Below are the 12 most recent journal entries recorded in kc8pnl's LiveJournal:

Monday, January 22nd, 2007
7:44 am	the hell? Why didn't my mood/music save? Take 2. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Klaus Schulze, the Vanity of Sound (Comment on this)
7:41 am	Why didn't my mood and music save? Just wanted to put that stuff in there. Take 2. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Klaus Schulze, Vanity of Sound (Comment on this)
7:39 am	School sucks, winter sucks, and so does not sleeping. How about some good news? Well, this weekend wasn't full of good news, but I don't feel like beng negative at the moment. Candice has decided to come spend her break here and I'm happy about that! Today is going to consist of making those phone calls that I should have mdae on Friday and working on a paper that's due next weeek Tuesday. I know, why start on it so early? Well, I have a lot of other stuff due next week, so I don't want to be pulling all nighters again. That scrwed me up too much last semester. So, anyway, that's all for now. A shitty entry, I know. I'll do a more indept voice post later on. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
5:16 am	Voice Post VoicePost 615K 3:40 (no transcription available) (Comment on this)
Friday, January 19th, 2007
3:54 am	Voice Post VoicePost 868K 5:08 (no transcription available) (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
3:13 am	Tired, but I'll put something here. Yesterday was another one of those days where I slept in really late, but fortunatley I actully got some things done. WMU did recieve my application packet, or so they have told me, I worked on an audio file for a friend of mine for about an hour and a half or so, and tried to get ahold of these pricks about my electricity bill again. I also cleaned out a few more articles of clothing, so I'm happy about that as well. it also put me in a reflective mood about the past. I'm so glad I'm not in grade school anymore. I used to take a lot of crap from sighted people, but I think I've become a better person because of it.I developed a quick wittiness and also learned what it's like being on the recieving end of someone elses' self insecurities. Never the less, I'm glad that's over and done with, though I still often times get treated differently, but such is life. All and all though, I would have to say that Wednesday was ok. My friend was happy with the results of my audio editing, WMU has my application packet, and I'm going to go read and fall asleep. I'll write something more comprihensive when I have more time. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Moby: Porsolin (Comment on this)
Monday, January 30th, 2006
11:17 pm	Staying optomistic Well, I've decided to keep all negative comments and happenings out of this entry, just so that I can think about the things that are going right, not about the things that aren't . I didn't manage to clean out my dresser on Friday, but I did do other stuff. The wings were good, and I was so tempted to take away more for later, but I was able to restrain myself. The balance of my Saturday afternoon was spent at a friend's house where we fixed my father's laptop. Actually, there wasn't anything wrong with it as the best buy people tried to tell us there was so they could make more money, the harddrive just needed to be secured again. Anyway, I'm not talking about negativity in this entry, so I'll spare anyone who may read this the venting of my Geek Squad experience. Also yesterday, my parents gave me my graduation gift, a Toshiba notebook! I was surprised, but I'll be making good use of it I'm sure. First of all, I can take it to NYC with me, and if I get in to wmu, I'll be able to utilize there wireless network. Today was one of those days where nothing really happens. I did install jaws on that laptop and configured it to work well with jaws, but I screwed something up because I can no longer read comboboxes at all. So, along with the my firends at the apartment complex where I used to live, I also have to call freedom science fiction tomorrow to try and straiten this problem out. I also plan to finally clean out these clothes, since Purple Hart will be coming by later this week. While I'm doing this, I plan to continue listening to 1984 by George Orwell . I'm not normally to get into this sort of reading, but the vivid imagery used is scary. It's also interesting to see how he would have thaught it would be some 4 decades later, and that he's not completely wrong in his estimation 5 decades after his death. Current Mood: Tired Current Music: Green Day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams. (I sometimes feel this is my life theme song). (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
11:28 pm	Holy crap, this thing still exists. Yeah, I hadn't logged in for over a year here, and this thing still is active? Wow. Why am I updating this now? Hmmm. I guess because I feel like it, and that's good enough reason in my opinion. Well, I am now finished with the grad school packet for WMU, so as long as I get the last letter of reccomendation tomorrow, it's going out then. For better or for worse, I'm done with it. I'm rather concerned that I won't make it into the program for various reasons. First of all, they require you to do so much throughout the application process and the information regarding this process is very contradictory. Second, maybe my resume is crap. I mean, I guess this shouldn't surprise me too much, since I haven't done much other than go to school for the past few years, but maybe the volunteer work I've done will suffice. If I don't make it into this program this year, I have to then consider what to do with myself, and this scares me. I'd reapply in the winter of 2007, but u can only apply to start in the fall, so that's out of the question. I can't very well sit around my parents' house for a year, even if they let me, I wouldn't do it. First of all, once you fall into the habit of doing nothing, it's extremely hard to break out of it. I wonder if this is how a lot of people end up so unmotivated to do something about their lives? Anyway, this ordeal where I'm living here was supposed to be temperary, and I plan to keep it that way. But what to do? I guess for now, nothing since worrying is about as useful as a ripped condom. Today was a rather lazy day in the life of kc8pnl, and I guess writing in this blog after so long only further proves that point. I went out to dinner with some friends, which was fine, but nothing real exciting happened. Nothing really new there either, since Lake Orion is such an exciting town... not. Other than that, I slept in until 1:00 this afternoon, although my sleep was very broken because today was let's call Scott day I guess. Telemarketers don't like me though, especially the one that called up here today and I asked her if she was a transexual, because she sounded like a man. She hung up for some reason. For the remainder of the night, I'll probably be retyping/filling out section one of my application to go to the Hellen Keller National Center in New York. This is quite an exhaustive process as well, though I don't fear not getting in to this place. I'm really hoping that they can help me get my life back on track there, and I think I can do this now. I'm not saying that I'm a complete loser, since that's still up for debate, but I do need to get aditional training in many areas, one of which is orientation and mobility. I've been taking the easy way out of things for along time now, just latching onto people even when I know where I'm going. It's part laziness, but also part companionship I think. Either way, for the time being at least, it's not healthy for my independence to do so unless it's necissary. I'm also looking at doing some sort of internship up there for my MA in rehab counceling or teaching, but that's not going to happen without my getting accepted there, so let's not go in to this again. Well, another friend and I are going to get some wings tomorrow from bw3's, and I' mlooking forward to that. Mmmm, spicy wings! Also on the agenda for tomorrow is to clean out my dresser drawers. They are full of extremely old clothes, so I've decided to pack them up in bags and give them to Purple Hart. Sorry, but these t-shirts from when I was in the 7th grade, just don't fit anymore. As for tomorrow night, I'm not sure yet. I might go hang out with an old friend of mine from high school after he gets out of work, but we'll see. Oh, and I have to call these idiots back about the electricity bill that I'm supposed to pay which doesn't belong to me. Ok, time to vent about incompatant people. I moved out of my apartment on Dec 23 of last year. Everything that I was required to take care of, I.E. phone bills, changing my address, etc, I did. The owners told my roomate and I that they would take care of the electricity account and that we didn't have to worry about it. Well, being the moron I am, I left at that. They also agreed that we would not have to pay for the electricity as of the 23rd of dec, the day we moved out. We also told these retarts to send all bills to me, so that they would get here in time. Well, two days ago, my x roomate recieves an electricity bill in the mail. She's in Europe now, so of course the thing took forever to get there. Anyway, the bill was supposed to be due yesterday, and it was through December 30. So, I called the electricity company to try and resolve the problem, and was told that the account was still in my name, and that another bill would be going out shortly! The electricity company claims that they were never notified. So, yesterday, I called the owners of these apartment complex to figure out why the hell they didn't switch things over. The lady who was supposed to take care of this problem just all the sudden retired. But, the new owner says, the electricity company screwed up and he would take care of it. I told him that I didn't care whose fault it was, so as long as the problem was fixed. He finally agreed to call the electricity company back after me explaining to him that they needed to talk to him regarding this issue, not me. I'm not going to pay their bills. He agreed to email me yesterday after speaking with them. I've yet to hear from him. I want him to email me about it, so that I have something in writing in case something else goes wrong. Since he won't email me, I guess I'll just have to record the phone call tomorrow. Ok, I've written a complete novel now, so that's it. Someone please respond, and let me know I'm not wasting my time. Current Mood: reflective Current music: Sven Väth: contact (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004
6:06 am	Can't sleep, so guess I'll update this thing Yes, I am again updating this thing. I just finished converting some of my taped sound bytes in to mp3 format so that I don't lose them. I used to record sound clips from movies, radio shows, and other stuff on tape a few years ago. After one time when I was up to over 1200 clips, my tape broke. I had made a back up tape of about 700, but I lost over 500 of them. So, I quit and didn't use the tape much. Finally, over the past couple of days, I have started pooring threw all of those and seeing what sounds I want to save. I have a few projects I'd like to do this summer, mostly computer related, but some not. I'd like to start learning how to write Jaws scripts and also convert more of my tapes to mp3 format. I'm also supposed to teach a friend of mine Morse Code this summer, but I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to do that since I'm not going to be near my parents house much this summer. We could do that online I guess, but I don't have anything up here that allows me to send the code. If I do get down to my parents house for a small amount of time, I'd like to grab my old Perkins brailler so that I can possibly teach my GF grade 2 braille. She got out of the hospital not long ago, so we haven't been doing much as of late. That's okay since I'm just glad she isn't going to die or be in the hospital for an extended period of time. It happened the week before finals of this past semester, so that of course messed a lot of stuff up for both of us. We were going to go to the Pontiac techno house festival next weekend, but I don't think we are now. It's supposed to be 90 farenhite, 32 centigrade, on Saturday, and that's just too warm to spend several hours outside. I guess if anything, I'll spend the next few days converting my stuff to mp3 format, reading books, and spending sometime with her. Right now, I'm actually reading 2 books: Everything is eventual, by Stephen King, and the curious incident with the dog at night, by Mark haddan. I just finished reading Memorial Day, and I can not recall who that's by now. It was an alright book, I'd give it 3.5/5 stars, but I've read better. It's about these terrorists who decide to drop a nuke on Washington DC and the FBI and CIA's struggle to catch them before it's too late. It has suspense, but I thaught some of the stuff that was written was irrelivant. The book I read previous to Memorial Day, Against All Enimies by Richard Clark, I think was much more interesting. Anyway, I'm rambling on now, so I guess that's all. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 24th, 2004
12:23 am	reasons I haven't updated in awhile I haven't updated this thing lately for a few reasons. 1. I've been busy with papers and projects 2. Finals week is next week. 3. I've been playing a game called anagrams from www.zonebbs.com the last couple of weeks with most of my free time. 4. I've been trying to figure out how come I can't burn CD's ever since I upgrated to windows XP. Yes, I know I may be missing drivers, but those pricks want me to pay for more drivers. Ok, time to vent a little. I called HP today to ask if there was a way to use adaptec ecdc 4 on my pc still since I had upgrated to XP. What was their answer? "Well, if you want tech support since your computer is no longer covered under warontee, we will have to charge you 40 dollars." 40 dollars? You mean the first 500 wasn't enough for you greety bastards? 5. I've been playing around a little bit with sound forge also. Ok, time to vent again about the same BS I just got done with. Freedomscientific puts out a set of tapes which are a tutorial for sound forge with JAWS. Sounds good, right? But is it free? Hell no! Is it 20 dollars? No way! Is it 50 dollars? Ha, I wish! Try 80! 80 dollars for 5 casette tapes, they aren't even CD's for crying outloud! And again,I ask the same question. Wasn't the 700 bucks that I orriginally paid enough? Or, how about the 180 dollar upgrade just so that I can continue to use my screen reader like I should be able to? Nope, not enough. 6. There just isn't much interesting stuff going on for me to write about. I got a 73 out of 75 on my 12 page paper, and a 95 on the other, but that's all irrelivant to everyone or anyone reading this isn't it? I mean, it's not your life, so what do u care? I often times wonder why I even started this thing? Is it for me? Is it for someone else? hmmm. Why do others keep journals like this? Is it to brag about their lives or to vent about how shitty things are? I know after the little rant I just went on, I feel a bit better. But do u care? You probably don't care, but neither do I, so fuck it! Back to studying. Current mood- bored current song: what do you care? No, that's not a song you dip shit, it is a question, so answer it! Let me know that someone is reading these worthless postings. (Comment on this)
Monday, April 5th, 2004
7:34 pm	more homework Well, I'm not really motivated to write my paper, so I'm writing this. Well, I can't believe the Tigers won their ferst game today! That's unbelievable! I'm sure it's a fluke, but oh well. When we've had the worst record in baseball for 3 years, it's the only source of optimism we can find. Not that I'm much of a baseball fan, but still, it's nice to see my hometeam win. Now to switch gears a bit. I can't wait for classes to be done! It won't be for another 3 and a half weeks, but just like the tigers, I'll focus on any source for optumism I can find at this point. If all goes well, I'll be done with my BA by the end of 2005, but again, that's asuming all goes as planned, which it normally doesn't. But, that's a hell of a ways away. Happenings today: Not a whole lot really. Just procrastinating on a paper I have to write for Thursday. I'm struggling a bit with the APA formatting, which slows me down big time, but oh well, what am I supposed to do, just the best I can I guess. That's all for now, although not much worth saving, but I'll put it up here anyway. Back to the good old paper. I have 2.5 pages out of a minimum of 6, so, statistically, I'm aproximately 2 standard deviations away from being done. p.s. Anyone want to format an APA paper properly for me? No, didn't think so. (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
8:14 pm	hello Well, this my ferst entry. Why you ask? Simply because I decided to jump on the bandwagon of blogs. It seems that lots of people have them anyway. I never bothered to read anyone elses, being the selfish bastard I am, but westbrookc16 finally convinced me to start one. Well, he didn't really talk me in to it or anything, but I saw his and figured I'd give this thing a try. Not that I'll hae much time to write in it with school and all that going on, but what the hell? Anyway, back to work, so that's all for now folks. P.S. Anyone want to write an 8 page paper for me? no, didn't think so. (Comment on this)