Dave Kellam

I’m playing with some ideas in my head and on the computer. The site really needs an overhaul, it’s kind of boring. I don’t update much, other than the main page. I’ll try and change that. I really became lazy as far as the website goes in the last year.

The dsl lines got hooked up yesterday with a couple glitches. Apparently the phones started ringing and the alarm started going off, I was at work, so I missed it. I went down and picked up the modem this afternoon. It’s working, i’m happy. I’m running it right now on my computer, i have to do some work on the family computer before I hook it up there. The system needs a total overhaul, reformat, reinstallation and all that. That will be one of the weekend projects. That and maybe putting up a new layout.

I watched Wonder Boys a coupld of nights ago. I liked it, somewhat dark humour, you probably have to be in the right mood to watch it. Either that or have a twisted sense of humour. My dad came in and watched the first half of it, I don’t think he was too impressed. There’s lots of subtle humour in it as well. I watched Virgin Suicides tonite. I wasn’t all that impressed by it. I found it on the boring side, i think it was trying too hard to be an intellectual movie. Obviously with a topic like suicide, it’s not going to be a light movie, but it still went a little overboard.

I updated conform last night. The latest remix is by nik.

Came accross trackstar.nu tonite through the referer report at conform. The site looks pretty damn good.

Today was a long day at work. The kids had no desire to learn anything or listen to what we had to say. They’d ask us questions and then not pay attention to the answer. They would proceed to ask the same question again a couple minutes later. Then there was little people coming up to ask a question, mumbling something and trailing off. It’s quite hard to discern what they’re trying to tell you. They drove me nuts, but I made it through the day without flipping out on someone. It wouldn’t be a good idea if I did. I remember it happening last year too, they’re good for the first three days, the last two are a challenge. I think they must have some sort of maximum amount of information that they can cram into their heads over a short period of time. Either that or they can only sit in front of a computer for so many days in a row.

I haven’t spent a whole lot of time online the last few days. Between working a couple jobs, some of it being teaching computers, as well as the holiday weekend, I haven’t really had that much desire to go online at home. I’m back in brockville for a couple months, i dragged my computer back too. I convinced my parents to get dsl this week, so hopefully I won’t have to deal with the dial-up for much longer.

The camp I’m teaching right now only has dial-up, the one i’m teaching at for the next five weeks will be high speed. I talked to some people today and they said that the place i’m teaching at right now should have highspeed up and running by the time i get back there for my seventh and eighth weeks. It’s prety much the same situation as last year right now. It makes it kind of hard to teach the kids how to use the internet.

Here’s a damn funny flash movie. It brings back memories of the old school mario, although they aren’t far away. I’ve had an old school nintendo revival of sorts in recent months. I’ve been playing games like tetris and mario brothers as well as games like mario world and nba jam on the snes.

Here’s a little side note before I goto bed: today I witnessed some of the worst driving I have every seen in my lifetime. I haven’t been driving that much this year because i’ve been away at school, so it could possibly be me not being used to it. Still, all of these events occured within a short period of time in my hometown. Between old people driving way under the speed limit, a bunch of people cutting me off and other idiots doing wild u-turns in front of me, it was quite the ridiculus charade. Once again, that generalization that people are inherently stupid popped into my head.

There’s not a whole lot going on. I worked today, did some work yesterday, haven’t been on the internet that much. I’m back in kingston for a couple days now. I have to come up with some lesson plans or cirriculum or something like that for what i’m going to be teaching next week. They’ve screwed it up by not having any internet access for the first day or two, which means that i’ll have to switch some of the things i’d normally do around.

I got paid for one of my jobs today. So i’ll have some money to spend on things. I also have to go out and hunt down some of my money from other jobs that i’ve finished up in the last week or so. Beyond that, i’m tired and should probably go to bed.

I ended up seeing the fast and the furious tonite. It was a decent movie. The plot was as could be expected, it’s essentially a b movie. The action sequences were pretty damn cool. If you like to drive, a good chunk of the movie is a hardcore adreline rush. As could be expected, the ending was just about as happy as you can get for a movie involving an undercover cop that becomes friends with the guy he’s supposed to catch. Enough of that, i’m surprised that it did so well at the box office over the weekend. I don’t like dial-up internet, too damn slow.

I was supposed to work from 7am to 3pm today, then they asked me to stay until 5. So, I did. I’m tired now. I’m going to head home shortly, although i’ll probably catch a movie before leaving kingston. That’s it.

I’ve been working more hours recently and haven’t found as much time to post things. I’ll be heading back to brockville for a couple days this week. I have to do some orientation at one of the locations of the summer computer camp. I don’t have to do as much training because i was an assitant counsellor last year. One thing that’s kind of odd is that I go down on record as an unqualified teacher at the school board. Unqualified teachers are required to have a police background check and either a tuberculosis test or chest x-ray. I’ll take care of those when i’m home. I’ll be back in kingston towards the end of the week, doing a bit of work at tim horton’s over the long weekend. After that, i’ll be back to brockville for most of the summer.