The Bulldogs reunion tour was short lived. Sad to see :(

I miss my CM storm quickfire rapid - but it came into contact with a small child's glass of water and did not survive after many, many years of faithful service.

Hopefully nothing bad happens to Myles Turner and the Pacers win a few games.

Now its at my desk at home or my desk at work... In school:

When: Whenever there was available downtime - preferably NOT at night until the night before something really big. Because i had way cooler stuff to do.
I had this big L shaped desk that I eventually smashed and burnt when I graduated because I hated it - but that was where I would study, sometimes also I would study outside, or in the computer lab, or the steps of the library.

Typically what I would do is make a sheet, or several sheets in necessary, and would write down by hand, all of the crap I needed to know for a given examination - so that would be equations, factoids, important words or numbers etc.

Then I would stare at that sheet and recite it aloud for 2-3 hours. Then I was typically done.

I would just call up a few of my friends and tell them not to buy games on steam for a bit and instead just contact me and I would send them the game in exchange for paypal funds.

Wait until something big and popular releases that you and your friends will play and just do the exchange then (plus new games will deplete your funds faster and require fewer run arounds). That's the route I took when my kiddo uncrated something reasonably valuable and we sold it on the steam market lol.

He had a 10,000$ smile too.

I had a smart phone for 4 months and I hated having it, hated that it wanted me to buy ring tones to have anything decent, and hated just about everything about it - it got to the point where I was just leaving it at work because every time it went off I would get annoyed. It was decidedly not a phone and more so an inconvenience device. Oh you got a call? Sorry son, you gotta enter your stupid code for your own phone to answer it. Wanna text? Lemme put a bunch of menus in the way and ask if you're sure. Beep you got an e-mail - prolly should respond. Naaahhh... Naaah. Wanna use your pockets? Sorry son, I have to be by myself or my screen will turn into shards of useless plastic

Took that that shit back and bought a copy of my old LG flip phone on Ebay. Back to pressable buttons, storing it in the same pocket as all my other crap, and not giving a fuck that I got 6 new e-mails.

Other shit I don't like:

I played overwatch for like 2 weeks when it came out and decided I'd rather read a book.

I'm sick of my loud ass lawn mower that constantly refuses to start properly or dies at random - so I bought a scythe. It's silent, doesn't smell bad, and gives me some exercise that isn't incredibly boring.

Being as I'm partially fueled by alcohol - it ain't so bad. "They say alcohol is a slow killer, but who is in a hurry?"

That said, if you disapprove of somebody's choice to smoke marijuana for whatever reason, simply state to them that you'd rather not be around them when they do it and that you'd also rather not hear about it/know about it and leave it at that. It's not your job to nanny people - and most people wont listen to you anyways.

Don't think of it as a "this is all I can ever do" even if your degree directly translates to a specific work area (say IT/Networking or Accounting) you can still find PLENTY of work that has absolutely nothing to do with that purely because you have a degree. So just do what you like and leave the rest for the dummies. There is a reason you don't typically declare your major officially until your 4th semester. Sign up for classes you think might be interesting and see what sticks - the rest should still count as gen eds that you'd have to take anyways.

How did you pick your major?

History had always come extremely easily to me - I also racked up plenty of awards - I was in the National Geography Bee - and was the only student from a public school in Indiana to do so, and was a 2 time finalist in Purdue's "Academic Superbowl" which is basically jeopardy but for HS students where the rewards are scholarship $$ and was also the only public school student in my category (history); get fucked kids whose parents spent 20+k on their wack educations. I also entered in and won several essay contests with history related essays. The fact that I really like it helped.

I chose Econ as a minor because Economics and modern history are heavily intertwined though Philosophy and Poli Sci deeply tempted me (I still snuck some of those in as electives).

Work: I worked in a factory all through college and shortly after college and due to injuries suffered there I spent another 5-6 years on the dole for being made unable to work. Then after tons of physical therapy and medication I was able to recover and went for the plan I'd been on 6 years prior, which was to go to graduate school. While in Grad I was made aware of several positions opening at my local history museum (the most highly funded county museum in my state) and I applied and took all of them for myself and promptly dropped out of school.

Now I live the dream. As examples here are some of the things my fellow history alumni are doing with their history degrees:

* Continuing education seminar speaker (basically going into high schools and teaching teachers how to teach history better)
*HS basketball coach
* Elder Law (lawyer)
* Divorce Law (lawyer)
* Grant writer in Manhattan (non-profit)
* Supervisor at UPS
* Director of local economic growth council (not in my county - non-profit)
* Logistics Manager (factory/distribution)

This makes sense in a lot of areas as the scouts are having a lot of trouble recruiting - they already do mixed boy/girl scouts here because there simply aren't enough scouts to have separate organizations or trained/willing leaders for each.

I got the game in the summer after it came out... and I was pretty much hooked since - I've spent nearly a full year of my life playing this game. The reason I didn't buy it in October? I was still on dialup! lol.

If it's the cord losing contact momentarily, I would call zowie or e-mail and see what they'll do for you. If they don't require that the mouse be sent back, then we can move on - if they want you to send it back first then maybe not so much lol.

Only follow this course of action if you're desperate IE you have a back up mouse because you may just end it here or make the problem worse.

Things you'll need:
1. Wire strippers
2. Soldering iron
3. Solder
4. Electrical tape.

Disassemble the mouse as directed make sure everything is connected properly and test the mouse. See if maybe something just needed jolted into place if not, continue.

Use the wire strippers to start cutting the insulation off of the wires. Look for spots in the wire that are frayed or broken. Typically, it happens anywhere where it connects to or abuts a plastic piece or anywhere where it could take damage (cord getting rolled on by chair etc). Broken wire should be pretty obvious it'll look like hair that has been twisted up or just be outright separated.

Once you've found the offending spot(s), heat up your soldering iron. Cut the wires' frayed ends or frayed spots - just cut them out. Then put the two clean cut pieces or bundles of wire back together by overlapping them and twisting them so they become a single wire. Make sure that, once inside, you don't mix up your colors of wires and bond a black to a red (doing each section separately is how I go about it). Then, at the spot you've twisted, heat your soldering iron up to temperature, and place it on the wire (so that it gets hot) and then touch your solder to the iron and it will drizzle over the wire. Remove your iron and make sure you've got some solder all the way around the wire - may require some moving. Once you've finished, put electrical tape over any exposed wires (you can keep or replace any additional insulation that was on the wires prior to your cutting it off), Then plug the thing in and see if you've killed it or fixed it. If it's still screwing up, cut more insulation off and see if you have a break somewhere where you haven't looked - it's not necessary to cut ALL the insulation off - the less you have to cut the better.

This sounds like what happens to headphones a lot where the wires will become frayed internally and cause your audio/mic to cut out periodically.

Now you've learned to solder and can do all sorts of fun stuff with electronics

I tend to favor folding tables just because they're easier to move and clean. The key is the height; it's better that the table be too low and you have to use shims to raise it than for the table to be too high - because in that scenario you're basically screwed unless you want to buy a new chair or invest in mats of varying height to try to raise yourself up. I would recommend going into furniture stores and trying them out (bring a tape measure) or if you have relatives that want to offload a table do the same. I can't emphasize enough how quickly a table that's too high will screw up your back and arms lol.

It depends on the team.

I've been on teams that petered out pretty quickly and thus pre-game scrimming was a bad idea if it went longer than 20-30 minutes because we'd come into the match burnt out.

I've also played on teams where no matter what the first 30 minutes of play would be absolutely horrible, so it was imperative to pre-game so as not to completely blow in an official lol.

I would take your scrims as a guide - if you generally come into a scrim cold and perform well, then hassling with extra scrims likely won't be necessary - if it takes you a few minutes before things start working then it would be beneficial.

I miss my n* engine :( My caddy died a few months ago (it had extensive water damage due to me being a dummy) and I was forced to rush into the market and get the first decent looking thing.

Ended up with a 10' Cobalt that had been sitting in somebody's garage for a year. On the bright side it'll be my first car with less than 100k miles lol. It's nice to go back to only having 2 doors. Not my photo but it's a black cobalt - nothing uncommon or special lol http://images.gtcarlot.com/pictures/53807514.jpg Gave 5.6k for it.