Another day in the life...

Yet another day begun, another sunrise over the suburban landscape that I currently call home, another round of annoying bird chirping first thing in the morning. All in all the day has started out okay. Not great by any means but definately at least okay. I came home last night to a beautifully spotless house (or at least the public areas) and the meeting I was so concerned about went well. Whether that will remain true remains to be seen, however; for now I simply wait and hope that progress is being made at a rate that is at least acceptable to her.

To Andrew Keen who most recently caused quite the ruckas amongst bloggers by stating that the internet was full of amateurs I have only this to say. The internet may no longer be darpanet it may no longer be simply a community of intellectuals who collaborate on research projects all over the world, but that is no excuse for your statements. The internet is the gutenburg press of this era, it has opened up a world that oft times was missed by those who did not have the time, money or energy to be spent on carting around various newspapers and books. However; I will agree on one point, it has opened the world up to a lot of 'meaningless' writings, of which this stands as one of them. For a man who keeps a blog himself however; stating that blogging is meaningless is hypocritical at best. My blog keeps me accountable for the goals and plans that I set forth, what does yours do for you? Sure, it has also opened up the world to a juvenile langauge called leet, in many gamers circles if you cannot at least read leet you are considered illiterate. While I long ago decided to keep my writing to just that, writing using complete sentances and those funny things called punctuation marks (Though my grammar and punctuation are far from perfect,) we cannot deny that leet too has its place amongst those who choose to use it. The internet offers a glimpse into the beauty of another living beings mind, whether it be dark, golden or simply mundane the internet allows people to connect and communicate in ways that were neigh impossible before it's inception.

Now that I've gotten my completely off topic portion of this post done, where was I? Oh yes, a not quite great day. Alex once again called in today, it seems he does this anytime we are in our current situation at work, I definately see a pattern here, and potentially unfortunately for Alex, so does Mike. As I swiftly move towards my one year mark in my current position I am indeed thinking about the future, what am I going to do if, (though it does not seem likely) I don't get brought back at the end of my three month layoff period? Thankfully I'll have unemployment, but it's hardly going to be enough to keep me and my small family going, I have at times considered getting a second job, but for now I will simply wait and see. With school I really cannot afford to be working two jobs, not if I want to keep either of them that is.

Speaking of school I've been rather lax, which I feel bad for, however; I am in the position of needing to stretch my lessons out for another 7-8 months. So that I'm not sitting around paying for school that I'm done with, so the hiatus has been useful, but it's time to get back to work. I've found it increasingly hard to focus however; I'm hoping a ritual may help to bring me back to ground so I'm going to be planning that for some time either this week or next

The last grade of a 75 in my last lesson was more than a little disheartening, but I knew math was the area I was going to have the most trouble in. I have yet to find out exactly where I messed up on those questions, but at least I passed the test. I'm hoping that my next few lessons will bring my grade from an 88 back up to the 98 that it was prior to this particular lesson. I dread my technical math class that is the next one I have to deal with, however; at least those text books should explain how to do the problems. If not I'm afraid I may fail this semester. I hate math. To top it off I've never been that good at math, it's never really made much sense to me. I am however; looking forward to my technical literacy and my English comp classes.