document.write('<ol class="tumblr_posts">\x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Long time...</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>I haven&#8217;t wrote in a while&#8230;</p>\x0a<p>Been extremely busy working 40hrs a week and going to shool full time. Has it&#8217;s benefits though. I&#8217;m graduating <a target="_blank" title="CSCC" href="http://www.cscc.com">CSCC</a> this Spring Quarter and then off to <a target="_blank" title="OSU" href="http://www.osu.edu">OSU</a> for a BFA and a minor in Visual Communication Design (just need 1 class). I may end going for a second minor just to pad my schedule. Though I plan on taking classes at <a target="_blank" title="CSCC" href="http://www.cscc.com">CSCC</a> for some foreign language (spanish or german) and programing languages (visual basic, sql, C and java).</p>\x0a<p>I have to figure out if it is worth having an actual degree in Graphic Design. I can get an assoiate at <a target="_blank" title="CSCC" href="http://www.cscc.com">CSCC</a> within a year or so but since I have a Viscom minor at OSU i&#8217;m not sure its worth the extra expense. Though it would be nice to have 3 degrees.</p>\x0a<p>IDK&#8230;</p>\x0a<p>Work (<a target="_blank" title="kroger" href="http://www.kroger.com">Kroger</a>) is going well, I should be getting another raise in July, however I hope to be working somewhere else after I graduate. I may keep on the payroll as part time though id lose my full time status, i&#8217;d just keep it around for fun money. Plus I like working with the people there and don&#8217;t want to lose that.</p>\x0a<p>September, when my lease runs up, I plan on moving to another place. Not sure where yet. Haven&#8217;t really looked but i&#8217;m sure there will be places opening up soon. Have a savings plan in effect so I&#8217;ll not have to worry about the down payment and first months rent.</p>\x0a<p>I recently listened to a four part series from the BBC called <a target="_blank" title="Third Agers" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/03/090323_thirdagers_4.shtml">Third Agers</a>, what it&#8217;s like to be old in the 21st century. It made me realize that I may not get a pension nor get to retire at 60 like the grandparents generation (though I don&#8217;t plan to retire really). I figure with an investment plan now, Ill be able to pay off my depts during school and a year or so after and keep the rest for a rainy day, while being able to travel and have a decent life. Though I plan to die pennyless&#8230; no reason to keep money, can&#8217;t take it with you.</p>\x0a<p>I tend to live cheap and not really but too much of anything so I&#8217;ll probably end up being a bit of a world traveler/avid old gamer. I&#8217;ll see what happens I guess&#8230;</p>\x0a<p>Oh yeah, Blackie and Fuzie are being lil bastards as always&#8230; I need to upload photos of them but they have this issue with posing for the camera&#8230; Maybe if they are asleep one day&#8230;</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Pangea</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>A few weeks ago, I went to see a theatrical performance named <a href="http://benji.ramparthosting.com/osuarts/event_calendar.cfm?action=viewevent&amp;event_cat_id=1758&amp;event_id=4279&amp;datevar=11_15_2008">Pangea</a>. Located at the Drake Union on The Ohio State University campus. I was to write a review of it for one of my classes. Here is what I thought&#8230;.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Life on Pangea</p>\x0a\x0a<p>First impressions of walking into the room was “wow this is intimate… a bit too intimate for my liking.” I’m not used to watching a play in a small room (twice the size of  a class room at cscc in the tech building).  But as I sat down, I decided I was then committed to the remainder of the play. Which btw, turned out to be brilliant.<br/>\x0aLong story short, Pangea is about an evil corp. that a fifteen year old hacker found out about that are conducting experiments using nanites to control peoples behavior in order to get them to buy things. but instead the things make people go insane<br/>\x0aIt ends with the fifteen year olds stripping to his undies in front of a webcam and talking about how the future is kinda screwed due to all the wars and dwindling resources. Synopsis finished, lets get into some detail.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>A small cast of people, delivered an very intriguing story that all linked together and ended in a fifteen year olds bed room who, apparently was fairly intelligent. A hacker and an independent soft-core pornographer to make money to support his technology addiction (which is where most of my money goes to… technology, not porn… and I’m not a pornographer).<br/>\x0aThe beginning kinda reminded me of The Thing. A team of scientists, living in a research camp (boring ice and taking atmospheric readings, etc.). Everything was running smoothly until a crewmember started giving out daily vitamins. It turns out that these vitamins were either placebos or some sort of hallucinogenic drug that made the other four crew members go nutty; turning them into religious zealots. Turns out to be nanites in pill form.  Anyway, the idea is that there are alphas and omegas. Omegas share and obey the ideas of the alphas regardless of how crazy it is. It turns out its more of a deeper scheme to get people to buy things. Borged out they get caught up in the moment, the next big trend and run with it. However,  it backfired and  maked them go crazy so the idea of people buying things won’t really work; at least not this version. This is theme is shown throughout the play but isn’t fully revealed to the end of part one of the second act and the final monologue. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>The second act (part one) consists of interrogations. Information gathering to better understand what was happening to the people in the research facility. One very informal interrogation takes place in a Turkish strip club in Istanbul. There an American gathers information from the owner of the club and eventually bribes him for the information ($3000 Turkish). It is finally revealed after some dialog that the American is after the stripper who is also present. She was a victim of the corporation, a test subject for the nanites. Later, the American reveals himself to be a representative of the company (Pangea Inc). He threatens the club owner and makes him kill the stripper. Thus cleaning up one of many mistakes the company made.<br/>\x0aAt the same time another interrogation was going on. This one in a dark room somewhere in Kazakhstan as well (as I understand anyway). They were interrogating a prisoner who did some work for Anna B. She appears in video, telling of the undoing of humanity. It appears to be a terrorist video but through Ali (the captive) points out that it is a fake because terrorist wouldn’t try to hide a microphone. In fact it is a viral marketing campaign, which was all the rage a few years go. It still happens but doesn’t have the same impact as it did. Mostly because people get bored with little hints and checking back constantly for the latest vid. They just want to know what it is so they can either buy it or ignore it! </p>\x0a\x0a<p>Well back to the story, in the end they get all the information they require out of Ali about who the woman is in the video (btw. They make Ali drink a lot of green tasting water, an interrogation tactic, the goal is to make the subject think the water tastes better and therefore is putty). As a result, they create another video with Ali as the star and assumedly sent it out into the great wilderness; the WWW. <br/>\x0aI would like to point out that both the scenes were put together and preformed and executed brilliantly. A very seamless transition between the two. I really did feel like I was actually in these scenes.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>The final scene which took place solely in echo-booms bedroom was an exceptionally well thought out performance. The scene put together all the missing pieces though left some random details out, for instance, how what happened to the reaserch team because the scene ended abruptly. Echo-Boom also tacked on a (for a better word) rant which ties well into the theme. The Pangea Ultima. The echo-boomers place in the world at large. How will their future be shaped with newer technology that will shrink the world even further. Their identities changed by technology (nanites or media).  How will the generation survive? Knowing the dwindling resources, massive population growth, lack of cultural identity, etc. get’s deeper ever day.</p>\x0a\x0a<p><br/>\x0aI got an A btw. :&gt;</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">OoF I&#039;ve been busy!</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>I haven&#8217;t really had chance to do anything other that work lately. The quarter is coming to a close a new one begins soon.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>I finally was able to get a new couch. Parents bought one for my bday. I plan on them not buying me anything else for Christmas which should be like pushing a boulder up a hill. (use Greek ref)</p>\x0a\x0a<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of WoW to get to 80. I finally reached the level cap and finishing the quests in Icecrown. They are actually really good. Feels like an interactive story line more than a quest. They mostly focus on the history of how icecrown came to be and Arthas change.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>On another note Dalaran has had an influx of people, making it lag city. I&#8217;m looking for a new roost. Somewhere close like the Shadow Vault hold or maybe Orgrimmar. Since its only a quick zep and flight to any where in Northrend.</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">The Wicked Times are Nigh</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>The Wicked times are nigh!<br/>\x0aA coworker walked out a few days ago due to personal reasons. She essentially quit but I saw her yesterday and she worked a few hours. She kept her job but is now suspended and I&#8217;m not sure for how long. For this reason I&#8217;ve been getting even more hours than usual and another coworker took over the rest. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>Ive gained a significant number of hours do to my register training and the subsequent during and suspension, quitting or fireing of a few other front end workers. My goal is to not have to work till midnight anymore due to the winter weather and still keep the 40+ hrs that I&#8217;m getting. I&#8217;m inclined to move up in the company in the next few months. I hope to pay off my credit card debt by mid 2009. I&#8217;m loving the hours regardless of how much time I spend there and the over time I get is great. Its become like a fith home for me (parents house, online, college, my apartment and work; in that order). My hiring manager says the scheduling the management adores me and has a plan for me. Sounds very cylon-ish. :)</p>\x0a\x0a<p>In other news the new wow patch is making me geek out. I love the new druid talents and the achievments are pretty neat. The downside is several of the older instances I didn&#8217;t get credit for. Aparently you have to do a quest to kill the final boss in each to receive it. I&#8217;ve been attempting to run around with guildies and do them but I don&#8217;t believe ill be able to get them all.    There are a few other quest achievements ill end up doing to break from dailies and pvp. It won&#8217;t be so hard now since other ppl are getting achievements too.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Really I&#8217;m just focused on dailies, pvp and gaining money in general. I still want to get exalted with all the horde cities which costs a ton of runecloth.<br/>\x0aHopefully with farming it ill be able to make 5k hold to buy epic riding and get my flying quest taken care of before expansion. Though real life money comes first so I sacrifice my wow life to pay my bills. I need that over time. My goal is 50hrs a week, 10hrs overtime + $10.5/hr</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Wtf-ery...</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>Headed to work on Thursday for training on computer moduales for casheiring. Got there around 6&#160;pm and found about 7 people training. Well I stuck around for a while and turns out the person who was supposed to cover for me called off. They didn&#8217;t find this out till around the time I came in. Yay!</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Obviously they wanted me to work which is lame for one its my day off (and after Fri and Sat evening ill work till Thursday, then the rest of the week), two I had plans and three id get overtime. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>Turns out one of the new hires was willing to work in my place! Hurray! Makes them look good and gets them monies. Beneficial for the both of us.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>But yeah I was guilt tripped anyway. They don&#8217;t realize that I dropped a class which sets me back a quarter to graduate.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>le sigh&#8230;</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Life is lame...</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>I&#8217;ve been working 4pm - 12am at <a href="http://www.kroger.com">Kroger </a> every night around 6 days a week (then 2 days off in a row. Which is nice i like the consistencey and the hours. With no car, biking home takes about 30-40min then bed time is usually around 2am-3am. Class is from 11am - 1:20 Wednesday - Friday. Wake time is around 8am in order to get ready and leave by 9:30am or so in order to get to class on time.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>It was working out ok but then my ability to get up in the mornings has started to slip. I&#8217;m finding it more and more difficult to wake up on time. So in order to keep me some peace and sanity i&#8217;m dropping my science class for this quarter. Means I only have my online humanities class to work on. I usually try to take online classes and with the sci classes I do a hybrid (1 day a week of campus time). Well this sucks because it sets me back a quarter from graduation. Sucks but it must be.</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Frustraitions at work</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>The promotion (or what I thought it was) moving to the floral department, isn&#8217;t happeneing apparently. Something about the managers keeping people where they are at until after the holidays. On top of this they would only give me about 20hrs a week in floral opposed to the 40 they promised.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>This all means at the moment I&#8217;m screwed. I won&#8217;t have a stable ride getting home in the evenings, so its walk 5 miles in the snow each night. That is at least an hour or more walk evertnight. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>I&#8217;m bringing up the idea to let me work at 11 or so in the am in floral and then working till 9 or 10&#160;pm at the front end.  Hopefully something like that will work. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>In the meantime I&#8217;m going to hunt for another job. This should be fun since its near impossible right now. I&#8217;m going to apply to giant eagle again on the first since ill be able to. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>I like working at Kroger and I make decent money. I may just have to accept the situation and be done with it.</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Happening... At work...</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>Happenings&#8230; At work\x0aSo the power went out during the wind storm and people still are without. The Kroger I work at has a backup generator and was able to keep running but at the loss of the fridges. I took some photos of the ammount of food lost.\x0a\x0a</p>\x0a<center>\x0a<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschnees/2918368193/" title="bare kroger shelves(2) by jschnees, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2918368193_3cb21020cc_b.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="bare kroger shelves(2)"/></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschnees/2919215274/" title="bare kroger shelves by jschnees, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3031/2919215274_6c4dcd96c1_b.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="bare kroger shelves"/></a> \x0a<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschnees/2918365769/" title="trashed food(3) by jschnees, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3272/2918365769_ba16a7a2f6_b.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="trashed food(3)"/></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschnees/2919211548/" title="trashed food(4) by jschnees, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2919211548_42fcf61236_b.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="trashed food(4)"/></a>\x0a</center>\x0a\x0aIts just really sad so much food was thrown out. I don&#8217;t understand why they just didn&#8217;t have a big sale to get rid of it all. There are places they could have donated it too. Hell I thought about raiding the stuff that was still cool. It would have lasted till I got it back in the freezer. At lest it wouldn&#8217;t have gone to waste. Rumor has it that the area krogers have lost 6 to 8 million because of this. Anyway nothing can be done now.\x0a\x0a<br/><br/>\x0a\x0aOn a lighter note, I did a outdoor display with a manager of mine for the store. We used hay, mums, pumpkins (of varying sizes) and corn stalks to make an Autumn/Halloween display. With that display, they are giving me a position in the floral department. I wont be able to start there however until they find a replacement for my current position (midnight courtesy clerk). Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to start before the first snow hits because I don&#8217;t wanna be walking/biking 5miles in the snow. Time will tell&#8230;\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">keeping busy</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>So I&#8217;m in the process of finding a new job. I called giant eagle today to see if they would hire me. She said she would print out my application and call back if they needed me. Here&#8217;s hoping.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Ill be calling target Monday to see if they are going to hire me too. I still need to fill out an application for office max. That is another avenue I&#8217;m exploring. Eventually I&#8217;m going to OSU to talk with my advisor. She has a wall of internships and jobs available that I believe ill explore. I&#8217;m not sure ill stay with visual communication design but I want to stay in multi media. Time to start drawing again. I still need to finish my entry letter into the art capstone class at cscc.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>I&#8217;ve been playing world of warcraft heavily since the breakup last weekend. Partially because I can, partially because I am attempting to get geared up and partially because I want to keep busy to keep my mind off the breakup. I just feel used and betrayed.</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a        \x0a            <li class="tumblr_post tumblr_text_post">\x0a                \x0a                    <div class="tumblr_title">Updates</div>\x0a                \x0a                \x0a                <div class="tumblr_body">\x0a                    <p>Ok so I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while, mainly because i&#8217;ve been really busy. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>I finally found a job working for <a href="http://www.kroger.com">Kroger</a> as a courtesy clerk. The pay is decent and I get about 30-33 hours a week. I&#8217;m still looking for another job, something that definitely pays more and is more 9-5 but i&#8217;m content for now. Especially since I can get some really good deals on food there and I get paid every week. I&#8217;m working till close right now but I think im going to talk with my scheduling manager to let me work a little earlier in the day so I can just take the bus home. The place closes at midnight and the last bus that leaves the area at 11:08pm. It is fine for the summer but the winter will cause me some trouble. One issue is that I get paid $0.30 extra after 9pm which helps out a little. Another is the fact that I will have a 11am-1:20pm class on a few days so that will limit my availability slightly. Anyway, i&#8217;m sure it will work out, the scheduling lady seems to be pretty flexable and she is really nice and understanding.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>I also started playing <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a> again. I&#8217;m slowly getting myself ready for the <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/">Wrath of the Litch King</a> expansion. I haven&#8217;t been able to do any raids due to my schedule so I&#8217;m working on gaining pvp gear and doing some quests to gain rep. Afterwards ill be able to better help in raids. I have to remind myself to get a password dongle when they become available, i think they are a really good idea.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>I&#8217;m also thinking about getting <a href="http://www.spore.com/">Spore</a>. I&#8217;m waiting at least a month though to get it anyway cause like any new game it could be crappy to start out with. </p>\x0a\x0a<p>Problem is idk how well ill like it. The space part of the game seems neat but before that it may be kinda boring. Every sim game i&#8217;ve played (my maxis) i ended up getting bored with and quit playing after a few weeks. So i&#8217;m hesitant in getting it and wasting the $50. I&#8217;m definetly buying <a href="http://www.starcraft2.com/">Starcraft 2</a> and <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/">Diablo 3</a>. I may end up quitting <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">WoW</a> for a few months when they come out to play but go back in when I played myself stupid.</p>\x0a\x0a<p>Anyway, that is all I have for now.. back to <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">WoW</a> before work!</p>\x0a                </div>\x0a            </li>\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a\x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a        \x0a\x0a                        \x0a    \x0a</ol>');