Alex Hanselka

Alex Hanselka

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Gaming

The Sims 4: City Living

Obviously, I purchased “The Sims 4: City Living” as soon as it came out. I’ve always loved Sims games so I tend to just buy as soon as I can.

Legacy Update: The Next Generation

Unfortunately, Cason and his wife Candy passed on. They were good providers, but they were not able to complete any aspirations or gain any full skill. They ...

The Sims 4 Legacy Challenge

I decided today that it might be fun to try the Sims 4 Legacy Challenge. The Legacy Challenge is a set of rules and procedures to basically start from nothin...

General

Kidney Walk 2017

Every year for the past 5 years I’ve participated in the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk to help fund services to help those with kidney disease and...

Loss of My Mom: 2 Months On

Today is the 2nd month since my mom passed away. It has been a lot harder than I thought it would be. I’m not entirely sure what I expected, to be honest.

Picture of Mom and I

Since I have been going through so many photos of Mom, I decided to add a few here in the image gallery. Please enjoy them if you wish.

Some Thoughts on the Passing of My Mom

My tears are a strange mix of happy and sad. She is free of all this fighting she had to do for the past 20 years, and she is finished with all the pain and ...

The Passing of Mom

As many people know, my mother passed away last week, 2016-08-17. It was somewhat unexpected. She had been in the hospital for quite some time, but she certa...

Slow Posting

I was reviewing my blog posts on this blog and discovered that I posted 59 times in 2012 and only 30 times since then. This would be my 31st post since 2011....

Gentoo Overlay with GitLab + GitLab CI

Recently, I set up my own Gentoo overlay on GitLab with CI using their shared GitLab Runner. I had a lot of trouble at first with getting the CI to cooperate...

Jekyll Fun

It seems that once again I neglected this blog… for like 3 years.

Been a year

So it has been a year since I updated.  So here I am… updating once again.

Sooo….

I completely forgot I even had this blog. What a silly face I am.

９月１日

今日は７時半に起きた。食べ物がなかったから、朝ご飯を食べなかった。残念ね？シャワーをした。それから、彼は電話をかけた。９時ぐらい、歩いて大学に行った。クラスに行った。クラスはちょっとつまらなかったよ。でも、日本語のクラスは面白かった。その後、家に帰った。３時ぐらい、友達と「Sushi Cafe」に行った。とてもお...

Japanese Diary

I have to keep a diary for Japanese so I figure I might as well post my posts on here as well… so start to expect that!

Michael

In an incredible evil change of heart, he posted about me. So I suppose I’ll link to that to be nice. However, I am sorry he hates me and my writing.

Note

Michael hates my blog. It’s so very very sad.

Ke$ha and LMFAO

They were both awesome!  However, they were both rushed and it was a tiny bit disappointing.

Welcome to August, 2011

It is now August. School starts in a few weeks (August 25th) and I meet Ke$ha in a few days, (Thursday). Hell yeah

Japan Posts

I plan to post stuff about my time in Japan but I want to know what kinds of things you are most interested in hearing?  What kinds of questions do you have?...

Radio Show – Lambda Weekly

I decided that I might as well plug Lambda Weekly on this blog again…  I volunteer for a local community radio station for their local LGBT radio show.  The ...

Things and Such

So far today I’ve been productive… well at least what I consider productive…. I’ve updated my server and fixed broken things that have been idling around for...

Life minus Japan equals Meh

So I’m back home and I kind of hate it. I miss Japan and that sort of way of life a lot. For instance, the ability to NOT have a car and still get everywhere...

Japan

Blog post from japan! Here. Have random pictures. ;-).

Wooooo

I’m going to Japan in a week and a half.  We leave June 8th.  I am so freaking excited it’s not even funny.

Ugh

I hate not being able to fall asleep. Especially since tomorrow is the start of my Japanese class and it starts at 9AM. That’s just so early compared to my c...

Post number

This is my 70th post… If I posted every day I should have over 365 posts… I must suck! 😛

Sleep

It is sad that I am awake at 4:22 AM and can’t sleep. Oh well. Fun night none the less. <3

Edge Brownies

I finally got around to baking brownies with that brownie pan where each piece has at least 2 edges.  As you may recall from one of my previous posts, my awe...

Drag Show

I saw the most amazing drag show performance at S4 in Dallas. The lovely queen started off to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”… Pretty standard performance and al...

Blagz

I never know what to write about anymore and I’m busy and sad :/… See, I can only think of one line! ブログるのが下手だ。

Spring Break 2011

Spring break (はる休み) was awesome and boring all at once! I got to work a lot at KTCU with my last shifts being tomorrow.  I spent too much time playing games ...

Not Dead!

I’m not dead. Just busy. Hopefully I’ll get to write a blog post again soon when I have time.  I have *two* tests this week.  Maybe I’m just stupid but thats...

Kidney Walk 2011

I’ve decided to participate in the Kidney Walk 2011 in Ft. Worth.  I decided to do this in honor of my mother who currently suffers from end stage kidney dis...

Brownies

Brittany got me the most awesome edge pan for Christmas. So now I can make brownies or a cake or whatever with EVERY PIECE BEING AN EDGE!

Sports

I got to run a sports game from the studio today on KTCU. I had to basically cover the breaks from the remote end with PSAs and sweepers. The only thing that...

Family

I get to spend time in Victoria, TX this weekend with my family. Kinda awesome, kinda not. You know, it isn’t very fun in a place without internet but I’ve m...

Kitties!

I got a kitty for Christmas… Not a real one but it’s adorable.  Michael got me a stuffed kitty pillow thing and it’s so cute. It can velcro shut to be more o...

IRC

If anyone is interested in my IRC network, myself and some friends run one at irc.darkdna.net.  There is a webclient at http://chat.darkdna.net/ and there is...

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/WHATEVER

I guess I don’t have much to say other than that. I got some fun xbox stuff and Dance Central for the xbox which is super exciting! I can’t wait to play it w...

Christmas Time

Christmas is right around the corner and that means some traveling for meeee. I’m off to Houston on Friday for a week and then I get to go to Victoria to see...

Blogs

My friend Seb started his own blog yesterday (or this morning technically) and so I figured I’d write that it is interesting.

The Results Are In

And I got 3 As and 2 Bs.  The thing I am most excited about is that I got an “A” in Japanese.  I didn’t really “struggle” per se… but it was a lot of work an...

DADT Repealed

Don’t ask Don’t tell was voted to be repealed today by the US Senate and that means that all thats left is the presidents signature.  Then a bunch of other c...

Finished

I have completed my first semester here at UNT.   I know for sure I got 1 A and 2 Bs… The other 2 classes are still under investigation.  How exciting!  I fe...

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was awesome and I am so happy I was able to have it with just my parents instead of the whole family. I am now really excited that there are onl...

zomg. school.

I have so many things going on in school. dislike! :P. Maybe the homework fairy will come and do my homework for me. Yeah… right…

Excitement

I think I am doing really well in classes and I get to go to the radio station! I am so excited about this as well.

School and Such

I am really liking my Japanese class. I met some really cool girls and some others as well. I am very pleased with my progress in there and I simply MUST do ...

Weighing

So I’ve decided I’m going to weigh once a week on Saturday’s in the morning.  This morning? I’ve lost three pounds since 2 weeks ago.

Weight

I’ve gained weight.  This is unacceptable. I am so upset… I told myself if I ever weighed more than X pounds I would flip out… well that time has come.

First Week

First full week of school tomorrow… I can’t wait for more Japanese.  I think I am insane actually… but thats ok! Now I just am going to have to study all the...

Class!

So this week was my first few days of class… Thursday and Friday to be exact.

Sup…

All I gotta say is…. Listen to Lambda Weekly this week because I am damned sure we will talk about Prop 8.

Lambda Weekly, NTX Polka and KNON

You know what is sad? I am not going to have a car for at least a bit after the start of the school year.  This means I am going to have to stop interning at...

Blogggg

I love blogging but I find myself not knowing what to write about? I don’t know what is even interesting.  I don’t feel creative enough to just randomly writ...

Creativity

People say I need creative outlets… but I have no idea what to do… writing is kind of fun but I just suck at it.

Webspace Selling

So I wanted to write more about what this whole webspace and selling of it would mean.  I can’t really help with web design myself but I can refer you to a f...

Mac

So I got an old iMac… First Gen Intel…. 2GHz Core Duo… I love it. I wish RAM wasn’t so expensive for it. But meh… One day I will be rich and famous and it wo...

Webspace, Servers, Technology

I am going to start to try selling tech support, webspace and such with my server. I would love to know your thoughts on this. Of course, I think it sounds l...

Banking

I have finally got my banking in order.  Moving away from the hell that is Wells Fargo and on to bigger and better things… ok really its a smaller thing but ...

Job (part 2)

The job interview went VERY well. I will know more tomorrow or monday!

Job Interview

I have a job interview tomorrow at the UNT “Teach North Texas” department.  From my understanding the job is a clerical like/customer service/front desk sort...

So excited

I am so excited for school. Also afraid but moving out will be EPIC! 

FUN!

You know what is fun to me? Servers. Servers are fun to me. That makes me crazy/geeky/nerdy… I dunno and that’s fine with meeee!

FUN!

Had so much fun this weekend with Jessie! She is so awesome 😀

Weekend Trip

I am so excited! I get to go on a trip tonight to visit my favourite Jessica out in Killeen, Texas. Ew, but at least the company will be good!

UT Graduation

So I’m here at a graduation at UT Austin. It is soooo boring. I understand the importance and all but blah blah blah. Let’s just get graduated and move on lo...

Malawi Gays

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/05/20/malawi.gay.couple.sentenced/index.html?hpt=T2

生活

I am tired of people being so freaking weird. I am glad you feel so comfortable in your own skin to do stupid crap but please, leave me alone.

Yay School!

I have decided against taking summer school due to cost of everything… if I have to take another semester or so to graduate, life will go on, fortunately :)....

Finals

It is now finals week. I am excited that this semester is almost over but I am mildly concerned about my venture on into UNT. They have made it sound very sc...

School

One last blog post for school and then all that is left is finals. Keep on the lookout for my blog post since it has to be in tomorrow by 5!

Blogging

I love blogging but sometimes I find it hard to come up with things to say. I read other blogs like Katie’s and it is like… a plethora of awesomeness.  I’m t...

4/20

So everyone is all like “OMG POT” today… I really don’t understand it at all. …

Dear Dell

You suck.  You are a travesty to the computer world.  While you used to be good and have clearly done well at some point, you now are shit.  My parents Dell ...

Too Big to Nail?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/02/pfizer.bextra/index.html?hpt=T2

Canadian Women’s Hockey Team vs. IOC?

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/26/canada-s-women-s-hockey-team-celebrate-with-beer-cigars-ioc-gets-huffy.aspx#ixzz0gezz...

Mass Media Extra Credit

Paul Levinson is a “media expert” and in this video he discussed new media influences. He discusses his books and McLuhan.  McLuhan was famous for his statem...

Purrdeta.com

If anyone has any ideas on what I could do with the main page of purrdeta.com, please let me know

Creating Change: Iraqi Update

I have an update on the two Iraqis I mentioned in the previous post. Their main problem was that the Catholic church programs have nothing for gay refugees. ...

Creating Change: Transgender

During the Creating Change conference, I had the opportunity to meet a transwoman named Brenda.  Brenda is 59 years old and has lived around the D/FW metropl...

Creating Change Conference: Saturday

Saturday was a good day at the conference!  I was able to meet up with my friend, David Taffet of the Dallas Voice, and we were able to attend sessions toget...

Creating Change Conference: Friday

Today was the first day I was able to attend the National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change.  This is also my first conference/convention such as ...

Creating Change Conference

I will be attending the Creating Change conference this week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday which I will be blogging about here.  I am really exci...

Radio

As you guys may know, I do an internship of sorts with the show Lambda Weekly and North Texas Polka Radio on KNON 89.3 FM.  I thought that some pictures woul...

Welcome

Welcome to my blog.  This blog has been set up as a class project for my Intro to Mass Comm class.  There is a possibility I will use it for other things as ...

Gentoo

Gentoo Overlay with GitLab + GitLab CI

Recently, I set up my own Gentoo overlay on GitLab with CI using their shared GitLab Runner. I had a lot of trouble at first with getting the CI to cooperate...

GitLab

First Week at GitLab

On July 5th I started at GitLab. They are an entirely remote company with an amazing product and really fascinating culture.

Gentoo Overlay with GitLab + GitLab CI

Recently, I set up my own Gentoo overlay on GitLab with CI using their shared GitLab Runner. I had a lot of trouble at first with getting the CI to cooperate...

News

Travel

Europe Trip 2017: Athens

This month, I went to the GitLab Summit in Crete. This was an absolutely fantastic experience. It was lovely to be able to meet so many amazing people whom I...

Weight Loss

Woot!

I thought I should mention that I have lost another 3 pounds so far. Keep losing Alex!

Weighing

So I’ve decided I’m going to weigh once a week on Saturday’s in the morning.  This morning? I’ve lost three pounds since 2 weeks ago.

Weight

I’ve gained weight.  This is unacceptable. I am so upset… I told myself if I ever weighed more than X pounds I would flip out… well that time has come.