Jan 2003
I think threw the rest of how ever long I keep this going and update it I’m going to change the format of how I write it. Because now I’m done with writing the past, and I’m now writing the present.
I left to get my new dog on Oct 21st of 2002. I was looking forward to it, but I was also real disappointed about what was happening with buddy. Buddy was good for me while I had him, and he has his place in my life and on my web pages for others to see.
My new dog’s name is Mikie. He’s a golden lab mix like buddy was, but he looks more like a golden. The training went very well I was there for two weeks getting Mikie and I discovered quickly that the school had given me a very good match with mikie. While I was in training with Mikie I was also still doing school work sense I’d left in the middle of a semester to get a new dog.
When I came home with Mikie I quickly discovered how much damage leaving in the middle of a semester had done to my grades. I failed my midterm exam, and I was scrambling to make up work because my speech synthesizer had died in the middle of training. I was confident though that I could bring my grades up though, and I worked really hard to get the work done. Some how I passed my final exam, and the practical exam that went with it. Even though I failed the midterm I passed the class,
and I was very thrilled about that.
I mentioned at some point earlier that I was a staff member for Freenode. I’ve been a staff member there for 4 months now, and been actively involved with it for close to a year or so. I enjoy staff because I always have something new to learn and I’d like to hope that I can help people and things like that.
I also said that I was involved in freenode’s streaming radio project formerly known as WOPN. That kind of has it’s ups and downs for me. When I first joined the project things were a lot looser. Meaning that we had a lot of freedome to do what we wanted with our shows, and things like that. I could surprise the listeners with a surprise stream, and it was fun. Now there are constant rule changes and I feel a little like I’m slowly loosing the ability to do a lot of what I could that made my shows fun. I don’t blame the head staff for making the changes they need to I’m just disappointed because so much is changing and I’m loosing a lot of what made it fun for me.
On the other hand though, I’ve found something in the streaming radio project that has made me so so so happy. I met someone there who quickly became a very very good friend to me. I tried my best to help him when he was going threw a lot of dificult times. And he has done the same for me. About a month ago, we started talking about possibly doing a show together, though we had no clue how we were going to pull it off sense we live so far apart. Eventually we came up with a plan after going threw several ones, and we did it. I think that that show was the most fun I’ve ever had. That show brought the two of us a lot closer together then we ever expected, and that has made things very interesting. We haven’t done another show together yet, but we’re working on it. We’re both in school now, and we have a lot of things to focus on right now.
School this semester has been kinda hard so far.I’m learning things about dns and bind which while I need to know for my courses it’s also hard for me because of the amount of work in such a short period of time. I’ll survive though, I always do.