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Many things to discuss so I will jump right in. First off, I hope that school is wrapping up nicely for everyone. I know that it can be a very stressful time of year and I hope everyone passes their classes.

First off, Best Buy did not work out. I placed a phone call on Tuesday to the supervisor that gave me my first actual interview. He acted annoyed that I had bothered to return a phone call ? whatever. I intend to apply at the other various electronic stores and hope that Wal-Mart is a last resort.

I am currently in super money saving mode. I temporarily canceled my Final Fantasy XI accounts yesterday. As soon as I get paid I intend to re-active my content id’s, but until then don’t expect to see me in game.

I have decided to set some goals for the short term in things I wish to accomplish. I have had quite a bit of time off to think about life and what I want to do for the rest of it. I certainly have a joy for computers but I wonder if I have been focusing my energy in the wrong places. I seem to waste a lot of time on the computer ? just like the rest of us. Anyway, I have been out of school for the past year both to take time off since I didn’t enjoy school as well as the problem of paying for it (remember that my dad works two jobs). I doubt that anyone knew this but I didn’t want to waste what little spare money was around to do something I was not sure I wanted to do and complete ? that was the reason for coming back. Some of you may think it is silly or stupid and everyone is entitled to their opinion and I would enjoy hearing yours if you are willing to share. I can remember back in high school that I actually enjoyed programming, I was very serious about doing some aspect of game design. I loved computers and I loved video games so it just made sense. I had the idea that I should do the college thing and get that taken care of and then go after gaming. During the course of college I thought it would be easier just to ride the train and get a job just like everyone else, mm mm lazy. Therefore I think it is time to shift gears. Doing the web stuff for a year is fun and I intend to try my hand at it ?freelance? with various parties here in town for some extra cash until the game thing takes off. I hope to start investing my time picking up the pieces and becoming active in the mod community. I have a ton of things to learn but I always love a challenge and maybe it will land me a job eventually and no matter what it should be fun. For the time being I am only going to consider it a hobby and hope that things work out for me.

In retrospect part of me wishes I would have stuck out things at TU. If I had kept my nose to the grindstone I would have been done in about a year or so, oops =(. While it is a really expensive piece of paper it makes your life a whole lot easier.

On to happier subjects ? Linux. This is the first time I have ever been able to put up with Linux for this length of time. I have everything I need to work (Firefox, mp3s, emule, etc) and even using the bloated KDE things seem faster than windows. I find myself only loading Windows XP to fire up games that do not perform as well in Linux (or at all for that matter). I really want an NTFS write driver that is awesome so I can write to my windows drive instead of just read from it. I should probably just take more space off the windows drive and make some more Linux partitions, we shall see. Time to give Linux a gold star and here is why. Last night i made a roll up XPSP1 boot CD that included a lot of the windows updates. Mike needed to repair his XP installation and something with the roll up trashed his computer. I unplugged my hard drive, plugged it into his machine and booted into Linux and copied ALL of his files from inside X windows within minutes. I was completely shocked at how easy it was, especially with KDE working as well. To put icing on the cake we found out that I did not have enough free space on my drive to backup some DVD’s. I searched the Gentoo forums and found the burning application of choice k3b. I was worried that Linux would complicate the whole damn process as it tends to do, but in this case it did not. I installed k3b, put in a blank DVD, and burning commenced. Just as easy as NERO, and pretty as well. All I have to say is wow.

AYB has been hanging at my house due to some personal reasons that I can not share here or in private. It’s good to have the company and someone to call me names all the time! Fun times, fun times.

Sorry for the long post, hopefully you were able to read it all =P. Time to go fill out job applications, yay =/.

Hopefully the next post won’t be far off, so enjoy the last of your finals (or dead week @ OU) and be sure to have a good weekend.

I have no self respect — stole this from the shack

Star Wars Trilogy stuff

Give that a read, talks about the original trilogy and what is going to be on it, hot stuff.

Linux router is all setup now, i am extremely happy with it. I need something to challenge me now, the boredom is becoming unbearable.

Just about finished with the linux router, printing is working again as is sharing the internet. With the re-install cox has blessed me with a new ip address and things are much faster, perhaps they changed the network around some and my gateway was really far away from my house — who knows. With the new address brings many things other than faster internet. I am no longer blacklisted from tfp since my address is different, yay.

Gentoo install went smoothly — slowly, but smoothly. Seems that my time investment was worth it though, if anything more exciting develops i will let you guys know.

Here is hoping that Best Buy calls me today — .

Good luck to those of you in school, wrap things up so you can come back to Tulsa and have some fun this summer!

Wow, that was an interesting interview, seemed short — hopefully not too short. I guess 10-20 minutes isn’t that short but it still seemed shorter than the initial interview. He asked a lot of difficult questions that i will not go over here, i am hopeful that i gave decent responses and i will get a phone call back from them soon.

Time to scrounge up some food, then ddr then kill bill!

I am going in for the second interview today at 10:30 AM — hopefully things will go well and I will land a job, job at Best Buy would be awesome! They had a minor confusion on who was going to schedule the interview for today but with me calling in we had that clarified.

OMG Kill Bill Vol 2 tonight, I am psyched. Time for some sleep, then interview, then who knows what… but I know for sure that the night will end with DDR and kill bill, hooray!

No return call from the job prospect yet, sad times.

Took a trip to the cauldron yesterday, check it out!
jayjay ffxi gallery

Hey everyone, MT appears to be working again so I thought I should break the no updating habit I have had lately.

Please fill out this a-kon form if you have not done so yet. We need to get a headcount to figure out hotel costs / driving scenarios.

I had my interview at best buy yesterday, went really well and they are supposed to call me back monday or tuesday for another interview — hopefully I will get the job in the tech bay! Have a great Easter weekend everyone — looks like I get to spend time with the mother (oh joy).