100 Videos

Just released my 100th official video today. Taking a look back at everything leading up to this point from mid-2005, is really a lot to process. It’s amazing how much can happen in just a few years. I’m not really talking about the site itself, just life in general. In some respect, I’m surprised I’ve made it to 2008.

As you get older, they say time appears to move faster. I guess the reason for that illusion is, that we don’t always sit down and reflect on things that have happened in the past. We just take and leave things as they come, and it becomes so processed at times.

It’s interesting to sit back and look at all of the great things that I’ve done, and the ever-growing mount of bad things I’ve done. Maybe I could have done better in high school? Maybe I could have been a better boyfriend? Scratch that, I should have been a better boyfriend. Could I have been a better son? Could I have been a better friend? Could I have been a better admin? Could I have been a better film maker?

All of these “Could I” questions will probably lack a solid answer for as long as I live, but it’s the past that makes you stronger, as long as you embrace it and understand it.

It sounds like a depressing post, considering the event, but it isn’t. It’s just a reflective post. Let’s see if I can do better in the future

Eventful much?

Well, I guess the big personal thing is that I’m single now. Things didn’t work out, and I guess it’s all for the best. Any takers? XD

That aside, I’ve admitted my addiction to political issues. I’ve always been fascinated with politics, and since I guess this is probably one of the most historic elections in our nation’s history, I’ve been paying alot more attention. While I can not bring myself to swear to a political party, my support for Obama has been growing. Obviously, the man is not perfect, but no politician ever was, and never will be. I watched his speech the other night, and it was pretty powerful. Even a certain someone I know, who a registered and fairly dedicated republican, admitted that he may just vote for this man. He seems to be playing all of the proper moves. I was not too sure of him at first, simply because he popped out of no where. I voted for Hillary in my state’s primary election (in which she got pwned by Obama), but I’m still dedicated to the party this term.

McCain on the other hand, just bothers me. First off, he’s really a half-assed republican at best. Anyone who considered Lieberman as a VP (and what he picked was probably worse), is not a real elephant. He’s a weak public speaker, and he ties himself too closely to our current president, who has been lampooned as one of our nation’s worst leaders. McCain’s VP pick of Palin shocked me. This Eskimo out of Alaska? McCain lashed at Obama for lack of experience, but McCain’s VP has far less experience then Obama. Why is this a problem? If McCain were to kick the bucket in office, we’d be left with Palin. That’s a problem. At least with Obama’s VP, Biden, the man has alot of experience to help out with. I can define the two parties into two phrases;

Republican Party 2008 – Cluster Fuck

Democratic Party 2008 – Soap Opera

I thought the election in 2004 was something… I imagine in 2012, we’ll have a gay Latino named Pancho Putin running from the Libertarian party. I have to take extra showers at night just because I actually registered to vote (as an Independent).

Shame aside, it’s an honor to be able to vote for the first time in a presidential election. I just hope whoever gets office, doesn’t stomp us further into the ground. I could rant on and on about this election, but I’ll save that for later.

WHARRGARBL

Interesting day I’ve had so far. Waking up early is a fucking miracle for starters. I haven’t been up at 7:30am in awhile. I’m still looking for a job…

Panda Express is hiring soon. Am I that desperate? I hope I get the job at the movie theater I applied to. The pay sucks, but any steady income would be great. The $200 Check I got made me feel more optimistic though.

After dinner, I started to install my new shower head. It’s model that has a hose, connected to a hand-held shower head. Brittany has mentioned liking them before, and after my trip to the UK, I’ve started to become grown to them. Fun part is finding one that doesn’t set your wallet ablaze. I found a good model, that held a simple design, and was a fair cost. Installing it was the fun part.

Now, I’m able to put most anything together, but I tend to ignore some minor details along the way. One piece in this model, called the Flow Regulator, I removed. I figured I’d do it just for the heck of it. I connected the base to the water pipe, and nothing happened. The small water filter kept getting stuck in the water pipe. After checking over my steps, I found nothing wrong. I looked at the water pipe, and a rubber stopper from the old shower head, was wedged within the pipe. After getting that out, I reattatched the base, without the head or the hose, turned on the shower, and well, the picture below best describes the situation…

Being drenched aside, the new model works, and it’s pretty sweet. We’ll just see if my water bill goes through the roof this month. I doubt it will, but knowing my luck it’s best not to assume.

I still blog, lulz

Well, for starters, I fucked up my right knee. Well, not that bad, but I was helping a neighbor move a couch into their apartment (junkyard treasure), and it had a similar base design to my couch, which has metal frames at the bottom. As graceful as I tend to be, one side of the metal frame came down hard on my knee, and it hurt like the living hell. Seeing as how this is my bad knee (I sound like I’m 50?), it just makes the deal more sweet. Half the time I’m walking around with some sort of limp, so aside from the pain, nothing is new.

I’m getting out of the house today and seeing my family. My summer has had some very odd pacing. June was busy and exciting, July has been pretty slow for the most part. Job hunting blows. I can’t understand why it’s such a hassle around here! I’ll probably start looking alot more, once college starts. Unlike your average college student, I can work a couple of shifts into my weekday, so that may give me some sort of upperhand. At least I have some small bursts of payment here and there, so I’m not always at the bottom of the barrel. My friend Casey is looking into seeing if I can get a job at the movie theater she works at. It seems like a pretty nice gig, and I know someone who works there, so it makes it all the better.

I also need to find out when school starts again. I took a small break, as my college has a year-round schedule. I was supposed to go back August 4th, but they added a week break right after I left, so I’m not sure how different the return date is. I’ve also lost my school passwords. It’s aggravating to keep up with 4 passwords for one college… So I have no idea what classes I need to attend upon my return. I’ll be sure to make some phone calls this week. At least they know I’m coming back, I hope…

Guess it’s time to drive 45 minutes with a bad leg, in crappy Greensboro/Winston-Salem traffic. Sh!t.

Bored

Bugha! I get bored easily… I’ve been playing in Photoshop some…

I’m going to Asheville with Brittany on Tuesday. I hope it’s fun

At Anthrocon

I’m at Anthrocon with 4 other friends. We got in at about 3:30pm yesterday, after driving through West Virginia forever, which is a rather disturbing state. Before hitting WV, we actually took a stop in Bland, Virginia, to go to the restroom and getting a drink. We really didn’t hit bad traffic until we hit Pennsylvania, and got into Pittsburgh. I felt horrifically intimidated when we got out of one of the tunnels, and we saw the city scape over the bridge. I’m not a fan of city driving at all. But we made it without injury. The majority of the events start today, so hopefully it will fun.

Horoscopes

I usually don’t look at these (I’m Aries btw), but I got bored, so here I am. I know some of my friends are into them, which is cool. I was just comparing mine to other signs in the forms of friendship, love, and whatever else. I have to admit, most other signs make mine look like a jackass. I’m not as experianced with it as some of my friends, so maybe I’m missing something.

I’m in one of those phases where I’m up more and sleeping less. I guess that’s good. I’ll end up going to bed around 3-4am, and waking up at about 7-8am. It’s nice to get more done in the day I guess.

I’m playing around with some film projects. I’m hoping to get back into the flow of actually producing new stuff for my website soon. I hate neglecting visitors, espesically since I’ll be out and about most of June, but any footage recorded should be quite amusing. If I can smuggle my camera into a coffee shop in Amsterdam, I’m certain it will bring lulz.

I have to fill out a leave of absense form for school, since I don’t get a scheduled summer-break. I’m kinda bummed that this is an “accelorated” program. I mean I’m in no rush, but I understand that most people here got stuck in a dead-end job somewhere else and need a new degree in a short amount of time. I’m looking into continueing my education somewhere else, mainly because I want to do better then an Assosiates in Applied Sciences. I know Virginia Tech has a good computer science program, and I could probably get into that school (father was alumni), but I really don’t want to move so soon after just moving to Greensboro, and honestly, I like it here. After living in Winston-Salem most of my life, this place is great. But that’s a couple years down the road. Maybe if I got into a committed relationship, and we moved together… Nah, probably won’t happen.

Long all-nighter

Well I can safely say my life hasn’t been too boring this week. So far it was seeming a tad hectic. I’m trying to drop my online class, but I don’t think I’ll be able to. I think I can bullshit it and tough it out for a few more weeks. At least my Networking I class is doing well, mostly.

I had some friends I wanted to hang out with this weekend, so I tried to carefully plan it all out. Brittany, being under 18, isn’t really able to hang out into the early hours of the morning, so I decided to see her first. She and I went to the mall for a little bit, just to browse around, and then we picked up Stephen to see a movie at 10:15PM. I forgot that name of the movie, but it was pretty good, even though I had not heard of the film prior to today.

After the film, I would later hang out with my friend Chelsie and her friend Maya, and her other friend Elizabeth. After figuring out just where she lived (turns out it’s not so hidden), we just hung out at her place. We ended up watching a film called Dogma which was pretty damn cool. We later just laid around chatting, and eventually tried going to bed, in the same bed,lol. None of us could really get to sleep, so I ended up taking Chelsie and Maya to IHop at 6am in the morning. After that, I dropped them off at their homes, and returned to my parents place, at about 8:30am. I didn’t expect to be out all night, but I’m certainly not complaining. I’m currently on the couch, preparing for a couple hours of sleep. I’ll try to get up later to spend some time with my family. I’d feel guilty if I was just using my old home to crash for the night, uh, morning…

Silentwulf’s New Blog

Okay so I decided to create a new blog, for stalkers and fans to read. I’ll put more personal info here rather then alot of site related junk (that’s what the front page is for).

So I guess to start things off, I’m finally in my first networking class at college. I must admit, the teacher is pretty damn mundane. He’s just lucky that I’m interested in the subject of the class, or I’d never stay awake. We went over some networking topology, which is always fun to play with. I’d say that most of this coarse won’t be very new to me. We do use Windows Server 2003, which I haven’t played with much. Most servers I’ve played with are Linux. I’m surprised to see 3 women in that class! Most computer-related career fields are mostly men. Not sure why though. I guess it’s that sensor that re-activates when you’re single.

I’ve been alot more active with communicating with people online now. I already reactivated my Stickam (webcam service) account. That and I’m on AIM alot more. I still refuse to use other services at this time, and I don’t plan to change. I just don’t have alot of nice things to say about Yahoo or MSN. I’ve also been trying to keep busy. Finding a job here isn’t exactly a fucking cake walk. For some reason, employers tend to avoid my like the Black Death. I mean I can pass a drug test, background check, whatever you throw at me. I think I can walk around with a faggy little uniform and put price tags on inventory. Just anything to keep me busy and earn a little side income. I doubt this term at school will be very hard (5 week terms). I have an online class, and man, I hate these things. Why must I suffer?! If they stick me in another online class I’m going to fucking hurt someone. Not to mention this is a class on culture and diversity. To sum it up, “You’re White! You’re evil! Accept everyone else!” This will be nothing aside from a major butt-hurt. I just have to use big words, and pretend that I’m open and love everyone. I grew up with republican parents, and in a mean city, so yeah, I’m REAL accepting of every culture on the planet. I’ll just strip myself of any natural human emotions and give everyone a big hug!  I’m not saying I’m mean, but let’s face it, I don’t really care too much if you’re from Iran or China or something, I judge you on a individual basis, not by your skin color or country of origin.

Ok, ranting aside. I’m starving. I had dinner… Why am I hungry? Who knows? My body is wacky enough as it is. I might have waffles.

Not bad for a first blog I guess. If you haven’t figured it out, I tend to ramble.