29 Mar 2005
I've been a nice guy forever. Something about it just doesn't seem to work though. As far as I can tell, girls don't want nice guys.
The old saying that nice guys finish last is very wrong. I'm more in favour of the somewhat modified nice guys get run over by a bus halfway through the race.
Being a nice guy gets me lots of friends. Lots of girls that like to talk with me and hang out, but none who want to be more. I'm feeling kind of broken about the whole thing today.
I'm going to keep being a nice guy to everyone I know. Just because, well, what else could I possibly be? It's all I know. When I move in a few weeks I'm going to give being a nice guy one more shot. I'm going to keep being me until the end of the summer.
If it doesn't work out by then, then I'm just going to find a way to stop being me. It'll be hard, and it'll hurt, but I won't be alone anymore.
It's funny how such great things happening to me can bring this out in me. They are great, but they would be so much more amazing if I had someone to share it all with.
poke so if you out there reading this, or your friends, or your friends friends, are the one I should share it all with. Leave a comment :)
I'm going to go eat chocolate and be happy. This will be revisted again someday I'm sure.
26 Mar 2005
So, I picked up a PSP today with Lumines for a game. I like the game, but I like most puzzle games. The whole system seems quite nice. The little analog nub is pretty cool even if I don't really have a sue for it. Spiderman 2 which came with it looks phenomenal on the little widescreen display.
The sound is even good. I wish the headphones and the wrist strap weren't white, but other than that it is a pretty sweet deal and will go nicely with my Nintendo DS. I'm looking forward to when Mercury comes out for the PSP in a couple of weeks. It looks cool.
So why did I buy a PSP? Celebration of course! I bought an electric shaver as well today. We'll see how that works out. It's my last ditch effort to curb away from just growing a full beard like I really want to do. Why? I guess because you don't see too many beards around these days. It's all clean shaven and goatees.
25 Mar 2005
I am so very happy today! I got the job that I had applied for and I can't wait to get moved and start. There are just so many ups to this whole thing.
It will be cool to be reunited with some old college pals once again. It will be cool to buy nice furniture in a place and at a time that I think I will care about it all.
I never could have made it this far without Ilona and my family urging me on. Thanks so much everyone! If I hadn't met Ilona I'm sure I'd still be just doing the daily grind. Not that the daily grind was bad, but it was a rut. This is something new, exciting and definitely progressive. Plus, I'm getting my second amazingly awesome raise in two years by doing this :)
Now I just have to make sure to get the book all looked after and not let her down.
I think this is going to be an amazing experience. So many people are already planning trips to come visit me after I move. Haha I can't wait :)
I don't get a lot of good things in my life, so I'm really really enjoying this to the fullest!
I know there will be some sort of karmic whiplash somewhere along the way, but I'll deal with that when it happens. For now, rock on!
23 Mar 2005
Whatever they did with the latest World of Warcraft patch they need to undo! It got seriously messed up with this patch. The interface is nicer and more customizable but there are a crazy number of disconnects and timeouts happening. I hope they have it all sorted out by tomorrow night. I probably won't get to play all weekend so that will suck.
Easter is almost here. Chocolate, fluffy bunnys and family. Does it get any better? Ahh, the world is crazy.
I feel optimisitic about getting the job I want. That's usually a sign of impending doom though so don't tell anyone. My friends there are already planning beer night :)
I sort of stumbled from an everyday conversation into an amazing conversation with a friend last night. It was an amazing talk and well worth staying up until after 3:30am and being tired all day :) At some point there the conversation felt like it was the bus in the movie Speed to me. If it went any faster or slower it would have exploded. It didn't though, so that's good!
Alas now I am exhausted. Maybe I'll try and steal some of that sleep that I hear you get when you're dead tonight. Four hours is enough to function and be coherent, but it's not quite enough to feel normal.
Some how though, I know I'll be up late again. I'm so bad at sleeping.
19 Mar 2005
I'm so very disappointed with the small town I live in sometimes. It's so hard to get anything done in a place like this when you are used to city life.
Today all I wanted to do was get one page printed out, sign it, and fax it away. Of course the local printing and faxing shop is conveniently closed every Saturday in the month of March. WTF?
So I went to the mall. I went to almost every store that had a computer in it and asked them if I could print a one page document for five bucks. No where would let me do it. The closest I got was at a Radio Shack where I tried to tell them that I wanted to test out a printer before I bought it. I had the guy going for it too until his manager showed up.
So I ended up at the local library internet access point. Where they told me that their machines were setup so that you couldn't use the cd-rom drive to do anything from for security reasons. They told me I could go ahead and try though. Well, of course they were wrong or maybe their security just really sucks when you are someone who works with computers every single day of your life.
So I managed to get that sheet printed out and signed. On to phase two. Get that sucker faxed! Of course the library couldn't fax it. Why? I have no idea…
So I ended up in a drugstore/post-office outlet (go figure?) and they would fax it for something like $2 a page plus long distance and other crap. I was like sure, no problem. I've been running around town for two hours dodging hail and incompetence. What's a few bucks?
So I filled out the forms and gave her the sheets and let her go at it. Sure enough it didn't work. She just said that it wasn't working. It had never made that noise before. She wasn't sure what was wrong. Would I like to try later? Later!?! I'm sure she just didn't know what she was doing and she wouldn't let me try myself.
So much effort. Two hours of wandering around town, the first part of which was in a hail storm, and nothing to show for it. Gah!
Lesson learned:
Never go walking in a hail storm. I repeat NEVER go walking in a hail storm.