We have finally gotten all of our things moved in to our new home.  It took us quite awhile to find the right one and then figure out all of the financial details.   I swear I almost went crazy trying to flush out all of the financial stuff.  I just know that my mind is not meant to think that way; statistically and like a game show contestant.  Now we have finally come to the day where we can move in and start to enjoy our new home.  I have gotten all of our old down comforters and our beds set up for the first night in our new home.  We have a truck rented tomorrows for us to begin actually moving the bulk of our stuff in.  Today I just mad two trips across town some essential for our first night like the bed and the down comforters.  I brought over a  little bit of food for us to eat our first dinner in this new house.  When I walk around in the house and in the big back yard I just think about how much work it has taken for me to get to this point.  We both just finished our doctoral degrees in the spring and after a combined twenty year of higher education between us, this seems like the first moment either of us has been allowed to slow down in a decade.  There is a creek that runs through our back yard that was the biggest selling point for me because it looks like the creek I used to play in as a child.  In the summer, when we looked at the house there were crayfish that crawled around in the rocks while we walked past.  It reminded me of when my brothers and I would try to fish for them in our creek. When I saw that I just knew that this was the place that I wanted.  Now we have come a long way from the tour to setting up our comfortable new room.  When I sleep tonight under my down comforters with my wife I will be hitting a milestone that only seemed a dream a year ago, let alone when we met eight years ago.

I really want to say that I have finally made it out in to the

 real world now that I am graduating, but that would be a lie.
 The

 decisions I have made in the last two years of my education
merit enough

 experience to say I have seen the 'real world."  My
two sons were born

 in these last two years and now though it is a small leap out
in to the

 job and ominous financial market, I feel strong enough from my

 experiences that I can do anything.  What lies ahead
is sort of daunting

 though because at this point we don't have a house, health
insurance,

 medical
insurance, or even a car; we rode bikes everywhere before.
 I also

 wouldn't say that we have the greatest finances because of the

 massive college debt we had accumulated in our combined
twelve years of

 college tuition.  My parents and I have been
chatting quite frequently these

 last couple of months and they gave me more anxiety than
less.  My

 parents had been in the same situation we are in now and my
father got

 sick.  He didn't have health insurance or medical
insurance and got put

 up in the hospital
for three months.  He said that the cost was so

 damaging to their finances that they had to declare
bankruptcy within a

 year.  Now I have been on my parents insurance since
then, but now that I

 am graduating I am being dropped.  My father had
been recommending I

 get some short
term health insurance to get me covered until I find a

 good job. Yesterday I finally acquired some short term
medical insurance

 for the four of us online and it took affect last night. Now
I feel a

 little safer but it will run out in about a month.
 Once it does I will

 drop the plan and get some temporary insurance until my
benefits kick

 in. When it comes to solving our car situation, we have been
looking

 through the classifieds for weeks and have our eyes on a
couple different

 family cars.  I have been saying that I want a
station wagon for a long

 time but Liz wants a small sedan instead.  I have to
keep telling

 myself that this is a transition and it will be over soon so
I can relax a

 little bit every day.

The semester has started once again and I am totally ready to put

 my break behind me.  It didn't start off bad, but
when I met my

 first New
York personal injury attorney, it was all down hill from
there.

   I was going to New York on the twenty-seventh to
get settled in

 before the madness of New Years eve.  The drive from
Pittsburgh to New

 York City was just beautiful. It had snowed on Christmas eve
and all of

 the areas where there are no houses were like mystical
visions of a

 different planet.  I was actually a little
disappointed when I began to see

 the houses popping up and then the skyline just flushed with
humanity.

 The feeling didn't hang around for long because there were
about

 ten million people traveling down the same road all thinking
they were

 beating the New Year's rush by coming early.  Even
though the roads

 were packed from all sides, people still drove in the typical
city style

 of just forgetting all traffic laws and fighting for space.
While I was

 merging on to a new section of highway, a car tried to
squeeze in to a

 space about half its size.  All I heard was a huge
crunch and the front

 end of my car went flying out to the right hitting the car to
my

 right.

   The next two days, instead of being about parties
and champagne,

 were all about accident
attorneys and looking for a personal
injury lawyer in New York.

  In had never thought about how you

 handle a car accident where you have to visit the hospital.
 While I sat

 in the triage to get stitches, the nurse handed me a sheet
listing a

 good injury
attorney as well as a long list of various kinds of New
York

 attorneys.  When I flipped it over it was
all about New
York accident

 laws which, though important to my situation, were
so dry that I just

 couldn't read them for a minute.  The doctor in the
ER talked my ear

 off about how I shouldn't let his slip, which I was prone to
do, but I

 should get a car
accident lawyer right away and sue the pants off of

 the other driver. I just wanted to get to bed and forget
about the whole

 thing.

   In the morning I began my search for two people;
an accident

 attorney, and an injury
attorney.  Luckily for me, there was no difference

 between the two in the phone book.  I chose a New York
personal injury

 lawyer and told him to just deal with the whole
thing for me.  I wanted

 to have as little to do with the situation as possible.

I am happy to finally be back in the United States after a long trip to
Asia. My trip was part of my graduate school research in
anthropology.  I left for Japan about six months ago and made
my way across the country.  Then I flew from south Japan to
China making my way across the country to India. I spent the majority
of my trip inside of India.  The research I was working on is
about the cultural heritage of different countries' farmers across East
Asia.  I was working mostly within the community of different tea
growers.  In Japan I spent about a month visiting about six
different farms. Four of those farms were green tea
farms and these were the large and quite intricate farms. It seemed
that they paid a great deal of attention to the layout in terms of both
practicality as well as aesthetic value.  The other two farms
were home to growers of white tea. 
They were a bit smaller though they still seemed quite well off for
farmers.  When I made the jump to China I was expecting a
whole different view of the business.  In China I was looking
to study the reaction to the new demand across the world for Organic tea. 
The farmers I visited had interesting reactions to the demand in the
western world for these types of teas.  Most of the farms I
visited in China,
including the Organic
farms, were not nearly as intricate as those I had witnessed
in Japan.  For the final, and majority, of my journey I went
across the southern border in to India.  In India I was
looking for a mixture of both types of farms, but I would only be
looking at the premium
teas that are grown there.  The majority, all but
one green tea farm, were black tea
crops.  I also asked for their reactions to the Organic tea
movement in the west and how that has affected their way of growing, if
at all.  Then I had finished my research with about a month to
spare and decided that rather than leaving early, I was just going to
enjoy the fruits that India has to offer a grad student on a research
grant.

Gelişmiş ve son teknolojinin tıptaki en büyük katkılarından biri belki de LAZER ışınlarının kullanımını, tedavilerin hizmetine sunması oldu.1960’lı yıllardan buyana kullanılan lazer teknolojilerinin gelişmesi ve daha güvenli hale gelmesiyle birlikte tıp dünyasında da yeni bir çağ açıldı. Epilasyon , damarsal lezyonlar , lekeler, sivilceler ve kırışıklık gibi pek çok sorun , lazer ışınlarıyla acısız ve zahmetsiz giderilebiliyor. Sonrasında hastanın sosyal hayata dönmesi çok kısa sürede olabiliyor. Yeter ki doğru uzmana ve merkeze başvurulabilsin…

LASER terimi aslında Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation kelimelerinin baş harflerinden oluşmuş bir kavramdır. Ve uyarılmış radyasyonun yoğunlaşmasıyla güçlendirilmiş bir ışık demetini yansıtmaktadır. Bu ışık demeti tek renkli, düz ve enerji taşımaktadır.

Bu güçlü ışık demeti sayesinde çevre dokular korunarak, tüylerin yok edilmesi ile kalıcı epilasyon sağlanmakta ve pürüzsüz, yumuşak bir tene sahip olunabilmektedir. Ancak bir seansta tüm kılların ışığı aynı şekilde emerek köke ulaştırmaları mümkün değildir. Çünkü kıllar da vücudumuzun her hücresinde olduğu fiziksel bir döngü içindedir. Büyüme (anagen), dinlenme (telogen) ve dökülme (katagen) evreleri şeklinde kılların üç döngüsü bulunmaktadır. Lazer ışığı kılların büyüme (anagen) evresine etkilidir. Bu sebepten lazer epilasyon ile istemediğimiz kıllardan ancak birkaç seansta kurtulmak mümkün olur. Eğer bir kıl büyüme evresinde iken lazer uygulanırsa onun o seansta kalıcı olarak yok olması mümkündür. Bu nedenle seanslar arasında bir ila iki ay gibi süreler öngörülür. Büyüme evresinde bulunmayan bir kıla lazer uygulaması yapılır ise kıl adeta tütsülenir ve ışığı kıl köküne ulaştırma görevini tamamlayamaz. Seanslara düzenli olarak gelinildiğinde lazer epilasyonun günümüzün en başarılı uygulaması olduğunu farketmeniz mümkün olacaktır.

Seanslar, kılların yerleştiği yere ve kişinin genetik özelliklerine göre değişmekle birlikte ortalama 1-2 ay aralıklarla ve 3 ila 8 seans epilasyon yaptırılması gerekebilir. Cilt üzerinde 0,5 cm uzunluğuna erişmiş olan kıllar daha fazla uzaması beklenmeden önceki seansla da arasında en az 1 ay varsa epilasyon zamanı için uygundur.

Lazer epilasyonu 13 yaşından büyük olan, kıl yapısı uygun, kıl rengi ile ten rengi arasında belirgin farkı olan ve ışığa karşı aşırı duyarlılığı olmayan herkes yaptırabilir.

Sağlığa herhangi bir zararı olmayan lazer ışınlarının hedefi kıllar olup, çevre dokulara zarar vermemektedir. Olabilecek en kötü yan etkisi kalıcı olmayan lekeler olup bu durumun da tedavisi mümkündür.

Lazer epilasyon işlemi boyunca kılların cımbızla veya iple alınması doğru değildir. Bu yöntem kıl köklerini incelterek kılların lazere duyarlılığını azaltmaktadır. Ayrıca güneş banyosu ve solaryumu takiben 48-72 saat içinde lazer epilasyon yapılmamalı ve işlem sonrası birkaç hafta solaryum veya güneş ışınlarına maruz kalınmamalıdır.

Lazer epilasyon sırasında kıl kökünün ısıtılması ve bu şekilde yok edilmesi hedeflenir. Bu ısıtma işlemi sırasında cildi korumak çok önemlidir. Cildin üst tabakasına zarar vermeden bu işlemi yapabilmek için soğutucu başlıklar kullanılmaktadır.

Epilazyum Lazer Epilasyon ve Güzellik Merkezi olarak biz en son teknoloji epilasyon lazerlerimiz ve uzman kadromuzla sizlere kalıcı çözümler sunuyoruz.

Lazer epilasyon dan faydalanmak, pürüzsüz bir cilde sahip olmak ve sağlıklı kalıcı çözüm için sizleri kliniğimize bekliyoruz

Lazerle Epilasyon Nasıl Yapılmaktadır?

Lazerli epilasyon vücudun her bölgesindeki tüyleri acısız ve cilde zarar vermeden yok eden kalıcı bir yöntemdir.

Kişinin ten rengine göre tercih edilen lazer dalga boyundaki lazer ışınları kıl kökünde bulunan melanin pigmentini hedef alır. Lazer ışınını emen melanin pigmenti ısınır ve kıl kökü tahrip olur. Tüylerdeki melanin cilttekine göre daha konsantredir. Bu da cildin zarar görmesini önler. Kullanılan mevcut lazer epilasyon cihazları lazer uygulaması sırasında soğutma işlemini de gerçekleştirir. Bu sayede cildin zarar görmesi de engellenmiş olur. Tahrip olan tüyler birkaç gün içerisinde dökülmektedir.

My two good friends are moving this week.  Andrew

and Nicole have always been great people in my life

that command a large spot in my heart.  Still cannot

believe that they are leaving and I have known about

their definite change of address for over a year now.

I have never been able to escape the period of denial

until the very last moment.  Then it's like the grief

is crazy-tough.  The two of them are just such great

people that it's like what I imagine it must feel like

to have a child moving away for college. I mean I have

known the two of them since we were all in middle

school. I watched them meet and I knew then that these

two should be together.  Since then it has been an

amazing experience to watch them become an amazing

couple, get married, and start up their own business

online.  That last part is where all of the change

today is coming from.

       All of their plans began
about a year ago when one of

our friends who lives in one of the downtown

apartments in Sacramento.
 He was also a wholesaler of

the type of clothes that they sell.  He decided that

he was going to change businesses and needed someone

to buy his inventory.  Rather than selling it off to

someone else in the business, he asked Andrew and

Nicole first.  They had been looking at Sacramento
apartments

 before this because they wanted to live out

west.  So when he dropped the question, they barely

blinked an eye and said yes.  The first thing I heard

they were putting in calls to myriad Sacramento

Apartments and had begun organizing a going away party

for themselves.

       Now I am not overreacting
her, am I? They are just

the two people who have had the most positive

influence upon my life, and now they're leaving for

good.  Now instead if being able to walk two miles to

see them whenever I want, I will need a plane ticket

or a car that can withstand a four thousand mile

journey.  I guess this is just one of those

experiences where you have to grow or you're just

hurting yourself.

I recently needed to get a new job for the spring

semester. I searched the web listing for all of the

directory jobs that are offered in the next semester.

There were tons of Teaching Assistant positions and

even more positions for student janitors of each of

the lab classes. Since I didn't want to deal with

either complaining undergraduates, or clean up sea

monkeys in biology labs.  Then I looked at the more

office centered positions. When I got to the tech

positions there were a whole group of listings for the

college project
management software development.  The

first position on the list was a position of a graphic

designer for the campus' new project management

software. Since I had just finished my minor in

graphic design I figured that I would certainly be

qualified enough for a position like this.

       I applied for the position
and in two weeks I

recieved a notice that I had been accepted.  I was

very excited to hear the news, but it was quickly

followed by the feeling that I would probably be

working with many other people who had many years more

experience in the field than I would after I was done

with this job.  All of my fears were quickly silenced

when I actually showed up for my first day of work.

My first impression was that all of the people who

worked there were so cool and easy going.  This seemed

like it was going to be a great job if every day was

like this one.  After introductions, I was briefed on

my actual assignment, which was to be a designer for

the project tracking
section of the web based
project

management system that the cumpus hoped to use for the

next year.  They layed out all of the specific detais

and requirements for the program which at that point

were just ideas. It was going to be up to me to bring

their ideas to life from scratch, mainly because they

wanted a freash look and design without the aid of any

type of template programs. Basically, they were

looking for an award winning program to sell to other

universities.  There was such a high level of energy

from the entire staff that I said it would be no

problem for us to complete the project on time; boy

was I mistaken.

My partner and I are huge fans of Valentine's day.

We both love to just go all out and celebrate right.

Some of our motivation is about love of each other,

and the other half is about making valentine's day

like our second christmas, except the gifts are

supposed to be personal and not just like socks and

books.  We always plan to go out to a nice restaurant

and don't even consider the bill when we eat there

because we both know this is only a once a year type

of event.  It's also one of probably three times a

year that I have a real excuse to look nice when we go

out.  With two kids it is usually my motivation to

just look as good as I can with the resources and time

available. On Valentine's day, we make time to make

ourselves look sexy or handsome.  This year is not any

different because we are going to Philadelphia to have

dinner and we are renting our first hotel room in

almost four years.  We have reservations at this

amazing moroccan restaurant along the river in old

city.  That's also another one of our rules about the

holiday; wherever we eat, it must be some kind of

ethnic food. Also, when it comes to gifts, neither of

us like the heart-shaped box of chocolates or the

roses, we like the real romantic gifts that we usually

use for appearance enhancement.  So this year Liz got

me a new pair of dress shoes to wear for the diner

celebration and the club we want to go to afterward. I

got her Prevage MD
which is a face cream
she asked

for, and this little machine called a clarisonic.
 She

is kind of obsessive about her skin and her appear to

the point where she went and got some kind of Fraxel

Laser surgery. I don't think she looks like she has

aged a day since I met almost nine years ago.  That

may be because I haven't been away from her for more

than a couple of weeks straight in all of these years.

As a Houston
real estate agent, I would

imagine that now would be a great time of year. People

like Houston
Realtors know that in the winter time,

people tend to move more frequently from the north to

areas like their city.  I really think that I can

relate relate because when days like this past

saturday hit and it's below zero, those ads for

Houston real estate start looking real tempting.

       I did a lot of research on
this topic in my studies

of economic and instinctive psychology.  I have always

been interested in the study of how different

psychological factors, such as their basic primal

instincts, effect different economic decisions.  So

when a person in Boston in July is looking up the

listing for Houston
condos or Houston
homes for rent,

there is a primal basis for the search.  Though most

people don't go out and buy that piece of Central

Houston real estate because their reasoning takes

over, people will never stop tapping in to that

species-old instinct of migration in winter.

       I published many papers on
these findings and

obviously my research centered around my studies of

the Houston
Heights real estate system.  I was a

student at the university
of Texas and saw that the

old idea that most people make decisions about

finances ratonally had been shattered.  This, mixed

with my decision to buy a piece of Houston
memorial

real estate, led me right to the question of

psychology.  After I had decided what property I was

going to by, I set a theoretical account complete with

an actual realtor, to buy part of the Houston
medical

center real estate.  My introduction to the business

was just a matter of having someone one the inside to

speak with a question. When I had the chance in

conversation, I asked the realtor
about patterns of

seasons. He eventually felt confident enough in my

presence that he showed me some of his seasonal graphs

of business.  When I saw the obvious correlation, I

concreted my decision to research this project until

it was clear.  Now, four years later, I am a doctor of

economic psychology and feel without a doubt in my

mind that the instinct to leave the cold for the

south, is still alive and well in the human mind. Houston Texas real
estate is a real option. HOME

My friends and I recently held a pretty interesting

party.  We are all huge fans of glam rock and roll,

specifically David Bowie and T-rex.  These two bands

have changed our lives so much that we have at least

one dance party per season to celebrate our love of

life.  The party that we just held was a Glamor party.

 It was one of those things that you have to do at

least once in your lifetime or you'll always feel

unsatisfied in some deep dark spot of your soul.  In

the true spirit of Glam rock, this was going to be an

eyelash extension, cross dressing, super guitar solo,

big lipped, all night, dance extravaganza.

       As I mentioned before, this
party was going to be

perfect and nothing was going to stop us.  We started

buying all of our supplies weeks in advance.  My

roommate had been assigned to get us the all important

make-up and false eyelashes and eyelash
adhesive.  For the girls we agreed

to just get them lash extensions that were a bit

smaller than ours, as to not outdoor the beautiful men

of the party.  When the day of the party rolled around

we were going down our checklist of things that needed

to be acquired yet.  Everything seemed to have been

gotten already until we came to the all-important

eyelash extensions
and eyelash adhesive.
When I read

off the words, his eyes grew wide in his head. He just

realized that he had forgotten the eyelash
adhesive

glue and that we only had about an hour left before

the drug store that sold it would close.  We couldn't

possibly cancel the party, because a few people had

decided against going to spend time at home with their

family over the long weekend, just to come to our

party.  It had to be done this time, or we might not

be able to pull it off again with all of our friends

still on our side. We practically shoved Mark out the

door and in to his car.  He had enough money to buy a

lifetime supply for one, but we were  glaming seventy

people to the fake glitter. He said that he was the

last person out of the store before the doors locked,

and when the party was over he was the king of the

weekend. HOME

Man, Christmas was GOOD to me! I didn’t get many conventional gifts, really, but I got a ton of cash, mostly in the form of gift cards. A store gift card is great, but what’s even better is a prepaid credit card. It’s basically the same deal as a gift card, but it can be used anywhere that it is accepted. I got a few prepaid Visa cards and am really happy about them. A prepaid Visa card is basically a prepaid credit card that is accepted anywhere Visa cards are accepted. In a way, a prepaid Visa card is basically anonymous credit card with a set limit in the way that a gift card has a set amount. Lol, an anonymous credit card, oh wow. Think about all the stuff you could buy with an anonymous credit card - dirty snuff, weird toys, lol, and no way to get any of it traced back to you. Talk about craziness. I wonder what I’ll end up spending it on… most likely a bunch of video games and clothes. I got my PS3 with a gift card, actually, so it’d sort of be like coming full circle if I bought a ton of games with a prepaid credit card/gift card dealie. Sigh. So happy. It’s awesome, because a prepaid credit card isn’t as limited as a gift card, and if you’re like me and do a lot of online shopping, you can use your prepaid Visa card online to buy stuff from eBay or whatever. Then your prepaid credit card ascends onto a higher level and becomes a *whoosh* VIRTUAL CREDIT CARD! Actually, they have those, huh. You basically use any sort of credit card to buy a prepaid credit card, except you don’t get a physical card, but sort of like a limited account that you can use as a credit card, lol. Yes, the internet is full of win. A virtual credit card is superior to a regular prepaid credit card if you plan on using it for online shopping, especially if you have to gift it to someone across the country or out of the country, even. You can send them their information instantly instead of having to mail it out or whatever. So… yeah. If you’re reading this, you know what to get me for my birthday, woohoo!

My mother used to work for an airline and we always got to take great, cheap flights.  I mean no matter where we wanted to go we got a huge discounts. Plus because I was a student then as well, I would get student airfare discounts on those flights.  Once, my mother and I were going to fly to Florida to go to the beach and we got to our only connect stop in Detroit.  We got there and when we found the listing on the screen for our flight to Florida it said cancelled. When we talked to the woman at the counter said that there was a huge storm there and the next flight was the next morning.  So, we traded in our tickets and boarded the next flight that left. Three hours later we were landing in Las Vegas and trying to decide which of the hotels we wanted to stay in.  That was one of our more memorable juts out in to the world.

   
Of all our journeying we made a great deal of trips while she worked for this airline.  We took several flights to Europe, a few other international flights such as Jamaica. We must have gone to every major airport in the U.S. by the time I was fifteen.  Once I hit college age my flights were basically free and when I would take student flights to France for language classes, I got free tickets with both of my discounts.  I mean those airfares to Europe are mind-boggling. Today I won’t even consider taking an international flight because my mom doesn’t work there anymore. Any international airfares I look at seem to run in the thousands, and on a student’s wages I can’t afford it.

   
Recently I did take a my first flight without my mother’s discount.  My French Class was going to the Bahamas to an island where they speak French.  It was an but it was still close enough to the United States that the price wasn’t too high.  Since we were going as a class it was considered a student flight and were paid about as much as if we were going to California for a day or so.

Since I was quite young I have always been the type

who loves to travel.  When I first read Kerouac I was

11.  The next morning I was ready to hit the road with

my rucksack and my GI bill in search of the American

dream and buddhism.  Lucky for me, my family also had

a love of travel that was fed by their employment for

a major airline.  With our almost free tickets inside

the U.S., we took many weekend trips to far off

locations around the world.

       Of all of the memories I
made during my twenty years

of traveling, the memories that stick with me the most

are the people I've met, and the hotel rooms I've

stayed in.  With my love of the aesthetic lifestyle, I

know that meeting people is one of the goals of the

journey.  My almost obsession with hotel rooms is an

idea that's been culturally imbued upon me.  In our

culture's love of the fasted paced, all out race of

life, the single-serving nature of the hotel room is a

marketing jackpot.  With it's mystical sense of a home

away from our own where we can get someone else to

bring food right to our door at any hour of the night,

or go do laps in the olympic sized swimming pool at

dawn. After watching any one of the channels we don't

dare pay for at home we can step out of our paradise

villa in to a place that is possibly unknown to us.

This vantage point was certainly imprinted on my brain

at a very young age and has since grown in to a full

blow addiction with the transient pleasures offered in

our single-serving suitors at the Inn.

       With a secret pleasure that
comes within the hotel

room, it obviously precedes the interesting places

just outside the door.  I can only imagine what it

must be like in other cities on the globe.  To wake in

a Dubai
hotels room or Dubai villas with a knock at the door.  After

recieving breakfast and enjoying the view of the bay

and the hotels encrouching from all sides, I could

walk out in to that warm obscurity and slip in to

another Dubai hotel apartments
across town.  Or  maybe I

would just go back to my own Dubai
apartments and stay

in my own life for a night.

 In my high school I grew up with plenty of kids who would went through a program called CTC, Career Technical Center. In this program they selected from a group of careers and then were groomed for the rest of high school to go to a technical school. In my senior year I was taking horticulture classes on the side of the building with the Automotive Technician Training center. When I got down time during my class I would walk over and listen in on lectures and lessons of mechanic training. I had plenty of friends in these classes who had known when they were ten years old that they wanted to go to an

Auto Tech school.
I also knew people in the Culinary program who said that this was such
a great opportunity that they were already set up for the school of
their choice. Our program was so different from typical high school
training because this set up every one of these kids to go to any one
of many Automotive
schools. Admissions of any type of mechanics schools
would love to see this type of program on a transcript. Also,
the teachers would often talk about what were called NATEF Certified schools
which are more specifically the auto mechanic
schools. These types of schools cover things like auto body
repair schools, collision repair schools, or automotive
technology programs.

Since then one of my good friends has attended two schools for both technology and auto mechanics. He was actually told by his admissions director at the mechanics school that the CTC credential got him in to the school without any other considerations. He has since become a great mechanic and I love to go to him for any work that I need. Another one of my friends from that period of my life has since become an auto repair tech and now he designs tricked out cars for the very wealthy. He designs these kinds of cars with just crazy paint jobs and enormous sounds systems. One of his favorite types of cars are the ultra fast cars which he must take a lot more consideration in to the design before they can hit their 200 mph speeds.

We brought home our first computer in 1994, it feels as if a constant flow of technology as been pouring in to my life. Since that day I have always felt that I could always just sit down at a computer and figure out what I needed to do. I have since set up a studio for recording music in my office. The system is set around a laptop and a program for recording. I have had such a tough time trying to just search out the ways I want to do things within the program.

Since the humbling experience with my recording software, I have been making a much stronger effort to explore all that technology has to offer. I have been required by many course in college to explore resources and different programs on and off of the internet. This is making my life so much easier because I am being directed while being allowed to explore at my own pace.

One of the assignments I got last semester was that I had to write entries in a blog for class. I had heard of blogs before that but had never really understood what they were used for. I also had a the same strange feeling about a page of my opinions that I had about making a page all about myself. My opinion about blogs changed when I got my first reply to an entry. That conversation started months ago and still continues today. Now I have become an active seeker of blogs. I like blogs of any kind because each one seems to offer new ideas, opinions, and issues that I never would have talked about with my close friends. My favorite of the blogs that I have found recently is a Swedish Blog from Stockholm. When I heard about it I knew nothing about it and was actually kind of shocked to see a Sweden Blog. The issue he brings up are all about different aspects of life and media in Sweden. One of his main terms is his discussion of media and its relation to slang. His Turkish Blog is all about the Swedish slang

word "Turkish." In Sweden they use this term not as a racial slang, but
as a word that means anything negative you want it to mean.