Lately, Jessica’s car has been giving us problems with starting. I had a friend stop by last night and check it out and it appears to be the battery. She’s going to talk to her parents to see if they can get her another one since I have to jump it in the morning and she has to get someone to jump it when she gets out of class so she can come home.
Last night was also the first night I got into a religious discussion with anyone, I avoid the subject as my views mainly offend everyone else around me. But I was inclined to give my opinions and see where it went. It was obvious from the get go that I was the only one who saw things the way I do (which is usually the case) but that didn’t stop me, I was asked a lot of questions and had to explain things clearly a few times so the person I was discussing with would understand.
Since it was such a big deal I decided to go ahead and put my thoughts and opinions here, plus I don’t really have anything else to write about at the moment. I don’t belong to any religious group, I have no affiliation with any church of any denomination and I am most certainly not an atheist trying to debunk religion. Religion is based on faith, faith is a belief in something without the need for proof.
I will try my best to put down here what was said last night without offending everyone who comes across this, if anyone. I don’t have a belief structure in my life (I see atheism as a belief structure since atheism, itself, is a belief in the absence of a God). I don’t deny the existence of God, but I also don’t blindly believe in the existence of God either. Here’s why:
First, there are too many double-standards for my taste. Thou shalt not kill and don’t put any other gods before me. But in the Old Testament God nearly committed genocide and took life away from people on more than one occassion. Also, I thought pride was one of the seven deadly sins. But telling someone to worship ONLY YOU is a sign of too much pride. And don’t tell me he can do all that because he’s God. Do as I say not as I do does not work here. That’s a double standard.
Second, church. I can’t stand church because most of the people that go only go because they get to talk to people they don’t normally see during the week and gossip about the people around them. Too many times have I sat in a church and watched people talk, sleep or listen to a radio or play games.
I have been told, straight out, that I HAVE to go to church every Sunday. I don’t think so. The definition of a church is a place of worship. So, logically, anywhere I worship would be considered a church. My bathroom could be a church, if I so choose to worship while sitting on the throne. So, no, I don’t have to go to a designated place filled with people that don’t want to be there, and waste a few hours of my time listening to someone talk. I can do that on my own.
Third, there are way too many religions that are pretty much the exact same thing. Lutherans, Baptists, Christians, Disciples of Christ, and the majority of every single religion, pretty much have this in common: One God who sees and rules everything and judges (another double standard), if you are good you go to Heaven and if you’re bad you go to Hell.
Why are wars raged on in the name of religion, supposedly the most open-minded and accepting orginization out there? Oh yeah, because it’s run by people who don’t understand it and misinterpret it for their own gains. So, yeah, no thanks.
Fourth, the Bible itself. This is something religious people whold true and dear to their hearts. To me, it’s one of the most corrupt books on this planet. Not the meaning behind all of it, but the book itself. Too many things have been taken out of it, too many people have put their hands in the honey jar, so to speak. It’s also very contradicting to itself.
Complete books have been removed from the Bible because the Church, back in the day, run by man, decided stories about Jesus killing someone and then bringing them back to life when he was a child is not important enough and doesn’t fit THEIR vision of what the Bible should be, so they took it out.
If we had the complete, original version of the Bible as it was written, we would have a very different look on life and the meaning behind it. But instead, we’re left with this almost withered, beaten and broken version of it and people don’t understand, or want to, that this isn’t what was intended to be the guidelines we should be living by.
Lastly, the absence of the presence of God. In the Bible, God looked at man and saw how flawed and evil he had become and wiped him out with a huge flood. Except for Noah and his ark. Also spoke to many people when things weren’t going so great. So, with all the murderers, rapists, pedophiles and everything else negative in this world, we’re still not as bad as people were two thousand years ago? I think it’s high time we have another flood.
Free will is not an excuse. You cannot tell me with a straight face, that things are the way they are because we have free will and we were put here to do whatever it is we want with only an eternal consequence. If that’s true, then why were humans almost eradicated but now nothing? It seems that if there is a God, he’s either not listening anymore or he’s forgotten about us a long time ago.
Again, I’m not here to debunk religion, I’m not making fun of anyone for their beliefs, you can have as much faith as you want. That’s just not my way of thinking. What happens when we die, in my opinion? Absolutely nothing. Why are we here? Cosmic mistake and many years of evolution. What’s our purpose? We have none, again, we were a mistake.
If I die and I stand in line for judgement, what will be my excuse? “Oops” and probably a middle finger to show my utter disdain for whoever’s in charge, and the final defiance thereof. I’ll probably also ask if there’s a complaint department or someone I can talk to to give suggestions if it’s going to be done again.
What made me lose my faith, if I had it to begin with? People. People are the worst thing to happen to this universe. People are like a virus, sucking up and destroying everything they come into contact with, just look at this planet. It was just fine before we showed up. Now it’s dying, we’ve killed it. Without us, this planet would have flourished and lived on for eons. Sorry, Earth, it’s just what we do.
People, mainly, are also the reason I don’t follow religion. It’s been corrupted, perverted and ruined, thanks to people. The religions I mentioned earlier (Lutheran, Disciples of Christ, Baptist) are all exactly the same but with a slightly different list of things you can and cannot do, so people change religions to suit their lifestyle, not the other way around.
So it’s also become a crutch for most, they don’t want to sacrifice things in their life so they just find the religion that conforms to their lifestyle so they think they’re living in virtue. Which, honestly, is pathetic and very juvenile.
Okay, it’s over. Sit back, close your eyes, and forget everything you’ve read here because you’re probably already steaming mad at this point, if you’ve even gotten this far. If a lot of people read this, it’ll probably get skipped based on the content. If the whole thing is read, then hopefully you understand this isn’t here to start fights or arguments. It’s just the ramblings and thoughts of someone who has absolutely no faith, and the reasons why.

This is probably going to be the longets post yet since I haven’t updated in a while. So grab a cup of coffee (or your choice of beverage) and kick back, this is going to take a while.
I recently obtained a liquid cooling kit for my computer. I went home after work yesterday thinking it would only take around ten minutes to install since I went home earlier for lunch and cut the tubing. Two and a half hours later I had everything ready to go.
The radiator/fan wouldn’t fit on the mounting holes of my case because it’s a 120mm fan and my holes are only for 80mm. So now the radiator is just sitting inside on top of all the cables, which I’m going to fix this weekend. Now there is absolutely no room left in my computer for anything new, luckily I can upgrade or replace the hardware in it if I need to but can’t fit anything new inside. The side panel is bulging out a little too.
Anyway, I put the coolant in the resevoir and hit the power button on my computer and get real nervous. Suddenly, I see: FATAL ERROR. SYSTEM SHUTDOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE across my screen. I freak out and turn the computer off, wait a minute and turn it back on. This time it just comes up with an error saying the CPU fan isn’t working, which is fine because it’s been replaced with a cooling block.
Disillusionment: I was under the impression that a water cooling kit was supposed to keep internal devices really cold so they could be overclocked without harming them. My devices are only being kept around five degrees cooler than what they normally are, which is better than having them catch on fire and burn.
To be fair, the radiator is inside the case on top of cables and the heat from it is just filling up the case. Once I get new holes cut in the case, I’ll mount the radiator to it and have the heat blow out the back, which should keep it nice and chilly inside, allegedly.
Final Test: Once I had it all up and running I let it get warmed up (the computer, not the liquid) and decided I’d give it the ultimate test, the reason I got the kit in the first place: I was going to turn the heat up to where it was not freezing cold in the apartment because Jessica hates the cold and hope the internal devices on my computer would stay cool enough.
First, some information to clarify something. The two bedrooms in our apartment get incredibly hot when the heater is on, about thirty degrees hotter than what we set the termperature at. Also, the heater doesn’t turn off when it reaches the temperature we set it at, it just keeps going until about twenty degrees past that, so the rooms get around fifty degrees hotter than what we wanted (at least it feels that way) so the second bedroom we keep the computer in was getting way too hot and I like to keep my computer on constantly since I’m on call 26 weeks out of the year.
Jessica was getting tired of having the whole apartment freezing just to keep the computer room cooled down, that room was always the hottest for some reason, even when the computer’s not on. I’m really sensitive to the heat so I don’t like running the heater. Anyway, back to the test.
I got the computer going and turned the heater on and went to take a shower. Jessica wasn’t home last night because it was the first night of the musical she’s in so she was out doing that. I got out of the shower and was met by a wave of heat, the apartment had warmed up. Now to check the temperature on the computer.
Since I don’t a thermostat in the computer itself, I have to rely on software programs that pretty much guesstimate the temperature. I run two of such programs and they both tell me the inside of the case is around 40 degrees (I’m putting most of that on the radiator) and the processor was at around 33-36 degrees and the video card was running hot around 50-60 degrees.
Summation: The liquid cooling kit was a success in keeping the computer cool while I was able to run the heater so Jessica wouldn’t turn into a popsicle (which is ironic because I turned the heater off when I went to bed and let the apartment cool off naturally). Plus, I didn’t really want to leave the heater on all night in case the cooling kit decided to stop working for some reason and the computer was forced to shut down.
I’m going to look into the coolant and see if there’s some I can find that’ll keep the computer a little cooler than I’m getting now. Of course, once I mount that radiator onto the case instead of having sit inside, everything will be better and the video card won’t be running so hot. Now if I could just close up the holes on the sides of the case and let the cool air from the fan fill it up.
The holes are from fans that no longer have power connectors since those were taken up from the liquid cooling kit. So there aren’t seven bright green lights on the case lighting up the room. Now there are only five. Not a huge difference, and the computer is in a desk so you can’t even see the lights anyway, but you can from the street when the light in that room is turned off.
When I first turned the computer on after hooking everything back up, I wanted to watch the tubes to make sure they were snug and not leaking. That was pretty cool to watch the water get sucked out of the resevoir and carried through the tubes, it made a slurping noise.
At first it didn’t look like there was enough coolant as the tubes weren’t full and you could see the liquid going around, but after a couple of minutes they filled up and now you can’t tell anything’s moving, except for the fact that the computer hasn’t spontaneously combusted yet so I know it’s working.
Also, on a different note, I beat F.E.A.R. and FarCry, finally. I started Half-Life 2 the night before last. I’m trying to beat all the older games I bought and never played before getting to the newer games I have, now that I have time to do it and a liquid cooling system to keep my components nice and cool. Now back to studying, PIECE!!!!!

Last night I got bored and decided to put F.E.A.R. back on my computer and finally finish playing it since I’ve never beaten it. Jessica came home earlier than I expected but at least I got to play. I need to beat it before I play the second one, but I’ve already started that one when I first got it.
I’ve been getting the urge to put Grand Theft Auto 4 back on my computer and playing that again, that was fun. I need to stop loading a bunch of games on my computer because I keep switching from game to game and end up spending too much time on one and forget where I’m at on the other ones. But I have too many to play one at a time. Stupid catch 22’s.
I met up with my artist Saturday and got to see some sketches, they were pretty good. I was able to recognize which charaters were which and which panel was which, so that’s a sign of good art. That was exciting, that was the first time I got to see my ideas in art form. It shouldn’t be too long now until I have a full comic book. The I can get the website really going then.
I’m going to wait until I have one series completely done before I start advertising the website and getting everything going, right now I’m just getting things set up so it’ll all be ready when I am. Other than that, I had a pretty uneventful weekend. I started studying for my Microsoft tests, hopefully these won’t take too long to get finished with but I’m not holding my breath.
I’m still waiting for my third certificate to show up in the mail, it should be coming pretty soon since I got my second one a couple of weeks ago and I passed the third test a week or two after the second one. Oh well, it’ll get here when it gets here. I need to get some picture frames for the certificates so I can hang them on my wall at work with my other one.
I just got a call from Jessica, she’s on her way home for lunch, I’m going to go meet her and eat with her. I might be going out there tonight for her rehearsal, I’m not too sure. Depends on how nicely she asks and how strong the urge to play games is. I better take off now before I get too hungry. PIECE!!!!!

Well, I wouldn’t really call it productive, but I did more this weekend than any other weekend. Ever. Saturday, Jessica wanted to go to karaoke with some friends. I drove around and picked everyone up then went to the bar. After about ten minutes of loud, horrible singing, I decided I wanted to play some pool.
I’m not any good at pool, but I like to play. One of Jessica’s friends joined me and we equally sucked but that’s what made it fun. Then one of her friend’s friends came by and wanted to play. I made up my own rules, Baseketball-style, and after a few minutes he walked off.
Then I drove all the drunk people home, which was amusing to say the least. Then I went home and had the worst night trying to sleep.
First, it was late so that didn’t really help. Second, I couldn’t breathe without propping my head straight up which was highly uncomfortable. Then the cats kept slamming themelves into the door because they thought they were starving to death. Then the sun came up.
Exhausted, I got out of bed and drove out to my parent’s house and had some extremely good curry. Then I had some even more delicious strawberry cake with cream cheese icing. Then I drove back home, where Jessica had stayed to do her homework since she had a test the next day in piano and needed to practice. After that, we drove out to Jessica’s school for her rehearsal and I sat in my car for a few hours.
I actually like sitting in my car, I get more done there than I would if I had stayed at home, but that doesn’t make any sense. I finished the seventh book and started on the eighth. She got out around nine o’clock and we drove the thirty miles back home where I promptly went to the bedroom and layed down.
But it doesn’t stop there. I forgot I didn’t brush my teeth, so I got up to do that. Then I got up to make sure all the doors were locked because I’m a little paranoid. Then I got up to get the cats some food so they wouldn’t wake me up again. Then I had to get up because Jessica forgot to put her clothes in the dryer and I couldn’t wake her up to have her do it. And then I was able to go to sleep.
Not sure what time it was, I don’t look at the clock when I go to bed because I can’t go to sleep if I know what time it is. But I slept like a baby, with my head at a level position for the first time in months. It took a while to get out of bed since I was sleeping so well, but I finally drug myself out and got dressed.
I went outside to thirty degree weather. I love winter. It was a little overcast (I think. Everything was gray so I can only assume it was overcast) and excrutiatingly windy. The coolest thing about this morning was my coffee was piping hot, I set it on my car outside while I was warming my car up. Five minutes later, it was cool enough to drink.
Then I came to work and had a belgium waffle. So all in all, today has been pretty badass in my opinion. I’m in a good mood, my belly’s full of delicious waffle goodness, it’s freezing cold outside and to top it all off, my birthday’s tomorrow. Not really a high-point, but it’s worth mentioning.
My sister stopped by for the first time in a couple of years to give me my birthday present early, it was a video game (one that I don’t have yet, which is the hard part about buying me video games). I’ll check it out tomorrow since it’s a present for tomorrow. Anyway, I better get to work. PIECE!!!!!

There are three constants in my life that make up the entity I am: Headaches, fatigue and heartburn. These are the three things I can count on being there almost everyday. Not so much a bad thing, more of a nuisance. I will tackle these…now:
Fatigue. I am tired 100% of the time, unless I’ve had double-digit hours of sleep. There is no rhyme or reason, I’ve tried everything. I’ve changed my diet, I’ve exercised, I’ve cut back on caffeine. But still, no matter what I do, I’m tired constantly.
Headaches. Not a big deal until I had a stroke, then they became somewhat of a concern. But after getting an MRI and having nothing show up, we figured that was just another thing I’d have to deal with. Tried everything with that, exercise, diet, caffeine, good sleep (when I get it) and almost voodoo at one point but I finally just gave up.
Heartburn. Again, absolutely NO REASON this should be going on, except for high levels of acid in my stomach (that’s purely speculation). But with this, at least there’s some relief. I took Prilosec for a long time but then it got to where I didn’t need it. Lately, however, my heartburn has been coming back daily…almost hourly. So I went back to using Prilosec and now I’m all good.
So there, the only three things that seem to be a constant in my life. Not a concern, doesn’t bug me anymore, but they’re there. Well, two are, heartburn is pretty much gone (for now anyways). Well, that’s all I have to say for now. I’m going to get back to being tired. PIECE!!!!!

Went to a “haunted woods” attraction in a smaller town, it was pretty good. Then went to a party the next night with the cast from the play Jessica was in. I forgot how crazy college kids get when they drink. The nothing happened last night. Now I’ll break it down for you:
Haunted Woods: Small little attraction on the side of the road, the only thing noting it’s existence was a small sign on the side of the road. It was only open at night, for atmospheric purposes, and it was five dollars a person. We went in a group of four, the leader was given a flashlight and we had to walk around the little dirt trail.
People would jump out at you wearing crazy masks, then they would follow you. They were dead quiet so you wouldn’t know they were there until you turned around. Someone riding a horse flew out of nowhere and scared everyone, nobody was real certain that the guy riding the horse was going to stop and it came within inches.
Then there was the last twenty feet, there was a little kid dressed up in a Chucky mask and outfit holding a big, fake, glow-in-the-dark knife. We all thought it was fake because he wasn’t moving, so we moved along and Jessica mentioned it was moving. I turned around and saw the kid beckoning for Jessica to come closer with his knife, she made a fist at him for some reason and that kid flew at her at lightning speed (I was surprised this kid could move that fast) and it scared the ever-loving bejesus out of Jessica and she took off running and screaming at the top of her lungs.
I laughed at that for at least an hour, it still brings a smile to my face. Then the next night we went to the party, I just kind of hung out by myself while Jessica mingled with her friends. Later on in the night some girls went for a walk (don’t ask me why, I thought it was weird) and came back and told the hostess there was a dead cat in the road so she went and checked it out.
It turned out to be this stray cat that they’ve been taking care of, so then she starts crying, the bearer of bad news starts crying, then everyone else started crying. The hostess changed out of her costume and went to some place she goes to when she’s sad and didn’t come back, apparently she fell asleep in her car. Then one girl gets extremely drunk and starts throwing up.
While she’s throwing up, she’s apologizing to everyone and laughing for no reason. Her boyfriend wanted to take her home, she couldn’t walk, so he decided to carry her. Then he tripped and fell right on top of her, she hit her head on the ground. Everyone freaked out, I was the only one laughing because I saw the humor in that.
She wasn’t hurt, she was still laughing and throwing up. Then everyone started leaving and Jessica and I came back home. Crazy college kids. Tomorrow is our two-year anniversary. Don’t have any plans, won’t be able to go anywhere or really do anything thanks to financial restraints. I’ll make it up to her when I get paid Saturday.
That’s all I’ve been up to this weekend. Oh, I’ve been trying to build this computer for a friend of ours as a surprise for his boyfriend (yes, you read that right, no I don’t care). It’s been two months and I’m almost done with it, it’s been a long journey.
First, the power wouldn’t work, come to find out there was a little cable I didn’t connect because it was labeled SB/Switch and I didn’t know what that was. Then the IDE cable wouldn’t read hard drives so I had to replace that, then I had to go buy an adapter for the power plug on the motherboard. Now I have to get a video card in it and I’m finished.
The video card that’s in there now is a 16MB card, not good enough to play games on and that’s why I’m building it. Luckily, I found a 256MB video card I can throw in there when I get home. Okay, that’s all I have for today. PIECE!!!!!

If I win any more of these things, I won’t have to work ever again. Last week I got an e-mail saying I won around 500,000 pounds. Today I get one saying I won 850,000 pounds. All they need is my name, address and phone number. That sounds legit.
Unfortunately, or forutantely, I’m not an idiot. But we can all dream, can’t we? I finished the fifth comic a week ago or so, I can’t really remember. I started on the sixth one the other day and got some more put on it last night. Jessica doesn’t really like the idea of what I’m doing with this one, but she also doesn’t really know the story, or the point.
But that’s okay, sometimes things just don’t make sense and somehow, life goes on. The point of the story isn’t really in the first seven comics anyway, it comes after that. That’s when the story really starts, the first seven are just filler for the brain, it’ll all make sense when it’s over.
Anyway, writing comics, getting certifications, winning lotteries in other countries, I’m a busy guy. Got a haircut last night and all it cost me was making a computer work for someone. Bartering is awesome. It’s a computer I wanted to build for one of my friend’s and couldn’t get it to work. Then, last night, I realized it doesn’t work because I didn’t plug in the power cable to the motherboard (it was labeled S/B switch and I didn’t know what that was for). Now I just need a hard drive and I’m done.
I could probably stand putting a better video card in it, I might have an extra one lying around, if not then another friend of mine has one I can use. If you took all the computer parts my friends and I have, you could probably throw together a few dozen computers. Which is a good thing because someone will have something if you need it and don’t have it yourself.
I started going through the Microsoft study materials, it’s easier than I thought it would be. That’s a good sign and I guess that only makes sense after messing with Windows for fourteen years. Thinking about getting a Cisco certification after the Microsoft tests. I’ll look into it.
I’m going to get to work now, have to go look at some scanners. PIECE!!!!!

I noticed yesterday that I made it seem like I was downplaying the birth of my niece after only giving it a short mention at the end of my post. Yesterday was a weird day and it seemed like my priorities were all shot out of whack. Needless to say, it was a stereo-typical Monday, complete with flip-outs and things that just didn’t go right.
Last Monday was a lot better, I spent all day at the hospital with my family as my sister was giving birth. Around 9:45 or 10:00am (I can’t be sure) my brother-in-law walks out of the surgery room wheeling his brand new baby girl and a ten mile smile.
Then we spent most of the day with my sister, making sure she was okay. Once we knew that mom and baby were going to be okay, I went home to spend some time with Jessica, who was sick and had things to do. My mom was also sick, but she was there for my sister.
Anyway, I guess I’m going to get out of here. I’m starting studying for my Microsoft tests, I can’t seem to quit studying. PIECE!!!!!

So it’s been a while since I posted anything, let’s catch up: Jessica switched her major to theater and the last month or so she’s been going out to college every night to rehearse, the show opened Thursday and ended yesterday. I went and saw it Thursday and yesterday, it was good, there were some laughs.
I got to meet the cast after the Thursday show at Buffalo Wild Wings, that was interesting. I got complimented on my beard, which has been trimmed down since then. Everyone was nice and stereo-typical theater nerd, but they were a good group of people.
Passed my Network+ and Security+ tests, but the certificates won’t be sent until I verify my information by logging into the website. I clicked on the “Forgot username/password” link and entered into a psychotic loop of “password has not been set” and “password is invalid” to the almighty “we’re sorry, this e-mail address seems to be in use by someone else” so that makes for a fun time for all.
Taking a break from studying to work on the site, but that’s a little tricky since my internet’s been cut off. I’m going on my lunch break to pay it so I can have fun internet time when I get home. Ate almost an entire pizza last night and woke up at 2am with unbelievable heartburn, but it was worth it.
Now that the show is over, I will have more time to spend with Jessica. Until she starts working again, but that’s a necessary evil. Since we got married in 2007, there hasn’t been a week we’ve been able to spend time together. So, technically, we’re still newly weds. The anniversary is coming up, hopefully we’ll be able to do something.
Work is crazy with all the reinterviewing for our jobs that’s going on, which is always fun. Not in this case, everyone’s mad that we have to reinterview for the jobs we’ve had for years now, which is understandable. Our company was sold to another company, the new company is dumping us on the company we’ve been working AT, not for, for years now and that company is making us reinterview, but that’s only for legal purposes, so there’s not much to worry about.
I finished the fifth comic, need to start working on the sixth and then the seventh and then finally the comic can take on one story, as opposed to seven different stories that are vaguely tied together.
I need to get together with my artist and get things rolling. She’s been really busy with her life, hopefully we can get it together and get this thing going.
I’m going to get off here now, I need to start studying again for the next batch of certifications I want to get, hopefully it won’t be too hard. PIECE!!!!!

I almost forgot, I became an uncle last Monday. My sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Marlowe Blair. Here’s to the new parents!

The other day I was completely overwhelmed with depression thanks to some weird dream I had. Those things are starting to get annoying. Later that day I get off work and go home, get Jessica and drive the thirty miles to her school so she can attend the rehearsal for the play she will be in.
I have to sit in the car since it’s closed rehearsals, so I usually take my study material and my laptop. I studied until the sun went down then broke out the laptop, brainstormed for a few minutes then began writing my fifth comic. Well, what do you know, I felt better. As a matter of fact, I felt so much better I could’ve classified it as being “happy”.
I’ve felt pretty good since then, which is kind of weird, I didn’t think writing would help that much. A couple of days pass and I get this headache that won’t go away, it’s not bad, just noticeable. I’ve been fighting what I believed to be a sinus infection so I blamed that on my headache. Woke up the next day and my throat was killing me, still is. Then I think I have strep throat, which wouldn’t surprise me since I’m a magnet for strep throat.
The next day I wake up, have loads of drainage, my throat doesn’t hurt as bad but I still feel kind of crappy. Have an idea of what it is yet? Yeah, that’s what I figured too, stupid allergies. So, to test my theory, I’m going to the gift shop at the hospital I work in and load up on Benadryl and if I start to feel better, then allergies it is.
If not, then I guess I’m going to go to the doctor and try to figure out what’s causing the problem, but I’m pretty sure it’s allergies. They’ve been getting progressively worse lately. Too bad I can’t write those away. Of course, that would be too easy.
Studying is going good, I should be ready to take this test by the end of this week if not earlier. But I have to wait to see if I get reimbursed from the first test before I can think about being able to take this one. Hopefully that’s not a problem since the company I used to work for was sold, then the new company dumped us onto the hospital. I’m not going to hold my breath.
My dermatitis started flaring up again, that’s getting annoying. It’s a catch 22; if I didn’t have my beard then you would be able to see the worst spots I have…then again, if I didn’t have my beard, I probably wouldn’t have those spots in the first place. It seems like it’s only around where the facial hair is. And above my eyebrows.
Oh well, it’s not that big of a deal, just strange. The weather outside is pretty cool: foggy, wet, cold. Just the way I like it. Then I get inside on my way to work, and everybody has their heaters on. So I’m almost sweating by the time I get to my office, my absent co-worker has the heat turned up but since he won’t be here today, I go ahead and turn it down…way down.
Hopefully by the time I’m done writing this, I’ll be nice and chilly. I can already feel the cool air coming in from his office. I don’t have vents in my part of the office, which is why I turned it down so low, so it’ll float into my part and cool me off.
Anyway, I’ve rambled on about nothing for long enough, I’m going to study some more and hopefully get this thing finished. PIECE!!!!!