I believe Tag-Board.com was eaten by something this week. So, I took it down, hopefully just for now. Stupid hackers...

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Yep, you heard me right, I'm gonna buy a mac. That is all.

Have a nice summer!

Summer's flying by, my eight week summer classes are nearing an end as August comes into view. If I only had more time to do... well, anything. Weeknights have become the longest days I have had to deal with in some time. Work from 8-5 then anything from multiple quizes and homework to tossing tests in there as well. This greets me everyday when I get home from work. Balance all of this plus a sad attempt at a social life and spending time with my girlfriend and it's enough to make you crazy. The only bit of a social life I get is either at work or the occasional game of Halo 2. Which is played against the most socially inept people on the planet. Anyway, thought I'd give you an update of my summer quick. Oh look, time to go to work again. At least I get free breakfast. Hooray for breakfast meetings!

Have a nice summer! (Seriously, let me know about it, I can live vicariously through you.)

That's the word of the night. I'm trying. I think I can keep this up for my room for a while now. It's awful nice having a nice clean room, I must say. Not to mention a nice clean apartment overall. Diaz and I spent about an hour and a half or so this afternoon cleaning up what should've been done a long time ago. Not only do our other room mates not bother to clean, but they went out of their way to walk on the floor that was still wet from mopping as many times as they could with their shoes on. Very kind of them.

Ingalls was up this weekend, partied it up Friday night, though I only stuck around until about 11. Saturday we watched endless hours of draft coverage on ESPN. It was fabulous. Had a few beers, went to El Patio for dinner, had a massive margarita. Then I went to Tara's and we hung out and had a little wine. All in all a really great weekend. I hope you all are doing well as we near the end of the semester. I can't wait for summer, I'll be working full time so I'll have some money. I'm also taking a couple online courses, so that should consume the rest of my time. Anyway, I'm looking forward to upcoming grad parties, and after this week my group presentations are all done, after next week it's almost like heaven, even with the finals.

Have a nice summer!

Full Throttle, yes, the energy drink. At times, it's the nearly instant pick-me-up that I crave for. Other times, it gives me the energy and motor skills of a two-year-old.

So I wrote this letter to the editor of our school paper on Monday. Well, apparently my not so dear Democrat friend that I wrote about thought I was making a personal attack on his character. Apparently saying "I'm not personally attacking you Jacob..." means that I am personally attacking him. I just don't understand the language some of the Democrats around here speak.

In other news...
United Council = The Devil. This is something we need to get rid of, BADLY. Our University alone gives them around $40,000 per year, have you even heard of them? They're supposed to lobby for us, as students, at the state level. The only thing they seem to do is whatever the Board of Regents tells them to. Which is a message they're relaying from our wonderful Governor Jim Doyle.

Another thing in the UW system that needs to change is the way the Board of Regents works. If it's going to be a partisan political position, it should be an elected position, not appointed. Having an appointed board that essentially controls the UW System is like having only one branch of Government without a system of checks and balances.

Anyone from UWEC reading this, I ask you to vote NO to the referendum on May 10th. Don't just take my word for it. There are many people on campus with differing political views from mine that will tell you the same thing.

Have a nice summer!

It's amazing what a trip home spent balancing your mom's checkbook will do to your ambition. Allow me to explain. Somehow in helping my mom use Quicken to track her expenses and income for both her personal checking and her business I realized all the stupid things that I do that make my life harder. I'm sure the things that I do are quite typical of the average person but they're kind of hypocritical. I try to give people advice or talk about how it will be in the future as far as my finances go, but then I go and buy something stupid. Or put so much money toward my credit card bill that I can't pay my other bills. I just flat out don't keep track of my money very well at all. And I have a lot of trouble living within my means. Well, not so much anymore, it's gotten a lot better. But it's still not great. Now, back to the beginning of this post. I'm feeling a whole lot better about things, I'm more enlightened. I saw how my mom lives, "paycheck to paycheck" so to speak, and I can't live the rest of my life like this. I'm completely on course to end up living like she does, and frankly I can handle that. I've mainly just pawned off financial problems with not making enough money, but that's not it at all. I just spend to much on things it shouldn't be spent on. So I'm starting to track my bills and checks more. I'm soon going to balance my checkbook every month and try to create a budget for myself. I know I make enough money to pay my bills and have a little left over, so I need to start using that little left over for something useful. In the future that will be for investing. But first I've got to remove my debts and get rid of this negative cashflow. Anyhoo, life's a changing, gotta get on with it.

Have a nice summer!

I love this picture. I have no problem with vegans or vegetarians, but when they try to make you feel like you suck because you don't live by their ideals, then they bug me. So, this picture is for everyone out there that looks down upon other people because they don't think like them.

Have a nice summer!