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Hi bloggers;
So I’m taking a computer science course and was instructed to do an introduction blog. I had the option of keeping my own blog and adding to it, or creating another blog. I really considered doing the route of creating another blog, however, really wasn’t sure that that was going to be the right thing for me. That and if someone wants to stock me i’ll make it easier for them to do it, by keeping it in one place.
I have been blogging since at least January 2006. This blog has some of my older blogs, older being back in 2006, however, i mostly only have blog stories from september 2007 on this blog with normal updates. You, if your so inclined, could read this blog and learn everything that’s gone on in my life. Everything from my girlfriend Jessica and my adventure of renting our first apartment to our brake up. My getting a guide dog to my new girlfriend Sabrina and my move to alaska. Blogs are wonderful, and I’m glad that mine has grown to be as long as what it has.
I am a 20 year old blind student living in coffman cove alaska now. I want to go into computer science i think. At this time my major is computer science and psychology with a miner in communication. Rather exciting if you ask me. Why? Well, because it just goes to prove that i really don’t know what i want to do with my life. I do know that i want to have to deal with people on a daily bases, because, yes, if you couldn’t tell, i am very social.
I have a few projects that i’m working on, and i think that i’ll justl ist them at the end of this blog. I always love to be on the computer, and am always on twitter. My friends and family think i’m a free person to go to for computer trubbles, i guess that’s not bad at least they know how to make me feel loved.
Anyways i don’t know really how to make a blog about my life and what i like to do when you can go read the other 3 or 4 hudred odd posts, There for, if you want to learn more about me, feel free to read to your hart’s content. Where you find it necessary, i ask that you do post comments. Throw in al ink to your blog, i don’t care:)

Project i’m involved in, and or other things i’ve done or am doing online:
My web hosting company:
GW Hosting | Your Dedicated Home On The Web

My twitter
My Myspace
My Diigo
My Girlfriend’s Blog

and for the time being, that’s all i can think of:)
thanks a lot
mike

hey all;
i got this in my email, and it made me think. We all do go threw life to quickly. When was the last time you called a friend just to say hi? Just think about it, and slow down today.
I did not write this, though i wish i could claim the rights to it it’s not mine. Please, though, feel free to post your comments on this song:)

Slow Dance

This is a poem
written by a teenager with cancer.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,

We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,”Hi”

You’d better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift… Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

this song i just love. It makes me feel good, i know it’s rather depressing, but hey, what can i say? I like it, got a problem with it? lol.
I’m just kinda hanging here, rocking out to it. It’s very clearly song, and her voice just has that weird thing i can’t explain with words that just makes me smile. She’s very, creative. That’s the way to put it:)

“Whisper”

Catch me as I fall
Say you’re here and it’s all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one’s here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me
Into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

[Chorus:]
Don’t turn away
(Don’t give in to the pain)
Don’t try to hide
(Though they’re screaming your name)
Don’t close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don’t turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)

I’m frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there’s much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

[Chorus]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me
Shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I’ve fallen for
I rise to meet the end

[Chorus x3]
Servatis a periculum [save us from danger].
Servatis a maleficum [save us from evil].

this was created because i had a few friends who wanted to know how i was able to cell things on ebay. The product i listed, did not however cell. I hope you will enjoy this podcast, and get a sort of kick out of the things that happened to me on this episode. Understand that this is my first episode, and I’m not 100% happy with it, however, i figured it’s time to post for you all, so here you go:
GW Networks, GW Networks, episode 1 – Ebay (35.4mb) 1 – Ebay
Leave your comments please in the comments field of this blog posting. I do not have the phone number nor the e-mail address established for this podcast as of yet. I will however get that setup with in the next few days.
Thanks a lot
Michael

Were in the process of getting the podcast up to the server. I will then post al ink to it here, and you will be able to publicly download the podcast. I will also put show notes on here and you can then view them as you listen to the podcast. Were excited to release the first ever, gw networks podcast.
thanks for reading
mike

this is just an update for those of you who care:)
I had recently had a thought that it would be nice if we could get wired hi speed out here in coffman cove. After a few different calls, i learned that there will not be fiber for this ability until around september of 2011, so that’s a while from now, however, i guess we will see how that goes. I however could move to the end of the coffman road and get hi speed fiber internet bye november of this year, very curious eh? lol.
ANyways well this is also an opportunity for me to test a twitter pushing program, so i guess i don’t really have anything else to post for the time being, so catch you all on the flip side, lol.
mike

The music with her voice mixed with this song make a wonderful sound to the ear. I love the accent she has, and the music reminds me of older music, but then goes into newer sounding music, Read the lyrics, the buy it off itunes. The cd is good as well.

LILY ALLEN – IT’S NOT FAIR
oh he treats me with respect he says he loves me all the time
he calls me fifteen times a day he likes to make sure that I’m fine
you know I’ve never met a man whose made me feel quite so secure
hes not like all them other boys they’re all so dumb and immature

there’s just one thing that’s getting in the way
when we go up to bed you’re just not good it’s such a shame
I look into your eyes I want to get to know you
and then you make this noise and its apparent it’s all over

it’s not fair and I think your really mean
I think your really mean
yes I think your really mean

oh your supposed to care but you never make me scream
you never make me scream

oh it’s not fair and it’s really not ok
it’s really not ok
it’s really not ok

oh your supposed to care but all you do is take
all you do is take

well I lie here in the wet patch in the middle of the bed
I’m feeling pretty hard done by, I spent ages giving head
then I remember all the nice things that you’ve ever said to me
maybe I’m just overreacting, maybe your the one for me

there’s just one thing that’s getting in the way
when we go up to bed you’re just not good it’s such a shame
I look into your eyes I want to get to know you
and then you make this noise and its apparent it’s all over

it’s not fair and I think your really mean
I think your really mean
yes I think your really mean

oh your supposed to care but you never make me scream
you never make me scream

oh it’s not fair and it’s really not ok
it’s really not ok
it’s really not ok

oh your supposed to care but all you do is take
all you do is take

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. (Maybe not so much for me, I probably just didn’t know who else to tag)

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25, or as many as you wish, people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. I’m blind, yep that’s right, I’m starting this out with the fact I’m blind. HAHAHAHA!
2. I have a guide dog. I know these are rather boring but hey what can i say?
3. I have lived in a small town since june of 2008 in alaska, town is ok, however, i didn’t like it for the longest time.
4. I want a baby. That’s all I’m saying about that.
5. I love to read, and always likely will. It lets me live in a different world for a little bit.
6. I am majoring in computer science and psychology with a miner in communications.
7. I own my own web hosting company, www.gwhosting.net and am doing all right with that.
8. I am no longer a romantic, though my x-girlfriends called me one. Obviously i wasn’t doing something right there.
9. I get jealous very very easily and don’t know why that is.
10. My best friend’s girlfriend is having a baby, and i think this is the best thing that could ever happen to him.
11. My girlfriend has lived in alaska for most of her life.
12. I played basketball in middle school for a year. Well didn’t for-say play but was on the team.
13. I’ve dated 2 girls with the name Jessica.
14. I wrestled for a year and didn’t get along with the coach the next year so quit. Then, wished i hadn’t quit because i could have gotten so far on that.
15. I am having issues with thinking of 10 more things to write about my self and not bore you.
16. my girlfriend’s sister’s husband, is sometimes referred to as my girlfriend’s boyfriend, confusing? Read it again, lol.
17. I have 5 siblings, well six (see below), amanda who is 18, Josh who is 12, evan who is 4, andrew who is 2, and ben who is 1.
18. I also have another brother who died of sids, nicholas.
19. My aunt is very ill and they don’t know what’s wrong with her as of the time of this writing.
20. My sister and her boyfriend are getting married on april 20th, “so we don’t forget the wedding day”, 420 (stoners).
21. on average i get about 250 emails a say, that was as high as 750 to 1000 a day but has been decreased drastically.
22. I am going to UAA now.
23. 2 of my favorite authors are Stuart Woods, and Jim Butcher.
24. I love reading fanfiction.
25. My best-friend, had a thing for my girlfriend before we started to date.

few, that was hard.

This morning i got a very rather sad text from my mom. She told me that my aunt was in intensive care and has been since saturday. She told me that she couldn’t breath and the doctors didn’t know what was wrong with her. I don’t have any other updates to this accept that the doctors expect her living as a 65% chance, however, again they don’t know why she’s ill.
However, this blog is about something that at first cot me off gar, then made me wonder, and finally smile. I think i might have made someone’s day, if not the intended person’ at least someone.
So a few of you might remember a while back i sent sabrina some flowers. She was in anchorage, and so i had them sent to her hotel room. It was one dozen carnations, and a teddy bare. Well, i got a phone call from the hotel today that sabrina was staying at, however, requesting my aunt.
Well, i didn’t really think anything of what was going on. I thought it quite odd that the hotel had called looking for her, and sabrina thought maybe there was a lady in her group with that name. So she looked and there wasn’t. So, I called chris back at the hotel and he told me he had received some flowers. I said i would call the florist and see what was going on. So i did, i called them directly, and they told me what was ordered.
See, this morning i was going to call and order flowers for my aunt. I was on the phone with the person who i would order the flowers from, at from you flowers, and this lady didn’t know what she was doing. I got tired of it and hung up on her. Well, they didn’t have any sort of credit card on file, because i payed with paypal, so i wasn’t to worried about them charging me.
Well, anyways what appears to have happened is this. It appears, and this is just thinking because we do not have solid proof, but they went ahead and copied the previous order i had. The question however, is who is going to be charged for this order? I know it’s not going to be me, and i think the florist said she is going to charge From You Flowers, a place i won’t be doing business with again.
I called chris back, however, he had just left. I told the desk clerk that it was mike, and this was in regards to the flowers Chris received. I told her that he should, if he has a girlfriend he messed up with or something, then he should give the flowers to her. She laughed and said she would do just that.
So my aunt didn’t get flowers, however, i’ve made a new contact at a few places in anchorage. I also might have made Chris’s girlfriend or boyfriend, er, not quite sure what way chris floats, anyways might have made Chris’s significant other’s day.
Here’s to a good day to all, someone made someone’s day. I’m not quite sure as to who’s day was made.
mike

now, if anyone asks me to explain this i’ll digitally smack you, anyways, here you go. Another one from sabrina that i liked:
The Secretary of Defense is briefing President Bush on Iraq. “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”

“Oh no!” exclaims the president, “That’s terrible!”

His staff is stunned at this unprecedented display of emotion, watching as Bush sits, head in hands.

Finally, he looks up and asks, “How many is a Brazilian?”