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It’s official: I don’t want to deal with idiots any longer. Idiots in their cars, idiots in the store, idiots at school. I’m so cynical. I get so tired of having to deal with people everywhere. I need to retire to “smart-people land.” I need to go to a place where people think about what they’re doing, instead of just roaming around aimlessly on auto-pilot. I’m afraid to say my friends, the lookout is bleak. I think that Americans are getting dumber and dumber and St. George, Utah is certainly NO exception.
You may now be asking yourself if I’m just a jerk. Well, perhaps the answer to that is yes. I don’t really care about helping most people. I don’t like dealing with the small town mentality of the strange little place in which I reside. I don’t like associating with people that I don’t know. I hate the St. George crowds, where everyone knows everyone else. I need somewhere bigger. Somewhere that I can just fade into the woodwork. I know that idiots exist everywhere, not just in St. George. I just seems to me that, because of the small town heritage, they are in more abundance here than in other cities I’ve been in. You could just say “get over it Jared!”, but I’m not going to. Not till I’m out of here.
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School is much easier this semester than I thought it was going to be. However, I’m not sure what I’m going to do once I’m done with my 2 years. I’m leaving St. George, that’s for sure. I don’t know. As much as I can’t stand this place sometimes, I even have my reserves about that because I’m so sold on my job; which I love. I would love to go and finish my education at UCSD and spend some time in SoCal. I would love so much for that to happen. I realize that only I can make that come about, but really, the problem isn’t getting there. It’s making a living and providing for my family whilst in school there. I’ve always wanted to spend a few years in Cali. though.
English is going fairly well. I liky my professor. He’s a very smart man albeit sometimes condescending. I wasn’t sure if I was going to like the class when I first took it, but it’s ended up being great. My communications class on the other hand is a joke. Our instructor assigns reading and then never goes over it. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning is simply story time for him. He just tells tales of when he was a kid and how he always sees attractive women. Quite offensive to some actually.
Other than that, things are good. BTW, was everyone else as disgusted with the Super Bowl as I was?
Yesterday was amazing. Heard the baby’s heartbeat. Seeing him/her was one thing, but hearing the heart was something else. Quick-paced, and warbly was the sound, but it was MY BABY’S SOUND! Fantastic. We couldn’t keep the heartbeat steady though. Every time the Doctor would hone in on it, the baby would move. It was amazing.
I just can’t stop thinking about the fact that there is a human life that is growing right now inside my wife’s belly. Am I ready? Am I capable? Am I going to be a good father? Yes, yes, and I’ll sure do my best.
On another note, Corinne was just commenting the other day about how easy her pregnancy has been. I must concur. There are sometimes that I totally forget that she’s even pregnant; however, that is becomming harder and harder because she’s starting to show noticably now. She’s not been too sick, and her exhaustion is now passing. All things considered, I think she’s very lucky.
I lost my entire hard-drive this weekend. :x Data, MP3s, everything… So, I had to go purchase a new drive. On the good side, I did double my space from 60Gb to 120Gb. I’ve had problems with the drive three times now(the most recent just a few weeks ago), but kept putting off my backups cause I’ve been so busy with school. Lucky for me, I did have most of my MP3s copied at work, so at least I saved them.
As usual, the more I think about it, the more I realize that I’ve lost. Financial data, taxes, school-work, programs that I’ve written - the list goes on and on.
My Dad even roughed me up by saying “Jeez Jared, you’re even an IT guy and you’re just as bad as everyone else.” Haha.
So, the lesson here to be learned is DO BACKUPS! Otherwise, you could end up like me.
Get rid of Microsoft software. It’s yucky, it’s buggy, and it smells horrible. Okay, maybe it smells fine, but the former two still hold true. OpenOffice.org provides a completely and totally FREE OF CHARGE office suite that rivals on nearly every level with that of the great behemoth.
On that same note, Mozilla.org offers a FREE web-browser that is more stable and more secure that Microsloth’s Internet Exploder. However, I prefer the Phoenix web-browser. Although it is still in the beta stages, it is as fast as Internet Explorer and much more functional (like multiple browser tabs in one window).
Both products above are Open Source and will cost you nothing to download. If you don’t know about these projects, I suggest you read up on them.
