Saturday, January 22, 2005

   O God! Daar's 'n byl in my kop!

Not really, but it's a way to start a conversation. (I know one person will be able to figure that out.)

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Well... I'm going to be moving to my parents' place in the next week or so. I've come up with a couple lists... Good things and bad things about the move:

Good Things	Bad Things
No rent	No independence
Fat kitty Neko!	No River on the radio
Brother to talk to	NO CARTOON NETWORK!!!

The last thing in the Bad Things list is the one that really makes me sad. That means no anime.... unless I watch my single Trigun DVD over & over & over... or beg my brother to locate his Ranma 1/2 videotapes.

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Now to look at things. Oooh... there's a thing over there! It's neat looking!

Laters!

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   A slightly wacky Kitsune!

(Note: It's still Friday for me. I just had a lot of email things to deal with before I got here. Took too long to get it all done.)

I had a pretty decent day today. I woke up pretty tired and lethargic from the damp icky weather. It was 50 degrees yesterday & around 30 degrees today! And then there was the grey foggy ick.

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Anyhoo... took two more tests today. Excel 2000 Expert and PowerPoint 2000 are now history. Got 864/1000 on Excel & 889/1000 on PowerPoint. Kenshin will now express how having five out of seven tests done.



All I have left is Outlook and Access. See up in my intro for Kyo expressing my feelings about those.

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After I was done with the tests I had Ocean Breathe Salty by Modest Mouse running through my head when I left the building. Got in the car and that song was on the radio! At almost the exact spot that I was humming. Really freaky cool!!! Then as I drove home, one particular singer I wanted to hear was played, too. It was a happy drive home. I can really jam while driving to good tunes! Don't mess with the crazy Kitsune jamming to Rob Zombie!!

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I got home around 2:45 or 3:00... checked the mailbox: empty. *sigh* But I had mail. It was in front of my door! I got a package from Original J! He sent me a picture! I was so happy!!!!

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Then I went to the grocery store and bought food. I even bought a donut and ate it before Vash could get close to it.

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Laters!

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Thursday, January 20, 2005

   Give me immortality or give me death!!!

Well... I took two more certification tests today. Passed them both. Got 884 out of 1000 on MS Word 2000 Expert & 970 out of 1000 on MS Excel Core! On the slate for tomorrow.... MS Excel 2000 Expert and MS PowerPoint 2000. After those are done, all I have left on the MOS tests is MS Access & Outlook. Access has been driving me nuts for quite a while now and I hate Outlook. Then... once I get through those, I get to start studying for my CIW web design tests. Yay?

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I should try to get a little studying in tonight, but my brain cell just doesn't want to! It's a bit headachey right now. Stupid head cold.

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So... I'm going to visit sites tonight!!!! Wheee!!!

Laters!

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

   Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts!

Well... I have been so stressed lately. Nothing new there. Last night I was offline by 10:00 pm and was wandering around the apartment trying to figure out what I was doing. I finally sat down and did a little counted cross stitch while watching InuYasha and Big O.

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For those of you that have emailed me at the Earthlink address: I'm reluctantly giving up my Earthlink service. I just can't afford it anymore and there's another reason I'm giving it up. See the next paragraph for that one.

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I'm moving back to my parents' house. I really don't want to go, but the job search has hit a brick wall and there's no income right now. It's a little tough to pay rent without income. The town they live in doesn't have an access number for Earthlink, so what's the point of having it if I can't use it? It's really tough for me to make that move. I've been here for two years now and have enjoyed the independence. My sister is upset that I'm leaving.

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You may notice that my website link is gone over there in the profile stuff on the left. That's because it was an Earthlink site and it's now gone. Yes, I trashed Freaky and Kohaku's Cosplay. Hopefully sometime in the relatively near future, my site will be back. I just can't give you a definite timeframe. I can narrow it down to the year 2005. Is that good for everyone?

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Well.. I'm going to hit a few sites now. I apologize if I don't get to everyone, but my brain is going off in about 6 million different directions at one time here. Also... I'm going to try to get a couple more tests out of the way tomorrow. So that's something that has me a bit nutso right now as well.

Laters!

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

   Ho hum... or later the same evening.

Absolutely nothing of interest happened today.

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Well... I was surprised that my long post from around midnight was received rather well. I usually avoid topics like religion because it can lead to too many arguments.

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I had a weird dream last night. Or was it two dreams? It must have been two dreams.... in the first one I was Kenshin. I was with Kaoru, Sano & Yahiko having an elaborate meal with some guy. That's all I can remember of that one. The second involved my car disappearing and InuYasha being involved somehow. Ohhh... that's a scary thought.... InuYasha driving my car. O_O

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Time to hit sites.
Laters!

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   I am so naughty. (Long post! No kidding...it's long... and opinionated.)

WARNING: Do not read this if you're easily offended by other people's beliefs when it comes to religion. Just scroll down to the part about it being just after midnight and Big O.

I was running around the 'net and came across a chatterbox on a site with avatars. The conversation there was kind of interesting. Someone was getting very religious and stating that certain things were a fact. I jumped into the fray by asking them to prove it. I said they needed to back it up without citing the Bible as proof. Then it started to get ugly. He started spouting things about faith. I added things about if something being in the Bible is fact, then anything printed in a book is fact, even fiction. Then I added that believing anything I read is against my beliefs as a Discordian. Then the Christian said that the bunch of us would be in big trouble. Then another guy started to spout off string after string of obsenities. That's when I left. But it was just too much fun irritating that one guy. I can't stand it when someone tries to shove their religion down my throat.

Don't get me wrong, I was raised in a Christian home. However, at the age of 39, I have formed some beliefs of my own. Some of it was actually formed in my mind several years ago. I have problems with some of the things that are the basis of Christian belief. It conflicts with a few things that I picked up in college while getting one of those two degrees I have.

I used to describe myself as a Zen Christian. That's not quite right anymore. With all the things that have been going on in my life since last May, I've lost a little faith in a certain Christian charity. Oh, I may as well say that I've lost a lot of faith in that charity. Everytime I called them for help, I was told they had no money to help me. Well, driving to class or to the Center for a study/lab session, I'd see the progress of the Christmas drive for both Council Bluffs and Omaha for this charity. Both cities exceeded their goals for the season. No money, my eye! Then my sister said she saw something on the news that they were taking care of people that have family members in the military overseas. (Don't get me started about the military overseas....it's not a pretty subject around me) Anyhoo... since they're taking care of that part of the population first, I get nothing. And the radio commercial that I heard said they don't turn anyone away. I think I laughed right out loud at that.

One more thing: I am a tolerant person. After September 11, I was discussing things with my neighbor, who is a minister. I told him that I have a big problem. I'm educated and tolerant. I had some very good friends in college that were Muslim. We were talking about how my friends would have been ostracized because of their beliefs. Thing is...my friends were from Malaysia. I am accepting of their beliefs and they were accepting of mine. I was raised to be open-minded. It's my nature. I feel strongly about things, yes. Everyone does. But if someone else's beliefs contradict mine, I don't berate them for it. I accept it. If it piques my curiosity, I will ask questions and try to learn more.

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Well...if you read this and got through my ramblings, congratulations. It's not often that this slightly crazy Kitsune waxes philosophical like that.

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It's now about quarter after midnight. "Big O" is on Adult Swim. Remember: Chicks Dig Giant Robots!

Laters! .... maybe. Depends on if anything exciting actually happens later in the day.

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Monday, January 17, 2005

   Oh... what a day...

I took one of my MOS tests today. Got 945 out of 1000, so I guess I passed it. I'm gonna take more on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully I will have Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all out of the way by the end of the week! Yay me!!! It's unbelievable how much of a load off my mind that will be. Then all that will be left of the MOS certification is Outlook and Access. I'll let Kyo show you how Access makes me feel.

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After I get through with the MOS... I start to study for three more certification tests! Wheeeeeee!!!!! I think I'll roll around on the floor for a while.

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Kenshin & Vash: *peeking around the corner at me*

Vash: I think she's lost it finally.

Kenshin: Lost what? Her sakabato? No... that's on the floor next to her. She's been hitting herself in the head with it.

Vash: Never mind. I need a donut.

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I check sites now.

Laters!

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Sunday, January 16, 2005

   Aaaaaggggghhhh!!!!!!!!

Frustration strikes again! Tonight's source of frustration: my own brain!

Okay...I'm not a stupid person. Computers don't scare me. I can usually get them to bend to my will. So, why is MS Access driving me absolutely nuts? I go through the tutorials. I look at my books from class and the four books I have on it from the library. I even play with the program on Demon Spawn. So... what is it about the thing that leaves me staring at the computer screen and feeling like my brain has just been sucked out my ear with a straw, put in a blender on frappe, and poured back into my ear?

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Well, tomorrow I am hopefully going to take a couple of the tests that I've been studying for. I'm going to tackle the Word tests. I hope I can take them. If not, I suppose I'll use the time over there to go over the Access tutorials on a connection that is slightly faster than the snail of a dialup connection that I have here at home.

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So now I think I'll hit sites. Maybe later I'll try to do something on Access again. Maybe I'll find a nice wall to bang my head against.

Laters!

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Edit: While watching CSI: NY this evening, there was a local newsbreak with sad news. There was a fire at the Henry Doorly Zoo last night. Nine animals died - 7 Nile Lechwe and 2 Sandhills Cranes. So sad... the Nile Lechwe is an endangered antelope-like critter from the Sudan. Really kind of cute. What's really sad is that it was half the herd, and the herd has been a part of the zoo since the 1960s. Sandhills Cranes are also endangered, but their habitat isn't shrinking like the Lechwe habitat. The Lechwe is losing their native habitat in the Sudan to war. Another sad thing...

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

   I'm cold!

Well... the Arctic Blast has hit us again. I don't think the temperatures got out of the single digits today. I'm still cold.... and I'm inside where it's warm.

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Woohoo!!! Giant robot fight on MegasXLR!

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Oh... I put my email address up here a week or so ago as an experiment. I'm leaving it up, but I am setting the spam blocker up to the highest setting. So... if anyone wants to email me, they can, but just be aware that until I put you in my address book, you'll get a message saying that you're not authorized to send me email. If you put something about My Otaku into the subject line, I'll move you over to the address book right away. I'm doing it because I'm getting crap in that mailbox now. It's probably from some other source, but it seems to have started up about the time I posted my address.

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Oh...not much happened today. Ran around with the sister & nephew again. Whee.

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Time to check sites and do other interesting things.

Laters!

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Friday, January 14, 2005

   Wheee!!!!!!!!!

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Okay... that was interesting. Nothing exciting happened today. I got that puzzle done last night. Yay. Fortunately it was a group effort and about 8 of us were chatting and working on it together. So... now we wait again for the next puzzle to show up. *sigh*

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Time to check out sites now. I'm on the verge of boredom here.....

Laters!

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Edit: Just saw this on banzaiinu1's site. Had to share it.

Take the quiz: "What type of attitude problem do you have? (pics)">

You're Mean
You just say whatever you want without thinking about how it will make the other person feel. You've probably said every mean thing possible so how about you try this....

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