Current Music: Saloon - Le Weekend
Current Mood: semi-satisfied

Well guess who? Yes - me - I'm back... again. I've been busy with little tidbits of this and that, and I'll make that the point of this post. How does that do it for ya? I have been doing fairly well, no particularly awful days, though some of those days at work seemed pretty bad. I've had more than the usual number of good days though, so that's cool. I haven't been sleeping all that well, but that's really nothing new. I'm averaging 3-5 hours of sleep a night, I think. Why is the topic yeoooowwww? Because I have a headache right now, but it's not a bad one, and it's probably sleep related, so that's okay. I did take a large amount of time to type this post, so if you don't mind, read this one if you read anything :P (NOTE: This post isn't as long as it looks, it's a mixture of the font and the thinness playing tricks on you)

I guess the first topic of the day shall be school, seeing as that's just one of those main things I do, and as how work doesn't give me anything worth posting/talking about. I finished up last term as I always did, with an A in each class, and quite bored out of my terribly small mind. So now I've finished up my C++ and SQL classes, landing myself into a Systems Analysis class, and a PL/SQL class. The PL/SQL class is going fine, and I expect it will for the full term, seeing as I have the same teacher as the SQL class. The Systems Analysis will likely be a tedious pain in the ass. It requires much more reading as the instructor doesn't do as well explaining things. I have a funny feeling there will be people failing this class, and I might actually have to think and read for once to ensure that I'm not one of them. How troublesome...

As per the next activity of my time away, how about we take the dandy topic of wasting my money. That's always fun right? Well, I've gotten a small handful of things. I secondly got a gig of RAM, installed it without any problems, because RAM was needed here, in my poor computer. Before I got the RAM, I went to ThinkGeek.com though. Here's the stuff I got at ThinkGeek.com: "will frag for bandwidth" mug, Caffeine Molecule Mug, "No, I will not fix your computer" Mug, Pacific Chai (tea), 7 t-shirts, all with dandy little phrases: "Keep out of Direct Sunlight",
">SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
>No Rows Returned",
"Got Root?", "Bow to me, For I am root", "(front) (back)", "Generic Humanoid Carbon Unit", and the last one, instead of a dandy^tm phrase, has a nice glow in the dark power symbol. As for the Generic Humanoid Carbon Unit shirt, I got two interesting comments on it. "Dennis Stillwell: You're anything but generic, you're unique." "Justin: You're uniquely generic!" Oh, and yes, I WILL frag for bandwidth, I *NEED* bandwidth, and I need it now!

Lets see, what else have I been doing around here lately, besides the usual instant messenging and stuffs. Well I've finally started back into watching anime and reading manga on a semi-regular basis again. I'm currently knee-deep in Ranma 1/2, ready to start reading volume 10. I'm also up to about episode 5 in Love Hina, as I've decided to rewatch it after two years since I first saw it. This is all good stuff, and it's keeping me entertained, it reeally is. Another thing I've done a little of is gaming. I've put some hours into my Final Fantasy VIII file, which of course is going well.

The computer related things I've been doing are mostly reading. I'm working my way through two books at the moment (independent studies of sorts), one is a certicationy book on Java, that I've been working on on-and-off, it's a really interesting book, but it's also really long, and very detailed, and if I'm to stand any chance at the *VERY* expensive certification exam - I'd best know my stuff! The other book I'm reading through is one I've had for a while but never finished - the topic: Using XML in Java. It's interesting stuff as well of course. I've also given myself a brief introduction with Python, Ruby, and shell scripting. The other stuff I suppose I've been doing would include a little bit of the usaual computer tweaking, but when do I not do that?

So it has been written, so it has been done. This tale is the life of the insignificant geek of alias "Dustin". Over and Out.