Monday, June 28, 2010

Running

I kinda like running a mile a day. It makes me feel somewhat productive. Just add it to the routine. I estimate I sit and watch TV for at least an hour a day. Now I just make it running and watching TV. I'm also trying to eat better. The dumb Saturday parties still dominate me. I had a buncha pizza. Surprisingly there wasn't any fried chicken. That woulda been a double whammy. Meal replacement shake for dinner tonight.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Exercise

Just got back from Seattle and Vancouver vacation. It was fun. It was expensive. It was delicious. It also made me realize i was super fat.

Going to run a mile everyday. Started today. Also for dinner I'm drinking a meal replacement shake. Drinking the shake right now. It's not bad. They said i could add a squirt of chocolate syrup since it's pretty low on calories. I'll try it tomorrow.

USA all the way tomorrow. Be there or be square

-nikk0

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Update

Sorry guys. I'm not dead don't worry. I've just been super busy at work. I've been learning CSS for who knows how long. I bought these stupid tutorials on lynda.com to teach me more about it, because I had to teach my boss yesterday.

I guess you could call that my first presentation. It went pretty well I guess. I showed him how to make rules and what not. Yeah I know it's pretty basic, but imagine an old white guy that still hunt and pecks his keyboard, and trying to teach him CSS in dreamweaver. We got DW CS5 though. HOLLA! It's pretty snazzy.

Also @ 11 I'm going to my first SEO appt. This guy works with India or something, and Victoria needs muscle to come with her to meet him, because we're meeting at a Starbucks. Yup I'm the muscle. hundredpushups.com baby

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The guy wanted us to bring our services to India the country. I doubt that's gonna happen. Also, Victoria is the girl I'm learning everything from. I feel bad for her most of the time, because the entire company runs through her. She sets up all the appts for the technicians and all the calls get sent to her. She's only 21. Sucks for her

Thursday, May 27, 2010

I made a Website

hello friends,

so i've been making this website at work. it's pretty dumb. i had to learn about stupid metal things like beams and channel. not channels guys. channel. yeah i still don't care about it. imagine the tetris block U. you know but all blocky and not curvy. now make that a long steel beam. that's a channel.

here's the site. Metals Supply
It's cool that it's a real place. in my web design class we made up fake sites on our private UH server, but this is for real. you can google this bad boy.

i had some trouble with it here and there, but it's nice to see the fruits of my labor.

UH Trip

Kathleen is back in the H. she's leaving for some dumb vietnam camp tomorrow though. i think they train her to love hello kitty and other fob vietnamese things. make banh mi and stuff. i digress. i picked her up so we could go to UH. i had a meeting with my internship supervisor lady. dr. willis. she's a nice old lady. she was telling me how they're trying to set up texts and twitter and fb and everything like that to get alerts from your teachers. it's gonna be called "Cougar Bytes". she was really proud of that name. it's pretty snazzy.

kathleen came with me, because she's taking a online class from Tech, and she needs to take it at a legit testing site. we went to the ssb, where we learned that she had to email the guy who would proctor it. the lady was like he's really busy, so she has to email him and can't talk to him right now. he happened to be my old stats teacher, and he passed by and said hi. i was amazed that he remembered me.

anyway, since i had the hook up. we just walked into his office and i chit chatted him for a little, then i let kathleen talk to him about her test. good thing i dominated his stats class, or he wouldn't have remembered me.

the lady mad-dogged kathleen when we left his office, but we got the info we needed.

FOOD BLOG

after all that. kathleen and i went to house of te. she got some weird rice salad. i forgot what it's called, but it's suppose to be good for you. i got a chicken, brie, and cranberry baguette and a iced chai tea. the stuff was super good. we were sad though, because their dinner menu started at 4, adn they had a korean bbq special. house of te was good.



on a side not my mom and dad keep trying to make me get on the treadmill, because they think i'm getting fat. can't nobody hold me down. oh no.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Summer

i really like summer. it still means something to me since i'm in school. i would think that people with real jobs think summer is just another season to get by. they go to work and do the same junk everyday working for the weekend.

since i'm in school though. i'm like "that's right i don't have to wake up super early for that dumb 9 o'clock class" I have work now, though. It's pretty sweet. The boss keeps tellin me that he only wants me to work 12 hrs a week, but there's always junk to do so i end up working like 20ish. but that's still only like 3 or 4 days a week. like today. i'm workin from 10-5. i woke up at 9:15. not too shabby

also, i think i've been doing something very bad. no one said anything so i thought it was normal. i have just been counting all the hours i've been at work. for example: if i worked from 8-5. 9 hrs. 10-5. 7 hrs. I'd take an hour lunch and think nothin of it. i assumed it was like baker st. i mean our breaks were only like 15 minutes, but i didn't have to clock out for it. so i was like ok i get paid to eat for an hour that's cool. not the case.

so the predicament is my friends. should i just keep doing this and get free monies, or should i finally start doing my timesheet correctly. no one said anything to me about it. i found out on my own, so i could play dumb for a little longer, or be a good boy.

i think i'll be a good boy. God is watching when i do my timesheet and he's shakin his head with sweet baby Jesus. it was fun while it lasted. you can only beat the system for so long friends.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

And I'm BACK!!!

Sorry guys! I know it's been quite some time without an update. I'll try to be more reliable.

I had finals for awhile, so I've been a little busy. They're pretty gay. I had to make up some stupid grant proposal for my technical communications class, that took a whole day.Basically all my finals took a whole day to do, along with at least the day before cramming for them.

I did ok for the semester, but i basically beat the system. As most of you know I left UT with a super sucky GPA. None of that matters anymore at UH. They're just transfer credits. @ UH I get a clean slate. Bam got me a 3.5 going strong. I totally beat the system. No one needs to know that I went to UT on my resume. Super awesome.

Bryan gave me his starting strength book. I haven't read much of it. Just the squats section. Also, I don't go to UH since school ended so I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna do these real workouts.

I went to the doctor on thursday. They gave me a tetanus shot and an annual checkup thing. He touched my balls and looked at my booty. Took my blood too. We'll get the tests back in a couple weeks for cholesterol and such. I told him about my wrist and how it hurts.

Our conversation:
Dr.: "So have you been having any problems with anything?"
Nikko: "Yeah I kinda messed up my wrist"
D: Oh how'd that happen?
N: I tried to jump over this metal fence thing when I was drunk, and I landed on it funny.
D: *chuckles* Ok . . . well lemme check it out for you.
N: yeah it was really swollen for like a week, but now it only hurts in certain positions
D: *starts touching my wrist* Hmmm, well I don't notice anything wrong. I think you just need to start working out. Strongers muscles will help prevent these kinds of injuries
D: Do you work out?
N: I used to before I messed up my wrist

Man whatever Dr. Delfino Garcia. What a gay diagnosis. Tell me it's broken so i can get a cast or something cool. Give me awesome drugs. Don't tell me I'm a weakling. You were wearing cowboy boots to work.

Anyway, I've decided to do 100pushups.com. I'm going to couple it with my push-up pro, and make it even better. I'm also trying to play tennis twice a week at least.

I'll update more, and Kathleen graduated. She had an avatar navi speak at her graduation. It was like a speech in Dances with Wolves but James Cameron style. She's coming home tues. EXCITING.

-nikk0

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sports Talk

i wish i could be a sports talk radio host. colin cowherd and mike & mike have super awesome jobs. all they do is talk about sports and do random awesome things, just because they know sports people.

sports news:

the nfl draft is tomorrow. the texans pick #20. if someone super awesome is still there the texans will take em. if not they'll go ryan matthews or the best cb left on the board.

big ben is gonna get suspended 6 games. basically big ben is a super creeper. he macks on drunk girls and tries to take advantage of em. "ALLEGEDLY" read the report on deadspin.com. he walked into the bathroom where the drunk girl was with his meat out.

the astros are really bad. our best hope is to trade roy o, or the big puma for lots of prospects. or maybe mclane will sell the astros to some russian gajillionaire like the nets did.

tiger and elin are dunzo. she took the kids to sweden. he's out with his friends in orlando partying it up.'

the nba playoffs are in full swing. the thunder can win these games. kevin durant needs to turn it over less. the bulls are done. kg elbowed that sucka in the head. youtube it if you haven't seen it. it was like BOOM

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Burgers

this is my burger ranking of places i've been to:

1. Tornado Burger (#1 spicy) best burger i've ever had. fries are super good too. in the thin soggy kinda way.

2. In-and-Out Burger. (Cheeseburger) animal fries are off the chain. the burger is very good. believe the hype. very good very delicious and fresh. everyone remembers their first in-and-out experience. San Fran band trip. Joe Nguyen got outstanding solo for his euphonium solo in concert band.

3. Smash Burger (Create-your-own Smashburger) Multigrain wheat bun, sharp cheddar, LTOP, sauteed mushrooms. nice and juicy. fries are good.

4. Whataburger (#5 add jalepenos) You're thinking, really? i say yes my friend. whataburger is very consistent and very delicious. those patties with the cheese and bacon is simply magnificent. fries are also thin and delicious. what makes whataburger so awesome you say? it's the ketchup. best ketchup hands down you'll ever put on your food. don't know what i'm talking about? take ketchup for granted? go to your local whataburger and taste the difference. when the world goes into a global apocalypse whataburger ketchup will be the currency other items are measured against.

"how much for that blanket?"
"10 ketchups"
"i got heinz"
"don't insult me"
"del monte?"
"get outta here you're wasting my time"

5. Fuddrucker's (1/2lb the works) good bun. good burger. the bun is just crispy enough to give you some flakes, yet tender to bite through and taste the craftmanship of it all.

6. Lankford's (Langford's) i forgot what it was called, but it's this little hole in the wall with big servings and great service. i got a South of the Border Burger. That my friends means there is guacamole in it. Guacamole is said to enhance anything it touches. I think God said that somewhere. (forgive my blasphemy) But yeah the burger was big and juicy and delicious. i use these words a lot, because that's basically what people want to know. we don't want dry burgers. we barely eat. a maximum of like maybe 6 times a day if you eat small portions. ( 3 meals a day is bad btw. you should eat small meals throughout the day to keep energized) The bun if i recall was a little sweet and that made everything all the more enjoyable. fries, rings, and fried jalepeno strips were good. nothing out of the ordinary, but good nonetheless.

7. 5 Guys Burgers and Fries.(bacon cheeseburger) I don't see what the fuss is about. "oh man 5 guys rocks" "blah blah it's so fresh and delicious" i agree it was fresh. delicious? nay my friend. i went to 5 guys twice and was sorely disappointed. the burger is so bland. it's like "hey i'm just ground beef made into a patty. enjoy" no i cannot enjoy you're blandness. does your burger suck because you offer free toppings? is that how you recoop your loses? by providing trash burgers that have no flavor? are the free peanuts taking away from the chance of making a delicious juicy burger? yes, to all of the above. Enough of my burger bashing. their cajun fries are off the chain. if someone wanted to go to 5 guys. i'd go and just get these. freakin amazing.

i've obviously been to more, but these are ones that are of note. from here on out. if i eat a burger at a noteworthy place i'll let you know my review.

Oops My Bad!

i have a little confession to make.

i really haven't been trying this diet weight loss challenge.

i blame my new job. it's by all these food places i want to try. these new places coupled with the fact that leaving the office for an hour is awesome, because being there for a super long time sucks. These reasons have lead me to waver in my self-control.

Some of you may be reading this and saying you didn't tell me that. you said it was going well. (Kathleen) Yeah i lied. For the most part i do eat really well. I have a banana in the morning eat my little salad i make, and maybe eat another salad whenever i get hungry again. But man when i cheat. I cheat hard. The first two weeks i did ok. i Think i got down to 161. This week was just sucky.

Examples:

April 14th. i got whataburger after class. now that i don't have night class i get home super early. i didn't make a lunch so i decided to get whataburger. my justification. i didn't eat the rest of the day.

April 15th. i had super bad allergies. so i asked my boss if i could go to HEB to get some allergy meds. while getting allergy meds i saw donuts. i bring 8 back to the office, because there were only 4 of us there. i ate 2 delicious donuts. one glazed and one chocolate iced. also my mother had cooked spaghetti and i had that for lunch. but eating pasta is bad for this diet thing.

April 16th. So when i went to that HEB on buffalo spdwy i saw a smash burger. instantaneously i wanted to eat there. i feel like i am a burgerhead, and would like to try all the burgers that people say are good to find out for myself. so i went to smash burger. i got a multigrain bun as opposed to this egg bun they have. sharp cheddar, an LTOP, in the restaurant biz that is lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, and some sauteed mushrooms. the sauteed mushrooms i didn't know i got til the mexican guy gave me the check. an extra .99. i didn't understand his stupid mumbling. i was like yeah sure cause i didn't know what he was saying. if you're gonna be takin orders shouldn't you be all perky and loud? not mumbling and boomhauer-like. the fries are some special rosemary and olive oil blah blah to make them all special. they were ok.
the meal was just under $8. sans drink. i got a water. the burger was mad juicy. toppings were fresh. good large burger. i got the 1/3lb, it looked much bigger. there is a 1/2lb option obviously for a little more.

April 17th. My parents went out to eat at Berryhill on friday. They opened one up in Katy not to far from our house. I was suppose to go, but i got all sleepy. I literally slept from ~7pm to about ~9am the next day. Kathleen called at like 1230 to ask if i was alive, but i promptly went back to sleep after that conversation. anyway, i ask my mother to get me beef enchiladas. so now it's saturday and i eat these suckers for breakfast. it was ok. then we go to church and come back home. i eat a banana before i go to jessica's. i start drinking super early and sleep super early.

April 18th. i wait for the house to wake up so we can go eat somewhere. probably pho, maybe something else. pho is delicious DAD food. (day after drinking) there is also DADS which everyone must do (day after drinking shit). it'll be good where ever we go.

so yeah. diet starts monday. i have half a month to do it. it's totally possible.

"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
-kg

Friday, April 9, 2010

UH Professors

c++

so my C++ professor is this italian guy. i'm pretty sure he knows his stuff, but he's not too good at teaching it. i mean he lectures about c++, then we maybe see an example the last 15 minutes of class. 1.5 hrs of lecture then maybe an example at the end? com eon guy we're in a computer lab. why don't we use the computers? i'm not gonna lie. programming is pretty sucky when it's 9am. it's sucky when your teacher has to go to italy for 2 months, and has some other professor try to teach you things from your professor's slides. programming is cool when you figure it out. not cool when you spend lots of time and don't figure it out.

web design

we got this old man. i think he has parkinson's disease, cause he shakes like micheal j fox. he's super nice, but he doesn't teach us. we learn step by step from a book. if you have this book you can learn dreamweaver.

the teacher is pointless to have. he's also very pointless when everyone comes back from spring break and he says we have a midterm. 120 MC midterm that doesn't really ask us how to use dreamweaver. wouldn't a hands on test to create a webpage or something have been a better idea? couldn't a warning the week before spring break been nice? nope take this midterm. the average was a C.

visual communication

she thinks she's sooo cool. she was a hair model for tony and guy. is it toni? she has so many degrees. blah blah. we do stuff in photoshop and word. most people don't know how to use photoshop so she lets them make their lab assignments in word. in this class we learn the basic principles of design. you know rule of thirds. white space. alignments. the color wheel. fonts.

anyway my gripe with this class was our research paper. we wrote about whatever topic that dealt with digital media. some people wrote about photography. others about how the internet changed the media. blah blah. what we wrote about doesn't matter apparently, because she went on a grammar nazi rampage. 3 errors was a letter grade deduction. bam 10 errors you get a D. she just stopped reading your paper and gave you a D.

basically the content you wrote meant nothing to her. "i only care about commas and run-on sentences" "my hair is better than yours" "i'm a polish grammar nazi. how ironic"

technical communication

this is an internet class. it's suppose to help you write better when you get in the real world. we write fake memos to grandma's about how to use the internet. we wrote some "how to" on some food recipe we didn't care about. i imagine the people in my class doing everything the last minute like myself. so instead of being prepared and thinking about our writing. we procrastinate and turn in rubbish weekly.

the one thing i do enjoy about tech comm is discussions. the prof posts some article about something he finds interesting. then each person can write about if they agree/disagree with the author, or with another students post.

the main reason i like this discussion is cause i make amusing title posts. There was an article i talked about earlier about google making us stupid. for my title i wrote "I R Brite". most people write "Discussion #X" for their titles. i hope my teacher enjoys reading my titles.

Info Management

this class should be very interesting to me. i'm a computer information systems major, so i should love all this nerdy stuff. "oh man this backbone network connects my LAN to your MAN all in a WAN? that's gnarly bro" "oh snap this tcp/ip connection is off the chain" i feel like knowing this stuff is kinda cool on your own, but when you gotta know it cause you're forced to it loses it's luster for me.

perk of info management. we took the midterm last week. now we don't have class for the rest of the semester. just a group project due sometime before the semester ends.

these are my classes. i hate school.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Places to eat in Houston

kathleen and i have been looking at places to eat in h-town. mainly for brunch, but dinner and lunch are not out of the question.

here's the list and what i know about the places:

palazzo's

it's like this italian place really close to kathleen's. it has a brunch menu, not a brunch buffet, but the reviews are off the chain. reasonable prices like ~$15 give or take a few bucks.

things i want to try:

Spinach and Prosciutto Frittata Italian omelet with spinach, prosciutto, sundried
tomatoes, goat cheese and mushrooms served with skillet potatoes

kathleen:
Crab Cakes and Eggs in remoulade sauce with 2 poached eggs & field greens

shade

it's some contemporary swanky place in the heights. they serve L&D on everyday, along with brunch on the weekends.
things i want to try:

CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES
Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream, Toasted Hazelnuts
and Chocolate Sauce

GRILLED FETA STUFFED GROUND LAMB
with Cilantro Mint Pesto, over a Salad of Baby Spinach, Grilled Fennel and Asparagus, Roasted Red Peppers, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Hearts of Palm with Orange Chipotle Vinaigrette

Tiny Boxwood's Cafe

This little cafe is apparently inside an architecture firm. they serve BLD tues-sat, and brunch on sun.

things i want to try:

GRILLED CHEESE & PESTO SANDWICH
slices of aged gouda with a light spread of fresh
basil pesto, grilled between crisp pagnotta bread •
served with roasted tomato dipping sauce

TINY’S BUFFALO BURGER
freshly ground, lean buffalo steak roams
in daily from Pete’s Fine Meats • cooked medium,
with blue cheese crumbles, pesto aioli, pickles,
lettuce, tomato on a whole wheat bun


I'll update with more places, and other things i maybe could eat. blue cheese is a bit much for me sometimes, so i'll probably tell em to go easy on it. it's way too powerful.

if you know any cool places to eat in htown. let us know.

-nikk0

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

And I'm Back!

Sorry about the hiatus. It was a jam packed weekend. I hope you all had a great Easter.

School, family, fun and work is hard to juggle. When you have cousins in town you barely see some things get left by the wayside.

For me it was gaming. I'm glad i quit WoW. Not only did it make me want to stay home all the time so i could raid, I had to spend countless hours to be the best. Don't get me wrong it's really fun. Especially when you have friends that play too.

My friends are pretty awesome. As are my cousins. So is ventrilo. if you don't know what vent is then you are a big noob. It's basically a way to talk to your friends all the time. If you don't know my friends we basically talk like the guys in Superbad if not worse.

I don't think my ragtag group of friends would still be together without it. No other program can I connect to and instantly talk to 10 of my friends. yeah there are these gay video conference things like talkbox, but that's gay. i just wanna talk to em about games and their lives. not look at them.

Anyway, i've been away from my computer for quite awhile. I guess since i'm on it so much at work, i feel no urge to be on it at home unless it's to be productive. Nevertheless, I got back on recently and was greeted warmly by my vent.

"well look who it is"
"where you been faggot"
"i bet he's soooo bad now"
"i'm gonna ban you"

good times

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Official Weigh In

Ladies and Gentlemen this is the Official Weigh In of the very much anticipated brother sister battle of the century. Nikko Vs Dete. The weight loss challenge.

In the blue corner wearing the philippines flag shorts, we have, the pride of gamers and fanboys everywhere, Nikko "EZ-MODE" Paguio, weighing in at a hefty 164. (Yesterday was Steak Night, sue me)

Walking to the red corner with no shoes and wearing an american apparel unitard, the pride of Austin, of underpaid social workers, and girls with dis-proportioned bodies, Rachel "Luna Lovegood" Paguio, weighing in at a respectable 122. (yes that's the weird girl from the harry potter movies)

Here's the deal folks, I am going for a weight loss of 10 lbs or more, while my sister is trying to lose 5 lbs or more. Currently, the stakes are a measly $20 for the winner of the competition. To be the winner you must lose your weight. I guess we'll have a vote on the winner if we both meet our target.

If anyone else has a suggestion as to more parameters and winnings for the winner, by all means let us know.


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random things

i quit baker st. on tuesday. i went in and resigned. no two weeks notice. i had a shift on friday and sunday of this week. oh well. the gm called me on wed and talked about burning bridges and that i was being unprofessional. we left on a good note though, cause i told him how i fell on my face and he had a good laugh.

yesterday did 125 4 sets of 5 on bench. did leg press instead of squats for this week @ 225 same sets. then did the spin bike for 20 minutes. the spin bike dominates you. if you want a good sweat get on that thing and every like 3 minutes crank it a quarter turn. feel the burn my friends.

bingo tonight i think. holla

Monday, March 29, 2010

CHALLENGE!

my sister, Rachel, and i have challenged each other to a competition.

this is a losing weight competition. the competition spans all of april.
my challenge is 10 lbs. her's is 5 lbs. i could totally do this.

i eat super bad and i only exercise twice a week. working at EBS has been a bad thing for me. It's next to everything i want to eat. james coney island is down the street. niko niko's is three minutes from that. delicious food heaven.

all i gotta do is plan my meals and what not and i got it made. the hardest part about eating healthy food to me, is convenience. you gotta make the food the night before or before you leave in the morning. no one wants to do that. i could be watching tv or sleeping in for that 20 minutes of preparation. i just want hot food fast. and jack in the box is across the street from EBS. the ultimate croissantwich thing gets made in like a minute for like three dollars.

it's time to show some discipline and self-control in april. maybe it isn't so much a competition as it is a pact. doing things with a partner holds you accountable for your actions. i guess that's why there are weight loss communities. everyone's in it together.

so the question to ask now is "who's coming with me?" if anyone would like to join my sister and i in this weight loss challenge pls join us. the more the merrier.


-nikk0

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Family Time

so florida came in on thurs for their dad's bday. florida consists of jarryd, divina, and their dad, tito estong. i said i'd update yous guys on bingo so here's the amazing results:

NO ONE WON

sad day my friends. actually philip won. what a dummy. he had a false bingo. apparently he likes to make up his own rules at to what a regular bingo is. he just had a little box randomly on his bingo card and he thought it was a bingo.

the crowd was pretty diverse as said earlier. there was a group of costumed characters. banana suit guy, peanut guy, pocahontas, and i think a hot dog guy. people took pics with them for some reason. we got some good food there. divina and jessica went to get food while we played their cards. got me some buttery goodness grilled cheese. they got like frito pies and sausage on a buns. also looked super good.

funniest part of the night. this drunk lady thought she had a bingo. she yells it at the top of her lungs and her voice got all raspy. false bingo. sorry lady. your moment of joy turned into super embarrassment just like that.

another funny part. when bingo was over and everyone went to pee, banana guy and peanut were in the restroom all mad. they were pissed that pocahontas peaced out without telling them.

banana on the phone
"where'd you go? no, not where am i at, where are you at bitch?" everyone peeing laughed.

after losing at bingo, very disappointing, we went to boondock's. buncha emo kids up in there. they all had fake cool old guy glasses and super tight pants. just be normal geez. ok fine some people did look cool in their cardigans and what not, but most people tried too hard.

-nikk0

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Easy Street

so i finally finished all those stupid things i stated earlier in the week. it was a lot harder than i expected. i would take breaks to play the sc2 beta. lots of breaks. i would say i'm pretty crappy at time management for the most part. sometimes i'm on the ball and have everything ready to go. Other times i'm scrambling to get things finished. This week was a scramble for sure.

tomorrow my cousins from florida come in. we're going to lodge 88 for some bingo action. it's a pretty sweet deal if you haven't heard about it. the place is huge. probably about 500 people are in the place young and old. hipster and nerds. nerds that think they're hipsters. you name it there's a group there of it. cheap food, cheap beer. good ol' fashioned fun.

It's in the heights and it starts at 7:45. there's some early bird thing, but i have no idea what they do with that. anyway it's 12 bingo games for 5 bucks.

i think it goes something like the first two games are regular bingo and the prize is $100 less 5% tax. so if you win you get $95. so horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and four corners for some reason is regular bingo. if you have multiple winners then the money gets split. when kathleen and i went last week she won $47.50 because 2 people won.

the third game is a novelty game. probably my favorite game. it's for like $130 or some weird number. the games are like X game where you got two diagonals, block of nine, a kite, and other stuff.
then you got two more regular games for $100
and finally it's the 6th game. BLACKOUT.

They call it coverall though. my whole life i called it blackout so i'm stickin with that. this game is worth $250 and there's usually only one winner. the entire place gets pretty intense when everyone gets closers to winning. I was two away last week when someone yelled bingo. the whole crowd groans when it happens.

intermission

then it all happens again. except black out is 500 smackers this time. that's money to blow ladies and gentlemen.

i'll post tom if any of us win.

-nikk0


ps the crowd goes wild when the caller calls out "O 69"

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

UHH

Ok here's the deal. I just got this SEO assistant position 2 weeks ago. I've worked a total of 5 days at this place. So, the lady teaching me how to do all this stuff isn't here today. The boss man talks to me about what he wants me to do today. IDK WTF he's talking about.

I gotta run some keyword tool through google analytics. This I can do. Other stuff he said. No idea. I don't even remember what he asked right now.

So ya know he asked me to stay til 4 today. I said sure. What shall i do for the next 5 hrs or so?

Still got C++ HW and info management proj due tomorrow. pretty sweet ain't it.


-nikk0

Monday, March 22, 2010

It has begun!

So I figured I'd make a blog cause all the cool kids are doing it. I like reading my cousins' blogs. Maybe my cousins and random people would like to read mine. I'm way funnier and more informative than all of 'em anyway so basically the world needs me.

I currently have:

project due tonight at midnight for Visual Communications
discussion on if google is making us stupid due wed
definitions memo due wed
quiz friday vis comm
c++ hw wed midnight
project due wed midnight information management

What am I doing instead:

made this blog
looking up acoustic electric guitars on craigslist
reading slickdeals.net forum
wanting to play sc2 beta


I have a meeting with the internship advisor lady in the Career Services Center @ 2.

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So the internship lady wasn't very helpful. She was nice though. But I told her i already had an interview and I already got an internship all on the first try. She was like " Wow that's an amazing story and amazing luck. I guess you already have good interview skills and your resume looks good too." Anyway she gave me little pointers here and there and talked to me about networking. Everyone and their mother is talking about networking these days. Social Networking can suck it. For real though it helps.

Also here's a link to the article I talked about earlier with google making us stupid. The guy has a point. We just want super fast answers all the time.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google


-nikk0