Here we go again. The Orlando area doesn't need another hit, and neither does the Polk County area (Lakeland). It's still too early to say as this storm track has been updated a few times, but it's still too close to me :-(

Classes have begun

At the last minute I decided not to take the Fall term on hiatus. What is interesting is that I've enrolled in all distance learning classes. I'm familiar with webcourses, but I'm taking a telecourse. I get to watch a lecture for an hour once a week sitting in my living room (or in my world, in front of my pc, tv tuner cards are great).

The subjects?

• Freshman English/English Composition


• Sociology


• Principles of Management

I dont know what I've gotten myself into. The english class will involve alot of reading, and apparently alot of writing. That should be most interesting. The management class I hope to gain some good knowledge to use at work if I get into management training. I don't know why I took the sociology class (perhaps it was the only other class of any lukewarm interest listed as distance learning, other classes i wanted were either closed or cancelled).

We'll see how well this goes I guess....

Comedy

I laughed for about 10 minutes on this one

http://www.karolzyk.com/pee/castin.mov

Lawd Have Mercy

Over the years I've come to love and cherish my broadband connection, currently getting 3mbps. Well Verizon has fiber being laid for FIOS, at speeds up to 15mbps for the same price I pay now. I'm drooling uncontrollably. It states my area may have it available by the end of the year. I've been cell only for years, but it seems now I need to reconnect with verizon home phone service to get this. I'll leave roadrunner forever!!!


Verizon FIOS Home


Verizon FTTP Deployment Center Florida Fiber Deployment

losing one's mind

it's 10:24am in the morning, just got out the shower, i have a mad headache because i'm too stupid to take my blood pressure medication, my feet are killing me and i'm very mad. I've missed 24 minutes of ER already, that's not cool. I'm the only one living here, but yet I can't find my tank tops I just bought last week. I wore one, and the other two were still rolled up in the pack. they were next to my desk. I picked them up and they went somewhere between BFE and oblivion. I've just spent 30 minutes searching 500 sq ft of apartment only to still be nekked from the waist up. I really wanted to wear the second one out of the pack, but this has only worsened the headache that wont go away for another two days anyway. damn this high blood pressure.

I'm still here

As we all know, the storm made a little detour at the last minute. Being this would have been my first hurricane every having to personally experience, I was very scared, but felt blessed as the storm changed its track. But I realized how bad it was for the citizens of Punta Gorda and Charlotte County, as they were less prepared for the storm as we were. There was simply no time for people to evacuate. The damage is breathtaking. And this storm was really a monster!! After making landfall as a category 4, it still had enough punch that it cause major damage in Polk County and the city of Orlando!! Meaning it was on land for about 6 hours or so (and i'm guestimating) and still was strong. At a certain point I feel so guilty and seeing all this incredible damage in other places, when in fact it was supposed to be my home, my neighborhood, my city. I shouldn't have power right now. But we're really not out the woods yet as there are two more storms brewing out in the Atlantic.

I pray for a speedy recovery for all those affected by Hurricane Charley

Hurricane Charley

Well looks like I will be experiencing a direct hit from this hurricane. It is expected to be a category 2. Pictures of it right now are impressive. Traffic leaving Pinellas county (west of me, right on the gulf) is a total nightmare crossing the bridge into Tampa. Businesses are boarding up, I'm actually a little scared now. As it stands we still have to work tomorrow nite!!! We are getting a few rain bands from Bonnie, nothing major, windy and a little rain. I'm having a horrible feeling about this :-(

The weatherman says not to panic, but this thing has a 2 on it and it's like almost on top of Tampa!! Man, when I goto work tomorrow nite, it's going to be hectic to the power of eternity. I don't even want to think about it....

bored

Nothing else to do, havent posted in a while. I'm tired, I've finally reached my weekend, it's raining outside, and I think I'll go back to sleep...