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| Wednesday, September 10th, 2003 | | 12:14 am |
So I havent updated my journal in quite some time figured i might as well take a break from work to briefly catch up. I am still working at the same place doing the same thing on the same schedule but that is a good thing since I truly can say that I enjoy my job and for the most part the people that I work with. Started school a couple of weeks ago, just taking one class (kind of easing back into the whole school thing) if I stay on track I should be at CU Boulder School of Engineering by fall of 2006 and should end up graduating by 2009. Also I am pretty excited that I will be back in KC again in mid October hopefully will get a good chance to hang out with some of my friends and family that I havent seen in over a year. Alex | | Wednesday, August 13th, 2003 | | 2:02 am |
Got back from Berlin last night, I am still suffering from jet lag pretty bad but otherwise I am doing pretty well. My performance at Worlds was, well less than optimal =), but on the upside I had a blast in Berlin and hanging out with my friends in general. Alex | | Wednesday, July 9th, 2003 | | 4:30 am |
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I have always wondered as to the state of mind a person must be in to post those ridiculous surveys on message boards such as "What is your favorite fast food resteraunt" or "What is your favorite Porn Star" generally these surveys dont really serve any purpose other than to take up space and have nothing to do with the message boards that they are on. (I found these two Gems on an Electronic Music Message Board) Do these people really want to know that I prefer Burger King to McDonalds? Why, I mean I could give 2 fucks less about anyones(even good friends) preference in Porn Stars, Fast Food, Deserts, etc... And to public post a group of people which you at most know 50% of? I just dont understand it. For those of you that care, I have begun to lose myself in an online game again, Star Wars Galaxies. I find the game to be extremely addictive but then again I have an addictive personality, I have a character on Eclipse and Corbantis (I think) Osri and Povuss respectively are my character's names, log on and say hi if you feel so inclined. Also if anyone has an idea on what to play for T2 and Extended with Scourge and 8th edition please give me some suggestions, I have 0 time to playtest for Worlds this year but I really dont want to stink it up. Berlin in 26 days W00T. l8rs | | Wednesday, May 21st, 2003 | | 1:25 am |
What can I say? Not what I wanted, but what I expected. | | Wednesday, May 14th, 2003 | | 2:38 am |
So I went out and bought some home stuff it feels kind of weird since I still have a mental picture of myself as being on the young side but going out to buy things like furniture, yard work equipment, and vacuum cleaners makes me feel kind of old. The plus side is that the house is looking better almost on a weekly basis. Still seems like so much to do, but at least the list is getting smaller. | | Wednesday, April 30th, 2003 | | 9:06 am |
Why is it that even those of us that are supposed to possess some modicum of intelligence continue in the pursuit of that which will only hurt us? Be it drugs, alchol, or bad relationships it seems that everyone who I think of as smart seems to do some very stupid things. | | Friday, April 25th, 2003 | | 12:38 am |
For some reason I have been in a writing mood lately, not enough for it to make post after post on my LJ, but still more than I would normally. What I wrote in the last two days: Five page review of some magic decks for a tournament I wont even be playing, to help out some teammates. Two page MOP for correcting standing alarms for my work. One page write up on what card I would draft in a fictious second pack after taking a card in an also fictious first pack and why. (I know this makes no sense) Six page sideboarding strategy for the afore mentioned tournament for U/G Madness decks. Five page sideboarding strategy for the same tournament for a different group of friends for Sligh. I was really happy when Kathy, who used to edit a MTG Strategy site, thought that my write ups for my friends was worthy of being published. I think I will hold off on that for a while until I gain a larger measure of success in my playing. l8r Alex | | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003 | | 3:19 am |
Last week I could not sleep (staying awake for approximately 19-20 hours a day) and this week it seems the opposite is true as I slept for 15 hours prior to work and am finding it very difficult to stay awake. I wonder why I seem to go back and forth between the extremes when nothing really changes in my daily routine. On an unrealted note, I will be starting school again this summer, I think I will be taking a fairly light load, somewhere between 8-10 hours, for the summer and probably keep up a simmilar schedule durring the Spring and Summer semesters. It will be nice to finally get my degree, and I figure that so long as my company is paying for it then their is no reason for me not to take advantage. | | Saturday, March 29th, 2003 | | 3:07 am |
| | Wednesday, March 26th, 2003 | | 5:29 am |
Its odd what seemingly insignifigant things can triger memories or feelings which we thought have been supressed. I like the idea of Cayce Pollard Units but dont know if I would ever adopt that particular style. When other people become angry how long does it last? I find it impossible to truly be upset at anyone or anything for more than 24 hours, after that I just tend to shut off, not sure if I really forgive the people so much as lose the ability to stay angry. | | 5:12 am |
What do you want to do with your life? | | Friday, March 21st, 2003 | | 1:26 am |
Well I should be getting ready for round two of PT Venice right now but am instead at work clockwatching for another six and a half hours. Denver ended up having the worst snow storm in 90 years starting Monday Night so when I tried to fly out on Tuesday Night the airport was closed down. Luckily the other player from Denver had an earlier flight and was able to get to Venice so I wish him luck. Shitty -Alex | | Wednesday, March 12th, 2003 | | 7:33 am |
Last night I found out that a girl who I knew died of a drug overdose, she wasnt a close friend or anything but I had talked with her and she seemed like a good person. When I read the news though I just didnt feel anything, no sadness, nothing at all. I was reading thru the post on a local message board and saw many people expressing their emotional pain at her passing and it made me take pause since many of these people knew her even less than I did yet they were feeling (or claiming to feel) great pain at her passing. For some reason I find it hard to empathize with people that I dont consider close friends or family, I dont know if that is a bad thing since it definitely saves me a lot of emotional trauma but it seems like it is not the norm. So are these other people who had only met her in passing or had talked with her at a party or two are they faking their emotions or do they truly feel? I guess only they know for sure, I would imagine that there are different levels of empathy either that or people are lying for some unknown reason, possibly to gain acceptance but again who knows for sure; I imagine that they might even be lying to themselves since society has told us that we should feel bad perhaps they feel bad because they have been taught that or maybe I am just defective. | | Friday, February 28th, 2003 | | 1:56 am |
Well I am now officially a home owner (W00T) signed all the papers today and will be moving in on Sunday. All in all pretty exciting, and I am deffinately looking foward to living with people who play magic again as I am sure my play has suffered for the last two years since I have no one to really bounce ideas off of just whenever. So Joe and Emily whenever you get down here you deffinately have a place to stay if you want, the house will be pretty empty for a while until I am able to buy furniture for all of the common rooms, right now it looks like the 4 rooms will be devoid of furniture so that I can have a large TV with surround sound (my priorities might be off according to some but I say fuk em). I would like to say good bye to someone thankyou for turning me on to Slashdot, Penny-Arcade, Megatokyo and the rest of the sites I visit daily now. I guess in a way I should thank you for lots of things in my life since at one point or another rather you knew or not you were a motivating factor for me to get a better job, get in shape, basically better my life. I am sorry things didnt work out between us for reasons that I will probably never know, but I am sure it is for the best. -Alex | | Thursday, February 13th, 2003 | | 10:03 pm |
| | Thursday, February 6th, 2003 | | 3:02 am |
I think I am getting old in the last three weeks I have decided to go to sleep instead of going to parties on Saturday Nights. 27 and counting -Alex | | Tuesday, February 4th, 2003 | | 8:06 pm |
All in all a pretty good weekend, I made Top 4 in the PTQ and got to hang out with friends, so deffinately no complaints. I went and saw 25th Hour and The Recruit on Sunday both movies were good but if you only have the opportunity to see one I suggest 25th Hour. Sunday also brought snow to Denver which I guess is good for helping out with how dry it has been here but I am not generally a fan of cold weather. Really looking foward to the next couple of weeks as Rhy says she will be in town next week, I close on my house in approx two weeks, Joe and Emily might be out here in March and then I go to Venice. Well time for me to go to work l8r -Alex | | Wednesday, January 29th, 2003 | | 2:56 am |
Wow, it has been quite some time since I last wrote, so much for the daily updates =) So last week I managed to not work myself to death despite being the only person of my capacity on shift all week and working 12 hour shifts each day, but this led to a weekend of more sleeping than getting anything productive done. So I am determined to take it easy this week and let my coworkers do the majority of the work. I went and bought my tickets to Venice yesterday and I am starting to get pretty excited about going, since this will be my first trip to Europe. I am also getting more and more excited about my house as closing happens in under a month. I have been looking at furniture trying to pick out what would look good, but then I realized I have no real talent for creating the aesthetically pleasing so I will either be grabbing a friend to go shopping with me or I will end up having the most mismatched furniture to carpet/wallpaper west of the Mississippi. Some one told me that Invader Zim has been canceled, which made me pretty sad/upset since I only caught two episodes on TV, but then the same person told me that the shows could be downloaded online, so my happiness returned and I made it a mission to have every episode on my computer to watch at my leisure. While downloading episodes I have found a number of "homemade" music videos created using clips from Invader Zim that I found to be very enjoyable. I definitely recommend them to everyone. The new Robert Jordan book is out which means that I had to buy and read it immediately before anyone told me what happens, which I know do not believe is possible since almost nothing happens in 700 pages =( Hopefully the nest book will actually see some of the subplots resolved. The Castle, a new nightclub in the Denver area, opened up since the last time I posted. I checked it out and was impressed with the overall layout, sound system, and visuals that the club offered. I hope they will keep it like that for regular nights and that it was just not something special for that particular party. That is about it for what has happened since I last posted, I look forward to hearing what has been going on in everyone else's lives as well. -Alex | | Thursday, January 9th, 2003 | | 6:57 am |
Last weekend
So I ended up going to New Orleans with Randy and Kenny last weekend to play in the Grand Prix. For those of you not in the know, a grand prix is a rather large two day magic tournament, this one had roughly 400 people. We get to the tournament site late on Friday night, and do some last minute scrambling to find cards for our decks and then head off to get a small amount of sleep before the tournament starts. Saturday morning roles around much earlier than I think it should and the three of us go downstairs for registration. While down there I run into Kathy and Dan from Kansas City and Team DorkFish from Denver, with whom we randomly BS until it is time to play. The tournament starts at approximately 10am but I don't have to start playing until Noon due to my two ratings based byes (YAY ME). So I spend the first two rounds watching my friends play and talking to Gerry from Minnesota, who is an all around good guy. Round Three marks the start of my tournament and my opponent is none other than noted Internet Writer Adam Fisher. Adam beats be down sending me to 2-1 to start the day. Luckily I cruise the my next four rounds until I play Dave Williams who just recently is back from his suspension for Cheating at last years Worlds. Despite his banning I still count Dave as a good guy and offer a draw since that would ensure both of us get to play Day 2. Dave declines the draw since he thinks the loser will still make it in, so we play. Long Story short Dave destroys me game one, makes a mistake game two to lose, and then has mana problems game three, so I end day one at 7-1 and in 14th place. =) We decide to celebrate with a good night of drinking and partying on Bourbon Street leading me to wake up extremely tired and just a little hung over for day two. I wake up way to early again as I am a little paranoid about oversleeping for day two. I head down to the tournament area and chat with Gerry who also made day two and Bob Maher about completely random things and the possibility of working together for Pro Tour Venice. Day 2 goes OK for me leaving me at 10-3-1 for the tournament and in 12th place. I was a little upset that I didnt make Top 8 but was still happy to come out with the 2 PT points and $500 for playing a game I love to play. I really enjoyed seeing some of the people I rarely get to see like Bob, Dave and Alex all you need to come out to Denver after i get my house so we can party =) l8r Alex | | Thursday, January 2nd, 2003 | | 2:29 am |
Hope everyone had a great New Years. I ended up just hanging out at a friends house drinking Jungle Juice and just having an all around good time =) So last Saturday I go out to Club Static in Fort Collins with one of the guys from my work we have a good time but dont want to stop partying at 2am or whenever the bar closed. Well we take the hour long drive back into Denver and hit up 2AM where DJ Dan ended up playing that night after Vinyls all in all good times. Near the end of the night a couple started swing dancing in the middle of the dance floor, deffinately one of the cooler things I have seen at a club/bar in some time. |
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