Cody

So looks like Sunday I’ll be running off to Jamaica!  Can’t hardly believe it’s this close already… but yeah, here shortly I’ll be leaving for a foreign land (my first time out of the U.S.)  things should be interesting, I’ll bring my camera, but will most likely get most of my pictures from them… I guess they have someone who takes pictures for you and afterwards you can buy all the pictures they take for $10 or something like that.  So yeah, there will be pictures, and what not after the 20th when I return!  Which actually means some time after the 21st because I’ll probably be sleeping for a while (All the sun, and building a house will most likely wear me out… plus they’ll make me sleep a “normal” sleeping schedule which always destroy me).

I need a ridding partner. Started ridding every day, and there’s really only so much to do, or so far to go without someone else to ride with. Someone else who has an XC Hardtail that doesn’t fear doing a little bit of offroad would be awesome too! I would really like to eventually ride the entire Katy Trail, possibly at the end of the summer when things cool off again, or whenever. Actually go out and spend 4-6 days just ridding the whole thing camping out and all. The trail is 500 miles (to St. Louis, and back) but has plenty of stops along the way for camping, food, and other various rest stops along the way. I’ve never traveled more than 150 miles on it so it would be interesting to ride the whole way. For those of you who haven’t been, the Katy Trail is an old train track converted to a cycling trail, so it’s mostly flat, and very few inclines those that are present are very low grades so it’s easy to travel 100 miles a day or more. It would just be a lot of fun to get away from everything for a week. Here’s some photo’s of the trail from various photographers, I was really looking for this one that was taken from a bridge that crosses the Missouri River at one of many places where the trail runs right alongside the river and there are high bluffs on the side of the trail with the MO right on the other side, but I couldn’t find it.

Do you ever have troubles just saying what you should?  Ok, so the truth of the matter is that I don’t really need a ridding partner, I need a life partner, someone who can hang out and we’ll just do life together ya know?  Ok, so probably not.  Thing is there are some things that I just can’t do alone… none of us can, nor were we designed to.  Before most of you close the page with the notion that I’m just here rambling on about how I so need a girl… you’re wrong, this is another issue, don’t get me wrong I’d like a girl, but I’ve actually become content in the last few months waiting.  We all hear from church leaders and everything about how we need to find someone of the same sex that will understand many of our issues to talk with and keep accountable to God with… Every time I hear anybody start any kind of speech like that the walls go up instantly.  A lot of you know that I don’t hang out with many guys, heck some of you know that I don’t trust guys, and even know why.  Am I trying to pass the blame for my downfalls off on my dad?  No, and in all honesty I’ve long ago forgiven him.  He still annoys the crap out of me, and there are times where I go to the hilltop sitting alongside Jonah, but that’s not a daily thing anymore.  Either way, also doesn’t mean that there is a single guy I can think of that I would even begin to talk to about my issues.  Not even Jordan… yeah we hang out often, and I don’t mind doing work for the guy, but even at that I can still find excuses as to why I won’t talk to him about anything more than Company of Heroes or websites.  There really is nobody at the church I go to that I’d be comfortable with, so I figured it would be easier to just find someone with common interest… Oddly enough I could think of tons of my female friends in whom I could confide, I only don’t because I’m not sure if they’d understand, or something to that nature.

Leveling the playing field

Hey guys, One of my friends is on the RealWorldCasting website thingy, after voting I very quickly noticed something Amuck about how many votes some of the top people were getting.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t of thought anything about it. But I have experienced these types of scams before. Back in the day (2 years ago) when I ran only 1 website, barely knew basic HTML, and was not so tech savvy as I am now my cousin Zachery was on some cosmogirl cutest guy site thing. It was a cutest guy competition that ran each day allowed people to vote for who they liked the most out of two guys, then the next day it would be the winner and a new challenger. Well when Zach got up there we rallied the troops (8 aunts and uncles on my mom’s side of the family, plus their kids, etc.) and legitimately voted him to the top every day. The days were ending with around 150 votes for Zach and around 100 or so for the other guys, so our votes were helping, but he was legitimately winning until one day we all are going to vote when some punk has over 1,000 votes in the middle of the day… now I know a lot of people, and I know how to rally the troops, but I don’t know 1,000 people who I can convince to vote for me every day. Being that at most the total vote count of days past was around 250 someone having over a thousand by mid day was a little skewed. My other cousins Jordan and Joel much more tech savvy than myself quickly figured out what was going on and using a macro set as described in the video we were able to get the cheater beat out a couple of days later… unfortunately my cousin still lost, but after getting 8 computers over 3 internet connections running we finally beat out the cheater. Now again the same techniques are being used by some losers on the MTV Real World casting site.

I’m doing my best to expose them, and do not plan on giving up at any point in time.

If you’ve tried to email me… definitely didn’t get it.  If not that’s cool, just wanted to say that I’ll probably be going to the movies with my dad sometime later tonight, so if you’ve not sent anything yet the email address is cody@kclanparty.org or AIM: rebel2noavail or cell: 816-349-4595

Wow, so I definitely should be in bed right about… oh 2 hours ago.  Problem is I can’t sleep… Actually already went to “bed” a while ago, only to find that laying in bed doing nothing makes sleeping even harder.  First problem is that I’ve recently ordered a killer water cooling setup for my compy!  When I say killer I mean Swiftech 655 pump, Black ICE GTX 480 radiator, four Delta TFB1212GHE fans, and a Swiftech Apogee GT water block… I mean FREAKING KILLER!!!  I should of had everything for it Wednesday of this week, but some delays in ordering made it to where that’s not gonna happen, and everything won’t get here until Tuesday.  All of that stuff just got its final approval to be sent out today so I’m all excited about being able to watercool the crud out of my computer!  We’re talking heat dissipation like no other!  880 cubic feet of air circulating through my computer every minute, that’s on average 840 cubic feet a minute more air than most peoples computers, plus my CPU is water chilled.  Sure, here in a week when I fire up my computer it’s going to sound like a B-2 taking off, but uh… so what’s your point?  Do you have something against big multi-prop airplanes in your living room?  These fans put off a good 65 decibels of sound each…. let’s put that into perspective… I’ve got a surround sound system that we use for our downstairs it has a built in DVD player and that’s the real reason I hooked it up since our old one died, used to have it in my room… anyways… by no means is this thing “top of the line” but it does it’s job, and it does it well.  The loudest it goes to is 80 decibels, generally no one ever takes it above 50 decibels as that’s a good noise level without being annoying…. these fans are louder than your television is even capable of ever going on it’s own!!!! And I’m using four of them.  Now some of you are thinking I’m a little bit crazy right now… no, you’re not incorrect, but I do have reasoning behind choosing these fans.  First off my obsession with quality, these fans are the best nothing on the market moves more air or has a higher pressure both extremely important in computer cooling needs.  Secondly it is my evil plot to teach other people in the house to TURN THE COMPUTER OFF WHEN YOU’RE DONE WITH IT!!! So I figured if I have fans as loud as my sound system cranked people will turn the computer off at night.  Lastly, because nobody else I know has them… simply put I’ll be the only person at the LAN party’s I go to with more than 50 computers the only one that sounds like a dang B-2 and cools like no other will be muy.  I used to be the guy with the biggest case, but since then a couple other people got Lian-Li’s because they are the best, and nothing shy of amazing… so now I need something else that everyone can go “yeah, he’s the guy with the utterly loud computer that blows your hair around when you’re standing 10 feet away from it.”  Yup… so I’m pretty stoked about getting all my stuff in so that I can start cutting my case up and installing everything.

Hey guys, just dropping in to say that, yes, I am still alive.  I know I had the whole update every day thing for a while, but that’s been kind of crazy with the job and all, working 50+ hours a week paychecks have been good at least Oh well, one day I will get back to updating from time to time.  I’ve actually got plenty of stuff saved and somewhat ready to be posted, mostly just notes that I’ve taken for blog entries and titles to them… but who knows if they’ll ever manifest into full blown blog entries, or if they’ll just simmer up there with the titles and little notes until one day I decide that that title would be awesome for something else… ya never really know now do ya?

So there’s this guy at work named Morgan who thinks we’re friends because we were hired the same day, we’re not friends, in fact I can’t stand him.  He’s always saying silly things like “You’re way too smart, nobody needs to know all that, just stop.”  Because as you all could probably guess I get rather long winded at times and when it is a subject that I like and can honestly go on forever.  I don’t mind it when people call me smart, and I don’t mind if people are like “ok, we get the point shut up.” but for some reason it bugs the crap out of me when he says anything to me, especially when he says that, because he says it exactly the same every time.  There’s a lot about Morgan that I just can’t even comprehend… Seriously, they just don’t even register to me.  Coming from someone who saw a lot in High School being that there were several kids with BMW’s a couple Porches, and a guy with a 1969 Mustang fastback with a GT motor in it (valued at over $250k) I’m pretty used to being around rich spoiled somewhat naive kids… but I figured it stopped after High School, I mean ya gotta grow up sometime… don’t you?

A little background.  One of the first things that kind of caught me off guard was when Morgan was talking about our paychecks after our first week, and how his mommy told him that he’s going to get everything back from taxes.  Kind of seemed odd to me that the parents of this 18 year old boy (and yes I use the word boy for a reason) was still being claimed by his parents for taxes… My mom stopped claiming me when I got my first job at 16, but of course my parents have always been proactive about the whole “take care of yourself” aspect of life.  Obviously after hearing this it came as no shock to me that Mommy and Daddy paid for Morgans car, as well as his car insurance, his tickets, and lawyer fees to get tickets removed from his record.  I know plenty of people who’s parents paid for their cars, and that’s not a huge deal… in fact the car insurance isn’t either… but at 18 when you have a job car insurance is your own responsibility, and ESPECIALLY tickets… Personally I’ve only gotten one ticket before and it was because I wasn’t familiar with the area and had no clue it was a school zone, all I had to do was be honest with the cop and respectful he was nice enough to only give it for 5mph over even though I was doing 15 over because of the school zone… normally would of only been 5 over so he was cool about it… needless to say my fault, my responsibility.  At 18 Morgan still has no concept of responsibility.  The day I found out that Morgan does not pack his own lunches I almost had a conniption fit, it seriously blew my mind.  Obviously coming from someone who’s been packing his own lunches since 4th grade I just didn’t even have a CLUE as to how to respond to that… Heck in high school I had to start paying for my own lunches… Anyways, this is a boy that I just don’t get, I’m pretty good about putting myself in other peoples shoes and seeing life from their perspective, but I just can’t do it with him.

Enough of the background… you obviously get that this boy has lived a sheltered life.  There’s this other guy Chris at work that Morgan also thinks is his friend but Chris just barely tolerates him and then shakes his head out of disbelief as Morgan walks away usually.  I work in the SI room which is just outside of the room Morgan and Chris work in so I don’t have to deal with that stuff very often.  Well today Morgan walks over to Chris and says “dude have you ever gotten a yearbook from a foreign country?” Chris slowly turns around with some curiosity in his eyes “no… what country did you get one from?” Morgan replies with the wonder of a small child that cracked open a black rock down at the creek to find Geodes “Alaska!” Chris turns around in hopes that Morgan was joking.  Morgan then says “have you ever had a yearbook from Alaska?”  Chris replies this time without even facing Morgan “yeah dude.”  “I thought you said you hadn’t ever had one from a foreign country” quickly snaps Morgan.  “Dude, Alaska is a state.  It is a part of the United States.”  You know, I’ve said stupid things before such as mistaking Hong Kong for Tokyo and saying that Hong Kong was in Japan, or saying the country of Ontario… you know… we all say stupid things… but generally after being corrected by someone I stop, think, review the facts and above all STOP SAYING STUPID THINGS!!!!! But no, not Morgan he’s the unstoppable force of idiocity that works towards infecting us all with his ignorance.  “No way!” exclaims Morgan “It’s gotta be like the fifty-sixth state or something like that!” “49th” calmly speaks Chris “Nuh uh, when’d that happen?” “I don’t know it was like the early sixties or something like that.” “No way, you’re just trying to trick me.”

When Aaron came and told us this story the entire SI room was rolling in laughter… after a few minutes I look at Aaron and am just like “nobody’s that stupid, come on…. well I guess it is Morgan… that’s just ridiculous”  Maybe it’s just me, but I dislike stupid people with a passion… but that was funny, and you have to admit that stupid people do make us laugh, and give us inspiration to continue learning and achieving new things every day.

Have you ever had one of those ideas that to start out with is just plane stupid… but you don’t stop there, you take that bad idea and come up with something to add to it that is near retarded. The story starts with my new job. When I started I thought it’d be cool if I got any of Park Hills pages I could take the job number and get all the pages to save to a flash drive or something… don’t really know why but just for fun. So that’s how the story starts off, a really bad idea. But don’t worry as tends to happen I amaze even myself with my escalation of idiocity. Time goes on and the idea just gets crazier. Obviously I don’t want to save anything on the local drive of the computer, but if I had a flash drive then I could type up notes in notepad and save them for blogging purposes or heck even write code and work on websites while at work… it was brilliant… in fact, it was too brilliant.

Well, as time goes on still no flash drive of any kind, so there’s not really any kind of saving or working going on. Actually I feel freaking dead, maybe I’m just pushing myself too hard, but nothing is getting done… I mean NOTHING I build a site here or there mostly working 18 hours or so on the weekends and 2-4 hours a night… but seriously, to run a business it takes MUCH more work than that. This is one of the big reasons why I wanted to sneak work into… uh… well work. Naturally any little glimpse of hope as to me actually being able to take more time doing what I’d like to be doing and establish my business I jump at the idea. Well Monday I got my new phone and with the plan I gotted it leaves me with unlimited text, and emai… works for me Not that I really communicate with any of my friends… well… not that I really have any friends, that’s why I have a blog I just compile all the things that seem interesting to me that would normally be used in a conversation after work with humanoids and I put those things up on the web for the world to read! Which in actuality means for Brenna to read None-the-less with mobile web, and email capabilities that means that I can blog from work *twiddles fingers with a manacle smile*

Things started out simple enough, I would email myself notes, and information that I wanted to remember then blog about it later… since typing is a pain on the phone. An idea encroached upon me after a brief analysis of how difficult it was to actually say something of meaning when using the alphanumeric keypad of the phone… That little light popped on when I remembered that my keyboard is USB, and my phone has a mini-USB connection on it *light turns on and the manacle smile grows* Now don’t get me wrong, it was a good idea, but it wouldn’t work at all. Several things hinder this idea, first off software, the phone doesn’t have windows mobile, symbian, or any of the major operating systems that could run the keyboard, secondly power my keyboard has lights, and an LCD screen it would suck my poor phones battery dry in seconds… of course this could be overcome with some rigging and modifications to the keyboard, but it’s still a bad idea. First off I already bring my mouse to work every day and people give me crap about it, just think if I started lugging around my keyboard. This is still the experimental, or inventive stage for myself where I brainstorm anything and everything in the process of coming up with the most amazing plan or thing anyone has ever seen, at this point in time obstacles mean nothing, and can be easily disregarded as I build upon the grand scheme. Naturally the next order of things (as if anything about this is natural) is to take these grand schemes and make them more feasible, more realistic, more accomplishable. Still flipping through pages pretending to be working and keeping my page count up I come across a page that has this picture that SOOOOO reminds me of my Christmas Present (which is even an inside joke between myself, Tiana, and uh… not sure who else knew Kenna did but not sure if she’d remember). Anyways, when I see it I’m like “CHRISTMAS PRESENT!!!!!!!” *does happy dance* Here’s where the fullness of stupidity comes crashing down. What runs through my head when I see this? Obviously, I must save this and blog about it. Now I can switch modes of my phone to where it works as a network drive and do exactly what I was thinking with the flash drive… unfortunately that won’t work since I don’t have my USB cable with me. Then an epiphany hits… mobile phone… mobile web… camera We take a picture… even though it would be bullocks with the 2mp camera featuring a horrid lense the idea would still come across. Have you ever seen the movie “The Ghost in the Darkness”? There’s a scene in the movie where the main character and his buds finally go out and try to hunt the lion during the day… well the Doctor offers the main character his gun with the idea that it is more powerful and should do better. Well they get out there he has the lion in his sights and the gun misfires. Then the crazy hunter guy with him say’s something along the lines of “You fool, never enter battle with an untested weapon” yeah… that was me today. I’ve gotten so used to my camera where I’ve turned off flash, and any funky noises because they annoy me (and flash just makes everything look like poo, most the time). I whip out my shinney new phone and go to take the picture when it makes the LOUDEST shudder sound I’ve ever heard… I mean rediculously so! Zack whips around and is like “did you hear that?” “uh… yeah…” “what was that? Your computer made the craziest sound, I’ve never heard before” “yeah… my computer… I don’t know what that was…” The only thing that really saved me is that the programs we use have all these crazy weird warning sounds when you do something you’re not supposed to, so he obviously didn’t recognize it, not to mention it was so freaking loud and distorted that it really didn’t sound like a shudder anyways. A little time passes and I pull the phone out of my lap after things have kind of gone back to normal and remember that I even took the picture… I heard the noise and seriously just about threw the phone into my lap to hide it… but after all that at least I got what I came for!!!! Muahahahahhahahaa!!! Oh… wait… what? Yeah yeah I know it’s a crappy camera I wasn’t expecting glory just enough to… oh… so you’re saying that it has such a horrid CCD that it has to use excruciatingly slow shudder speeds to capture the image and the act of me moving the camera left me with an image of my monitor, lap… and everything in between all smushed together. I felt so stupid the rest of the day and just tried to kind of avoid everyone so as to not have to answer any questions about the mysterious noise.

That’s my fun story for the day… I hope you’ve enjoyed it… and no unfortunately I do not have the image didn’t even think to save it was just freaking embarassed so I did what I know how to do and deleted it putting my phone away, instead of searching for the save option (oddly enough it has a send option that is particularly easy to find, but not the save option).

So something needs to be updated, and it really doesn’t matter what it is as long as it adds to my page count, and has a little bit of da content on it :-P  I’ve got 8 saved ideas, but this whole throwing up half-complete stories isn’t me.  The inspiration hasn’t come, so this is going to be MUCH harder than I had suspected seeing as it takes a while for a good story to simmer, and come to live for me.  Anyways, I gotz the new cell phone today, but I don’t know the number, I called my mom, and the house so I’ve got the number around here somewhere just not yet I’ll post it once I’m not rushing off to bed (stupid work… who wants to be alive at 6am?).

You know, I find myself more and more living my life in segments. Every morning that I wake up for work I count the days until Saturday when I can actually get on and do some sort of work for MY business… and while I’m at work I’m always looking towards the next segment to get me by. How long till first break, when is lunch, where is second break, and finally when to go home. I find things more manageable this way… that is one thing that they say about OCD people is that we tend to get overwhelmed very easily, and if it keeps me from going crazy or shutting down I guess it’s alright. Just sometimes seems like I’m wishing my days away… then when I get home I’m SOOOOOO freaking burned out from working on the computer all day that I don’t even want to get on here and do my blogging or webpage design, which then keeps me stuck working for someone else which is nothing shy of miserable.