Yeah, I know it's not Friday, but I don't remember if I posted last Friday (I'll check after this, of course), and even if I did, what's the hurt in posting again? Anyway today is December 31st, the last day of 2014, and I've actually got a pretty decent "Resolutions List" thought up, and I am definitely considering acting on them. This post is mostly meant for that, as well as a little bit about how this past year went. It's 11:24 PM, so I've got a little over a half hour before 2015 rolls through, which leaves me with plenty of time to do this.
Anyway, we might as well get started with this list and enjoy the last bits of 2014 while they're still here.
- Work out with my Iron Gym every day of the week
- Work on getting rid of both my warts at least every other day
- Do homework more often and take a little more time for studying
- Calm down more for Packer games, and football games in general (for real)
- Ween off of cracking my knuckles
- Try out different hairdos, see which ones I like and work best with how my hair lays
I think that's the bulk of it, really. It's now 11:30 PM, a half hour left of the year. I gotta say, it's not been a half bad year. A lot has happened, and a lot is yet to come. I graduated from high school in June, I worked at Mantz Automation - where I did my co-op over my senior year - full-time over the summer, but then quit in the middle of August due to college, I had a graduation party at the end of June and a crap-ton of people showed up, our old shed that was sort of connected to our barn finally fell in shortly before graduation, was then cleaned up a couple months later, I started and currently work at Scenic View Country Club in Slinger as a dishwasher (not a great job, but not bad either, really easy , decent pay), I started college at WCTC (Waukesha County Technical College), I finished my first semester with a completed 19 credits and a 3.1 GPA, I went to the 87th National FFA Convention & Expo for the second consecutive year with the 2014 National FFA Band, I got an awesome desktop PC that works really well for gaming and for my schooling, I got a nice laptop that I can use at school and get more work done and I am now sitting at home, on my couch, watching TV, waiting to "ring in" the new year, 2015. It's been another long haul, but I'll have to be ready for what 2015 has in store for me.
Whether this next year has new relationships coming, a better job in the summer, maybe switching what I'm going to school for, who knows, you never know. I'm pretty ready to take on what's coming (I hope... haha), but I'll be enjoying these last moments of 2014 as well, like I always do at the end of each year. But alright, it's less than 15 minutes away from the New Year, I'd say that about wraps it up for this final post of 2014. Until next time (probably Friday), have a good New Year's everyone. Stay safe and party hard!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
Missed a week, but Christmas!
Well I unfortunately skipped/forgot about last week's posting, but oh well. Yesterday was Christmas, and I got a lot of cool stuff. I got a new mouse for my computer that works really well, I got a new laptop alongside my current desktop (so I can bring it to school with me and work on it there instead of use their shitty and slow PCs), I got 3 new Xbox 360 games, some nice clothes, a neat fake marshmallow-shooting gun, the annual coin collection from my grandparents, some money and a 2015 Green Bay Packer calendar. Now that I think about it, I actually got way more than I realized I did. I only ordered myself 7 different items that I knew I'd be getting, but I was given several other gifts from my sisters and parents that I didn't know I'd be getting.
I'm currently waiting on a download for iTunes to finish up on my new laptop. It's a Lenovo G50-70, with Windows 8.1. I looked long and hard for a decent laptop that had Windows 7 on it, but I decided to plunge into the world of Windows 8 and see how it does for me. So far I'm not hating it, but I miss Windows 7 a little bit. 8 definitely has some cooler features, like switching between apps quickly, closing apps out, scrolling with just the touchpad (laptop-only, I'd assume), being able to put apps side-by-side (and the desktop is considered an app, so you can even put that on the side), and some other stuff I'm sure I'll learn of along the way. I've got about 10 minutes left on the iTunes download, and then later tonight I'll start downloading AutoCAD and get that ready to set up on here.
I knew yesterday was gonna go by really fast. Christmas Eve, to me, honestly, didn't really feel that much like Christmas Eve. Sure, I knew it was Christmas Eve, but it just didn't really seem any different to me like it did in previous years. Even yesterday, Christmas Day, didn't seem completely different either. It's not like I don't appreciate these holidays anymore, it just went by so quickly that it's like I hardly had time to appreciate it. Oh well, I've still got the Alumni Pep band, New Year's Eve, hanging out with some friends and other things to look forward to still before I begin my second semester of college, which starts on January 16th.
The thing I like a lot about this laptop is that the keyboard isn't sticking a half inch out from the laptop itself, like some are, and so your typing on it isn't so annoyingly loud after a while, it's a lot quieter and easy to work with. I don't know if that was the right word choice, but I don't really care. Anyway, that download as just around 6 minutes left, so I'll probably finish this up now, wait for that to be done and then work on some other shtuff. Until next week!
I'm currently waiting on a download for iTunes to finish up on my new laptop. It's a Lenovo G50-70, with Windows 8.1. I looked long and hard for a decent laptop that had Windows 7 on it, but I decided to plunge into the world of Windows 8 and see how it does for me. So far I'm not hating it, but I miss Windows 7 a little bit. 8 definitely has some cooler features, like switching between apps quickly, closing apps out, scrolling with just the touchpad (laptop-only, I'd assume), being able to put apps side-by-side (and the desktop is considered an app, so you can even put that on the side), and some other stuff I'm sure I'll learn of along the way. I've got about 10 minutes left on the iTunes download, and then later tonight I'll start downloading AutoCAD and get that ready to set up on here.
I knew yesterday was gonna go by really fast. Christmas Eve, to me, honestly, didn't really feel that much like Christmas Eve. Sure, I knew it was Christmas Eve, but it just didn't really seem any different to me like it did in previous years. Even yesterday, Christmas Day, didn't seem completely different either. It's not like I don't appreciate these holidays anymore, it just went by so quickly that it's like I hardly had time to appreciate it. Oh well, I've still got the Alumni Pep band, New Year's Eve, hanging out with some friends and other things to look forward to still before I begin my second semester of college, which starts on January 16th.
The thing I like a lot about this laptop is that the keyboard isn't sticking a half inch out from the laptop itself, like some are, and so your typing on it isn't so annoyingly loud after a while, it's a lot quieter and easy to work with. I don't know if that was the right word choice, but I don't really care. Anyway, that download as just around 6 minutes left, so I'll probably finish this up now, wait for that to be done and then work on some other shtuff. Until next week!
Friday, December 12, 2014
Phew, almost forgot!
Nearly forgot about a blog post today. I had to rush over to WCTC this morning to meet up with some friends of mine and work on class work, and I slept in until 9:30 and was supposed to be there at 10:00, so I didn't get there till 10:20... but I still got work done nonetheless! And now after today, I only have two days of classes left, and just 3 classes in those two days. Tech. Drafting is on Monday and Manufacturing Process - Hot and Descriptive Geometry are on Tuesday. I took my math exam last Wednesday, so now that class is all done with, and I have just one class on Monday, which is awesome. I can't wait until next Tuesday is over and my first semester is done - it's gonna feel so good to have all that amount of weight that I still kinda have right now on my shoulders off of them in a few short days. I managed to finish up my Arbor Press drawings, and I just need to print out the "All Separate Parts" and the "Arbor Press Detail" drawings on a C-Size sheet of paper after the test on Monday, along with the first reverse engineering project we did, which dealt with a smaller rectangular object.
Tomorrow I'm dishwashing for a church event that starts at 11, and I have to be there at 10:30, so it shouldn't be too big of a shift. The event ends at 3, and I sometimes am able to leave shortly before the event itself is over, so it's not gonna be a long day at all, maybe 4 hours at the most. I'd rather have it be something like that than it be a big 150-person wedding and I have to be in at 5, those can get to be pretty long nights. But anywho, the one person I know pretty well who dishwashed alongside me quit two weeks ago tomorrow since she is looking for a job related to her schooling now, and my other two cousins are gonna be quitting there as well soon (at the end of this month) since the one is graduating from college and will be looking for a better job and the other is starting at a bigger college and won't be able to work anymore. I'm wondering if they're gonna look for some people to fill those two positions or if they would move me to that stuff. I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, I'd be helping prepare food for the dinners and whatnot, but I also would be happy staying on dishwashing, since it's just so damn easy. I mean, besides having to go through the bar area from time to time, it's really not that bad.
Well, it's about 11:25 PM, and I'd like to be up by 8 AM tomorrow so I have plenty of time to not be late for work at 10:30, so I'd say that'll about do it for this post. I know it's not as long as the other posts (That's what she said.) but I'm kinda tired, it's late, and I'd like to get up on time for once. Until next week (maybe?)!
Tomorrow I'm dishwashing for a church event that starts at 11, and I have to be there at 10:30, so it shouldn't be too big of a shift. The event ends at 3, and I sometimes am able to leave shortly before the event itself is over, so it's not gonna be a long day at all, maybe 4 hours at the most. I'd rather have it be something like that than it be a big 150-person wedding and I have to be in at 5, those can get to be pretty long nights. But anywho, the one person I know pretty well who dishwashed alongside me quit two weeks ago tomorrow since she is looking for a job related to her schooling now, and my other two cousins are gonna be quitting there as well soon (at the end of this month) since the one is graduating from college and will be looking for a better job and the other is starting at a bigger college and won't be able to work anymore. I'm wondering if they're gonna look for some people to fill those two positions or if they would move me to that stuff. I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, I'd be helping prepare food for the dinners and whatnot, but I also would be happy staying on dishwashing, since it's just so damn easy. I mean, besides having to go through the bar area from time to time, it's really not that bad.
Well, it's about 11:25 PM, and I'd like to be up by 8 AM tomorrow so I have plenty of time to not be late for work at 10:30, so I'd say that'll about do it for this post. I know it's not as long as the other posts (That's what she said.) but I'm kinda tired, it's late, and I'd like to get up on time for once. Until next week (maybe?)!
Friday, December 5, 2014
BOOM. I remembered.
Well yay to me for finally remembering to do this on a Friday. I've been forgetting to post on Fridays for the past 2 weeks, so I figured I'd make a point of getting it right this time around, which I have. And some crazy things are happening now - my first semester of college is nearly complete! My break starts on the 16th and goes for a whole month, and I have just a week and two days left of classes. Technically, if you only count the days I actually have class, it's 6 days left, so not quite a continuous week, but it's still pretty damn exciting. The Packers are also in first place in the NFC North, so that's exciting. They play the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night next week at Lambeau field, so that'll be a pretty easy game. The Packers are 9-3 and the Falcons are 5-7, so I'm sure we'll send their sorry asses back home. I'm feeling like it might be another 50-point blowout, and I hope it is. Their games against the Bears and the Eagles were complete landslides (55-14 and 53-20 respectively), so there's a good chance they could do it again.
I'm also feeling pretty good about Christmas this year. A few weeks ago my mom asked me what I wanted for it since she can't exactly guess what I'm gonna want anymore, and at the time I really didn't have anything to say because I didn't know of anything that I wanted. Overtime, though, I figured out some things to get, and now I'm to the point where I've ordered everything and I'm all set! I'm looking forward to getting a new mouse for my computer (gaming mouse, better grip and whatnot), the Kinect for the Xbox 360, three video games (CoD: Black Ops, Ghosts, and The Amazing Spider-Man) and a laptop. I realize I already have a nice desktop PC, and I fully acknowledge that, and I understand that I felt a laptop wasn't suitable for my schooling needs, but now that I've worked with that I have, I've changed my mind a little. Plus, the computers they have at WCTC aren't the greatest - they take a long time to log you on, the programs take forever to start up and they're just not that great compared to my desktop. Plus, the laptop has Windows 8.1, so in a way it'll be nice to kinda get to know Windows 8 and see how it really is, aside from all those reviews people make about how shitty the OS is.
Well it's 11:07 AM on Friday, December 5th, 2014, and I've got class at 12:30 today. I was thinking about working on my Arbor Press stuff in AutoCAD before I left today, but I figured a half hour isn't really enough time to get in the zone with homework and get any significant work done, so I figured I'd blog a little bit and get that outta the way and on time for once. I do have a crap-load of drawings to finish up in Descriptive Geometry, but we just got the last 3 drawings assigned to us for the semester, so I have all the rest of this week, all next week and up till that Tuesday on the 16th, which is the last day of the semester, so I should have ample time to finish everything and pass the class. But let me tell ya something. I'm gonna be so damn happy with 3:30 PM shows up on Tuesday, December 16th, because then that means I have a whooooole month off for Christmas break, which will give me plenty of time to work with my X-Mas gifts and just re-freaking-lax. My Thanksgiving break was pretty damn nice too; I had Tuesday - Friday off, because Tuesday and Wednesday were in-service days for faculty and staff, and then Thursday and Friday were just days off for Thanksgiving. I really enjoyed Thanksgiving too. Lots of great food, good desserts and of course some great football. I feel like I gained a few pounds, but nothing too noticeable, haha.
Anywho, it's nearly quarter after 11, so I'm gonna finish this post up, surf the net a little more and than get ready for class. Until next Friday!
I'm also feeling pretty good about Christmas this year. A few weeks ago my mom asked me what I wanted for it since she can't exactly guess what I'm gonna want anymore, and at the time I really didn't have anything to say because I didn't know of anything that I wanted. Overtime, though, I figured out some things to get, and now I'm to the point where I've ordered everything and I'm all set! I'm looking forward to getting a new mouse for my computer (gaming mouse, better grip and whatnot), the Kinect for the Xbox 360, three video games (CoD: Black Ops, Ghosts, and The Amazing Spider-Man) and a laptop. I realize I already have a nice desktop PC, and I fully acknowledge that, and I understand that I felt a laptop wasn't suitable for my schooling needs, but now that I've worked with that I have, I've changed my mind a little. Plus, the computers they have at WCTC aren't the greatest - they take a long time to log you on, the programs take forever to start up and they're just not that great compared to my desktop. Plus, the laptop has Windows 8.1, so in a way it'll be nice to kinda get to know Windows 8 and see how it really is, aside from all those reviews people make about how shitty the OS is.
Well it's 11:07 AM on Friday, December 5th, 2014, and I've got class at 12:30 today. I was thinking about working on my Arbor Press stuff in AutoCAD before I left today, but I figured a half hour isn't really enough time to get in the zone with homework and get any significant work done, so I figured I'd blog a little bit and get that outta the way and on time for once. I do have a crap-load of drawings to finish up in Descriptive Geometry, but we just got the last 3 drawings assigned to us for the semester, so I have all the rest of this week, all next week and up till that Tuesday on the 16th, which is the last day of the semester, so I should have ample time to finish everything and pass the class. But let me tell ya something. I'm gonna be so damn happy with 3:30 PM shows up on Tuesday, December 16th, because then that means I have a whooooole month off for Christmas break, which will give me plenty of time to work with my X-Mas gifts and just re-freaking-lax. My Thanksgiving break was pretty damn nice too; I had Tuesday - Friday off, because Tuesday and Wednesday were in-service days for faculty and staff, and then Thursday and Friday were just days off for Thanksgiving. I really enjoyed Thanksgiving too. Lots of great food, good desserts and of course some great football. I feel like I gained a few pounds, but nothing too noticeable, haha.
Anywho, it's nearly quarter after 11, so I'm gonna finish this post up, surf the net a little more and than get ready for class. Until next Friday!
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