Ideas and Lonely Nights

I'm in Ohio right now at a real estate seminar...away from my wife...it sucks. Learning a lot, but I'm not sure if sleeping alone is worth it. Give me a few years and I might...MIGHT be able to handle it better. But based on how amazing my wife is...probably not.

Anywho. Had an idea today for my graphics company logo. As a suggestion from my father, I should do my website graphics under a different name, as to make sales for that industry easier to do. It also provides me a company name to do transactions under. Which brings me to the logo.

Yes. It's a butterfly. But as a company logo...I don't think that's to...gay. For the record. Those commercials make me laugh. Not because I really care...but because the same people who really care about that generally have no problem dropping swear words in public. The term "gay" now means stupid, or dumb. That's how society works. A word is used incorrectly, and if it has a large enough following, it sticks. A word is what society makes it. Grow up, and learn to not take offense...instead of wasting tons of money on commercials that no one cares about (in fact, makes fun of), and go feed some starving children somewhere. I digress.

Yes, it's a butterfly. A guy butterfly if you're wondering. Very masculine. But seriously. It's for a company logo. Also, I have an idea to either use diffrentgraphics.com (the mispelling of the word diffrent being a play on the word different in the fact that it's a different spelling) ...or just stick with the actual thing, differentgraphics.com. Anywho, leave your thoughts please!

Knowledge is power.

In more ways then one. It allows you to have more fun, and enjoy life, and also allows you to accomplish things easier.

After struggling for hours and hours with how to make forms on the internet do what I want and integrate it into wordpress...I remembered plugins. And yup, for sure. There it was. A form plugin that integrated it beautifully. I could have saved myself from hours of staring at code. At least I'll know better for next time.

In other terms of knowledge, I mostly speak of music. I found a cool band today named Owl City. Click here to listen to them! ...very relaxing...

Anywho. Work is work. And some other things are going on behind the scenes that might turn out very well for us! But I'm not going to count my chicks before they hatch. So you'll hafta wait and find out!

Limer me an ick!

A boy and a girl both fell in love and called each other "honey".
They stayed and they married
They moved and they carried
And now they have no money!

Karmageddon

Lets face it. We have it coming to us. We abuse the power God has given us, and in the end it will prove to be our downfall. Kids with matches.

Until recently, I was pretty set on the world ending in only 1 scenario. Nuclear Holocaust. Wait. Nope. Not that. Definitely not that. Why not that? Because we all love ourselves too much to let that happen. Self indulgence is the answer. The end of the world will come when Star Trek comes to life before us. Take it as a dumbed down version of "The Matrix", though eventually it might come to that...but lets hope God strikes us down first. What I speak of is "holograms". That's the tag Star Trek gives them anyways. It's a fantasy world, where you can play out any scenario you want. All 5 senses are stimulated in the process. You can interact with the world, and the world can interact with you. Don't believe it's close? Check out: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/. Using our bodies as controllers for games. How funny of me to actually think that the extremes of self indulgence would first originate in anything but the video game industry. It caters to a crowd of people who are very comfortable with new technology. And for that reason, they can keep pushing the lines of fun, with addictive. Yes, I know fun is always addictive, whether it's sports or video games, people can get addicted to fun. What I'm talking about is an actual addictive behavior. Think of the ramifications if they could trick your brain into actually thinking it's in a fantasy world. You're the hero, you can do anything you want, everyone loves you. Then coming out of it, back to the real world. You'd live, work, and sleep, waiting until you could go back to that world. A world where you are essentially a god. I could see people becoming truly, chemically, addicted to that feeling.

That, to me, was the only avenue for the end of the world, until a few days ago. I watched the last Dollhouse episode of the season. For everyone who doesn't know the premise of Dollhouse, it is this:

Echo (Dushku) is an "Active," a member of a highly illegal and underground group who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined to a secret facility known as the "Dollhouse," Echo and the other Actives, including Sierra and Victor, carry out engagements assigned by Adelle, one of the Dollhouse leaders. The engagements cater to the wealthy, powerful and connected, and require the Actives to immerse themselves in all manner of scenarios - romantic, criminal, uplifting, dangerous, comical and the occasional "pro bono" good deed. After each scenario, Echo, always under the watchful eye of her handler Boyd, returns to the mysterious Dollhouse where her thoughts, feelings and experiences are erased by Topher, the Dollhouse's genius programmer.

[spoilers]In the end. The company "Rossum" that funds and created the technology for this organization, decides to sell these bodies as "anatomy upgrades" for the very wealthy. Basically, stealing someones body, so they can live forever. The company then goes even larger and darker by helping the great political powers of the world stage a world-wide coup. The technology has gotten to a point, where they can wipe someone clean by using a single advanced sound wave. So they send out mass calls, over the phone. Everyone who picks up, is wiped, and given programming to kill anyone who is not wiped. Everyone who didn't pick up their phone, is hunted. The world tears itself apart.[/spoilers]

Obviously. If the end of the world was my choice between these two, I'd choose the first, much less scary in the physical sense. But the first is more scary in the spiritual side of things. In my opinion, I'd say the first is more likely to occur, because it will take less technology to figure out how to stimulate and trick a brain, then it will to learn to wipe a brain of persona and be able to fill it again. And once everyone can live in their own fantasy for cheap, who would want to live in the real world?

...scary.

FYI: For anyone that cares. Lancelot died yesterday night. We held a short ceremony for him this morning, it was beautiful. Then we buried him next to Lady Guinevere. Lancelot...you will be missed.

Schrödinger's Cat

Viruses and how to not get them.
1. Do not surf the web. Meaning, don't google something, and click around in every site that you don't know. If you need something, use a trusted site to get it. Bookmark trusted sites that you go to often. Just because it came up on a search engine, does not mean that it's a good site. This means not letting your children surf the web too. They WILL download WHATEVER pops up.

2. Raise your security on your browser. Make it ask you before installing 3rd party programs and the sort. Then, if you're on a site you don't know or trust, don't download what it's asking you to. And never download anything from a site you don't trust, even if you think it's something you want.

3. Don't accept CD's, USB drives, or floppy disks from strangers. =)

Also. If you're doing this, you won't need a virus protection program, which is generally what bogs down people's computers. They complain about having a virus and their computer going slow, when really it's the virus protection program they have on their computer.

Good firewall protection is provided by most operating systems, and routers, use of those will prevent people from hacking into your network.

Remember, a computer doesn't do anything until it's told to. It doesn't surf the web and ask for viruses, you do.

Shouldn't've got a Mac

It should be a word. Honestly. Double apostrophe's. What do you even call that? English wasn't exactly my favorite class. Conjunctions? That sounds right. But! This is not the main topic of this blog entry! It is Macs!

Where to start? I think I'll do a brief list of pros and cons, PC's to Mac's. And for the sake of the generation and what they're battling, I'm going to use OSX vs Vista for operating systems.

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Macintosh (OSX)
Pros
- Extremely hard to glitch up the OS doing regular day-to-day activities.
- Hardware works more effectively because it's built by the same manufacturer.
- Basic operations are made easier by OSX for the common user. (Connecting to the internet, installing programs, watching movies)
- Less Virus problems. (I say less, because there IS viruses for OSX whether they want you to believe it or not. "http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/macosxleap.html" But hey, if it messes up, you're taking it to an apple store, you think THEY are going to tell you that the problem was a virus?)

Cons
- Frustrating for more advanced computer users when doing in-depth things. (Like organizing the file system because installs don't ask where to install stuff.)
- If something does malfunction, be prepared to pay out the butt, because the only people who can replace parts is Apple. And they "love" their customers.
- Every corner seems to pop-up something! Yes, I know it's customizable somewhere...but hey, if they're gonna hit PC's for stuff that is also customizable, all's fair.
- Prediction: Virus central. Face it. Hackers will always be around. As Macs increase in popularity, so will viruses. Hey hackers! New OS to pick on since Windows has been #1 for the LONGEST time! Until this point, there has been no need for hackers to focus on Macs. If they wanted something, it was most likely on a Windows OS.

I'll openly admit I dislike macs. I do not in general dislike mac users, though some of them get on my nerves. I dislike the Apple company in general because the way they've gone about doing things. Their mudslinging campaigns that further defile my TV watching experience (something I already hate doing). I love how they don't really say anything about their product, just why you shouldn't buy a PC. I disdain, nay, abhor that approach. And shame on Windows for doing the very same thing. However, I would like to point out that $ means more then any of the crap Mac says on their commercials, which can all be rebutted. Which is why people will continue buying PC's. I digress.

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PC (Windows Vista OS)
Pros
- Cheap and affordable.
- Despite my efforts, I've been unable to rebirth the blue screen of death on Vista. However, in general, easy to lock-up if you wanted to.
- Almost all Software is made for Windows.
- Plug-n-play ability is phenomenal.
- I could go on, but for the sake of a regular user, this is what they would enjoy about a PC.
Cons
- Open access to the more intricate processes of the OS provides regular users with an easy way to mess something up.
- Installing requires using an installation wizard, which will sometimes confuse a regular person who isn't computer literate.
- Amounts of viruses built for windows.

Ask me about any of the previous Windows versions and I would agree with about anything you hated about them. Unstable, easy to mess up, and some aspects of it...wtf? But Vista...was a work of art. Everything bad about the old ones, they fixed. To me, Vista seems to be for the logically inclined person, and OSX for the visually inclined. Take it a step deeper and I'd say that Vista is for the regular computer user, I wouldn't say advanced, because you don't have to know everything about a computer to know and understand how everything in Vista works. And I'd say OSX is for the computer illiterate. Very straightforward, easy-to-use, hard-to-break.

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Operating systems aside. PC vs Mac. The machine itself. I see NO reason to pay to extra money for a Mac. Since Apple released the OSX for PC's and Windows for Mac's, I believe in large the OS battle is a matter of preference, while the hardware (PC or Mac), is more of a money issue. If you want a better working system, buy a Mac. Be prepared to pay the ridiculous premium though. If you want a solid system, for much cheaper, with awesome upgrade ability, buy a PC.

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In way of preference between Operating Systems, I think that both sides throw out a few concerns that by-in-large, don't matter.

Viruses (The biggest one brought up)
Earlier I predicted that OSX will become the epicenter in an exciting new generation of viruses. This is because enough people are using them now, that it might actually be beneficial to the hackers to spend time in making viruses for them, where as before it wasn't time effective. But when it comes down to it, hackers will make viruses for EVERYTHING. 10 years from now, when another OS takes the spotlight, saying it doesn't have viruses, it'll get hacked. Not getting viruses is contingent upon the USERS. A computer can't do anything it's not told to do. The reason a computer gets a virus is because the person sitting in the chair, don't blame the OS. I'll make a short list next post on how not to get viruses.

Drivers
Windows has always gotten crap for having to install drivers to plug in something to use it. Now that Apple has opened up OSX to the PC, they'll start having those problems to. The reason they didn't before, is because anything you plugged into a Mac, was built by Mac. PC's on the other hand, leave open a whole avenue of jobs to 3rd parties that want to build peripherals for their machines. Along with these attachments comes a CD generally, with instructions to your computer for it to know how to work the attachment; these are called drivers. If the computer didn't use the attachment correctly, it was generally the manufacturer of the attachments fault, NOT the operating system. Driver problems are hardware based. As new hardware comes out, it'll take a while for any OS to include those drivers in default installations. Therefore, NOT an issue in OS preference.

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In closing, deciding which to buy is totally based upon what you're looking for. If you're not a usual computer user, and don't know a lot, you'd probably be better of paying extra for a system that is harder to destroy. If you've been using computers your whole life, save the money and buy the system that gives you the freedom you enjoy. So next time someone tells you that their Mac is better then your PC, or vice versa, politely explain to them that it's based on opinion only.

I'm TK, and I'm a PC...Vista rocks.

Sweet Tangerine

(cont...)

As the epic odyssey continues, our hero's find themselves worse off then when they started.

As I continued to look for jobs, I found the same frustration I had before in job searching. I don't know what it is that I do wrong, or if the economy really is just that melancholy, but I couldn't even get an interview lined up. Happily though, my side profession, that of a freelance graphic and website developer, received a couple of jobs. We'll see how those finish...

In continuance of our already despondent bearings: Somewhere in the well-to-do parts of Highland and all their snobbish self-acclaimed royalty, a beautiful receptionist gets fired so that her boss can give her relative the job (and on a side note, pay her relative under the table). An even more infuriating fact: this gorgeous receptionist got fired via an answering machine message. What a forlorn state the world has come to.

So there they were, out of jobs for the most part. Lucky for the couple, the wife was amazing, and was loved by all at her other part time job and started picking up extra shifts. All of this happening after the couple decided to move far away, have an exodus of sorts, a journey to the other side of the island. Not a small island mind you, they'll have to cross many states, carrying all their belongings in the back of their 2 vehicles.

Will they make it? Will they be able to get rid of their current residential contract without paying for another month? Will they be able to fit all their property into their 2 cars? How will the drive go? Find out next time!

The Lion's Roar

So amidst life's toils and troubles--filled with the obdurate and pugnacious, as so rightly tagged by yours truly--we, (myself and my lovely partner-in-crime), find ourselves on the precipice of a rather exigent matter: the move. The culprit would be none other then the ones we call our employers. Allow me to expound.

A while ago, I took on the job of Lead Stock at the vile monster we all know as Hollister. Great clothes, crappy management. The job entailed doing something that was previously given 40 hours a week to do. This was whittled down to a measly 32 hours right as I was coming in, leaving me short-handed and inexperienced in a job of some credibility. This slowly proved to be fatal, day after day of not accomplishing what I felt I should be able to. The emotional burden of such a thing is nothing less of depressing. Needless to say this slowly wore on me, until I grew to hate my job and the company I worked for with a passion. I won't go into all the details of why I still believe Hollister's management is conceived from the Prince of Darkness himself, but I will leave that with saying, I got written up. So I quit, leaving on a good note instead of getting fired.

This grand tale of blood and heroics isn't finished, but I'm bored of typing. More to come...

An Unprecedented Phenomenon

It took me 30 minutes to drive from Sandy to Lehi yesterday on I-15. And Utah drivers are to blame for it. Something happens here that I have never seen happen anywhere else in my life. People will slow down and stop on the interstate. For NO reason. It's not rush hour, it's not backed up all the way to some huge event, there's not even a wreck to attract rubberneckers! They just stop. It's the most aggravating thing I've ever experienced on a highway. I'm looking forward to not dealing with that anymore.

In other news, me and Jillian went and helped out Rachel and Moshe moving out this last Sunday. After pulling through their father's untimely death, they still work harder then most people I know. They're currently going to rent out their house and live at their father's house until everything gets resolved. It could take anywhere from 3 to 6 months for them to work out the issues with their father's assets because he didn't sign his will.

In the meantime Rachel has a new best seller on the shelves at your local bookstore. This hot item features, me! The exciting story of my life, in all its glory. All my heroic acts of courage and selflessness, all the good deeds I've performed, all the times I realized what was going on! Wait, what?

Alright, so she hasn't really written this book. But she always thought it would be fun to do so. I may be quick-witted most the time, but more often then I'd like, I have a "dawning" moment. Where something very simple seemed to slip my grasp for a minute, and then comes the resounding "oooOOOOhhhh..." as the light bulb turns back on.

Just That Simple.

I Love Jillian...a lot. With all my heart in fact. I would give my life for her. And it really is just that simple.

Selfishness

No matter how much it vexes me to waste food, nothing perturbs me more than the economic construct we use every day. It seems to me that if I were an owner of a company, apart from being much happier spending more time with my wife, I would have certain aspects of my company work differently than most. Lets take a gander at some examples.

1. If it were a clothing company: the damaged goods that were either rendered in the process of making the clothing, and damaged goods received back from stores would go to the needy and the poor. Whether distributed by my own company or by a 3rd party that specializes in getting things to the needy wouldn't matter to me.

2. If it were a food company (I'm thinking more like the ones in malls): I would keep track of the numbers, and setup a general average of how much to make of certain items throughout the day; so when it got close to the end of the day, we wouldn't have so much waste. However, this is the part that bothers me. I accidentally got a worker in trouble today because I asked for some of the pretzels that Pretzel Time were throwing away. I was informed that they could not do that (even though I'd been given pretzels many times before) and that the employee who had been giving out pretzels at the end of the day would be written up. That any employee who gave out pretzels would be charged $50 per pretzels. Does this only seem ridiculous to me? Firstly, they shouldn't have that much to throw out if they keep track of numbers correctly. Secondly, I'm sure the dough for those pretzels cost no where near $50. Thirdly, (And my biggest disagreement) How can a company be so selfish, as to rather THROW AWAY food, then give it away. Either way, they get no money for it. I would give it away.

The world in all its greed and selfishness would rather throw away a product than give it away. Congratulations Pretzel Time, you're the kid in the cafeteria who throws away his extra pizza that he didn't have room for instead of giving it to his friend (who would gladly eat it). Because we are indeed your friends. We buy your Pretzels, we fund your employee's salaries, and most importantly, we keep you in business.

I understand that this could cause problems. Dishonest employees making more then needed to hookup friends and family would most definitely occur. This would fall under the other list of items that companies have problems with anyways: Theft. But that's a topic for another day.

Sadly, though I condone it on a large scale, I fall subject to the vice of selfishness all too often. My parents raised me well. Taught to take care of others before myself. To want not. To share what I had with those in need. They taught me, in a word, selflessness. Yet to this day I take care of my needs first. I desire the luxuries of the world. I keep to myself, when I should give. I am, in a word, selfish.

My wife on the other hand is the exact opposite. It's a good thing she loves me enough to put up with me while I work to become more like her, and like Christ.

But Be, As You Have Been, My Happiness...

Bob Newhart once said: "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." How true it is. Unfortunately, for my lovely wife, I have a hard time laughing in instances where I should. Instead, I get angry, argumentative, and have to win the battle of the ego's. This troublesome habit is what broke us up when we were dating, and though we overcame it then, it seems to have come back to once again smite me with discontentment.

I know learning to live with someone is difficult. I did it for 2 years on the mission. But it seems to me it's still just a matter of communication. Whether it's doing things differently or pet peeves that need to be found, any of these, as I see it, can be solved by talking, and then demonstrating the desire to change.

Yet again, this is where my stupid ego-driven self comes in. Whenever something happens, I get so locked in the idea, that I am right, and she needs to see WHY I'm right...that I don't stop, sit back, laugh, and then work through it. No, instead I seem to be a master at peaking arguments and leaving each other angry until we both come back and work it out. Yes, problems get solved, but what I don't like is being angry at someone--especially my wife. We sit away from each other or sit close but don't talk, just do something else...until we both calm down enough to approach the matter more sensibly. I HATE the time we waste while we're angry. Time we get to spend with each other right now is limited as it is, so to be arguing amidst that time seems to be trivial.

My wife is amazing. I couldn't have done better for myself. I guess this is just part of the troubleshooting phase. I just hope she continues to be the patient, understanding woman she is to me, until I can get over myself. I love you Jillian.

If You Scatter Thorns, Don't Go Barefoot.

Evidently our stockroom at the not so eco-friendly Hollister is short of a few babies, cribs, and other younglings. Every week I receive shipments of clothes to process. Amongst these boxes of shipment are sometimes hundreds of individually wrapped shirts, shorts, and other assorted items. Apart from taking more of my time to get them out of the plastic wrap, I couldn't help but notice the huge warning label on the wrapper; making sure I know, that I should not leave it lying around for babies to play with, put in cribs, or in some other way leave these wrappers around for children to suffocate themselves. Upon reading this, I chuckled and glanced around the stockroom, and much to my surprise...there were babies everywhere!!! Obviously this is a farce. But apart from the fact that Hollister would most definitely have a problem with babies roaming free around the stockroom, I really see no point in them wasting time and money not only to individually wrap these shirts, but prevent me from causing unwanted baby deaths.

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Since my last post, much has transpired. For one: I am now a married man. I survived the wedding day and made it to the honeymoon, where I indeed, was as lazy as possible, and spent all the time I could with my precious wife. We ventured to lake Tahoe for our honeymoon, where we spent the week in Aunt Vickie's(sp?) cabin which they so graciously let us use. It was a beautiful place, unfortunately...or fortunately, it snowed. And there isn't much to do there when it's cold, besides of course, the usual honeymoon activities. Toward the end of the week we made our exodus further into California, where we spent a night with her (and my new) Grandparents. We also had the pleasure of participating in what seemed like a family reunion at the Village Buffet (awesome place). I had a delightful time talking to all my new relatives and getting to know them. I was also happy to find that my family was not the only crazy bunch, and perhaps it won't be quite a shock for Jillian when she meets my family. All family matters aside, California is a beautiful state, and I would not mind going back.

Now life is back in it's normal boring state. Aside from the occasional accidental call to 911 while at work, everything is very monotonous. Hopefully I'll soon be able to do my freelancing Graphic Design full-time with the help of some new found friends in the business at our ward. Sitting at home doing something I enjoy for 40 hours a week, I can hardly call a job. But it will do more then pay the bills if I'm able to do so. Jillian would be able to quit one of her jobs, affording her more time at home =D, and we'd be able to put a rather large amount of money into savings, for school and anything else the future might hold for us. Who knows, maybe Jillian will even let me have a baby sometime. I'll just have to stop bringing home Hollister shirt wrappers and leaving them lying around the house.

What Did the Blonde Say...?

So I was at work the other day, knocking out shipment with one of my coworkers, when payday came up. I expressed my gratitude for payday being the current friday. The girl looked puzzled. "Didn't we get paid the friday before last?"

I looked at her a moment and responded, "Yes..."

She still looked puzzled. The silence was only broken by the sound of the rusted gears moving in her head. "I thought we got paid every 2 weeks, not every other week."

I stared for a moment, astounded that she might actually be serious. I slowly responded, giving her time to perhaps somehow grasp what she just said. "That's the same thing."

She paused for a moment and stood with a thoughtful expression. Yet again, gears turned and noises were made until finally she responded, "Oh!"

Oh Hollister and the ditzes I work with.

I Know the Pieces Fit

It's all finally coming together. Everyday is one step closer to the happiest day of my life thus far, and every day is better than the last. Hopefully I will have a car soon, to replace the one that died 2 weeks after I got it. We will have the last couple things paid off for the wedding, and have money left over! (Minus the intsy bintsy fact that we're already $3,500 in debt because of my car problems).

Unfortunately, with everything coming together means EVERYTHING. Including everything in my work world. Today Moshe needed something for his stuff, Summer needed to talk to me on the phone, though she won't return my calls, and Moshe informed me that his Sister-In-Law's company has agreed to let me make their system, they also want me to do their website, as well as help them get their server setup. Holy crap. I thought I didn't have any time as it was. Now I have even less.

Hopefully what all this means though, is that soon we will have such a quick influx of money on hand, that we will be able to pay off my debts, and get back to being totally on top of things. The sooner we can actually start saving money for college, the better! Thankfully BYUI is also very cheap.

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In other news, I saw some guy almost walk into a wall yesterday because he was looking at his iPod. I love technology.

In the words of Willy Wonka: "Everything in this room is eatable. In fact even I am eatable, but that is called cannibalism my dear children and is frowned upon in most civilizations." I love food. Especially fast food. I think I'd be fat if I didn't have such a good metabolism. Sometimes, why I'm eating real food...I think of how bad I want fast food. Sad. I know.

Albertsons and Me

Holy crap. I just got 3 Boxes of Eggo waffles for $5! And 4 Boxes of Hot Pockets for $6! That will last for so long! Holy good prices! Jillian always told me in school that I was retarded for going to Broulims instead of Albertsons...she was right!

March is a hard month for my fiance. Lately it seems our arguments aren't so much difference of opinion, but lack of communication. Learning to understand each other in all sorts of situations seems to be a thing that will take a while to master. This month for instance, I mentioned is hard for Jillian. I've always known that it's best not to push her to talk when she's acting funny, but she also lets me ask once, so she knows that I know something is up, and I would like to be there for her. So I asked her, and she started telling me. My natural reaction when someone is trying to share with me something that's making them sad, is to compare, empathize or otherwise try to understand more of what is going on. I soon found out that there is certain situations where that is not what to do. Sometimes there is nothing to do, except be a shoulder to cry on. The more I learn about my soon-to-be-wife the more I love her. She's so strong-willed and such an amazing woman. I count my blessings that she wants to keep me around.

Part 1 of my 5,273 Part Installment: Better Know a Nerd

So. I've been having some strange craving recently to play FF7. But sadly, everytime I think about hooking up my PS2 and digging out my ancient PS1 Memory Card, I decide to go play DOTA or Disgaea 3 instead. Of course, eventually the craving will die, and come back, reincarnated as a craving for FF6, or FF Tactics, or something else instead. I also am at a standstill in the Fire Emblem game for Wii. The reason behind me being postponed is the Wii itself. I really, really like keeping save files on consoles, it's a great idea. However, I noticed that certain games can't transfer save files! Fire Emblem isn't a problem, I just left the save file in my friends Wii. However I also tried to save over my Smash Bros data, and it wouldn't let me! How dumb is that? I really hope my sister PS3 will let me copy over my save from Disgaea 3. Also, I've been dreaming DOTA games, I think that's a bad thing. Of course, it's not the only thing I dream of, although most my dreams are really odd.

...and they're off!

Background info. Nothing much to know besides what I put in my profile. So, this will just contain ramblings of my opinions and what the heck is going on in the world!

First off! Anyone else find it incredible that we spend more time supporting the people we care for then actually spending time with them? How bassackwards is that? I work a full-time job at Hollister, which is a rant of its own, as well as doing freelance website work on the side. On a usual weekday I get to spend about 30 minutes to an hour with my fiance, soon to be wife. I live for the weekend. And even half of Saturday she's taken by work. All in order to get our lives started.

I've found so far in the world, that there are cycles that are hard to break! Let me name a few.
1. No car --> Hard to get work --> No work = no loan --> No loan = no car (and it starts over!)
2. Struggling to get by --> Start doing okay --> Something goes amiss --> Fix it with saved money --> Struggling (grrrrr.)
3. Eat food --> Stomach processes good stuff --> Gets rid of bad stuff --> Hunger --> Eat food!

Alright, so I actually enjoy #3...at least the eating part of it. But really. I'm just getting started in the world and so far from what I've seen is we've created a world where it takes more time to get by then we get to sit back and enjoy things. We spend more time at work then at home. And when we are home, we have bills to pay and other things to keep in check before we get to relax.

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Hollister. Ohhhh boy. Anywho. I recently was hired on as full-time lead stock at Hollister. I've only been working a couple weeks, but it seems to me, for the amount of time and stress and frustration I spend working on getting tasks done, I should get paid more. They send me 10 hours of shipment in 1 day, and I'm supposed to get it done. This is just 1 aspect of the job, I also:

1. Pull USRs (30min - 1hr)
2. Pull SPRs (1hr - 2hr)
3. Manage and train any part timers in the back.

They say it's possible. And I'm sure it is. People do it in other stores. But it sure doesn't feel possible when you're looking at everything there is to do. I was also informed that the girl working in the position before me didn't take lunches. She would just scarf down something really quick. I think if I have to be a demi-god in order to finish everything my job requires, they should pay more.

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I'll stop complaining now. I'm getting married in less then a month! Gasp! Me? Yes! I totally thought I'd make it to 25 or older without getting married. But for some reason Jillian sticks around. I'm not sure why. I think it's either because I'm incredibly good looking, or because I have a flawless personality. *thoughtful pause* Maybe both. It's good though, she's absolutely gorgeous, smart, funny, witty, outspoken, and all in all, more amazing then me...which is hard to beat. Ask around, it's true.

Anywho. The date is set for April 11th. I've been busy, and have failed to mail out a few invitations. I apologize. I will try my best to get those out ASAP.

Hello World!

Thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.