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11 Years Ending…

Poser May 5th, 2009

18 Days, until I walk across the stage at CSU Chico and get handed my (placeholder) Diploma. Jeez, its taken forever but I’m finally graduating, and so ends the Era of School for me.

Yes, I’m finally getting my Bachelors and finishing school. What am I going to do next? I have no idea. Most likely move back home and start the scary process of growing up. I’ve been in “college” for a long long time. I was privileged enough to be a part of many of your lives as you went through school and did your learning thing, and I want to thank everyone of you who was there for me during my school career. It’s been really rough at times, and having friends and family like you has made the whole experience so much more bearable.

I wish I could have every single one of you there at my graduation, celebrating with me when I’m given my collegiate pink slip (diploma) and sent on my way. I want you all to know that when I do take that stage and look out towards the crowd of graduates and their families, I’ll not only see my peers and my family, I’ll see all of your faces too. The many faces that through the years have given me the assistance and encouragement that has helped me plow on and pursue this goal of mine.

I’ll be brutally honest; I never thought I’d make it. Seriously, I always figured I’d drop out and just quit. There were times when it got REALLY hard to focus and do anything productive such as homework, or studying for a test. I can count a handful of times I was going to really really quit, and mostly it was because of money problems or not enough time. Then I’d realize it really wasn’t all that much time, and more money would come after I finished school.

For those that weren’t aware, I’ve been up in Chico, CA attending CSU Chico for the last 3 years. The move up here was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I uprooted myself from a very comfortable place and took my first steps towards actually growing up. I believe I’ve learned more lessons in the 3 years since I came to Chico than probably all of the 26 years I was alive before. Some lessons were more difficult to go through than others, but all of them as a collective have changed me quite a bit. Changed for the worse? I hope not. Changed for the better? I’d like to think so.

Enough rambling and being melodramatic, the point of this post, besides an emotional brain dump, is this:

Thank You.

Thanks to you my friends, who shared your school experiences and wisdom with me to help me cope with the endless hours of, well, whatever it is you do while you’re in college.

Thanks to you my family, who has been there to aide me when I needed it. It’s taken me too long to realize how much God has blessed me with a family that will be there for anything.

Thanks to you Mom, who more than anyone has supported me beyond all anyone can expect from their parents. Everything from not pressuring me to do anything but be happy with my choices, to giving me all the time and space I needed in growing up and figuring out my life. And then there’s the financial support, where I cant even begin to imagine how much you spent on me. Sorry. :-)

Thanks to God, who has heard and answered my prayers when I’ve needed it the most. Unexpectedly to me, you’ve delivered many blessings to me when I thought I wasn’t deserving. Pleasant surprises by which I’ll always worship you for.

All of you, Thank You.

iGreetings

Poser July 22nd, 2008

Hi! I’m just testing the new Wordpress app on my iPhone. Looks like this might be a good way to keep up on the whole blogging thing.

Maybe.

Also, here’s the current background on my phone.

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10k!

Poser July 16th, 2007

I ran a 10k this weekend, and I finished! Romano at work has been training for 10ks and marathons (both 1/2 and full), and I joined him in running a 10k last Sunday, the 15th of July. It was pretty damn fun. The run we did is part of the Jungle Run in Los Gatos. We woke up our boss, Sun Min, early to join us as part of our support team, and headed over to LG at 6.15am. Start time was at 7am, and both Ro and were ready to go for it. Some of Ro’s friends showed, and much chatting was going on before Ro and I lined up with the others and went to runnings.

It was my first actual race since training. I’ve only been training about month now, running on the treadmill at the gym, and I think I did pretty well. I originally started at trying to do my best 3 mile runs, and picked it up a little pushing to complete either an hour of running, or 4 miles, then 5, then 6. I managed to complete a whole 6.2 mile run on the treadmill the Wednesday before the race, and that gave me some confidence for the actual race. Ro has been training longer than I, so I made a plan to try and keep with him as well as I could, then just tone it down I needed. Up until about mile 2.5 I was with him, then backed off to keep myself going without tiring out too soon. At mile 3 I sadly had to stop for a few seconds to re-tie my left shoe, then I was back on the course and finished the race without any more stops, or loose shoelaces. AND, I finished the race in 1 hour, and 30 seconds. By the time I hit the finish line, I was ready to lie down, and/or throw up, but I did neither. I did far better than I thought I would, and I am totally excited about my next race. It was pretty awesome having completed a 6.2 mile race from start to finish, and I’m looking forward to do it again.

Up next is the Silicon Valley Marathon in November.  I’ll be doing the Half Marathon with my girlfriend’s friend Kelly, who is also a runner. I’ll of course be up in Chico, but I’ll be running and training as much as I can, now that I got a great start from the Jungle run. My goal is to finish the 1/2 in less than 2 hours. I figure if I can do the 10k, 6.2 miles, in one hour with a month of training, and I can do twice the distance, 13.1 miles, in about the twice the time or less, with more time to train. I’m kind of way I’ll be able to complete the goal, but I think with enough mental training, and keeping myself fit and well rested, its doable. Until then, wish me luck in my training, and I hope to have more updates more often. :)

Screencast: How to use OpenID

Poser March 8th, 2007

Video showing how to create a new OpenID and use it to log in to different sites without needing to create a new username and password for each one.

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Yay Meebo!

Poser August 17th, 2006

Meebo.com is one of the best sites EVER on the internet. Its a site you can visit in any web browser and log on and chat with either your AIM/ICQ, Y!M (Yahoo! IM), MSN or Jabber account. I used it a ton at my job at the Library to chat during slow times, and now using a MeeboMe widget, you can chat with me now, all in your web browser! Thanks to the MeeboMe widget that I placed on the site bar of this page, you are invited to chat with me if I am logged into my Meebo account. So say hi and get to me, and look into getting Meebo and the MeeboMe widget for your own awesome uses. :)

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