EvilBeAr.Net

So this weekend was really eventful. Shelby came down to Austin because she had to take the GMAT for business school applications. The weather was really nice so I didn’t mind driving her downtown. I’m kinda strange. I like going downtown because it is cool to drive around all these cool buildings. I’ll look around and wonder if someone is looking at my car from like floor 50 or something haha. I wouldn’t mind living in a loft downtown. I love the city life. I like to be able to drive around and pick some restaurant I’ve never been to. That being said, after the test we went to Pluckers. Haha. It had already been a rough day so Shelby and I needed to relax. We caught some of the NBA Playoffs and had a few drinks. This was the weekend of relaxing by the way.

Just the day before we had hit cuatros (the new joint on 24th). Speaking of cuatros, don’t order the guacamole there. It was awful… like it was pulled out of a freezer. I will however give it high marks for it’s konas & chicken tacos. Delicious. Overall it was a pretty nice place. Kinda fratty for me though. I don’t really fit in with the frattys. It happens.

Shelby and I went to the lake with our favorite married couple (but our age lol) Nate and Kristi. I was really pumped to goto the lake and go boating but I forgot about one important detail. We were going to lake Buchanan. So okay, I neglected to mention that this is apparently a 1 hour 40 minute drive. Whoops. Wish we would have gone on saturday but like I said stuff was going on. Anyways, the weather was really chilly this morning. We went out boating around 10ish and got it started tubing. Nate and I got launched face first into the cold water. Dang, it was like a shocker, but after that I wasn’t so cold for the rest of the day. I especially laughed when Shelby basically was flying through the air in slow motion after hitting some hard wake. Hahaha. Glorious.

Had a lot of fun. Right now I finished up all my homework and I’m getting a little reading in for some stuff I need to do for work. I’m kinda embarrassed about my work output lately. I was working so hard I think I burned myself out. I’m reading a book about AJAX and PHP Security right now because it’s always in the back of mind that if I don’t keep up with all the new things happening that I will get fired or something. I’m so paranoid.

We also had time to catch the new episode of Flip That House in between. (I know this bit of information was vital to this mind spillage)

So I was watching NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams tonight, and I came across this story about the website Free Rice. Yes I know you are probably wondering why I am even watching the trash that Brian Williams puts out.. Truth is the only reason why I watch NBC Nightly News is because it is the only news in HD. I know what a loser I am. Regardless, this website Free Rice is a vocabulary building website that donates free rice to struggling countries every time you answer a question correctly. Kinda neat eh?

In other news, I’m having a great start to my week. The weather is beautiful outside. I have been out and about reading outside and trying to relax. Tonight I don’t have any homework so I will probably get a little game time in.

I’m also doing some boring stuff. I’m in the process of learning AJAX and Ruby. I hope to integrate this with the current project I am working on at work. I really like producing a good project that I can actually take pride in. Doesn’t everybody like taking a little gleam on sometimes?

Hopefully I can make this week the most productive week. Sunday counts as this week. I fixed the fence with my mom. We replaced 6 fence posts and 20 pickets. Not really that much. Just a little fun with the circular saw and a hammer. Bear strikes again. Rawr.

Oh and btw, I have bought every Sim City game since I was a kid. That being said, I heard terrible things about the new Sim City game Sim City Societies. So I held off from buying it. Well, last night it was on Amazon for $12.51. That is chump change. I picked it up with a couple of AJAX books. Party on.

Playa hate me.

If you don’t know by now, I work at RecSports. You probably shouldn’t know either since I never post here anyways. (I’m a busy man after-all) Anyways, we are in the process of a major redesign on the backend.

We’re moving everything from aging FileMaker 6 to new car smell FileMaker 9. Not to mention we’re introducing some great new services that should streamline day to day activities.

I’ve just recently finished three new services; ID Scan, LiveRoster, and RecSports Session Manager.

ID Scan looks kinda snazzy. My bosses are smashing all the hard stuff right now like Court Reservations, and Equipment Checkout. RecSports doesn’t play around. When we want something we do it. Haha. Moving to a dynamic system such as this one is gonna save us a lot of paper I’m sure which means I should be able to get away with a little frivolous printing. Give and take right?

I got up really early today (6AM) so I’m still kinda sleepy. I’ll probably hit the hay early tonight, but I’ll need to definitely catch American Idol first. I didn’t want the Idol Gives Back thingy last night. I was busy making Shrimp and Broccoli. We also made some Brie wrapped in Crescent rolls. I know what you are thinking, High Class Livin’. Well maybe haha.

I’ll probably start writing a little more often again. I’ve really dropped off. I know how everybody loves the gadget update too. So here is an update since I last had one:

I’ve gotten:

1. Xbox 360
2. Playstation 3
3. Nintendo Wii
4. Apple iPhone
5. Nifty 24″ Monitor at Home
6. Nifty 24″ Monitor at Work

Me like.

Well NIRSA 2008 is finally over. Who else is relieved? We all had a great time though. Plenty of good nights out.

It concluded with the Honor Awards Banquet on Saturday. I’m already back at work though. Short turn-around.

I didn’t get to go visit Shelby for her birthday but that’s okay. I had already given her her present anyways.

It will be tough to get back into the old routine. I have two tests on wednesday that I am not really looking forward to. I will probably pick up a couple of blu-ray movies after that and ease into the weekend. Yes blu-ray. I’m such a snob. My blu-ray collection is up to 10 discs! Haha.. My PS3 is coming in handy! 

Well folks. You may remember that back in my heb days I would always be purchasing my latest and greatest gadgets. This is probably no exception. After a disasterous case mishap for my vista box I’m on my way to purchasing a new computer case. Oh this is why I love my Macintosh. New Macs on Wednesday by the way..

Anyways. I will be purchasing the  Gigabyte 3D Aurora (GZ-FSCA1-ANB) - $119.95. Pictures follow.

Very excited about this purchase. More later.

Well I finally got around to using that tool over at http://www.simpsonizeme.com, which is very handy! So enough chatter, here are the results.

 And the other one: 

Didn’t you hear? Magicians are all the jazz these days. Okay so I’m exaggerating a bit. Well, I for one enjoyed the movie The Prestige a lot. I enjoyed it so much that I didn’t see the need to ever watch The Illusionist. Two movies about magic in a few weeks? Boring.

Well almost five months later I finally saw The Illusionist. I must say I might have liked it more than I liked The Prestige. Haha. I think it is because the Illusionist has a storyline that involves more than just magic. The Prestige’s plot stayed within the realm of magic and focused more along the lines of an obsession between competitors. I’ll probably buy The Illusionist on DVD pretty soon so that I can have it for myself. I watched the copy my dad bought. Coincidentally he stole my copy of The Prestige. Seems I’ll be making two purchases.

Shelby and I saw the new Harry Potter flick yesterday night. I must say it was very enjoyable. This despite the 9 year old kid sitting next to me that lacked the precense of any parental control. He came in with a medium bag of popcorn just for himself and a large box of milk duds. He left in the middle of the movie and came back with a large soda and another large box of candy. Good job parents, way to fight America’s problem with obesity. Spoiled brats. Good movie though. Shelby and I “turn one” in about two weeks. lol..

So as many of you know, I started a new job in June at The University of Texas. I was pretty bored and I needed some money. I work at RecSports doing IT work and some web development. It’s a pretty cool job. I earn 12.55/hr so it’s quite friendly to college students. I didn’t know anything about Filemaker Pro before I started but it has pretty much become my program that I live and die by. (I know — all of you are probably already calling me boring)

The Simpsons movie came out last night and Shelby and I are hopefully going to see it soon. We have to see Harry Potter first though. Yuck. I’ll let you know if I survive that. Haha.

I am in the process of getting ready to move back to the school. I move in August 24st. I need to get up there as early as possible because I’m not exactly inspired to get up for 8:00 work shifts daily. Haha. It’s alright.

Otherwise nothing is happening. I’m hopefully going to go see Die Hard 4 with my dad today. I already have seen it. It was a great movie.

Shelby and I have been together for almost a year now and I’m in love with her, I’m still in college, and I’ve got a well paying job at the University working with computers. How exciting.

So call me crazy but I like to do my share of back to school shopping. This year I made sure to load up on a few gadgets. This year I made a couple of neat purchases.

1. Canon Powershot SD600 Digital Camera ($279.00)
2. Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium Calculator  ($158.00)
3. Secure Digital 2GB Memory Card ($30.00)
4. NCAA Football 2007 for the PSP ($41.99)

more to come.