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August 23, 2004

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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.