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It’s been a long time

Finally, Lexy and I are on our own.  We have our own place in Lee’s Summit, MO.  We have all the essentials set up: TV, internet, and video game consoles.  Our internet is via AT&T’s 3Mbps DSL service.  We don’t have to have a landline and it’s only $30 a month.  I’m kinda digging that.

We have not at all unpacked.

My new job is not that bad.  Working and selling for Apple is fairly easy.

I also get to go to Gulf Shores, Alabama for vacation.  I’m sure it will be a lot of fun.

I want to thank all of you who helped us move.

Here is the short that won us the One Night Stand 10 hour film competition:

I’ll Try Harder

A couple of weeks ago, I tweeted that I was planning on keeping up a commitment of one blog post per day.  I have already failed at this.  The past few days have been a bit hectic and honestly, I forgot to post.

On the good side, I was offered a job at the KCMO Apple Store as a Mac Specialist.  I filled out all of the paperwork today and should be recieving an email with details on training start June 6.  Very interesting it will be to juggle school and a job at Apple.  It may be rough and I may loose a lot of my weekends, but that is part of life right now.  Here’s to hoping the job rocks and I am good enough to move up inside of Apple.

Looks Around

Things are changing for Lexy and I, so I decided to change the look of this here site.  I like it, makes it look a bit more “bloggy” somehow.  There is some work to be done with the sidebars, but I can’t figure out what I need to do.  Suggestions are welcome.

The two of us have decided that we are getting out of this money blackhole we call a house.  Its not that the house is falling apart or anything, it is that we are tired of financially supporting those who promised to pay their share on time, when money is due, but have failed to uphold that end of the bargain.  It is sad when those around you decide to treat you not as friends, but as landlords or utility companies.  It is fine if you don’t feel like paying a bill for two or three months, but when you fuck with our future, our credit, there is a line to be drawn.  That is essentially the crux of the problem.  The only people we know in this area, our friends, have not been treating us as friends and that I cannot stand.  I’m not a complete hardass.  I understand that people come on hard times and they don’t make as much money as they would normally, but Lexy supported this house when she didn’t have a job and nobody thought to say, “Hey, let me help take some of that burden.  Let’s share the responsibilities of this house.”  I told many this when we first moved in.  These situations destroy friendships much faster that natural erosion and that is exactly what happened.  My will and want to help other people has plummeted.  Lexy and I have helped keep people afloat in this house with no reciprocation that I just don’t see them as friends anymore.  Really, I see them as people I can’t wait to get out of my life, and that really saddens me.

Yes, the lease on this house is not up yet, but the landlord has been very accommodating and we have a plan that will keep him in a rent check.  The next step is to get a hold of him and present it.  I will keep you updated.

So, Lexy and I have decided to bid adieu to this house, and thus our Warrensburg friends, in favor of a place, hopefully, in Odessa, MO.  The idea is that Odessa is between where Lexy works and where we go to school.  It will also be beneficial to be closer to KC when I go in for the interviews at the Apple Store.

That’s right, I have an interview at the Apple Store in KC.  Actually, I have two more interviews.  I did the phone interview on Friday and am fairly certain that I did extremely well.  Now I have a “group” interview, which I’m not sure what that means, but if I get through that, then I go on to the one-on-one interview.  The idea that was set up by the interviewer over the phone is that I will start as a Mac Specialist as part-time and move on to a Creative position when I can start working full-time.  I am super excited to have an even remote opportunity to work for Apple in really any capacity.

That’s is pretty much a rehashing of everything that is happening in my life right now.

Nothing New

I’m pretty much just updating here just to update. There really isn’t a whole lot going on. Just trying to finish out the semester and take the much needed winter break.

I have a GameFly account now. Mostly because Dave and I are sharing the account, which makes it rather cheap, considering and there are quite a few games that I want to play, but not necessarily buy. This way I can play them until I am satisfied and move on to the next game. Right now I have Assassin’s Creed for the PS3. I don’t know how I feel about that one yet. I also have The Orange Box for the Xbox 360. I really like The Orange Box because the sensation of playing Portal and Half-Life 2 is much different than playing them on the PC, but at the same time, much the same. I makes sense to me.

Speaking of PCs, I have a bitching new 22″ widescreen (16:10) monitor. It is an Acer AL2216W. Definitely not the topest of the top of the line, but still up there in terms of performance. CNet said that the only really bad thing about it was that it had “[n]o extras such as speakers or USB ports.” I’m okay with that. Lexy got the monitor as a Christmas present for me and now I have to think of a present for Lexy, though she thinks I’m done buying her presents. We paid under $200 for it last week at Newegg.com, but I think we picked up a leftover Cyber Monday deal. Either way, it is a nice monitor and running at 1680 x 1050 is WAAAY better than the lowly (and 4:3) 1024 x 768. I don’t know how I lived without all this screen space. I’ll put up a picture of it on my desk one of these days, but you can find pictures of it at the two links in this paragraph.

There is a little app I would recommend running on your computer if you use it more than once or twice a day. It’s called ObjectDock. It is very much like the Dock on Apple’s OS X operating sytem, but for Windows. You have to jump through some hoops to find the download and make sure you are downloading the free version rather than the pay-for one. I don’t really know the differences between the versions, but I do know that this dock is much better than the other one I was using, RKLauncher.

I’ve started playing WoW, though I can’t (read: shouldn’t) really talk about that in such a public place. It’s a public secret. I will suffice to say that my computer can run WoW at 1680 x 1050 and it is awesome.

Need to get ready for class and work. It is kind of convenient that I work on the same campus I go to class. I can’t remember whether any of you actually know where I work. I tutor people in math. Mostly Calculus, but apparently the amount of Calc hours we have had this semester is more than four times any previous semester. There have been some in for Elementary to College Algebra, but mostly my regulars are for Calculus. I don’t mind it, I get to remember all that I forgot of math. I dare say it is keeping me sharp. The program I work for is federally funded, so I get paid, but the students I tutor get the service for free. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal? It’s alright. I’m working about 14 hours per week, but that’s about the limit I would want to work and go to school with. Luckily Lexy is bitchin’ and supporting me in my life decision.

There, that should fill the update hole for a little while.