hellziggy

School is over for the semester! I'm pretty sure I pulled in A's in both classes. Mostly I'm just glad to be done! Even though other classes have had more homework and more computer projects, for some reason this semester seemed more tiring and harder than past ones. Maybe it's the job stress...

Now that school is done and I'm down to about a month and a half left at the job it's about time for me to find my resume, dust it off, and do a major update!

Seven years! It's been seven years since I last looked for a job. This just seems really surreal since before this my longest time at a job was three years.

Anywho, MySpace. I know that potential employers now days tend to do google searches and look at things like MySpace.

I don't actually use my MySpace for much of anything. I rarely even look at it. I don't like MySpace. Also, MySpace is one of the few places online that I am searchable by my real name but also have the HellZiggy name. When you search my RealFirstName RealLastName there are 28 of us on MySpace, but I am the only one in Minnesota and also there is a picture of me.

So, while there is nothing incriminating or embarassing on MySpace it could potentially lead people here. As y'all know, I'm not one of those LJ'ers who puts everything up under flock. I'm relatively open, and I do have some filters but rarely use them. I don't know that there is anything here that potential employers will have a problem with but I also don't want to lead anyone straight here.

Should I just delete my MySpace? Is there really any good reason to keep it? Will just the simple act of deleting it increase my IQ by 20 points? Feel free to put any arguements for or against deleting it in comments.

As far as going back and doing a blanket friends-only lockdown on my LJ, I don't see that ever happening. I have some friends who don't have accounts and read it. Also, I'm just not that paranoid about all the people out there on the internets. Without LJ I wouldn't have met lovely people like boliviafang, dibsy, kniblet, irish_dragon, caoilainn and all the others I knew on LJ before meeting in real life for the first time.

I don't advertise the name "hellziggy" to everyone I meet but I don't hide it either. I'm not sure my mom or dad or brother know that it is my online name, but I wouldn't freak if they found out.

I originally wanted the name "ziggy" when I got on LJ but it was, of course, taken. Now, if it became available, I know I would not buy a rename token to change my name. I may have never been HellZiggy before signing onto LJ four and a half years ago, but now that identity *is* me. I've got a wonderfully unique situation with names online. If you google "hellziggy" it is ALL me. If you google my entire full legal name there are no hits. If you google just my first and last name there are a ton of hits but most aren't me because it's a relatively common last name with a less common first name. I like my different levels of googlability. I also like the fact that if any of y'all see a HellZiggy anywhere out there on the internets and tubes it is me.

Damn. This simple "should I delete my MySpace account" has turned into quite the introspective rambling, hasn't it?

Well, I think I really must be off to bed now. 'night all!

So many things I was going to post about today and I managed to forget almost all of them...
*sigh*
Must remember to write thoughts down since they are fleeting creatures.

hellbob & I have acquired a Becca! We get to keep her at least through the weekend, possibly next week too! She is down here from Fargo working for the NWA unions and the hotel had goofed up her reservation so rather than switching to a different hotel she has moved into our uninhabited basement.
I told her to see if she could get them to just give her $50 a night cash for her new residence since that would still be cheaper than the hotel was. She didn't think they'd go for it...

One of Miss stoney321's recent posts got me to thinking.

What magazines do you subscribe to that you don't even think about not renewing. The ones that you've gotten forever?

For me & Hellbob it is Entertainment Weekly and Discover. Also in the last 2 1/2 years I've been getting MacWorld and MacAddict.

What about you?



*edit*
The Economist?
Lapidary Journal?
the Planetary Society?
National Geographic?
Consumer Reports?
Smithsonian?

Where'd I get such a highbrow class of reader in my journal?

What? None of you are gonna cop to anything like People or Maxim or Playboy?
*grin*
Y'all must be edumacated or sumthin'

I will remember to leave at 3:30 today. I will!!!

Today's wildlife sighting: 3 (possibly 4) deer. And I got me some good pictures I think. I don't have my Compact Flash reader here at work though so I can't move the pics to my laptop. Silly Sharon!

Holy Cow did it rain last night! hellbob mentioned something about building an arc but I reminded him that we live on top of a hill. We did not float away.

I caught up on Veronica Mars. I had to resort to tivoing the Sunday episode so that I can catch House also. When Logan does his puppy eye thing? *whimper* Of course he's way too damn young for me!!

I'm still behind on my Smallville watching. I just watched "Mercy" last night which was the Lionel/Martha episode and it was really good. The next one up has lots of Fine/Brainiac though I think!!!!!!!!

In theory I will also have some more flower pictures and some more bird pictures up in the gallery tonight. And, of course, deer!

I stopped at the bird pond again yesterday. Saw the green heron again. Also a Wood Duck, a Mallard, and I chased an egret around the pond. Maybe I'll try to actually stop there sometime when it's NOT raining so that I can just sit down and wait to see what comes. :)

Thank the gods this is a short day - only 8 hours - because I'm ready to leave NOW!!

Mmmmm. Someone ran to KFC for lunch. It is greasy & disgusting & horribly bad for me, but I loves it so!!!

Home from work! It's a beeyouteeful 54 degrees F. out there! (For you non-americans out there, that would be 12 degrees C. Boy, that makes it sound cold)

I've got the front door open and some windows to get a fresh breeze going through. Lump has been firmly attached to the stool I put in front of the screen door for about an hour now. She loves looking out windows and if she can get fresh air at the same time she considers it a bonus!

i've also got a fire going in the fireplace, because I like the smell & sound of it, and the fact that I've got windows open will keep the house from getting overheated by it!

Rick & I are gonna go to Darek & Nissa's for dinner tonight and then we will be introducing them to the joy of Killer Bunnies!

And now to make your Friday happier, here's a picture of James:

After our naps the kids were just running around being all cute. After a bit lucky13charm showed up and we played with the kids some more. Then we all had dinner, the kids got a bath and went to bed, and we broke out the Killer Bunnies cards.

Now genevra had played once before and she thought it was just "ok" but she wasn't hooked. Mwah ha ha. She's hooked now!
Unfortunately for us she had about the luckiest draws EVER the first game. She had this gigantic Bunny army and me 7 lucky13charm had nuthin'. Whe one that game just because a t the end she was the only one who even had bunnies.
We ended up playing 3 games & going until 1am.

Yay bunnies!!

Ever dislike someone just based on their car's license plate?

I did yesterday on the way home from work. It was some fancy expensive car. I don't remember what kind, but the name/model started with the letter T and ended in a vowel. Also, the logo was sort of a T.
Anyway, their plate said BETRDNU. I was just really annoyed that this guy (or girl) thought they were better than me. If I was going to get in an accident on the highway and rear-end another car, I'd want it to be that one!

Aeryn Sun, my iPod, has been acting up for about a week and a half since right after the trip to the Dells. When I turn her on she's working fine and then after a while the center button stops working. If she's turned off for a while it will start working again. How long it works for correlates directly to how long she's turned off. Also, if she is charging when turned off the button doesn't start working.

So, after work I went to the Apple store to have the geniuses look at her. She worked perfectly. The button never stopped working. Grr. This wasn't something that was sporadic. It would stop working literally every time I used her. I think she just wanted to go visit her homeland...

lucky13charm went to Southdale with me and we stopped at Games By James. I asked if they had any Killer Bunny promo cards and they did! I've got the Dago Bunny now. Of course, since he looks like Yoda it just leaves me wondering where Chewie is... I got outta there without spending money, but Lucky bought herself the next booster she needed since she will be seeing her family this weekend and she's gotten them hooked on the Bunnies after buying it because I got her hooked!

I got my lazy ass onto the DDR tonight. Did the light workout mode. Did 10 songs and it didn't totally kick my ass. I probably could have done more but I figured I shouldn't push it when it had been so long since the last time I exercised.

I stopped and saw gigglemonkey_b and technomonkey_m yesterday after work. I swear, they just keep getting cuter and smarter!!

The holiday cards I mailed yesterday have already started showing up in local mailboxes! Damn, I'm impressed w/the USPS. Not only were they only mailed yesterday, but it was after 4pm when I dropped them off! Also, the package I sent to Iceland arrived safe & sound today!! I think felisblanco liked the Magnetic Poetry set: "OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! I have a porny magnetic poetry kit!! Hubby says we can never have people over again ever! LMAO This is so cool!! *bounces like a bunny on speed* I'm seeing all sorts of possibilities with that poetry kit, most of them involving getting people drunk and then letting them loose on the fridge! Bwhahahahaha!!" I'm glad ya liked it! It's so sad that Iceland doesn't have Magnetic Poetry. Everyone should have some on their fridge!

In other news, the LJ Haiku meme is going around again. :)

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	hellziggy
Your haiku:	network the worm which uses the lure of sexually explicit images
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Created by Grahame