Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a happy holiday weekend. I am truly blessed in my life. I am thankful for everyone in my life. I had a very nice Thanksgiving it was just the my parents and my brother and his wife and my niece. I started off my day by trying something that I had never done before, I volunteered at the civic center. It was really nice to be able to experience that, then it was home for a big dinner. It was amazing my mom always fixes so much food, it is like she is feeding an army lol, there is only six of us but the good thing about it is all of the left overs that I get to take home with me. I had a really good time with my niece also it was really fun to be able to see her and spend some time with her. It has been along time since I have been able to do that I was working a lot of overtime during the summer and then I started college and I really didn't have any time after that. I enjoyed it so much and I was able to fix her bike which was fun. We all sat down that evening and watched Terry Fader if anyone knows who that is, and we watched "pumpkin chunkin" on T.V. After that it was home time for me I volunteered to come into work on Friday which is today, I just really could not pass up the money lol it was so boring though there was only like 11 people in the plant it was so boring but I really can't complain the money was very good and the day was easy. I just can't wait for the game Ohio State vs Michigan! Any ways I hope you all had a wonder holiday weekend!

10 min in class #14

Jake and Ashely were two kids that really made a good couple, but they could not stop fighting over this one small thing that eventually broke them apart. Now it was up to Jakes parents to bring them back together. These two were meant to be together. Ashely wanted to have get a cat but Jake was more of a dog person, that was the only thing they could not agree on. It may seem small but after awhile of arguing  there were some mean things said. After they went there separate ways Jakes parents new they would be lost without each other. They decided to sit Jake down and play some funny but cute videos of cats playing around. His parents also told him that if they would happen to get a cat and dog at the same time they would grow up together and be friends. After sitting down and watching the videos Jake decided that it really wasn't that big of a deal and they should have never been fighting over something so dumb. After Jakes parents were done with him they decided to go see Ashley and do the same thing for her but with dogs. They met later that night Jake was holding a kitten and Ashley a puppy. They never fought again.

10 min writing remix

After watching the videos on remixing I found myself thinking, I always new that music had remixes. I just would have never thought that it went back so far. I feel that people should be allowed to use little pieces of other peoples music or beats to reproduce a remix without penalty. It is  not like they are copying the whole song, they are only taking a few seconds from it. The copy right laws are kind of crazy in my opinion. People just need to step back and think is it really worth all the law suits and media just for a few seconds of a song. I think the people are just getting jealous because the music that their beat is being added into actually sounds pretty good and they are mad they did not think of it first. That is just my opinion though, I mean I can see both sides but I would really have to side with copyleft. Do not get me wrong I don't believe in downloading free music and such I think you should have to pay for things like that but for the copyright side of it I disagree with the laws.

10 min writing speed art.

After watching the the videos in class I did find myself relating their work with what we are doing in a way. They probably had to spend countless hours researching the picture they were going do and research, what foods to use in that artwork. Not just any food would work, they would have to research the picture and then find what food and what canvas would make for the best combination. Take the deer for example, you would not have wanted to use the cheeto's and the black velvet like the artist did for Elvis instead to give it the more realistic look the artist used BBQ sauce, giving the deer more of a natural color. I did find all of the videos interesting, that is cool how someone can do that and make it look so good. I would have never thought of using food like that to make art, it was really cool. If those people can take the time and effort to research what foods will work for their art I feel that doing a little research on my major should come as no problem. So yes I was inspired in some way after watching the videos, those artist put a lot of time and research into their art, and I am doing research to get a good grade and a better job so yes I feel if they can take all that effort and time so can I.

What a nice weekend

This was such a nice weekend, the weather was so nice. One of my friends had a all guys baby shower which went really well. We played some crazy games, like eating baby food and trying to guess what flavor it was. Then someone melted different kinds of candy bars in diapers making it look like poo. We had to try and guess what kind of candy bar it was. It turned out to be  really fun, plus the beer was pretty good as well lol. I was able to just sit back this weekend and relax, but this coming week will be pretty busy for me. I do get to look forward to a nice 4 day weekend next week though which will be so awesome I can not wait to get to spend sometime with the family and eat some delicious food and of course play Assassins Creed III, which is really awesome. The graphics are so realistic it crazy, there is only one thing that don't like and that is the one map where things look futuristic I have always been a fan of AC because they took some much time and put so much detail in the realistic surroundings making it so real for that era. Now they mixed it up by making it somewhat real and futuristic at the same time, that is the only thing though besides that the game is amazing.

10 min in class writing

Detective:
 I arrived on scene at 11:33am, I walked up to the crime scene to see that a male approximately in his mid to late twenties had what looks to have been murdered. I started my investigation and noticed that there were some thing in the scene that just did not add up. The victim still had all of his belongings so I c ruled out robbery, but what I did notice is the ring he had around his right wrist, almost as if he had been handcuffed to something. After further investigation I discovered that the man was an ex mob boss from Boston. Now the question was why was he here in this little town and how did he end up dead in a parking garage.
Coroner:
After arriving on scene I found a white male approximently 25 years of age lying face up on the secound floor of the downtown parking garage. The victim had multiple stab wounds and heavy bruising around his right wrist. Also bruising on the face possible struggle, from what I have found the victim was killed at at 6:35am.
Attorney:
Ladies and gentlemen what we have here is a case of cold blooded murder. We have found that this ex mob boss was murdered by one of his opposing mobs grunts. He was trying to hand off all of the information that he had on this other mob to the new boss. We have all of the evidence to back this case. 

10 min in class

One night on my way home from work I noticed something crossing the road in front of me. I did not really get a good look at it but I seen that it was walking upright like a human. It must have been someone walking down the maybe a hunter or something it was about time for the sun to come up and deer season was in. I kind of just brushed it off and went about the rest of my day. The next night I saw the same thing in the exact same spot as the night before. This time I slowed down and tried to turn my headlights to were it would shine into the field were it had walked. Just as I started to turn the car I heard a very loud howl and my car started shaking, I tried looking around to see what it was but I could never get a good look. I decided it was time to get out of there, as I went to speed off I looked up and saw a very large hairy creature standing in front of the car just staring at me with huge green eyes. I was terrified and accidentally hit the gas and hit the huge creature. It let out a howl as I sped away. I finally arrived home I rushed inside and locked all the doors and turned on all of the lights. I was trying to wrap my mind around what I had just saw. I remembered watching a special on television on Bigfoot, could I just have seen this creature? Just as I was starting to settle down I heard the gut wrenching howl coming from my backyard. I was to scared to look outside, I just sat in the middle of my house hoping it would just go away. Then my house began to shake as if something was scratching its back on one of the corners, like a bear. Maybe that is all it was, just a bear. I decided to take a look and make sure I went to the window facing the backyard and peered out, before I had a chance to see anything I found myself staring what seemed like a very hairy human face, right in the eyes. It was a Bigfoot not a bear after all I was so petrified that I just froze we both just starred at each other. I started to notice the creature looked sad, I just hit it with my car I would have been sad too. I did not want this thing to kill me so I did the only thing I could, I told it that I didn't know if it could understand me but that I was very sorry for hitting it with my car and that it had just startled me. The creature looked at me awhile longer and blinked it's big green eye's it nodded it's head and turned and walked away. I never saw the creature or Bigfoot again.

10 min writing santa,witch,easter bunny

I was walking by the local museum last night and I saw tiny little pastel colored eggs going up the steps. I was curious so I walked up to the door and I seen that the glass on the door had been broken. I walked in not knowing what I would find, as I walked through the different sections I heard a faint noise coming from the from the back of the museum. I crept to the back of the building, I opened the door and saw a man in a bright red suit standing there, he almost looked like Santa Clause but that couldn't be I thought to myself. As I walked quietly up behind the man I heard a scary laugh come out of nowhere, it startled me and I let out a little scream. The man in the bright red suit heard it and quickly turned around to see who it was. When I saw the mans rosy red cheeks and long white beard I knew it was him the the one and only Saint Nick. I could not believe my eyes, then without warning a lady came out from behind a stack of boxes holding a broom and wearing all black with a pointed hat. I thought to myself "am I dreaming!" This could not be, a witch and Santa together! Why would this be happening? I began to ask them what they were doing there and why of all people would they leave little eggs going up the steps? Santa began to explain they had to break into the museum because his nephew had came to the north pole to visit and stole the naughty and nice book, with the intention to bring it back and sell it. However no one believed him so he ended up selling it to the museum so they could put it in there new section "The Origins of American Holidays" when I finally found out where he had taken it, I knew it would be to  risky to bring the reindeer with me. I decided to ask my close friend and coworker to fly me down on her broom and keep watch as I searched for my book. What about the eggs then? Oh yeah I almost forgot. Just as Santa said that I heard the sound of hopping behind me. I turned to see a big rabbit standing there looking at me, I knew I had to be dreaming now. I said there is no way all of this is real I have to be dreaming. Then Santa walked up and pinched me, I was not asleep. So why is the Easter Bunny hear I asked? Santa said well we needed some on to watch my nephew and watch where he took my book, and since it is Almost Easter, who would better for the job. He could blend in and hide well nobody would ever know. Did you find it yet? I asked, Yes we just have to move a few more boxes and it will be back in good hands. So I decided I was going to help, after we dug through the boxes and found the naughty and nice book. The three of them each gave me a present for not telling anybody it was the most amazing present ever they each let me tag along with them during their holiday. They also let me come to the north pole and see where all of them stay when it is not there season. It was the most wonderful night of my life, I will never forget it.

Misc.

Wow I so need a break/vacation. I can not wait for finals week to just be here and over with. I need that 3 weeks off, I also get 11 days off of work for Christmas shut down. I am pretty sure that I am not going to leave my couch, my girlfriend is coming to stay with me and we are just going to sit around and play Call of Duty all day. I might have to take a break every now and then to play Assassins Creed which is going to be awesome. It comes out tomorrow, and I can't wait.I really need this break I am pretty sure I have almost had two nervous breakdowns this semester which is not fun at all. This has been a learning experience so far I now know that work a 40hr a week job that has overtime and taking 13 credit hours just doesn't seem to be that easy lol. I am taking it easy the rest of the way no more cramming  classes and stressing myself out that much it is really not worth it. I know that in the end  will be happy no matter how long it takes. I am just thankful to be getting a college education. I will finish it is just going to take a little longer. Good luck to everyone in their pursuit of happiness.

Math class

So we are at the point for our second exam and I am feeling a little better about this one. I know I have to study still but things are getting easier. This exam is over unit analysis and algerbric expressions. I have to go over my unit conversions again and practice some of the harder problems that we have on our practice exam. The onlt thing that I am afraid of is the story problems which can be some what tricky for me. I understand how to do the problems it is just pulling everything out of the story and putting it in the right  place for the equation, that is where it always gets me. So I think over this weekend I will be studying for awhile. I really have to try to get a really good grade on this exam to make up for the quiz that I missed a couple of weeks ago. So if anyone has any tricks for an easier way to solve story problems like the ones in math 0833 the help would be great, it is nice to hear how other people do things everybody doesa things a little different and I feel the way the teacher does it is some what confusing. Thank You.

Career

I started my new job on tuesday. As I talked about in an earlier post I got a promotion at work and I am a set-up now. Instead of running the machines at work I work on them now fixing quality issues and doing prodution changeovers and trouble shooting machine problems. So far I love it, I have done this kind of job before at a different place and really enjoyed it then also. I can actually come home now and be in a good mood instead of being mad and stressed out. Don't get me wrong they both have there pros and cons but I feel that with  being a set-up there will be a lot more pros than cons. I like trouble shooting things and trying to fix them and make them better. The biggest thing right now is being overwhelmed with school so after next semester is over I am going to slow down and only take one or two classes a semester but I'm going to go all year round instead of taking the summers off, to make up for what I wasn't able to take during the regular school year. As of right now the schooling is getting in the way with everything and it is beginning to become a real hassle but I will finish this year out. My grades are starting to show that I'm getting burnt out already and that's not good. I just feel so tired all the time and it's affecting my life and my career all around, but I will finish school and become what I set out to be.

10 min inclass #8

If I was the man, I would just say to  my Previous girlfriend that things change and that people change. Once you find the right girl things seem to change and your life seems a little more complete allowing other things to happen in life. I know that I once told you I wasn't the marrying type, I have changed since we were together it just takes finding the right girl. I feel different about every thing now I feel as if I have grown up and that my life seems fuller since I have met my wife. Back then I really didn't see myself settling down and getting married and having kids or anything but once you meet the one your life changes a lot and things just happen. I am sorry things didn't work out between us but you to will find the right person and life a long and happy life. Life just plays out in funny ways sometimes but everything happens for a reason.

misc.

So I know earlier we had to write about how we felt about all of the campaign adds and how we reacted to them. I stated that I never really even payed attention. I was on my way to Toledo yesterday and the was an add on one of the big billboards saying that, we build it he broke we will rebuild it saying that Obama should be fired. Usually I wouldn't take sides or anything but that kind of made me upset. Is really everyone that caught up in all this that they think all of the things that are happening are because of one person. This has been going on for a very long time it's just now that we are seeing the effects of everything that was put into place along time ago. It's not all just because of one person, I feel really if it wasn't for him we would have actually be in much worse shape. I feel the president has done well with what he got handed. That's  just like people now days it seems aways pointing the finger and never wanting to look in the mirror. At some point everyone is going to have to wake up and see that for things to get better they might have to sacrifice some things for the good of our country. Okay well I better stop there I could go on for pages about all of this but I will just leave it with that. It's not all his fault.

RR#6

Reading Lantry's article was not to bad. He went into a lot of detail explaining each article and how the pictures or visual aids tied in with the text. It seemed like he also did a lot of research before just writing about the 3 articles, allowing him to be able to go into so much detail about how each article was put together for each era. He had so many supporting details that you really didn't even have to have the visuals though from him explaining it it almost gave you that pic in your head. i started to see where  he was going with the article after reading about the second one. How advertising has changed towards women it still has a main base. No matter how much time went by the pictures or the age group may have changed but the main point never has. It is almost as if advertising is kind of brain washing us all in a since, because to this day well still see the same articles just different people and different dialogue but the same base principles. Also with this article he explained his visuals which is the opposite of our papers we will have just one picture that will pretty much summarize our paper.

RR#5

That was actually a good reading. I really never knew or payed attention to the cover of magazines. After reading this article I look back and notice that there are a lot of numbers on the covers of magazines. I also can look back and see myself actually picking a magazine up because of the same thing that was said in the article. I have been pulled in by the use of numbers. I agree that people are busier now days than they have been for so long everybody just rushes around so when it comes to selling something you really have to put something out there that is going to catch the peoples eye and make them stop for a second and buy what ever it is that is being sold and by using numbers people seem to think of a list and list's are fast, not some boring 2 page article about what is hot this fall but a quick and easy list. So people can read on the run. The article it self was very informative and I liked the use of the picture of Men's Health giving you a visual of what she was talking about. She also used a lot of quotes from interviews which was kind of nice to hear it from so many different angles but putting it all together in a whole. She just kind of skimmed the surface with the interviews never really digging deep. I just felt by doing this she made it more approachable for any audience. 

Circuits

Well we had our first exam today. I had found out last week that it was going to be an open book and open notes so over the weekend I never really put much thought into studying for it. Wow was I stupid, I have never been so lost on a test like I was today, even though we could use our notes and books. Some of the questions were kind of simple and I knew them right away. I figured out how to convert from binary to octal then to decimal, to hex it was pretty easy once you get the hang of it. On the other hand the simplificaton is really hard and I have no Idea what is going on with that, there are 12 rules you have to remember and all kinds of different steps. It is so hard for me I really feel as if they should have put me in these classes after I had like physics and some other avanced math other than pre-algebra. Hopefully I did well enough to keep a good grade there was a 25 point bonus on the back so maybe I got that right and it will bring my grade up. I just can't wait for this class to be over with, come on December lol.

misc

Well it was a good weekend for me, even though I had to work Saturday. I was able to get off in time to watch the end of the Buckeyes game which was really close. I don't even know how we let them score so many points at some point you have to get on your defense and say enough is enough Indiana really isn't that hard of a team. I was starting to get scared towards the end with that turn over when the guy through it back onto the field and they went right down and scored. That game was a little to close for me I can only imagine whats going to happen once we go up against the bigger Big Ten schools. I was also amazed that my Cleveland Browns finally found a rhythm and one there first game in 11 straight losses. We had some big plays and we also let some big plays happen against us, but all in all we won and that's all that matters hopefully we can keep it up for the rest of the year especially when we play the Steelers. Also when I wasn't watching football I was able to get caught up on some of this blog stuff and finish my essay which has been a big relief. Hope you all had a good weekend as well.

Career

I am already getting to the point to where I am not sure where I want to take my career. I still know that I want to major in Manufacturing Engineering, but I don't know how I want to apply it in the real world. I want to help peoples lives and make it to where factory jobs aren't so hard. This has been a passion of mine for a long time, the only thing is how do I apply my education to my job and come together with an out come that helps people. The Engineers where I work at currently don't really help people they just make things work. I understand that there is a money staand point that has to be taken into consideration but at some point you have to stop and look around at your employees how are they having to change just to suit the machine that should not happen the machine are what need to change. The moral of your employees is what gets you money if you have happy employees you are most likely making money. I just need to decide which way is best for doing this. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to comment. Thanks

10 min in class #7

Kelsea was woken up one night by a noise in her bed room where her and her little sister slept. She opened her eyes to see a man standing by her sisters bed wearing a bright white t-shirt. The man also had sparkling blue wings, by the time she relized what she had seen and was fully awake he had disapeared . Kelsea fell back to sleep and when she woke in the morning she thought it was all just a dream. She walked down stairs to her her little sister tell her parents that her tooth that she had put under her pillow was gone and that there was a dollar under it in place of the tooth. Kelsea started to think about was she had seen when she was woken up. She thought to her self did I just see the tooth fairy ? After breakfast she and her sister went out side to play, Kelsea being very interested in what she had seen, she asked her sister if she had any more loose teeth ? She replied "Yeah but only one and it is my last one!" Kelsea asked her to tell her when it was out. In the mean time Kelsea was researching information on the tooth fairy and seeing if you could catch him. She found out that he really liked tacos for some reason and that if you caught him by his wing he would not be able to fly away. She had it all planned out When her sisters last tooth fell out she was going to wait for her sister to fall asleep and put a taco on the night stand beside her bed while she hid in the closet giving her just enough time to sneak up behind the tooth fairy and catch him. It was only a week later when Kelseas sister told  her tooth had fell out, later that night the plan was set her sister was asleep and the taco was in place, she heard a noise of a taco shell crunching she peeked out the closet door to she the same bright white t-shirt and blue wings, she snuck up behind him and very quietly pinched his wing. The tooth fairy froze in shock knowing that he had been caught. He turned around and saw kelsea standing there, He asked "What do you want?" Kelsea had never really thought about what she would do after catching him. She replied "Um I'm not really sure, how do you fly so fast ? and how many teeth do you collect in a night?" The tooth fairy replied "Well my dear let me show you." She grabbed her and told her to hang on. The rest of the night kelsea flew around with the tooth fairy collecting children's teeth from all over the world from the United States to Japan, and even Scotland. He returned her home early the next morning. She told him that she had never had so much fun and that she was sorry for scarring him. Kelsea now know how the tooth fairy gets around so fast and collects all the teeth Magic.

misc

I took yesterday off of work to get caught up on all of my homework in all of my classes. I felt like I made a lot of progress. Until I came in to my com. class today and found out how far I was behind in my blogs. I really have no one to blame but myself I just putting it off, thinking that I had until the end of the semester to finish it and in the beginning that was a good amount of time. Now that we only have like 6 weeks left I am pretty far behind and it is a little nerve racking to say the least. I really need to get good grades this first year so that I can get some scholarships for next year. I am really going to have to buckle down and really focus on getting all of these things done. I guess this first semester went by a little faster than I reliezed. I did get most of my math homework caught up and my digital circuits which was just typing a lab. But my com. class is were I feel I am really lacking and I thought I was doing good. I guess it is time to really pull out all the stops and get things done.