Hello Fellow Human! Continued

My day has had so many bright spots in it and as it continues, it keeps on having additional bright spots in it. As I stated in the previous post, I spent the morning or half the day at my alma mater. I ran into my academic advisor and professor while I was there. He is such a wonderful man and someone that brightened all our lives, while at Georgetown. I think my fellow humans would agree (Ash, Chris). He has a great love and conviction for Our Lord and he is not shy or reserved to share it, which I think is really awesome. So as I sat in his office, telling him about my new job and how God is working in my life today. He had so much wisdom to provide me. If I could only remember half of what he said, I would be so much better off. Though the following is not exact wording of what he said, I hope the basic concept of his teaching is seen in my interpretation of what he shared.
Interpretation by BeNotAfraid:
Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom - He said that he use to view these all as one, but in reading proverbs, he understood the true difference and how they relate to math/science. You have to have knowledge of the problem. To pursue the solution to the problem, you must have understanding on how to begin the proof of it. Wisdom is needed to be able to find the direction to solve the proof.

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Blessed Trails!

Hello Fellow Human!

Welcome back friends to the past. What to do on a day off? For me, I usually end up venturing over to my alma mater for a little while to say hi to some professors and enjoy a peaceful walk on campus. So today like no other that is what I ventured out to do.

Yes usually during the summer months, you will not find professors on campus but this week and last week are special weeks at Georgetown College. The PAEMS'ers are on campus. PAEMS is Pre-Academic Experience in Math and Science. For all of those out there that have younger brothers, sisters, and/or cousins who are interested in Math, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Computers, I would recommend checking into this wonderful 2 week program for high school students. I am a bit partial to PAEMS and for many many reasons. Yes I was a PAEMS'er which should be no surprise to many, and I am also a graduate of Georgetown College, who in my time at Georgetown and afterwards assisted on occasion with the PAEMS program.

In my next post, you can read more about my dear fellow human.

Debating on What to Write Next

I have this splitting headache at the moment. I think it is due to too much fun today and a lot of laughter. Both are very good things and I would not take it back. The other thing is that I dont want to take any medication because I have to get a drug test either tomorrow or Tuesday for my new job. So with the headache and the tiredness, I am not thinking all too clearly.

I can sleep as long as I want tomorrow as long as my phone doesnt ring in the morning from work. They dont understand what a day off is though they need to start figuring out how to live without me because as of Friday, they will not have me to call anymore to solve problems :-) Unfortunately they have my home number though.

As of Tuesday, July 6, 2004, I will start a new job as Database Administrator in a new town with a new company. It is all very exciting with great benefits and pay. We will see how the rest of the job turns out. Thus far it sounds really good minus the whole pager thing. Granted with my job, it kind of comes with the territory. It doesnt sound like it is used a whole lot so that is good.

Now that I have found a new job, the next task facing me is finding a new place to live. I am really not too worried about that at the moment. A lot of friends have offered for me to stay with them while I look for a new place. I hope they are really sincere about that because I just might take them up on those offers at least a few nights a week. The daily 2 hr commute will probably get a bit old after awhile. Then again, everyone keeps asking me where I am going to live and telling me that I wont last commuting for that long. So it makes me think maybe I should be a bit more serious about this whole moving thing. Thanks to those friends who think I should wait a bit and see how things go and see where I might want to move to before putting myself somewhere that I am not so happy.

Well this is long enough for now. Hope you enjoyed.

The Lost Posts

How far down do you look at old posts for new comments? As I stated on Chris's site, it doesnt seem like people look too far back. So I did a bit of test that happened by accident prior to thinking about it.

Without good, concrete evidence, I cannot state exact facts on the avg number of posts down people look at again for something new. But I can say that in one instance the number is about 8. Now I could be totally wrong, because maybe nobody wanted to post on my comment. But I do believe there are a couple people out there who might would defend themselves and make a statement, if they saw the comments.

So I will give it a couple more days and see if anything occurs. If not, I will just pick on them again here :-)

Ink Covered Fingers

Have you ever had the awful situation of a pen busting on you or just leaking all over the place? If so, you know partially how I felt this afternoon. I was sitting on the couch preparing to fill out a form, when I realized there was black liquid all over my hand. My hand by then was quite black and I was devastated. I ran to the bathroom to wash my hand clean, but two of my fingers and thumb remained black. So I started trying all the known remedies that came to mind: Soap, fingernail polish remover(which I actually do have though I dont know the last time my fingernails were painted), and rubbing alcohol. None of the above worked so I sent out an SOS to all of my friends online. Multitude of solutions were sent my way. Some made sense others included a lot of work (do yard work), which I did not like. Thanks to Ashlee! Who found a link on the internet that suggested bleach and water. Though we both thought it to be a bit risky, I tried it anyway. After a few minutes, my fingers were back to their normal color, though smelling quite bleachy. Oh well thats a lot better than having raw or ink covered fingers.

The moral of this story is: Don't leave a rollerball pen in the hot car for any length of time. All the ink runs out and sits in the lid awaiting the lucky victim to open it up and try to use it.

Is Everyone a Computer Person?

After reading several blogs of my dear friends, I am really starting to wonder about the people who actually have blogs, especially those commenting on the blogs which I read. It seems like we are all computer people, which is really just freaky. Does everyone have a computer degree and/or work in computers now? Or is it just a hobby? If you dont, you can still respond so that we know that everyone is not a computer person. Granted you better be careful trying to pretend that you are not a computer person. I will bring out my logic again and convince you otherwise :-)

By the way, yes I am a computer person, if you for some reason had not figure that out yet. Granted I dont do much hard core programming. Currently, I work as a Database Administrator/Developer/Analyst as well as a web developer. In two weeks, I will be starting a new job as a fulltime Database Administrator (primarily over SQL Server). :-)

Lexington Shakespeare Festival

Since everyone is talking about things to do, here is something else to do in July.

July 7-11 - "The Tempest"
July 14-18 - "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
July 21-25 - "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Gates open at 7:00PM.
Pre-show at 8:00PM.
Shows begin at 8:45PM.

General Admission - $5.00

For more information, click on the title. I have gone the last few years and it is a lot of fun. You can bring your dinner or just snacks with drinks. Seating is mostly first come first serve with chair and blanket seating. There are some more admission options if you are interested, check out the website.

Mushrooms.....Yummy!

Why is it that all of my friends seem to not like mushrooms? I mean what is really so wrong with mushrooms that these people don't like them. I love cooked mushrooms though I will agree that I am not keen on uncooked/raw mushrooms. There are so many ways that you can cook mushrooms as well. Including but not limited to: beer battered, sauted, grilled, and marinated.

Several months ago, I had two friends over and they picked out all of the mushrooms in their meal. At least, they were nice enough to eat the free meal but I just couldn't believe it. Another one of my friends, whenever we go out, gives me all of her mushrooms, unless our other two friends are there and the three of us fight over the mushrooms.

The Lawn Chair of Today

I figure that I have a lot of camping friends and friends that like to do things outside. So who better to ask there opinion on Today's Lawn Chair. I am in the market to purchase a couple nice chairs to have in my car for the Drive-In, Autocross Events, picnics, and even sitting on my balcony to relax and read. I took a trip out today and looked at a couple places but I am still unsure of what to buy. Please provide any knowledge and assistance you may have. By the way, is a chair with a cup holder a must? Just curious.

Internet Dial Up and Catching a Phone Call

Okay, have you ever wanted to be on the internet but cant because you are waiting on a phone call. Well I have, though not enough to spend the money to get dsl or cable. I have one of those v.92 modems, but the problem with that is your connection has to be over 30 kbps and mine is hanging out at 28.8 kbps.

I want to know if anyone knows anything about Catch-A-Call . I saw it the other day at Target and its on sale for $29.99. Is it really worth the investment? And dont tell me that I should just invest in Cable or DSL because thats not going to happen.

I did just read on the site though that caller-id does not work unless its one of those individual caller id units external to the phone. Thats not good. I wonder if it works if you put a caller id phone in the caller id slot. Does it think that it is a caller id unit? Hmmmmmmmmm.

Ketchup, Arby's Sauce Anyone

1) Do you ever have trouble getting the right quantity of specific condiments when going through the drive thru of your favorite restaurant?

Apparently some individuals get way too much Arby's sauce and never enough ketchup at Arby's.

Though I believe this to be totally false for a couple of reasons. First of all, if you go to Arby's then you have no need in getting ketchup whatsoever. Second of all, you never get enough Arby's sauce for a sandwich more less a sandwich and fries. (Yes Nick the next time we should hit Arby's at the same time therefore we can share the extra ketchup and Arby's sauce between one another.) I also quite believe that you need to try some Arby's sauce on your french fries and see what happens from there.

2) Have you ever had to pay for condiments at a restaurant?

I spent two months in Australia and you have to pay for the majority of your condiments especially ketchup. Fish and Chips cannot be smothered in Ketchup because one extremely small bottle of Heinz Ketchup costs you 1 Australian Dollar. Because of this grande cost for condiments, I learned to eat my fish with vinegar instead of ketchup.

SCCA Autocross - Solo II

Okay so you are saying to yourself what the heck is she talking about.

SCCA - Sports Car Club of America
CKR - Central KY Division of SCCA based out of Lexington, KY

The Central KY Division of SCCA participates in three different areas of SCCA: Solo II(AutoCross), Road Rally, and Club Racing.

Todays topic is Solo II because this past Sunday, June 6, I competed in my fourth Solo II Event.

Solo II is an auto racing event held on a fairly flat but large parking lot free of obstacles. Each event has a different course layette out by the use of plying (orange cones). The goal is to follow the coarse layette out by the plying and to complete it in the fastest time without displacing a pylon (2 sec penalty for displaced pylons). For further information, please check out the CKRSCCA website and click on general information under Solo II.

So you ask what the heck can you drive in such an event. You can drive your daily driver (unless its an SUV or other automobile that rolls over easy). I personally drive my 2003 V6 Honda Accord Sedan.

Cars are divided into classes depending on horsepower, transmission, engine, modifications, wheels/tires, and such. You can drive with no modifications like I do which puts you in the Stock Classes. Once you start modifying, you get into the Street Touring, Modified, and Prepared classes. I am in the GS - G Stock class with Mini Cooper S, Mazda 6, Acura Integra, and much more. List of classes can be found on the website as well.

Next blog will tell more about the actual event Sunday.

What Veggie Tale are you?

Take the test, by Emily.

What childhood toy are you?

You're a Speak & Spell!! You nerd, you. Just
because you were disguised as a toy doesn't
mean you weren't educational, you sneaky
b......(Bad word).


What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
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Okay guys don't make too many comments on my childhood toy :-)