Sweet Summertime (NOT)
Leave it to me to make myself a promise of more blogging and then just completely forget about it. Yeah, I’m good like that. But I haven’t really had much time to blog anyways with school ending and the summer starting. I’m still trying to get the finishing details of my job/internship hammered out (though I’ve already started working). That, on top of the fact that my grandmother is pretty sick and I feel like I should be home all the time to help out my mom, I’ve just been stretched a bit too thin. This past weekend was a welcomed break from all the stress and rushing around. But now I think that I’m getting sick: aka NOT GOOD.
As somewhat of an aside, I just wanted to let you know, pretty soon I’m going to be starting up paid blogging. Now before anybody jumps on me as a hypocrite or a sell-out, I should probably explain the whole situation. I’m not going to be endorsing products, or inserting unwanted oddly-linked words into my posts. I’m just going to be blogging. It won’t be here at pyrowinter though (but I’m attempting to figure out how to syndicate posts from Wordpress MU to Wordpress so that they will show up here). I’ll be blogging about my summer living and working down here at Juniata. I can blog as much or as little as I want to, and my choice of topic is 100% up to me. Maybe it will also remind me to blog more here too.
Other than feeling blah and being crazy busy, I’ve gotten to see a couple movies over the past few days. We went to see Made of Honor, What Happens in Vegas, and The Chronicles of Narnia last week and all of them were pretty good. Narnia was MUCH better than I expected it to be, but now I’m kinda blah after what I heard on the radio Saturday. There was some dumb news lady talking about how they’re already filming the third movie in the Chronicles of Narnia trilogy. It wouldn’t have been so bad if she had not acted like this was just another Lord of the Rings thing and that there are ONLY three parts. Chronicles of Narnia is a 7-book series. It’s bad enough that they skipped the first book when making movies, but now they’re only making the ones with the kids in them? I can understand why, but way to kill a series people: skip all the good stuff.
I guess I’m going to take off now. I’ve got a lot of work to be doing. But on a complete side note, don’t freak out if you try to comment and it doesn’t show up right away. If you do, that just means that I’ve decided to moderate comments. I’ve gotten a couple of obnoxious / borderline spam comments here the past couple of days, and I don’t feel like having that shit cluttering these pages since people I know / my family reads this page.
P.S. Got my grades and somebody is finally back on Dean’s List
Marketing Strategies - A
Cyber Marketing - A
Innovations for Industry - A
Project Management - A
Quantitative Methods - A-
Technical Writing - B
Can It Get Any Worse?
Just when you think you’re on a roll and things are going your way for once… That’s when life hits you with that proverbial “fuck you” pie and then laughs when you go blind. Yeah, it laughs at you. Or well I’m pretty sure thats what the hacker is/was doing when (s)he completely dashed my hopes of getting a good grade on my Marketing Strategies project.
Yep, that’s right kiddies. The Whitters got hax0rd. I made a mistake, and this time my project got fucked for it. Now our backend deliverable for the project is completely undeliverable because I know it isn’t safe, and at the moment, I don’t know why. So today after our presentation, I am basically removing myself from my group and offering myself up as a sacrifice to the powers that be in hopes that they will take pity on my group members. We’re still delivering a pretty spectacular front-end website and a promise that I will personally fix and deliver the backend to them ASAP.
Here’s to hoping that they pity me. Or at least my group. I don’t want them going down for something that I did.
Geeky Friday #2 - Upgrades and Sim-Gods
I haven’t really talked about it with anybody, but the Sama is building a new computer. So far it looks absolutely amazing with all its pretty LED lights (red and blue) and colored fans. Problem is, the RAM he bought has heat-syncs on it, and therefore won’t fit into the motherboard because the card slots are underneath the external CPU fan that he bought. He was going to send the RAM back to NewEgg, but I came up with a better solution for it.
Since I got my new laptop, I’ve slowly been falling out of love with my desktop simply because the laptop is much more powerful. It has a bigger hard drive, more RAM, etc. The only thing my desktop beats it as is CPU speed in GHz. But now my desktop is a little better, because instead of having Sama send back his RAM, I put it into my computer. Now instead of a measly 1G of RAM (NO WONDER WOW RAN SO SLOW), I’ve got 2.5 and I am a happy Whitters. I’m also planning on purchasing another hard drive to slave in my desktop.. That is unless I can convince the Sama to build me a new computer too *hint hint*
Other than physical computer life, my virtual life has shifted gears too. My roommate Amy has once again gotten me addicted to Sims, but thats okay because I got her back by re-introducing her to NeoPets (yes, I’m evil). But I finally updated my collection of expansions so now the only things that I am lacking are the Family Fun, and Kitchen Stuff Packs. I have all the expansions, and let me tell you Bon Voyage and Free Time are absolutely AWESOME! I love being able to send my Sims on a nice vacation before I smite them. Wait, did I say smite? I mean cherish and adore!
And since no Geeky Friday can be complete without some shameless endorsements, I’d recommend that ANY Sim-head whose into custom content to check out Mod The Sims 2 and Decorgal for some absolutely awesome custom content. I’m also planning on putting up some of the paid custom content that I’ve downloaded on here (since selling custom content is against EA TOS so I really don’t care about the developers TOS) soon.