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What are you saving up for?
Submitted by Star.
XBox 360
Back Story:
My Grandpa had diabetes for the better part of my life. Well when ever he had to go into the hospital for a long period of time he would get these sores on his heels, because he was mobile and getting enough circulation in them.
Story:
Well a few month ago he fell and broke his hip. It wasn't the first time either, he broke the other one a few years ago. So I pretty much knew there was going to be a long recovery time. Due to the fact that once the new hip heals he has to wait for his heels to get better also.
So for father's day we went and saw him at the nursing home. He was very skinny, and didn't look that well. But the doctors said he was making progress. He was very alert and i shook his hand and he still had the strong "Stites" grip that he always had. So i was expecting him to get better.
On Monday i couldn't get to sleep i was very upset because i didn't want him to die. So we had planned to go see him Today. So yesterday around 8pm or so i called my mom to see when the visiting hours were so Randi and I go see him. Well my mom informed me that they had given him 24hrs on Tuesday when they moved him to a new place, and that he had passed around 8am that day. He was 98 so it was pretty much his time.
My Rant:
I got no phone call. I had to call my mom to find this out. She should have called me when they gave him 24hrs to live so if i wanted to i could have gone to see him.
I really don't understand why parents try to sugar coat things like this. I could see how this might have been different if i were 12 but i am 24...... And i deserve to be informed when things like this happen.
Its been a struggle trying to sell the ring I had from my past relationship. I tried numerous attempts on ebay and idonowidont.com without success. So i finally decided to start going to pawn shops and jewelry stores. 2 weeks ago I tried some pawn shops the first place I went to looked promising, it was a pretty nice establishment, but they didn't buy jewelry :(. The second place I went to was a pawn shop in fullerton, this place was the really nasty and the guys were from hicksville. They sounded like they new what they were looking at but they only gave me an offer for $350. There was no way i could let it go for that.
So Saturday Randi was going out with her niece and i told myself, "Lets get this thing sold." I first called the place where I bought it and they told me they can't buy jewelry because you need to have special reseller license in order to do that. So i started my quest of calling jewelry stores to find some that bought jewelry. I found 3 of about 10 places i called that did. They first place i went to said they could only give me $500 and that was too low for my liking. So i pressed on. The second place i went to offered me $800 and new Lance Geiger's work. I figured $800 is decent enough but i had one more place to go. The last place offered me $1000 and i was satisfied. I was relieved that my quest was over and i had money in hand.
Who would you call with your one phone call if arrested? (No lawyers!)
Randi
Who are the last five people you called on your cell phone?
Randi
Voice Mail (but i think it was my pocket)
Shai
Teller phone
Ricardo's
For the past 11 months I have been diligently trying to learn the art of programming in c#.net.
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Its been hard at times and I tend to get frustrated with myself because I set my goals high and don't feel I am meeting them as quickly as i should be. I work with a team of developers that have a vast knowledge of the framework and language that we currently use at my work place. I tend to find myself worried that I am not meeting the needs of our team. Every time I get into one of these moods my work ethic goes down the tube. I lose all motivation to work and find myself surfing the net and watching video's on youtube for the majority of my day at work. By the end of the day I am so wasted from vegging at work. I don't have the energy to spend time with my girl friend and be the boy friend i should be.
So how do I get myself out of this drunken youtube and web stupor? I sit back take a breath and tell myself that my peers at work have been programming for 10 or more years and I have to realize that there is way too much to learn and I will always be learning new things and different ways to write code. I have only been doing this for 11 months and I'm lucky that i got to start with C#.net.
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Hokay... So... Asp.Net 2.0, I know, I love it, I breath it. The programming is were I struggle, but I am getting better. I am finally at a stage where I am comfortable with my knowledge. So what's next.... AJAX, AJAX, AJAX.... It is the framework for what we call web 2.0. Its building web aplications with the user experience at the forefront. Its a blending of windows and web.
I've been searching for somthing online, some tutorials or examples or something to get be started.... nothing was working for me. I spent quite a bit of time downloading pdfs of books, trying to read them on a computer, trying to understand the writings of others, it just didn't work for me. So i finally came across this book "Pro Ajax and the .NET 2.0 Platform. This is hands down the best book i have bought. It is very easy to read and it starts at the beginning, teaching the bases of javascript needed to script ajax. I'm still in the beginning of the book but once i finish this one i should have a better understading of what i want to learn so desperately.
After a long weekend of moving and cleaning, we gave up the keys yesterday. We all had a lot of good times in that place. It was a fun adventure.
Ok.... so... You would think that since this is the first episode of the final 9 shows of an amazing series, that they would do something ground breaking. Well that's what you would think. Did they, no! I think we were all pretty disappointed by this episode. Yeah Bobby popped his cherry finally, cherry as in his first kill. But it wasn't even anyone that was important to the family that he killed. He wasn't even in this country. What a waste HBO. The next 8 better be a lot better written than this piece.
So was on this mission to get caught up on the sopranos before the final episodes started this past sunday. We started this mission back at the begging of march. We had a few set backs, netflix being slow, and going to vegas for a weekend. So anyhow it got to 2 weeks before the premier and we still have 3 disks of season 5 and 4 disks of season 6 left to watch. So because netflix had already let us down once i could put my faith in them to follow through, it was just too important. So i fired up the old EN, most of you should know what that is, and dl the last 3 disks of season 5. So that just left us with the beginning of season 6 to get from netflix. All in all it was a fun adventure and i wish it could have been more spread out because now there is only 8 more episodes left and the series is over :(
