just chiming in... i think this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_74Yy-T5M pretty much sums up how Manuel is these days.

School is done. Today is my first day off from work as well, other than Christmas. It feels great. I'm sitting at home and just about to turn my Xbox on and play some Oblivion. I started a new character to get that last achievement I'm missing. I didn't get the one in the expansion where you have the choice of which route you go. I'm not doing the main quest because I'm going to do the expansions first and both the Fighters Guild and Mages Guild. I'm playing as a Redguard for the first time ever using blunt, heavy armor, mercantile, athletics, acrobatics, mysticism, and alteration. I'm leveling up faster than my last game.

Anyways, my girlfriend is taking a winterim class so I won't be seeing much of her unfortunately this break but its cool, more videogames!

Well my christmas was very nice, not breaking 2008's record for best christmas evar, but still very good. I got a good haul. The new camera I got will help me get my new years resolution to release new youtube videos at least once a week be possible. I also got some money for some internet shopping.

Gonna get to get shooting tomorrow. One of my dad's employees is a crazy old guy (Think Creed from The Office) with a huge weapon stash, and he'll be lending us some guns.

I'm actually going today. One of my friends just got a new gun for Christmas. Never shot a gun before so we'll see how this goes.

Hint: The end with the holes in it faces away from you.

I've had a good Christmas. I got a new iPod (Classic) so I have more space for my music. I saw my family yesterday, many of whom I hadn't seen for a good year, so it was good to catch up with them.

My break is going well. Been practicing the piano a lot, exercising, and playing WoW and Fallout: New Vegas. I thankfully do not have much homework, just math. I did the mandated math, but I am yet to do the extra-credit. There is a lot to do for extra-credit, but it won't be bad as long as I stretch it out through 2-3 days.

Hoo boy, tonight has been interesting enough. Earlier, I had noticed some of the local kids try to make a fire (I saw smoke coming in) in the woods behind my house. Well about an hour and a half ago, my mother notices a fire from the same spot. My sister and I head out with containers of water (it seems we need a new fire extinguisher :facepalm: ) while my mother calls 911. Now the fire trucks completely go past our house (we were the only ones with the front light on) and it's only after the visible flames are gone that I am able to flag down the firefighters. They then proceed to douse the area where the fire was.

Rough morning. It's still a lot to take in for me, I can't type the details without tearing up. Anyway, Muffin has what is hopefully a dental abscess (that's the best-case scenario), which is causing a secondary inflammation to her eye.

I love her so much.

I hope everything works out okay

Haha! This is only funny because no-one got hurt or anything. Did you give the firefighters a good grilling? [/horrible pun]. Reminds me of a story I read in the paper about a police officer here stopping a left-hand drive vehicle (We're right hand drive over here), and doing a breath test and license check on the passenger, without even noticing that he was in the wrong. He even checked the ownership papers over on the driver's side. He must've had a long day.

Anyway, speaking of breaks, I'm about half-way through a three month break. It's amazing. Been swimming, waterskiing, roadtripping...I also have a Friday only job, which is amazing as I get money and 6 days off work. I need to pick up an extra shift, realistically, but hell, I'm trying to put that off cause I love holidays. I'll also put it down to recovering from a back injury, more work would hinder my recovery <_<

Muffin is your dog, right? (Sorry, I'm a new comer to the lair, despite my 6+ years of being here) My dog, Pepper, had dental abscesses as well a while back. She had to have a few molars removed to clean everything up. She was very loopy after the surgery, but she's made a full recovery since. Granted we have to soak her dry dog food in water so she can chew it, but better than her being sick. I hope everything works out with Muffin. I was worried sick about my Pepper.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Ninjabob/Pepper.jpg is a picture of Pepper from last April, well after the surgery. She's still able to root for the Spurs!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Ninjabob/DipStick.jpg

SQUEE! She's adorable!!

Hi all

It's been a long time since I posted in here. Been modelling a lot, http://tesseract.ca/images/Renders/TriceratopsFamily2a.jpg and mindcrafting.

I've been making minecraft skins, my favorite so far is the http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=124798&sid=06aed97e51e25ac325f473b1ccc406e9#p1889002, looking for ideas for more sily ones.

I've only ridden a horse once since Cinni died, it was horrible, I felt no connection to the horse and the riding sinstructor wasn't very good; she had no understanding of my physical limitations from my disability,

Mostly I see my ES friends on Facebook these days. I need to come here more often.

keywords for last few days, weeks: "need a time machine", "bored", and "sigh". :shakehead:

on the bright side, resuming college in a week

This weekend, I'll be... getting a shorter haircut. But it's actually a pretty big deal for me, because I've had http://i30.tinypic.com/20ucux1.jpg, give or take a few inches, for years. And now I'm getting one so that my hair will be just an inch or two long. The last time I had short hair I was so much younger that I really don't know what I'll look like. It should be an interesting experience, to say the least.

So my semester started last Tuesday, I go two days a week from 930am to 715pm, which although its a long day its more efficient I think. It saves on both gas and time and allows more freedom to work if I can find a job in this small town. I have a ton to do but still put it off yesterday when I was intending to really dedicate.

My Windows CLient administration class is going to be pretty rediculous. It is a class geared toward on of the Microsoft certifications, but I don't feel that it will be overly beneficial judging by the first couple sets of worksheets for the class. But luckily I do have my own book to read from and I am planning to do all the required certifications on my own which I think will benefit me more, and saves tons of money. I am trying to start working on my Security+ certification but that has been going a bit slow.

While doing 5 classes and studying for the certifications on my own I am also hoping to continue learning C# and create a few decent programs this semester. I have a few started but I ran into issues with concepts that got me a bit discouraged. This happens though and a few days later I return to it or start something else. I might even be handing off my most complete project to someone else since I don't really have the motivation to maintain it anymore, though for the most part it works flawlessly. Some users have issues with it though that I cannot pinpoint which is annoying, I think I will supply one small addition and see if it helps though. If I do feel I have a good enough grasp on the programming I may do some freelancing for extra cash, though I want to think up a good company name for it.

Today in my English class, my teacher and I argued whether or not you need a fourth period if you write "..." at the end of a sentence. This was brought up in my religion class, and that teacher agreed with my English teacher. So she looked it up, and I was correct. So I facetiously said "Of course I am right", with a chuckle (so basically, it was obvious that I was joking). Later today, she stopped me and told me not to be so arrogant, and that she knows I was joking, but others did not. What I do not understand is, why should I be ridiculed over other people's errs?

Those are some nice models man. Sad thing about the horse, though I don't know what your disability is.


That's how life is man, also saying something like "Of course I am right" is pretty arrogant joking or not, if you ask me.

Been messing with the GECK, finished the GED today and looking for a new job. Sums it up. Soon it'll be time to enroll in a CC and get myself some decent money coding. Dream come true, really.

I am, according to my English teacher "The Wild Card", and she wants me to be a philsopher(sounded like hearing a death sentence).

I'm talking to NextMasterminds mum on how he's doing at school ons team :rofl:

Why?

weeeeeeeeellll.....

It all started when we read a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer...called "The Washwoman"....(google it, you'll enjoy it)

My English teacher asked us if to sum up what we thought Isaac valued in life based off of this story.

After I turned in my paper, she began to read it, then got up, told everyone to stop writing, and to listen to my essay.

OI! why is Lucrezia still my Avatar? I thought I changed it!

I mean, why is it like a death sentence?

Well I got my first report card for high school and I've got 5 B's 1 A and a C