Adventures in Billings

What can I tell you? Billings was cool. I rather enjoyed myself. I got to visit the MSUB campus which I thought the tour was something else. I think I will go there next year. Even though I loved Bozeman, I think Billings would be the one place to go to. Then after spending a couple of days on campus, I moved into the Billings Hotel. It was a very classy place with a waterslide pool and everything. I usually end up in a very cheap motel, but this one was better.
I originally went there to look at properties, but I had very little luck finding one that will allow pets. So I took advantage of the car rental and drove to Pompeys Pillar. The famous Lewis and Clark Expedition carved their names on this rock. It was cool. The whole time I was in Billings, it was stormy...thunder and lightning and everything. And as I was coming home from Pompeys Pillar, storm clouds were rolling in and I got some really good video shots of the lightning. Its not everyday we get to see things like that.
It was sad leaving Billings because I had fun, but I had to go home. And when I did I caught a bad cold. Damn it!!!

pics and movies

I cannot wait to go on my trip to Billings. I plan to get plenty of pics and movies on this trip. With my luck, there will be plenty to talk about. But I want to post the pics on Facebook so everybody can see them. If I post them on youtube, the only ones who will see them are my family and trolls. I cannot stand youtube trolls, they have the habit of picking on people and I dont want to have anything to do with them. I want all my friends to see my trip.
The movies, well, I am posting them on vimeo.com. I find its a lot better than youtube, at least thats what Timmyfan said. So my trip videos will be found there.

notice to spammers

I am getting sick of people coming on my blog with these chinese writing. I think this is some kind of spam and I want it to stop. I cant read it so I dont know who is really sending them to me. I cant figure it out. Whoever keeps sending me these messages with the chinese writing, better fuck off and stay away from my blog. I hate spam mail.

Great Falls MT sucks? Maybe or maybe not

There certainly was a lot of action today on the Montana page on Facebook. It all started when I was reading about a dinosaur display at the Montana State fair in Great Falls (I thought is was in Billings) and I was responding to someone who stated that Great Falls suck. I was agreeing with him and posted a comment about racist groups being formed there. Now I have no real proof other than a movie I saw years ago and I stated that. Anyway almost immediately after the comment got posted I deleted the message because I thought it was offensive especially to the people who live there and I didnt want to take it to the extreme. But at exactly the same time, another person saw what I had said and posted a response to it and then it turned into a heated battle between me and 3 other people. At the time I did not expect anyone to answer right away. It just seemed impossible. Everybody was also thinking I was "running away like a little girl" which I take offense to that. I may not like what I talk about sometimes, but I am not a coward. I am not gonna be responsible for someone else's actions. It wasnt my fault that this person responded right away just as I was deleting the message. It was a matter of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Then there was in issue with Facebook. For a long time, FB would not post my comments and I kept trying to post a response to this person. I was told there was an issue with the phone and the internet went crazy. Next thing I know, there were about 20 posts on that board and I deleted all of them. But because my computer is slow on Facebook, I couldnt get rid of them in enough time to keep other dumbasses to post crap against me. One dumbass literally said that I should "leave Montana alone and go back to where I came from." Come on!! I dont care what people say. I can go anywhere I want to. Its a free country. The day that they wont let people into Montana without a passport is when I will stay away.

I personally have nothing against Great Falls itself. I never been there so I cant say much. I just think it sucks because there is not much to do there. But then this is just my opinion. If somebody doubts my opinion, well, thats their problem.

the graduate story

It has finally come to this. After 23 years of being in and out of school since high school, I am FINALLY graduating from collage. I was waiting for this day to happen for a long time, but everytime I came close to finishing up my courses for a collage degree, we had to move, or something happened to me and I couldnt finish up. It just doesnt seem like it was that long ago that I started collage in the first place. I still remember when I started right out of high school. This was in the days before internet was invented. We had to either write out or type our assignments on a typewriter. We did have computers, but they did very little. To save anything, you had to use these huge floppy disks which was easy to get damaged, and computer classes were few and far between.

That was 23 years ago. Now everything is done online and we have more sources than we ever did before.

But I figure now is about time to graduate from collage and to move on. I am not getting any younger and I need to start getting on with my life. I will soon be attending school at Bozeman, but not when I really wanted to start though. For a graduation present, I got an all expense paid trip to Billings and I really want to go. I am going there to visit the MSU-Billings campus because I just might transfer there and to look at properties. I am noticing the job market is a little better than it is here, and they are always hiring in Yellowstone Park which is only a few hours away from Billings.

I am not so sure what I will do for the future. That has drawn a blank. I have a lot of possibilities and I just have to decide what is best for me and my family. But I can assure you that by the time I graduate, Timmyfan would be back here on the coast. If it was up to me, she would stay here. I really dont want to take her to Billings with me, but I dont have a choice. Its either that or she lives on the street, and I cant do that not even to my worst enemy. If I could give her a tiny home on the ocean or a lot somewhere in the area, I would leave her here. If there was a way I could leave her here, I do it right away. But I ran out of ideas and I cant stay where there are no jobs.

This area relies very much on tourism as their main industry. And because of the bad economy, no one does much traveling anymore. The hotels dont get enough business and jobs become scarce. I think IMO, if I were to come back to this state, I think I would go back to Mount St. Helens. Most of the nearby communities are bigger towns (well, bigger than Ocean Shores anyway) and may have a better job market. And there is Mount St. Helens itself. I think the park offers employment and there may be something in it for me. But I think first of all, I would like to give Montana a try and maybe get a permanent job at Yellowstone. If it turns out to be no better than Ocean Shores, well....Mount St. Helens, here I come. Or even to Anacortes, now there is another place I dont mind moving to. But I am not sure of the job market there. Population wise, its only about the size of Aberdeen, and I have never really been there outside of the ferry docks. But it sounds like a cute little town and I have got to check it out. But right now, its an uncertain future, but its nice to dream about it. We will just have to wait and see what REALLY happens.

I'm back

I am sorry for the long delay on my blog posts. I have been in school all this time and my homework keeps me very busy.
I am taking this microbiology course, which is a lot of fun. But the problem is that I am so far behind everyone else because I cant seem to locate a second bacterial species and it looks like I might not be able to. And also to make matters worse, my stupid car breaks down, I cant go to the lab early in the morning before classes start and work on my lab projects. I have to catch the bus by a certain time, and that forces me to do so few tests on my bacteria guys. This just cannot be happening. My biggest fear: I will flunk micro lab if I dont do these tests soon. Everybody else has.
But I am so disorganized. I cant seem to get the tests done right, nothing is going the way I want it to go, in other words, I'm a screw up. Even my class journal is very disorganized. Is this what I have to look forward to when I get to Bozeman? Well, at Bozeman it will be a lot worse than this. The classes will be a lot harder and a lot more demanding. I hope I am ready for it.
I think the problem is also the instructor. I mean dont get me wrong, everybody says that she is the best teacher in the school. But I myself think that she gives very vague details about how she wants things done. I try to follow her instructions, but somewhere along the line, I lost it. I dont think she even realizes that I have a bit of a learning problem where things have to be described to me more clearer than other people. What I need is a lab partner, somebody who will work beside me and help me every step of the way. And at Bozeman, thats what I should do and I think I should request that. I need to find out if that is possible because my learning problem can get in the way and make it more difficult to succeed.

What a day!!

I finally got my deposit sent to Bozeman, now I can finally get my dorm room. I cannot wait to get to Bozeman. I wish I was going now, but I have to wait. My financial aid hasnt gotten through to the school yet, and I have to finish up here. I am supposed to hear from them at the end of the month.

I am also looking forward to going to Billings too. I had yellvet from the Y-net forum tell me all the hot spots there. Look promising, but I am looking forward to having a great time. I have the feeling I will be going there a lot now. I know for a fact that I can go to Livingston on a free bus ride, although you dont want to go there in the dead of winter unless you have the ultimate protection against blizzard like weather.

I still need to get more winter stuff, and somehow I need to get that.

Timmyfan is starting her bird cages, and from what I have seen, its not so bad. Some of the wood boards had been cut funny, but thats not her fault. But everything needs to be straight in order for the cage to come out right. Wouldnt it be cool if we could put a light on top?

I think so!!!!