This semester is better than the last one

    Wow, I haven't updated this in a long time.  I stopped because I know that no one reads this, I only started writing in it because I was bored.  I knew the only person you read this was Jessie and after we broke up I just didn't see why I should.  I'm still not actually sure why I am. 
    This semester has been ok.  It is a lot better than last semester.  Last semester was probably the worst semester of my college life so far, and probably will be my worst semester of college period.  Last semester Grampy was in the hospital most of the from the end of October to the end of November (which is most of the semester),, he died in the end of November.  There was also my problems with Jessie, I wasn't really happy most of the time and I don't think she was either.  Most of the time I tried to act like it was Ok because I had enough to deal with with Grampy and and school.  For some reason I've hanging out at school a lot this semester.  Everyday, except Monday, I'm done with classes pretty early, but yet I don't go home until usually 3 or so.  I don't really do anything at school.  I usually just watch TV and hang out around the Living Room (the area with the couches in the Student Center at WSC) and surf the internet.  Sometimes I do homework, usually I don't though.  Sometimes I hang out with some of my new friends.  Most of my classes aren't too bad.  My Chemistry teacher is annoying though because she obviously doesn't know Chemistry, she makes really really dumb mistake in class and it's annoying because she is the teacher and the students correct her at least 3 times every class.  My favorite professor, Jeff Meunier, will not be returning in the fall.  He wants to, but they are cutting all temporary staff, and he is sadly temporary.  I few of us circulated a petition to try to get him to stay.  We collected about 110 signatures, about 80 of those I personally collected thank you very much.  We gave the petition to the school president, but we are unsure if it'll work.  He said at the end of the semester we will have a party, regardless if he stays or goes.  He told us its hard to have a party at school so we should all go to a local bar.  How many teachers say his students should go to a bar with him?  This guy is awesome, he is always cracking jokes in class and tells us awesome stories and he is the most passionate CS teacher at WSC. 
    Jessie sent me another message on Facebook today.  She sent me one in early January when she found out my cousin Jessica is pregnant.  Just like the last time I didn't respond.  I'm not being pissy I just really think it is best if she is completely out of my life.  I had decided a long time before we broke up that when we broke up, I say when and not if because I knew we wouldn't last, that I would want her completely out of my life.  I didn't want to talk to her anymore, I didn't want to see her anymore, nothing.  The second we broke up I decided I really wanted to stay to that plan.  I just don't want any contact with her.  I honestly think I'd be better off.  Against my better judgment, I actually read the message.  She was actually very civil in the message.  She said she wanted to know if I wanted hang out sometime.  But Jessie was once again being Jessie.  She is not realistic.  She needs to realize I don't want to have anything to do with her.  Yes I get bored and lonely at times, yes I am on Spring Break and am more bored than usual, yes I want to spend time out with people, but no I do not want to spend time with her.  She'll probably read this, which is probably good, I'm not being pissy, I'm just honest.  I have been trying to contact Garrett about hanging out this week, but he is never online. 

25 Random Things About Me

1.  I absolutely LOVE Coke (Coca-Cola not cocaine).  I drink a lot of soda, usually Coke, per day.  Last year my mom decided to stop buying me Coke and me being cheap I didn’t buy it for myself.  Within a couple days I started getting head aches and I started joking I was addicted to Coke and was having withdrawals.  Well I was.  I was at the doctor not long after and she said I probably was addicted to Coke, but she said I was addicted to the caffeine in the Coke.

2.  A lot of people call me cheap.  But I’m not cheap I’m thrifty, there’s a difference.

3.  I’m quite the geek, but I fully embrace it.  Isn’t it cool to be a geek now?

4.  I love the band Piebald.  I went to their last two shows ever, I was in their last music video, I own 4 or 5 Piebald T-shirts, 3 Piebald Posters, I have 3 signed Piebald objects, and I have almost all their splits (which are all really hard to find), I’ve met the band three times, and more….

5.  I collect Mad Magazine memorabilia.  I really collect it.  With the exception of like 4 issues I have every Mad Magazine since 1997, including the Super Specials.  I have over 60 Mad books, an Alfred E. Neuman (he is the Mad mascot) bobble head,  an Alfred Statue, 2 Mad T-shirts, about 35 issues from between 1957 and 1990, and a lot more….

6.  I watch WAY to much TV.  I literally watch between 5 and 14 hours of TV a day

7.  I’m really good a t trivia.  I know so much useless information

8.  I have been going to Warped Tour every year since 2004, this year will be my 6th year

9.  I’m online for between 4 and 13 hours a day

10.  I saw the Grateful Dead live when I was seven years old.  And it was a year before Jerry Garcia died so I got to see him live.  If you know who Jerry Garcia is you know amazing awesomely cool that is

11.  I recently got into the music of Bob Dylan, I’ve always respected him but was much a fan of his music.  Now I like it

12.  I’m not much of a reader.  It took me about 8 months to read “I am America (and co can you)” by Stephen Colbert, which is about 270 pages

13.  I enjoy learning about the counterculture revolution of the 1960s

14. In school I am constantly saying “I need a nap”

15.  I have never done karaoke, anybody who really knows me thinks that’s weird because I sing a lot

16.  I still don’t know what I want to do for work.  I’m majoring in Computer Science but I don’t know what kind of computer science job I want. 

17.  I love music.  When I was little my dad would play a lot of Grateful Dead and Clapton and other classics and as I got older I just started to really love music

18. I am a junior, my dad has the same name as me

19. I am a very honest person, I’ve been told I’m brutally honest

20.  Someday I want to go on a road trip starting in Massachusetts and ending in San Francisco

21.  For years one of my goals in my life was to go to CBGBs in NYC.  Unfortunately in closed in October 2006.  I went to NYC in July 2007 and I have pictures of myself hugging the door to the place. 

22.  I had more than 80 t-shirts until I went through them a couple weeks a go and got rid of about 20 of them

23.  I find it really interesting that like 3 people tagged me for this.  I was really surprised.  But I bet they just needed 25 people and don’t actually want to lean about me. 

24.  I don’t have many friends

25.  I don’t get out much, if I’m not at school I’m probably in my room

Christmas was Ok....

    Christmas ended and hour and a half ago.  I got a bunch of what I wanted.  It was a fairly good Christmas.  For the first time in as long as I can remember we ate Christmas diner at my house.  We usually eat at Bun's but she didn't have it in her to do it all.   Bun was really unhappy at times today.  She has been really upset since Grampy died.  She loved the framed picture of him I gave her for Christmas, but I knew she would.  Once again she asked me if I wanted to sleep over, I didn't again, she doesn't want to be alone I think.  For Christmas I got:  

• Robot Chicken Season 3 on DVD
• ATHF Season 6 on DVD
   
• the DVD Bender's Big Game
   
• 2 pair pajama pants
   
• a little MP3 speaker bag thing 
• the book MAD About Politics
   
• the book Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin
• 3 bottles of deicer for my car
   
• some Goldfish
• a gift card for the Searstown Mall (it will always be Searstown Mall)
• a AC unit that plugs in the cigarette lighter in my car
• a gift card to Burger King 
• $25 in cash (Bun gave me another $30 but I secretly gave it back to her, she doesn't know yet)
• a t-shirt that says "There are 10 types of people.  Those who understand binary and those who don't"
• a small Root Beer Float scented candle

I think that is it

Christmas is different

    This Christmas will be weird.  My and Jessie won't be together, but we weren't together last year either.  But it will be more so weird because Grampy is gone.  Bun is upset, she won't talk about it, but she is.  She is having a rough time with handling it.  But I know she will love the picture of Grampy I am giving her for Christmas.

I DUMPED JESSIE!!!!

So yesterday I broke up with Jessie. I just couldn't deal with her anymore. I always knew we wouldn't last. I knew for a long time that I would eventually snap and break up with her. Well I snapped! It feels a little weird. It feels like I have this little whole in me now, but at the same time it feels like a 2000 lb has been lifted off me. It feels right. When she was fun she was really fun, but when she wasn't she was unbearable. It just isn't worth it. She is just so immature and irresponsible and is always constantly pissing me off and hurting me. If I could find someone that had just some of the good qualities she had and none of the bad that would be amazing and I am sure I could find someone. I am no lady's man, I am no charmer, but I think I could do better.

Not having power sucks!!!!!!

    This weekend was crazy.  There was a big ice storm last Thursday night and we lost power last Friday at 2am and still haven't got it back.  I am running my laptop off a generator.  We lost cable TV Thursday night at about 8:30 and I thought that was bad, but the power went out at 2am.  We have two generators hooked up to my house and one to Bun's house.  We had the TV hooked up to a generator Saturday to watch DVDs and such and I turned it on at about 10pm and realized cable was back.  Yeah!!!  So I watched SNL Saturday, it was ok.  I was expecting more being as it was Amy Poehler's last show and Hugh Laurie was hosting.  It was funny though.  I slept at Bun's Saturday and Sunday night because she didn't want to be alone and was afraid the generators would go out.  Olga stayed at either Bun's house or our house since Friday because her house had no power or heat and we both have wood stoves.  Olga went back last night because she got power back, but we still haven't.  I think we are supposed to get it back tonight, hopefully.  I was supposed to have my Networking and Computer Security final today, but my school canceled, now my final is next Tuesday December 23, the day before Christmas Eve.  Bobby and Ralphie put both generators right outside the bathroom window at Bun's house with the exhausts facing the window and for a couple hours Saturday afternoon Bun kept complaining that she could smell exhaust fumes in the bathroom then in the kitchen.  Then at like 6pm the Carbon Monoxide alarm went off in Bun's house because there was Carbon Monoxide in the exhaust fumes.  Carbon Monoxide will kill you so we all had to leave, but Bun refused to leave.  Mom was freaking out.  Me, mom and dad all went outside and moved the generators and gas tanks away from the bathroom window.  Ritchie came over and said it was all ok now.  He even went to Loews and bought a second Carbon Monoxide detector and put in the bathroom.  It was cool it was a dual smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector and it talked to you and told you to leave the house there was a Carbon Monoxide/smoke threat.  So I went back over and slept at Bun's in case there was an issue with the generators.  Bun had one generator hooked up to just her refrigerator and the other to everything else.  At 2am Sunday morning I opened Bun's fridge and it was off.  So I ran outside and checked the generator and it was out of gas.  I filled it was gas, but I couldn't for the life of me get it started.  Almost everything in Bun's fridge has to be thrown out and she had A LOT of food in there.  I have spent A LOT of time on my project for Object Oriented Design and  Analysis, I added a lot to it and refined it and made it better. 
    I think that is all have to say for now.  This is by far the largest entry I've ever written. 

I SAW CHEECH & CHING LIVE!!!!!!!!

    I saw Cheech & Chong live in Boston on Friday with my old Friend Garrett.  It was really cool.  Their opening act was Shelby Chong, Tommy Chong's wife, doing stand-up.  She was ok.  Then Cheech & Chong came out.  They were hilarous.  They started the show with a recreation of the opening of Up in Smoke, almost word for word.  The part of the car was played by two chairs on stage.  Most of what they did was just recreate all their old bits they did in the '70s, which was perfectly fine with us.  It was kind of like seeing them back in the '70s, except for the Bush jokes and they jokes about Tommy Chong being in Jail.  A lot of the audience was drinking heavenly, which I wouldn't give a shit about but some people a couple rows in front of us would stand up and go buy more beer every like 15 minutes and when they stood up we couldn't see.  The show started at about 7:50pm and was over by like 9:40pm, which was short.  When we were leaving I was looking at their merch and bought a pin pack and the DVD a/k/a Tommy Chong, which I've wanted to see for a while.  There was a couple T-Shirts I really liked but their shirts were $40 and $50, and for anyone who knows me I would never pay that much for a shirt.  I figured I could just look on eBay for the shirt I wanted because I'm sure it's on there.  Then when we were leaving the building there were two buys on the sidewalk outside selling knock-off T-shirts for $20, so I bought one.  We took the T in and the last T leaves at 12:15 and it really wasn't too too cold in Boston so we decided to wander Boston until we had to catch the last train.  We wondered Boston from about 9:50 to 11:55.  We walked a lot of the streets around Tremont St., then we walked around the Boston Common, then we walked back up Tremont St. to the Burger King because we both really had to piss, then we walked down Tremont St. towards the Theatre District and walked from their to the Prudential Center (which is far).  We roamed Copley Plaza for a few minutes, the stores were all closed but we could still go in and get out of the cold, they we caught the train home. 
 

The movie Wanted was actually very entertaining

    So my dad rented the movie Wanted today.  I watched it earlier.  I originally wasn't interested in this movie, but I figured I'd give it a chance.  It was ok.  The movie reminded me a lot of Shot 'Em Up, even though I only saw like the second half of that one.  It was an ok movie, pretty entertaining, but extremely ridiculous.  It was such a guy movie, haha.  So many insane gun fights.  James McAvoy was actually pretty good in it.  Common was actually pretty good, he really wasn't in the film very much.  The film was very ridiculous and unbelievable, but very entertaining. 

My first update in a while: Grampy and some movies I saw

    I have gotten a complaint that I haven't updated this in a while.  Well since the last time I updated this.  My grandfather, who I was very close to, was in the hospital for 5 weeks.  He came home last week and was on hospice care.   (Hospice care is when a person is dying and they are just made comfortable and the hospice people help you with pretty much everything).  He died last Friday at home surrounded by family.  It was really sad but he wasn't happy in the hospital and wanted to die at home.  He seemed very at peace when he was home.  Click here to see his obituary. 

    I saw the new Indiana Jones movie, oh god what a disappointment.  For a regular movie it was ok, but as an Indiana Jones movie it was bad.  Why why why why why did they have aliens in Indiana Jones????  Come on!!!  Or wait I'm sorry they weren't aliens, they were transdimensional beings. But still come on that alone kinda killed the movie.
    I also saw Tropic Thunder.  That was very funny, but not nearly as funny as it was hyped up to be.  It was definitely funny though.  Ben Stiller really wasn't as funny as he has been in the past.  Jack Black is usually so much more funny than that. I was disappointed.  I read a review of the movie Role Models (which I've also seen) that said it was really funny, but wasn't as funny as Tropic Thunder.  No I definitely think Role Models was way funnier.  That little black kid was so funny.
    I haven't really bought any Christmas presents yet.  I really need to get on that.  I applied to the Newbury Comics in the Solomn Pond Mall and they said they'd call me this week.  I hope I get the job then I'll have more money to buy presents.

Colbert White House Correspondents Dinner Speech

Hey I saw this video on CollegeHumor and I had to post it. This video is the famous video of Stephen Colbert giving his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. As you can see in the video President Bush is sitting two people next to him. I so this video online two and a half years ago, and if you haven't seen it yet YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS. If you are a fan of political humor of a fan of Colbert YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS. This video is hysterical. Colbert one the Spike "Guy's Choice Award" for "gutsiest move" for this. This was broadcast live on C-Span when it happened which makes it all the better. I wish I saw it live when it happened, it would have been funnier if I knew it was live. Jessie watch the video!!!!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was actually Pretty Good

    I got Forgetting Sarah Marshall from the RedBox today.  I just finished watching it.  I liked it a lot better than I thought I would.  It is better than the 40 Year Old Virgin, better than Wedding Crashers, better than Knocked Up, better than Superbad, better than Talladega Nights.  It was pretty funny.  As I have thought with every Judd Apatow movie I have seen, it went a little overboard on some parts.  However, I think I really liked it.  The jokes were really funny.  Some of the small charcters were dumb, but the were only small charcters so it didn't really have an effect.  I liked Mila Kunis's charcter and I think her and Jason Segel were good together.  Russell Brand's charcter was very funny.  I loved Jack McBrayer's character, he plays the awkward quirky adult so so well.  And the woman that McBrayer's wife was Maris Thayer, from the movie Accepted and the movie and TV show Strangers with Candy, which was awesome.  I think her and Jack were good and really played off each other well.  Jonah Hill was funny, his only had a small role, but it was good.  Towards the end there is this really loud sex scene and my dogs in the next could hear it and the started barking, it was funny.
    There was an awesome special feature on the DVD called Line-O-Rama.  It is all the best and funniest lines of the movie said in a bunch of different ways.  It was really really funny. 

 

Thumbsucker, Rocket Science, and Idiocracy

    So I watched all three movies I got from the library.  Last night Jessie and I watched Thumbsucker.  I really didn't like it.  I really just didn't like this film. I thought the thumbsucking was dumb. The whole time I was watching it I was wondering when it would end .
    Earlier me and Jen watched Rocket Science.  This film was pretty good. It was slow at points. I thought the music in the film was awesome and worked really well. Some of the characters didn't work that well. But most of the main cast was awesome. For a full cast of total unknown actors, they were really good. Definitely not the best film I've seen this year, but definitely worth a viewing.
    I finished watching the movie Idiocracy like 15 minutes ago.  This movie was very dumb, but when you really think about it. I think it was supposed to be. It was definitely really funny in parts. Some of the characters were perfectly cast. It is actually a really interesting look at what our society may become someday with the mass consumerism and mass dumbing down of our current society. It would generally expect more from Mike Judge, but this a smart comedy disguised as a really dumb comedy.