Know Your Audience Blog Post!

So, after reading the the questions and answers from last weeks "Know Your Audience" discussion board; I found out many things about my class mates. Like most of them would give away their million dollars to others; out of the kindness in their hearts. Also, most of them also enjoy living near a beach, or at least somewhere sunny.
Favorite question:
That would be a tie between "What color reflect your personality?" and "If you could change one life experience what would it be?". I liked these personally because I feel like both of these questions get to the root of who you are and give a little insight on what makes you tick.
Least favorite question:
This one goes to "Any car?", because I felt like personally I couldn't come with a decent answer.
So all in all, I think my class mates are a very interesting group of people and I will enjoy the next for weeks working with them!

Wednesday June 29, 2011

There isn't anything special about today; well, other than enjoying my favorite part of online class tonight and getting some late night homework done. It's great that I can go hang out with friends after a long day of meetings at work and then come home to finish off some much needed homework.
I'm currently making a listing of all the questions with their answers to last week's "Know Your Audience" discussion board. Because, they way Black Board has their discussion boards set up is with out a doubt the worst forum set up I have EVER seen, and I mean that. For several reasons.
1. They have it to were you can only see one post at a time. Which is terrible is you're trying to follow a conversation or go over old comments for assignments *wink wink
2. Unless I'm blind, I don't see -a way to leave the current thread and return to the discussion board. Forcing me to click on the the Discussion board button over and over.
3. The navigation buttons between threads and reply are also terrible. They get confusing at times and far inferior to just letting me go back to the board and look at all the threads from scratch. Because, most of the time I'm not wanting to go from thread to thread in a linear way, but jump from thread to thread trying to get my information.
But this is just the discussion board feature.... the rest of Black Board is also pretty much junk as far as I can tell. A lot of my teachers make an effort not to talk down on it, but half the time I catch most of them saying something negative or having technical issues with it. But enough about me complaining about Black Board and back to my homework.

Monday June 27, 2011.... One of my better days at work.

I've worked at Jackson Brother now for a little under three months now and I think I'm finally getting a hold of the different work mentality that comes with it. The "mentality"of having to find work to do. It's not all just handed to me; I also actually have to think when I work now. Unlike, my other jobs working as a cook. Where I could stand there waiting on orders or just clean something, because lets face it there is ALWAYS something to clean in a kitchen. But now, I have to go and find the work; it's there, but I have to find out what it is. I like it, for the most part. Even thou some days the work just seems to pile up on me, but for the most part I have to find the work.

Today thou, was one my better days for grasping this new "mentality". There was very little down time today and I was always able to find something. Other than when I asked dad "Anything you want me working on?", but I'm going to count that one.

Plus, I can't thank my father and his boss enough for this job. It got me out of working in dirty kitchens, which I began to hate with a passion, and is giving me a head start in the IT world that most students get until they're are out of school.

Free Write! 390 words in ten min! I think I could do even more next time!

I’m going to free write on how much I day dream. But what is going to kill me the most is not going back to ereas what once made since in my head and know sounds like crap that I have read over it. But whatever! I’ll get through it! I’m really curious on how many words I can pump out in a minuiet... wow I just relized that I’m already day dreaming while writing this paper. I have such a bad tendenzie of getting off topic when I’m writing something. There are very few things that I can just sit there and completly focus on. Like DCI, I can sit there and what that all day every day. That might be because there are twenty million things for me to focus on and try to see if there are doing well on it or not. Like the other day when Carlonia Crown was at Willard Hight School. I sat there for 3 and half hours watching them rep the same for almost half of it. But it didn’t bother me one bit at all. The guard was fantastic. The horns sounded like a giant wall of sound. and The drums where spit clean, well as far as I can tell the drums where spit clean. There drill is little dirty, but then again they only just had their first challene/ I mean show the other day. There in fourth right now and I was SO happy to see some drum corp for the first time since last august. Man I miss drum corp. I would give anything to be back on the feild marching again. I just need to figure out how to pay for it again. Then again If i can get the thing with support space up and running I might be able to pull it off. I think thats enought on drum corp. Even though that’s all I can think about these days since shows started up. Can’t wait to see what the Blue Knights score tonight! Iadfasdf ashbasldkfsdf writinng stuff.... er … yes..... Come on I can do this! This is acutally kind of fun now that I’m doing it. This reminds me I need to get some more studying done for my A+ exam

AHHHH!!!! writing too write !@#!@#
Thank god I’m done.123!@#!@#

I believe

1. I believe that I can be great
2. I believe that copy and pasting I believe was a good idea
3. I believe the Blue Knights are going to have a great show tonight
4. I believe the Blue Devils will finally lose a world championship this summer
5. I believe I talk about DCI way too much
6. I believe Joplin is going to be fine with all this help coming from EVERYWHERE
7. I believe my ten key is terrible
8. I believe the database I'm working on at work is a giant pain
9. I also believe that database is taking up way too much of my time at work
10. I believe my room is a mess
11. I believe I need to turn in my W9
12. I believe my friend Chris is crazy
13. I believe I'm just making stuff up now
14. I believe that I'm also trying at the same time
15. I believe this is a terrible parody of Blue Collar Tour
16. I believe that I watch too much tv
17. I believe I waste too much time doing nothing
18. I believe I day dreamm too much
19. I believe I'm hungry
20. I believe we're out of food
21. I believe I'm doing this wrong for some reason
22. I believe I will be great
23. I believe Godzilla is SOOOO cheesy
24. I believe I will do well in this class
25. I believe this weekend is going to be fun
26. I believe there is a minuet left
27. I believe I couldn't get much more out of this.

Fathers Day!

First things first! I'm would like to wish my father, grandfathers, and all other fathers a happy fathers day.

I woke up around 9 today and gave my father his present. Which was a adapter for his iPad. So he could hook it to his tv and possibly save his neck from watching all his rentals on it. Personally I think it was smashing hit. He has been watching movies and tv shows all day. Well, when family wasn't over for lunch/dinner.

The Jung Typology Test

I'm going to come out and just say that this test blew my mind! Now this isn't my first online test like this, but this one is defiantly better than any others I have taken! With at least as twice as many questions than other tests; it covered a wide verity of question; that honestly half the time I was questioning what they had to do with anything.

But enough about how I liked the test and more on what it actually said about me. First of all it told I have the following stats 44% Introverted, 12% Intuitive, 1% Thinking, and 1% Judging; giving me the personality type of INTJ. Now honestly, when I first read these stats I thought negatively. It was that I was good thinking or Judging? What?! I also didn't know what Introverted means. I was very confused and thought this test was telling to starting looking for a new career choice; other than IT.

So, I did a little more digging and found out that this was actually more of me than I was guessing. According to D. Keirsey I have the personality of the Mastermind. I read that the Mastermind is the one behind the scenes always trying to make things run better and more efficiently. That definition alone is what I do all the time anyways and what makes my career field even exist in business.

Then after reading that article I went on to see what jobs are good for my personality and the FIRST thing on the list was computer programming. Now I'm going to assume that IT people are probably wrapped in with that, because most people probably don't even know the difference. But, I was very glad to see that what I have already decided on as a career plan was FIRST on my list of good jobs for my personality.

Next I read the article by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss. Which I believe nailed me down to a person even better than the first. Especially the part on why we don't normally like talking to new people. Explaining that we like people to make sense, and most the time they don't. Which is very very very true.

After I read all of this and sat down to think about. I have to say I was very impressed with the test and wouldn't mind going further into it sometime.

Hello World

This is pretty much a test post. I'm mainly doing this so I can get a better look of what my Blog will look like when it's all said and done. So, thank you for reading and have a great day!