A lot has happened since my last post here, and frankly I just have been too busy to update this thing since then.  I made my pilgrimage to New York in early June, and for the past 4 days I have watched a fireworks display.  We started in Granville, went to Red, White and Boom in Columbus on Thursday, Friday we watched the Gahanna fireworks and last night we capped it off with the Reynoldsburg fireworks.  The two best ones were the Red, White and Boom and Reynoldsburgs.

A few job opportunities have presented themselves to me as well, I am currently considering one such position.  More to come on that subject.

Got my XBox 360 / XBOX Live Gamertag: Nykc77 (Some douchebag has Nykc and don’t even use it - go figure) but I have been banging away at Halo 3, COD 4, Ninja Gaiden II, Tiger Woods 08 to name a few and NCAA 2009 Football will be out next week.  I have been spending a lot of time achievement whoring and trying to rack up the points.

Latest movie I seen was the Incredible Hulk II - a lot better than the first one, I don’t care about the so called professional reviews, I liked it.

Well till next time….

Rating: *** 3/5 Stars

Saw the movie “Iron Man” last night and it was pretty entertaining. Tony Stark aka Iron Man has the slickest laboratory that I ever seen in my life, if only half of that technology was real. The movie was well written and directed however the one complaint is the timing of the evil Iron Man. Obediah was searching for the prototype of the technology that powers Iron Man and goes and retrieves it in an attempt to kill Tony Stark. No sooner than the time Obediah gets back to Stark Industries there are two Iron Man robots waiting one a life size prototype and another larger than life functioning version with more advanced technologies than Tony Starks version.

Other than that gripe I must say it was a fairly enjoyable movie. I could go on and on like the reviewers about how inaccurate the movie was, and give it a two thumbs down or something but that is not my style. I enjoyed the movie.

Tags: Iron Man, Movie Reviews

Friday I walked the “Green Mile”, I now own a Bachelor’s Degree in Individualized Studies (Emphasis on computers) and a minor in Criminal Justice. Now life begins!

Considering I am unemployed I can start fresh, a degree to go with a career. Now I need to find the damn career!

Yesterday I acquired a XBOX 360 and GTA IV along with another game I am taking back. Good times, but I still need to maintain focus on the current tasks at hand. Coding my sites, sharpening up the resume, and finding a job.

NY is less than a month away!

A lot has happened this week and I will do my best to try and sum it up in one post.

Tuesday - Around 9am I was asked to attend a meeting by my supervisor. At first nothing seemed unusual except when I arrived my boss’s boss and some HR lady was there. I was suspicious about this but hey what can you do. A few others strolled in, three more to be exact and yes this became my last meeting at Huntington Bank. Fortunately they are offering me a decent severance package because moving me down here then leaving me high and dry is a dirty move. I embraced this opportunity however as I am no longer in Toledo and with my degree just one week away I have the opportunity to start my life.

The next couple of days were fairly quiet and then on Saturday I was hit with a double whammy:
1. I am an avid Delta Force gamer and learned that a member I did not personally know, but have played with several times named csf.yaya lost a battle with cancer. May he Rest In Peace.
2. I was informed someone whom I was becoming fairly good friends with on the Dream.In.Code forums Syntax_Terror was in a horrific accident and was released from life support.

Wow! April has always been a horrible month and this year is no exception. Friday April 25th also marked the 11th anniversary of my son Corey’s untimely death. When I was 7 years old on April 20th my grandma’s birthday I was in an accident and broke my pelvis bone. I should have died from the fall out of the truck, but by God’s grace I am here today.

I wish I could just skip this month and move on, I mean it is very ironic to have such a gloomy month. I don’t know if it is some kind of sign or what, either way I am sick and tired of the misery this month brings.

To my friend Syntax_Terror, you will be greatly missed and although I did not know you personally it felt as if I shared so much with you. You and your cousin whizzy immediately became an online acquaintance and made my transition to a new town simpler by offering humor in the forums I regularly frequent. You guys were the Ying/Yang of the forums, the good and evil and the rolls were often switched. I think the reason I felt so much sorrow is because it is yet a reminder of getting older and that we are mortals. I used to think we were invincible when I was younger, and death hasn’t hit my family hard, but when it hits - it really hits.

To May, the sun will shine and the world will be a better place, you know why? Because it can only go down so far before it has to come back up.

So this morning I get a page from work saying one of our servers was running at an alarm rate of 2. I knew it was no big deal because at 5am our processes are starting and we are supposed to be in a blackout from those times and for some reason the monitoring picked it up. Well might as well just go to work early and leave early. On my way to work I stop at the AM/PM (formerly known as BP) to grab a morning “High Voltage Mocha” and off to work. No sooner than I am about 100 yards from my place of employment some ass-clown is traveling 15mph in the left lane of a three lane road. So I know this moron is talking on the phone obviously and too stupid to realize they are a hazard to themselves and someone else. I go to pass right but can’t because a car is coming up on me, so I figure what the hell and make a dash through the turn lane and pass this person.

Stupid me failed to realize a big white police cruiser directly behind me this whole time witnessing every move I made. Who is the dummy now? So I pull over at my workplace, turn off the car, unhook my seat belt, go to glove box to fish out my license and registration and address card since my license hasn’t been updated yet to reflect my new address. The officer walks up to my car and says do you know why I pulled you over? Immediately I respond for passing that van in front of me. He replies “For passing the van in a no passing lane.” So I try to justify my cause but fail miserably and sound even stupider by trying to play ignorant. The officer then asked me where I worked and I told him right here. He took my documentation and headed back to the cruiser.

It is now 6:30 AM and I am thinking - alright people are coming in, this officer is taking forever to give me my ticket. Another cruiser pulls up, obviously to see if there is a problem here. I’m now thinking oh great, as if I just committed some major felony or something, but it is a rough part of town and I don’t blame our cities finest for being cautious. Hell I still have my name on their list for employment.

About 10 minutes rolls by and the officer comes back to the car and says the fine for illegally passing a vehicle is $110.00. Let’s not let it happen again.

Today I saved $110.00 and it wasn’t by switching to Geiko.