In The Wee Hours...

Well it's Thursday, my first all nighter of the week. See, I work overnights Friday through Sunday, so I stay up all night Thursday to prepare myself. What do I usually do? Play games of course, and do a little cleaning up if the house needs it. It's hard finding a cool group of people to game with so late at night, most are Australian... no joke. The only person online on my Friends List is playing Call of Duty 4... and I don't have that game, which qualifies him as a dick, or me as a loser, tomato; tomahto.

Anyways, work has been going pretty good, I think most of the people like me, it pays well, and that's what matters.

I started a new term in school, we're covering Windows Server 2003... Me no likey Server. It's fun though, there's this cockbite in my class, I've discussed him before, long ago, he just bought a brand new notebook with Vista Ultimate. He's bragging because he can use DreamScene, and thought that you could only use Virtual PC on Ultimate.

Well, I got Virtual PC 2007 and have NO problems at all running Server 2003 on it, hell I can run XP, 98, or any other OS on it. I ran gOS on it just for fun. As for DreamScene, I just had to modify a few DLL's to get that up and running, and yes, it is the real DreamScene, not some third party application.

I got DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT-54G V5 awhile back, and now I've decided to overclock the router. It started at 200Mhz, then I upped it to 250Mhz and put a couple of heatsinks on it. Now I need to find my soldering iron so that I can get my cooling fan running internally and up it to 300Mhz. Since I've overclocked it I've noticed a huge difference in speed. I only use it as a wireless adapter for my 360, and it absolutely screams. Never any lag issues or slowdowns. Hell, when I connected by wire through my laptop it screamed.

I'm dying to get a new surround sound system. Mine is constantly getting worse. I've got one picked out, the perfect one... but I have to wait until bills are caught up, which shouldn't take long. I'll easily be able to afford it when I get my tax refund back.

We also have to get Ashley a new car, start saving for a house, and also start saving for a new TV.

Speaking of TV, I don't think it's right that the government can decide that analog signals will end and it's all going digital, but can't open up the mobile phone market. Why does AT&T only have the iPhone? Why does T-Mobile only have the Dash? Why does Sprint... aw, to hell with Sprint. Anyways, if I'm receiving a digital signal, I want to enjoy it, I don't want some shitty signal converter sucking up more electricity an downgrading the signal I'm getting.

That's enough updates, rants, raves, and contemplation for right now. Time to play Halo 3 with some Aussies, crikey!

Miss me?

Well now, it's been quite some time since I've been here, but I've just been so damn busy lately. I've been to see Transformers, I'm going back to school, and still playing games like a madman.

Let's see... should I do this all in one post? Or multiple posts so it looks like I have more content on here? I'll go the latter route.

Let's start with school. After multiple revisions to my FAFSA (Free Application for Financial Student Aid), several interviews, and lots of paperwork, I'm officially a college student!

I'm taking a Computer Technology course at Vatterott College, it basically covers everything to start a career in the IT department. It's a 60 week course for my certificate of completion, and an extra 30 weeks to get an Associates Degree.

So far I'm really liking it, my instructor is cool as hell, everyone in my class is pretty cool. I'm actually learning quite a bit, and I'm very excited to get out of here and start a good career. At this point I've passed my first two tests with a score above 92%.

It's really hard though, I'm only working weekend mornings now, working mornings kills me, I wake up at 6:00 am, go to work, and sit there for eight hours. There's literally nothing to do at my job. Also with me only working weekends, it makes money quite a bit tight.

Ashley's going to school as well, we've got the same schedule, she's going in for Medical Office Assistant. She's passed her tests with scores over 95% if I remember right.

We're both very excited and very anxious.