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4/5/2k2 @ 10:25 a.m.

My new toy!!!

I have been looking for one of these damn things for a couple years since my last one died... and the page above shall explain it all.

I finally got it! The old-school, classic, 8 bit Nintendo Entertainment System!!!! My playstation is dead and I was gonna check out the stuff that the electronics place down the road had when it called my name! 27 bucks later (sold a couple books I didn't want anymore), it is mine. The classic with 7 games and two controllers. I assure you it is the best 27 dollars I ever ever ever ever ever spent!

Okay maybe that is going a little too far, but I love it. There will be many endless nights of Super Mario Brothers, Excite Bike, and WWF Wrestlemania Challenge.

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4/5/2002 @ 09:23 a.m.

Should I or shouldn't I?

Well, I am still here!!! Things are on the upswing. My wife and I have some actual friends here in the area now!!!

You're probably wondering about that now and about the title and the link for this entry... Well I will explain them all in my typical random fashion.

Should I or shouldn't I? Well that's easy enough to explain, along with the link to Mars Music. These friends that my wife and I have actually have something to do with this. We met these people through a chain of other people and through the adoption of our new cat (we once again have 2 cats by the way). Anyway, the other day we went over to their place to sign the paperwork for the crazy-ass organization that we have adopted this cat through (that's a story that is even too much to post here) and we got to talking and hanging out with these people. It turns out that Joe is a musician and works for Mars Music. I guess the starting pay is between 7 and 8 per hour and they get killer discounts (6% above company cost) and they need people!!! So... I am debating a job-jump!!! Do I dare? Do I leave wal mart for this? Oh boy... turmoil!!!

Do I leave a job that I am already steady in and that seems pretty stable for another job where they are desperate for certain positions, that has comparable pay, that involves the one thing I love more than anything in the world (music), that gets me sweet discounts on musical equipment, that is in the same plaza as Wal Mart???

Maybe...

But we'll see won't we? Anyway... back to these people. Jane and Joe. They're absolutely terrific! They're both in their early 50's, but it's like they are 50 going on 20! They're huge animal lovers with 12 cats of their own and a whole crapload of others that they are fostering. Tess and I were at their house for a good 6 hours just talking, eating, playing with kitties and...........
Doing Karaoke!

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April Fools Day @ 09:42 a.m.

April Fool to me?

Well, I am still alive as I said I would be... but now it seems as though I have been a victim of an April fools prank...

School is back in session again after a week long break (still kind of pessimistic about the whole thing) and I got up at 7 this morning to go to class... I got here (school) at 9 only to find out that classes don't start up until around noon!!!!! I could have slept in!

Life is playing April Fools pranks on me, I know it...

The computer is still not working, but Toby will be coming over to make an attempt at fixing it for me tomorrow noght or something. I won't be home, but Tess will. Maybe then, I can get my internet life back on track.

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Monday, March 25, 2002 @ 01:05 p.m.

Realizations

I have realized now that getting myself stressed about stupid shit is pointless. I emailed Toby and hopefully he will be able to come and fix my computer. If not, I think that I might have to break down and save up the money to have some computer place look at it. It will be okay.

On the school front, I am going to drop that class, abd then we will see how I can manage with the rest of the courseload once the biggest stressor is out of the way. Worse comes to worst, I guess the transition will fail... but I am giving it a shot right? That's all that counts right now I think. I am not going to let myself stress about school and I am not going to let myself stress about what my parents might think if I can't handle it...again.

I appologize to the two or three people who read this on a regular basis. I know my last couple of entries have been rather dry and have none of my typical ramblings, but I wanted to share all of this stuff too... I have a couple phrases going through my head...

Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger
This too shall pass
Pain is weakness leaving the body

I will keep updating this to the best of my ability until my computer is up and running again. Let's hope it's not too long a delay... just know that I will still be here and I am still alive.

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3/25/2002 @ 12:23 p.m.

If it's not one thing, it's another...

First I bomb that test and feel like shit for the rest of the day. Then I miss the bus to go home and have to wait for another hour.

Now, my computer is completely and totally busted. It won't even boot up!!!! I am hopefully going to get Toby over here to help me fix it... But for now I will be sans-computer for who knows how long.

Things come in 3's so let's see... I had a rotten day on Friday, my computer's busted... what else is going to happen???

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3/22/2002 @ after MAT221 Midterm :-(

system overload!!!!!!!!

Ok. I have come to a vital decision. I just took the MAT221 midterm and failed miserably. Partial credit-be-damned... there is no way in hell that I passed the damn thing, so I am going to do two things. First, I am going to withdraw from MAT221 and pick up a course this summer (just one though so as not to kill myself). And Secondly, I am going to rethink my entire school plan. I am going to continue with the business major hopefully, but the math minor is out of the question let alon a math major. I can't handle this anymore. I wish there was a way to be done with school completely. If only I could get a high paying job somewhere with my associate's degree in CIS.

I know, I know... this is a semester of transition right? But how tough a transition is it supposed to be? I knew that this math course was going to be a challenge, and I have kept plugging along doing okay at it, but then today it all came crashing down. This racking my brain is rediculous. The transition is becoming really really difficult. I hope I get through this for my sanity's sake.

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3/22/2002 @ ten and a half AM

Brrrr... Brrrr... Brrrrr!!!!!

This is rediculous! We are now in the start of Spring, and when I walk outside, I can't feel my fingers or my face! And this morning my hair froze. According to the link above, it's about 18 out but it feels like 3. Well that's a little warmer than it actually is if you ask me!!! I think that today might be the day that, yes, Hell will freeze over.

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3/21/2002 @ 2:30 or so PM

Once again... Pitas, you suck.

More entries added, more html changed, more annoyance when nothing shows up. GRRRRRRRR!

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3/21/2002 @ 2:15ish

God Bless the random question generator (at subprofile)

1. Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATM's?
2. Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
3. After eating, do amphibians have to wait an hour before getting out of the water?
4. If you're traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

I forgot to mention yesterday:
I went to the optometrist (actually neuro-opthimologist) on Tuesday, and my eyes are getting better!! Yay! Maybe I won't be as blind as I thought after all!

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3/20/2002 @ 10 past 1 PM

The 100 Greatest Guitarists

There's a bunch I am glad to see here like:

• Jimmy Page
• Eric Clapton
• Angus Young
• Ry Cooder
• Joni Mitchell

I personally think that Mark Tremonti should have been listed as well. Come on, they even did an article on Creed but the guy isn't in the top 100??? Well there are a few who shouldn't be in there and a few who should that aren't.

I also seriously think that Prince could have been left out of the list. I mean come on... Prince?

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First Day Of Spring @ 13:00

This is Spring?

There is no way in Hell that today (March 20) can be the first day of Spring this year. It's snowing like hell out there. And stupid me! I didn't even think that the weather would be this confusing and walked out today with only a fleece on, and of course I was locked out of the apartment because I can't find my key and Tess said that she will leave hers in the mailbox for me. So I couldn't go back inside and get a coat. It's been reeeeeaaaaalllly fun...

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3/19/2002 @ 2 or 3 mins after ECO320 midterm

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a sound?

Gee I don't know... How thick is the tree? How fast was it falling? Of course in Physics, sound always exists. I need facts, not theory!!!

Why the pathetic excuse for a rant? I just had my midterm for Economic Statistics. This theoretical crap is killing me. Yeah sure there's formulas (formulae?) and numbers and stuff, but the whole test and all the stuff we do in class involves theoretical problems. What if? And that type of stuff. I'm sorry, but that's not math. That's not statistics. That's CRAP!!!

Give me a normal class where you plug numbers into a formula or do algebra and calculus and stuff and I am happy. Don't make me write a paragraph on "What does the coefficient of x1 mean and why is it there?"

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3/18/2002 @ 01101:01010

Wahoo!!! (I guess)

I have given in to the masses and went and got a journal thingy along with this page. LiveJournal pissed me off when I noticed that you need a code for it, so I went to the next best thing. DeadJournal!! It should be amusing for maybe a week or two. Check it out.

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3 days after last entry @ 20-of-11 AM

I want to learn Japanese

I feel so left out. Everyone it the world seems to be speaking Japanese now. I am looking around at people's blogs and they always have some sort of Japanese thing in them with a little "chan" or "san" or whatever added to people's names. And now they're all typing in Japanese and speaking it on IM (ahem... Marshall) and I am out of the loop. Well I won't be for long. Mark my words...

I will learn Japanese!

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The Ides of March (continued) @ half-of-11 AM

Out with the old and in with the New again

Don't let this entry make you forget the last one. It is rather important.

The first half of March has been archived. And now there is an option to send me "fanmail" right in each entry. Please keep looking here because something is going to happen.

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The Ides of March @ 20 after 10 AM

Living in the Past?

I've been thinking.

I see bums and homeless people on the street all the time. I usually ignore them. I grumble about them. I complain about them, but that's all changing. No I still won't give them any money when they ask for it, but allow me to explain myself:

See... there is this one downtown that we all know simply as "Dean." I used to just walk on by him and brush him off as a psycho or a drunk. Well, it turns out that first off he is not homeless. And secondly, the cops were talking to him one day, and I thought he was being arrested. It turns out he wasn't. He was registering a complaint about a couple of black boys who punched him and said they were going to come back and "finish him off" (keep in mind these boys are between 11 and 13. I guess the cops didn't care and only talked to him for like 2 minutes and left. I am gathering this information all from a newspaper article from some Albany paper. I am not sure which so I can't find a link to the article. It was posted in the Liquor Store downstairs from my place.

I know, you're all thinking, "That's great, Jamak, but what's the point to this... and why do you have a Jethro Tull link as the subject?"

Okay. Well here is the jist of my train of thought. Dean is a human being. He is not a useless bum. And you know what? He has a past. A story to tell. Everyone has some sort of past. Everyone has a story to tell that brought them to where they are. "living in the Past" makes sense (the title) in this context. Maybe I should sit down and talk to Dean some time.

To add to this, as I said there has been a lot of friction in the ULCCF. Well, now we are getting to a point where we have all agreed to disagree on some points, and now we are really getting to know eachother. We've all been posting messages about our history, troubles, and what has brought us to Christianity. It would be so nice if everyone we mat nowadays would be able to share their past with us. It would make things so much easier.

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