OK, so I started watching early. I finally get the roach from the finale of Heroes.

“We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet, but we are not the pinnacle of so called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food… remaining alive headless for weeks at a time… resistant to radiation. If god has indeed created himself in his own image… then I submit to you that god is a cockroach.”

- Mohinder speaking to his class in India

Doh.

Me + Heroes Season 1 dvd set = Happy as a lamb! I think I will start watching them around noon, unless something comes up.

Welcome home Endeavor. Things were a little iffy regarding your return, but you made it safely.

PS. Did anyone that watched notice the bird fly right in front of it as it dropped the landing gear?

My mom just called me. Apparently my nephew found a pink marker in the car. My nephew is now pink. Oh Noes! I told her to get some cheap toothpaste and try that. I think he needs to go swimming a lot today!

I so wish she had the camera with her. It would make for a great photo.

Update: The toothpaste worked.

I should write myself a note and attach it to my steering wheel. I need to remind myself not to go grocery shopping early in the morning when school is in session. It took forever for me to get home because I have to pass by a high school and I live on a street with an elementary and middle school. /sigh

I’m ready to begin working on my portfolio again. I stopped for a couple of days because I was just being too critical of myself. That and Josh was home. Speaking of Josh. He almost commented this morning on my fetchmail related post from yesterday. Apparently he did a lot of things with the server, installed and tweaked fetchmail and did a lot of tweaking on Jinzora.

A deathly hallow’s wrist band! I think I may add this to my list of things to make!

I’m cross posting this from my craft section…

Well, I finally started messing around on Ravelry.com this afternoon. It is neat. Josh laughed when I explained it to him. He called me a geek. Um, he’s the one that has spent the entire day installing/tweaking/customizing fetchmail on our server here so that it can download his mail while he is at work.

Kris was my first (and currently my only) ravelry friend. I can’t remember what anyone else signed up as. I added my rogue to my projects, but I need to tweak the specs I have listed. I just wanted to see how everything worked. Tomorrow I will probably start adding things to it.

It is oh so funny how we forget the simple things. Yesterday I finally broke down and bought a mouse for my laptop. I had forgotten how nice it was to use one with it. This one is much nicer than the one on my desktop. I’m thinking about turning my desktop into a zoneminder server, but that isn’t fully decided. We’ve been debating this off and on. I might need it as a testing server. Of course we have plenty of parts to probably build a server for either use. /sigh

OK, off to try and do something productive.

I think I am having the post school career crisis. OK, not really, but I am getting myself frustrated. I want to do a certification or two. If spending a couple hundred dollars helps me get my foot in the door to a better job, I think it is worth it. Besides, more practice can’t hurt.

The problem I am having is, which one(s). What do I want to do with my life? I would like to do a Java programming cert, but is that worthwhile now? I could do a Microsoft certification, but which path? Researching that certification is like deciding on your college major.

So, that is where I am at. I’m also getting frustrated on coming up with a design for my portfolio. I think I have gone through three completed designs and I am not really satisfied with any of them. My resume is done. I want Josh to look at it first though. He weeds out resume submissions at work enough to know what I need to fix in mine. Though I’m not in a great need to find a job*, I want to find one soon. That is so that we can do the things we want to do to the house without building debt.

Anyone want to hire me? I’m smart, funny and knowledgable in Computer Science, Information Technology and the Humanities. My previous experience includes web and graphic design for television, newsprint**, and non-profit organizations. I am also well practiced in writing as a third person entity. I speak with some fluency, HTML, PHP, C and JAVA.

I should write a humorous resume and see if I get any responses. I suppose I probably wouldn’t get hired by any serious businesses. Oh well.

I think I will go see what the cat is up to. She’s been cuddling with my flip-flops a lot lately. Weirdo.

* We are actually saving money by me graduating.
**Hrmm, that was a very long time ago.

OK, we need a revolution. A parenting revolution. Why? Because kids and young adults today are babied beyond sanity. I live on a street with an elementary school and a middle school. Apparently parents complained about some of the sidewalks being cracked and dangerous for their children to walk on. WTF? One of them is right by my house. It wasn’t even fully cracked, but they had to take it out and put a new sidewalk segment in. Good gravy, so what if the kid stubbed their toe?

Parents are complaining so much that kids are being passed and given grades they don’t deserve. I watched this in college. I had never had grades curved until I started school again a year and a half ago. Argh.