Blog Wars

Once again, I underestimated my power or influence over others. I have had two Facebook groups created regarding me specifically. One arguing I am evil, the other created to counter that. I created neither of them. I have yet to figure out how I can suggest something and people seem to follow it. More recently, I have managed to create a small blog war. I don't know how influential I was in this battle, but I am deeply involved. So far there have been about five posts between two people in this battle. I am pretty sure the battle can't last for too long. It has only been going on about one week. The goal of the battle is to come up with the most things to thank me about. The longest single list has 55 items on it so far.

Some of my favorite posts are:

3) Thank you Jason not stabbing me tonight

>Like that happens a lot.

41. for not being creepy

> Maybe you just don't know me well enough yet?

5) Thank you Jason living so close

> I guess I won't mention that they were not part of my choice of where to live.

30. for letting me call you Juggins

> Wait... You call me Juggins?? Since when?

5.) Coming to a Greatful Gary's night before

> I am not sure I have made it yet. Maybe I have forgotten. But its nice to be thanked for.

19.) Teaching me how to say "you're welcome" in Japanese 20.) Teaching me how to say "pleas die" in Japanese

> I have been regretting it ever since

22.)

> I am glad someone is thankful for this talent. Even though I haven't found it very marketable.

26.)

> Its nice that this made it before you knew it wasn't makeup. Sweet

38.) Having your last name spell snigguH backwards

> I only wish I had the audio of this

15) Thank you Jason for texting during our conversation

>Ok. In my defense, I was checking up on someone that has been quite sick to see how she was doing. And I was paying attention to you to29. for activating the shredder with your hamm radio in the clerks officeo.

20) Thank you Jason for inviting people to dinner at my house

>I guess I should admit that I didn't really invite most of them, I delegated.

10) Thank you Jason for supplying the butter finger

>Unfortunately my offer was rejected. Turned down.

29. for activating the shredder with your hamm radio in the clerks office

> That was pretty funny.

Ok. Now I should get back to solving the worlds problems, deciding on getting an MBA, who to ask out (or not to), and watching TV.

Communication Drill

Ok. So we had the drill tonight. We did, well, I don't know how we did. I am sure we did better than last time, but we still have a ways to go. We got more people and got them in half the time. Good. What I don't know is how many people tried, but weren't able to check in. To me, that will be a larger measure of how well we did. I know a couple of areas need help, but with only 6 hams trying to cover people that cover the whole county, it can be hard to arrange something.
As it is, we divided the area up into 11 zones, groups, ships, pods or whatever you want to call it. Each one has a captain. Each captain tries to come in contact with everyone in that zone. Then one of the 6 hams contacts the captain to get a report and then they report it to the other hams for record keeping. We ended up with all the Hams checking in and were able to maintain good contact between them, but only between 10% and 15% of people overall were checked in. I know of one so far that was trying, but unable to check in. We also had outside help contacting two people.
Now the task is to figure out how to arrange things so more people are covered.

The results are in ... I hate geography

Today I got the results back from two of my tests. I was happy with my Topics in International Business test results, but my Geography of the World Economy test didn't go over quite as well. I hate first tests in classes because I never know how much to study for them. Don't worry, I passed both tests, but the Geography one was one of the lowest scores I have ever gotten. Atleast now I know what to expect for the next test. Now its time to get ready for my Economics of Canada test and the emergency communication drill tonight.

Taxes

Its that time of year again. Taxes. It may surprise anyone who knows me, but I actually did my taxes before the deadline. Actually, I usually do. Unlike all the other tasks that I have to do, I do my taxes as soon as I can. This year I am getting a little return, but I have already started looking for new toys that I can play with. Well mostly used toys on e-bay, but they would be new to me. Now, I need to figure out if I need to fill out a FAFSA. Hopefully I will be graduated at the end of the school year, but with the way the economy is doing, I may want to jump back into school ASAP. Too bad MBA programs want me to go out and work for at least 2 years before applying. Time to get back to school work.