Whatafreak – The Blog

I haven’t updated in a while, I know.

Here’s the scoop…

Alright, so there’s no scoop. I lied, but I had your best interests at heart when I began writing this post, honest. It’s just that so little happens to me that it’s hard to come up with meaningful things to write about. I know some have expressed potential interest in the mundane, but I feel bad subjecting people to excitement for a new post with a quick follow-up of disappointment when it turns out I only wrote about the thick layer of dust that currently covers a large portion of my desk (ew, I should wipe that up).

Well, I am still half-heartedly saving money for school. I have $3000 officially saved as cash in a savings account. I have another $3000 or so in 2 different market-based accounts. My goal is to have $8000 or greater saved before I leave which should be possible at my current income level. My biggest problem is going out to eat when I am working. I spend around $8 a day on that alone (x5 days a week, x4 weeks a month = ~$160, yikes!).

Speaking of saving money, I now have 1.5TB of external HDD storage, thank you very much. I filled the first 750GB drive up a few weeks ago. I wanted the same kind of HDD, but they are no longer being manufactured. Ebay to the rescue! I was able to find an exact specimen in BNIB condition, which I much preferred over the other offerings. After a shipping mixup I was a bit wary, but the seller came through with excellent communication and it was resolved within a few days.

What dysphoric details these are…

Let me bore you no further. For want of a decent blog post, I make my valediction.

Farewell.

I have spent a little more time this evening changing a few minor things here at my blog. Most of the changes were purely cosmetic, but I did have to get my hands a little dirty with code to get the side-bars the way that I wanted them to be. I don’t know PHP hardly at all, but I know enough to figure out what needs to go where when I copy and paste small snippets here and there. I hope the changes are viewed as improvements and are not detrimental to your browsing experience.

I wanted to get the categories and tags on a separate side-bar and leave the regular links and miscellaneous items grouped together. I feel this makes navigation a bit easier and more intuitive if you want to use the categories or tags to find related or relevant archived material.

Sean, I added your site to my blog roll. Congratulations, you are the third to be initiated to the list! There are no trophies.

By the way, in case anyone is wondering about their placement on the Links list, I want to make sure that you know it is not organized in order of importance or by some other convoluted acquaintance valuation system. It is merely sorted alphabetically with numbers listed first.

G’night!

I am trying, little by little, to get this blog updated with all the fancy tags and categories it should have, but its taking a while and it is really boring work. Plus, I cut a couple of my knuckles while working today and it hurts to bend them. Typing is one of those situations that require me to bend my fingers. I don’t know why I continue. (ouch) I can’t remove the “Uncategorized” category until I have nothing in it. I am trying to move towards that goal.

If you haven’t noticed, I have been trying to post a bit more often here. I am working to relax the standards that I feel must be met in order for something to be post-worthy. If it’s boring to you, oh well. It gives me something to do for a few minutes. It looks like I just end up posting even more worthless stuff than I normally do…