Another boring blog...

Look at that, i'm on Google

2010-10-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Been a long time since a posting, and I really don't have much to say. I noticed however that my blog is now showing up on Google! This is a nice surprise, and probably won't help anyway considering I don't know why anyone would want to read this!

So in other news, Pokerstars seems to be giving a little back the past couple days. I was down to $1.40 in my account. Nothing really I could do then buy into one of the very low cost sit-and-go's. I bought into the 90 player one, which pays out around $26. To my surprise, I actually won this tournament.

I then proceeded to play a $1.75 9-player sit-and-go. I also won it, lost the next one, then won a $3.75 sit-and-go. Today I won another $3.75 one, so I turned my $1.40 into $45 dollars right now. I have this strategy of grinding the small sit-and-go tables, and eventually working my way up. If all goes as I have planned, i'll easily be a millionaire in a few months.

...Yeah right, it actually doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to work your way up in these 9 player sit-and-go's. I don't know about getting rich off of it, Tom Dwan did and a few others so maybe this is the way of the champion. It is going to be very hard for me to keep from cashing out when I get up to $100 in my account. I'll be sure to keep everyone updated.

...And another thing to distract me even more from everything I should do, Fallout- New Vegas will soon be in my grasps!

-Tyler

Pokerstars..

2010-09-26T20:26:00.000-07:00

Anyone out there play poker online? If you do, ever play here?..

Yeah, well this place seems to have a consistent method of screwing me over. I hate to whine, but it seems every time I have pocket A's someone manages to hit trips on JK or some other hand. Full tilt never seems to do this to me, but you can't cash out there unless you have at least $100. Maybe I should start playing with more money?

Bad idea I figure...

Anyway I'm getting it out there I've got this blog. Told my lady that I made it and I think i'm going to start linking it in all my emails. Oh, heres a picture of me and her if you are curious...

She's a pretty cool gal. If you can't tell, we both wear the same glasses.

Her name is Rebecca and we've been dating for a little over a year and five months. I love her a lot and you'll be seeing more of her around here.

...And my AC/DC test went pretty good. I'll leave a sample question here from the practice test. It was practically verbatim on the test.

6. A 12-kVA, 60-Hz, 4160—120-V, single-phase transformer has the following parameters

expressed in ohms:

R_HS = 33.6 X_HS = 30.5 X_M,_HS = 8,809

R_LS = 0.0224 X_LS = 0.0547 Rfe,_HS = 18,400

The transformer is supplying a load that draws rated current at 120 V and 65 percent power-

factor lagging. Sketch the appropriate equivalent circuit and determine (a) the equivalent

resistance and equivalent reactance referred to the high side; (b) the input impedance of the

combined transformer and load; (c) the load component of high-side current; (d) the input

voltage to the transformer; (e) the exciting current and its components; (f) the input

impedance at no load.

...Put some thought into that until my next posting...

-Tyler

New post.

2010-09-23T20:23:00.000-07:00

Well, thought maybe I should post again. I would like to actually try to get some viewers in here that might want to read this thing. I know it's not exactly interesting, but hey, most people's lives aren't all that exciting are they?

I have an AC/DC test tomorrow...

...Has nothing to do with the band...

It's more of a full fledged physics course mixed with a whole bunch of calculus while all dealing with electricity. I tell you what, it's pretty wild and most of it's beyond me. If you are interested it deals mostly with transformers and how magnetism causes flux within the turns of wire to create a voltage...or something like that. I don't really have a great grasp on this stuff. I have studied for six hours today and I believe I potentially score a tad better than a 50%, but we will see. That is actually being very optimistic. See, it's not uncommon to score around 50% on most of these electronic tests. Sometimes I wonder if I will actually understand anything at all when I finally graduate. I just feel like I may be one of those guys with a degree that doesn't actually know anything about what i'm doing. I guess I still have two or more years to improve...

Anyway, boy it's about time for my birthday! I'll be 21 here in about a week in a half. Yeah, yeah I know you are all thinking, "uh oh... bet that's going to be a crazy night." Naa, it won't be. I will probably sit in the room and do the exact same stuff I always do. More than likely I will have something very serious to do the day after my birthday. I am excited to spend some quality time with my family and girlfriend. I should probably get some pictures of the crew up here...

Should probably go to bed here soon. Don't want to end up getting a 30% on my test instead of a 50%

*Needs some inspiration right now..*

-Tyler

"Triumph of Death"

2010-09-22T09:46:00.000-07:00

...So i'm just going to leave this here, soak it in a bit...

Interesting yes? I have to write a paper on this puppy and sadly I'm not the artsy type. I know this is my second blog post but if someone wants to better explain how I need to "include description, compositional analysis and identification and explanation for the work", I would appreciate it greatly. I'd like to consider myself some sort of decent writer but this isn't fully clicking with me. It feels like everything I am asked to write about is actually just a repeat of the other things I'm asked to write about. Like description is actually a compositional analysis, and that is actually an explanation.

I'm reading too far into this and I am sure this interests absolutely no one.

I'm also at work right now which adds a slight increase in difficulty to this paper. Work just seems to get on my nerves half the time, which I think it's that way for most the population. I am a Call Representative for the tech department and it gets old after awhile. Most conversations go about like this...

"My computer is frozen"

"Have you restarted your computer?"

"No"

"...Please do that, if this does not fix the problem, please call back"

Every now and then you get a lone guy that actually has an interesting problem, but that only happens once in a blue moon. But hey, I can sit here and do homework while doing a pretty easy job, so I shouldn't complain.

Well I need to stop typing here and actually type my paper. Maybe I will feel frisky enough to post later!

-Tyler

First Post!

2010-09-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Ahh, well looks like I finally made a blog!

For those that don't know me, it's pretty wild that I've made one. See, I like to try to stay out of attention from most people. I deleted my Facebook at the end of last school year and haven't missed it one bit. I don't really care what anyone else is doing, why do I need one? I can call or text or email and send a letter to some friend that I dearly miss. Pictures? I kind of do miss the pictures but you can get those through email.

So you may ask, "Why should we be interested in you when you don't care about anyone else?" Well I don't know, maybe someone out there is interested in me spewing out thoughts that I feel are pointless to actually tell anyone.

Anyway, my name is Tyler. I am now a junior at Fairmont State University in West Virginia. You may be surprised to find out I have all my teeth and my parents are not blood relatives. I am majoring in Electronics Engineering, which is one heck of a hard field. While doing this, I work about 20 hours a week on campus as an I.T. tech.

Yes, you could say I'm a geek.

I love practically anything tech related. I can fix it and break it and then fix it again! Fun stuff.

I also enjoy a passion for playing guitar and just general music. I own seven guitars, two of which I have made myself. Sadly, school and work seem to take over much of my time and I don't get to play nearly as much as I'd like. Still, I enjoy talking about it and would love to have a conversation with anyone that cares.

That is about the all the basics that come to mind. We will see if I actually continue writing in this thing. Heck, this might be the first and last post!

-Tyler