Career/Comic Con Costume

Howdy fellow Nerds and Non-Nerds,

Were you one of those lucky people who always seemed to know what they wanted to do for a career?  Or are you part of what seems to be a growing group of people who can't decide on a career.  Well don't worry cause I am also with you.  I believe more and more people now a days have a harder time deciding on what they want to do because they have been exposed to a greater array of potential jobs.  Technology has improved our lives and made us more efficient in our every day lives but its one of the main reasons for the increased indecision.  More specifically the internet is the main cause of indecision in people, go back say 40 years ago and you will see that the accessibility of knowledge and up to the second updates didn't exist.  When you grew up you knew what kind of jobs were available in your specific region and maybe country, and people were more inclined to decide at a young age so they can start on their career as soon as possible and start a family.  Take my family for example, I am a 24 year old student living at home trying to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life.  My dad at the age of 24 was finished school, working full time in his career, married and had a newborn son (me!).  It just goes to show you how times have changed.

Today I have so many ideas on what I want to do as a career but I can't decide on what path to go.  The internet has opened my eyes to careers that I haven't even heard of before, and has helped me increase my career ideas list.  Technology has also opened up many careers for me cause I love technology and have thought about doing something tech related.

Here is a list of careers that I am thinking about getting into:
Marketing for video games or movies or fashion
Dietition
International Business
Movie Production (behind the scenes stuff)
Prosthetics/Orthopedics
Web Developer
Fashion Designer
Motion Capture Technician
Computer Technician
Firefighter (doubtful cause of bad knee)
Personal Trainer (side job)
Entrepreneur

Maybe its just I have a love and a passion for so many things in life that I can envision myself doing all of these jobs.  I'm just worry that I will pick the wrong direction and have to back track and start all over again, especially as so many people are a lot farther ahead in schooling than me.  Any of you have any suggestions on what I should do? Whether its on my list or not let me know what ya think.

Gretzky/Gym Pet Peeves

Hello all of my most loyal slaves, it is your ruler Jefafa again.  I know I am a few hours late but I would like to wish a happy 50th birthday to the greatest hockey player of all time, Wayne Gretzky.  99 turned 50 yesterday and it made my reflex on just how awesome he was and how many of his records will probably never be broken.  I hope Gretzky lives a long life because he is a Canadian icon.

Now on to a subject which has been bugging me a bit lately, the gym.  As my friends and family know, I am a fairly healthy guy. I try to live a healthy lifestyle where I eat the best I can and work out multiple times a week, not only to look good so I can attract a future mate, but so I can live a long and healthy life.  My goal is to live till I am 100 years old or even longer.  If I keep my healthy lifestyle and with advances in technology I think it is attainable.  Now onto the gym, there are some "quote" "unquote" rules of working out at the gym which some people don't seem to be following.  Probably my biggest pet peeve is how some people think that cause its the gym that they don't need to wash their clothes that often.  Well after a couple trips you should,  I don't know how many times I have been trying to bench press and I get a smell of the person next to me and I almost drop my weights.  PLEASE WASH YOUR CLOTHES!! Two other pet peeves of mine are people who don't put the weights away properly, I know it my take 2 extra seconds for you but it makes it even longer on me and I end up being at the gym a lot longer than I wish to be (especially if the stinky people are there). Also with the topic of grunting, I understand a little bit of grunting for that last rep or two.  But why do some people sound like they are dying? I don't need to hear you from across the gym.

Sadly this year I screwed up my quasi new years resolution.  Most years I take a few weeks to a month off of weightlifting 5-6 days a week and go down to 1 day a week.  I do this to give my mind and body a rest and recuperate.  Usually I do this every year in January and June cause that is when the gyms are the busiest, January cause of new years resolutions to work out and June cause the start of summer.  This year I decided to take a break the last 3 weeks of december because of finals and the holidays, so in January I started up again with what seems like a 50% increase of people at the gym.  No matter what time of the day or night you go the gym is currently busy, even at 10pm at night.  I'm just counting down the time until people break their new years resolutions and stop going to the gym, should happen in a matter of days.

Goodnight (or good morning) to everybody and May the Nerd be with you! ;)

Swing Life Away

Howdy everybody.

Just a quick little blog today, got too much going on in my life that I can't share at the moment.

I'm betting most people have days where you get tired of the whole dating scene.  Just the whole process of trying to meet people, gauging their interest, and everything.  I wish I could just skip it all and *poof* there is the girl of my dreams.  Well the girl of my dreams is not realistic cause she would either be a Jedi Knight, ruler of a world, or Supergirl.  So I will take the girl of my "realistic" dreams.  Ok fine, all I want is a girl to "Swing My Life Away" with. 

Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?

Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?

Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first

Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,

We get by just fine here on minimum wage

If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,

I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move

The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon

Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

I've got some friends, some that I hardly know

But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world

We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

We live on front porches and swing life away,

We get by just fine here on minimum wage

If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,

I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand

I'll show you mine if you show me yours first

Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

We live on front porches and swing life away,

We get by just fine here on minimum wage

If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,

I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

Swing life away [x4]

Success/Powers

Wow.  I would like to change everyone who has actually decided to view my blog... how many of you that are still alive is unknown but I should be getting those numbers from the forensic officers very soon.

Have you ever dreamed of being a superhero? I know I have, usually on a daily basis.  There are so many different powers out there, some are super cool to have, others not so much.  If you were allowed to choose only one power what would it be?  There are a few major ones which most people would likely pick like flight, invisibility, superhuman strength, healing powers, and telekinesis.  While all of these are pretty cool (especially the flight and healing powers) the power that I would choose would have to be super speed like the Flash.  The ability to run faster than the speed of sound would be awesome, and to be able to go anywhere in no time allows me to help out so many people.  Ability to out run bullets, and when you need to release some anger you can run far away quickly and shout without anyone hearing you (like Sheldon did on The Big Bang Theory).  But superpowers comes with great responsibilities and super speed doesn't help with your fighting skills and strength. So if you are lucky enough to gain the power of speed, do yourself a favour and do some weight training and martial arts training so you can live long and prosper. ;) Ha, got to love the random nerdy quotes.

Because of my love of speed and the Flash I will probably be doing a Flash related costume for comic con 2011.  I will be posting updates of my costume as it comes along.  I have done a classic Jay Garrick Flash costume before and my idea is to modify it into either an alternate earth (modernized styled) Jay Garrick or Jay Garrick from the JSA Liberty Files comic series.

                                                            Here is my classic costume

 
                                                      Here is the JSA Liberty Files Flash

If any of you have comments on either what costume style I should do or if you want to tell me what superpowers you would like to have then don't hesitate and just start typing.  Like I said I will be starting my costume as soon as I buy my comic con ticket and I will keep you all updated with my ideas and new pieces that I have assembled or modified.

Live long and be Nerdy all of you!!

The time has come!

Hello World,

It is your humble ruler Jefafa.  It has occured to me that many of my friends (followers/slaves) have not had the privilege of knowing what goes on in my crazy mind.  So I have started this blog to inform you all about what I think about on a daily basis.  Some of my posts will have a more serious side to them where I may discuss things that are bugging me but most will be light hearted and a tad nerdy in nature.

Today I would like to discuss the concept of time and time management.  Time always seems to be in short supply when we need it but in absolute abundance when its not.  I believe the hardest thing in life is to properly manage your own time.  Take me for example, a lot of the time I seem to be tight on time, whether its homework or being at school. Working my undercover job at a liquor store, eating, working out, creating my empire so I can take over the rest of the world, or trying to find time to actually be in a relationship. Its tough being in this situation but the only thing we can do is make the best of it.  Always have a smile on your face and enjoy that you may be super busy and seem to have no time for fun or girls/boys cause our time on this world is limited and who knows when its our time to leave.

Ok... enough of this more serious stuff... I just love how everyone though that my BIG decision that I was thinking about was if I should get a sex change or not.  Well I do appreciate and have a keen eye for colors and fashion, but sadly my hair isn't long enough and I can't make the change with short hair.  It just doesn't feel right.  Work tonight was a little slow so a few of us were thinking of what our names would be if we did decide to get a sex change.  For me I guess the two most logical ones would be Jess/Jeff or Jessica/Jefafa, although I have always been fond of the name Emma.  Does anyone think Emma fits me?

As some of you may know, I am a Nerd with very weird ideas and thoughts always running through my mind.  My nerdiness tonight hasn't been on full display but don't worry it will be in future blogs.

I would like to thank the approximately 3 people who actually decided to read this whole blog, and commemorate you for your courage and valor.  I will try and write as much as I can, time abiding of course, and soon you may find out what a small portion of my mind does every single day.

Live Long And Be NERDY!!!