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April 29, 2008

Birthday weekend.

Filed under: Life,School,Work — sherl0k @ 6:32 pm

Went pretty awesome for me.

Spending it with the girl is always the best.

Received money, some clothes, and a care package of goofy stuff from my sister. Much needed items. Liz got me some cool stuff too but I left it at the apartment; reminds me, I need to grab it at some point.

My mother’s a baking genius. The white (snow) is frosting, the blue (water) is Jello.

We *were* going to go to that rave but me and my tiredness prevented us, we went and saw Forbidden Kingdom instead. I enjoyed it, anything with Jackie Chan or Jet Li is good in my book. Putting them together is even better.

Sunday we spent the day cleaning out the apartment, we made a good deal of progress. Still more to do, but things are coming along. Also went for dinner at Ponderosa (haven’t been there in forever!) and a walk in the park. Good times.

I really hate feeling so exhausted all the time. Liz notices it too and I wish I had a way to not feel this way. It affects me at nights and on the weekends… pretty much whenever I’m not at work. I try to get enough sleep at night but I still can’t fall asleep at a decent hour. And on the weekends when I get to sleep in, I’m still tired. It’s getting tough for me to focus on my schoolwork when I don’t have the energy to get it done. I’m breaking it up into parts of the course of the week so I’m hoping that will help me. I know being on my feet for 8 hours a day will affect me but I didn’t think it would be this bad. Maybe I should try building up my stamina by working out on a more regular basis. But that requires energy. Oh catch 22′s, how you amuse me so. And don’t get me started on caffeine. I already have 2 cans of dew over the course of the day, and sometimes a cup of coffee. Something tells me adding more to the formula isn’t healthy for me.

This upcoming weekend is another rave (which I won’t be skipping out on, that’s for sure). Liz and I will be gone pretty much all of Saturday, but nothing planned for Sunday that I know of. Lazy day sounds good to me.

April 20, 2008

Blah.

Filed under: Life,School,Work — sherl0k @ 10:58 pm

Kait’s party was fun, just wish I wasn’t as tired as I was. Work drains me all week.

Weather was absolutely beautiful this weekend. We took a walk in the park… 75 degrees (24 celsius for you metric people), no humidity whatsoever. I was in heaven. And being there with Liz made it that much better.

Liz and I made a MySpace profile for the panda I gave her. The photos are extremely awesome.

Don’t let R. Kelly in your kitchen.

I also need to crack down more on my schoolwork, trying to get everything done in one night doesn’t seem to work too well, seeing as though I left the apartment earlier than usual tonight to finish stuff up. I just hate my classes this quarter… project management and research methods. Nothing really interesting to me at all. It’s hard to stay focused on them.

Still loving my car to bits. It averaged 30mpg on the drive up to Oswego, so I’m pretty happy with that. And that was with the windows down and sunroof open.

Looking forward to work this week, as always. I’m enjoying the experiences I get there.

April 14, 2008

Yay car!

Filed under: Bemani,Life,Work — sherl0k @ 7:26 pm

Man this car is one sexy beast.

So this weekend Liz and I went to Rochester for an ITG tournament, which I entered for the sake of making the 11 player bracket a 12 player bracket. I lost my round, and the loser’s bracket round. Oh well. They had a lot of weird custom songs added in, especially ones that were rated so horribly off that they didn’t make sense at all. It kinda irked me. Seeing Renard’s stuff on there was a delight, though :)

Saw my Rochester buddies which was a great sight for sore eyes. Played some IIDX which I’m totally rusty at, also I don’t play left side, but it was still enjoyable. DD’s song list isn’t as good as HS’s though, that’s for sure. Tried to get Troopers working on Liz’s laptop, but no go. They wanted to charge me $15 for just using it in the building too, wtf? Stupid LAN center, I wasn’t even touching their internet. So instead we played some Monopoly with Kait and Paul since Liz had it in her car. Good times. I destroyed everyone.

Liz and I went out for ice cream after with Kait and Brandon, and then went back to Brandon’s apartment for another round of Monopoly. I lost hardcore that time. Greens are hard to win with when there’s 4 people.

Headed back home late, and slept in late on Sunday. We needed it. Liz made me this awesome soup for lunch, which I must’ve complimented her 10 times for over the course of the day. It was that good. We spent the day at the mall playing DDR with Adamn and Dre, good times as always. Matzi showed up too, damn he looks so different now. Jiri was there for a bit, he’s still got the skill. I also think I learned how to time SN, which is quite the feat for me. I got less than 20 greats on various 7 footers. And I’ve always been bad at this silly dancing game. Liz and I had dinner at Uno’s, went for a nice walk in the park by the lake, and spent the rest of the night watching Pulp Fiction. That movie never gets old for me.

Work dragged by for me today, I just wanted it to be 4 so I could get my car. I no longer have my original work station because they keep bringing temp people in to fill the spot since I’ve been on special assignment, but it looks like I got a new spot now on the other side (read: the side where people get paid more) so I guess that means I get a pay raise soon? My boss tells me I’m the “utility guy” and I can solve problems all over the place. I like that idea, I think I’ll stick with it.

April 8, 2008

I love life!

Filed under: Life,Work — sherl0k @ 3:39 pm

Holy crap. Crazy, crazy stuff happening. First of all, I bought a car. There’s a story behind this buy, though.

’06 Chevy Cobalt LT. Black, 2 door, loaded with options. Funny story behind this one. They had a Cobalt LS on the lot which was pretty bare bones. Same color, 2 doors, but had no options on it. Not even cruise. Took it out for a test drive, and I liked it. Decided to buy it, so the paperwork and negotiations began. Including all the taxes and fees and whatnot, the total came to $12,000 flat. And that was with them installing cruise. Sorry, but I like my cruise control.

There was a slight problem with the car though: someone had already bought it.

While I was out test-driving the car, someone who was previously looking at it had came in, and decided that they wanted to buy it. They were already through the financing people while I was just sitting down to knock out prices. So as you can see, there was a problem at hand and they wanted to fix it. They scrambled to find a car comparable to what I was looking at, and found the one I ended up buying, at a car auction in PA. Arranged to buy it, and offer me the same exact price I originally negotiated for the LS. So now I’m getting a TON more options, at the same price. I’m also giving the car a coat of rust-protection, and some extra warranty time. It’ll come in handy.

As for financing, I got a pretty sweet deal on that too. 3.9% APR, 60 months, a little over $200/mo. Considering I was paying $200 combined on my previous loans, I’m really not paying anything more than I was before.

Car insurance on the other hand, is a different matter. Because the car is financed, I need collision and comprehensive. More money to the insurance companies. Staying with Geico seems to be an expensive option, which kinda surprised me. What surprised me more is that by switching back to Progressive (who I switched from originally and saved a buttload of cash), I save a buttload. Again. While only paying like $60/mo for insurance right now on my POS acclaim (which I’m trading in with the Cobalt, btw), Geico wants to charge me something like $223/mo for insurance. With Progressive, it’s $149/mo. Much more doable on my income. My pay raise at work will easily offset the added cost of car insurance.

Speaking of work, I was able to get today off because the higher-ups anticipated the day was going to be really slow so they offered a voluntary day off for some of the employees. I guess I’m cool enough to be included in that. Definitely came in handy, that’s for sure.

Liz got yesterday off so I was able to spend time with her after I got out of work, and spend the night there. It was really nice. We went to an awesome sushi spot downtown with her friend Sarah. What struck me kinda odd was that a Japanese sushi bar was playing 1TYM over the speaker system. Now, 1TYM is a Korean rap group, and the place serves Japanese sushi… anyone else here notice the lack of political correctness? Add in the fact that the Korean and Japanese people have had a history of despising each other, only adds to the confusion. But that’s just me being nit-picky. Nobody else would’ve noticed unless they’ve heard Korean music before. After the sushi place we came back to my place and hung out watching TV, then went to Denny’s for another meal because sushi isn’t very filling. And we had the weirdest craving for pancakes and milkshakes.

The weekend was also awesome, spent with Liz of course. Mallratted on Saturday as usual. Sunday Liz had a bridal shower to go to so I took the time to do my homework while she was there. We took my parents out to dinner afterwards, mm Olive Garden. Decent food.

I just noticed I did this whole post in reverse. Oh well, not everything in life comes at you in order.

tl;dr: new car is nice, korean music in a japanese sushi bar is lol, and i love liz. lots and lots.

April 2, 2008

Here’s life for you in a nutshell.

Filed under: Life,School,The Internet,Work — sherl0k @ 5:58 pm

Work: Is awesome. I love my job, I really do. I come home really exhausted at times, but it’s only because I work my behind off, going above and beyond and having a really good time doing so. Rumors afloat from reliable sources that I’ll be getting a raise at my 3 month review, so I’m stoked about that. I’m going to need the cash. I also have some awesome coworkers, hilarious supervisors, and a boss with a real sense of humor. It’s hard to find someone there in a bad mood because of their job. Such a great atmosphere.

Personal life: Is really taking off. I love Liz with everything I got, she’s the absolute best ever. I’m so incredibly happy with her and things just keep getting better for us. There’s talk of us moving in together, so we’ll see where that goes. Finally getting a cellphone under her plan, so I’ll actually have a connection to the outside world when I’m not at my computer. Newer car on the way too, I’ll be shopping around later this month.

Internet business: Has too much drama for my liking. I don’t have the time anymore to keep as close tabs on things as I used to so I’m going to be stepping down from nearly all my mod/admin positions within the coming months. Also my interest in music games has declined a lot, partly due to a lack of time, and partly due to a lack of a working PS2. I also don’t have a really fast PC in the house either, so sims/AC data is off limits to me. I prefer Linux, anyway. I will be keeping my ROM site up and running though, but I need to find a host with more options. I’m not paying another $20/mo on my bill just for another harddrive. That’s highway robbery after only a few months of service.

School: It’s school. Classes are okay, I’m doing fine in them, I just dislike having to use IE for everything. And even then IE doesn’t work right all the time. So annoying…

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