Last Tuesday we had to go on a tech ride-along at work. For those of you who don’t know, I work as a telephone customer service representative for Comcast Cable Co. And I thought this was something very interesting that I learned that nobody else will find interesting. But if you have cable in your house go ahead and look behind your TV for a white cord going from your cable box to your wall (or from your TV to your wall, or it could go through a VCR or DVD Player, etc)… Anyhow this is called a coaxial cable and it usually looks something like this:

Anyhow, most of the techs have 600+ feet of this white cable in their truck at all times and they have some useful tools to make these. I learned how to make these cords at any length during my tech ride-along. I also got to see the tech troubleshoot in some beautiful homes along the beach, but I found this much more interesting! Maybe it’s because I got to make the cords. Here’s the tools used to make these:

 So first you take your wire cutters and cut a length of the coaxial cable. Next you have to use the specialized stripper for your RG6 cable to strip away the outer sheath from the cable and the metal inner sheath a little bit higher than that. And above that you’ll want only the copper wire showing through. RG6 is just a size of coax wire. It’s the most commonly used for cable indoors.

So after you have both ends of your cable you need to fold back the metal part so only the white is showing. Next push an F-Connector over the wire so that the inside is flush with the white part on the cable. Next slide the F-Connector on the cable into the connector compressor (if that’s what it’s actually called) and cramp it all together and repeat on the other side of the cable.

Now you have your customized coax cable! No, I don’t expect anyone to actually do this, I just felt that I hadn’t written in here for far too long.

Ever wanted to have a car decked out in Hello Kitty things? Well I’m going to be buying this car in a few months:

And I would love to have it Hello Kitty-fied. But I also wanted to know how much I would be spending on decorations for it so I made this list of accessories I may buy and what eBay sales people currently have them. The first price is the actual Buy-It-Now price and the second price is the shipping. Also, after the item name is the username of the seller! So if you want to, you can go and take a look at these things, too! =D

Hello Kitty decal…signcuts $3.99+$0.00

Hello Kitty neck wrests…han99cn $12.50+$10.00

Hello Kitty air freshener…peterjmarr $5.99+$6.99

Hello Kitty exhaust pipe…acuteshop_online $39.00+$28.00

Hello Kitty floor mats…sjcfire1 $34.98+$19.50

Hello Kitty visor organizer…ddfh939 $9.99+$11.00

Hello Kitty gear shift handle…ionlythinkofyou $9.99+$9.99

Hello Kitty seat belt pads…click4itnow $3.50+$8.50

Hello Kitty license plate cover…Csgraphics $14.99+$5.00

Hello Kitty steering wheel cover…Japan_Bargain $29.99+$7.50

I’ve been working. I now know so much about cable that I never knew before. I also have my free cable hooked up so I’m very happy for that!

We’re moving out of this apartment and into a smaller one in June! I believe it’s June 1st. I’m very excited because the rent will be cheaper. We don’t need as much space as we have anyway! The cats are going to be sad when we move, though. They didn’t take moving too well when we moved into here. Luckily the guinea pigs and lizard are way too stupid to even realize when they’ve moved. I’m going to need to enlist the help of my big strong father to help move a lot of this furniture though. Good thing we’re going from an upstairs apartment to a downstairs one. I can’t imagine dragging all this furniture down stair then having to bring back up another set of stairs!

I guess I got pretty much fired from Things Remembered because my manager got fired. She said she wasn’t sure what the new manager would do with me when she started working there. Then when she handed me my paycheck she said, “This is your last one!” like it was some huge good-bye or something. I’m not sure if I should read too much into that… she is a huge idiot and she’s getting fired for a reason. I wish I could figure out why she’s getting fired and how it happened. I’m just nosy like that.

My new coworkers at Comcast are amazing though. The new-hire training class I’m in is full of brilliant people. With the exception of one dimly lit light bulb in the bunch! But she’s catching on… everyone has their own learning pace. The instructor is still very good and sweet.. and pretty darn pregnant too! She’s having a baby girl which means I am sooo jealous! =P Not that I want a kid right now. I want to wait until I’m married and have a house. [= Alex is taking forever though. And I say this like we’ve been dating any more than a year and a few months.

Well, I’ve also decided that I need to go back and edit all my old entries because I was doing the graphical table in the beginning and now I hate that. I’m going to alternate the colors of my entries and I’m also going to change my layout. I still think that we should be able to code our own layouts.

I think that once I save up some money and have my own computer built that I will buy my own domain and continue this blog on there, since I will be able to draw my own graphics and layouts for it!

Any how, I really think that’s it! [=

Well, as the title says, I was chosen for the beta testing! Which also means that I’ve had many e-mails from SanrioTown stating that people have been trying to reset my password all day. Even though they censored out the last three letters of my e-mail. A lot of people know my e-mail because my video was pretty popular. I also update the blog regularly and I’m on the forums frequently as well.

Any way, I’m very excited for the MMO! At work today we covered order entry, which is when you use the customer database and billing program to enter in new accounts. It’s so difficult to do. I was actually one of the ones who caught on a little bit quicker than others, but it still took me a loooong time to do a simple order entry. And it was only on Cable TV… we haven’t even covered home phone service or high speed internet!

Well, that’s about all the updates for now. Thank you very much!

My new job is so good! It’s probably the best job I could’ve wished for. The benefits are amazing and I just love it! My trainer is VERY nice and everything. And I feel the need to say this: I care about this job a lot and as you may or may not know, I am a customer account executive at Comcast. I love Comcast as a company. I know that I have (and if I haven’t then I will) say something on this blog that is offensive to you, or others. I want to say that it has nothing to do with my company at all.

I think that everyone who has a blog uses it to vent from time to time and venting can be offensive. So I felt the need to say that so nobody gets the wrong idea of Comcast. Comcast rocks!

In other news, my boyfriend bought me Chibi Robo: Park Patrol today! It’s such a good video game so far. I must say that it’s getting very difficult due to the smoglings turning all my flowers black. A tip to anyone playing that game: if you pick the black flowers with your sheers, you can give them to the flower shop owner in exchange for happy points! Since they’re going to die at the end of the day anyhow, it’s probably the best way to turn a bad situation good. And to those of you who don’t have it, you should get it! If you don’t have a Nintendo DS, then you should buy one! Haha.

My weekend off hasn’t been much of a weekend off until this point. I had to babysit my little sister and her friend yesterday, and I spent most of the day today watching my dad’s buddy’s little boy. The kid was so cute though. Inbetween that I found the chance to do some eBay shopping! Look at what I found!

Totally cute, no? I love it so much! I can’t wait until they arrive. I’m learning Japanese so I’m hoping that the Japanese in the book is a little bit easy to follow. If not, I’m sure I can figure out how to fold!

Well, that’s all the updates. Thanks for reading! I go to work tomorrow, yay! The boyfriend just ordered pizza and we’re going to rent a movie from Comcast’s Video on Demand! I feel so Comcastic!

PS: I’m still awaiting the word on Hello Kitty Online. I check every day for updates. Anyone else hear anything?

If you go to www.hellokittyonline.com and click on the News & Updates section you will come to a page. Click on the one from 2008-03-05. Then (omigosh) my video is the one being talked about where it has my NAME and video linked!

I was so surprised when I saw this and I’m so happy that all the hard work that I put into that video has paid off. But I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch. This doesn’t mean that I’m going to get into the closed beta. It just means that the people who work on the blog liked my video. Maybe the actual people who get to decide liked it, too. I can only hope!

Wish me luck, everyone!

Source: HelloKittyOnline.com

While some simply appeal to our logic, in a creative way, as Ohhsoalyse so diligently did in her video “My 2nd HKO MMORPG Application”. Click here to go to the video page.

Also in my day:

I went on a car trip with my family to pick up a guinea pig for my little sister. We also went bowling because there’s only one bowling alley that we’ve ever found that has bowling shoes big enough for my dad so we drove three hours to go bowling there for him. Then we went out to eat and our waiter was a bit creepy, to say the least.

Then, my boyfriend really needed to get Super Smash Brothers Brawl at midnight so we went to Wal-Mart and waited in line to get it. Now we have it and he and my little sister are playing it. I don’t think I’ll be playing it very much. Unfortunately, we were misinformed from the people at Game Stop about when the SSBB tournament was being held so we missed the time to sign up. So we couldn’t play and I’m very angry about that. We were also going to buy our copies of the games there and we didn’t because they had lied to us and told us to drive down there and we would be able to sign up, even though we were about thirty minutes late. Then when we got there, the person who told us we could make it didn’t even know what they were talking about. It was complete poppycock!

Oh yeah, and I bought myself a new toy! I bought a Nintendo DS Lite Gold Special Zelda Phantom Hourglass Edition thingamajig from eBay.

I hope that I’m not disappointed when it gets here. I don’t think I will be. The seller had 100% positive feedback and a pretty hefty amount of feedback.

Well, I think that’s all the updates. I’ll keep you posted. >,<

I’m feeling much less worry-ful (?) today! I did get the job! Training got pushed back to Monday the 10th instead of the 3rd. That would be why they hadn’t contacted me on time. Phew. So money’s not going to be a problem for me any more! Thank God!

But that does mean that I have to work in the Naples Things Remembered a little bit longer. But that’s okay, too because that also means more money for me since they pay for my mileage there and back!

I’m so excited for this new job though! It’s going to be so much better for me. Oh, and the benefits are to die for… Medical, vision, dental insurance. 401k, life insurance, and a little bit of free cable. Oh, I don’t think I mentioned where I’ll be working. Well, I will be a telephone customer service agent for Comcast. Okay, I know that it doesn’t sound glamorous, but the $10.75 is completely worth it.

But honestly, the money isn’t why I really want the job. The truth is that my boyfriend doesn’t want to be with someone who has a part time job. He wanted me to move on and get a better job for so long now. And since I finally have, I have a feeling that we’re going to get along much better now. Especially since we won’t have to worry about where money for gas and everything is going to come from.

The only thing that I’m worrying about right now is how I’m going to pay my car insurance since it is $400 and it’s due April 4th and I don’t know if this new job is going to hold the first paycheck until I complete a certain number of hours or what?! When my boyfriend started working where he works he didn’t get his first paycheck until he had been working there for five weeks.

But that’s not even a big deal. Because I will have about $300 for it, and if I absolutely needed, my dad would loan me $100. I’m just so friggen excited for this job!

In other news, I had the best weekend ever with my boyfriend! We went out to eat at PF Chang’s and it was soooo good! Then we watched Jumper, and we were the ONLY ones in the theater. It wasn’t a very good movie. Then on Sunday he bought me a video game and I layed on him and played the DS while he played the Xbox 360 all day. It was perfect.

I’m still working on that Dream Studio movie I talked about in the post before this. But here’s my bitch for today:

Since I won’t be able to work in Naples much longer, my manager has started to have to make the drive to there too. Well I closed at the Naples store yesterday and so I needed the only extra key the Naples store had. Well my manager opens there tomorrow and I told her that I would drop the key off at the Fort Myers store some time today. Then she called me at 11:00 am and told me that I had to have the key at the Fort Myers store no later than 1:00 pm so she could go there and get it. Well, when she called me I was in the car with my boyfriend and his mom was driving us out of town for the day. So when I told her that I wasn’t the one driving and I had no way of controlling when I got back into town she completely went berserk. I’m glad that I don’t need that job any more. So she said to not even bother to bring the key that she would call the Naples store and find out if there was another way to open the store. I knew there wouldn’t be but there was no use telling her that so I just hung up. So then about an hour later she called me again. I didn’t answer it because I was having fun and I didn’t want her to ruin it so I just let her leave me a voicemail that I was to drop the key off any time tonight. She’s so dumb, because she honestly expected me to drop whatever I was doing and to bring her the key at the exact time that she wanted me to. That is completely outrageous because even if I was in Fort Myers, what makes her think that I’m going to rearrange my entire day around her life?

In way better news, Alex (my amazing boyfriend) bought me a video game (the one mentioned above). It’s called Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It’s a mystery-point-and-click adventure with TONS of brain-bursting puzzles. I absolutely love things that make me think my brains out. It’s a perfect game for me and I’ve almost beaten it. I’m about 13 hours into the game and I’ve done every side-puzzle I’ve come to and I’ve completed almost all of the collections. It’s a great game! Good job to Level-5 Inc!

That’s about it for now. Sorry that these entries are getting so long. I’m taking too long between entries so I have too much to talk about, haha.

I think I’m going to make a Dream Studio movie… what’s it about, oh you will just have to wait and find out, now won’t you? Any how, while I’m on the subject of things I’m working on, have you ever found yourself planning too many things at once? Well I am right now.

I know that training for this place that I’m supposed to work starts on Monday and I haven’t gotten a call back from the place to tell me what time on Monday yet. I’m beginning to think that maybe they aren’t going to select me for employment. But they are conducting a background check on me, which costs a lot of money, and they also had me take a drug test, which costs money. So why would they be spending all of this money if they aren’t going to give me a job? I interviewed so well, the woman who interviewed me even said so. So why haven’t I received a call. Have they over-looked me? I even called the person who originally called me to schedule the interview and left a voicemail and still no word. I’m beginning to get very anxious and scared. I need this job more than I’ve ever needed anything in my life. If I don’t get it, I’m pretty positive that I’ll die. Really, dead!

Any how… as of other things I’m planning at the moment, I’ve been wanting to open a business for about a month now. I’m very good with working with graphics, and I think that it would be fun to start a business where I could make yearbook-style books for people and digitally process their pictures of whatever event they want documented. I would be able to do it for pretty cheap because I don’t want to make too big of a profit off of it like most other professional book makers do. Also, I have so much experience with editing pictures and and making page layouts since I was on the yearbook staff at my school. So I think it would be a fun idea to have a business like that on the side. Of course, I wouldn’t want to do it as full-time work. Just sort of a hobby that makes me money.

Another project I have in the midst: building my PC. I have about half a computer sitting in my closet. All it needs now is a monitor, CPU, motherboard, video card and RAM and it’s good to go. Oh, and I suppose that now it needs a hard disk drive since my boyfriend gave mine to his mother. Boo! But he needs to replace that. I suppose that I have most of the outer-parts of the computer done, now it’s just on to the simple stuff. Yeah, simple…

And I’ve been thinking a lot about Japan. I want to learn Japanese so if I do ever marry my boyfriend, we can get married in late March so we can go to Tokyo on our honeymoon and see the cherry blossom trees. Then we could play Pachinko all night. But how am I going to play Pachinko and get around Japan if I can’t speak Japanese? I’ve seen a lot of software that teaches Japanese, but it’s all very expensive, besides one that I saw on Amazon.com today. It’s called Human Japanese. I’m going to look into it a little bit more. Might be the one for me since it’s only $30!

If I do ever end up in Japan, there’s three things I want to bring back with me:

1. Pachinko balls, just a few, and maybe a prize that I won at a Pachinko parlour.

2. Lots of Hello Kitty and Sanrio things for me and my sister and all my good friends.

3. A cherry blossom spray.

I don’t think that’s too much to manage. Seeing as Hello Kitty things are cheapcheapcheap in Japan. I should get stationary and every Sanrio thing I can get my hands on! I’ll have to bring an empty suitcase with me to Japan so I can have room for all the Hello Kitty things I’m going to buy. =3

But this is all only if I marry Alex. Which will happen… the question is when? He’s so reluctant to take any responsibility for anything. We currently live with his mother in an apartment. I want to get our own place so badly, but he doesn’t think we’re financially ready to make that move. So in his mind we would constantly be fighting about money if we lived on our own. The truth though, is that his mommy takes care of him and he isn’t ready to grow up yet. The woman still does his freaking laundry and he’s twenty years old. On top of that, she also runs all of his errands, cooks him food, and insists on doing all the grocery shopping. But I’m finding it impossible to live with her for several reasons.

I said that she insists to do the grocery shopping. Well, half the things she buys are absolute CRAP that rats wouldn’t even eat, and the other half she writes “NO” and “NOT ALYSE’S” all over in big huge ugly annoying Sharpie marker. So why would I want to live in a house where the only good things to eat aren’t mine? And on top of that, half the stuff she writes all over goes bad before anyone eats it.

And she never lets me throw away expired milk! EW! She says she’ll make pudding out of it or something! But what the hell? It’s expired for a reason that’s just gross.

She’s also sooo grumpy when she wakes up, which is often because she sleeps so much. I’m never really grumpy unless someone works pretty hard to get me grumpy so when Ogre (her) walks out of her bedroom all pissed off at the world and she stomps on Fairy (me) until Fairy’s wings break, then what am I to do? She’s an ogre and I’m the fairy… See, it’s her apartment, not mine, not Alex’s… hers. And whenever she wants to she can decide that she doesn’t want me here any more. Then what? I move in with mommy and daddy? See I’m not Alex I can’t just live happily ever after with my parents. My parents don’t let me be a slob and mooch off of them.

Many of my problems would be solved if Alex and I had our own place, for one:

All of our CRAP! We have so much stuff and it’s all confined into one small room. If we had our own place the guinea pigs and the bearded dragon could go out in the living room, then we could properly store all of our things (instead of having them on the floor all the time). But nope, it’s not our living room, dining room, kitchen, or bathrooms… they’re his mommy’s.

It’s got to be the stupidest living situation ever. And in two month’s we’re renewing the lease! I have fifteen more months of this! If I put up with this for another fifteen months and he still doesn’t feel like growing up, I swear to God himself, that I will leave! I hope he grows up, I do love him so much!

I logged onto SanrioTown today after a day of absence due to work (boo) for a pleasant surprise! My video about why I should be a beta tester for Hello Kitty Online was the most discussed at the time!

I thought this was very satisfying because I put so much work into the video! And if you haven’t seen it yet, simply click here and watch it! Please rate and comment it and I will rate and comment your video as well! =D Thank you so much to all of you who commented! =D It really meant so much to me to hear that all that hard work might pay off. I hope SanrioDigitial likes the movie just as much as you guys did!

I stupidly went to a party Friday night without my boyfriend. And I kept calling him while I was drinking, and let’s just say it wasn’t pretty. I was being so stupid and I totally annoyed the hell out of him. Needless to say, I won’t be going to any more parties like that one.So Saturday, after that I drove to Orlando (about a four hour drive) to see him and tell him I was sorry. I didn’t tell him I was going, I just showed up. He was so happy to see me and it was all okay. We did have a little argument about responsibility and how he wants to marry an adult, not an immature teenager. I guess during one of our calls I told him a million times that we were going to be getting married. I’m so freaking stupid.Anyhow, then I hung out with him all weekend. And today I just checked my SanrioTown email and I got one from the folks at Hello Kitty Online. They want us all to make videos about why we should be invited to the Closed Beta. Well I’ve been trying all morning and all afternoon and the stupid thing keeps freezing. I’m ready to throw my computer out the window. But it’s not freezing because of my computer because I’ve tried every computer in the house and it always freezes when I try to add text.So I hate Dream Studio!

End.

EDIT!!!!

I just got the Dream Studio to work! Here’s my video!