The exciting adventures of Benjamin O'Neil

Jeremy took two videos of me riding the pallet jack at work. You can view them on his school site: part 1 and part 2.

I also caved last night and bought the 20th Anniversary Game Boy Micro (the gold and red one.) It's pretty incredible and will be handy to transport around to class and other placesi n case i have a few minutes here and there.

Today's looking like lots of videogames, some computer fixing for my dad, and that's about it. Glad work is over; it was nice to naturally wake up and not have to be some place at 7:30 in the morning. Though that's what school's gonna be like next semester. Oh well.

Podcast is looking like a possibility. I'll have to see whether I really want to do it or not. I'm still unsure of what to do, but it could be a variety show, because I'm full of that.

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I definitely really need to learn to chill out and not take things so personally and get so angry about random things. Jeremy was definitely right about these things and I shall try harder to be better about that.

Work today was eh. Lifting 75 lb TVs all day isn't my idea of fun, but it's not too difficult, just tiring on the back. But we were working at a compartively fast pace, so we can take long breaks and it's okay apparently. We will be doing the same thing tomorrow and in to Thursday, and so I'm definitely looking forward to Thursday. Only three more days of work, and then I'll be rolling in the dough somewhat.

Macworld announcements were also interesting. The MacBook looks awesome, I wish I had one. I question their naming scheme. I watched the end of the keynote to see Jobs demo the new iMac and MacBook Pro. He says that they're done with Power and want Mac in the names of their products, but I don't know what they'll call the PowerMac. The MacMac? BigMac? (Might be copyrighted) Simply Macintosh Pro? I also guess the iBook will stay the iBook based on the fact that iMac stayed the iMac, but then why go through the trouble of MacBook Pro? Maybe the iBook will change to MacBook Home or something in that vein. I am somewhat confused. Coolest innovation is the magnetic power adapter. That's one thing I wish I had. Though I like the green/amber ring of light on my power adapter and it doesn't seem that the new connecter has this.

Tomorrow's looking pretty chill. Work and then word on the street is George might be going to Jeremy's so I might head over there for a bit. Power Stone 2 is probably a much more exciting game with more than 2 people.

In unrelated news, I got new shoes which are just like my old ones but different colors. They're comfortable. I also got my bio book in the mail today, so I am set for school in terms of textbooks.

Beat Beast's Castle in Kingdom Hearts II, which was exciting. The cooperation attacks are nice, and together with Drive Mode make it seem almost unfair because you can just really beat up on people, but I wasn't the one who designed the game. On to the Land of Dragons, which will be rather simple since the enemies are supposed to be weaker than they were in Beast's Castle (and those enemies were pretty wimpy.)

For now I am out. I keep needing to do things about this website, but I'm sure they'll get figured out at some point. Maybe a podcast would be interesting, but I have no idea what to do it on, and I'm not nearly funny enough to have things to talk about that would interest people. Leave me ideas.

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So after a fast start, this is my first update in a while. After having been requested to update this page by a couple different people, I finally gave in and have decided to do so. I'll recount the past two weeks with as much as I can remember.

So when we last left our hero, I was heading to Florida. Sunny and 75 degrees is my ideal weather and that's exactly what it was the entire time we were down there. We didn't really do too much; a little shopping here, some eating out there, but overall it was just fantastically relaxing. As I explained to people, it was nice that I had such a long break on both sides because this trip used to really consume my winter break, but I didn't feel like I had all these things to do when I came back.

Kingdom Hearts II was here when I got back, so that was fantastic. It's been a little bit more challenging to translate than I had thought (think of Donald and Goofy speaking the language that you've only ever heard very clear pronunciation of and you'll know what I mean) but the game has been awesome. The changes that they've made so far have been great. I'm not very far in the game and it's going to take me a while to beat it, but I think I'm actually really learning some Japanese this way, so I'm down with that.

I've been working at Oakwood again and that's been okay. I'm really bad at working slowly on things and deliberately taking time, which is what Javier wants us to do, so we run out of things to do. Standing around isn't too fun, but it's $9/hr standing around. So it's okay.

Martha had a birthday party yesterday, so it was good to get to see people, but since I haven't been feeling great lately, I was ready to leave around 11, so I did. I came home and went to sleep on my couch and woke up at 10ish this morning so that was good. My day is looking like running to the bank, going to Best Buy for Seinfeld Seasons 4 and 5 (two for one deal!) and then going to church at 6:30. I just gotta double check my financials to make sure I can afford the Seinfeld.

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