Now Broadcasting From My iPhone... For Today Anyway

So yes, I now have an iPhone. The black, 16GB, 3G version to be exact. And yes I am enjoying it very much but I do miss my Verizon service :(

Anyway, I felt that I needed to have an updated post becuase some interesting things have happened recently. I suppose I'll start with the older news first.

My old roommate and I are friends again and we actually get along better than we did before we were roommates. He lives up in Lewisville now with some other friends of his which I am also becoming friends with because of how much time I have been spending up there. We went to Six Flags 2 weeks ago with a few of his roommates and had a lot of fun. He's also gotten me back into playing WoW again (I know, I'm a nerd). So things with friends are going pretty good lately.

Something else kinda interesting happened last night too. I received an IM from Carmen after not hearing from her for a couple months. I know, I was surprised too. She had some interesting news. She mentioned something about a baby and when I questioned her about the baby, she said "oh, I thought you knew. I'm pregnant." I was really surprised. Maybe I shouldn't have been, but the fact that her and her soon to be ex-husband have been having marital trouble since January is why I was surprised. Now for some reason after she told me that she was pregnant I was really turned off by her, but I can't put my finger on exactly why. Anyway, I congratulated her for the baby and then said that I was tired and going to bed. I just didn't really feel like talking to her anymore. I really didn't go to bed though. Instead I was up thinking about how/why I could love someone like that. I can honestly say now that I definitely don't have the same feelings for her that I once did.

Well, my battery is at 20% now. I suppose I should finish this post up and get to my charger.

Until next time.

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1 Month...

Wow. It has almost been one whole month since my last post. It is entirely because of my laziness, if you hadn't guessed that already. Since there has been such a big gap since my last post, I am not exactly sure what to write about. I suppose I could give a quick run down of what I have been up to and maybe highlight a few things. Yeah, I'll do that.

First things first, if anyone has been wondering, I did get a cat. She was 4 months old when I got her and she is a Domestic Short Hair Tabby and her name is Roxy. She is very playful and likes to chase flies. That same week was the week that I started back at school.

I am only taking 7 credits this semester because that is all I need to get my diploma. My classes are physical education, American literature, government and introduction to digital media. So the semester shouldn't be too difficult. So far I an doing decent. I have about a B average in my classes except for my digital media class where I have an A average.

I have also bought a new rc car. This time it's a 1/18th scale buggy from DuraTrax called the Vendetta. It is pretty quick for how small it is but I still want it faster. I have already bought a better battery for it, 7.4V 1500mAh, and am looking into getting a new electronic speed control and motor from Castle Creations. For my other car, I installed a new 1st gear in the transmission along with another set of wheels and tires.

What else...

I am now a member of 24 Hour Fitness and go to the gym to workout three times a week after I get off work. I have been doing that for about a month and haven't lost a pound. Instead I have gained about 7 to a total of ~182 pounds. One of my goals by doing this was to get my weight back down to about 165 by my birthday which is turning into quite a challenge that I may not be able to accomplish.

More recently I went to the Hot Import Nights Car Show at the Dallas Convention Center. Even though I went by myself, I still had a great time. There were a lot of very nice cars (Supra's, M3's, NSX's, Evo's, etc.) and some very nice girls too. I took about 160 pictures, some video and bought a couple of things while I was there. I don't have the video uploaded anywhere yet but my pictures are up on both my Flickr and Picasa pages.

And this past weekend was also very fun too. On Friday I left work early to go to the House Of Blues in Dallas for a concert. I took my brother with me and we saw The Ting Tings (funny name, great artist). We both only knew of two songs of theirs but after the concert, because they were so good (better than Cute Is What We Aim For concert), we liked them all. So I bought their cd, We Started Nothing, and have been listening to it like crazy. Then on Saturday I drove out to Grand Prairie to Lone Star Park for the Suzuki Ride and Drive event. I was very surprised when I got there because I was expecting it to be very busy and crowded. Because it wasn't busy at all, I was able to get started right away on my driving. I had the opportunity to drive the XL.7, Grand Vitara and both the SX4 Crossover and SX4 Sport. The event consisted of three courses where you were able to drive the cars and see how they performed under more intense conditions. The guys there were so cool that one of them even took the time to teach me how to drive a manual transmission. Overall, I really enjoyed the whole thing. Plus they had some free stuff for me; a hat, bag, tire pressure gauge and of course a catalog of Suzuki's vehicles. The best part about it was that it was absolutely free.

Well, I guess that's the gist of what has been going on lately. Still, I am very sorry about no posts. I am going to go with the excuse that school work is getting in the way. Oh, and so is Wii Sports... yes, I also bought a Wii. Walmart finally had some in stock and I went there right away when I found out.

Anyway, more posts soon... maybe?

Sorta New Things

At the end of last week, during work, out of no where I had the urge to play Final Fantasy. But not any Final Fantasy, I wanted to play FFVII (for those that don't understand Roman Numerals, that's FF7). I had never had the chance to actually beat that game before because I never owned it. So I thought that I would pull out my Playstation (the original one) and find a copy of FFVII on Ebay or Craigslist.

I get my Playstation out, plug it all in, and put in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (the first one) to make sure that everything is still in working order. Which it was for the most part. The console over the years has seemed to have quit reading memory cards... no bueno. Plus my controllers don't exactly work the best either. So I figured that I could just buy another Playstation as well.

I find a Playstation on Ebay for $2.50 and end up winning the auction at $8.50, which really wasn't that bad of a deal. Now to find a Final Fantasy. This was easier than I thought, just not as cheap as I thought. Games were ranging anywhere from $30 to $130. Practically falling over in my chair, I checked over at CL to see what people had there and to see if I could find a better price. I was able to find one at $50 that is pretty close to my house. And being impatient, I dealt with the higher price to have the game now. So then all I had to wait on was my Playstation.

And so my Playstation arrived today. W00T! It looks to be in nice condition, about the same as mine... but it still reads memory cards, yay. It also came with two memory cards, two analog controllers and the necessary cables. Only thing is that it smells a little of cigarettes, one of the memory cards is for Playstation 2 and one of the analog sticks on each of controllers are damaged... ooops, more than one thing. Oh, and here is the link to my unboxing pictures and a few others.

Yay. I almost forgot, I think I might get a cat tomorrow. I will tell you about it if I get it, tomorrow.

Quick

Just a quick little write up.

I was just reading over some of my RSS/Atom subscriptions and came across something I would much rather have preferred to never read. I don't think I want to quote what it said but I can tell you how it made me feel.

Very sad. Yes. And it came from one single sentence. It even happened before I finished reading that one sentence. It was like suddenly being stabbed (or something like that). It was so sad even, that I am beginning to feel depressed. Why? Because I know that I could have done something about it. But instead, I chose to do nothing. So maybe I deserve the sadness? I am leaning towards the fact that this is something that I do deserve because of the poor choice(s) that I have made in my life. I guess it is the price that I must pay, but it will be something that I must deal with forever. That is how long the consequences of me not making the one most right choice of my life will be.

I am not exactly sure what to do now. I want to unsubscribe from that feed. But at the same time stay subscribed because maybe it was a bad joke. Then again...

Even stranger, not really (makes sense to me), is that now I have an even stronger disliking of Texas and wish that I had never moved here. Maybe I will write about this more. Maybe not. It is not something that I really want to remember, so I really don't want to look back at this blog years from now and experience the same feelings again.

So much for "Quick".

First Day Of School

Yet again, it is the first day of school. By now I am very tired of this. It is such an old, and now boring, feeling. Although, I am getting a few laughs because of the large amount of lost people. Because this is the beginning of the Fall semester, there are a lot of new students to the school, and what appears to be more than usual. There is actually a guy that is standing over in a corner just helping people find their classroom. I am assuming that he is a student just waiting for his class to begin, like what I am doing now.

Besides those lost students, the classes that I am taking this semester have too many books, hah. Especially my American Literature class. I have three books just for that class. Three heavy books. I guess that makes up for two of my other classes that don't require any books. Maybe I shouldn't be complaining.

Other than school. A couple interesting this happened this past weekend. I guess it deserves to be interesting though seeing that it is the last weekend of Summer, not literally of course. Most of all of the interesting things happened yesterday. I'll just go through the timeline of yesterday.

First, I slept in till about 10:00 or so and then took a shower and got ready to go to Wal-Mart. Haha, that makes me laugh, "getting ready to go to Wal-Mart." My brother and I went to Wal-mart to get a 5-pack of 8cm DVD's that we had hid the day before because they were the last pack on sale and we didn't want to wait in the ridiculously long lines. So we got our DVD's, and then we went to the back of the store to check to see if they had any Wii's in stock. Sure enough, they didn't. Instead of buying a Wii, I bought a new video camera. It's decent. It is very small, records onto SD cards and has a long battery life. After that, we had to get my brothers practice gear and meet him at the park because he spent the night at a friends house. When that was all said and done, it was time for me to get gas. On the way to get the gas, I found a turtle! Crazy! Since the turtle was some type of water turtle, I returned him to a nearby pond. Hopefully that made him happy.

Class starts soon. Later.