i dont celebrate my birthday.. i dont believe in it.. i dont want to acknowledge that i have one and i dont subscribe to the concept of time the same way everyone else does. however! i did celebrate my not-birthday for awhile there.. which was mildly amusing. but now i have a [...]

yet again added more to the apps section. I'm thinking of more things to add on here everyday.. today my friend Chris Stone reminded me that I need to add some information about the Dvorak keyboard layout we use on here. I was asking for suggestions for favorite apps in case i had [...]

i am a compulsive newschecker. thats what the majority of my time online is.. i just read news all the time.. mainly i watch google news, osnn and digg. i just cant stop reading..

lately i havent really been sleeping very well. i mean.. i sleep.. and im awake enough to do things in the day, but i dont sleep nearly as much as i used to and i usually wake up feeling very tired. i used to sleep 10-12 hours a day.. my body really needed [...]

so it looks like i got my class =) i met with karen willard, head of rec sports at UIS today.. shes pretty cool. we talked a long time about the whole thing and it looks like all systems are go; i just have to pick out a day or two that i want [...]

im done with my transition of the old "me things" page. this will serve as a much better, more dynamic, more often updated section of the website. its not *done*, just done moving all the old stuff over to here.. i'll be sure to put new stuff on here as much as possible [...]

got a new mouse from newegg.com. $8.50 WITH shipping AND i didnt have to pay any blasted government sales taxes NOR did i even have to help fund the united states postal service :DD hooray UPS =)
its actually a really good mouse. no complaints yet. very solid construction, comfortably tight wheel.. [...]

id like to log these other recent events just for reference:
deer
just a week or so ago i hit a deer on the way to a martial arts seminar.. you can find the whole story here along with a bunch of photos of it.
laptop partition
just yesterday i royally fucked my laptops harddrive.. well not the whole [...]

yesterday i called UIS about my martial arts class out there.. finally got a meeting with the woman in charge of the recreational sports department. im gonna go out there on thursday morning and talk to her and see what we can do. hopefully this means they're actually interested and ill have a [...]