Wow look at that. Last post April 2006. What happened to 2007? A lot has changed since spring '06. Where to begin? Well to stay on topic with the last post I have a new WIRELESS keyboard now. So typing this post is kind of like "blogging: UNCHAINED." I'm gonna go type in my bed, look out! The best part about having a wireless keyboard is that I can change songs on my computer from bed. The worst part is that I can't really see what I'm typing.. Like I'm not sure if I just typed one period or two. Kind of spices things up a bit huh? I'm not going to backspace anythning that I type because I have no idea how many backspaces I would need. Ledt;s do a quick recap of the difference3s between Mark of 2006 and Mark of 2008: Not in college anymore. I have a full time job now, which means I also have money, which means I also have an xbox 360 bow, which meansI waste a lot of time. But that's not really different from Mark 2006. Mark 2008 still stays up til all hours of the morning to update xanga. Or a tleast I update xanga when I happen to be awake at 5am and there's nothing better to do. This is different from Mark of 2007 who never updated xanga. We will shun him. Seems like there are two directions I can take this post from here. Either try to be deep and talk about what is really going on in my life, or try to be funny and talk about all the ridiculuous happenings over the last 1.67 years. Maybe I can do both. I'm trying to avoid the post-college depression of "the best days of my life are opver" mentality. It's a little hard when most of your friends are either still in colege (I knowthat was spelled wrong. COLLEGE) or a t least still going to school in some way (gradschool, law school, med school, highschool).Bweing out of school is defintiely different and I am still adjusting to it. I think it's all about time management. Ok it's hard to be deep when I can't see what I'm typing. Back to the desk. Basically once you are out of school your life is just what you make of it. This is also true while you are in school but at least in school you have some kind of fall-back purpose to life: get a good grade, finish the semester, work toward graduating so you can get a good job. I am now to the point where I have done all of that and gotten a job I like, so what do I do now? I don't know. Well my next step is getting married and supporting my wife-to-be on her quest to make way more money than me as an optometrist. On a related note, Commander Cristin has been promoted to Fiancee Cristin, which is not an alliteration. But as for now I'm at work for 9 hours a day and then I have 5:30-midnight to make something of my life and I usually don't . I used to think once I graduated I would have all this free time but you'd be surprised how fast the evening can go by without really getting anything accomplished. On nights when I don't sacrifice sleep to do something, I normally just figure out dinner, play a little bit of xbox/surf the internet, talk to Cristin on the phone and then go to sleep. Laundry gets delayed for weeks due to bad time management skills. When I start having to wear the socks that go halfway up my calf, the pants that I colored with sharpie to cover up bleach spots, and the underwear from the back of the drawer (you know, the emergency underwear that you don't wear unless you have no other choice) then laundry quickly moves up to the top of the priority list. Considering that this paragraph started out as being about making something out of life and ended up talking about laundry, I think that should tell you something. Dang I guess I have a lot to say. Even if no one reads this far it feels good just to write it all. Guess I kind of skimped on the funny happenings but there's time for that later. I would normally stop here but it's now 6am, still not tired and still nothing to do. Onward. I play ping pong every day at work. This is not an exaggeration. Every single day. I think I want to start playing in a club or league or something. I'm kind of in this spot where I can usually beat people at work but I get owned when I play in tournaments. The worst was when a I got beat by this 80-year old guy with all the agility of a tree. David got owned by a very matronly middle-aged woman. It's funny how people like me can think they are a badass at ping pong and then go to a tournament and get bested by the worst people there. Recent achievement: I got 3rd place in the "Buffalo" (B) division in our ping pong tournament at work. The divisions were Alligator, Buffalo, Camel, Dolphin, and Eagle to denote A, B, C, D and E, A being the best and E being the worst. Each division was 10 people so getting 3rd in the Buffalo division is like saying I'm the 13th best player. I wanted a trophy with a ping-pong-playing buffalo on it, but was sadly disappointed. Maybe I'll make it a t-shirt: Garmin Ping Pong Tournament, Winter 2007. 3rd place champion: Buffalo division. Haha. Third place champion. I am the champion of third place. Of division B. I'll tell you what's not an achievement: cleaning my room. That's been my default purpose to life. I could do it everyday because that's how fast I mess it up after I clean it. I usually get some kind of sense of accomplishment out of it, like I am improving my quality of life or something. Not today though. That's not going to cut it. Which leaves me with 11 hours between now and the KU basketball game with absolutely nothing I need to accomplish in that time. I don't need to sleep because I slept from 7pm to 2am. At first I thought that was 5 hours but it's actually 7 hours. I have this great idea to customize my Garmin GPS. Instead of a magnifying glass icon and the words "Where to?," it will have Darth Vader's head and the words "Thy bidding?". Also instead of the map icon and the words "View map" it will have a picture of the death star hologram and say "View the plans". The second idea is not as awesome so if you have a better one please tell me. Picture it: http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/garmin-770.jpg Fuh buh duh. I grow loathe of typing and if you have read through this whole thing and are still reading then you should probably go do something else now. I hope I update this in less than a year because it's a lot of fun to go back and read old posts. Later. | 
