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Who needs history?
August 23, 2004
I'm not really big on updating my site anymore. I didn't
think I'd even stick to it this long, to tell the truth,
but hey its not like I've really been doing much on here
anyway. I've actually been working on my story a lot,
which I just remember now that I should really put stuff
about it on here. I still haven't touched the blog, as I
predicted when I put it up, but I don't feel like going
around to all the pages and changing the links around.
And really I've been more worried about my ap u.s.
history homework which I still haven't started. Funny,
the year hasn't even started and I'm already thinking
about dropping the class. History really isn't my thing.
I understand it needs to be taught and passed on thru
the generations and whatnot... but that's what, you
know, other people are for. Not me. I'm far more
interested in analyzing the history of Hyrule and
re-creating it in a sci-fi setting. Yes, I must get my
story on this site sometime soon. The intro, char bios
and the like. I just hope nobody tries to steal it from
me. Id hate to have to redo two and a half years of
work.
Moving on, I put a quiz up on quizmo, which I'm
considering redoing on quizilla because that seems to
keep quizzes more private. Anyway its a quiz on me.
Original concept, no? I admit, it was an act of boredom,
but its actually proved to be rather popular. If you
want, you can take it
here.
So far, the scores are:
kiefer- 135
lexi- 105
katie- 100
jess- 95
phil- 90
joel- 90
gambi- 75
zak- 65
That's out of 200, by the way, which means the highest
scorer has had a total of 67.5%. Nice. Jess has never
actually talked to me in person (thou I've heard she was
in my English class last year.. Proves how much I pay
attention) and her friend Katie has never even seen me
before. And then Zak, who I've known for two years, got
a 65. What did the girls do that's so special? They
looked over this purdyful site. Go figure.
I guess some of the questions are pretty simple, whereas
others take a little more brainpower or inside
information. Some questions are so far off the mark that
I decided to give them negative point values. You can
get a -60 if you try hard enough. If you want to have
your name on my site then take the quiz and tell me your
score, and maybe your name because I'm not good at
those. Then you can bask in the glory of having your
name on the internet. Niftyness.
And finally, I'm in the market for a girlfriend. No
really I'm serious. I've already met the girl of my
dreams. Literally. It just took me a long time to
realize that she hit the mark. Yes, creepy, but its the
truth (and if you don't believe me then ask Lexi, I
spilled my heart out a few months back, I'm sure she
remembers). But anyway she is quite taken and doesn't
care much for me much. I'm sure her boyfriend is just
looking for more reasons to hate me, and everybody likes
him so there's probably more than one conspiracy brewing
against me out there. Well all know how I feel about
conspiracies. I've never told her exactly how I felt,
but if I did she would probably just get a restraining
order so I'm not in any hurry. I'm not really worried
about her seeing this site because the cookies for it
were outdated on her pc when I was there last month (yes
I am a computer geek get over it), but
if she does then its not like it can get much worse for
me (please don't try to prove that wrong). Ok yea this
isn't the sort of thing I should go on about when I'm
claiming to look for someone, but if I do find that
there's somebody that likes me out there then, well,
let's see what happens.
So if you're interested, curious, bored, or looking for
a laugh, then take a peek at this
wanted ad I threw together last night. Id put it up
in my sidebar thingy but then id have to edit all the
pages and well, I already said I didn't feel like it. It
pretty much sums up what I'm looking for in a girl. I've
only met maybe two people that come close to fitting
that in my life. I'll bet you can guess half of them
(note the girl of my dreams remark above). I'll give a
cookie to anyone who can guess the other, which would be
harder because she doesn't fit the bill as close. And
please don't just refer me to people, because I'm not
good at the whole conversation initiation thing. And
keep in mind I'm a better talker through a keyboard than
vocal cords. With that said, I think I'm done. Two
paragraphs... seems like a lot for something that will
never happen :p
The best summer of 2004 I've ever had
August 6, 2004
The very day I last updated this page, I got hit by a fricken car. I had four stitches put in the
deepest part of a three inch gash that stretched from my eyebrow to my hairline where my face hit the windshield, five staples
put in gash on the back of my head from when I landed on the sidewalk, a deep cut on my foot that nobody at the hospital even
bothered to look at, a few seriously cut up fingers, and legs so scraped that I couldn't walk on them for days. Yup that was
the epitome of fun, I can tell you.
Since then, a few things have happened. Aside from my left index finger still being a little red and
swollen, the gash on my
ankle not being totally healed yet, and this bump on the back of my head that I don't think is ever going to go away, I'm
right as rain. That is, if you disregard my numerous new mental issues.
Fist and foremost, I'm afraid of cars now. I have panic attacks when I'm sitting in a car and I see somebody driving too fast,
someone riding their bike (especially if they're going up the wrong side of the fricken road, dumbasses), or if whoever is driving
me breaks too hard. Looks like I'm not getting my license for a while.
And then there's my other new problem. Aside from being afraid to leave the house, I seem
to have picked up an odd habit of being in a cheery mood. And by cheery I mean interacting better
with others, being more polite to people, having a very laid back attitude, and
maniacally
laughing at least once every 15 minutes (hehe it used to be more). I'm not sure whether to attribute this to getting hit on the
head too hard (twice they say, even thou I don't remember the first one) or the whole profound brush with mortality thing. My best
bet is that it's a combination of considering myself to be amazingly lucky (I'm still alive here people, no
permanent injury)
and that my outlook on life got so low that I didn't believe that it was possible I could feel any worse (yes there is more to this
that I am leaving out, deal with it) and so it could only get better for me from that point on.
Whatever the case may be, It seems I am a now a better (and more insane, remember the laugh?) person who is afraid to leave his
house. Does that fit the definition of irony? Anyway, my ipod survived the crash, dad lifted a new bike for me from the dump, and
I'm more than healed enough to start going out again. The question is when will I get off my ass and do it? It's
a lot safer sitting
here and playing assorted half-life mods. Oh! I'm one of the world's top DMC players now!! YES for being afraid to leave
my computer! Go mental issues! HAHAHA!!!
So
wtf does Ket Xi mean anyway?
July 3, 2004
I get this a lot... Well, if you people really want to
know where my name came from, you have to have at least
a slight videogame background. Cait Sith, the robotic
fortune telling cat piloting a magical stuffed moogle
from the best game ever, Final Fantasy VII, is actually
pronounced Ket Shee. Now, when I saw that, I thought it
was a pretty cool name that only people into the game at
least as much as me would get, but where did the Xi come
from? Nowhere, actually. I was sitting at my table in
the caffeteria listening to a few of my friends go over
the geography of China for a quiz they were about to
take. When they came to the Xi river, no one could
pronounce it (because they aren't exactly the sharpest
knives in the drawer). When one of them looked it up and
said it was pronounced Shee, I actually started paying
attention. I immediately wrote Ket Xi down in my sorry
excuse for an electronic organizer (yes, in pencil). Now
my handwriting isn't the best in the world (some say I
should be a doctor), but it turns out that the name
looked so cool and unique when I wrote it down, I just
had to have it.
I didn't quite start using it as a screen name until
much later, though. I first started really using it when
I was writing my story (hey, there's another thing I can
use this site for!). Its pretty lengthy, so I'll spare
the details. Anyway, I used Ket Xi as a name for one of
the characters, because it had twisted videogame origins
(yes, that is actually relevant in the story, I'll go
into that later). I picked it up as a screen name more
because of his character in the story rather than its
own origins, but yea, more on that later as I said. I
only recently shifted my aim, msn, and e-mail sn's to
it, despite having the name with me for a year and a
half. What really pissed me off was that the aim sn 'Ket
Xi' was already taken. wtf is up with that? I did a
google search one day for my name, and the only english
listing that came up was a TFC stats page from when I
was playing under Ket Xi a few months before.
Ok, enough of that. Now you know the story. Now about
the site. Since I last made this page, I've added like
all the pages that are here other than the blog (which
I've barely touched) to it. My complaining about the
template was from I first started constructing this
page, and I already got that down, so I was never
actually complaining about the one that everyone was
seeing (trust me, it was alot more hideous). I've added
a little page on SS, a gallery of some of my icons and
cs sprays, a random page where I can rant once every
couple weeks, and a random bio complete with my picture.
As for the possibility of a forum, I'm saying no at the
moment. Maybe a guestbook if I feel so inclined. I'm
afraid if I do, people will start asking why my name is
ket 11 and that's just not cool. Thank you for your time
and have a nice day.
Testing... 1, 2, 3
June
28, 2004
After months of absolutely no online presence, I have
finally returned with this one crappy excuse for a
website. Originally, I more or less wanted a place
online where I can upload files (I can't live without my
custom cs sprays down at monster golf), but in thinking,
I realized that I could use this site for a lot more
than just storage.
I already started to put up a blog, even thou I'm
afraid that I'll never stick with it. Instead of a
journal, I'll probably start using it as a personal
editorial that I can rant and rave on when I have
nothing better to do. I might also post some of my
logged chats from time to time, because I have over 10
megs of them on my pc from the past few years, and
they're really just going to go to waste if I don't do
something with them.
I might also end up putting up a forum, more or less
because I have so many floating around the internet
right now with nobody posting anything on them, but I'll
wait till later to do anything of that sort...
Oh, one more thing. My icons! Yes... I needed a place
to keep the aim icons and other assorted photo work I do
for people. Something like a portfolio I suppose. And I
think I'll openly advertise my services here too... But
I'm not just yet, wait till you see a flashy banner ad
somewhere on my page that offers it. Then I think I'll
put up a form for people to fill out... oh, the
prospects of practicing my html suddenly got so much
brighter.
Am I done for now? I think so... I REALLY need to get
this template worked on some thou. Angelfire's layouts
are crappy and I'm too lazy to come up with my own. I
need to find some nice ones made by slightly more
productive and artistic people than myself to steal. In
the interim, we'll all have to settle for this that you
see now.
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