while. Ahh well. Im back, if I didnt state that already. Saturday we got back. Played in a factory Saturday night with some friends. The wood for the barn (have I talked about the barn before, idunno) arrived yesterday. Today I spent redrawing all the plans for it because everything was 1/4" wider than expected. Me and Dad cut a beam to experiment. Its pretty weak looking, we need to step up our craftsmanship skills if this thing is going to stand. Ughhhh I'm way over my head.
I'm too lazy to go through this all again, so here's a crosslink to my thread over on my favorite forum.
I'm too lazy to go through this all again, so here's a crosslink to my thread over on my favorite forum.
Friday, August 22, 2008
So, today is my last day in germany. We are now back in berlin, at the same hotel where everything began. About one door down from the room we stayed in last time too.
Yesterday we saw the Autostadt, Volkswagen AGs headquarters, wolfsburg production plant, and... theme park I guess you would call it. It was a great day for me. The facility (aside from the factory) is completly new, with the most modern architecture you could imagine.
First we did the factory tour, which was incredible. They put out something like 3000 autos a day, with 98% automation, and yet they still have 45,000 workers. The sheer size of the facility was mind boggoling as well. The two buildings were around 2 and 3 kilometers long. The machinery inside was massive and awesome... and well im rambling, so ill summerise; awesome.
The actual Autostadt (autocity is a close translation) is a park-like landscape with interconecting waterways, ultra-modern pavillions for the car makers in volkswagen AG (volkswagen, audi, seat, skoda, bently and lamborgini), a museum, a car revieving center, and the car towers. Wiki it if you want to learn more, I could simply rant for ever. They also have some "rides", basically playground-esque things, although there were some particulary fun swings (9 meter tall swings) that hoisted you up with a winch and then let you fly out over a reflecting pool. Needless to say, everyone had fun.
I wrote an entry in notepad a few days ago i need to upload, but im on the hotel computer and that is saved on my laptop that has no acess, so it will come at a later date.
Have to get up at 6 tomorow, flight at 9, should be in the US 9 hours later (noon EST)
Yesterday we saw the Autostadt, Volkswagen AGs headquarters, wolfsburg production plant, and... theme park I guess you would call it. It was a great day for me. The facility (aside from the factory) is completly new, with the most modern architecture you could imagine.
First we did the factory tour, which was incredible. They put out something like 3000 autos a day, with 98% automation, and yet they still have 45,000 workers. The sheer size of the facility was mind boggoling as well. The two buildings were around 2 and 3 kilometers long. The machinery inside was massive and awesome... and well im rambling, so ill summerise; awesome.
The actual Autostadt (autocity is a close translation) is a park-like landscape with interconecting waterways, ultra-modern pavillions for the car makers in volkswagen AG (volkswagen, audi, seat, skoda, bently and lamborgini), a museum, a car revieving center, and the car towers. Wiki it if you want to learn more, I could simply rant for ever. They also have some "rides", basically playground-esque things, although there were some particulary fun swings (9 meter tall swings) that hoisted you up with a winch and then let you fly out over a reflecting pool. Needless to say, everyone had fun.
I wrote an entry in notepad a few days ago i need to upload, but im on the hotel computer and that is saved on my laptop that has no acess, so it will come at a later date.
Have to get up at 6 tomorow, flight at 9, should be in the US 9 hours later (noon EST)
Monday, August 18, 2008
My capatalazation Makes no sencE
Haven't updated this thing at all. What the fuck. I'm in Germany for god sakes, and even though I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning for some reason i think i will be able to remember a vacation in Germany.
I digress, (yesssss, most awesome thing ever, I'm almost intelligent now)
Even though I've been here almost two weeks, I'm not going to talk about that. I don't feel like typing really long entries. Basically it was this: Berlin, godson, Nurnburg, Bertchesgaden, Neuschwanstein, now here. I'm outside of Fussen. Today the family and I went on a bike ride. Always a pleasent adventure.......ugh
First off, we are staying in an amazing hotel. Two bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and my dad is only paying something like 70€ a night, which is a steal even after the exchange rate. This would be awesome, except at some point yesterday, it became INFESTED with flies. It wasnt like this when we got here, but all the sudden its like that scene in the Amityville horror, where the priest/window/everything is covered wall to wall with flys. People who dont know what I'm talking about, they also made fun of it in one of the "scary movie" mockeries. Disgusting.
I hate bugs. Hate, Hate, HATE. Point of that rant was they were in my breakfast this moring, a sign that no good could come of the day.
Our bike ride was okay. Family arguing was at a minimum, and it was mostly pleasent. I had some bastard german rock hard seat (my ass still hurts, and im in a cushy chair), but the gorgeous scenery made up for it. Seriously, this country is beautiful. Anyway, about 1 mile away from the end, my sister falls. I dont mean hit a pothole and went over the handlebars. I mean she stopped, went to get off her bike, and disappeared. Down a hill. Series of events:
Father stops for picture
Sister stops
Sister goes to step off bike, is swallowed by earth
from 4 ft down in weeds
"I'm okay"
...
...
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
anyway, aparently the weeds she fell in were these lovely prickers called "fire weed". or something. Its german, and my german sucks. They are immediatly poisinous, and burn like... well fire. And it was everywhere on her. So my mother and I took her to the lake to try to wash/cool it off, while my dad rode to get the car. While later she felt better, all est goot, etc. Basic point being, we cant have a normal day. ever.
Anyway, I'm really excited because on Friday i'm going to the Wolfsburg volkswagen production plant (wiki: autostadt") which is like a dream for me. I'm rediciliously obsessed with this kraut car, and this place is like mecca for me. Expect updates if this is nearly as good as I think it will be.
Blah blah blah, I ramble too much
I digress, (yesssss, most awesome thing ever, I'm almost intelligent now)
Even though I've been here almost two weeks, I'm not going to talk about that. I don't feel like typing really long entries. Basically it was this: Berlin, godson, Nurnburg, Bertchesgaden, Neuschwanstein, now here. I'm outside of Fussen. Today the family and I went on a bike ride. Always a pleasent adventure.......ugh
First off, we are staying in an amazing hotel. Two bedrooms, living room, kitchen, and my dad is only paying something like 70€ a night, which is a steal even after the exchange rate. This would be awesome, except at some point yesterday, it became INFESTED with flies. It wasnt like this when we got here, but all the sudden its like that scene in the Amityville horror, where the priest/window/everything is covered wall to wall with flys. People who dont know what I'm talking about, they also made fun of it in one of the "scary movie" mockeries. Disgusting.
I hate bugs. Hate, Hate, HATE. Point of that rant was they were in my breakfast this moring, a sign that no good could come of the day.
Our bike ride was okay. Family arguing was at a minimum, and it was mostly pleasent. I had some bastard german rock hard seat (my ass still hurts, and im in a cushy chair), but the gorgeous scenery made up for it. Seriously, this country is beautiful. Anyway, about 1 mile away from the end, my sister falls. I dont mean hit a pothole and went over the handlebars. I mean she stopped, went to get off her bike, and disappeared. Down a hill. Series of events:
Father stops for picture
Sister stops
Sister goes to step off bike, is swallowed by earth
from 4 ft down in weeds
"I'm okay"
...
...
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
anyway, aparently the weeds she fell in were these lovely prickers called "fire weed". or something. Its german, and my german sucks. They are immediatly poisinous, and burn like... well fire. And it was everywhere on her. So my mother and I took her to the lake to try to wash/cool it off, while my dad rode to get the car. While later she felt better, all est goot, etc. Basic point being, we cant have a normal day. ever.
Anyway, I'm really excited because on Friday i'm going to the Wolfsburg volkswagen production plant (wiki: autostadt") which is like a dream for me. I'm rediciliously obsessed with this kraut car, and this place is like mecca for me. Expect updates if this is nearly as good as I think it will be.
Blah blah blah, I ramble too much
Sunday, July 20, 2008
First Entry
Hmm so yah, yet another blog. I made the switch to blogspot because it seems a bit less ridiculous than livedrama, so that's always good. Plus its linked to my google account so SCORE.
I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and I've been thinking about rebooting this whole thing for a while. So being myself, 2am lying in bed smelling of fry oil and gasoline seems like a perfect time to do so. Hopefully I will keep it up, if not, ehh just taking up more space on zie internets.
So, here go some quick bullit points on my life so far, ranked emo to interesting.
If you hate emo rants skip to the next italic text:
-Lost 90% of my friends a month or so ago. Still recovering from that, there's nothing in this world weirder than loosing everyone you've ever trusted and cared about in one fell swoop.
-Gained a few new friends, started hanging out with people I haven't in years. Its almost good I lost all my old gang, because its forced me to review who I am, and also restart some relationships with people I haven't talked to in a long time. Some really cool, really fun people that for the life of me I can't figure out why I didn't hang out with more in the first place.
-I am completely ambivalent (that's the right word... right?) towards girls. I feel that I would like a relationship, but for some unknown reason I just don't try or care at all. I haven't felt a "spark" between me and anyone in almost a year now, and its not like I'm not meeting people. I have, I've met a few girls who I know are into me and I just... don't care. Ehh, probably a side effect of point one up there^.
Fun Stuff:
-While I originally planned to spend the summer in Boston, I wound up coming home. My dad decided to buy some solar panels, and left it up to me to design what they would go on (awesome). The first idea was to put them on an arbor near the pool. It made sense, it was the only part of the yard that got sun all day, and it would also provide some much needed shade for the deck. Unfortunately electric generating panels + pool = electrical inspector says NO. This was of course after I spent almost a month designing and drawing plans for this thing. I had it completely done when we got the no-go.
Whatever.
So now we are ripping down our old garage and building a new one. A 150% bigger one. Using historic post and beam construction.
Awesome.
I seriously couldn't be more in my element. Not only am I getting to design this thing, but I'm also involved in the demolition (my second love) and construction (perhaps my fifth or so love) of it. Also working alongside my dad is freaking amazing. We've had a rough patch these past two years or so, and this is really bringing us close together. Even though mixing a back breaking amount of cement by hand sucks (1600 lbs in each footing, 8 footings), and tearing down a dusty, smelling of cat-piss shed is disgusting, doing it with my dad is awesome. We get along really well. By get along really well I mean that we fight to the death about every decision, but after the battle we go back into having fun (complete opposite of when me and my mom fight, but that's a rant for another day).
In summery: Design + Construction + Dad = Awesome Summer.
-Meh, I should have left that one for last, because its really the best thing happening right now. My current job (major LOLage here) is working at a fry cook at the Orange County Fair. Luckily I get paid cash under the table, so its working out pretty good, but I just found out tonight that they aren't making nearly enough money and are therefore probably pulling out of the fair, leaving me jobless. I cant get a real job because I'm going to Germany in August, and now I have no money to pay off my credit cards with. Originally I was going to make just enough to do it, but I've barely made 200 so far.
Shit.
I'm the typical in-debt college student. Woo hoo.
-Oh yah, I'm going to Germany this summer. My cousin decided to make me her brand-new kids Godfather. Which is awesome, to say the least. Unfortunately the € to $ (I did the symbols because i have special shortcut keys on my keyboard and have never been able to use them before) SUCKS and therefore whatever I give him is going to be about 25% less than what it is to me. Also... I have no job so woo Dave's a bad godfather. I'm also bad at religion so I'm really sucking at this whole thing.
Also, Germany should be fun but I realised the other day that I'm going to be spending 3 weeks sleeping in the SAME ROOM as my whole family. My dad and mom snore a lot. My sister is just... well shes 10 and 10 year olds are weird. It takes me anywhere from 40 minutes to 4 hours to fall asleep at night when its quite and I'm really tired. Trying to race my family to fall asleep before the snore-fest starts is going to take some kind of power I don't have. I need to get drugs. Lots.
So yeah, pointless summery entry. Now that I did that lets see if I keep up with it. There's a bunch more I could write about but I'm probably going to have writers block a lot so I'll save it for then. Besides, I have to fill in all the "about me" garbage in this new thing. I hate trying to be clever in my bio section.
Edit: my spelling is SOO bad. I love spell check. One day I wont use it and everyone can see that I'm most likely legaly retarded. Oh yah, I cant do math in my head either. If I had to be in 2nd grade again I would failllllllll.
I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and I've been thinking about rebooting this whole thing for a while. So being myself, 2am lying in bed smelling of fry oil and gasoline seems like a perfect time to do so. Hopefully I will keep it up, if not, ehh just taking up more space on zie internets.
So, here go some quick bullit points on my life so far, ranked emo to interesting.
If you hate emo rants skip to the next italic text:
-Lost 90% of my friends a month or so ago. Still recovering from that, there's nothing in this world weirder than loosing everyone you've ever trusted and cared about in one fell swoop.
-Gained a few new friends, started hanging out with people I haven't in years. Its almost good I lost all my old gang, because its forced me to review who I am, and also restart some relationships with people I haven't talked to in a long time. Some really cool, really fun people that for the life of me I can't figure out why I didn't hang out with more in the first place.
-I am completely ambivalent (that's the right word... right?) towards girls. I feel that I would like a relationship, but for some unknown reason I just don't try or care at all. I haven't felt a "spark" between me and anyone in almost a year now, and its not like I'm not meeting people. I have, I've met a few girls who I know are into me and I just... don't care. Ehh, probably a side effect of point one up there^.
Fun Stuff:
-While I originally planned to spend the summer in Boston, I wound up coming home. My dad decided to buy some solar panels, and left it up to me to design what they would go on (awesome). The first idea was to put them on an arbor near the pool. It made sense, it was the only part of the yard that got sun all day, and it would also provide some much needed shade for the deck. Unfortunately electric generating panels + pool = electrical inspector says NO. This was of course after I spent almost a month designing and drawing plans for this thing. I had it completely done when we got the no-go.
Whatever.
So now we are ripping down our old garage and building a new one. A 150% bigger one. Using historic post and beam construction.
Awesome.
I seriously couldn't be more in my element. Not only am I getting to design this thing, but I'm also involved in the demolition (my second love) and construction (perhaps my fifth or so love) of it. Also working alongside my dad is freaking amazing. We've had a rough patch these past two years or so, and this is really bringing us close together. Even though mixing a back breaking amount of cement by hand sucks (1600 lbs in each footing, 8 footings), and tearing down a dusty, smelling of cat-piss shed is disgusting, doing it with my dad is awesome. We get along really well. By get along really well I mean that we fight to the death about every decision, but after the battle we go back into having fun (complete opposite of when me and my mom fight, but that's a rant for another day).
In summery: Design + Construction + Dad = Awesome Summer.
-Meh, I should have left that one for last, because its really the best thing happening right now. My current job (major LOLage here) is working at a fry cook at the Orange County Fair. Luckily I get paid cash under the table, so its working out pretty good, but I just found out tonight that they aren't making nearly enough money and are therefore probably pulling out of the fair, leaving me jobless. I cant get a real job because I'm going to Germany in August, and now I have no money to pay off my credit cards with. Originally I was going to make just enough to do it, but I've barely made 200 so far.
Shit.
I'm the typical in-debt college student. Woo hoo.
-Oh yah, I'm going to Germany this summer. My cousin decided to make me her brand-new kids Godfather. Which is awesome, to say the least. Unfortunately the € to $ (I did the symbols because i have special shortcut keys on my keyboard and have never been able to use them before) SUCKS and therefore whatever I give him is going to be about 25% less than what it is to me. Also... I have no job so woo Dave's a bad godfather. I'm also bad at religion so I'm really sucking at this whole thing.
Also, Germany should be fun but I realised the other day that I'm going to be spending 3 weeks sleeping in the SAME ROOM as my whole family. My dad and mom snore a lot. My sister is just... well shes 10 and 10 year olds are weird. It takes me anywhere from 40 minutes to 4 hours to fall asleep at night when its quite and I'm really tired. Trying to race my family to fall asleep before the snore-fest starts is going to take some kind of power I don't have. I need to get drugs. Lots.
So yeah, pointless summery entry. Now that I did that lets see if I keep up with it. There's a bunch more I could write about but I'm probably going to have writers block a lot so I'll save it for then. Besides, I have to fill in all the "about me" garbage in this new thing. I hate trying to be clever in my bio section.
Edit: my spelling is SOO bad. I love spell check. One day I wont use it and everyone can see that I'm most likely legaly retarded. Oh yah, I cant do math in my head either. If I had to be in 2nd grade again I would failllllllll.
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