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Friday, September 05, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Candidate tax cut calculator
Follow the following link to see what your taxes would be like with Obama and McCain. Looks like Susan and I would get an $870.98 tax cut with Obama and with McCain I would pay $846.11 MORE than with Obama. Which means that Mccain would give me a $24.87 tax cut. Here's the link: http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
Monday, August 25, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Great advertising
Someone found a glitch in the new Tiger Woods Golf game, and posted it to youtube. EA took it and Tiger and made one of the best commercials I've ever seen. Here it is:
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
SPC South Plains College Goat Screw
I'm paranoid about registration and financial aid stuff at school; I just don't trust them to get everything done right. It's because of this, I call them about once every week or so to make sure I've done everything I need to do and that my stuff is being worked on. I have been told every time "You've done everything, we're just processing the files and it will be done before school starts, you do not need to worry". The last time I called was Friday August 8th and again was told, everything is done, not to worry.
Flash forward to today August 12, tuition is due in two days on August 14th. I logged in just to review my schedule and to get ready to email my teachers and lo and behold my financial aid file still has not been processed!
I called and called the financial aid office only to be put on hold for 20 minutes and then hung up on each time (3 times and about an hour and a half of calling). So, I finally gave up and drove to the school.
The financial aid office was crazy packed, which is understandable seeing as how the semester is about to start. After waiting in line for about half an hour I get to the front only to hear "Well, you've done everything, why hasn't it been processed." I then wait while the lady goes to find out what's wrong and when she comes back she informs me that they somehow "Forgot" to process my financial aid file and that it will have to be resubmitted. In the mean time I will have to pay for school out of pocket and be reimbursed when my financial aid is approved.
Needless to say I threw a fit, this was their screw up, not mine I shouldn't have to pay. Not only that, but I can't afford to pay. "We can make a payment arrangement with you and you can make payments of around $100 weekly until it gets resolved". Again, I threw a fit. This resulted in me being told I can wait to see my adviser.
An hour later I'm called back to see my financial aid adviser, who tells me that my original adviser "Left us" (meaning he either quit or got fired) while he just happened to be working on my file. When he left he neglected to inform anyone that he had pulled my file and was not done with it, so it just sort of got brushed aside and forgotten about. Fast forward to now, his replacement is horrified and doesn't know what to tell me. I really can't blame her it's not her fault, but still. She tells me that she has resubmitted my fafsa which will take a week to three weeks to process and I can make payments out of pocket until then and be reimbursed when my financial aid is approved.
After arguing that I shouldn't have to, and can't afford to pay out of pocket, she conceded and said she'd see what could be done. She then came back and said that the "emergency loan" fund was empty, and that I probably couldn't get one but I can apply for one to pay my tuition. She then says that I will have to pay $30 cash (which I don't have) now out of pocket to apply. SO.... I threw another fit.
She went and spoke to the dean of finance who waived the $30 fee and said that they'd find some way to get me an emergency loan. After filling out the application we find that my adviser's big sister was friends with Susan when they were younger. Small world...
Now I'm told to go wait in the crowded waiting room again (I have social anxiety disorder) and that it will take a while for them to find the money.
About 2 hours later there were 6 of us waiting in the waiting room to hear about our emergency loan applications. The front desk women suddenly grabbed their purses, turned off the lights and left for home, without saying a word to any of us!
After 30 minutes of sitting in the dark I got up and hopped the counter (the doors were locked) and wandered around in the office area until I found someone. I scared the bejesus out of her and she said they were still trying to allocate funds for me and were shocked to find that the front desk ladies turned the lights out on us.
I was upset about waiting but there was a girl there with a baby that kept sneezing and laughing and that was hilarious!
A while later (a total of about 3 hours and change) they start calling people up to tell them what's going on, a guy in front of me got his emergency loan and left looking confused, two girls both got told they were denied because they couldn't allocate the funds. They cried and argued and ended up leaving in tears. I figured I would be leaving in tears shortly too. I got called up and told that they were able to find money to give me an emergency loan, classes are paid for, all is well. Damn!
I feel really bad for those two girls as I feel like they were denied so that I could get mine, but I know it's really the schools fault. All in all I wasted about 6 hours total online, then on the phone, then in person, trying to deal with this today. ugh!
Flash forward to today August 12, tuition is due in two days on August 14th. I logged in just to review my schedule and to get ready to email my teachers and lo and behold my financial aid file still has not been processed!
I called and called the financial aid office only to be put on hold for 20 minutes and then hung up on each time (3 times and about an hour and a half of calling). So, I finally gave up and drove to the school.
The financial aid office was crazy packed, which is understandable seeing as how the semester is about to start. After waiting in line for about half an hour I get to the front only to hear "Well, you've done everything, why hasn't it been processed." I then wait while the lady goes to find out what's wrong and when she comes back she informs me that they somehow "Forgot" to process my financial aid file and that it will have to be resubmitted. In the mean time I will have to pay for school out of pocket and be reimbursed when my financial aid is approved.
Needless to say I threw a fit, this was their screw up, not mine I shouldn't have to pay. Not only that, but I can't afford to pay. "We can make a payment arrangement with you and you can make payments of around $100 weekly until it gets resolved". Again, I threw a fit. This resulted in me being told I can wait to see my adviser.
An hour later I'm called back to see my financial aid adviser, who tells me that my original adviser "Left us" (meaning he either quit or got fired) while he just happened to be working on my file. When he left he neglected to inform anyone that he had pulled my file and was not done with it, so it just sort of got brushed aside and forgotten about. Fast forward to now, his replacement is horrified and doesn't know what to tell me. I really can't blame her it's not her fault, but still. She tells me that she has resubmitted my fafsa which will take a week to three weeks to process and I can make payments out of pocket until then and be reimbursed when my financial aid is approved.
After arguing that I shouldn't have to, and can't afford to pay out of pocket, she conceded and said she'd see what could be done. She then came back and said that the "emergency loan" fund was empty, and that I probably couldn't get one but I can apply for one to pay my tuition. She then says that I will have to pay $30 cash (which I don't have) now out of pocket to apply. SO.... I threw another fit.
She went and spoke to the dean of finance who waived the $30 fee and said that they'd find some way to get me an emergency loan. After filling out the application we find that my adviser's big sister was friends with Susan when they were younger. Small world...
Now I'm told to go wait in the crowded waiting room again (I have social anxiety disorder) and that it will take a while for them to find the money.
About 2 hours later there were 6 of us waiting in the waiting room to hear about our emergency loan applications. The front desk women suddenly grabbed their purses, turned off the lights and left for home, without saying a word to any of us!
After 30 minutes of sitting in the dark I got up and hopped the counter (the doors were locked) and wandered around in the office area until I found someone. I scared the bejesus out of her and she said they were still trying to allocate funds for me and were shocked to find that the front desk ladies turned the lights out on us.
I was upset about waiting but there was a girl there with a baby that kept sneezing and laughing and that was hilarious!
A while later (a total of about 3 hours and change) they start calling people up to tell them what's going on, a guy in front of me got his emergency loan and left looking confused, two girls both got told they were denied because they couldn't allocate the funds. They cried and argued and ended up leaving in tears. I figured I would be leaving in tears shortly too. I got called up and told that they were able to find money to give me an emergency loan, classes are paid for, all is well. Damn!
I feel really bad for those two girls as I feel like they were denied so that I could get mine, but I know it's really the schools fault. All in all I wasted about 6 hours total online, then on the phone, then in person, trying to deal with this today. ugh!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wub on me!
I hate germs, I don't like to be around anyone who is sneezing and blowing their nose or even just complaining of not feeling well. This is why Susan's good for me, when she's sick she usually wants to be left alone, so I just stay away and don't get sick.
This time she's all "I'b siiick..." cause people sound like that with stuffy noses.."I just wad sobody to wub on me" so me being the husband, that duty falls to me. Love on the sick girl...
Now I'm freakin sick! I hate being sick! Bah! I'm all stuffy nosed and sleepy and I feel like that monkey up there looks... blah!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Is it just me...
Or does Obama look kind of like a skinny The Rock?
Barack "The Rock" Obama... hmmm...
Barack "The Rock" Obama... hmmm...
Monday, July 21, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Interspecies lovin'
Our little dog Marlowe and our kitten Gatsby are best friends, they do everything together; sleep, groom, play, etc. It's pretty neat and cute. Poor Maybe's all left out.
Friday, July 18, 2008
If it's not one thing...
A telephone ringing is never a good thing to wake up to, especially when you look at the clock and see that it's 6 in the morning. Especially, when the first thing you hear after you mutter "hmmmrffo?" is "Somebody broke into your truck, you need to come outside!"
What the hell is wrong with people? I went out to find that it wasn't even someone breaking in, it was just someone breaking! They smashed out the back window of my truck with a baseball bat or something. It is so frustrating, I'd much rather them have at least stolen something so that there would be a reason for it. But no, someone just smashed my window out for "fun".
I was asleep in the back of the house so I didn't hear a thing, the dogs didn't bark at all either, some guard dogs they are! It's gonna cost $250 to fix, I don't have enough money to get breakfast this morning much less fix a windshield.
Yesterday when we left to take Susan to the airport one of the tires was flat, I aired it back up and it's holding air. I'd say there was someone out to get me, but I don't know anyone here except my in law / next door neighbors.
I always read about "vandals smashed out 5 car windows on the 400 block of blah blah blah..." and think wow it sucks to be those people, now I know for sure it does indeed suck to be those people!
Anyway thanks for letting me rant, I'm going to go clean out all the glass (it's EVERYWHERE) and try to cover the window before the giant thunderstorm that's about to get here... er... gets here.
What the hell is wrong with people? I went out to find that it wasn't even someone breaking in, it was just someone breaking! They smashed out the back window of my truck with a baseball bat or something. It is so frustrating, I'd much rather them have at least stolen something so that there would be a reason for it. But no, someone just smashed my window out for "fun".
I was asleep in the back of the house so I didn't hear a thing, the dogs didn't bark at all either, some guard dogs they are! It's gonna cost $250 to fix, I don't have enough money to get breakfast this morning much less fix a windshield.
Yesterday when we left to take Susan to the airport one of the tires was flat, I aired it back up and it's holding air. I'd say there was someone out to get me, but I don't know anyone here except my in law / next door neighbors.
I always read about "vandals smashed out 5 car windows on the 400 block of blah blah blah..." and think wow it sucks to be those people, now I know for sure it does indeed suck to be those people!
Anyway thanks for letting me rant, I'm going to go clean out all the glass (it's EVERYWHERE) and try to cover the window before the giant thunderstorm that's about to get here... er... gets here.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Justin
JUSTIN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Slovene
Pronounced: JUS-tin (English), zhoo-STEN (French) [key]
From the Roman name Iustinus, which was derived from JUSTUS. This was the name of several early saints including Justin Martyr, a Christian philosopher of 2nd century who was beheaded in Rome. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors. As an English name, it has occasionally been used since the late Middle Ages, though it did not become common until the 20th century.
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Slovene
Pronounced: JUS-tin (English), zhoo-STEN (French) [key]
From the Roman name Iustinus, which was derived from JUSTUS. This was the name of several early saints including Justin Martyr, a Christian philosopher of 2nd century who was beheaded in Rome. It was also borne by two Byzantine emperors. As an English name, it has occasionally been used since the late Middle Ages, though it did not become common until the 20th century.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
WTF!?
Ok so I understand that this is supposed to be satirical. It's supposed to be making fun of all the stupid rumors that are flying around the internet about Obama that aren't true. But damn... that's just freaking ridiculously offensive. I expect better from the new yorker... Maybe Fox news would show something like that but not the NEW YORKER! I'm all for satire, and I know that's what the new yorker's about but I worry that people will see that and think that it means it's true or something. I dunno...
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Cloverfield
So, I'm watching Cloverfield right now, and it is a pretty freakin' intense movie. That's all I'll say right now, but so far it's good.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
McCain Prays-Obama grabs a shovel!
While John McSame reacts to the crisis in the midwest in much the same way Bushco did to New Orleans, Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves and helps the people who are actually in need. Also, he is helping the victims of the flooding by linking his website to the Red Cross relief.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Saturday, June 14, 2008
my so called "irrational" fears
I hate spiders... we have Wolf spiders, which look like brown recluses but are "harmless". Yeah that's one up above there, just imagine seeing one of those on your bedskirt... bugh! There's one that seems to live in my bathroom in a hole in the wall... right behind the toilet... I swear on all that is holy that it is at least as big as the one in that pic up there!!! I walk into the bathroom at night and flick on the light only to see this monster scurrying away quickly... it always dissapears and makes me feel a little crazy, since I can't show it to Susan and she doesn't believe me... I see it at least once every two or three days... Last night I killed two of it's smaller siblings (still huge mind you) and I think I heard one of them shout that "Abbadon will avenge my death!!!" as I squished it... I looked up "Abbadon" on google and apparently it is the hebrew word for evil! OH MY GOD! It has to be that giant one behind the toilet! I don't know what to do...
I'm not sure if these wolf spiders are better than what we had before... when we first moved into this house there were a ton of house centipedes... Check it out, I looked up creepy in the dictionary and what did I find? this:
Yeah that's a house centipede... one bit Susan once... they like to crawl up to the ceiling above your bed and drop down into it... I'm not making that up! Ok I'm gonna go over there and have the heebee geebees for a bit..
Friday, June 13, 2008
truth about Obama
If anyone's interested in reading the truth about all of those rumors about Barack, here is the place to do it (click me!)
Also if anyone didn't know you can go to snopes.com to look up anything you hear that you wonder if it's real or not... here's a link to a search for Obama (click me!)
Please before you spread any of those email forwards claiming outrageous things about either candidate, check it first to make sure it's true...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
gamefly
If you've been thinking about signing up for gamefly (think netflix for video games) then please use my link... I will get $20.00 for every referal... so if you even want to try it for free click on through my link, thanks!
waiting...
I really like shopping online... you don't have to go to a crowded store, the prices are sometimes waaaay cheaper... and you get packages in the mail! Some would say it sucks to have to wait a couple days for something, but really if you need it THAT bad then you shouldn't be buying it online.. I really don't like the actual active waiting part, like when the tracking website says "out for delivery" but has said that since 6am so you don't know when it will be there... that's what I'm doing now.. I like the idea that I'm about to get something in the mail, but not the whole having to keep one eye on the window thing. I wish they would at least give you some sort of timeframe, like "sometime between 2 and 4pm... but no.. I guess I'll just have to wait...
Also look up there at the fed ex logo... and at the EX in particular... did you ever notice the arrow between the E and X? Me neither... but now I do, and when I look at the logo it just glares out at me now... stop subliminally messaging me!!!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
new post
I really don't have anything to say but Susan said I needed to post a new blog... So... well... this is it! I don't really have anything new going on right now, I'm pretty much just doing my best to be as lazy as possible... yup... I'm really horrified that there are so many people who won't vote for Obama because he's black, there are people actually publicly stating this... ugh... also fox news called he and his wife's little fist bump a "terrorist fist jab" what the hell is wrong with fox news!? Me and Susan do stuff like that all the time and it's not a terrorist fist jab... bugh...
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Baby sloths!
I know it doesn't have anything to do with what I've been up to, but I really haven't been up to much of anything at all so here it is... Baby sloths!
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tattoo
Yeah so I'm going to get this tattooed as kind of a... possibly offensive joke...I'm half mexican and I guess that gives me the urge to get my name tattooed across some part of my body but I'm just not a big fan of old english, and I'm kind of a geek so I thought wingdings would be awesome.. In case you were wondering that up there says BRINKLEY in wingdings... oh yeah... speaking of geek tattoos check this link out for some really cool ones: http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/
Blind porn
so weirdly if you google image search for blind you get alot of porn...
anyway I really think this website that shows you your blind spots is really neat so check it out
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Good music
I love this band and song... it's so happy and sad...
The Long Winters: "The Commander Thinks Aloud"
Boys and girls in cars
Dogs and birds on lawns
From here I can touch the sun
Yeah yeah
Put your jackets on
I feel we're being born
The Tropic of Capricorn is below
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We stall above the pole
Still your face is young
As we feel our weight return
Yeah yeah
A trail of shooting stars
The horses call of storm
Because the air contains the charge
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The radio is on
And Houston knows the score
Can you feel it?
We're almost home
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The Long Winters: "The Commander Thinks Aloud"
Boys and girls in cars
Dogs and birds on lawns
From here I can touch the sun
Yeah yeah
Put your jackets on
I feel we're being born
The Tropic of Capricorn is below
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
We stall above the pole
Still your face is young
As we feel our weight return
Yeah yeah
A trail of shooting stars
The horses call of storm
Because the air contains the charge
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The radio is on
And Houston knows the score
Can you feel it?
We're almost home
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
The crew compartment's breaking up
Dig dug
I went to let the dogs in yesterday and looked out to the middle of the yard to find our big dog , Maybe's butt and tail sticking out of the ground, like some kind of creepy new shrub. I yelled BAD DOG! and she quickly backed out and slunk away... then the little one , Marlowe's head poked out of the hole. The look on his face said "What's going on?" again BAD DOGS!
They dug two big holes one was huge and about as deep as my arm up to the shoulder, the other not so deep but wider... ugh... I found a big peice of concrete stuff that was as long as my chin to my hip and it only sticks out of the ground like oh...4 inches... again... ugh...
Here the dogs are being incarcerated after the fact:
Don't worry it wasn't as bad as poor Marlowe makes it look :)
My pet monster update
And here's my niece... neice?... neese Nikaia with my old pet monster! she looks kind of... something :P
Also notice the strange orange carpet... ahhh the lava of my youth
Also notice the strange orange carpet... ahhh the lava of my youth
Saturday, May 03, 2008
placebo...
As one of those stupid little jokes you play on your dogs, I held out a smallish piece of paper to them acting like it was a treat. Maybe came up and cautiously sniffed, and then walked away all offended. Marlowe however ran up and snatched it out of my hand with no hesitation and chowed it down like it was the best tasting thing he'd ever had; in fact he even said "Wow! this is the best tasting thing I've ever had!". weirdo...
Friday, May 02, 2008
damn... looks like it'll be another week
For people receiving direct deposits, those with a Social Security number ending in 00 to 20 will have their economic stimulus payment deposited to their bank account by this Friday.
Those with Social Security numbers ending in 21 to 75 will get their direct deposits by May 9 and those with Social Security numbers ending in 76 to 99 will get their deposits by May 16.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Schooliolio: because it's fun to say out loud.. try it!
I finally got my last big project done for school this year, my one and only speech, of my speech class. I feel so relieved, all that's left is to finish my stuff for jewelry in time for critique and a easy final in speech... (sigh) I don't know why I feel like this semester was harder than all the others even though it shouldn't have been, weird. And for those of you who get the following picture reference, you get a gold star! good show!
Monday, April 21, 2008
My pet monster
My niece plays with my old "my pet monster"... this makes me very happy, I loved that thing when I was a kid, I still remember getting him on Christmas morning :)
Sunday, April 20, 2008
peeping tom (strange dog post #2)
The other night (oooh Susan's skin is soft....) sorry distracted! anyway the other night I was sleeping with my dog Maybe (in a platonic way!! nasty perv!) and I heard a loud bang, like someone trying to break into the front window. I sat up and looked at the front window, where the curtain had been pulled aside by Maybe, and there was a face peeking through!
Maybe the dog and I jumped up and ran into the living room and the person looking through started barking... so unfortunately it wasn't an attractive woman like in the picture, it was a large white pit bull :/ I opened the door and he ran away. wierd...
Maybe the dog and I jumped up and ran into the living room and the person looking through started barking... so unfortunately it wasn't an attractive woman like in the picture, it was a large white pit bull :/ I opened the door and he ran away. wierd...
Squatter
There's a strange thing that has claimed our front yard, it looks like a combination deer, yorkie... it's really sweet and cute but I want it to go away... the other night I was trying to sleep and I heard what sounded like someone trying to kick down our front door... I got up and grabbed my giant knife thing... it's not sharp, but it's really heavy and good for clubbing a robber over the head... and ran and first scolded my dogs because I thought it was them, they were sleeping and offended by my sudden "SETTLE DOWN!" oops...
Anyway I went to the front door and it was that stupid deer yorkie... banging on the front door... I told it to go away and it did but about 30 minutes later resumed banging on the door. I told it to go away and repeated this process 2 more times. Then I hear a *scuffle scuffle scuffle BANG**scuffle scuffle scuffle BANG* and realize that the stupid dog is trying to climb up the house to my bedroom window because somehow it knows I am there. I swear if it were a more threatening type of dog it would be like a horror movie... kujo anyone?
ack!
Anyway I went to the front door and it was that stupid deer yorkie... banging on the front door... I told it to go away and it did but about 30 minutes later resumed banging on the door. I told it to go away and repeated this process 2 more times. Then I hear a *scuffle scuffle scuffle BANG**scuffle scuffle scuffle BANG* and realize that the stupid dog is trying to climb up the house to my bedroom window because somehow it knows I am there. I swear if it were a more threatening type of dog it would be like a horror movie... kujo anyone?
ack!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
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