This is what i think

So Lockheed Martin wants to send me to San Diego too…

I think I’m gonna say no to that one, i would like to spend some of my summer break with my FRIENDS.

Amazing… for this work week I already have 34 hours (sat,sun,mon,memorial day hours) i have a guaranteed 8 hours on friday, when i’m travelling… that’s 42 hours for those of you good with math, and i still have THREE MORE DAYS OF WORK that’s going to be around 66 hours +/- (around 26 hours overtime)
that’s 60% of my time awake!

all i can say is WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

whew, got that out of my system

I WANT TO GO HOME

I miss killing my friends in halo and sleeping in my own bed (the BOQs suck big donkey balls)

I don’t understand this… BOQ= Bachelor Officer Quarters
Note: there are 2 beds per room (like a normal hotel room… but this are probably the smallest possible twin size bed… I’m 5′10″ and my feet hang off the end of the bed… WHAT THE CRAP?????

Thanks for the input girls on the watch, you both get cookies!!!

ok, i’m going to go back to respond to erin’s blog, then go back to work, then hopefully to sleep (we have stuff going on until 0230 (that’s in the AM)

ITCTC

~Martz

Wow, long day today (8 hours of work, on a sunday, in the bahamas)

no, i didn’t finish just now, i was actually in my room watching The Sum of All Fears on cinemax, good movie, i recommend it (the book was good too, though i didn’t quite finish it).

This brings me to part of my topic in the subject line: Russian

I think russian is an awesome language and intend to learn to speak it. My friend Armando…

SHOUT OUT TO ARMANDO!!!!!! Hey buddy!

… let me rip some “learn to speak russian” cds so i’ve been going through those (i’m on lesson 2 of it’s pretty cool, but really really hard to pronounce, i’m getting better at it though, those cds are actually quite informative.

this brings me to the next part of my subject line: plans for next year

Ford (my awesome roommate for next year) and I are going to learn to speak it, at least enough that we can talk to each other not having anyone else knowing what we’re saying. It should be pretty cool, and those cds will help us (i have other tools at my disposal as well)

what other things do i want to learn:
throw knives
russian
guitar (you can never learn too much)

SHOUT OUT TO ADAM: electric next year man, yeah! (still gonna play some acoustic though)

to learn (cont’d):
my academic stuff of course
ummmmmm that’s all that i can think of at the moment

only problem with these russian cds: I won’t know how to read or write in russian

next year is going to be frickin awesome, thanks mostly to all of my awesome friends!

Ok, goin to get in my golf cart, drive back to my room, and probably goto bed

later folks,

Per Aspera Ad Astra
&
ITCTC

~Martz

Greetings,

Ok, so i at the beginning of the summer i decided this: 25% of my earnings from work will go towards personal/fun stuff, 100% of my overtime will go towards personal/fun stuff and everything else will go towards school (i’m paying for a lot of my schooling, grrr) so i’ve been accumulating a list of stuff i’m going to buy:

1. New cell phone: $100-200 (stupid verizon wireless)
2. New Watch? $100-200

help me decide:
2 choices for the watch:
1.: http://www.dakotawatchco.com/DWC/detail.asp?ID=86 (black)
2.: http://www.dakotawatchco.com/DWC/detail.asp?ID=87 (silver)

your opinion counts!

ok…
3. Components for my desktop computer (couple hundred)
4. x-box game (1 or 2) and buy a subscription to x-box live ($?)
5. Misc. movies and food and stuff

for a reason unknown to me, i apparently need my parents approval to buy stuff… and they’ve turned down 1 & 2 before. Since I’m doing so much overtime though they really have no choice, because I worked for it and stated originally that my overtime goes towards fun stuff. Thank you Lockheed Martin!

So at work today it was pretty funny… I was doing those computer intensive audio analysis again (it takes like 10 minutes to run one file) and i was playing minesweeper while it did those calculations (it was the only thing that kept me concious honestly) when the Lieutenant Commander comes in and sees me playing it.

ok, lets face it, LtCmdrs are high in rank, right, so i thought OH SHIT

you know what he said?

you can finish the game faster if you doubleclick using the left and right mouse buttons at the same time

he gave me tips (that i didnt know about) for playing minesweeper

WHEW

(I was honestly doing work though, seriously)

On a school-business note: I have completed 99% of the RHF budget and am only awaiting feedback from some people! Sweet!

ITCTC

~Martz

DONE!!

well, for today… i definately have to work tomorrow… and the day after that… and the day after that… until wednesday (i’m thinking i’m gonna take thursday off).

in the mean time, i’m going to take some spark tests to find out stuff about me:

Hot Cha! You are:
73% Dateable!
That’s higher than the Worldwide Dateability Average of 63%!
86% less dateable than you — 5% like you — 9% more dateable than you

ok… not bad…

RANDOM SHOUTOUT TO FORD!!! hey buddy, hope tech’s treatin ya well

The results are in! You are…
72% Untelligent!
You kick ass! Your score is higher than the current worldwide average of 64%!

is that good?

enough of that…

so today at work wasn’t too bad. it was nice because while waiting for my computer to do it’s massive calculations and waveform analysis i got to play some riveting games of… minesweeper… with myself. I’m about to leave the office and go work on the RHF budget

oh, Belle… I’m sorry, but your sand dollar broke (those things are really fragile, oops) sorry, but you can have one of the spiraly shells.

if i finish the budget early, i may come back to post again (i have 24 hour access to the command center, so it works out)

ITCTC

~Martz

So for RHF aside from putting together the kick ass budget (yet to be completed, but 90% done) I have to write 15 goals before the summer officer retreat at the end of june (actually, they’re “due” before that, but i dont remember when).

I don’t even remember the categories, I think they were 5 personal, 5 academic, and 5 RHF goals

there were three sets of 5 though, i know that much

(no order)
Personal
1. be motivated
2. be a good friend
3. find someone to be with
4. go into space (long term goal)
5. be happy

Academic
1. get straight A’s
2. improve GPA (related to 1.)
3. work harder
4. schedule my time out
5. have fun (yes, that’s an academic goal)

RHF
1. get RHF on college humor
2. complete budget
3. make things as easy as possible for the other officers
4. improve the quality of resident’s life
5. have fun

I think that this seems to be a good list. That was actually easier to do than i thought… i’m going to email it to Jeremy (rhf pres) now… hold on a sec…

ok, now that that’s done… do you have any goals for the upcoming year?

RANDOM SHOUT OUT TO COONEY: dude, i can’t wait to get home… amazingly enough…

I would imagine that a lot of mine are not unique to me. Who doesn’t want to be happy or have fun or improve their grades?

for grades: i have to get focused! i didn’t fail out of any classes last semester, but my grades sucked big time… i can do a lot better, and should be. the sad part is that i didnt even have any distractions… sure, you may think you were one but you weren’t… i was just lazy.

RANDOM SHOUT OUT TO ERIN: hope you had fun at your new job, congrats

I have a headache… which reminds me…

don’t you wish that headaches were actually caused by your brain adjusting to new mental powers (telekinesis, x-ray vision, whatever) that would be really cool. I bet if that happened people would welcome them (duh, right?) Having a superpower would be really cool…

IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE OF THE THREE SUPERPOWERS LISTED BELOW, WHICH WOULD YOU WANT??
Invisibility (you can “turn it on or off as you wish”
X-Ray Vision (i.e. bone x-ray and/or see through clothing x-ray)
Superspeed/strength (i.e. run fast, dodge bullets, etc; and strength because being able to run fast implies strength)

I’m only going to comment on the one I would choose: superspeed/strength
There’s a lot you can do with an ability like that. You wouldn’t need a car for instance. You could use your powers for good (or evil) Despite what some of you would think, i would use them for good, hopefully saving people and such.

~Martz