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So I turn 20 on Monday, August 30 2010. And it just dawned on me that in 3 days, I will no longer be a teenager… How am I supposed to whine about how hard my life is and how my parents just don’t understand me?! Oh wait, Facebook. Nevermind.
Awesome new recruitment video for my place of employment!
You know your blog is inactive when you forget your password to login, amirite?
Anyway. Sort of update since I’m doing a lot of new things right now. I had quit my coop with Beaumont Hospitals and got a new one with Plex Online, a company in Auburn Hills that develops manufacturing ERP software. It’s really fun and a hell of a lot more challenging than my last job. My ability with SQL has increased significantly in the few weeks I’ve been working.
Somewhat related to this, I have also decided to officially leave the Emerald development team. I haven’t made any significant contributions to the project in some time, and to be honest I am finding it hard to make time for it. It’s not that I don’t have the time, it’s just that I’ve lost interest in the project and I haven’t really like the direction that it’s been going lately. Instead, I am going to try to start working on more web based applications. Expect to hear more on this soon.
School terms at Kettering seem to always draw my attention away from things like this blog, but last semester was particularly nasty… so here is a brief rundown of what I’ve been doing for the last 4 months or so.
I completed my Sophomore 1 term at Kettering. It was by far my most difficult term at Kettering, and there were many times during the term that I felt that I might be at risk of failing some of my classes. The term was so stressful that I actually started smoking rather frequently during the term (I have since quit, and am going to try to avoid starting again next term). Overall I ended up doing rather well, with finals going smoothly. I haven’t received my grades yet but I should be in a few days.
The stress of the school term also caused me to go back to MMO gaming. I reactivated my EVE Online accounts, and started playing again, more serious than ever. However I quickly got tired of this again, and deactivated my subscription a few days ago and picked up a fairly new MMO, Fallen Earth.
Fallen Earth is a post apocalyptic MMORPG/FPS set in Nevada. The graphics engine is not incredibly detailed, but for an MMO it is very good. I also enjoy the way that they implemented tradeskills as well as ‘classes’. You don’t actually have a defined class, but your role is defined by stat and skill distributions that you put points into using ability points, which you earn 2 of every 1/10th of a level. What has diffidently sold me on the game though is how incredibly vast the game world is. There is no ‘fast travel’ system, and you have to ride everywhere on horse or the motor vehicle mounts that you can get. I have been playing 4 days and have probably seen only 20-30% of the first area or sector. And there are 3 sectors currently in the game. In addition the developers have the game planned out to go up to 9 sectors, each one very large, with the last 4 sectors being completely empty and designed to house the player cities that are planned for endgame. I highly recommend you try this game if you are looking for a new MMO as it currently has a free trial.
I’ve always used Google Calander to organize my events, even more so since I got my BlackBerry, but I never really had a good way of electronically keeping track of tasks that I needed to get done. The Blackberry does have a tasks application, but that does not notify you of pending tasks, and the only way to see what tasks you have to do is to manually go in and view them.
Today I found a tool that may be the solution to what I was looking for, it’s called Remember The Milk. It’s an easy to use task application that is free to use for basic use, but the really cool thing about it is that you can link it to your Google Calander.
You can also have it sync with your BlackBerry, but that require subscribing to the service, which costs 25$ a year. The price isn’t bad at all, but I think I’m going to have to use it for a bit longer before spending the money. 
I don’t normally make New Years resolutions because I always find myself breaking them within the first few weeks of the year. But this year I decided that was going to be different, and I actually made some resolutions that make sense, and that I can actually acomplish.
My New Years resolutions for 2009 are pretty nerdy though, and consist of:
I haven’t really started on the first resolution, but I am working on it. As for the others…
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