Oh my god what has happened since July 30, my last blog post. With over 3 months (quarter of a year) behind me since the last post I’m not quite sure where to begin. Let’s just plow away.
So I began dating to a semi-serious degree. I have allowed myself to get walked on, missed some opportunities, left a tad bit sad hearted, made some great friends and had some exciting experiences. Needless to say I still have yet to learn that I should not be dating until I finish school. But I’m not sure if that is quite human either. I don’t know the real answer to that.
So I figure by the end of this semester I’ll either have become some uber computer programmer or I will have exhausted every cell within my brain to be anything useful. I can’t even begin the degree of stress that I have incurred with this schedule (that I really had no choice unless I dropped out). Tons of programs, gobs of research and new things I have never been exposed to all dropping down on me at once.
For our Software Engineering project we decided to create a program that creates random word search puzzles based on settings the user can specify. Sounds fun, were trudging away and hopefully with have a fully working program before semesters end like we are supposed to.
Magic has been placed on the back burner. There is just too much to keep up with right now. Friends and Homework need to come first, unfortunately that means shutting out some of my magic friends whereas that is how I know them. I hope they will ultimately understand but I think their patience is dwindling.
So I got motivated today and decided to post something. My biggest excuse for lagging in my updates is my laptop was down for a few week. The power cable stopped charging the computer and Dell was prompt to fix the problem. While it did take a couple weeks I can’t complain, it was free and practically painless.
Work has also certainly kept me away also. New owners, new bosses and the like have kept us fairly busy in the past couple months. It pleases me to see were getting our shit back together at work.
As it would never fail to leave me, Magic has certainly peeked my interest once more. A game I have played on a semi serious level for nearly 14 years brings new challenges and deck construction. Grabbing first place in a Magic 2010 Pre-release wave, 3rd at a small town tournament in
I placed some orders for cards; purchased a few things I’m going to need to revamp the collection my friend and I have struggled to keep updated for years. Eventually I’ll post the lists here once I have tuned them, but for now there not solid.
School has also begun to creep up faster and faster. Much like a poker tournament, I’m going all in now. I’m more confidant than ever that this degree is no longer mine to loose, but mine to take! The difficulties I faced last semester combined with my school schedule and maintaining a passing academic record have me confidant in my abilities.
So I will be taking probably 15-18 units scaling back work to only two days. I plan to take 3-4 computer science courses and two math courses. As crazy as this may sound, I’m entertaining the idea that perhaps I’ll take 12 units at CSUN and 5 units at AVC.
An interesting thing and revelation occurred to me in Wall-Mart peering into a tormented person of my past. Everything is simply a lie. There is no truth in this situation and perhaps I continue to dwell on the subject, but perhaps it is difficult to not analyze something you changed and poured your heart and life into at one time that now makes you feel empty, silly and sorry for such a thing.
What happened was great and was pictured just as I foresaw. Lies could not hide the truth of what I saw and heard today. You simply cannot lie to a child.
So I’ve been fairly lazy in my ability keep up with my blog, however that does not mean there is nothing to mention. There have actually been plenty of happenings in the recent month!
I re-addicted myself to Call of Duty: World at War. I took the plunge and went prestige mode, which wipes out all of weapons and perks for looks and small bonuses. A small way for me to keep playing I guess. It has made me look at using other weapons and how effective they can be.
Another game I have also maintained an addiction to has been Agricola; however this addiction is much tougher to feed since I have only one person to play it with right now. Not to mention at this point an individual who probably beat me more than most. My copy came in the mail finally and I dumped a good $30 dollars more buying boxes and sleeves to keep all the pieces and cards in good shape for a long time. I have another $30 or so to spend to get the cooler pieces.
So my mom and I picked up 9 baby squirrels from my work. It was a little difficult for me to see the all die on a daily basis from other predators and the equipment we must use around work. I figured if I took them home they would have a chance. So I did the research and discovered we have everything to keep them alive and going. Now they are doing incredibly well and hopefully in a month or so we can release them!
I play Dungeons and Dragons on Saturdays now, officially inducting me into the realm of nerdy-ness. We have a blast every afternoon playing with 6 people plus a dungeon master. A dungeon master engineers a story line and moderates how the non-playable characters (NPC’s) act such as monsters and friendly characters. As of now I’m currently playing a Paladin, the only way I think I will be successful at having fun with DnD is if I play something true to my personality in real life. I enjoy helping others and I tend to be extremely altruistic.
I plan to pick up the animeeples (little replacement pieces that add fun to the game) next month. The pieces represent the actual items you receive in game such as Wheat, sheep and so on. The game is highly addicting.It’s been a fairly busy past few weeks. Let’s start with Verizon! A job offer literally fell into my lap. Little did I know my resume is still floating idle on some database and Verizon happen to pick it up! The job entails customer support optics analyst. This job pays fairly handsomely compared to my current job…
The problem: The Job is in
Take the job and possibly pigeon-hole myself into it forever and never really finish school, my goals, but get paid, move out, buy neat things and watch my family move! Or stay on track, taking 2 more years to get a real job, possibly move with the family, and get the job I want, build the resume and get a better career? Dilemma indeed…
I knew this would happen at some point in my college career, however I would be foolish not to explore the offer and I will certainly do so. We will see!
I’ve recently become addicted to two board/card games. Agricola and Dominion! Agricola features you as a farmer fighting for resources and building a farm of all things! The player who’s able to create a better farm wins.
Dominion is a card game featuring players with a similar 10 card starting deck. Each turn you draw 5 cards and with those cards you buy more cards that increase your deck! Once you run out of cards to draw you shuffle everything together with all the cards you purchased and continue playing. Ultimately you buy points and those get shuffled into your deck. The games ends under certain conditions and the player with the most points in his/her deck wins!
So we went to Gamex! I have to admit I wish I had only gone Saturday. But I still had fun. I must give my friend Avery props for helping me out because with all the bills and obligations I had I could not have made a weekend out of it, so I'll get him back soon. We played some Agricola there, a new game called Amun-Ra (I think). That game was particularly not very interesting. I moped around some, but it was nice to be away from work, school and house.
Lastly I have begun writing again for Gotgame.com. I feel very rusty and I’m attempting to get my groove back. Opinion articles are the directions so hopefully I feel less restricted to say something controversial. The first article, which is indeed one I posted here, I dressed up and submitted it. It’s raising some eyebrows. =).
I know, this was a quick and dirty entry, I’ll make up for it when I can…
