So I have recently imported my livejournal posts… wow some horrible writing going on. Did I not know what spell check was in 2003? In any event I now need to go an categorize all those post to be under the Livejournal heading. How exciting – lets hope I don’t pass out from all the anticipation. #endsarcasm I still need to go through some of those old post… there are so many it’s ridiculous. Found the post where I got my car. How exciting I was when I wrote that post. There are some others I want to just go back and brows through.
Next goal… my myspace blog. Oh man now that is a challenge. I found a guy who wrote an app called myspace blog exporter for it. The application is over two years old though. I could try it but I think in the end I will end up having to import them in the painstakingly slow individual method. In any event that’s a (goal) event for maybe next sunday.
- donte
So as of recent I’ve decided that in 2012 I’m going to learn to code. #random Saw an article over on Mashable about NYC mayor deciding to learn to code. It Sounded fun so I thought to myself why not. I signed up via my iPhone and tweeted my new venture to the world. When I came home, logged into codecademy.com and began doing ‘Getting started with programming’. This is the first in a series of exercises. The first three lessons went by without too much of a incident. It was really quite fun to do and play around with learn. Then came lesson four which started off pretty easy. I made it down to lesson six where I am currently staled.
So here is what they would like me to do.
“See if you can save those letters to a variable named three using the substring() method from above.” ( codecademy, Web. 5 Jan 2011.) So as you can see from the image I captured above I am butchering the code to death! I have seriously tried to interpret this in various different ways and still I get it wrong. I even attempted to get one of my friends to help me but that yielded vacant results. I do have a few friends from UC Merced I know could look at this and solve it in like one minute and tell me what I am missing and how to do it right. However I don’t want to ask them for help cause it’s kind of embarrassing not being able to get something perceived to be so simple. #challenging
So I’ve been Googling around trying to figure out this fun little puzzle. I hope to figure it out before I loose interest totally and give up.
In closing I’m glad that I’ve attempted to do this today. It’s kind of got my dormant writing skills sparked and my creative gears turning. I have wanted to update my blog. I just have not been able to get the words right. I’ve got some post I want to write and hope this helps to open the door to start flooding my site with them.
myName = “Donte” #End
Well now it feels good to be at the keyboard throwing letting onto a blank surface forming words with such calculated reckless abandon. So what happened? Why was my site totally yanked offline? To sum it up sometimes life just happens and you have to let it. In the end eveything is working out, my site is back up.
I must admit I wish I had my site up when I was working on nanowrimo. It would have been motivational to post a excerpt of my story from time to time as i worked on it. I was so busy in November… it was rather foolish of me to think i could write 50K words in the midst of parties, friends and a fun trip to Vegas. Oh well it’s ok do be a little foolish every now and then.
I am going to continue working on my novel despite failing at nanowrimo. Made some cool twitter friends… don’t know if they will be following my drunken tweets all year but that’s neither here nor there. In any event I’m going to bed happy tonight. I have my site up and that’s good news.
- Donte
Recently I’ve been inspired to read more. The group of guys I hang out with read quite a bit more then me. One of them knocks out about four to seven books a month. They read things more in the area of anime, fantasy, or sci-fi. While these things are good I don’t read such things. I’m a pisces and a bit of a romantic. I prefer to read stories about guys falling in love, coming of age, coming out or living in the closet. I guess it’s because these things I can relate too. I will though have to try to take one of my friends books for a read sometime. For now though I’ve started reading Call me by your name by Andre Aciman.
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf since 2009 and only once did I even pretend like I was going to dive into it’s 248 pages. It was recommended to me by a new acquaintance I met while on trip to San Francisco in 2009 to visit my friend Tim, who was in California on business. So all this time I’ve had it on my shelf collecting dust. I’ve manly been reading it at night before bed via a cute little grey book light I got at Target. Two years later I’m finally getting into this book.
So far it’s good. Though I must admit Adre’s writing style is a little different from what I’m used too. I mean I don’t read all the time but I’ve read enough to have a feel for how a story should go. So far I don’t know the main character’s name. Now it is possible I could have missed it though that’s unlikely. The story is written from adolescent boys point of view. So far no one has called him by name, and only once so far have I seen the name of summer guest who has come to visit and caught the interest of our main character. I’m excited to read more tonight and see how things develop.
#readmore 
I’ve still got a ton of work to do but it will be done over time. I’m in that state where everything is coming together with new ambition. I’m excited for I can see where I want things to go and ways of getting there. I’ve got themes to try, ideas to implement, and goals to meet. Over time the newness will wear off though I feel the site will continue to reinvent it’s self as it takes on a mind of it’s own.
I’m excited by the possibilities.
Wow haven’t been on LJ in what feels like generations. Did not think this thing would still be sitting here. However it is. Still full of all my sinsical rants of 2005. I talked so much about nothing it’s amazing. lol. Oh well that was me. Well now will I be on here more? I don’t know. I have a blog on myspace, a blog on my website I even have a blog that I blog about my blog in lol (j.k). I also have a off line journal. To much writting. I think i should be a writer. Now where would the fun (or money) be in that?
- donte
Well I got my little, puney closet cleaned up finally. That was a real pluse for me to see that small closet clean and unclutterd. I feel accomplished and good. Damn I feel good. I also got stuff organized here around my desk. Not perfect but better then it was. More
Well now, I havent posted on my live journal in a lifetime.It’s because I ahve been over at myspace.com trying to get INTO that. It sux. Everyone on myspace is board. I mean it’s gr8 to be connected to people or whatever but no one talks all people do there is post stupid things that they would normally send to you in a email (spam). It really sux trying to talk to people then having them not message you back. I took Cameron off my list, Qweenes somewhat happy about that, I’m rather nutral. I only did it because well 1 i still like him and i think i always will… and two he never messaged me back after like 4 messages. I know it would never work out… me and him that is… oh well what can you ?
Today I got to work and there were two new team members waiting for me. I was like WTF? I was training people. Lucky me, i didn’t even know it till that moment. I like the people i am training as they are smart so i don’t have to baby sit to much. I can relax a bit and just walk around and do other stuff. Blah. There is also this cute new operator guy… i’m sure he’s gay but i havent asked him so right now I am operating off of gaydar and need to just ask him. hell maybe he wouldnt mind going on a date with me.
In WOW, I just turned LVL 40. It’s super gr8 to be lvl 40 because being lvl 40 people take you serious. Your no longer some piece of shit running around the game that people roll there eyes at. When your lvl 40 it shows commentment to the game, and I belive people respect me more… well eccept for my friend Crazyboyz who probably hates me now becuase I didnt take him with me to SM (scarlet Monistary) because he was only lvl 35. Though i had a lvl 35 druid with me in there and he did just nicely so i will see if he will go with me tonight.
in closing, i was thinking, I like to write. Maybe I should be a writer… it’s just I don’t get to into any one thing. Maybe if i got into writing and made it like one of the things I did allot, then I would be better at it. I write in my journal all the time, hell i have journals dating back to 8th grade year. It’s fun to just read them soemtiems. Blah anyway it’s almost time for jam to go back to work. I wonder if anyone even knows this journal is around any more… I had people who would read this before I disapeird off of the LJ … now i need to start again and post on other people to gain respect int he Lj community again.
~ AMXP
Oh hell I didnt even know I still had a LJ account. Hmmm. I have been using my Blog over at Myspace. wonder if I can transfer this one over
Yay i am doing good in my “diet”. I am not really dieting, i have just lowered my in take of food throughout the day. I am not longer eating every hour. Then i am also going to the gym, so i think this summer i will really have my abs back. anyway last night at city nights in frisco me and the candice had fun. I will have to tell you all about it. let’s see i don’t go to work for like a few more minutes let me work this…
Well we got there and you who know me know how i like to go on journys and shit to eat! Well me and miss candice went trampsing around SF lookin for food. We asked some guy where the yellow M was and he was like go this that way and another blah. So we did. We got there and inside there was all these familys of mexicans and asians and some black guy who looked like he worked for wall mart, so i was like Um… candice I don’t wanna eat here. I think that bitch wanted to attack me because she was the hungary and 3/4ths. So we went out of there, back on to market street! Whaa! and we wound up walking buy some poor guy who began screaming and shit. I was like okay just keep walking. We popped into wendies and the people who worked there were all ASIAN. I was like Okay. Then they didnt and i repeat this for the next generation… they did not have a 99 cent menue! I was like oh hell no! you bitchz bearly speak english then no 99c. Blah anyway i orded something with meat bacon and bread and aaron called and wanted me to know how life in WOW was going. To sum it up, he’s kicking ass and taking names. Well anyway i have to go so let me sum it up! I danced with boys, gay boys none where str8. I liked this HELLA hot ASIAN guy who was like 6,1 and beautiful. Shoulda so danced with him *smacks self* I know surrounded by gay bois and still hesatant to flert. I’ll fix that. Anyway blah we had fun in the car on the way home candice was hella cool she offered to help me pay for gas. I let her pay for the parking, but i took care of everything else. I thought that was awsome of her. she will most def be going with me again. so much more happend i wish i could blab more but gotta work this smile at the Tar Tar.
They were so many gays…. theamericanXP
