Family Photos

So the family went out on Dad's birthday, August 14, 2009, to take a much needed, up-to-date, family portrait. It turned out ok, I assume. I had a slight wardrobe malfunction, kinda. but overall I am very pleased with the way they came out. We were mad late however to our appointment...lol...no kidding.. but I mean that's how it goes sometimes.. u know? But in the end, and I hope you all would agree, the portraits turned out pretty good. At least we have a new, modern family portrait ...lol. And we'll have this one to hold us for a few years.

Ipod - So What Im Pressed...

So picked up one of the most multimedia-rich, techno devices I've ever owned - the iPod Touch 2G!! I'm so cised. Well honestly I got it about a month ago but never took the time out to blog about it. I am so pleased with it. The amount of.. just stuff.. one can accomplish with this thing is crazy!!! Really. The apps are powerful and superfluous. When you leverage all the capabilities of the touch it can do some pretty amazing things. I picked up the 32GB flavor but it comes in an 8 & 16GB variety as well. Definitely pick one up if you are looking for an amazing bundle of movie, music, podcast, games, books, and other cool stuff in one device.

I mean i can talk on the phone using the wireless net connect and VOiP. It's banana's!!!

Checkin' In

Hello world. Me again; just checkin' in. Let's see, since my last post about AC, not much has happened. The tooth I got extracted from the rear bowels of my mouth, lol, seems to be healing pretty well. I ran out of the Tylenol-3 the dentist gave me. Honestly, though, I do not know what was in it because it seemed like regular old Acetophenamine to me. I mean it did help with the pain, so in that regard it did its job. And considering the spur-of-the-moment decision to get the tooth pulled, I believe it turned out ok. However I am still taking the Penicillin for infection prevention.

Otherwise work is droning along. The Summer Career Pathways stint will end next week, lightening the workload demand I'll be subject to, which is a good thing. This little 5.5 week long program has been pretty great. I'm enjoying and have enjoyed it. Next week we (the schools participating in the program) are poised to have a mini competition with each school entering their Tetrix robots, their NXT robots, and their websites. I'll post pics/vids from the event so that you all can see the culmination of the program and understand that I really have been at work doing something constructive lol. So anyway just stoppin' by, per say. So I'll catch you guys later.

Photo form: http://www.shooflyaudio.com/images/artists_cd_covers/rg-hello_world.jpg

Atlantic City

So this weekend I went Atlantic City with my friends. It was fun I must admit. Although I had to get one of my wisdom teeth pulled like hours before we departed for New Jersey (a whole other story). It was all good though, I managed; my friends helped make it a pretty fun time regardless. We hit up the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum and enjoyed the nice, warm weather and the boardwalk. It was spectacular. I loved being there and although it truly is a town for those who are 21, at 19, we all found a way to make great fun of the place. I would recommend it to anyone old enough to get up there lol. Here are some pics, above, from the trip.

Pardon the acerbic innuendo from the little candy packages...lol

Boyfriend - Girlfriend

Man I'm sitting here listening to my brother argue with his girlfriend. And I can only imagine what it would take for me to subject my self to all that comes with being in a relationship; at least not right now anyway. I mean when you think about it, a relationship is a job; it's a work of love and takes time to be built. It's emotional and dependent and very much incumbent upon the two individuals. Hearing my two good friends argue like they do sometimes only solicits me to beg the question: Why?

Why put yourself through the rigmarole of the relationship so young? I can't say I have not been there, because in high school that was me. And I really thought I was ready for everything: college, the long-distance relationship thing, all of it. But I think as life's experiences roll on and you begin to see what and why some things happen. I can't say I didn't enjoy being a boyfriend, because I really did, and will in future when time and circumstances permit. However it still, in my youth, is my position that maybe things shouldn't be rushed. Maybe we should all be friends and then continue in that mutual caring spirit. That's not to say that we as the collective whole don't, but sometimes because of sheer physical attraction we can cloud our judgment.

In the end I've found it very fulfilling that I can remain friends, I think and hope, with the girls in my life, and that's it. I do go back and forth with the whole: "well should I date or shouldn't I?" question, and therefore the ambiguity of my actions with them can be misleading. But in the end, for my own sake I try not to get too involved because growing up has afforded me a different view on things and so I now if I first accept and love and work on myself then I can I begin to entertain doing the same for another young woman. It's just the growing up I guess...

Had to Spotlight Myself

So earlier this summer, before work started, my brother Shane, invited me to come do this TechBus seminar with him, for my school. Mind you I attended and graduated from McKinley Tech; not him. But yet he works there with Mr. Kelsey and knows everyone as if he went there. But it's all good. Anyway, beyond all that, some pics were taken and they were posted on McKinley's website; and lo and behold who is that on the right with a striking, imposing angled profile? You guessed it ME. ;) (just kiddin')

That's Chris on the other side.

Just thought it would be cool to post this. It's not everyday that you find yourself on a website; and furthermore for something contributing to the greater good. The TechBus was an initiative funded through a grant one of my former teachers, Mr. A, wrote. McKinley was awarded a $100,000 grant from AARP. The money, in part, has been used to outfit a coach bus with mobile internet access and PCs in an effort to be a mobile training ground for senior citizens with today's newer technologies (i.e. Twitter, Facebook and the like).

Good Music - Lola Maxwell

Hot off the press; one of DC's own; A fellow Techite C/o 07 Ms. Lola Maxwell is dropping her 2nd mixtape. Check it out !!