Droids and Cuddles

So, as the name says, today was all about cuddles and droids. Droids is because I have been very focused on some updates and new features of the android operating system.

Droids:
Well, as of last night, my phone is scheduled to get updated finally. I have the Galaxy Nexus, it is a wonderful phone. But Verizon has been lacking in keeping it updated to the most recent version. But they started to put out the update last night so I should have it soon.

Also, I just watched a video on the new look of the Play store. I like what I see so far. Another thing I am looking at and using now is Google Keep. Google's note keeping application.

Cuddles:
I got so many cuddles tonight. My girlfriend returned from a 3 day trip to NYC. So yay for cuddles. I am spending the night with her tonight and we will spend the weekend together.

Snow, Minecraft and Alaska

Today has been a busy and slow day. Sort of an on and off day for me. Every couple of hours I had some bursts of busyness. My day was a fun one though.

Snow:
Well, its mid-March and since we are in Vermont, there is a snow storm today. It has been going since late last night. I would estimate about 8 inches where I am at so far. Nothing to surprising here though. I plowed the road about 3 times to keep it clear. Every few hours I would have to go out and salt the sidewalk a little. But now sitting here looking out the window I see the snow is coming down hard again so my day may not be over quiet yet.

Minecraft:
In my off time between plowing, I have been playing a bit of Minecraft. I play the game on and off, but I got an idea for a new map today and I have been working on it today. I might make it into an adventure map later once I get the server side map complete.

Alaska:
I have finished Robin Hood. And now moved onto watching Alaska State Troopers. It's a pretty interesting show. Kinda a cool look on Alaska and the problems they face as our northern most state. Seems domestic violence and drugs are big there. Also lots of guns.

That is all for today. So, this is my new format for the blog. Sort of just a quick summary, then details on each specific. If you like it or don't, let me know.

~RZN

Weekend Wrap Up #2 (WWU2)

So, It's Monday again. Time for another weekend wrap up. Plus my Friday post since blogger would not let me log in all day Friday.

Friday:
Friday was the longest day of the weekend. I did not go to sleep Thursday night, and Friday my girlfriend was expecting a package. So I went over to her place to wait for the package with her. It arrived around noon and we just hung out and watched a movie for the night. I tired until about 11pm to get on blogger to talk about the day, but kept getting a log in error. So the exciting news will have to wait until tomorrow.

Saturday:
Party day. Oh the party was amazing. Saturday night was my friend John's St. Patty's day party. Such a wonderful night with so many friends. It was a great time, but I had forgotten to take some of my medicine and it messed up my moods. So I sorta sat back and watched it. But then about halfway through the party John proposed to his boyfriend Casey, he said yes of course and the party turned into an engagement party and it kicked up even more. We went back home around 1am and passed out for the night.

Sunday:
Sunday was lazy and packing day. We slept in until about 11am. Watched some cartoons after that while eating breakfast. Then we had to start packing my girlfriends bag. She has gone off to NYC for a school trip, so we packed up her things. That was the day, laundry, another movie and packing.

Monday:
Nothing to big today. Made storm preparations on my truck. Got tow chains all wrapped up, the plow hooked up, tires all aired up. Everything is all set and ready for tomorrows storm. We are supposed to get up to a foot of snow. Will update you more tomorrow on the storm.

And that is all for this Weekend Wrap Up.
~RZN

Weakness

I am weak. We are all weak. We all have our off days and we all have our weak points.

I accept this and understand this. But so many things others do not. So many are expecting perfection and strength from everyone. They are even blind to their own weakness.

We are all weak, but that is what makes us strong.

~RZN

Computer Down

So, I don't know how many of you follow me on twitter. But if you do, You might have noticed a wave of tweets about some computer issues I was having. The short version of it is that I am an idiot. A few days ago I needed more space on my computer. I noticed I had an unused partition. Boy oh boy was I wrong. I formatted the partition into space I could use for storing pictures. So, I organize my files get everything worked out. Do some cleanup of old programs. Then I install a windows update. Big mistake right there.

So turns out that partition that I "Wasn't using", was actually my Linux partition. Just to top it all off, it also had my Boot Manager on it. So every time I start up the computer, I get a Grub Error telling me the file system can not be found. So as you can imagine, I am full of joy at this. I try to do a system restore from a restore point a week ago to no luck.

Next I tried just re-installing windows. It was about time for a clean install anyway. But no, that would not work. My computer would not allow it. It had now been 4 hours since my computer crashed on me, well since I crashed my computer. So finally, I turn to the internet for help. The internet gives me a CD called SuperGrubDisk2. Pretty much, I boot the computer off the CD and it replaces the missing boot loader for me.

So, the computer is working again, It needs a little bit of cleaning up still. But I am officially back online with no problems. I missed it here on the internet. But it did give me some time to watch some movies I had been wanting to see.

~RZN

Moving to PA

So, a little update on the moving situation today. Well a big update actually.

Well, in a previous post, I talked about how plans for my girlfriend and I to move had been screwed up. Our friends that were going to host us for a few months pulled back the offer and left us kinda stranded.

But we have worked out something to get moving. We will not be moving until late June or early July now.

We are moving to Harrisburg, PA. Not sure what kind of work is around there, but I will find something once we move. My family has a house there that we are going to be staying in until I find an apartment.

Not a lot more details to give. We are moving there no matter what, then I am getting an apartment.

Another thing, April 6th, we will be hosting a party for all our friends to celebrate all the fun times we have had here in Vermont, and to give everyone a good chance to hang out before we go.

~RZN

Weekend Wrap Up!

So, today is Monday, every ones most dreaded day. But no longer. Every Monday from now on shall be my big weekend wrap up post. Yes, over the weekend I will make some posts daily like usual. But the point to the weekend wrap up is to get a larger more detailed post about the weekend I had. My main reasoning behind this is that the weekend posts are made from my phone and I tend to keep them short because I am out and about or spending time with my girlfriend. So rejoice  Mondays now bring tons of fun pictures and stories from my crazy weekends out.

Lets kick off the WWU #1 with my Saturday. Saturday was the local chili festival in town. Over 6000 people attended this year and there were over 30 different chili's from all over the state.

It was tons of fun and there was live DJs and a drum line. The chili was good as well. Some was not so great, but others were just amazing. Chili is not my favorite food, I only eat it at this festival really so I am not the best judge of a good chili.




Sunday was my lazy day. We went to bed at about 12:30am Sunday morning and did not get out of bed until 5:30pm. So not a lot to report from Sunday this week. Next weekend should be a little more exciting.

Monday, was just another Monday. Made tons of my beginning of the week phone calls and paid some bills. Mondays are pretty mundane for me, so another reason I see it fit to do this Weekend Wrap Up.

~RZN

Sick :(

So, as the title sates, I am sick. We went to the chili fest for about an hour yesterday before I started feeling sick. Went home and just slept for about 18 hours. So, I am sorry I didn't get a post out yesterday, I didn't plan on sleeping that long. I will have a big update tomorrow with lots of news from the weekend.

~RZN

It's the weekend!

It's that time again, the weekend. Everyone's favorite two days. The weekends are super important to me. On the weekend I get to have my girlfriend stay with me for a few days. it is the best part of my week and something I look forward to so much.

This weekend we are going to a chili festival and then we are going to see a play. Lots of time to hang out and be together as well. I love the weekends.

Other than that, today has been a slow day. I made some fried chicken for dinner and now I am just doing some little things before bed.

~RZN

Drained the life right out of me

So, today has been pretty uneventful so far. Got almost nothing accomplished besides some phone calls. They drained the life right out of me.

The first was to The Department of Labor in Vermont. I had filed for unemployment a few weeks ago since i lost my job. But they called me this morning to tell me that my former employer says they have no record of me working for them. Yet, I have pay stubs, W-2s and the government accepted my tax return listing them as an employer  But now since they said I was not an employee, my unemployment gets delayed even more and I am having no luck finding a job. Also, I have to present all the proof that I actually worked there now. So somehow I have to get to the city to go to the state offices and show them the pay stubs. This call enraged me so much and drained so much energy from me. I was arguing with this woman for an hour because she was trying to convince me the employer was right that I never worked there because they sent a notarized letter.

The second phone call was just a more local one. Just had to call the hospital to have them send me a bill to send to my insurance company from the car accident I had. They are mailing it to me, so i should be able to clear that bill up tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, its Friday! Everyone loves a Friday. People go out at night, the weekend is upon us and everything is relaxing. Relaxing is something that I disparately need. Also, this weekend, Saturday to be exact is the local chili festival. So expect a chili filled blog post Saturday night with pictures and maybe even some video.

~RZN

League, Sims, Cheeseburgers and Fursuit!

Today has been a very interesting day. It all started at about 3am this morning. Everyone was going on about the new Sims city 5 being out, which is really cool, because I am a huge fan of the Sims City games. But I was in the middle of my nightly League of Legends (LoL) practice, so I put it off.

Then, LoL's servers went down and the game crashed, so I dug through some old CDs and found my Sims City 4 deluxe edition disks. Pretty much all day now I have been playing this game, creating cities, destroying cities and goofing around. I have had a few issues with the game just quitting on me when I am working on my Capital City region though.

Around 5:30pm I made dinner for the family. We had my famous cheeseburgers complete with secrets spices and sauce. As usual everyone wanted to know the recipe, but I will never tell.

Also, today I got a message from my fursuit maker. She is back at home after a bed bug invasion and is going to be finishing my suit up this week. So by the end of next week it will be shipped here to me. It is pretty exciting, I was supposed to have it by Christmas, but both of us have had delays stopping that from happening.

Another thing that has been on my mind is my story. A few years ago, I started writing a story but it fell off and got pushed back to the bottom of my pile. But now, with all my free time, I think I might take up the writing again.

~RZN

Moving... or not?

So, originally, me and my girlfriend were supposed to be moving to West Virginia with some good friends of ours. We would have been moving in just about 2 months. We even had plans for her to go to college down there and had found a job for me.

Now, because of reasons I only slightly understand, our friends are backing out their offer to us to move to them. Which leaves us in an even tighter spot than we originally had been in. Before they offered to let us move with them in January, I had lost my job, and was losing my current homing situation in June. I couldn't move away since my girlfriend had a semester of school left. So when they offered to help out, everything brightened up for both of us.

But, we are back in our tight spot. I have no job still, my bills are getting more and more backed up. So now we are in a tighter spot with only a few months to find a new place, a new job and a new college in the area. We have a few options open to us. Moving with my parents in June for a few months till I can get my own place, moving in with her parents out west until we can get our own place or struggling to scrape enough together to get our own place here.

Not the best of things to deal with. Kinda makes me upset at my friends a little as well, but they are still our friends.

Not much left to report here, going to go on the hunt some more to get some answers. News will come as I get it.

~RZN

New look

So, if you have not noticed already the blog has had a face lift tonight.
I had gotten some complaints of it being hard to read. So i took action, drew up a quick background and got some better fonts. The site should be much easier to read now and also, I really like this new look.

If you like it or hate it let me know. I will be happy to try to accommodate every ones needs when reading my blog.

Happy and Healthy

So, today was a new start for me. I cleared up a lot of things yesterday and this morning. Also, all of this stress has really been getting to me and taking me down in a bad way. After my rant yesterday I really started to feel better about everything.

Today marked the start of a new week, but also marked the beginning of my workout schedule. I decided to workout to get in shape, but also use it to de-stress myself a bit each day. I made a routine and I plan on sticking to it.

Besides starting the workout, today also brought some bad news for me. My truck windshield has a large crack in it. Making it almost impossible to drive until i can fix it. Which wont be possible until I get money or a job. Problem being I cant get to work without a vehicle. So I am in a big loop of stress...

Tomorrow will be a mellow day, just going to sit at home and think things through and try to make a plan.

~RZN

Goodbye... (Rant)

Goodbye to all you one sided friendships. For to long have I let you get away with this. The one sided game stops now. No more of just texting or talking to me when you need something. I am tired of being there for you all the time, and then when I want to talk, you say your to busy, or you just make it about you.

I am tired of never having you start a conversation, never putting any thought towards me to talk. Always just waiting till I try to talk to you. How can you call yourself my friend when I get ignored by you.

How do I consider you a friend when you never invite me to anything, when you decline my invitations all the time.

I am over it, I am done with all this. No more, this is the end. One sided friendships, this is your goodbye.

~RZN

Mardi Gras

So today was our Mardi Gras celebration and parade in the city. I attended with some friends and had a super great time. We caught beads, watched the parade, tried to find food and hung out for a few hours. It was worth the drive up and worth getting out of the house.

Best part was I got to see one of my best friends for the first time in a month. I also got the chance to meet her boyfriend for the first time since he was up for a visit, which was an awesome bonus for me. They are both really awesome people and they just about made the day for me.

Not much else to report here, tomorrow I have a rant I will be going on about. Something that has been irking me for a while and i need to vent. But for today, its a good day.

~RZN

Party night

Out and about in the city for a party. Will update more later about it. But it's all awesome.