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- So...you want some news? Well you've come to the
right place (or at least I hope), I'll try to keep this page
updated with stuff going on with me or anything else interesting.
For more Jason news look at this page, it is the news page from Amanda
and Jason.
- 1/16/01 9:25 pm
- Apologizes...and more apologizes...I'm not really
sure how many people actually check up on my page (I could check
up on it but I don't)...so if you are or (were) a frequent visitor
you probably aren't any longer. Well...obviously if you are reading
this, you came back...and I thank you. I guess that I got kind
of burnt out with updating the page and not having a bunch of
visitors...well...I'm going to keep pounding away and hopefully
a person trickles in every once in a while! Hmm...so what is
new with me...the new semester is in full swing...my schedule
is better this year (as of now it feels that way). I just had
a National Guard drill this past weekend...cleaned a lot of M16's,
and also had some classroom work. Amanda and I stayed in a hotel...we
will probably not stay in that same one again...it was kind of
pricey (for a "discount" one). Plus, they wouldn't
let her stay until 4pm, when my day was over. I bought a digital
camera a couple of weeks ago...it takes some great pictures...when
I get some decent ones that I'm not afraid to put up to your
wary eye, they'll be here in the pictures sections. I'm not sure
how I'm going to display theme yet...doing thumbnails takes a
while (hours!), but it looks good...so I may do them again or
just have a couple pictures on each page...we'll see what I decide
on! Well...thanks for coming back and seeing what is new with
me...I'll TRY to update this more...see ya!
- 12/21/00 11:51 pm
- Hello, and welcome again to Jason's news...the place
where you can always find Jason's ramblings about absolutely
nothing. I notice, reading through my last couple updates that
I haven't really rambled too much lately...guess I need to find
a hot (well...luke warm) topic and really go off. I'm also going
to have to divide this page up into multiple pages...it is getting
a tad large! I copied and pasted it into a word processor...over
6 pages...single spaced! So, I guess that I have rambled pretty
good! Ok...on to what is new with me...absolutely nothing. It
is cold, snow is on the ground, my feet are always cold. They
aren't too bad when I have socks on...but when I'm barefoot it
stinks. I have even on occasion "borrowed" Amanda's
Elmo slippers. My feet are a little big for them but they keep
me from losing a toe to gangrene. As I type, I'm making some
MP3's...I have about 900 or so right now...and I have a couple
dozen CD's that I want to make into MP3's so that I can listen
to them again...it is just SO much work going into the other
room and getting a CD. Well...part of the problem is that my
CD player attached to my stereo isn't working...I've been meaning
to get it fixed for about a year now. I also fixed something
on my computer...but I won't bore you with that. Last week I
did quiet my computer down though...I have an excess of fans
in it (CPU fan, Power supply fan, case fan, slot exhaust fan),
and one of them was making my case vibrate terribly. It was so
loud you could hear it in the other room. I made sure all the
fans were tight, and that didn't help...to make a long story
short the cure was a folded piece of paper taped to the side
of the drive bays. Works like a charm...now all that I hear is
the hum of fans moving lots of air. Just wanted to pipe it in...my
case temperature generally is below 80 degrees Fahrenheit, it
ranges between 75 and 80. I am quite pleased, the addition of
the case and the exhaust fan lowered my case temperature roughly
10 - 12 degrees. Which I've read, that a 10 degree reduction
in temperature equals a 3 year life of product extension. Ok...that's
about it for now (see I did find some stuff to ramble about!).
Have a good night!
- 12/19/00 10:20 am
- Hello, just thought that I'd update the page since
Amanda did the other page today....can't let her get more updates
in then me (she only has about a month to catch up on!). Today
was another uneventful day...lots of laying around so there isn't
really any exciting news...you always know it's a lazy day if
you spend more than 1/2 of it horizontal! We haven't been out
of the apartment since we went to the movies and that was two
days ago. Tomorrow we'll be getting out and going shopping...wooho!
Get to see some more people! I've been particularly jumpy today...Amanda
scared the crap out of me...she scared me so bad she actually
felt bad! I also had the shock of unknowingly watching the Teletubes
today...it was a very shocking experience. Well...that's about
it...maybe tomorrow I will have something interesting to say!
- 12/18/00 1:07 am
- Hello, just got back from the movies. We went to
see the movie that we missed yesterday. We watched "What
Women Want". It is that new one with Mel Gibson in it...it
was really good. I laughed pretty hard and times and I'm sure
that I embarrassed Amanda :) Well, that's ok...it was worth it....the
first 3/4's of the movie was really good...then the last 1/4
had lost the original flavor. Kinda like after you eat that twentieth
Twinkie. Well...we are probably going to watch a movie...maybe
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation or something funny...we'll
see...'Night.
- 12/17/00 5:16 pm
- Hello, how is everything going for you? Hopefully
everything is fine. Things are pretty good here in apartment
2020. Last night Amanda and I were having a little night out
and we got caught in a "blizzard". We went to the mall
to pick up a few things...then we went to eat at Lonestar. Amanda
and I both had some nice meat...I love their steaks! Then we
went out to the car and we were caught in an impromptu blizzard.
We decided that we better can the movie we were planning on seeing.
We came back and had a nice evening at home. That was until I
fell asleep watching the movie :) Today was a lazy day...well
kinda. Amanda and I cleaned up the computer room...we bought
a six foot bookshelf the other day and now we have a nice organized
area....no more books on the floor! Now Amanda won't be embarrassed
to show people this room. Well...tonight we are probably going
to watch the movie we were meant to yesterday...also the first
truck I've seen today is FINALLY deciding to clean our parking
lot...also we never got our paper today! UGGH...well...take it
easy.
- 12/16/00 1:30 am
- I fixed the pictures...you all better like them...another
hour into this...and I haven't even started the updates yet.
One other neat thing...I think that a car is going to smack into
the dumpster or a car in front of the apartment. There has been
two very close calls...its fun (now that Amanda's car is out
of the way) because I can sit on the computer and watch the action...hehe.
- 12/16/00 12:39 am
- Ok...I just checked my page...my picture page w/the
thumbnails is WAY too big...I'm going to have to split that into
two or three different pages...it takes (according to my program)
like 5 minutes to load over 28.8...that is way too big...guess
my ADSL gives me a false sense of security...I'll try to get
it fixed soon. Thanks
- 12/15/00 9:52pm
- You all should feel spoiled...two updates in a day!
I put the pictures up...I've been working on it for a couple
hours...enjoy...no more news.
- 12/15/00 12:58 am
- Hello, it's me again. Attempting to do another news
section. Well...there isn't much news for me...we got some snow...I
love snow. That is as long as its not snowing and not too cold
out. If it is then I could take it or leave it. Well, we finally
know who the next President is going to be....too bad my little
conspiracy theory didn't pan out true. The people that are probably
the saddest of anyone in the country has to be the news media.
They have been eating this up...it was their headline story every
night....super drama for like 36 or 35 days. Well...it sure beat
hearing about murders and crime. Ok...I'm finally going to add
some pictures to the homepage! Aren't you excited? I bet you
are...I'm scanning tomorrow...hopefully they will be up sometime
in the next week so be sure to check back! I think I have like
40 pictures...but not all of them will probably go up right away...plus
I still have to find some more of some other friends. Ok...that
about does it for tonight....see ya!
- 12/12/00 11:14 pm
- Hello and once again...welcome to Jason's thoughts
and news. Nothing is really new with me....probably the most
current news is I'm ticked. I'm ticked about the elections and
I'm ticked at Microsoft for having Hotmail not working for me!
I rely on my e-mail...and it's not working...and I rely on Democracy...and
it's sorta not working. Yeah it's working but...this is pitiful!
It's taking way too long...the Supreme Court is going to have
the final word...why don't the just rule. Hear me out...what
is going to happen is the Florida Supreme Court is going to have
the same opinion as they did last week...wanting the recounts
to go forward...Bush will appeal and the US Supreme Court will
FINALLY use their power and pass a ruling. This is crazy...this
goes to show everyone that there needs to be some major election
reform...like limits on the amount spent on campaigns...and some
type of centralized election committee. The recent Supreme Court
ruling does have one thing right...the only thing that seems
clear is that the people need to be heard...and the voters of
Florida aren't being heard...come on lets find out who is President
before the Speaker of the House takes over when there isn't a
decision by Inaguaration Day! Ok...thats my rant.
- 12/10/00 2:27 am
- Hello, and welcome to Jason's life. Not much is new
since my last update...but it's been a couple days so I'll at
least ramble for a couple line (as you know that won't be ANY
problem). Today (well..."yesterday") I had a one day
drill. It was the Class A (dress uniform) inspection. Everything
went ok...nothing special. I didn't have to donate blood so I
was happy...not like I'm as needle-phobic as before...but just
having one stuck in my arm for 10 minutes...nope. I really have
a lot of respect for those that give blood often...it says something
about them and their commitment to helping others. I'd do it
if I wouldn't pass out like a girl every time. Hmm...what else...I
went to Amanda's Dad's today...we had meatloaf (I've been wanting
it for a while...she has never got around to cooking it though).
Nothing else is new...Amanda is asleep and I'm about ready to
hit the sack. I'm really looking forward to winter break and
a nice update of this page...at least put the pictures on (believe
it or not I have a couple scanned...just not enough to put on)...I'm
not just going to put on two or three and make it look stupid....gotta
do it 100%. I think that I might make 2 or 3 little branch off
webpages that have their own topic...and won't be classified
as my "home page". Well...goodnight everyone!
- 12/7/00 12:08 am
- Ok...I know...it's been a long time since an update...well...I've
been busy! I'm sure none of you are distraught from my lack of
news. Well...you'll probably be disappointed...not much has happened
in the last couple days. I've been getting my Class A uniform
ready for inspection Saturday...fun fun. It was a mad hunt to
find my rank insignia...but finally I found it! I've had a bunch
of papers to do...and the work isn't stopping yet! End of the
semester is always tough! I have a couple new ideas for the page
floating around...I'm going to add them pretty soon...I also
have a couple Amanda quotes to add to my quotes page...I'll be
adding those shortly! Well...I'm going to go read some more Bag
of Bones, I'm almost done and it's about ready to explode
(if you read Stephen King you'll know what I mean!).
- 12/3/00 4:12 am
- Hello everyone, it's me. Would you look at the crazy
time! It's 4 am...I was up waking up at this time during the
summer and I'm not in bed yet now. Tonight was Amanda-less...so
it was odd. She went to Indy to visit some old friends of hers...and
I stayed here...I went to a friends place...we play Team Fortress,
cards, and watched TV. It was pretty fun...hadn't done anything
with them in a while so it was nice. Also ate cheese sticks from
Mad Mushroom at like 2:20am. I haven't had them forever and they
were really good!!!! That's one thing that I miss living away
from campus...the cheese sticks! Hmm...what else...Amanda got
glasses yesterday (THANK YOU GOD). She has pretty much perfect
eyesight when the sun is out...but when the sun goes down her
eyes shut off! She can't see anything at night and it really
is quite scary. The glasses she got are quite cute...and she
won't be wearing them all the time...but I still might put a
picture of her in them on here. Hmm...what else...oh yeah...I
ate at Pepe's last night...I've been craving Fajita's lately
and my craving was solved at long last! Well...that will about
do it...I'm off to bed to read...I'm reading Stephen King's Bag
of Bones it's pretty good so far! Took a while to get moving...but
now it's going pretty good.
- 12/1/00 7:03 pm
- Geez, it's December...hard to believe...kind of fitting
though that it's the first day of December and we get snow. Mother
nature must be watching her calender a little more than usual.
Yep, I finished that paper that I was working on...turned out
over 20 pages in one day. Pretty impressive huh? Now, it will
be even more impressive if I get a decent grade on it. Maybe
if I get that ok grade (C or better), I'll put the paper on here
and your can read my handy work. With snow all around and the
inevitable slickness of ice and slush I once again realize that
I'm a big clutz I am. Now, I do not normally trip and fall but
at least once twice (or more) I'm bound to bust my butt during
the winter. It usually happens at inopportune times, but me falling
is inevitable. Hopefully no one witnessing my acrobatics first
hand, as I will probably be very embarrassed. I watched Jerry
Springer with Amanda today when I came home from school, it was
one of the best I have ever seen. It consisted of a man that
liked to act like a dog and he needed a dominatrix to have control
of him since he couldn't fess up to his girlfriend about his
fetish. Well...the ensuing fight between the doggies girlfriend
and the dominitrix was highlighted by the dogs licking of two
audience members feet. It was also the only episode where one
couple took the entire amount of time...I guess they are running
low on white trash or something...you know...have to ration them
off. Well...tonight I may be going to a party...can't even remember
the last time I went to one...hopefully I remember what they
are like :) Well, take it easy. Also added another link.
- 11/30/00 1:01 am
- Hey...I think that I had a couple site visitations...boy
do I feel special. Thank you to everyone that took a few minutes
to come see my waste of time! Well....hopefully it wasn't too
much of a waste of time...and if it was please tell me about
it so that I feel like crap and try to fix it. Hopefully you
spent your evening being very productive...I tried but it just
didn't work. Remember in the Flinestones where Fred would have
the angel and the devil on his shoulder...well tonight that angel
wasn't pitching a very hard argument. Oh well...gotta let the
demons out every once in a while! Two days of nice weather and
now it's all yuck and like Indiana out. I'll take 20's and 30's
as long as it's not windy and not raining. I'm not yet to the
point where I'm wishing it was the summer again...I just keep
thinking of this past summer where it was like 105 every day
and I was wearing long sleeves and outside all the time and realize
that gloves and a hat aren't all that bad. My computer is being
stupid...tried installing some Internet Explorer tools and it
pooped out on me...it would freeze up every time I tried to start
up...I did system restore but it didn't help. I can get it to
run but I have to pick cancel for the network login. Sorry, I
didn't really want to whine and cry on here about my computer
problems but I don't think that Amanda cares to here them :)
She has enough of me on the computer as it is. I got out the
old laptop to write a paper on...less distractions on that one...seemed
to work pretty good...but I've forgotten how small that keyboard
really is. I'm also going to be making a page soon that has links
to all my friends home pages...I have a couple friends that have
pages and to be nice I'll link to them. Most of the pages haven't
been updated in a while but for the most part you'll get the
jest of it. Well...I'm outta here...my new nighttime show Blind
Date (the link is on my links page)
is on in a little bit. See ya!
- 11/28/00 7:35 pm
- Hello, it's me again...nothing really exciting has
happened...and my updates have been getting less frequent. Guess
that I'm getting bummed out about no one coming to visit my page.
Guess I don't have anything all that interesting. Guess I better
put something interesting on here like monkey's that smoke or
something. We've been having computer problems...I think that
Amanda's hard drive is going out...it's one of the few components
left from her Comcrap computer. Really...never buy one of those...they
suck really bad. We were thinking about putting up the Christmas
tree today but that never came about...I'm sure that we'll put
it up before the big day. Speaking of the big day...it's less
than a month away...kind of scary huh? I've also added a couple
more links! Please, if you have an interesting page or know of
one send me the link so I can add it! Thanks! Well...I'm off...have
a good night
- 11/26/00 2:42pm
- Wow...no update yesterday...hopefully everyone was
able to recover and not suffer any permanent trauma. Yesterday
I went to Amanda's dad's side of the family for a belated Thanksgiving...hey
there is nothing wrong with having an extra meal! Today Amanda
is working from 3-10 :( So hopefully Wes gets here soon so I'm
not here all by myself...you know all that cabin fever stuff...don't
want me to go Waco or something. Today looks like it's another
crappy day in Indiana...nothing but rain...and it seems to be
a lot colder today than yesterday...gotta love Indiana. Purdue
beat number one Arizona yesterday...hopefully we didn't get the
highlight of the basketball season in the second game! Hopefully
there is a lot more! I have a bunch of school work to get working
on...so today will probably be boring day. I also have to do
a bunch of cleaning...so it's even more fun! See ya!
- 11/24/00 10:30pm
- Hello everyone! Everyone eat a bunch of left over
turkey today? Hopefully you stuffed your faces really good the
day after. They had "The Nutty Professor" on Fox tonight...hopefully
no one ended up like Prof. Klump after two days of binge eating.
I'm back in Lafayette...boy this city is kinda dead with Purdue
on break. Did I mention Wednesday night we went to the movies?
Yeah, I went...but the kicker was that Amanda and I had to move
3 times. We got there early...was sitting down enjoying our popcorn
when a group of people sat down. Well these people reeked...so
we moved...and two guys walked in. They had been smoking something
and had BO worse than the first people so we moved again. What
is with people not showering? Now...I'm not super smell sensitive
but jeez...don't people smell themselves when they stink that
bad? That is my suggestion for today...take 5 minutes and shower...and
next time you are in the grocery store buy some deodorant...it
really does wonders. Ok...enough of me ranting...I've just been
disturbed a couple times this year by smelly people...I might
start carrying a bottle of Febrez around with me and start spraying
people instead of moving next time. Bye.
- 11/24/00 12:56pm
- I told you I could not stand it any longer...I took
the wooden wrist rest off of the keyboard drawer. I have a removable
one that came with my keyboard I'll try for a while. Hopefully
that is better. It's a little slick...but it's not permanent
like the other one...this one can be removed in a nice fragging
session of Counterstrike! "We all go a little crazy sometimes"
- 11/24/00 12:56pm
- Wow...look at this an update at another normal time...jeez...must
have been all that turkey I ate yesterday. Amanda and I just
got back from my parent's after spending Thanksgiving with them.
Hopefully everyone ate bunches and avoided the malls this morning.
Thanksgiving break is at least not flying by...it feels like
a sort of mini-vacation so far. I'm really getting to hate this
keyboard I have...its really annoying me...or maybe it's the
wrist rest...well...something has to change. UGG...I just got
more junk mail. Don't you hate Spam...it has to the be the worst
4 letter word in the world. I must get between 5 and 10 a day.
Well...take it easy.
- 11/23/10:08am
- I just added some more to my links page...be sure
to check it out. Well...its actually pretty late...dinner starts
at 2pm...so it's time for me to take a shower! Have a great Thanksgiving!
- 11/23/00 1:11am
- Jeez...what is up with me and early morning updates...I'll
have to try and actually update before 8pm sometime...Yeah right...we
can only dream. It is officially Thanksgiving, but in my eyes
the next day doesn't start until I wake up...so even though it
is Thursday, it's really Wednesday. Today was a fun day...I got
to sleep in (thank God for breaks) and wore my PJ's most of the
day. I also dyed Amanda's hair a dark brown and then highlighted
it...it surprisingly looks ok...she seems to like it. She was
a little nervous while I was working on it though! We also went
to see Unbreakable which ended up being an OK movie, but
different than I thought. We then went to Steak and Shake, where
for the first time ever we got waited on like a normal restaurant.
Kudos to our waiter...he must have been new because usually after
they've worked a day or two they don't care what happens to you!
Well...that's it for now...have a happy Thanksgiving!
- 11/22/00 12:31am
- Hello out there in internet land...how are you tonight?
I'm pretty good...what can I say...I'm on Turkey Break! Practically
a whole week of pretty much nothing to do but sit around, do
a half dozen papers (well...4) and watch a bunch of TV. Tonight
I ate at some new buffet...it was ok but nothing too special...I've
never been too big of a fan of buffet food after living in the
dorms...it all tastes mass produced! Tonight Amanda actually
tried to play Counterstrike...she did pretty good on the training
level but when she tried playing online against real opponents
they slaughtered her. She could have had a frag but she had trouble
aiming...I think with a little work she'll be good (note...a
little work...she'll never work again so her being good is out
of the question!). Tomorrow I might be lucky enough to dye Amanda's
hair...we bought the color and she is entrusting me to do it
:) Well...you have a good night...and a good Thanksgiving!
- 11/20/00 10:30pm
- Monday ended up not too bad after all! My classes
were ok, nothing too special...just so darn cold out. With the
wind chill it was below zero...so it was nice and chilly out.
Got home from classes and I got my Toshiba stuff (because my
floppy on my laptop is faulty I get free stuff) a ZIP USB drive,
a USB FM radio, USB hub, and a USB game pad. I also ordered a
mouse pad with a gel wrist rest for Amanda but that hasn't came
yet. Then I went to the mall with Amanda, her mom and her sister.
Then we went out to eat at Lonestar (my favorite steak house!).
Lastly it was a trip to Wally World where I got a new surge protector...I
have been out of room for a while and decided it was time to
upgrade so I got a nice one that lets me have almost all my stuff
plugged in. One more day and Thanksgiving Break!! Woohoo!!!
- 11/20/00 10am
- Well...it's 10am and I had the pleasant surprise
of waking up and realizing that I slept through my chemistry
lab. Wonderful huh? Well...it's like the first time all year
so all hope is not lost :) When I lived close to campus it seems
like sleep in's were much more common...now they are not...probably
because you live 15 minutes away so you have to plan so far in
advance for class and stuff. I just looked out the window and
it's snowing...gotta love Indiana...we'll have 80 degrees tomorrow.
Monday's suck don't they?Monday's suck don't they?
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