This morning I got up at 8 and almost immediately recieved a call from Selina who was in town and wanted to have breakfast with her son, who was passing through. So I drug my carcass out of bed and she picked me up. We went to Flying J Truck Stop. They were having a bad day there. The gravy was 2 parts salt, 1 part liquid, so I sent back my biscuits and gravy. Got the chicken fried steak on the promise that they would use gravy that was't so salty. It arrived, still salty and something had gone horribly wrong with the hasbrowns. I gave up. Not usually being one to complain, I just said that it was okay, and not to worry about it. Selina insisted that I not pay for it, and managed to get them to give me the uneaten meal for free. I'm such a weanie sometimes. I just hate conflict so much.

Anyway...after the breakfast fiasco, we decided to go tourisming and I got my camera, and the guy at the gas station told us to head out to Balanced Rock, which is about 11 miles from here. So we did.

Today's picture is the world famous (never heard of it, have you?) Balanced Rock. Neat huh. It's over 48 feet tall and weighs 40 tons. I've seen pictures of it all my life, but I never actually saw the rock. It's pretty hard to get too near it, cuz of all the walking uphill required. So I took a bunch of pictures of it. The whole area is full of similar rock formations. Really pretty. There is a neat little park there, and I took a few pictures in the park, but only of the see-saw and swings. Selina went and talked to some Mennonites who were picnicking nearby. She is far more social than I.



Gadget of the Day

Not necessarity a gadget, but a great free software suite that matches up very well with Microsoft Office. It'll open all sorts of files and is very easy to use, and it's free. Couldn't be better. A must for people who are going to school and can't afford to shell out $130 for it's Microsoft counterpart. I have nothing against Microsoft, but did I mention free? Click the graphic to go to the page.

No picture today. Just don't have anything interesting.

Let's see, anything interesting happening? Not a whole lot. I ran into a guy I met a couple of years ago, today. It was very nice to see him. He had quite an impact on me, when we met. Like when you meet someone, and you just connect almost joltingly. We hung out for a couple of weeks, and then he had to go back home. We lost touch shortly thereafter. I think about him a lot. Glad to have run into him.

Not much on the school front. I think I need to reapply for financial aid or something for next semester. I was already approved for it, but...I'm kind of confused. If only there were some kind of office that I could visit to get the answers....Oh..yeah...there is.

I do need to find a part time job. The little boy in me says, "I don't wanna work!" and I certainly don't want to work at a restaurant. I don't really want to work with the general public at all. I really don't like the general public that much...I have worked with the general public all my life, either over the phone or in person. There are too many greedly little jerkwads out there. The lady who thinks that because someone else get's it for free, then she should too, regardless of the circumstances. The guy who is so angry that he continues to be a dick once you've solved his problem. The people who take no responsibility for anything, everything that happens to them is someone else's fault.

I must sound a bit bitter, but 10 years in the customer service industry'll do that to a guy.

I am, not purposely, watching some stupid ghost show on the Travel Channel. "Ghost stories are more scary when they're true." What..ever. Oh, my God, they are channeling with bad accents. I shit you not, one of them just said "No one means you any harm, and you are in the body of a very good friend of mine"

Priceless

My father was a ghost hunter. We would always go spend the night in old abandoned houses, and I was always having supernatural experiences when I was a kid. I wish I still believed in it all. I just see these "mediums" on tv and am just offended that they could think me as stupid as they must. The other day on Dead Tenants, there were these two mediums in the house. One of them said that there was a fire...she saw children burning, then she starts crying and embarrassing herself. Then just a few minutes later another medium goes into the room. and starts saying, "I feel like I'm walking through thickness, like a deluge. I see my children being swept away" The voice-over guy says that the other lady was seeing a fire too. Yep. Children being swept away in a deluge of fire. (deluge is flood, for those what don't know) The show just wanted to make sure that they had all the information to back up their fire theory, which, coincidentally another investigator had discovered evidence of at the local library. Apparently a train crashed a mile away from the house. Which, naturally, lead to burning children in the basement.

But I do go on.

Have fun all.

I have decided to add a few things to the daily blog. I'm going to add a gadget feature: Gadget of the Day. Usually from Gizmodo or Engadget

Gadget of the Day

From Engadget



Kind of cool looking new phone prototype. I like the design. It's entire front surface is an LCD screen, which is perfect, cuz you get a small phone and a large screen. With all the hooplah lately about scratching on the Ipod Nano, I would imagine that we won't be seeing this anytime soon. Unless they can come up with a good scratch proof coating or make it out of diamond or something. It's also run on a fuel cell, which sounds all futuristic and cool, I hope there is some benefit to it, like it'll run for a year without a recharge, or it recharges in like 1 minute. That would be very nice.

Hey all. I have just moved the blog back over here from Yahoo 360. They're still in beta over there and they kinda suck. SO...

I was thinking this morning over all my horrific depression of the past, some of which I posted about earlier in the year. I was pretty desperate for a reason to live there for a while. Wierd, huh. I was grasping at anything and anyone who would give me purpose. Which, of course, scared the hell out of any guy who would show me the time of day. There was a guy who I met at the bar, after the whole Michael fiasco which I may save for a later post. Anyway, I met this guy at the bar and he was pretty hot and we went home...nuf said. Then he called me again a few nights later, came over and...nuf said. I really didn't know this guy from Adam, and I start to get emotionally entangled in him.

After I lost everything, which happened around December 2004, it was like I'd been knocked off a cruise ship. I'm there in the water trying to swim, but getting really tired...exhausted. Searching for any peice of flotsam that might be floating by to sustain me, keep me afloat. It's nice to be able to have that kind of introspection. There is hope that I won't allow it to happen again. Michael really hurt me, but I had no business with him in the first place. Mike, (the other guy, as it seems that anyone with whom I become romantically entangled, has to be named some variant of Michael), was just a guy. He didn't know me and we messed around a few times, but I had no business expecting him to be that flotsam, or explaining to him that he was that flotsam.

In retrospect, that was pretty sad. I hope that I'm over it. I have purpose, at least for the next seven years or so.

Took my math test. Hopefully did well. Starting to read the psychology book every day, so's I don't have to read 100 pages the day before the test. Oh, and I managed to get a B+ on the big psychology test.

Well, that's about all I have to say right now. Today's photo is of a sign, welcoming people to the part of town in which I live. It's not nearly as glamorous and it seems...really.

Have fun all.

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Today's picture, because I'm still working through my portfolio and haven't taken any new one's yet, is of the previously mentioned tower. I am standing at the middle of the base, looking up.

I will take more pictures soon.

Today was the dreaded Psychology test. I think I did very well. Which is good, considering that I spent the entirety of yesterday studying it. Not really much more than that. Started the Biology poster project idea. Now we are discussing how giant cow farms are destroying the environment, which is sooo true. Not just because they stink, but because cow waste is somewhat toxic after you put antibiotics, heavy metals, medicine, etc into it. This stuff just sits in a big lagoon for months and the bacteria and junk have a field day, at the last the antibiotic resistant bacteria, who will now live to mate with (bacteria don't really "mate" per say, but they do share genetic material) the other antibiotic resistant bacteria to create a superstrain of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Nothing wrong there.

Mostly an uneventful day. I have, in theory, a friend coming up from Jerome to spend some time with me this afternoon. She's going through kind of a rough patch.

I kind of feel like this is a whole new start for me. Mostly because it is. I have my life back. I have no money, but I do have freedom. I am solely reliant upon myself to get through and I don't have to worry about anyone else's welfare. It's a good thing.

I better roll now, I have to...uh...well, I don't really have anything to do, I just don't have anything else to say.

Have fun!

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Here is a picture of my desk. My mess. The one I have been trying to tackle all day. The demons in my head, however, keep saying things like, "Don't you need a DVR instead of just that boring old cable box?"

So off I went to the cable place to get one. I can sure afford it, I have no job and no income!!

The other thing I've been doing today, is attempting to study for this big test coming up. Which I am proud to say I am doing right now. I'm not typing a blog entry, heavens no.

Today has been pretty good. I've been popping Ginseng like they're going out of style, so my focus has been pretty sharp...comparatively. I have ADD, I suppose I should mention that. I have been off my meds for about 2 months and it's a little hard to concentrate on one thing. I have replaced my Strattera with Ginseng. (cheap and over the counter)

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Today I decided to put up a picture of the famous Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls. It's very pretty, and it's quite the popular destination for base jumpers .

Well, I have met a few people here in Twin Falls. It hasn't taken my social life to new levels. I'm kind of feeling alone here. I'm sure that will change.

Let's see.

Today:

I went to school. Had a Biology test and found out that I aced a humanities test. Booyah! I have a Psychology test on Wednesday about which I have read nothing. Cram time...ick. Now that I live here. I will start reading my homework every night.

I have this problem with reading. I cannot have any distractions at all. TV off, no music, no talking. I see people all over the school sitting there with headphones on and reading away. I wish I could do that.

I rented, uh...lemme check the name...be right back.

It was Closer , starring Jude Law and Julia Roberts and two other people who I don't know. BOORRIINNGG. I hate relationship movies. I like romantic comedies, and really good romantic dramas. I just hate slow-ass relationship movies.

I've been putting off studying tonight. I played a bit of a video game that I can't tell you the name of because I'm a beta tester (ooohh..fancy, eh?) I signed a non-disclosure agreement. So, I guess I can't talk about that...

I need to clean my house better. I get so bored and then I think, "I'm bored, what should I do....uhh." and a little voice says "clean your fucking house"...and I say, "What...uh..nevermind I'll watch TV."

I wonder if the HTML works yet...let's see...

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