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  • FNCNE

    I am now a Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer (FNCNE). I like to pronounce it “Fahnooknee.” They need new people in marketing.

    Anyway, passing score is 75 out of 100. Last time I got a 74. After intense cramming, especially last night, I raised my score to a 78. Haha I almost would have rather just gotten a 75.

    Anyway, yeah, last night, with the help of my first caffeine in 1.5 years (and a lot of it, about 300mg total), I had the most productive mental night I have had in a long time. I spent about three hours studying for Foundry, one hour working on a rough draft for English, and one hour reading for English. To bed by 3:15am and up at 7:15am. That was after working for 12 hours. Wow…crazy. I didn’t want to go back on caffeine but in this case it was worth it, even if all it got me was four more correct answers.

    Anyway, I’ll be buzzing until tonight…and then I intend to sleep very well. This is a very strange feeling, I’m very anxious, excitable, on edge, etc. Whatever 🙂

  • Vibrating Eye

    My eye vibrated for a second there. Was it the caffeine or the bass? I don’t know, I think maybe it was the awesome.

    I am feeling good about my Foundry test tomorrow.

  • How to Listen to Dieselboy

    1) Late at night.
    2) Extremely loud.
    3) On good headphones.
    4) While pumped up on caffeine (see previous post).

    God damn, this never gets old. I’m glad at least this part of me hasn’t grown up.

  • About to Fall Off the Wagon

    Got a LONG night ahead of me. Going to do a 2-day caffeine binge and then stop again…hopefully it won’t bring on a migraine.

  • Caltrain

    If I worked for Caltrain, I would have an uncontrollable urge to yell “All aboard!” from time to time. It would be awesome.

  • I Lost It! Wheee!

    I never thought I would be one of those people that said they wanted to lose something or have something get stolen so they could have an excuse to get a new/different one of whatever that was. Well I have become one of those people. You see, I bought this wool coat at Target a few years ago for $50. I liked it a lot at the time, but I have been wanting a different coat for a while now. The old one had gotten worn down and faded. But I could never find a new one that I liked at a decent price. I didn’t look very hard, either. After all, I already had a coat!

    Well last night I finally officially lost the old coat. I think I left it in the City College Mission Campus Cafe. Oh well! Time to go coat hunting!

  • My Annual NBA Playoff Predictions That No One Cares About

    Round 1
    ——-
    Celtics over Hawks, 4-0
    Pistons over 76ers, 4-0
    Magic over Raptors, 4-1
    Cavs over Wizards, 4-2
    Lakers over Nuggets, 4-2
    Hornets over Mavericks, 4-2
    Spurs over Suns, 4-2
    Jazz over Rockets, 4-1

    Round 2
    ——-
    Celtics over Cavs, 4-2
    Pistons over Magic, 4-2
    Jazz over Lakers, 4-3
    Spurs over Hornets, 4-3

    Round 3
    ——-
    Celtics over Pistons, 4-2
    Spurs over Jazz, 4-3

    Finals
    ——
    Celtics over Spurs, 4-2

  • Anarchism in Spain during the Spanish Civil War

    My paper on Anarchism in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, if anyone cares to read it. I find out my grade in a freakin’ month.

  • Got My Drugs

    I finally went to the doctor today for my symptoms which include nasal congestion, ear congestion (including not being able to hear very well) and a persistent cough. I told the doctor that I had the flu or a bad cold about a month ago. After taking a look at things, he said that he suspected that I got another cold about a week and a half or two weeks ago. Wonderful luck, just wonderful.

    Anyway, he prescribed the following medicines to me: cough syrup, which may make me drowsy, a decongestant pill, which may also make me drowsy, and an inhaler (to clear out my lungs). I am actually really looking forward to starting these medicines. I am tired of always having to blow my nose, I am tired of the coughing, and I am tired of not being able to hear very well with this damn ear congestion. I think I’ll wait until I get home to take this stuff though, what with all the drowsiness.

    All in all, with health insurance (Kaiser Permanente), the visit cost me $25 for the doctor visit, $30 for the medicines and $10 for the chest X-ray.

    Oh the good news is, though, that the doctor said my achilles tendon is just fine, even though it is a bit sore. He said I could run on it, but I should wait until my other symptoms clear up to go running. So about another two weeks for that.

  • I Am Going to Bitch for a Little Bit

    Several things to bitch about today:
    – Someone, caller ID “unknown,” called me at 6:30am today. I didn’t pick up in time to bitch them out, and they didn’t leave a message.
    – I have recently been reorganizing my apartment. So my alarm clock isn’t hooked up, and I have been using my cell phone as an alarm. The cell phone alarm went off way early, at like 7am, and then started going off TWICE once it reached the time it was actually supposed to go off.
    – I went to bed early last night, around 11pm, and still didn’t wake up in time to eat breakfast. I hate not being a morning person sometimes. I did bring a PB&J with me to work though.
    – Having woken up late like usual, but this time a little bit later, I decided to take the bus instead of walk. I looked at nextmuni.com – next bus in 17 minutes. I walked anyway – it was faster this morning.
    – Last night after class, I wanted to take the 28 bus home, which doesn’t require any transfers. I checked my phone, again nextmuni.com, and it said 63 minutes until the next bus. I have found that nextmuni.com is horribly incomplete for this bus line, but I didn’t want to chance that it would actually be correct. So I took the M instead and got off at Van Ness. There are two bus lines that run on Van Ness. The 47 and the 49. The 47 was an 18-minute wait, and the 49 was a 12-minute wait. I decided to just start walking. I walked the 1.4 miles without being passed by a single bus. I think this happens about a third of the time that I try to board a bus from here at this time of night. Overall it took me an hour to go 8.5 miles. *start sarcasm* Ah, the joys of not having a car. *end sarcasm*

    And, I think that is all I have to bitch about from the past 12 hours.