Looking for a summer job

I've been trying to find a Summer Job lately, but nobody seems to be hiring around here. Fortunately, my friend is going to quit his job soon and will tell me when so I could be the first to apply.

Lake is Flooded

The lake nearby has flooded with all the rain that we had recently. There's only a five foot clearing under the bridge that passes over it...this is the worst it has ever been that I can remember.

Finals Week! :D

Yup....it's that time again folks. The dreaded Finals Week is coming up soon, so you better start hitting the books. Here's a list of my Finals...


1.) English Composition II - In-class Compare and Contrast essay between the play and movie A Midsummer's Night Dream.

2.) Personal Financial Planning - A presentation detailing the final four chapters in our textbooks.

3) Introduction to Financial Accounting - A test covering the last three chapters.

4.) Film Appreciation - Not sure, probably a test and/or an essay over the last movie we will watch and a test over the last chapter in our book.

5.) World Regional Geography - Test and Map Quiz over South East Asia.

6.) American History Since Civil War - Not sure, probably a test over the last few chapters (The professor takes enjoyment out of our misery, when the tests cover 4-5 chapters at once).



Well, I'm going to have a blast. Do you have any Finals coming up? If so, what are they?
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Rain Much??

This past week, it rained ALOT. It seemed as if it was raining every day for hours at a time and it only got worse during the weekend. From Friday till now, it has been raining and refuses to let up. I'm actually amazed that we're not flooded or anything, but I suppose the drainage pipes hav done their job which is good.

On top of the rain, we had a Tornado Warning Saturday night and the power went out for a good while (I use a laptop so Runescape was still going :D) which was pretty scary. I found out this morning that the nearby airport was hit, only parts of its roof was dammaged, and an entire row of houses was demolished. Hopefully, they had adequate insurance.

Wanna NoLyfe? Here's How!

Well, I was searching the Runescape Forums and I discovered a thread called A Real "Nolife" Guide.  I thought it would be an interesting read, and so I checked it out. The creator is an experienced "NoLyfer" who has offered his tips on how to most effeciently play Runescape (or any other activity for that matter) for long periods of time. Among his most important tips is to keep stocked up on cold water (He makes a point to avoid energy drinks), and cold sandwiches. Also, he recommends that you eat fruits because their natural sugars provide the energy that you need without the mess and are overall healthier than other things like Hot-Pockets.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this thread with you guys. Whether you wish to learn how to be a pro NoLyfe or just want to enjoy an interesting read, this thread is definately worth a look.

Uncle! I Give Up!!! :O

I was using my Hell Cat to kill some Hell Rats...and after about 50 attempts I thought to myself "Why the hell am I wasting my time here?".

Anyway, I'll just wait till 91 Rc to assist effies. :P

Orange Spicy Stews?

I'm getting closer to 90 Runecrafting (about 20% there) and I had a good idea while training. Perhaps I should collect a bunch of stews and orange spice, along with some restore pots, that way I could assist some effigies by boosting my lvl.

Lmao!

Someone in my clan chat was talking about Herblore. This particular person was the head of Ultimate Farming & Herblore and was talking about a recent delivery he made today. He said that a customer had private messaged him asking for Saradomin Brews and that he "Had the money." The person in my clan responded "I have the Pot(s)."

Lol, just thought I'd share that with you guys.

Applying accounting to Runescape & The Ultimate Corporation (my clan)

I've decided that I''m going to start applying things that I have learned in accounting to Runescape. I'll start off small by only creating an Income Statement which will help me keep track of my expenses, revenues, and ultimately my profits. Also, this would be good for keeping track of my customers in my clan. To do this, I'll just use a basic Excel program on my computer. Hopefully, I still remember how  to work that thing.

If you're at all interested in this business/skilling clan I'm in, then check out our main webpage

Also, if you like Runecrafting, then check out Ultimate Runecrafting, which is the branch of The Ultimate Corporation that I operate. We also have other branches such as Ultimate Woodcutting/Fletch, Mining/Smith, Fishing/Cook, and even Farming/Herblore.

The Corporation is a great clan to be in, if you love skilling or just enjoy the company of others. We have loads of members (42 and counting) and host fun events usually each weekend for all to join.

Shakespear, Clockwork Orange, Sickness, and my attempts at Herblore

Recently, for my Comp class, I've been reading Shakespear's Midsummer's Night Dream which is alright. It's pretty old timey and a little too Brittish, so it's often difficult to get the occasional joke or to fully understand what's going on, but it's atleast interesting.  One thing that is annoying is that all the characters have Greek names and some of them are very similar to others, so I get the mixed up alot. This play reminds me of some Soap Opra, with all the lovers and constant change of who loves who - of which my professor agrees.

Oh, instead of watching Slingblade, we were going to start on Clockwork Orange, which I was looking forwards to, but it was already checked out of the library...go figure. Anyway, we instead started watching Hellboy which isn't that bad actually. I've seen it before, but only bits and pieces so it's good to finally watch the whole thing. If you play Runescape, you might have noticed a recent Pirate quest that was released called "Clockwork Syringe." I'm taking a wild guess in saying that the fellows at Jagex based the quest title off this movie, which is based on the book.

Anyway, today I feel like a piece of dog feces that has been stomped on and ran over by a garbage truck. I've come down with some sort of thing that is making my throat burn like mad and my nose run like wild. Any recommended ways to help me relieve the pain?

In Runescape I decided to take a small break from Runecrafting and to blow my money on something, so I figured that I'd get my Herblore to lvl 65. I first started making Serum 207s, but I bought grimy Tarromin and gave up cleaning them about 1/8th of the way and sold them so I could buy clean ones. Afterwards, I began adding those herbs to the vials of water...gave up and bought Tarromin Potions (Unf) instead. Lol, I can't stand doing the same thing for so long. Anyway, I made about 1k potions out of the 4k I needed then decided it was too slow for me. Soo.... I sold all my unfinished potions and instead bought unfinished  Kwuarm Potions and Limpwurt Roots to make Super Strength potions. A little over an hour later (managing to stay awake while doing this was an amazing accomplishment for me :P) I finally reached 65 Herby and called it a night. However, I decided to rebuy my Santa Hat before going to bed.

Anyone out there have tips for training Herblore with a balance between cost and speed?

Lazy People: The Scourge of the Earth

Yes, that's right, Lazy People are infact the Earth's tormentors. For far too long, people have suffered the consenquences of those who would rather sit around eating Bonbons all day than to do what they said they would, when they said they would.

You may be wondering "What the hell is Joe going on about?" and the answer is this. Today, my Personal Financial Planning professor handed out our first Group Project that we did a long while ago (Took him long enough) and we were shocked when we saw the grade... 54%. As we read through the paper, we quickly discovered the reason for the shameful score. One of our group members had not once shown up for our meetings and never contributed in the slightest. Because of this, we suffered major penalties for the unanswered questions on our assignment that she had asked us to save for her.

As you can guess, she had excuses flying out at warp speeds such as.. "My grandma died," "I was in the emergency room," "I was having a surgery," "My alarm clock wasn't working," "Work,"...generally, the list is composed of your average lame ass excuse that may or may not be true.

Here's a piece of advice for you guys. Never, no matter what, count on a lazy peice of shit to do anything they say they would. Even if you have some remote feeling that maybe, just maybe, they will wake up and actually do something, do NOT trust them.



Now...let's take a look at the natural habbitat of your typical Slacker.

Your everyday Slacker starts off the morning with the alarm clock ringing (Assuming they bothered to set it in the first place) and will slowly inch their hand to the Snooze Button. After the fifth time or so, they will eventually get out of bed because the sun is in their eyes. They WILL skip a shower and any other sort of personal hygein upkeeping and will head straight to the kitchen.

Once there, they will get a Hot-Pocket and place it in the microwave. However, being true to the Lazy People's Creed, they will half ass do this and only cook it for half the time needed. They will take their half frozen pizza and quickly realise that they are late for class. Still, this doesn't bother them and they instead head to their computer to hop on Facebook or something. Once at the computer, they will forget any and all obligations they had and will instead watch Youtube untill it's time to go to work. You must be thinking "Work? I didn't know the Lazy person works." It's understandable why you think so, as they do avoid any work they can get away with, but they must ' Earn ' a living somehow.

After arriving 45 minutes late to work, they'll get their asses chewed by their co-workers, bosses, and pretty much anyone that comes in contact with them to stop being such a slacker and do something. At break, they will mope over to the corner, smoke something (either a cig or some drugs) and stare into the distance, wondering why they are still working at McDonalds as a busboy.

Several hours filled with whining later, they will return home where they will kick off their shoes (if they're lvl 99 Lazy, they won't even bother), collapse on the couch from a "Day's Hardwork" snack on some potato chips, and fall asleep on the couch while Animal Planet.

The entire process will repeat itself, starting with waking up on the couch to the sound of their alarm clock... assuming they haven't yet reached 99 Lazy and didn't bother to set it in the first place.


Crikey! That's one damn lazy creature.

Finished Pan's Labrinth

I forgot about this until just earlier.

Thursday, my Film Appreciation professor said that his copy of Pan's Labrinth was returned to him. And so, instead of starting Slingblade, we finished up the other movie. I'm glad we did so because it was actually Very good, despite being entirely in Spanish. I am fortunate enough to be able to understand alot of it it, but alteast there were subtitles so I could *Much* easier follow along. It would be worthwhile for you  to rent it out, just make sure you put subtitles on if you don't speak Spanish.

We're supposed to start Slingblade  tomorrow, but anything can happen.


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Spring Semester Draws to an End

Today is April 18th which means that I only have 14 days left (not including weekends) of class untill my semester ends on the 6th. It seems as if this year has flown by, but the ass load of work sure made it memorable, and I cannot wait untill the Summer.

I've already selected the classes I will be in for the Fall (Maybe next year I'll do a Summer semester) and have enrolled in them. I'm pretty eager for next semester because I will be taking another accounting class and a computer class (I'm not looking forwards to) which is a prerequsite for a class I want to take. Too bad I have to take "Computers in Modern Day Society" first.


I'm *This* close to 89 Runecrafting (about 10k Xp away) and can't wait till I hit 91. For the time being, I plan on crafting 55k Natures and will then decide if I should switch back to Astrals or not, depending on the prices of each rune.

Mummies, Zombies, Theifs, and Updates.

Yesterday, I finally completed the quest Missing my Mummy which was amazingly boring, despite having a Mummy in it. This means that I am one step closer to being able to use Curses. I only need to gain one more Theiving level, which is one of my least liked skills, gain seven more Kudos (which likely going to result in me doing some random quest), and complete The Curse of Arrav, before I can start The Temple at Sennistan.


In other news, Jagex released a new update for the Clan System which allows the clan leaders to create a Clan Homepage, customize a logo, advertise much easier, and even have their clans ranked on the Highscores. Also, a few ranks have been added, such as Novelty and Deputy Owner.

As there are many up sides to this, there are just as many downers. For instances, you cannot leave the clan chat without actually leaving the clan. If you do leave the clan and want to rejoin, you must physically meet one of the Owners and have them invite you (This is how recruiting now works). Also, you will be tormented by the massive spam of four chats at the same time; being Public Chat, Private Chat, Clan Chat, and Friends Chat. Another thing that is bothersome is, in order to speak in the clan chat, you must pres " / " twice. This gets VERY confusing because you must also press " / " to speak in the Friends Chat, but only once. The problem with using the same key is pretty obvious. However, Jagex has stated that are looking into people's complaints and criticisms, and are likely to change some things soon.... We'll see.

If you're a skiller, and enjoy the company of others (Although I can't say much for the quality of some), take a look at our clan homepage.

Movies, Movies, and more Movies.

Today, we finished watching The Color Purple which was okay, but not one of my favorites. It was based of the Novel with the same title, and the movie was very similar to the book. However, there were some obvious differences, such as the relationship between Celie and Shug being tonned down *Alot* in the movie.

Thursday, we're supposed to watch the film Slingblade which is a dark comedy starring Billy Bob Thorton. I'm very interested in watching this and eagerly awaiting my next class session in Film Appreciation. We were told that if this move didn't work out, we'll watch Clockwork Orange.

Hair, prayer, and quests...

Well, I finally got that haircut that I've been needing and glad I did so. My hair wasn't really long, just a bit shaggy, but it was itching my ears and HAD to go.

How long can you stand your hair getting?
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In Runescape, I've recently decided that I wanted to get 71 prayer so I can unlock Piety and Reflect mellee... so I coughed up 11m and bought Infernal Ashes to get it.

Excited at finally getting lvl 71 prayer and thinking about how long I could now stay at the Waterfiends, I quickly looked at the quest to unlock the Curses and was shocked at what I saw... Sure, I knew that I needed to complete the Temple of (Whatever it's called) quest and even expected that I may need to lvl up some lame skill (turns out it was Theiving... damn) but I never expected that I needed to do another quest called Curse of Arrav ( I *Hate* questing, if you haven't guessed already). "Okay," I thought, "It's not that bad. I mean I only need to complete one more quest." Boy was I wrong...

Taking my time, I scrolled down the quest list and eventually found Curse of Arrav. I had done the previous quests related to it (Shield of Arrav and Defender of Varrock) and so I thought this quest would be easy to do...untill I saw the requirements. I need to do five more quests!!!!!!

So, I've already done Devious Minds and The Shades of Mortan (which I'm glad I did because I can now make Serum 207's), but I still need to do Missing my Mummy along with some other one of which I've forgotten the name of. I'll probably do the weird named one later today becacause I've heard it's on of the "Noob" quests and is relatively easy to do. I'm not too sure about the Mummy quest though because I haven't heard anything about it and haven't yet looked into it.

Wish me good luck with the quests, and have a nice day everyone.

... I can't help but think about all the Runecrafting experience I'm missing out on while questing. O_o

99 Construction or No?

I recently acheived 88 Runecrafting (Only three more levels to go!) and decided to make some plans on what I will do with the money I have. I spent about an hour or so researching, items I wanted and skills that I wanted to level before I found something that caught my attention.

I discovered that I currently have enough gold to afford 99 Construction, assuming that I use Oak Planks, and will have around 20m left over. I'm not very sure if I should go for 99 Construction because, if I do so, I can't get my money back so it will be a permanent choice. I need YOUR help!

Should I....

A) Go ahead and do it? It will be neat to say that I have 99 Construction.

B) Do it, but wait untill you have 91 Runecrafting so Ican get your money back quickly?

C) Don't bother with it. I should spend my gold on something that I can resell if I change my mind?

Any advice is welcomed.


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Senior Vice President of AT&T Jim Epperson

Today I will be attending the Larry Adair Lecturship which is going to have Jim Epperson, the At&T Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications, speak. After the lecture, there will be a free luncheon for all those who attended.

I'm not too sure as to what Epperson will be speaking about, but my professors keep insisting that I go. How can I say no to free lunch?

Debate with a Geography Professor

I was sitting inmy World Regional Geography class bored, as usual, and taking notes untill someone behind me said something....

We were going over European colonialization of Africa and a student a few seats behind me asked why it was considered a bad thing that they destroyed an entire culture and enslaved thousands when it benefited the Europeans and could be a reason why we're so succesful today.

I was truly shocked that someone would blurt such a thing out in the middle of class. My professor and that student spent a good ten minutes argueing back and forth with the professor making the point that it was a bad thing because it ruined so many lives while the student argued that it was necessary for progression and that it required the cost of the Africans being conqured.

Personally, I take the side of my professor because, if you look at the state of cities in Africa, you would find that many of them are segregated with strong racial and religous tensions between the citizens.

Is it good to sacrifice the well-being of many to benefit a few?


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Take it easy for now.
- Joe