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Hello, my name is Mike. I have a really long and weird last name because both my parents have Ph.d.'s and neither wanted to change their last name, so when I was born I got both. I have one brother and I'm currently a Senior at Kent State University majoring in Flight Technology. I just got my instrument rating a month and a half ago so I can fly in bad weather. I belong to several clubs on campus. I am the vice president of the anime club, the training manager for the KSU Precision Flight Team, and a member of the Flying club. I am taking 12 credit hours this semester and working over 20 hours a week at Resnet. I have two flight periods a day, which means I fly for 3 hours every weekday. With the flight team and class, I often fly for over 6 hours every weekend as well. I got my technician ameteur radio license this summer and want to be a part of the radio club at Akron U. to be with my friends in the U. or Akron, but my schedule does not often allow it. I wake up at 7:00am every day to be in class by 7:45, and Resnet closes at 9pm. Every day I'm not at Resnet I'm at the Flight team practices until 10:30pm Then it's time for homework and club emails and stuff. I don't like to party and drink alcohol because alcohol split my family apart. I don't think I am above anyone, and I don't care when other people drink, it's just me personal choice. It's not any one person that makes my life hectic, it's completely my fault. There are so many interesting things in this world that I want to be a part of. The college world may not be for everyone, but it is where I thrive.
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So this summer I have not been on the computer much, and when I'm not around the computer much I post a lot less. As many people have noticed, I have become a lot busier recently. I fly for 3 hours per day, have two classes in the morning, work all day on Saturdays, and usually try to get out to Cedar Point on Sundays. School ends this week, so I should have some more free time just in time for Quakecon to take it away. On July 15th, I got my instrument rating so I can fly into clouds and all kinds of bad weather in direct attempts to fail at crashing. Now I am working towards my commercial certificate, which will allow me to fly for hire. I want to have it finished by Aviation day at the KSU airport, which is in the middle of September. In other news, which I am sure is no news to anyone, everyone is playing fucking World of Warcraft all the time, which I find immensely boring. Feel free to call me when you all stop that. I miss the UT2k4 clan thing we had going, and would love to start that up over skype or whatever you are using. I want to have one more minilan before Quakecon. Rick and I are, after all, competing in the Doom 3 and possibly the Quake II tournaments. I am so pissed that when I can finally go to Quakecon, they stop the Quake III Tournaments. Wendy asked me to work at Resnet for the rest of summer, but I don't think I will be able to. I don't have enough free time since I need to relax a little. I got a lot accomplished this summer, but at the price of my free time. Every summer is pretty much the same for me, with me being at Geauga Lake all the time in the past. I'd like to go to the Linux and Radio clubs at Akron, once again if I have the time. I'll have to see what my work schedule is, but since I took summer classes, my senior scheule is looking pretty light. I'm finished every day at 4:30pm if I don't have to work that night. I'd like it if Jo/Rick would keep me informed of that. Speaking of Jo, Rick told me that he started playing Worlds of Warcraft for the sole reason of pissing me off. This makes me feel so good, as I'm sure you can imagine. I don't know if that's still his motivation, or if he actually enjoys the game now. I guess I'm just next on the chopping block. First he cut Yash out, then he cut Codex out, and now I'm next. I know I don't get to see him much, but I really don't wish for this to happen. I still consider Jo a very good friend. Everytime I talk to him recently, he seems to have a way to push my buttons. The most recent example was when I had to ask him a question about DNS over instant messanger. It's difficult to tell tone over the internet, but what I got was this "Oh my god I can't believe he's asking me this, what a noob" attitude when I was geniuinely asking him a question. Jo, I hope you read this, I'm sorry if I pissed you off in any way. And I'm glad you're getting into games again! :D Don't know why you ever went into gaming relapse, but you should come to a LAN! Well, I gotta run off to the airport already. Later
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January: Went to Ohayocon with Yash Uncle Dave dies in motorcycle accident Begin Spring 2004 Semester in Allyn hall with Rick Start playing DDR Promoted to ATL of Hydes Area at Six Flags Stop showing up to Physics class February: Pass Private Pilot Practical Test and become a licensed pilot Get Rehired to Six Flags March: Wind smashes window of dorm room Goto Arcadia CA during spring break to visit my Grandma Begin House hunting for summer April: Win awesome Unreal Tourney 2004 Tournament at Jeloh and get jack Find house at 1442 Brimfield Six Flags Worlds of Adventure sold to Cedar Fair becomes Geauga Lake again May: Begin work at GL Finish Finals - Spring 04 Semester over Transferred to ATL of Thunderhawk Meet Alison on my birthday Eat Atomic Chicken Wing at Quaker Steak and Lube Promoted to TL of Hydes Area June: Asked Alison out Worked at GL a LOT Not much sleep Saw Jo for the last time this year July: Worked at GL a LOT Not much sleep Lots of Six Flags friends fired or quit Get mad at supervisors - unreasonable demands August: Quit Geauga Lake Went to Oshkosh with my dad Begin working at Resnet over summer Went to New York with Rick and Will and not Jo Don't go to Quakecon Fall 04 semester begins at KSU My Linux server is finished September: Start flying again for Commercial Flight 1 course Flight team compitition Very busy with school October: Very busy with school Doom 3 comes out Celebrate Halloween for like, the first time ever Stop playing Doom 3 cause it's boring November: Got very pissed at election Got pissed at manic for being a dick about the election Half Life 2 comes out - still waiting for Duke Forever Otherwise stayed very busy with school December: Finals - Fall 04 Semester finished 6 months with Alison - yay! Alison's Birthday Christmas Write this stupid post All in all, I'd have to say that this was not a great year but it had its moments. There's still a few days left so let's see how it will play out...
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I figured it had been so long since I made an actual post here, that maybe you all deserved it. Maybe I should take the time to write down what I've been doing so that you can know. Because I know the crazy citizens of the internet are dying to know. Yesterday I went on my 3-hour flight for school. Supposed to go to Morgantown, WV; Erie, PA; and back. Yeah, I went there. But it took 4.5 hours in the air, and about 6 hours total. So I was late for work and stuff, but there's always like 2 computers to work on and 6 employees so it was okay. On the way back I got the most beautiful view of the sunset over Cleveland. A fiery red hot sun. Sailor's Delight and all that. Then it was freaking night. I didn't expect the flight to take so long so I didn't have a flashlight. So I was flying by radio navigation only, which worked okay. I flew past the airport and ended up exactly where I needed to be, but it was stressful.
I started reading the little story I wrote after the JeloH LAN, where we won the Unreal Tournament...Tournament, and it got me to think about how much I want to play it again. I want everyone to come back and practice again and maybe go to another tournament. If they are still playing that. But I just want to play. Maybe when Half-Life 2 comes out we can all get together and play that and some UT2k4 and maybe some doom3, and maybe some CoD, WolfET,Q3, and anything else except halo 2. Oh what the hell, we can play Halo 2...too. Rick expressed interest in going somewhere far away for snowboarding. I guess I am into it, but we agreed that we'd all need some good practice in at brandywine before we invest the money. Brandywine is suitable for me, as I am not that good at it. But I really like to snowboard, and being with my friends is enough for me, so I am definately in. School has been going great. The lowest grade I've gotten in Aircraft Systems 1 is 94%, and most of my other classes are the same. I'm running at near 100% in Hydraulics. I'm putting way more effort in this year, cause I have much more motivation :D So life is good for me....Busy, but definately good. I love hanging out with friends, my wonderful girlfriend Alison, and not being stressed out a lot like last year. I like where I am going now...
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Wow. So it's halfway through August. Time is sure flying by. If you didn't know, I quit Geauga Lake on account of me basically being a slave. Now I am working at ResNet during the summer! I love working here cause it's so relaxed and the fun, while tedious, is still fun. I get to listen to music and go out for lunch and be in a temperature-controlled environment, which is unheard of in GL. School is starting soon, and with it, a horrible schedule. Mostly me being busy, and I have a class that's 4 hours long on Thursday. Bah. Oh well. Looking forward to flying. I'm going to join the precision flying club and the general flight club. That should win some points with the dean and get me an internship later. (heh im so on top of things). So I just formatted the linux box, so I'm starting on aphelion new again. Hopefully this time it will let me install things. Yes, installing things is good. I want to redesign this website again. It's starting to bore me. Now it's too dark or something. We'll see.
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