A Real Update

Beware, for I am: Apathetic

Wow...s’been a few days since I posted something in way of an actual entry. I’ve been fairly busy and more than a little tired. But today’s kinda important and plenty of stuff has happened, so I figured I’d go ahead and post.

Today we’re gonna be having our Grand Opening / Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at work. I’ll be taking my camera to work, because I’ll have no better opportunity to do so, and we all know how much MM loves taking pictures. According to the hand out sheet we were given, the ceremony starts at 1 (I get there at 12) and there’s food and drinks and we’re allowed to show friends and family around where we work. The whole process starts at 1 and lasts till 4:30. At 4:30 we go back to business and start cleaning up. I suppose they’re expecting that we wont have much to do today...because I can’t see us accomplishing much with such a schedule...But I don’t really mind. There’s so much to do lately, we could all use a break and a bit of pampering. I can’t wait to go paperless.

In other news: I have installed and will soon be playing EverQuest 2...if I can stand the 11 hour down load -.- So, I got my month’s subscription (cause let’s face it, there’s no use buying a 3-month sub. until or unless you know you’re gonna love it and wanna play it more), and I’m commencing this massive download, when I realize that I haven’t picked up an EQ2 text in months. So, I go over to the site to give myself a refresher course, and while I’m there I just so happen to actually look at the main page. O...m...G! When did they do all these expansions or adventure packs as they’re calling them!? I count six so far...there’s:

1. Desert of Flames
2. Kingdom of Sky
3. The Blood Chronicles
4. The Splitpaw Saga
5. The Fallen Dynasty
6. Echoes of Faydwer

The only ones that look overly appealing to me are the Fallen Dynasty and the Echoes of Faydwer...but that’s because Dynasty has a bit of a Oriental feel and Faydwer allows you to play winged Fea (if I’m reading that right...). So yeah...But anyway. I only got a month subscription because I figure I’ll either love it and want to play more or I wont and then it’ll be over and that’s all there is to that.

That’s all I got for today. I should probably go ahead and start getting ready. We have to bring my car in to get the brakes looked over, so we’re (Mom and I) are gonna leave early and go drop the car off, then she’ll drop me off at work. At least that’s the plan. So. I’ll see ya’ll later. Ja.

 

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Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. But you borderline on being a total perfectionist. Agreeableness: You have low agreeableness. Your self interest comes first, and others come later, if at all. In general, you feel that people are not to be trusted. And you're skeptical that anyone else really feels differently. Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits. A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

The Five Factor Personality Test

 

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MM

Reference For Today

Beware, for I am: Content

 

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On This Day: Friday June 30, 2006

This is the 181st day of the year, with 184 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Leap Second

June 30 is one of the two times (the other being December 31) when the addition or subtraction of a second from our clock time is allowed to coordinate atomic and astronomical time. The determination to adjust is made by the International Earth Rotation Service of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris. A leap second is an intercalary, one-second adjustment that keeps broadcast standards for time of day close to mean solar time. Leap seconds are necessary to keep time standards synchronized with civil calendars, the basis of which is astronomical. The announcement to insert a leap second is given whenever the difference between UTC and UT1 approaches one-half second, to keep the difference between UTC and UT1 from exceeding ±0.9 s. After UTC 23:59:59, a positive leap second at 23:59:60 would be counted, before the clock indicates 00:00:00 of the next day. Negative leap seconds are also possible should the Earth's rotation becomes slightly faster; in that case, 23:59:58 would be followed by 00:00:00.

Holidays

• Congo: Independence Day.
• Guatemala: Armed Forces Day.
• Sudan: Salvation Revolution Day.
• Feast day of St. Theobald of Provins, the Martyrs of Rome, St. Emma, St. Bertrand of Le Mans, St. Erentrude, and St. Martial of Limoges.

Events

• 1520 - Montezuma II was murdered as Spanish conquistadors fled the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan during the night.
• 1572 - Great Britain passed a Poor Law, giving assistance to the poor who were unemployed or vagrant.
• 1859 - A French acrobat known professionally as Émile Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet) became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• 1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant.
• 1870 - Ada Kepley became the first female law school graduate.
• 1906 - The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act each became law.
• 1908 - One of the most powerful, natural explosions in recorded history occurred, in Central Siberia, devastating 70 miles in diameter.
• 1921 - President Warren Harding appointed former President Howard Taft to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1921 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was incorporated.
• 1934 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a purge ("Night of the Long Knives") of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
• 1936 - "Gone With the Wind" was published.
• 1952 - "Guiding Light" premiered as a television soap opera.
• 1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, D.C.
• 1971 - Three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world's first space station died when their spacecraft depressurized during reentry.
• 1982 - The Equal Rights Amendment (passed by Congress in 1972), prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, failed to secure ratification by a sufficient number of states to ensure its inclusion in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Deaths

• 1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright.

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MM