Photoshop
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Life
I just downloaded a free trial of Adobe's Photoshop CS, and I've made a couple of images so far. The first one is a sig for my Socom clan's forum:

My second image is a new company logo...It looks ok, but still needs lots of work...I have a couple of other ideas as well, but I'm still trying to learn PS.

There may be hockey this season...
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Sports
Well, I read the other day that the NHLPA made an offer to the league which included a cut in players' contracts by 24%!! If the union is offering 24%, how much are they really willing to cut them by?

Now the league just needs to make a counter offer, and get something going!! But at least they are talking again.

FSU SUCKS!!!
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Grad School
Anyone thinking of going to FSU...please do yourself a favor...DON'T!

The window to register for next semester is already closed! This semester isn't even over yet, and they won't let you register for next semester. Am I the only one that thinks that is absolutely stupid?

So now I have to pay a penalty for not meeting their idiotic deadline. A year an a half cannot go by fast enough as far as I'm concerned. I also think that after Margarita and I are done with school, we will be leaving Tallyhole ASAP! Perhaps the next day!!!

God this town sucks ass!

GET OFF MY PHONE!!!
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Work
I had a rather fun phone call the other day at work. Went something like this:

I go through my opening schpeel, and the caller gives me his name, age, & address in about 5 or 6 seconds...I guess he thought that I'm a speed writer! Anyway, he then proceeds to give me his 5 minute story on why he called...now we have a target talk time goal of 5 minutes total...so this guy's story already has me over time for the call. But then when I was trying to give him a web address and search term...it took 4 minutes to get him to understand and properly spell the word "tutorial"!!!

I said it the first time, and he responded "pictorial?" I responded "no tutorial"...then there was a pause, so spelled it phonetically, "Tango...Uniform...Tango...Oscar...Romeo...Igloo...Alpha...Lima". Now he responded "tucorial?" and he even said "Tango...Uniform...Charlie..." At this point I put my head in my hands and just wanted to cry! It took me the rest of the four minutes to get him to get it right.

I just love calls like that! <----that was extreme sarcasm in case you didn't know

Going....Going....Gone!!
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Grad School
Well, my first semester at grad school is pretty much over...all that I have left is to finish the final part of one report.

Reflecting on the past semester, I realize that I don't know that I learned a whole heck of a lot. One class was pretty much a joke, and was thought to be a waste of time by pretty much every student in there. My other class was simply a grad level course of a class I had in undergrad, while I did learn a few things in this class, I'd have to say overall, it was mostly review.

I'm hoping that the rest of my classes will offer a little bit more in terms of new, relevant material to my future career in IT.

On the bright side, I did meet some nice people, and some I'll see next semester. I also know of a few people that I don't want in any future group projects I have to do...and a few that I DO want!

Fat 'n Happy
Mood:  happy
Topic: Life
Well, Thanksgiving is over...but the leftovers keep on comin!!

Not that I'm complaining...'cause I like Thanksgiving leftovers and all but, I tend to eat too much 'cause it's so good.

It is starting to get cool here in Tallyhole...44* this morning when I got up. I don't like it, really. Florida should be warm...year round damn it!!

Get over it!!
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: Politics
Can some one please tell me why in the hell there are still ads on websites about the dang election?! It's over...Bush won, if you don't like it, move!

All these celebrities whine and complain about Bush and the Republicans...here's a note from mainstream America..."SHUT UP ALREADY!"

In case you didn't see the county-by-county map, check the previous Political post. America isn't liberal...never has been, hopefully it never will be! If you live here and feel the urge to change the US into a liberal country, just move somewhere where all the hard work has been done for you. You want government sponsored and run health care, move to Canada or Europe and rot while waiting to get an appointment. You don't like the rich? Tough crap, there are always gonna be people with more than you...either work harder to become one of them or shut up about it!



Ok, well I do feel a little better now. Thanks.

UF vs FSU
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Sports
That was a great game...this town will be so much more fun now that they lost to the Gators!! An unranked Gators team no less!!

And then today the Bucs finally put a full game together and stomped the 49ers. That was a fun game to watch too, although the game was never really in question.

More group fun...
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Grad School
Ok, so anyone that has been reading this knows that I've been having oh so much fun this semester with my group projects.

Well...it gets even better. My new group has a Brain Dead member, let's just call him BD. First, he apparently doesn't understand that when we say that we need his part in order to build a protoype for the presentation, that it actually means that we can't build the prototype until we get his part!! He was supposed to send us his part by last Friday...come Saturday, he still had not sent it, and was not answering his phones. We finally got something from him late Sunday. So Monday night I met the other half-a-brain of my group, and we put together the prototype.

Then I found out on Monday that BD turned in a copy of our deliverable without ever looking at it. He apparently missed the notes that we had been making to each other on it...notes that obviously should have been deleted before turning it over to the professor for a grade.

Thank God that this semester is almost over and I'll be rid of this group...er class! The rest of the group isn't bad really, in fact the girl in this group is paired with me in my other class for our group project...and we get along well...she is a hard worker and does a decent job.

Crunch Time
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Grad School
Well, my first semester of grad school is almost over...and that means that my projects are all coming due.

So...it is very possible that I will not be making many posts in the near future..."like you normally post regularly" I'm sure you're thinking.

Halloween costume contest
Mood:  silly
Topic: Work
We had a little costume contest at work...and I won third place, which came with a $30 Outback gift certificate. I think that since I had only worked there for less than a month, it was more of a popularity contest...cause some chick that dressed up as "Lint girl" won first place.

Anyway, my pic

Map
Mood:  happy
Topic: Politics
Wow...did you see the county-by-county map for the election??

Check out this one from 2000

And then this one from 2004

And the best part is...the Dems think that they need to move even further to the left in order regain power!! It looks pretty obvious to me that the country has pretty much rejected liberal "values" and that the traditional values that this country was founded on are making a strong comeback.

We also have proved to the terrorists, and countries like Spain, that we will not be intimidated by a few wack jobs...even wack jobs with bombs!

Is Bush perfect, absolutley not...but he is 100's of times better than Kerry...or anyone else that ran for the Democratic nomination for that matter. And, when Bush says something...you KNOW that he will try to actually do it! I saw somewhere online, a story who's headline read "Bush may not be able to keep all of his promises." No crap, really?? But he will keep most of them. That is better than most politicians.

New group
Mood:  bright
Topic: Grad School
Well, it took nearly a month for the professor to decide he wanted to stick me in another group and abandon my project. He actually told me last week...I think.

So, I'm in my new group...it so far it isn't horrible. Although...and this is a scary thing...apparently, I am the grammar and English expert in the group. I started reading the first three deliverables that this group had turned in, and found myself making simple changes....like using their instead of there. You know, stuff you learn in grade school.

There is one other person in the group who has already told me that I will have to be the second half of the brain for the group...and so far I'd have to agree.

I need some hockey already!!!
Topic: Sports
I was forced to watch a replay of game 5 of the 2004 NHL Eastern Conference Finals last night during some of the early election returns. It's kinda funny, even though I knew that the Lightning won the game, I still found myself feeling nervous while I watched the game.

Damn...I need some fresh hockey soon!

It's OVER!!!
Mood:  party time!
Topic: Politics
Wow...my wife and I stayed up until around 2:15 watching the returns until we just couldn't take it anymore. Then this morning we heard that Kerry was finally going to concede...Whew! I now have at least a little bit of respect for Kerry for recognizing that he wasn't going to win, and not dragging out the whole lawyer debacle that Gore put us through last time.

I did find it rather funny when the exit polling was showing that Kerry would win...and the stock market tanked! And then this morning when it was known that Kerry was going to concede, the market shot up!! Now what does that tell you??