Home Sweet Home

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DuplexI found a place to live! 2317 Congress. For those of you familiar with Saginaw, go south on Bay Road past State Street, take a left on Congress and it’s about two blocks down on the right hand side.

It’s a nice little two bedroom with a carport. The living room and one of the bedrooms have a nice hardwood floor, the other bedroom and hallway have nice carpetting, and the kitchen and dining room don’t have the greatest floor but it’s fine for me. It’s freshly painted, has washer and dryer hookups, and a nice little bathroom. It’ll be the perfect little place for me. For the time being I’ll just use the second bedroom for my computer shit and storage, but will most likely get someone to move in with me in a few months. I’m excited!

After looking for only a week, I was sick of searching through the paper, calling people up, and going to see places. Not my idea of a fun time. The landlord is really nice and is going to hold it for me for three weeks, so that works out well. I’ll only have to pay rent on two places for 2 weeks and then I’ll be out of here and into the new place.

March MADNESS

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It has been one hell of an NCAA Tournament so far, and it’s only the first weekend! We’ve seen two number 1 seeds fall, Stanford (ESPN’s pick to win it all) and Kentucky (Dick Vitale’s pick to win it all). Duke (my pick) is one of the few teams to dominate both of their games.

I don’t remember ever seeing so many close games in the first two rounds. Every other game is down to the last few seconds with either team having a chance to come out on top. It’s great to watch, but I need the next few days to recover from all of the emotions!

My bracket is all fucked up. I’ve lost 3 of my Elite 8 teams already and I had Kentucky playing in the final game. I don’t think I’ll be winning any money this year. All that matters right now is that Duke is still playing and playing the best out of any team that I’ve watched. I also realize that they could easily fall like other teams have done. I’m looking forward to the next round of action to begin on Thursday.

Political Campaign Goals

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Over the years I’ve seen far too many presidential campaign commercials where the goal is to discredit the other candidate in the race. Maybe I just don’t get it. I would think that the main goal of a campaign should be to inform people about your own stances, thoughts, and goals.

In a job interview the average person doesn’t talk about what’s wrong with the other candidates for the job, we discuss our own strengths with the company and attempt to sell ourselves. If we had dirt on the other people being interviewed and brought those things up during the interview, we would quickly be overlooked as a serious option for the job.

Why is it different for the men (and someday women) that are essentially selling their views on how to run the United States government? Is their own vision not enough to win the majority of the votes? Why do we even consider someone for President who doesn’t have enough confidence in themselves?

I see it as a weak tactic to discredit someone else with the goal of making your own campaign stronger.

The Friday 5

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I know it’s a little late and I missed last week, but here it is…

If you…

  1. …owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

    Chinese food.

  2. …owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

    Video games and computer software.

  3. …wrote a book, what genre would it be?

    Something philosophical, with a lot of thinking behind it.

  4. …ran a school, what would you teach?

    Something to do with computers or technology.

  5. …recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

    I’d have to say it would be something of a mix between John Mayer and Norah Jones.

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Buy And Sell

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During the break in TV coverage of the NCAA tournament I ran downtown to take care of a few things. I traded in 2 XBOX games, Rainbox Six 3 and SSX 3. I put the trade-in value towards a reservation for Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which is due out on the 24th. It’s going to be a sweet game. Splinter Cell was unlike any other game ever created and from what I’ve seen, Ubisoft has made some great improvements to the graphics and has even added multi-player play for XBOX Live, which again, is unlike anything out.

I then stopped by Barnes & Noble to pick up a few books. I’ve heard and read good things about The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown so I decided I’d give it a read. Maybe it will give me some new insight into my very confused views on religion. I also picked up Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike, and ordered Halo: The Fall Of The Reach. I’ve read a lot of things about the Halo books online and since I loved the video game I figure I can’t go wrong reading them.

March Madness

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Tomorrow marks the beginning of March Madness. The NCAA Men’s College basketball tournament. The Big Dance!

It is my favorite sporting event of the year. I’ll be spending a lot of time over the next few weeks in front of the TV or checking scores at work. I’ve filled out my bracket and I have to admit that it was the toughest year that I can recall for making picks. There is a lot of parity in college basketball, which should make for one hell of a tournament.

GO DUKE!

A Place To Call Home

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I’ve started the search for a place to live. It sucks…looking through the paper or MLive, calling people, asking questions, scheduling times to take a look at the place. What a pain in the ass!

I’ve decided on getting a 2 bedroom duplex. That would give me the option of having someone move in with me in a few months. It will also most likely get me a garage and a place for the washer and dryer, which will be nice to have. Living by myself is really going to cut into my funds though. Heather and Katie will be leaving at the end of April so I have a month and a half, but it’s getting stressful already and I’ve only been looking for 2 days.

I was thinking about trying to get a place with a shorter lease (like 3 or 6 months), but decided that would be next to impossible. If I end up getting a new job somewhere I can always get a sub-leasor.