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I go on vacation in two weeks. In thirteen days to be exact.

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I didn't get in much trouble from the investigation.
I got paid for my suspended day off.
I am moving from the girls unit to the boys unit.
But I still hate my job.

So a rant and a rave.

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I didn't bother to read the whole thread until now, so...

I've noticed I've cut down on soda. I haven't given it up completely, but I just don't drink it as often these days. Now I think my guilty pleasure is Vitamin Water.

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I gave up soda completely for like a year and a half. Then, I broke down and slowly started drinking it again. And, I started drinking beer in college which is a technicality I suppose....so now I go for moderation.

One soda every once in a while won't kill you. Drinking 12 mountain dews at a LAN will....those were the days.

I still drink energy drinks like Red Bull and Rockstar. That's like soda combined with coffee, only worse.

So...you pick your battles. I avoid Coke and Pepsi like the plague. I can't stand that crap....it's way too acidic. I'll do a Mr. Pib or Dr. Pepper if I'm really feeling up for something with a nice acid kick, otherwise I go with rootbeer or 7up.

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Finally beat the last battle of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, so I can transfer my data and start Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

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Yay, a friend and me finally fixed some shelves and other stuff in my room. Now I'm redesigning it, even though it's very hot in here.

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I just got back from the Pemberton Music Festival where I saw these bands:

Tom Petty
Coldplay
Nine Inch Nails
Flaming Lips
Jay-Z
Interpol
Tragically Hip
Death Cab For Cutie
Wolfmother
My Morning Jacket
N.E.R.D.
Metric
Sam Roberts Band
Vampire Weekend
Matisyahu
Wintersleep
Minus the Bear
Fiery Furnaces
Grand Ole Party
Low vs Diamond
Airborne Toxic Event
Monte Negro
Annie Stela

I missed Serj Tankian and a bunch of the acts on the little stage but seeing 23/32 of the performances seems pretty good to me.

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Yessssss! I just got my Batman Animated Series in the mail.

Absolutely ridiculous deal. Thanks so much to BaB. I got all the seasons for $17, PLUS when I did checkout I chose the faster shipping option, and it still applied the promotion of $8 off. :D I'm so happy.

Plus it actually shipped immediately. This is the fastest shipment I've ever gotten.

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I went to a James Taylor concert at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday night... >_>

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A Team Fortress 2 update was just released, and Valve has fixed some very annoying things. Most importantly, the health bonus given by the back burner is gone! :D

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I have some awesome friends.
It's not often I say that because I am an egomaniac.
But work was bad as it usually is, but about an hour to go I get a txt message from a friend that is cheesy as hell but I still got a smile on my face.

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That did piss me off, it gave the pyros what I felt was an annoying advantage. I need to play some TF2...maybe tomorrow. I hope they do a soldier, sniper or spy update soon.

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You probably wouldn't be interested anymore, but a complete SERIES set is slated for release later this year.

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Heavy update is next. :)

I would say soldier and demoman will be the last updates they do, since they need the less work. I would think that Spy would follow after Heavy, but they might do Spy/Engi at the same time, so that if the spy gets another method of taking down buildings or something, the Engi has a way to combat it.

I do feel like they should give the Pyro -something- back, though, because they're underpowered again. They need to expand the size of the back burners back-hit box. If you imagine a clock, right now the crits only work when you are directly behind the person, at 6-o'clock. I think they should expand it to be from 5 - 7, or at least 5:30 - 6:30.

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Hahaha, that's a lot of Batman. I didn't really watch anything but the first animated series. I was hesistant about buying volume four, which is the new batman adventures - I don't think I watched that much either.

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I think he was referring to just the 4 Volumes.
Collected with some artwork and other stuff.

I've never heard of it..... :sneaky:

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There IS a collection up on amazon, and I think it goes for more than $130. I got all four volumes for $62.. so I think I made the right choice. :lolz:

Oh, there's one up for preorder and it's $76. That's not too bad.

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Be Your Own Pet, a band out of Nashville that I loathe, announced that they are breaking up today. Yes!!! I normally try not to take too much pleasure in others misfortune, but this is just too good. After seeing many more superior bands break up, I guess there is some justice in the music world.

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My first work for hire comic apparently just came out in stores according to a mysterious text message I just received.

http://www.myspace.com/deadutopia1

Snazzy cover.

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It's like the guys at Valve decided to do the updates in the order of classes that I play as the least....

Seriously, I spend most of my time playing as a Solder, Sniper, Scout, Spy or Engineer. I'm not a big Pyro, Demo, Heavy, or Medic fan.....uggh.

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Evidently what they are trying to do with the Heavy update is give him an option that makes him less dependent on the medic. I would definitely play that kind of Heavy.

Right now I play Demo/Soldier, and Scout occasionally.

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Hahaha, wow. So much hate. But yeah, her voice was kind of grating and the music was kind of tinny and repetitive. Thank god.

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Several Raves:

1. I bought some espresso and started using the Espresso machine my uncle gave me a couple of Christmas's ago. I made a couple of cafe lattes for my girlfriend and I, and they're amazing. I'm going to get some chocolate syrup and make mochas.

2. This could have potentially been a rant. I've worked for two weeks on a quick search engine at work. In order to make it I had to learn an entire system that my team had written years ago, learn Struts (a framework for designing complex web pages), and java server pages. I had everything working great, the search returned the right results, and it even allowed the use of wildcards so that you could do something like A% and get every customer's name that started with an A. The point of the quick search was to launch a new window with a list of customers, then the user could click the one they wanted, and it would close the window and repopulate the original screen.

Turns out the funcionality I was using made everything possible...except for the opening of a new window. Since the searching is done server side, I can't display the results in a different window.

So now I have to learn AJAX, which greatly annoyed me at first. But now I'm pretty excited to be learning it, it's going to be really useful later on when designing my own websites.

3. I finally found a copy of The Watchmen at a local bookstore. Walden Books is now officially my favorite book store. It's great so far. I also bought the second book in the Twilight series.

4. It's the weekend. :D

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Just won a scholarship for $5000.

Woooooooo!

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Grats! :)

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This is my dream car:

http://www.jaguarusa.com/us/en/xk/mo.../xkr_coupe.htm

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I know someone who has that car. I was allowed to drive it around the parking lot, haha.

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Finally got the bank caught up on the advancing (issue a few months back killed me financially for awhile). Bank charged $1 for every $10 I borrowed and been the hole since then. Finally got 3 weeks of pay on one check, paid off all $550 in one shot, and been frugal like no other to ride out until next payday.

Currently sitting on $33 in my bank account until Friday :lolz: I have been keeping up on everything else bill wise, I just had to keep borrowing from bank so that's been killing me on getting other things caught up.

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Got my second scholarship too! The National one!

Now I'm up to $9000!!!!


omfgawesome

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Well congrats man.

Soon you will be tossing 100s like the big ballers. Shoot callers.
;)

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Buy a Mac with maxed-out specs and an HDTV

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More like pay for school and grad film.

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This is a weird rave, but one of my residents came out to me. Which is a very proud moment for me since he feels safe enough to talk to me about it.

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Did he use the term "jungle fever"?

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dude was black.
And he wasn't hitting on me.


He was one of those kids everyone knew was gay, but I wasn't going to say anything to him about it. His business and all that. He came to me today to discuss some personal problems he'd been having.

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After 6 months, I finally passed prohabation at my job.

Well, I passed like 3 weeks ago, but they finally got around to making it official.

Now, I can take off days without any worries. :)

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So on the day when Spider-Man 4 comes out, and you call-in sick to work because of a sudden cough and fever, there won't be any lingering doubt in the back of their minds? :D