8/31/04, 11:55PM
Song: Lorenna McKennitt

I've found that I have a problem with blogs/xangas/etc., it makes me talk to people less, I think. Because of reading and writing in them there is no need to talk to people one-on-one with people as much. I hardly talk to some, and I think it is because there isn't any need to ask about their day if I just read about it in a xanga. Then I sorta phase out reading xangas and then eventually lose touch completely... I may just be me though.


8/30/04, 9:50AM
Song: Tool - Triad

I'm sitting here waiting to go to a meeting with my advisor to talk about dropping my physics class and changing into a freshman comp class. I've got about an hour till then and nothing important to do. I'm going to write something in here that I have been wanting to for the past few days but since I haven't updated, I haven't written it. A few nights ago I got a very bad awakening at 4:30 in the morning. My printer fell on my head.

The Setup: There is a shelf above my bed, this is where the printer sits. Above that on the wall is a framed poster.
The Event: The poster fell, hit the printer, the printer followed by the poster fell onto my head waking me up.
The Cause: The 3M Command Strip Hook used to hold the poster wasn't quite stron enough.

But I didn't learn my lesson; the poster hung back up the next day using another hook of course. I'm waiting to see if it falls again.


8/25/04, 9:20PM
Song: BT - The Only Constant is Change

Not a whole lot going on these days. Yesterday I had my honors classes and intro to engineering class. The honors classes seem to be a lot of work, but I think I'll be able to handle it. The profs seems to be really into the subject and know what they are doing and what to do to teach effectivly. Intro to engineering seems pretty cool too. We are going to be doing some hands-on projects like making a circuit board.

Today was alright too. UNIX programming is going to be pretty hard I think. Today I was totally lost on how to even start, but that's what the class is for I suppose. I stopped by Pistol Pizza for some lunch around 2:30 and say Kelsey as I was walking back to my dorm. It was nice seeming a familiar face that I'm not always around.

And yeah that's about it, no good ponderings to reflect upon at the moment either, maybe next time.


8/23/04, 11:00PM; First Day
Song: Pink Floyd - Echoes

So the first do classes starts out on a really bad step. (Some of you may have ready this)I go to the classroom that is written on the schedule. I'm there about 5 minutes before class starts. I look on the door and there are signs saying classes have moved. I notice one has moved to the Classroom Building rm. 112. Once I get over there (took about 10 mins to find) I look around find the class, but it's a psychology class, oops. I ask 2 people at a desk if they can help me, they do so by giving me 2 numbers to call. I call them, get put on hold a lot and even another number to call. All this to find out the class is in LSE 214, where the schedule says it is. So asking 2 people, calling 3 numbers, and wandering around the campus for 10 minutes later I find the classroom where I was originally. Kill me now. That's just the first class. The next class was a lot better on my part. I think I'm going to try and get out of it though and change into an english class, we'll see.

After classes I hung around here most of the day, ate a pretty good sammich for dinner and then watched Kill Bill Vol. 2. I do indeed like it better than the first one. Now I'm here, about to go to bed.


8/22/04, 10:45PM
Song: Bob Marley - Jamming

Well tomorrow is the first day of school. It should prove to be good, being the first day and all. I plan on getting to bed at a decent time (hoping for 11) but I'm not sure that will work out very well. This first is going to be hard though. Getting used to having classes and reminding myself what times I've got to go. I can do this.


8/21/04, 1:15AM
Song: Rush - Xanadu

Moved into OSU yesterday. It all went pretty smoothly, nothing too interesting though. The room is looking pretty nice too. The floor RA seems to be really cool and open about what he expects out of us. The floor itself seems to be good too. There are a lot of people that are into Halo and other various things. One of the guys on the 9th floor that is a SAM has heard of Porcupine Tree so he automatically is cool. I've got so many books, and they didn't even have one of them. There are 4 novel-type books for my honors history class. There are even 3 calc books, a big text book, a single variable book, and a multivariable. Been hanging out with people from B'ville mostly, I need to change that sometime. Enough about me, let's talk about you.


8/17/04, 11:10PM; 2
Song: Dream Theater - The Glass Prison

Earlier today I was thinking about an entry I could type up in here, but at the moment I don't feel like using it. It's another downer... Anyway I was watching the 4x200 relay tonight and it was sooo intenese. The spread at the start of the 4th swimmer was a second and a half in the US' favor, but we ended up winning by about .12 seconds, hardly anything. After that I saw the US team lose in gymnastics to Romania. Romania was really good. I also saw a Chinese girl fall flat on her face for her dismount off the uneven bars, I laughed a little because I knew there was plent of padding underneath.

My dad also showed me this list of 1000 songs his friend Steve hand chose for his top 1000 list. This list is massive and I can gladly say of the one's I've heard, they are ones I like. He also made a list of A+ songs, songs that come up on radio that you wouldn't change station. Of thoses songs, I knew and really liked about half of them. Since reading the lists I now want to hear some of them and even make one of my own. It took him about 7 months to get the complete list compiled, I figure I can do it in 1. Well, not really, it'd take a while there are so many songs I like, and so many I like but don't know the name of (or artist). Oh well, that's enough for this entry.


8/15/04, 1:00AM; 4
Song: 3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone

Moser notice the song. This entry is going to be random comments about things that I wnat to say.
I guess that's about it.


8/12/04, 11:30AM
Song: Weezer - Undone: The Sweater Song

Today I failed. I couldn't fix a computer (and it wasn't a networking problem). The computer had a virus (worm rather) called Xabot. The computer would only work for like 10 seconds outside of safe mode. I went into safe mode, messed around with random things for 4 hours trying to fix it. The computer didn't have any anti-virus nor could I install any onto it. I suggested they buy a new hard drive and reload Windows so they bought a new HD from Newegg.com. That's what I did today, and part of yesterday (I had them defrag the HD since it was 49% fragged). Umm, I've been playing a little bit more Doom 3 and getting this spiffy jDoom program working.

College is looking better and better as the days go by. I need a change from sitting around in this room all day long, (no offense) seeing the same people over and over again, and (not sure how to describe it) feeling obligated to do everything.

I'm starting to get irritated by people too. Hearing the quiet comments some people make, hearing the load ones people make, maybe it's just me but not everything needs to be commented on nor do is it everyone's business. I thinks it just me in my keep-to-yourself-and-out-of-others'-lives' attitude. If you don't like something you don't have to voice it just ignore/look away/leave/stop/etc.

This entry seems to go with my post on the 5th, misanthropic. (I've known that word for 2 years and I finally get to use it, yay). ~Fin


8/8/04, 6:40AM
Song: Liquid Tension Experiment - When the Water Breaks

Well since it's nearly 7 in the morning and I'm really bored, I decided I'd update this. I haven't been doing much of anything recently. One thing I have been doing though is playing Doom 3. It's such a fun and enthralling game. I'm about to the end of it already though (I think). Right now I'm at a LAN party and am the only one awake, not so sure if that's good or bad. This one wasn't as fun/good as the others have been. I still had fun. Got some new MP3s tonight they've been tagged/named for the most part already. I'll probably be heading home before too long to get some nice morning sleep.

I wish my website still worked. Every now and then I look at the hit counters that GeoCities provides and I still, after having taken down my site a year ago, average about 2 hits a day. Links to it are all over the internet from sites I didn't even know existed.

Later today if I get bored enough and don't feel like playing Doom (because I'm stuck at this really hard part) I'm going to make a playlist of my favorite songs. Not just songs I like either, but songs I think others could appreiciate as well. What good is a song if you are the only one that likes it? Well, I'm going to stop writing now, bye.


8/5/04, 1:00AM
Song: Yes - Arriving UFO

I just have to say this since I was just reminded of it again. (Disclaimer: This isn't just one person and no one should be offended). It seems like I'm always the answer man. It seems like I'm the one has to help with everything and remember everything. I'm the one that has to know how to do everything, how to get everything to work. Just today I've had to help about 5 people. Yes, I really do enjoy helping people in things that I can, sometimes people need to take some responsibilty to helping themselves. Some just need to try and experiment with a few things, and do some of their own "research." I don't always know the answers, I just try things that I think might work and what do you know, sometimes they do, most of the time they don't. Others need to find out certain things that they really should know and not just rely on me (or others) to always be there for them. On a kinda related note, I don't like giving out information about people that I don't they'd want shared. Privacy and stuff you know. I also don't like inviting people to things that aren't my planning, like get togethers, movie nights, copan/camping stuff. I don't know who all the original people are planning on and I know a lot of different people (as I'm sure they know several others too), if I was asked to invite people which groups do I ask or not ask, it's hard for me to decide. If someone asks what I'm doing and they don't know about it I don't like to tell them what I am doing. Say I was going over to Mike's house with a few select people to watch some movie, then say... Chris IMed me wanting to do stuff at the same time. In that situation I would not say I'm going over to Mike's to watch a movie with so-and-so.

Ok, I've wandered from the original reason for this post enough. Again, this is several people that brought these relizations to me, not just a few.


8/1/04, 11:40PM
Song: Ayreon - The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. Cocq

I'm insane, I'm going through and re-tagging all my mp3s. Overall it won't change how anything looks in Winamp (new version out) nor will I be renaming them. I'm just taking advantage of an option that Winamp has to display ID3 tag info inthe playlist. Ok enough of that, most of you probably don't care aoubt me re-tagging mp3s, oh well. That's about all I've done today. I'm about 1/3 done with it. The last 1/3 will take the longest.

This is the only interesting thing I've done all day.


8/1/04, 1:30PM
Song: Audioslave - Like a Stone

Wow it's already August.