North Pole

 I don't even know where to begin. It's been so long since I've been here. But I guess I'll just start typing. Gotta start somewhere. It's been about 4.5 years since my last post. And despite the countless changes in my life, I don't feel far from where I left off. At this point I'm nearly fully independent. Got the full-time job with the apartment + roommate. And in the past couple years I feel like I've managed to start crawling out of my shell and actually... do things. Travel. Get into hobbies. It's tough. Like, really damn tough. Getting out of bed in the morning is still the hardest thing I do all day. Every day. But I've managed to keep doing it for this long, so I guess I've got that going. Like I said, I got to travel a bunch. Drove over a mountain in a snowstorm while in a tiny FWD hatchback. Flew to New York just to drive across America to LA. Spent a couple weeks in Japan. For the longest time, just leaving town was an immense men...

It's 2020 and I'm still not graduated. It's also been almost 2 years since I posted here. Oops. I also wrote a couple pages about what I was up to and then never posted it. Double oops. Regardless, I'm still alive and kicking. Although I'm moving at a snails' pace, I'm getting closer and closer to finishing my Network Engineering degree, but jumping between temp jobs, combined with terrible spending habits, have slowed me down. Not to mention that the classes I need are really spread apart. Right now I'm signed up for two classes this upcoming quarter, which is gonna followed by three classes, each separated by a quarter. Basically, I'm a year away from graduating with 5 classes left. Definitely not ideal, but it's what I've got to work with. However, I definitely don't regret going into networking. It's made for an interesting hobby and has got me some interesting places. The end goal, however, isn't graduating. The real goa...

Holo Server 2 Or How I Learned To Hate My Desktop So a while back, I purchased a bunch of parts to build a home media server. And after a couple months, decommissioned it and merged it into my current desktop PC. It's pretty cool. Here's a couple problems with it: It's so difficult to move.  With my old build, it was a simple task to move it form one room to the next. I enjoyed being able to move it around as needed, because sometimes I used my computer outside my room.  However, considering the current case is about twice the size and weight of the old one, that's no longer possible to do. And I hate it. Thus, I've ordered a new case that is less than half the size of my old server. It's small and portable. It even has handles for easier moving! Handles! Of all things! The other problem is data management. I have about 5 terabytes of data on my computer as of writing this. And it's great. But managing all of this is a pain. It even slows down m...

A little writing I did. Based on the SCP Universe.                                                                                                                              The following is a document recovered from the home computer of Lieutenant Katherine [REDACTED] after SCP monitoring software detected classified information being stored on the subjects computer. T...

Gonna try some story writing here. It took only one single beep of the alarm to wake Katherine up, but that didn't mean she'd get out of bed willingly. By the time the second buzz has woken her from her slumber, the snooze button had already been slapped, the clock had fallen off the bed side table onto the ground, and the hand already retreated under the covers to hide from the biting cold. Thus, the morning ritual would begin. For the next five minutes, Katherine would drift between dream and reality, doing whatever she could to convince herself that her waking up was the dream. That she could simply go back to sleep without worry. She never would go back to sleep though. Something in the back of her mind was always aware of this and kept her chained to the unhappy reality. Nevertheless, she would fight back, struggling to fight off the harsh truth that nagged the back of her consciousness. It wasn't true. This is just a dream. It's fine if I sleep just a minute l...

Just a few days ago, my sister left for Arizona, returning for her final year of college. She'd come back home for some time to be with family. And with her going back, our parents decided to go with her for a few days to help her move back in. With them gone, me and my brother are left to hold down the fort for a short while. It's about three days since their departure, and something has occurred that happens each and everytime I'm away from my parents for a period of time. I become increasingly productive. In just a short time, I go from lazily moving throughout my day to waking up thinking about what needs to be done that day. What errands should I run? Do the plants need to be watered? Did the dishwasher clean the dishes last night? Does the car need gas soon? Is my phone bill up soon? No doubt, this is much different from my standard self; A version of me that finds it hard to even get out of bed in the morning. Even now, I can feel it. The urge to take care of thi...

Here a few pictures I've taken over the summer. Most of them are from Instagram. My summer was pretty uneventful, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. I don't think I can ask for much more than that. 3:00am. Somewhere in Skamania County.  8:20pm. Downtown Portland while making deliveries with a friend. 5:00pm. Decided to follow a road and see where it went. Got a good view for my troubles 10:00pm. Just north of Seaside. Dusty, old shed. North of Seaside. 9:50pm. North of Seaside. 2:15am with a friend. Pretty grainy photo, but I still like it. Downtown Portland Pizza. On break at work. We get nice sunsets here. Middle of the night while working on computers. This is during the computer migration I mentioned in my previous post.