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Well, from 8 this morning to noon I was putting slimy potatoes in bags, all so I could stay in the stupid National Honor Society. I hate NHS.
I ordered a reseller plan yesterday, but unfortunately I ordered the wrong one. I'm going to ask them to change it and throw them a carrot by paying for 6 months worth of service up front.
Other than that, life is all right. My parents are going to a party tonight,
so I'll have the house to myself. Yay.
See? BlogThis! is the epitome of efficiency and design. I love it.
Well, the day has arrived! I was wondering when my account would be converted to the controversial Blogger Basic. Frankly, I don't have much of a problem with it, other than the other one looked cooler. Who knows? Maybe someday they'll have a customizable interface. And I get titles! Yay! Ryan Olsen has titles on his blog at gimpysoft.com, and now I have them too. Coolness. Frankly, I think that if you spend so much time on your blog that this is a major inconvenience, you blog too much. Besides, you still have BlogThis!, which is what I use to do a lot of my blogging anyway. It still has the little dropdown box and is as cool as ever.
Enough about my blog. Today I went to the paper and put the notice in. Yay!
SamAMac Communications Company is one step closer to being a reality. I also
got my new glasses and got my old ones tinted. Then I spent some time at my
sister Aimee's house doing electrical work and such, then I came home and
tried to register for a reseller account at InterAdvantage. I accidentally
registered for the wrong plan, but then it told me to send my check to "YOUR
ADDRESS HERE." Stupid InterAdvantage. Also, I have not gotten my confirmation
email from them nor from the Do Not Call Registry. I hope nothing's wrong with
my email. Conversion for Comcast is in a couple of days, as is the
International Convention. Tomorrow (or later this morning, rather), I'm going
to go bag potatoes for NHS. This things we do for our high school transcripts.
Well, since I have to be there at 8 AM, I'd better get to bed. I just hope
that all is well in the morning. And then there's my summer homework...
Today was a pretty good day. I went to Cosley Zoo with my family earlier, then
I went with my sister Abbie to the airport. The really weird thing just
happened now after I got back. Out of the blue, Ryan Olson from Young Pups
IM's me and tells me that he found the quiz I put on Quizilla and liked it.
I'm like star struck now. Coolness!
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
Cool song. I just spent a long time adding synchronized lyrics to the Weird Al
parody "The Brady Bunch." I need a life.
Had the Key Club board meeting today. They rejected my subcommittee proposal,
but the more I think about it, the more I think that they would be unnecessary
and counterproductive. My original purpose for having them was to preserve the
"required" committee names while grouping all related functions under a single
committee. Oh well. I'm going to take another look at the entire system that I
developed. Other than that, the meeting went pretty well. Afterward, Chris and
I went to Panera Bread, then we went to my house to hang out for awhile. My
sister Abbie's coming in on the redeye tonight. Life is good.
Oh, what a weekend.
On Saturday, I went to my aunt's house with my mom, dad, and sister to rescreen her porch. Deprived of my RDA of caffeine, by 5 o'clock my hands were swollen and I was worn out. Then we went to my grandmother's for her birthday party. Just about the whole family was there, and I had a good time. My younger relatives wore me out though. A couple of my second cousins (I think) made me keep lifting them in and out of these giant holes that were left when they took out some trees. All in all, it was a pretty good day.
Then Sunday after church my mother and I went shopping for gifts for my dad. We bought a new mouse for the computer he plays Freecell on and a new universal remote. He decided that the new mouse works worse than the old one, and the new remote, while cooler (and more expensive) than the old one, still doesn't control the DVD player, which apparently is broken. At least the new one could control the lights, if I ever did get the X10 devices I've always wanted to install.
Oh, I forgot to mention that out at my grandmother's farm, my Uncle Paul gave me yet another box of old computer components. This one's really the motherload. My Uncle Paul is just too cool.
Now, I'm sitting here, updating my blog. Mary IMed me earlier to tell me that I wasn't the only one updating. Mary's blog has been updated with a dumb sketch drawing of Harry Potter, and Jen's contains several days of posts regarding Prom. My point: I need to get a life [insert monosyllabic response synonymous with "indubitably" here].
Tomorrow's agenda: go see Mr. Tyler at 8:15 to get something (I don't really care what) inserted so I have 7 classes, then mail my business registration form. Wednesday is the board meeting. I've heard from everybody but Denise (Renee can't come, and I still need to call Nina and make sure she can make it). That's another thing I have to do tomorrow. I have to go to Office Depot and get some folders so I can make all the new board members little dossiers with all of the stuff I want to bring up at the meeting. New bylaws, new committee structure, and a point system. I've also been working on some updates to the Key Club website. So much to do, so much to do...
Well, it's 1 AM, I still have to take the garbage out, get the pop out of the trunk, take a shower, and get up in the morning, so I'd better go now. Besides, I'm starting to do that whole I'm-so-tired-so-I-guess-I'll-ramble-on- forever thing, and believe me, you don't want that, because then I basically get like Hemingway, except that I actually punctuate my sentences, so that they just don't go on forever, because I don't really like that whole "stream of consciousness" thing they tell us about in English class, because in my opinion, if you're going to take the trouble to write it down, you should take the time to organize it into logical and meaningful sentences, not just write "blah blah blah" like you've never seen a period.
Whoops. See what I mean?
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH! It's Friday the 13th!
Well, I certainly had an interesting day. First Kyle comes over to work on that stupid light thing, then I got my business registration form notarized, and then, of course, it was Stargate Premiere Night. It was good. My mom said we might yet order pizza. Coolness.
Well, I'm preparing to get my business off of the ground. Life is good.
Apparently, I'm the only one who updates my blog. Weirdness.
You are a geek/nerd.. You love computers, GET SOME
EXERCISE!! if you don't, chances are, you'll
die in from of the computer, in the middle of a
game of vertual chess, or dungeons and
dragons.. Either from a cancerous tumor from
the radiation of your computer screen, or from
a heartattack. In which case, you'll probably
be found, one hand on the keyboard, the other
hand on a spam sandwhich.. GO OUTSIDE!! You
NEED fresh air!!
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This one's pretty funny.
What a day. First I go to 10 o'clock mass, then my mom makes a latent discovery that I have to serve noon mass, so I end up going to church twice. Later I get lost trying to find OfficeMax knowing only that it's somewhere in vicinity of Oakbrook Mall. Turns out it was across the street from the mall. Later my mom sends me to go shopping at Target and I arrive about 5 minutes before they close, because they close early on Sundays. Then I discover that the company that hosts the Key Club site for free is apparently a haven for spammers and illegal porn sites. This I discover after doing a little investigating of the security policies of our host after someone repeatedly spammed the I-I District reflector. I emailed a law firm in New Jersey a couple days ago where the first few attacks originated, but since then the same spammer has moved elsewhere. I still haven't emailed anyone in the District about it, our beloved tech chair (our beloved governor gave the job to some chum instead of me, so he inherits my wrath as well) has done nothing. The District reflector has about the dumbest security settings ever (open membership, anyone on the whole lousy Internet can post, and it's unmoderated) and apparently last year's tech chair is still the owner of the group. Our district website still sucks. I wonder if our beloved tech chair even knows HTML, or if he uses some stupid WYSIWYG editor like Frontpage. I hate HTML editors. They're like AOL. If you don't know HTML yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to make webpages. I mean, just look at what kind of crappy websites are out there because of those things, especially "Trellix Web." Yeah, that one Kyle used for the original WB Key Club site. Bah humbug!
School hasn't even been out a week and already I'm fed up with everything. I need a job, but I don't have a car, which limits my options, at least in my eyes. My mother seems to think that Yorktown is within reasonable walking distance. Maybe it is, but still. What I really want to do is go into the web reselling/design business. I never did ask Mrs. Marcyniuk what organization she was referring to when she said she had a customer for me. Argh! If I ever do get into the business, however, I've found a great company to partner with, with great prices and nothing but accolades from what I can find. It seems to be a single-man job. All of the people on the web host rating sites raved about some guy named Tim being great for support, and the president according to a WHOIS search turned up a guy named Timothy. Anyway, if I got into this business, I could set aside some space for Key Club, pro bono. Then we wouldn't have to worry about that stupid other company. And then there's all that summer homework.
I'm rambling, aren't I? I'd better get off the computer and go munch potato chips while watching a movie. Sounds like a plan. I love summer.
P.S. If you know some organization that needs a website/e-store built cheaply and with the best customer support in the history of business (namely, me), drop me a line using the link above. Even if I don't get a reseller account, I could set you up with somebody's hosting plan and maintain it for you. Ask anybody, I know what I'm doing. More than some namby-pamby guy from Streator who doesn't know what the heck's going on the District reflector and probably doesn't care because the stupid thing's never used but nobody ever bothered to take it down cause they're all a bunch of lazy, slipshod...
I'm ranting again. I'd better go watch that movie.
Like the new title? I've changed it to reflect my change in title: I have gone
from Club Secretary to Club President. Maybe I'll make some more entries, or
maybe I won't. I will probably add some entries to Black Sheep Airlines,
however.
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