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Some sort of V-Day…

Published by -MiKe- on February 15, 2007 in Personal. 2 Comments

Well yesterday sure was a grab bag of emotions and confusion…

Where do I begin? I began the day with a dash of frustration and about two teaspoons of guilt and anger each. I had tried breaking into Apartment 2’s wifi for a good few hours the evening before, to no avail, and some hardware I had bought specifically for the job neither worked on my Mac, or wanted my Mac to work.

Money wasted.

Money, come to find out, I didn’t have, as I was a good $6 in the hole, even after a $200 check. So thats no good. As it turns out, NSF (No Sufficient Funds) fees can pile up quick. In total, I think I was responsible for about $40 (these were a few really small checks), and the NSF fees accounted for almost $180 of debt. Thats absurd, and to top it off, despite waking to a formidable blizzard, my Approaches to Literature teacher decided she wanted to hold the only class of the day… So there’s your frustration and anger, all balled up inside of my first few hours of the day.

Luckily the rest of the day went considerably better. Including obnoxious balloons, flowers, chocolates, bottles of water, chocolate syrup, lace and American Idol… Not all in that particular order. Read on…

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A little late…

Published by -MiKe- on February 5, 2007 in Work. 1 Comment

Well, we’re back. Actually, we have been back about a week now, and I’m still jet-lagged. We pulled in at about eleven o’clock last Tuesday night and I left my house at about twelve-thirty to get to school, sleep, and get to classes the next morning. It sure was fun.

PICT0106.jpgAs for the tip, all in all it was wonderful. Vegas is always fun, as usual. However, oddly, I didn’t get out nearly as much this year as I did last year. We did stay an extra week last year, but I also did a lot more in terms of meetings and rehearsals. This year I didn’t attend one single practice, as appose to last year when I attended each and every one. I didn’t go to any press conferences or meetings, save the very last one after Lauren Nelson was crowned Miss America 2007. And yet, despite my admittedly lax schedule, I only went out once, and even then it was only with Shari, my mother’s right-hand gal. Now, there isn’t anything wrong with Shari, I actually had a great time, but I was rather hopeing to get out with some folks my own age, which never really happened. I did hang out on the casino floor with Jr., and made sixty dollars to my fifty. Well… He did anyway. Hopefully I will be returning to hang out with him again. Other than that, I didn’t go to any clubs or bars, besides the frequently occasional drink here, there, and everywhere.

Maybe next year.

2007-01-29 at 21-52-02 - Version 2.jpgIn regards to pictures, this year did go quite a bit better than last year. Last year around this time I was still trying to figure what do do with all of my photographs. I had some up on the Miss Maine website, but I hadn’t really done anything with the vast majority of them. It took me over a week and a half to get them on-line, and I lost a good bit of sales that way. This year, I was shooting for a “night-of” release time, which didn’t happen… However, I did quite well. It took me a day to get my keywords set-up, and to get another project out of the way, but 255 keywords later, I was cranking them out and on-line. In the end, I got Thursday nights shots up Saturday, and Friday and Saturday nights shots up Monday evening. The final night (Monday evening), with the crowning, didn’t get up until Wednesday evening… However, all of this was a learning experience.

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Finally.

Published by -MiKe- on January 25, 2007 in Work. 1 Comment

So we arrived last night at about 6pm Vegas time, and what a city. I’ve been here once before, but I have this sinking feeling that it will never get old.

Wireless internet doesn’t work here in the rooms, but I heard rumors that the Press room and the convention hall both have open access, so we shall see.

I will be getting photographs up here shortly, once I get my camera charger… I left it in Bangor, and my roommates had to over-night it to Vegas for me. It should be in the Business Center right now. The battery lasted just long enough to finish off the Habitat for Humanity thing this afternoon, and now it is stone-cold dead. So if the charger didn’t come in, I’ll be joining it soon enough… :-(

So, once the camera is charged I will get some photos up for the lot of you to google at. Until then…

And we’re off.

Published by -MiKe- on January 24, 2007 in Work. 0 Comments

Actually, physically, heading out the door as I write this.

The next time you hear from me I will be in VEGAS BABY!

WOOT!

Getting ready… Already sick of it all.

Published by -MiKe- on January 24, 2007 in Personal and Work. 0 Comments

So I am finishing up packing… Heading to Vegas momentarily, but I need to vent real quick, you know, assuming I’m not being censored or anything…

Really, as excited as I am to be going to Vegas over this next week and shooting Miss America, and as much fun as I know I am going to have (well, pretty sure at least), I’m just about ready for it to be over already… I mean really, just how excited can one be to spend the week with chaps that wholly feel that:

“So stay tuned, if you know whats good for you. In the same fashion as last year, I will be posting nearly every step of the way, so expect something up at around 6pm tomorrow evening…”

(offending material)

needs be censored? Thats not my kind of crowd… Sorry…

I know, I know. Its a stupid little thing, but I assure you, its just the beginning. There’s going to be a whole SLEW of nitpicky things that one unnamed soul with stop at no ends to point out and command be rectified.

I honestly believe that, in todays society, all of this uptightedness is just one big misunderstanding. I can’t imagine that people honestly are as anal retentive as they think everybody else thinks they ought to be and are because of it. I mean, how can a person function like that?

Whatever, I’m going, and I am going to have a great time of it, and thats that. I’ll be blogging about it both here, and at the Miss Maine website. Also, photos will be up at some point, but I shall not disclose their location… yet. Check back later for such juicy details.

Peace!

AH-HA! I won!

Published by -MiKe- on January 22, 2007 in Blogging. 0 Comments

So, one bit of fallout of getting the new MacBook Pro is that I am actually organizing my life a bit with iCal. I did this back at Susquehanna University, and it seemed to help, so I am trying it. I don’t suppose you could call this a bad thing in and of its self, but I (and your going to get lost here) just got this new plug-in for Apple Aperture, and the author’s site got me back into thinking about customizing my blog a bit.

Confused yet?

So I set out to set up Event Calendar 3 (a plug-in for WordPress), and that is where the trouble began.

Long story short, Event Calendar 3 and K2 (the template I am using) do not get along, and practically destroyed my WordPress install. But I prevailed, and with a little wizardry, I got thing working again.

This is all, goodnight.

Long time, no… well… anything.

Published by -MiKe- on January 22, 2007 in Personal. 0 Comments

So, its been a while.

It seams like only yesterday I was setting up my newest blog (this one) and writing away. Posting about this and that to an audience that I wasn’t even sure was out there. Then I hit a road bump, got caught up in the end of the semester shenanigans, and next thing I know… POOF! Happy New Year! Then I just put the whole blog thing on the back burner with the full intent to catch up once I got back to school.

Problem is (and this is a whole story in its self) we don’t have internet at the apartment yet, and I have been having computer “issues” using the school wireless network… But its all back together now, and I thought I would check in.

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Featured: the Spectator, Pumpkin Bowling

Published by -MiKe- on November 18, 2006 in Personal. 0 Comments
Pumpkin BowlingPumpkin Bowling

Some of my photographs were featured in the Husson College Spectator last week.. The photographs are of one of the events hosted by the Student Activities Committee on Halloween: Pumpkin Bowling. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the entire event, and thus two of the four photographs, although taken on my camera, were not taken by me.

What I was there for was quite a bit of fun, and I have posted the two photographs that got published and were mine. They are to the left, hope you like them.

Birthdays, Housing, ‘n More!

Published by -MiKe- on November 13, 2006 in Personal. 0 Comments

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIR-…

You get the point… Jen’s Birthday was this weekend… Lucky…

I’m not going to lie, it was pretty fun. Friday she went out with the girlies for her “Girls Night Out,” whatever that means. Evidently they Stitched and Bitched the night away. Which as I take it was relatively fun, so thats good for her. The guys and I went to check out the house and watched movies, but more on that later.

We celebrated Jen’s Birthday through Saturday night into Sunday afternoon. Saturday evening Jen’s cousin came over, and a sizable bunch of us wasted the night away playing Guitar Hero and Mario Party in a friend’s room. The next day Jen’s Mom and Dad came up from Waterboro, and we went out to lunch at Ichban’s (or something like that). Jen and I filled our cravings for Sushi, and then some. :-D

I met Jen’s Mom a few weeks ago, but this was the first time I have ever met her father. He is a pretty nice guy. Jen’s Grandmother made her two skirts, and Jen’s mom bought her a few shirts and on sick pair of boots (thigh-high, stiletto, black). They also brought up all sorts of snack foods and goodies with them too.

I had heard a while back that Jen was really looking forward to the new DDR: Super Nova, so I got it for her (she’s a BIG DDR fan), as well as a loofah (a duck loofah), so she had one over here in Bell when long nights left her other one oh-so far away… They were both a hit. :-D All in all I’d say it was a pretty good day…

In other news, the boys and I checked out “The House” this past Friday, and I’m not going to lie… It needs work. Not the, “Oh, lets paint the living room,” kind either. More like the, “We should call a wrecker,” kind… Everything is in workable shape. Just about every room needs a coat of paint, and a few doors need to be patched. Besides that, everything else is great… Except the kitchen…

The kitchen is bad-ass, its got an island in the middle, hanging ceiling fan, a telephone bar, fridge, stove, washing machine, the works, and its huge. However, its not done. It needs a new ceiling, a new floor, and the windows need to be finished (plus a little woodwork here and there), but I/we just couldn’t let that get to us… the rest of it is just too good a deal. It’s a three bedroom apartment, with a full bath, living room, sitting room, full kitchen and breakfast room (sun room). Plus a porch and a 6-8 car driveway (3-4 of those spots will be ours). It’s a mile off I-95 (about 10-15 miles north of school). It’s just nuts!
The landlord is Caleb’s brother, so no secrets there (he is a nice guy, not a dick), and the tenants upstairs are sorority girls (so they are pretty chill, and again, not dicks). Rent is $800 a month, which comes to about $267 per person a month, and if we agree to do work on the apartment (pretty much a given) he will drop it to $600 a month (all of this only because it is family).

So we signed up. There wasn’t really any other choice… I am sure you understand…

Finaly, I have my interview for Image Works tomorrow. Can’t wait. It’s at 13:00. I’ve been getting my paperwork together all afternoon. I’ve got a few more things to get from my mom, but I’m really excited… :-P

Ok, Jen’s back, and its time for our HTML study session… God I love this girl.

PEACE!

PS: She’s sweaty… She took a moment to remind me of this fact with her FOREHEAD! Gah…

Jen’s Midterms

Published by -MiKe- on November 9, 2006 in College. 0 Comments

So yeah, Jen’s midterms just came in. She’s kicking my ass right now…

Course Name Mid-Term Exam Mid-Term Grade
Speech A+ A
College Algebra A+ A
General Psychology A+ A
Chemistry I B B
Chemistry Lab I n/a A-

I suppose its my own fault. Skipping classes, handing in late papers… I mean, Jen skips some too, but she gets her work in on time. But then again… I wouldn’t be a guy if I didn’t. Its part of my charm. ;-)

So Jen’s birthday is this weekend. As of Saturday night Jen will be one year closer to not quite 21. Then, Sunday morning, just a year out… HA!!! Still not 21!

I kid… I’m really crying inside…

So, for her birthday I am getting her one, and only one presant. I’m going to fix her laptop. Shhhhh, don’t tell…. ;-)

No no no. I’m going to get something, something good too… I just… Don’t know yet… :-/ Well, I do. I have a list, and I will be checking it twice on Friday, while she’s out with the gurlz.

WTF!? What IS a “Girls Night?!” All I know is I’m not involved… Which is a good change from previous relationships, where “Girls Nights” were virtually non-existent… Gets the woman out of my hair for a night… I’m kidding. She’s even offered to stay a night out of my hair before… Actually, I take quite a bit of flack from Caleb for not taking her up on the offer. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. :-D

Jen just got elected to take over the Husson Writing Center website. Did I ever tell you she’s perfect?

Other news. Tomorrow night Caleb, Danny Boy, and Myself will be checking out the place where we’re going to live next semester. I’ll take pictures and post them tomorrow evening. The rent is going to be super cheap. Like $350 a month a piece cheap.

For those of you playing along at home, that $200 a month cheaper than living on campus. That, with a part-time job, will get me a shiny new MacBook Pro some time this December… Thats my plan anyway.

Also, Jen and I are going to go swing dancing this Sunday (hopefully), and maybe we’ll get my laundry done some time before then too… Before it eats me.

And for those of you wondering. Rechecked the wedding audio on one of the SL1’s, and the sound is perfect. I’ll start on that tomorrow.

PEACE!

-MiKe-