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So that my mom can keep up with what I'm doing. </div><div><br /></div><div>So happy mother's day, Mom. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>if you're reading this, and you're not my mother, you'll probably find everything after now to be rubbish :P</i></span></div>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-56789799168747468972009-12-11T21:49:00.003-05:002009-12-11T22:24:13.927-05:00Kittens!As you may have guessed from my user name, kittycat27, I am a cat lover. I do have a cat, but he is 2 and a half hours away from where I currently live because I am at school. <br />This fact I think has dramatically increased my desire for a kitten. I mean at any given time I always want a kitten, but lately I've been wanting one way way way more. It may be also because where I currently live (an apartment) actually does allow pets, so I don't have that stopping me either. I do realize that as a student I may not have enough time to spend with the kitten, or it may distract me from my work, also student=lack of money for proper food, litter, shots etc, all these logical statements do not quench my desire. There is a part of me that says all these things, which a good logical reasons not to get a kitten, but the other part of me whines but I *want* a kitten.<br />I also run into the roommate problem. One of my roommates has been dying for a pet all year (we almost got a dog, luckily I convinced them out of it. They would only get a big dog and our apartment is to small for a big dog) the 2nd one doesn't care and the third one....well lets just say when I told her I was a cat lover and she responded with "why? They're useless." For being a political science major her tact and diplomacy is severely lacking. <br />Then there is my poor tortured boyfriend (cyborg owner of the blog). Whom I have been pestering for a kitten since almost as long as we have been dating. I know full well that my parents have forbid him from getting me a kitten under pain of death etc. This doesn't stop me! I constantly bug him for one with the hope that his love for me will cause him to defy my parents and get me a kitten! or he'll get me one just to shut me up because he can't stand the pestering any more. So far neither has happened, it's probably because I'm not trying hard enough!<br />Ah yes, I forgot the major factor in my lack of kitten, my parents. They are pretty much 99% of why I'm no using the blog to describe the kitten I just got. They want no more pets. We have 1 cat, whose gotten sick at least twice, and we're talking near death sick, that we have had the vet fix. Now you have to know my parents they love our pets but they aren't the type to keep a suffering animal alive. Luckily both times no surgery was needed on poor bunny (yes my cat's name is bunny) and he bounced back. Also, we have a (in)purebred cocker spaniel. She hyperactive, cute, horribly annoying, stupid jealous little 15 lbs thing. We do not think she'd take well so something else taking attention away from her. Bunny is older than Katie and can defend himself, a kitten couldn't.<br />So, alas another Christmas will go by and there will be no kitten for me :(.<br />Oh well, it's back to studying organic chemistry for me!<br />Kittycat27.kittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-77868882222085715952009-05-01T11:49:00.004-04:002009-05-01T13:15:55.471-04:00"The Jub Hunt", or, "The Wild Goose Chase"With all my excitement over the comic, and the work on a Layout and Tips and Tricks guide for it, it seems I've neglected my blog. Well, that and I don't have much in the way of news. Amy's back for the summer now, which is nice, and we both have to find jobs, which is less nice. I should have gotten one by now, but there's not many to be had, and after last summer, I'm reluctant to throw resumes blindly at every job. It also doesn't help that I'll be moving to London in September. Nor that I just found out that I had bad contact information for my references on the first couple batches of applications I filled out. I can't really see why no one wants to hire me. I'm hard working, I'm good with people. Then again, so is everyone else who writes a cover letter. But I'm among those who mean it. Not that that means anything. Out of the couple dozen or so resumes I've sent out, only one employer gave any indication of why they wouldn't hire me. It was because I was leaving in September.<br /><br />I don't know what these employers want. The open ended essay questions are the worst. "What does customer service mean to you?" Making the customer as happy as possible without breaking company policy? "Why are yo interested in a position at [our company]?" You have an open spot in customer service, and I really want to work customer service? "Why are you interested in a career with [our parent company]?" Whoah, what? I just want to apply to this temporary position to get money so I can pay my tuition.<br /><br />I don't see why someone needs to be eternally dedicated to a company to work for them. Isn't enough to be dedicated to doing your job to the best f your ability, regardless of who you're working for? It's an employers market, so apparently not.<br /><br />I'm also in a bit of a catch-22 with transportation. No one wants to hire someone from out of town who doesn't have their own car. Unfortunately for me, I live in the middle of nowhere, so all my applications are for out-of-town jobs, and I don't have more than a G1 license. I'd get my G2, but I can't afford the classes or the insurance, which is why I need a job, but no one will hire... etc, etc.<br /><br />Some might say I shouldn't post this because of employers reading it. I just did a google for my name, and that doesn't seem likely, but I'm fine with it if they do. I have <a href="http://xkcd.com/137/">this comic</a> pinned up on the wall by desk, and I agree with it. Although if any prospective employers <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> reading this, I would like to point out that I don't complain nearly as much in person, which is probably why I complain so much on this blog. I would also suggest they search "cyborg_572" if they really want to find out about me. As there's a lot of people with my name, and I don't use it online all that often. Well, that's it for me. Until next time!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">yeah, I'm back to the "Until next time" thing. What can I say? I like it.</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-84388605094769140412009-04-16T14:17:00.003-04:002009-04-16T14:35:18.637-04:00Exams!Yet again exams are upon me. This time it really counts because they are my finals, and if I want to go into chemistry next year I should probably do really well on my exam, which is tomorrow. I'm very nervous! I know what you're thinking, why am I writing this if I could be studying?" I am merely taking a short break. I never really did figure out the thermodynamics questions, but there are only 3 questions from the stuff we learned before January so I think I'll be O.K. I'm mostly concentrating on kinetics and electrochemistry because they are going to be focused on mainly.<br />On a happier note, my birthday is coming up soon! I'm very excited! I have been reminding Mike it's coming everyday since mid March. (my birthday is April 27th). I honestly don't know how he puts up with me ;).<br />Well that's all I have time for, back to studying....yuck I just want this exam to be over!<br />-Amykittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-78286227042324621392009-03-17T22:34:00.004-04:002009-03-17T23:00:55.145-04:00Two WeeksFirst off, let me apologize for not posting a comic last weekend, I was busy with a submission for the Dorito's Guru competition, and also very distracted because I found out about the <a href="http://www.openpandor.com/">Pandora</a> and was reading about it. I want one, by the way.<br /><br />It also seems I will not be uploading any comics any time soon either. Well, maybe if I can hook the scanner up on my dad's desk and install it on this computer. You see, I have been having some trouble with the screen on my laptop. It's been getting progressively more... splotchy? It's hard to describe. So I realized that Monday was probably one of my last chances to bring it in before the warranty expired, and decided to do so. It needs to be shipped off to HP for repairs. The guy at Best Buy said 2 weeks, maybe more. They're going to call when it's back.<br /><br />That reminds me. Amy tried to call me today, and it seems our phone line is now dead. Hopefully it will me back in the morning.<br /><br />I'd have to say the worst part about not having my laptop is that I can only use this computer until 11:00pm. With my laptop I usually just get started into things at 11, and I usually talk with Amy until 1:00am. No more doing that though for a couple weeks. I guess I should find me a good book. There's a copy of IT by Steven King on my desk, and I plan to read it this/next week. Although on the weekend Amy will be here and that's always great.<br /><br />My paragraphs have become a disjointed mess. I should stop writing for tonight.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">forgot the little italic text and had to edit it in :P and then fix its spelling<br /></span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-56962777089829088282009-02-21T23:52:00.002-05:002009-02-22T00:12:32.844-05:00Reading WeekWell my reading week is drawing to a close and now it's back to school for 4 midterms over 2 weeks. Not fun. I should have studied more this week, but honestly I don't regret not studying. Well currently I don't, it may be a different story on friday and saturday. I spent the majority of the week with Mike and a bit with my friends. Unfortunately my friends at home are all still in high school so I couldn't see them as much as I would have liked. Mike and I did go visit our old high school for a day, it was fun! We watched movies, hung out, went out for dinner and played lots of mario kart. I went shopping with my mom several times and even got a few possible dresses to wear to my sisters wedding. I'm the only brides maid/maid of honour, so I get to pick the style, she still picks the colour. All in all it was a great week and was far too short.<br />It's scary, soon I'll be done my first year of university. I really only have about 6 weeks of classes left. It sounds like both and long and short time. We have to tell the university before the end of march what program we plan to enroll in next year before the end of march. I sat down with my mother today and figured out that I am going to major in chemistry and minor in biology. I was thinking originally minor in gentic be decided just general biology would give me more flexibility.<br />Well thats everything that's new so far for me. Make sure to check out Mike's new comic!<br />Amykittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-64381894436282659522009-02-08T00:44:00.003-05:002009-02-08T01:16:40.914-05:00It FiguresI've been saying for a while that I was going to get some form of content to go with this blog. Since the process of starting this blog was one of jumping on a bandwagon, it figures that the next step would be a <a href="http://www.itfigures.thecomicseries.com/comics">webcomic</a>. It would have been up earlier today, but it took a lot longer than I thought to match the style of the blog and the comic hosting site. Oh, by the way, the comic is being hosted on the fairly young comicfury.com. They offer some pretty nice free comic hosting options, and the community there is small, but seems pretty nice.<br />So I'm not making any promises, but I'm going to try for a weekly release, I'm looking at sunday mornings at 12:00am.<br /><br />Anyway, the comic is going consist of one-off gags, exploring the question of "what could go wrong?" Hopefully they'll get better from the first one. I'm always open to comments or critcizms, and look forward to trying my best to entertain anyone who bothers to read this. This should be fun.<br /><br /><div style="font-size: 200%;font-style: bold; font-color: #FF0000;"><br /><span style="text-decoration: blink; color: #FF0000">|----------->></span><a href="http://www.itFigures.thecomicseries.com/comics">It Figures</a><span style="text-decoration: blink; color: #FF0000"><<----------|</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">hey... I didn't end with "untill next time..."! 'tis the dawn of a new era.</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-35770880070085994222009-02-07T03:12:00.002-05:002009-02-07T03:19:17.471-05:00New ThemeSo I mentioned that a new design for the blog might be on it's way, and after poking around for the last hour and a half or so, here it is. It's not much of a change from the old theme, but it's a bit tighter, if you ask me. I need to come up with a title graphic though, that plain text title looks horrible.<br />I just have one or two more things I need to work out before unveiling what I've been working on, so just be patient, you'll see soon enough. I want to set Monday as a deadline, but I have my Opa's birthday party to go to and some job hunting to take care of, so we'll see. Speaking of which, I need to get up in about five hours for that job hunting, so I best be going. Until next time.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">I have my work cut out for me</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-66050846966426868132009-02-02T21:48:00.003-05:002009-02-02T23:08:06.362-05:00I Didn't Touch Anything, I Swear.So, yesterday my Opa called me over to his house because his computer wasn't working. It was complaining that it couldn't find his hard drive to boot from. My hunch was that it had something to do with the damp CD he had put in immediately before the computer shut itself off. I will say in his defense that he did have an understandable reason to do so. When I got to look at it, the first thing I did was turn it on and see the error for myself. I even poked around in setup, and found it could see the CD drive, but not the hard drive. I thought that was weird, as it was probably the CD drive messing up. Either way I decided to see what would happen if I took the CD drive out. I pulled the computer out from under his desk, put it on the table, opened it up, and moved it to where I could attach a screen. Before going any further, I decided I wanted another look at the error message. Unfortunately, I couldn't, because the system booted perfectly. Nothing wrong at all. I have no idea why. Oh well.<br /><br />In other news, I decided if I'm going to be home for the next 8 months, I might as well get the Linux installation on the family computer up-to-date and bootable without messing in the BIOS (I put grub on the wrong drive last time). I decided to go with Fedora 10, as I had a really strong urge to see Plymouth in action. I installed it Sunday afternoon, and I didn't get to see Plymouth until earlier today due to slow Internet and a ton of updates. I finally got the Nvidia drivers installed, and now it looks very nice, but keeps freezing and the package manager bothers me. I think tomorrow it will be getting Linux Mint, which is my current favorite distro. I was hoping the impressive look of Fedora10 would get my family interested in using Linux, but Mint is pretty polished itself.<br /><br />I would also like to point out that as soon as I find a way around some annoying technical difficulties, one of the content ideas I've been thinking about will be unleashed. It may coincide with, be proceeded by or closely followed by an update to the look of the blog. Maybe. We'll see. Until next time.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">I got talked into fixing someone else's computer while writing this. I'm on a roll!</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-64095352165030051742009-01-12T17:08:00.003-05:002009-01-12T19:10:44.730-05:00UpdatesHello!<br />Well I'm just as bad as Mike in updating, in my defense it is his blog! Kidding of course. Anyway I'm back at school for a second semester and I did reasonably well in my courses last semester. (I got an 87 in physics, usually my worst subject!! Now biology is which makes me sad.) Tomorrow will be a busy day as I have 8 hours of class, stupid labs, but I'll survive, maybe.<br />Christmas was really fun and really short, I feel we need longer holidays.<br />When I returned to my residence after the break it was sweltering in here. They were afraid of the pipes bursting so they kept in tropical in here. I was in shorts and a tank top and barely got any sleep because of the heat, so I had a lovely first day back.<br />For Christmas my big present was a Tv to put in my room so I can play my wii on it. I must say it is pretty awesome. I am also able to not play video games and do work, I'm such a good girl.<br />As you know Mike's been wait listed for his program. The wait is absolutely killing me, I miss him and I'm dying for him to be living in the same city as I'm in. They had better accept him soon!<br />It's just the beginning of week 2 and I'm already behind in calculus, oops. Well the stuff is kinda tricky (Integration by parts) but I think I'm getting it now, I'm just to lazy/not motivated to do question 1-49 even if it is just the odds.<br />I, like an idiot, forgot my boots back home, well they are actually my moms boots, but don't worry I bought another pair and jumped in puddles just to show up the snow, HA take THAT mother nature.<br /><br />Well, I'm hungry and it's dinner time so I'm off to the cafeteria!<br />Hopefully Mike and I will post soon about his acceptance!<br />~Amykittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-51010533806839161342009-01-09T23:52:00.003-05:002009-01-10T00:39:54.177-05:00Happy New Year, Christmas, etc.Alright, once again I have fallen behind on the updates to this blog. And really, the Christmas theme should have come down almost a week ago, but there's not much I can do about that now, other than just take it down.<br />In my last post, if you'll recall, I was talking about an application to college. Other than my high school transcripts spending 3 weeks in the mail, the application process went as well as can be expected from someone as disorganized as myself. I'm currently not at the college however, as I have been wait-listed. The good news though, is that I'm in the top 10 somewhere, and the course doesn't start until Monday. So I still have a chance of being there for day one, and if I'm not, then the people dropping out during the first week will surely get me a spot in the class.<br />So until the point when I get to go off to college, I'm stuck at home. Alone. My parents work, and my brother has school, and I'm sitting around doing very little. Well, I have done a lot of work on that website linked to from the sidebar, but I haven't actually uploaded it to the server, so nothing has really changed there. I'm still toying around with some ideas for something to put here on a regular basis, that doesn't rely on interesting post-worthy things happening to me on a regular basis. Let's just see where things go. Until next time.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">I no longer like the "until next time" ending. again.</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-87369659045599446622008-12-04T20:32:00.004-05:002008-12-05T03:39:42.018-05:00Christmas and CollegeWell, there it is; the Christmas theme is up, and it's up early enough that it will get to stick around for a while. There's been a lot going on lately, and at the same time not much at all. I just spent most of last week doing a supplemental for a program I'm trying to get into at a college next semester. Turns out university isn't really what I'm looking for. If all goes well and I can work out the last few kinks in my application, and am a bit lucky, I should be in a different program at a college in January. I'm really excited about this. I've found an apartment that's a 15 minute bus ride from the school. This means I'll have to go back to the high school way of doing things, where I head into school in the morning, and don't come home till I'm done. I think that will help me focus a bit more.<br /><br />Not only does college seem more my speed, but the apartment I'm looking at is also only a 15 minute bus ride from Amy's which will be nice. No more planning weeks in advance and then shelling out $40 in train tickets. I'll just be able to hop on a bus going that way on a whim. Next semester should be pretty nice.<br /><br />It seems I've really gotten into cooking a bit more since I was sick that one week. I had to make my own food because walking to the restaurant was out of the question. I had a nice hamburger helper thing for diner tonight with mash potatoes. I quite enjoyed it.<br /><br />Sometimes, I think it would be nice to have my own server, or at least a proper account on one, where I can upload little images willy-nilly, and organize it in a way that makes sense to me. A lack of being able to store images and get at them easily really limits what I can do as far as theming the blog goes. Also, there's other things I'd like to do that right now are going to require me to try and link several pages from different services together. Oh well, maybe someday. Then I'll just have to try and move all this and still make sense of it. It might be worth looking into though. Don't get me wrong though, I love Blogger and how easy it is to work with, I'm just the kind of guy who likes to get in there and build it myself to see if I can.<br /><br />Well, that's all for now, I'm starting to ramble. Hopefully I can get some real projects going soon, projects that provide content. That would really be nice. Anyway, until next time...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I'm really going to miss all my friends here :(</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-18083060178973607992008-11-26T23:15:00.003-05:002008-11-26T23:28:09.064-05:00Exams are Nearly Here!Hello!<br /><br />I'm sitting here in my dorm brain dead. I spent way too much time working on calculus homework. I should have spent more time on chemistry, seeing as my exam is in a little over a week. As the title suggests exams are nearly here for me and I'm going crazy studying of course. I hope I don't go as crazy as I did last time where I wanted to eat a bottle of caffine pills. (Don't worry Mike stopped me). I have given up studying tonight as my brain is just done for the day. Today I got up at 7:50 am went to calc, chem bio hour break wrote a physics test then came back here studied bio, then practised for an hour, called my friend worked on calculus and then summarized a little chemistry. I only have a week of classes left so I think I can make it till then. Then it's study study study. I should have been an english major! Some of them have no exams at all! Well no I shouldn't have, I hate writing essays.<br />Anyway, I ended up going to Mike's last weekend. It was loads of fun and he cooked for me twice! Well the second time he put frozen stuff in the oven but still he didn't burn it! I had a lovely weekend, but I'm paying for it now with my studying. Oh well, totally worth it!<br />Anyway I'm going to go to bed or study or something.<br /><br />Will post again after exam and it's christmas time, don't worry Mike'll get his Christmas theme up soon, he's really busy this week.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Chem Prof's Philosophy on</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">life: All hail silicone</span></span>kittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-86827732729078463292008-11-19T02:20:00.003-05:002008-11-19T02:42:56.782-05:00Writer's BlockSo I once again find myself locked in a battle with my old arch-nemesis, the Essay. I thought I had finally rid myself of him when I finished grade 12 English, but arch-nemesises (... nemesies? ...nemisi?) always seem to have a tendency to pop back up again. Of course, he is once again teamed up with my other arch-nemesis, Writer's Block. The two make a powerful duo, unfortunately.<br /><br />So I'm taking a psychology class, and for part of the seminar portion of the class, we have to write a single page (maximum) essay about how something we have learned in the class has affected the way we think about ourselves and others. I guess it's not really that hard of an assignment, especially compared to what most essay assignments are like, but I'm having trouble either way. I like to read a lot, and I'm very good at reading Wikipedia instead of doing what I'm supposed to, and I do have a bit of an interest in psychology. As a result, coming into the class I had already heard of most of the things we talked about in the seminars months or more before that. There was even one or two cases where I could have sworn I had already read the article, although I may have poked at one or two of them to see what I was getting into, I can't really remember. As far as I'm consciously aware, I haven't changed my way of thinking about people from learning the stuff. I tend not to do that kind of thing unless I try, and it usually doesn't last much longer than my short attention span. I don't know, maybe I just enjoy being difficult on these kinds of assignments. I'll have to come up with something to fill that paper. I've got until 8:30 Thursday morning to get it done and locate a printer I can borrow, which means I should get it done by the latest on Wednesday before my suite mates go to bed. Speaking of which, I should go to bed too, I've got a busy-but-not-really day ahead of me tomorrow. Until next time...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">someday, I want to be able to afford to be recklessly spontaneous on a regular basis</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-31664804546940632582008-11-17T16:27:00.004-05:002008-11-17T19:29:24.491-05:00Record HighI was shocked a couple weeks ago to check my e-mail and see that week's stats for the blog. I've never seen the viewer numbers that high before, I'm sure Amy has something to do with that. I might have another project in the works, but I'm not making promises this time, what with my track record and everything. I would also really like to get some Christmas themed stuff up in the store before long. If there's anything you want to see, drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do.<br /><br />I wrote most of what you just read about a week or two ago, although I edited the time-sensitive bits of grammar so they make sense reading it now. I realize it may be a bit late for Christmas stuff in the store, but I'll still try to cater to any requests as fast as possible. Cafepress just launched their Canadian store, which means Canadian prices and shipping. I'm trying to figure out how to adjust my prices to match, but the control panel seems to still be in USD$. As far as the project I am working on, is concerned, it's still in the fairly early stages of planning, and I'm not even sure what format I'm doing it in, but we'll see how it goes.<br /><br />As Amy said in her last post, I've been kinda sick the last week. Those following Twitter or Facebook will know it was a sinus infection. I'm mostly better now, so nobody should worry about me at all. I've just got to get caught up on everything now.<br /><br />In less exciting news, the light bulb in the fixture in my room has burnt out. At some point this week someone from housekeeping should come and fix it. I'd gladly do it myself, but the bulbs they give out at the front desk are for the desk lamps, and probably won't work in the fixture. I also can't figure out how to get into the fixture, I can get it to spin a bit each way, but it kind of bounces back, and I don't want to force anything. So I'm waiting, and trying to keep my room clean. I just hope I don't have to be here, I've got a busy schedule tomorrow. This desk lamp is taking up a bit of space on my desk, and an outlet that could be put to better use. Oh well. Until next time...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ring ringling too... </span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-14247073604470275062008-11-14T11:38:00.003-05:002008-11-14T12:00:30.211-05:00Keeping Up to DateHello readers,<br /><br />Well Mike still hasn't posted but he has a very good excuse, hes been sick the last week or so, but I'll let him tell you about that.<br />Last weekend I had my chemistry midterm. It didn't go as well as I hoped, it's unfair though because there was only 25 questions, so every question I get wrong is 4% off my final mark. Fear not for me though, I now know what to expect on the 6th of Dec (my exam for chemistry) so I'm sure I'll do loads better :) (hopefully).<br />Something else super exciting happened last weekend! Mike showed up outside my room. Normally you would think "So?" but I wasn't expecting him. I had been pesting him all week to come (:D) but I didn't think he actually would. So after writing a chem exam I got to spend the rest of the weekend with Mike :).<br />We went to see Hamlet, just at my school though I really wanted to see it in Stratford. It lacked a little luster and a few of my favourite lines (mainly the pirates), some of the acting was a little shaky (namely Horatio) but Hamlet and Ophelia were good.<br />We went to the mall and he helped me grocery shop (I know I'm the epitome of excitment) and he got sick :(.<br />I'm very excited about this weekend :D! I have 2 of my friends from home coming to visit (and bringing a care package from my mom :)) It's gunna be sweet :).<br />I'm in a dilemma though! Next weekend (the 22nd) I'm debating what I should do! I have three options and please leave comments on what I should do! I could go to visit Mike (last time I could visit it him at his current school), I could go home (I haven't been home in over a month and if i don't go this weekend I can't go until I'm done exams Dec 16th, so it'll be 2 months by then plus I want to Xmas decorate my home) or stay here and study for my exams in 2 weeks (the more responsible but boring option). I suffer from indecision so I need some help!<br />Anyway I got to head to physics really soon and I'm hungry.<br />Hope to get lots of replies!<br />~Amykittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-3198157934891387092008-11-04T11:00:00.003-05:002008-11-04T22:26:30.960-05:00Amy's 2nd post :)Hello!<br />mike always forgets to update his blog so i will:P:). I went to see him this past weekend and we had loads of fun together, we went for walk, out to dinner (east side marios Mmmm) for our 10 month anniversary, played some smash bros and pool, it was a wonderful weekend:). now we will prolly have to wait 3 weeks or so to see each other again, then after that we wont see each other again till the 16th of decemeber a whole 3.5 weeks, our longest time without seeing each other. It sounds maybe a bit pathetic i know, but i love to get together with him and 3.5 weeks sounds so bloody long!<br />I am currently waiting for my online tutorial for physics to start. I hate physics i really do. but it was supposed to start at 1030 and its now 11 and the virtual room isnt open im starting to doubt it ever will open. i got my bio mid term results back 61 :(:(. but it was a hard test and i had no idea what to expect in terms of questions. i got an 89 on my lab tho (yay) so in december im gunna study for that exam like theres no 2morrow. (that doesnt make sense if there was no 2morrow then there'd be no test:P) well i do have a chem midterm this friday i get to study my brains out for. Some the unit im really good at, others need a little work. i think ill be OK tho i really like chem (yup im a nerd) and im pretty good at it.<br />This weekend I'm going to see Hamlet with a friend. Im very excited. Normally i dont really like shakespear, but i really did like hamlet and have been dying to see it performed. Shakespear is meant to be seen not read in a classroom.<br />It's very scary to think that school will be done for Xmas in 4.5 weeks(for me) 3.5 for mike (stupid universities not being consistant) I only get a 3 week break between the last of my midterms and the beginning of my exams :S<br />Well its now 11:15 and the tutorial is supposed to be over at 11:20. Ill try again at a different tutorial. One is schedueled for this week, they musta had technical difficulties. I did get to sleep in today which makes me happy, because for some reason i thought it was a good idea to put calc 4 times a week at 830 am! no idea what i was thinking.<br />well im hungry time to get some food:)<br />-Amy<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Look i don't whine as much as mike :P jk, mike:)</span></span>kittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-86063719263237020232008-10-27T21:27:00.004-04:002008-10-27T21:38:41.569-04:00Amy and MikeRegular readers may start to notice a couple of changes around here. The first and more obvious one is that the "What am I doing" section is now the "What are we doing" section. The change of name is because it's been updated to show tweets from my girlfriend, Amy. I've mentioned her before. Other changes, are less obvious. I've made minor updates to some bits of my profile. Which upon looking, has apparently been removed by another big change; Amy has been given posting privileges. Expect stuff from her now. On a less big news note, blogger added an embedded comment box on single post pages, so I turned it on.<br />This is Mike, saying I hope you enjoy what Amy adds to this blog. Until next time.<br /><br />EDIT: seems Amy beat me to the punch. Her first post is below this one.<br /> @Amy - sorry if I stole your thunder<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">wait... does this mean things from Amy show up in my facebook notes? confusing :D</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-78490991129584521342008-10-27T21:18:00.003-04:002008-10-27T21:36:32.077-04:00The girlfriendHello all!<br />My name is Amy, and I'm the girl in mike's life :) he's even given me access to his blog! (if u know him u know that<br />s a big deal!!:P) anyway here's a bit about me. I'm a bio-med major at university and a musician (i play french horn yayayayay), i'm blonde, brown eyed and 5' 2"ish. Um, what else? unlike mike my knowledge of computers is extremely limited, but on the other hand i can separate DNA like no ones business (i know i've done it...twice, yay repeat labs). hmm no idea what to write about. Well currently im avoiding a chemistry pre-lab :).<br />Mike has gotten me addicted to Doctor Who! i just keep downloading them, and ignoring hmwk. like right now! Oh well so worth it. We're going as doctor who and rose for halloween. yes we are that awesome that we are doing a couple costume:).<br />we're currently very far apart which makes me sad but i am going to visit him this weekend for halloween yay :).<br />Ohh today i had a master class (buncha horns getting together playing and telling each other what was done well what could be improved) and i got so many compliments i loved it:) apparently im good :D.<br />well i should prolly go watch the loaded doctor who....i mean do my pre lab!!<br />tootles<br />Amy<br />p.s. my grammar sucks as does my spelling, my argument is that i'm a science major and don't need proper english:P so im just apologizing now.kittycat27http://www.blogger.com/profile/17197032739993506493noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-44123813257948190552008-10-15T01:44:00.003-04:002008-10-15T02:12:58.921-04:00Twitter!For those of you who are a little observant, you will probably already have noticed that I now have a little section for posts from my new twitter page at the top of my blog posts. I'm hoping that this, combined with my new phone with a texting plan, will let me update a bit easier. Right now the twitter posts are being displayed using what seems to be a pretty good plugin called <a href="http://afterglide.googlepages.com/addtwittermultitoblogger">Twitter Multi</a>. It's currently set to show my 5 newest tweets, and it's only updated when the page is first loaded.<br /><br />Also, the Canadian elections were today. Looks like another conservative minority. I'm proud of myself though, I voted.<br /><br />That's all for now. Until next time.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The more I add, the more the people on facebook are missing. Get the full thing here:<a href="http://www.cyborg572.blogspot.com"> www.cyborg572.blogspot.com</a></span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-67984889480820705212008-10-13T19:02:00.002-04:002008-10-13T19:19:45.791-04:002 Years laterWell... it seems I've broken my stream of steady updates with a decent sized gap in there. The weekly average of readers was picking up for a bit there, but seems to have dropped down close to zero again. I guess that's what a lack of content will do to a blog. Before you ask... no. I haven't done anything on the idea I've had in the works. I'm starting to have second thoughts about it anyway. It seems I just don't have much time to do anything constructive much, but maybe I'm just wasting too much of it doing hardly anything. Anyway, you'd think after two years of blogging, I'd have more of an Idea of what to do content-wise. Which Brings me to the main topic of this article... "Cyborg_572's Blog" is now 2 years old. It was started on Friday, October 13, 2006. I completely missed the one year mark without even realizing it. It came as a bit of a shock to me when I noticed the start date on the profile. Two years and still running str-... well, no it isn't. Like most projects of mine, it's still fairly lacking in any sort of direction or purpose. Perhaps I should have done this earlier, but I'm going to announce that I'm open to suggestions. What would you, my few loyal readers, like to see in this little bit of webspace? I'm running low on Ideas.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Friday the 13th, what a day to launch a major project....</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-16841882907981556392008-09-11T13:33:00.003-04:002008-09-11T14:12:22.325-04:00In the WorksHello again. This has to be my first three-days-in-a-row posting in months. I'm starting to remember why I don't post more often, I don't do enough to have rambling-style posts about my day. Especially not when I'm posting in the middle of the day. I've decided, however, that the more I do it, the easier it will become. I also, as the title of this post suggests, have an Idea in the works. I just need to flesh out the details, see how feasible it is, and get some opinions from people in person before I throw it out there online, or out here online, or wherever online is relative to my blog. Around here maybe? Right here? Either way, the post explaining it will be on the front page of this blog. Most likely in video form. And that's all the hints your getting. If all goes well, I should be able to start seeing how feasible it is next week. I think I have most of the details worked out. Keep tuned, or RSSed (is that a word? (do I have RSS enabled? I should... if not now then soon))<br /><br />In other news, the link for the store is in the sidebar. A Working Man's Journal is gone, as I have been informed by the author that he has no intention of adding to it at all. That's all for today. Until next time.<br /><br /><br />EDIT: I've added the suscribe to buttons to the sidebar, they're right underneath the other sites to check out<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This teaser somewhat ties me in to following through, doesn't it? :P</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-36066226490120161012008-09-10T16:10:00.002-04:002008-09-10T16:19:26.644-04:00C572's Online storeSo I was bored the other night, and inspired by some posters I had seen, and was looking in some online stores to see if I could find more interesting posters, and happened to be poking around on the CafePress website. I found the option to start your own online store, and figured it was worth a shot, as being in university, I could probably use the money. My store is located at <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/c572">http://www.cafepress.com/c572.</a> Keep an eye out for the link that will soon be in the sidebar. There's not much there right now, but I have some ideas for some more products when I find time. Feel free to make any suggestions/request though.<br /><br />If this stores going to attract any customers though, I'll need some content here... That's something I'm working on. Keep tuned. Until next time<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">buyaclockbuyaclockbuyaclockbuyaclock</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-88057196180430739322008-09-09T13:27:00.003-04:002008-09-10T16:08:08.111-04:00University BeginsI did it again. I went far to long without posting. What's happened in the meantime?<br /><br />Well, I didn't have internet at the hotel the next night. It was a horrible little motel, by the way. Oh well, any port in a storm, as they say. The upshot was that the convenience store across the road sold <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawls">Bawls,</a> which I've always wanted to try. I bought a bottle, saved it for the car the next morning, drank it, enjoyed it, then promptly fell asleep for several hours. I kept the bottle around and it now decorates the desk in my dorm. More on that later.<br /><br />I did manage to get a job this summer. At an auto shop. I should mention here that I have a strong dislike of auto shops. I figured I could put up with one part time, because I needed the money. I learned an important lesson from this. If the job interview ends with "You start tomorrow at 8am" then it would be a really good time to ask about the hours. I turns out I was wanted 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, with Sundays and Tuesdays off. I didn't ask, and found out the hard way. After a week or so of that, and of driving everyone insane with my complaining about it, I asked my boss for less hours, and he gave me Thursday's and Friday's off too. That was more bearable, but I'm still very glad to be rid of it. Hopefully the money I made there won't affect my OSAP at all.<br /><br />That brings me to the next piece of news. I'm currently attending the university of Guelph for a bachelor of computing. I'm living in an East residence Suite with 7 other people, 3 other guys, and 4 girls. So far things are going really well. We just got cable hooked up as I'm writing this. Our Suite and this whole side of our floor has become a bit of a party central, although that has seemed to have died down a bit since classes started. I'm really liking Guelph, and I think I chose a good university. That about wraps it up for today. Until next time.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">hey readers... wind your toy! - what an odd official dance for a university....</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001329.post-33186013399527411172008-07-15T02:18:00.002-04:002008-07-15T03:03:53.577-04:00AlbertaI really need to start updating this on a regular basis, as way too much happens between posts. Last time I posted was, apparently, before prom, and now it's midway through August. A lot has definitely happened since then.<br />I completely missed posting about being with my girlfriend for 6 months, about how prom went (well. Loud, but well.), And about several other things.<br />For instance, I am currently writing this form the basement of the house of some relatives who live out in Alberta. The same cousins who came to visit me in last summer. (Remember <a href="http://www.sombraro-o-doom.deviantart.com">Sombra</a>?) I've been having a grand old time here. We went stampeding. There was a hilarious hypnotist there, so we watched his show, then hit the Midway for a bit. Lately I've taken a bit of a dislike to midways, because for the cost of enough tickets to ride 12 of their small, somewhat boring, nauseating rides, (that's about 72 tickets if you only go on the big rides) you can get a season pass at a real amusement park, with giant, fun rides. Think about that. As I'm typing this I just brought up the <a href="http://www.canadaswonderland.com/shop/shopping_season_pass.cfm">Paramount Canada's Wonderland season pass page</a>. at 1$ a ticket, or 22 for 20$ or 55 for 50$, or all day for 45$ at the midway, you can see how it compares. But I'm complaining again. It really was a lot of fun. Especially the grandstand show. That was simply Amazing. Words can't do it justice. Lots of music, lots of lights, lots of explosions, and so much more. Although I don't think I've ever been that close to that many fireworks all going off at the same time. Wow.<br />It's getting late as I'm typing this. It's weird being in a different time zone. For everyone else I know, it's two hours later, so that means it's 3:00am back home. That makes it hard to find people online at what for me is a reasonable time. it either too early for me, or too late for them. But that will soon change. I'm leaving at 5:00am to start the 3 day car ride home. Or, at least, I hope it's only 3 days. It took us 3 days to get here. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, my brother and I, all stuffed into my grandma's van. That was less than wonderful. Especially since it seems that the people who designed my grandma's van assumed that other than the driver and passenger, who will be, of course, parents, all passengers are under 6 years old. The shoulders on the seats come up to about the base of my shoulder blades, the headrests slant forward at a very uncomfortable angle, then is no leg room (and I have need for leg room) and one of the things that bugs me the most, odd seatbelts. They don't do that thing that most seatbelts do to hold carseats and booster seats in place. You know the thing, where you pull the seatbelt out all the way, and it ratchets as it goes in, so that the child's seat will be held in place, but an adult can sit there just fine as long as they don't pull the belt completley from its roll. These seatbelts are different. They don't have that ratchet mechanism. Instead, once you buckle the seatbelt in, a little peice of plastic is pushed into place, which makes it so that the seatbelt can only get tighter, not looser. This is very uncomfortable if, like me, you feel the need to move around a lot. Which I always do, especialy on 12 hour drives.<br />It will be a little easier going home though, as my brother is staying here. Since there are so many jobs avaliable here, and none back home, he's going to stick around and find summer employment. It has crossed my mind to accept the invitation to do the same, but I have too much to go home to (Girlfriend, University, Etc.) so I'll have to try a bit harder to find employment. So that means the whole ride home I will have the entire cramped back seat of the van to myself. That will be nice. Or at least not as bad.x<br />I mentioned earlier that it took us 3 days to get here, and I hope it doesn't take longer than that to get back. "Why would it take longer?" you may ask, and the answer is simple; we'll be taking the scenic route home. That means that not only will we be taking a longer route, but we will be stopping constantly to look at things. Now, don't get me wrong, I like looking at nice views, but I don't like that at the expense of having to spend another night in a hotel room, another day in transit. If it's something out the window, fine. If the purpose of the trip was to go see it, fine. If it's a bunch of stuff on route from one place I want to be, to another place I want to be, over 3 days, in a car, going through places I <span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span> want to be, then it bugs me.If I'm going home, then I want to go straight home, beeline. I don't like sitting still that long, and I don't like hotel rooms. I need a teleporter.<br />It's getting late, and my post is starting to break down into complaining. Perhaps I shall post tomorrow, from whatever hotel I end up in, perhaps not. We'll see. Until next time.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Parlez-Vous Yahoo!?</span></span>Cyborg_572http://www.blogger.com/profile/10569322477775668481noreply@blogger.com1