Sheer Determination

It’s been awhile. I can’t say that I haven’t had time to keep up this blog, rather my life is so mundane right now that I have a shortage of interesting material. I am past the point where not having people in my face 24/7 as I did in college is something nice. Although, I have truly enjoyed the last few months; time with my family, living in a nice house, peace and quite, recreational reading, plenty of personal space, home cooking, and no fear of my stuff getting destroyed in a random party invasion of my room — these are all things I did not have at JMU. I am someone who enjoys being extroverted and introverted — I can fully appreciate both, but the time has come where I am indeed tired of staring at a computer screen all day looking for work and filling out endless amounts of paperwork. Yet, I have to keep going. From what I gather, many of my friends are not happy they jumped on the jobs they have now. I am somewhat conflicted on the issue, letting a tangible job go is hard as I know good jobs are scarce in this economy, yet I don’t want to end up in something I hate. I feel that patience and perseverance are key, known by a few men from my college house as sheer determination. Sheer determination usually ended up a being a good tactic. This is the tactic I will adopt for my job search.

Enough depressing job search talk, now it’s movie time! This ones called “Gran Torino”, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. I loved this movie for many reasons, but I could like it solely for the fact that even as an old man, Clint Eastwood is a complete badass, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. The story is very compelling and dramatic with some subtle humor mixed in. It’s basically about an old racist koran war veteran with new neighbors that happen to be asian. I’d rather you watch it than I explain the whole thing. So boof, it’s over there to the right for you to download.

In other news, I recently started using a site called Mint.com. The site is a free web-based personal financial management service allows users to track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions and balances through a single user interface. Its very fast and easy to set up, amazingly useful and has helped me get my finances organized and well-managed. I wish I would have used this in college. Check it out.

Lastly, lets look at last post’s poll.

Being deaf is the most popular, followed by other, then having no legs, then blind, and no one would rather have no arms. Interesting. We can conclude from this data that not having any arms would suck the most.

Lets take a look at the “other” results. First response was “have a bent dong… HA you already have that” (this no doubt was written by Mr. JC Cantrell who is obsessed with my “dong”) , next was “Proficient in 10 musical instruments” (I’m guessing this is by Henderson because, well, its just stupid) “have no arms or legs and be torsoeboy!” (Thank you Chris), “Have no tongue”  (no idea) and last, a sexist remark “a woman” (again, no idea). I don’t make them up folks, I just report them.

Well, thats it for this post. Remember to watch the film and fill out this post’s survey. ——>

Peace.

~ by detwilzl on March 25, 2009.