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It’s been awhile…

I mostly post on Twitter now. Life is okay now, except I’ve been sick since Christmas and my apartment is at least partially to blame. Let me know if you want details, but it’s looking like its about time to move out. Granted I didn’t want to move out until I moved back to Owensboro, but with me having absolutely 0 luck finding a job there, things aren’t looking so bright.

In December, I finally upgraded my phone and purchased an 8gb iPhone. Now, its useless to me as a phone as I can not hear anyone through any function, whether it be earpiece, headphone, speakerphone, or bluetooth, even. I can hear voicemail, listen to music, text, internet, take pictures fine except for hearing while on a call. Weird, I know. I drove to Louisville on Saturday (3/21) to go to the Apple Store and after approximately a 5 minute wait and a 5 second inspection, they informed me that they would not service the phone due to water damage. Unfortunately, the phone had never been wet but their moisture sensor had been tripped. (I have a feeling it may have had something to do with the apartment situation, but I’m not 100% sure and can’t be sure…) So, I’ve bought another one, and this time I plan on getting a case for it so that this type of thing won’t happen again.

Classes are going well and we’re a week and a half or so past mid-term so classes are flying by… I’m not sure what classes I’ll take next semester, but if I’m back in Owensboro, I am going to try to take at least one on campus class and I don’t think I’m going to go full time, but I may. Full time online, while being a lot of work if its not 2×2 bitermed classes, is also a lot more expensive than taking 3 online and 1 on campus. So, we’ll see what happens but I am liking WKU compared to EKU. It feels like I have more control over the types of courses I can take. I can’t wait to be done though!

The car is doing well. I’ve put over 20,000 miles on it since I purchased it on 5 July 2008. I believe it averages out to about 75 miles per day for that time period. It’s going well, which is good, because we’ll be taking it to Nashville in April to see Dave Matthews and to Chicago in August to see Jimmy Buffett. Plans to see U2 in September/October time frame are also in the works, too. I can’t wait to see both DMB and Jimmy Buffett… We’ve been able to sell our original tickets to my sister’s friend and upgrade our seats for the same price as the old ones for Dave Matthews and we have some great seats. Here’s a diagram of the seating change. As for Jimmy Buffett, I’ve been wanting to see Buffett live for some time now, and we finally made it happen. The tickets aren’t the absolute greatest, but it will be a great experience and we can try for better seats next time. As for U2, I have lots of friends interested, so its just down to ticket availability, which I’m sure won’t be easy. We’re looking at either Chicago or Atlanta for the U2 show.

I guess that’s about all for now… Keep track on Twitter for more from me, but I’ll still be back here from time to time to post. Until then…

BNL Concert Recap

The BNL concert was last night and it was GREAT! I felt bad for the other people that I went with as they got their seats before I got my friend Josh and I’s seats, and we were actually closer! We were 11 rows from the stage in Row K about middle or to the right of the middle of the row (seats 19 and 20). I took lots of pics and thankfully, some of them turned out good. You can check them out here. The show was at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino in their outside amphitheater and it was hot, but it cooled down some with a nice breeze. It started lightning in the distance to the west about three-fourths through the show and started raining as we were heading to the cars. Well, maybe TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR would be a better way to describe it.

BNL came out and played for a good 2 hours or so, and, while I don’t have a full set list, among the songs played were “One Week”, “The Old Apartment”, “Pinch Me”, “For You”, “Maybe Katie”, and two of my favorite karaoke tunes – “Brian Wilson” and “If I Had $1,000,000”. BNL’s improvisation abilities are superb and added great enjoyment and comedy to the concert. The concert ended with “King of Bedside Manor” which included bits of Van Morrison’s “Moondance”.

It was a great venue and an amazing show, full of surprises – including sitting not 20 feet from Jared the Subway guy! I highly recommend seeing BNL as they are a great band and very funny. Horseshoe Southern Indiana has a great venue in its outdoor ampitheater and would also recommend seeing anyone there as it small and any seat is a great seat. Horseshoe Southern Indiana seems to be pulling some pretty big names with its Summer Concert Series. The Beach Boys and Reba have played recently at Horseshoe and Gretchen Wilson, Bob Dylan, and a Styx/Boston combined concert are coming up soon. You can view a list of the upcoming events at the outdoor ampitheater here.

Life Changes…

Life changes often. My life is no exception. I finally bit the bullet and traded in my 2002 Ford Explorer 4×4 for a 2004 Mazda 3 Hatchback. In the past, I have driven SUVs (2 Explorers and a Blazer), so this is the first car I’ve ever owned. It’s also the first vehicle I’ve owned in just over 4 years that wasn’t built in Kentucky (the two Explorers), and my first ever that was built in Japan. I’m really digging the new 3… looks awesome and gets great gas mileage (300+ miles on a 14.5 gallon tank). For a car its got lots of space, though obviously not as much as in the Explorer The 3 really surprised me at the amount of stuff I can haul in the boot.

Stock photo - Mazda 3 hatchback
Stock photo from Don Moore Toyota‘s website.

It’s got a 4 cylinder, 2.3L engine that pushes out 156Â bhp and 150 lb-ft of torque and has an automatic transmission with a manual mode that allows you to shift if you want. Inside, it has black and blue leather seats, a moon roof, and a 6 disc in dash CD changer, which, unfortunately, does not offer MP3 support. I have a feeling that I’ll be installing a new head unit soon but I’ll live with the 6 disc changer for now.

The job search is not going as well as I had hoped. I am expanding my view to include Louisville as well. I figure that there is a much better/bigger job market there than in either Richmond or Owensboro, and its a nice city to boot.

Speaking of Louisville, this Saturday is the Barenaked Ladies concert at Caesars Indiana – just outside of Louisville. I’m very excited and can’t wait to see BNL live!

I guess that’s it for now… back to building a server.

Quick Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that I was accepted at WKU and will be going back in the fall. Hopefully, I’ll only have 4 semesters and I’ll be done.

I am looking for a job in Owensboro as I am quite wanting to move back to the area. It will also be nice to be closer to WKU in the event I’ll need to be on campus for something.

Have fun, everybody!

It’s Late

Probably way too late to be writing this, but here’s goes.

I just withdrew from my summer and fall courses from EKU. Also, I have filled out and have ready to mail a transcript request from EKU and submitted my application for readmission to… Western. Yes – Western. The school I wanted to attend as a freshman in high school – and the school I briefly attended after my 3 years at OCTC. Why Western? Well, I can most probably get out of there faster than I can at EKU. I’m hoping 2 years is all I’ll need – possibly less if I can swing it.

I’ll still be living up in Richmond for the time being, may decide to move closer to work – Winchester, where I can take courses at the community college – or maybe try to find something in/around Owensboro so I can take courses at WKU-O. Anyways, as I said before, it’s late. Just wanted to share – good night.

Say, what’s that in the top right?

So… I decided to upgrade WordPress to 2.5 and install a Twitter badge at the top right… Now you folks can follow me on Twitter if you like. I’ll still be posting here from time to time – Twitter will only be for short blasts that come to me as the day goes on. Hope everyone is having a good spring so far!

Update

So its Spring Break – and I’m in Richmond. Hooray. I have to work, which isn’t too surprising. I finally got my co-op paper work turned in and approved. Now I can’t quit my job until May. I wasn’t planning on it, but now I have no choice.

I had a pretty good birthday – got to see lots of friends which is always good. I purchased my new firearm – the CZ 75 Kadet. I am already looking for my upgrade to it even though I have yet to fire my CZ. I saw the Ruger SR9 today, and a friend suggested the Springfield XD – on top of the option of going with another CZ in a larger caliber. I still have plenty of time to decide as I won’t be purchasing an upgrade for a while but I do want to look. I still need to purchase a holster for my CZ but it can wait. I really want to put some rounds through it – and it’s definitely cheap enough. I purchased 550 rounds for $13 and change at Walmart recently. As stated in a previous post, this is one of the major reasons for purchasing a .22 caliber.

Speaking of firearms, I recently spoke to the guy in charge of EKU’s chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Seems like a nice enough guy and hopefully I will be joining the ranks of the organization. Recently, I’ve been active on the UK chapter of SCCC’s website (it helps that my friend Mike is the webmaster). Concealed carry on campus is something I strongly believe in, for reason’s I won’t get in to at the present, and I hope we can shed some light on the subject.

Anyways – I’ll wrap it up here. I’ll post more later.

Birthday / Update: Guns

This weekend, I am headed home to Owensboro, and I will be celebrating my 23rd birthday which will occur March 7. If you’re going to be in Owensboro – give me a call. I’d love to include you in my celebration.  Further, I will be continuing my birthday celebration in Richmond, so if you’re going to be there around the 7th, let me know.

In addition, I will be (more than likely) purchasing the CZ-75 Kadet. I am excited for this purchase and cannot wait. More news to come. Stay tuned.

Guns

So, its late on a Sunday night… I should be in bed… but I’m not.

I’m trying to decide which gun I should purchase. I have it down three.

1.) CZ 75 Kadet

  • Granted, I’ve never held the Kadet. I have held a .40 caliber version of the CZ 75 which is the same size and weight (actually, the .40 is .2 lb lighter than the Kadet). I like the size and weight of the gun and it looks more like a regular gun. I also like the fact that it is similar to the other so that if I decide to upgrade later to a larger caliber weapon, I can go with a CZ 75 and it won’t be much of a change. What I don’t necessarily like about the gun is that, at around $450, it is a bit more than the other two that I have been considering and that I cannot find a store that has one in stock around here. (I’ve only checked two places so far, though.)

2.) Browning Buck Mark Camper

  • I like this one as well – mainly for its size and cost. Sportsman’s Warehouse in Lexington has this for around $270. Its fairly comfortable to hold but I do not really like how its looks. I know looks shouldn’t matter, but this gun just doesn’t scream “pistol” to me.

3.) Smith & Wesson 22A

  • I found this one at Guns Inc. here in Richmond, and also at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Lexington for around $230. The gun is very affordable, which is good. As with the Browning, I’m not too fond of the looks. A feature of this gun is the built in rail mount – but that also detracts from the pistol look that I like. I believe that this gun and the Browning are more of a target pistol than the CZ is.

So those are the three guns I’m looking at. They are all .22’s. Why do I want a .22? There are a few reasons…

  • Ammo is way cheaper
  • I haven’t really shot very much in my life. I’m not new to guns, but I’m not very experienced with them as I’d like
  • I want to work on my accuracy
  • Price is better comparable to the larger calibers (The CZ is close but factoring in the ammo expense its a better deal still, in my opinion.)

Anyways, thats really all I can think of at this time. I’m gonna go to sleep now. Leave comments and let me know what you think.

School Stuff…

Hey everyone…

I’m considering switching majors from Computer Electronic Networking to Computer Information Systems – Network Management. My advisor says there will be more Database administration in the CIS-NetworkMgmt curriculum… which sounds more along the lines of what I want to do. I’m really not getting this electronics stuff… Any comments?