Been a bit since I've posted here. Felt like ranting a bit
Since I posted last, I've started school at Lindenwood. It seems decent enough there, few complaints. My biggest gripe deals with the Intro to Computer Science class I'm being forced to take. The material we're covering so far is, well, so incredibly basic. We're learning what webbrowsers are, what spreadsheets are, etc. Oh boy! What are Podcasts? *beats his head against the desk* On some basic things, such as tabbed browsing and Web 2.0, the teacher admittedly didnt know what they were, despite it being fairly common and also coming straight from the books (yes, I had to spend money on books to tell me this shit). I just want to get to the material that he may know (considering he has a PhD in computer science, I'm hoping there is something). Not to mention he claims that multicore processors to be a "failure" from AMD that Intel is avoiding. Erm, What do you call the Core Duo and Core 2 processors? Pentium D? Yeah, Intel isn't wanting to touch that market…
I am also forced to take a "Freshman Experience" class, which really is kinda useless. So far, I've gone to presentations on dorm living, work and learn (which is just for people living on campus), and date rape. First ones don't apply to me, so were a waste. They also force you to goto certain amount of events around the school. If you don't, you dont get a good grade, and thus do not pass the class (which is required for graduation).
With Mom now as the president of the car club, finally able to fucking ditch Hemmings as a host, and start work on a decent website. I put up the work in progress, and despite being incomplete and slightly buggy, it is way better than what I was forced to work with before. Is kinda nice.
Work, well, that sucks cock. Hours cut back severely. I've worked as little as 4 hours in a week lately. On top of that, apparently, they're starting to get anal about things. Today, apparently a cashier asked for an item over the radio when ringing it up. I going through a radio deadspot (IE, most of the back room) so didn't hear it. As soon as the handheld computer used for our inventory system starts beeping to let me know that a big ticket item needed to be brought from the store room, the new assistant manager gets on the radio complaining about no one responding to it. Here it is, first I know about it, and they're complaining about it AS I AM FINDING OUT. I grab the walkie talkie and say that I didn't hear the request, that it just came up on the sapphire so I was just finding out about it, and would bring it right up. So I quickly grab the item, and run up front. Later on, I'm called into the office, where the new manager complains about how I responded, saying I was snippy with her. Now, people who know me, know that if I am upset with a person, I am more vulgar than normal, and make it very well known that I am upset. I'm really not a passive aggressive person. Now, I had no problem with the person, until then. It really kinda upsets me that this person tries to act like they know what I am thinking. Argh.
Also, net connection has been problematic here. A week ago monday, we had a storm roll through. Nothing too bad in this area, but apparently bad enough to damage equipment at the ISP. Knocked our net connection out. The next day, after I get home from school, I call the ISP, to get a voice recording that they had sustained a large amount of damage, more than they could afford to repair, and so would be going out of business. Did get a crippled connection to come back up a few days later, but it didn't last all that long. Luckily the phone company has just got DSL into our area, so we weren't totally destitute when it comes to options for high speed internet. Unfortunately, it is one third the speed of the old connection. Which, really really, sucks. Still, better than nothing, so can't complain all that much.
Nothing all that exciting is going on really. Work, school, sleep, repeat. Occasionally get to spend time with Amy. Just the bare minimum to keep me sane. Speaking of which, time for bed.
