First, the good: Farm Sluts. Please, quit jumping up and down joyfully, this is not a porno. But it is one of the funniest short videos I’ve seen in a long time. It is a 49MB Quicktime movie, so if you can’t play quicktime movies and have a 56k connections…too bad.

I am also changing one of my New Years resolutions. I will cancel my high-speed internet in June. I called to cancel. I told Comcast they were too expensive. They gave it to me for $19.99 a month for 6 months. So in June i will cancel it. I had to call in and cancel my Earthlink dialup account before they charged me. So yeah, that leads me to my Comcast rant… (for you Wanderhomies, sorry, this is a repeat of my post. Its too vividly me in order NOT to put it in my LJ).

OK, seriously, WTF. Comcast conveniently jacked up their cable TV prices $5 on all their packages for 2006. Now I gotta pay $50 a month for basic cable (that is, the standard 75 channels cable comes with). On top of that they fucked me over by switching the Sci-Fi channel to Digital Cable, and revoking my HBO and Shotime privaleges by making them exclusive to their higher-end packages.I’m sure they’d get tons more subscribers if they had a “Make Your Plan” feature, where you chose the channels you want instead of having to pay $100 a month to for the big 180 channel package just so you can get Fox Soccer Channel.

A $10 monthly fee to cover the local channels and then like $1 or $2 per channel that you want extra. Not only will it reduce my monthly bill. I’d just order the following channels: HBO, Comedy Central, SpikeTV, TNT, TBS, USA, ESPN, FSC, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and CNN. Seriously, who the fuck goes, “YES, I get my money’s worth because I want to pay $50 a month to get 10 public access channels and useless channels such as The Food Network, or the Golf Channel.

But wait, Comcast now has a monopoly over the greater Chicago area when it comes to Broadband Cable Internet. Your 6mbps connection is much faster than DSL, but it also costs $50 a month. Oh wait, if you currently are paying another $50 a month or more for Comcast’s cable TV, you get it at a special low price of $45 a month! Douchebags. On a side note, why the fuck do I not have access to DSL when my friend who lives 5 minutes away does? NO DSL companies can provide me cause they’re fucknuts who can’t build a fuckin hub. Here retards, I give you permission to build a hub in the useless patch of grass in the backmost remote corner of my property that you can’t see unless you go there personally.

Instead of feeding us bullshit commercials of “actual customers” testifying how great Comcast is, why don’t you show us some live footage of actual customer’s opening up their monthly Comcast bill. I’m sure some of those videos will make it to the Illegal-In-The-USA Faces of Death videos.

Fuck you Comcast. I’m glad I made you give me 6 months of internet for only $19.95 a month, cause you want my business. And in June when I cancel, you can suck me. Suck me long. And suck me hard. And dry.

Here we go, lets see how truthful I stay with these in 2006…

• I will leave the world of online gaming until Lord of the Rings Online comes out.
• I will get all A’s and B’s in school this year.
• I will not sleep with anyone I work with.
• I will cancel my high-speed cable internet and resort to 56k to greatly reduce my time on the internet.
• I will use my free hours between classes to study (and not sit in front of a computer and do silly things like writing updating my LJ with this list and trolling the Wanderhomies forums.
• I will go back to working out 3 times a week at the gym.
• I will gain 10 pounds.
• I will complete my MMORPG idea and put it all on print as well as begin plans to pitch it to companies.
• I will learn Flash 8 and redesign my personal site with it.
• I will survive my 21st birthday.
• I will backpack through Europe (this one has been on my past 3 new year resolution lists).

So it has been a while since I last posted. Oh well, working full time 10+ hours a day as well as going out at night makes you forget about the internet entirely. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season (whatever the hell it is you celebrate). Today marks my first day at DePaul University, and I’m writing this from the library at the Lincoln Park Campus. I got another hour before my last class starts. Anyway, the last day off I had from work was the day I finished classes in December. Yes, I worked every single day, including Christmas Eve/Day and New Years Eve/Day. I had no Christmas or New Year celebration. I was working.

I guess there’s nothing really to talk about since my last post since I’ve been working 7 days a week. On a positive note, I got a raise without knowing it. I’m now at $8 an hour (up from the $5 I started with). So thats cool. I didn’t get much from Christmas. I think like four gifts total, mostly gift cards. I ended up buying myself a “cool” Christmas gift (a 30GB Apple iPod). It’s so friggin awesome, I have virtually NO use for CDs in my car or out, cause I’ve loaded all my music in it and just hit “shuffle.”

Hmmm, anything else? Oh yeah, my teacher in my last class (Ancient Art History) is more or less Hitler’s grand-daughter. I swear she’s a Nazi. She’s this German lady in her 30s and immediately gives a dominatrix aura to her class from the second the door closes. Some kid didn’t get a syllabus and asked her in her lecture for one and she snapped at him saying, “Do not interrupt my lecture, get them by the desk after class.” And when some girl put her head down, she stopped her lecture and goes, “Do not sleep, if you want to sleep, leave, otherwise sit up straight!” She has that german accent, and I was waiting for her to pull out a bullwhip and handcuffs at any moment. She’s sorta cute, so maybe I can just fantasize her taking off her clothes and revealing herself in a skintight shiny black leather bodysuit :p So far my last two classes before that have been cool. One more to go before my first day is concluded.

Books cost me $313.17. That hurt…a lot. Tuition hurt even more…

Some Wanderhomies got me to do this Myspace thing. I had originally created an account last summer to keep in touch with this girl next to me in class that was on it ALL the time. I never got beyond account creation and adding her as a friend, so it just lay dormant until now. I honestly don’t see whats so damn special or addicting about it. Anyway, if you get turned on by myspace, feel free to add me and stare at my profile for countless hours hoping for an update: http://www.myspace.com/sjcallas