Destroyer X's LiveJournal Site

I'm sure that this will come as no shock to anyone, but this is my "final" journal entry on LiveJournal.

The past few years, I haven't been keeping up with my LiveJournal and Myspace journals, and the main reason is that I've pretty much lost interest in updating.  Lately, I've been busy with other activities (such as work, trying to find a new job, getting some personal projects done, etc.), and in all honesty, I haven't felt like posting about my life as much.  Then again, certain aspects of my life have pretty much crawled to a stop.  Barring Tokyo in Tulsa, A-Kon (if I can afford it), the Tokyo in Tulsa Halloween Party, the Tokyo in Tulsa Christmas Party, and a few select events here and there, I don't really do anything interesting in public anymore.

Additionally, my Website, Christopher Eastman.com, finally launched on July 1, 2013.  Going forward, it will be my primary journal and place where I post my YouTube videos, pictures, writings, computer programs (when I get around to writing some), and much more.

So, where does that leave my LiveJournal?

Previously, I mentioned that I'll still keep my account active to continue to follow my friends, hornykitty and satin_glimmer, and respond to their journal entries.  Also, I may post some private entries for those two to read as well, but beyond those things, my LiveJournal has reached its end date.

For those that are still interested in finding out what's going on in my personal life, please feel free to check out my Website - http://www.christophereastman.com/.  My Website isn't currently designed for people to post comments to my journal entries, but since I'm using WordPress as my content management system, I may add that feature in the future.

Additionally, if you're a friend of mine, you can always add me on Facebook by going to http://www.facebook.com/destroyerx….  If you're not a friend of mine and still want to follow me on Facebook, you can go to my Destroyer X Facebook Page.  Furthermore, you can always check me out on Twitter by going to https://twitter.com/destroyerx2001.  Currently, I'm locked out of my Myspace account, so I won't post the URL to that.  However, I haven't actively used Myspace in years, so that won't matter too much.

Anyway, I hope everyone will take the time to visit Christopher Eastman.com, and for those that have been following my LiveJournal all these years, I thank you so much for reading and keeping you company.

Ciao for now!

After receiving a message from one of my friends on LiveJournal (granted, the only friends on here that post on occasion are hornykitty and satin_glimmer), I decided I would make a new post and let everyone know that I'm still alive.

I haven't been active on LiveJournal for the past few years, and I doubt that I'll become active again.  Currently, I'm working on getting my personal Website launched (my Website will be utilizing WordPress as a content management system), and once that's completely done, I'll be using that for my journal/blog.  I'll still have my LiveJournal account for me to follow my friends on here and reply to their posts, but as for me, I don't think I'll be doing any new entries.

When the Website is ready, I'll post a link to the Website.

However, if you want to find out what's been going on with my life lately, you can check out these Websites that I'm on:

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/destroyerx…
Destroyer X's YouTube Page - http://www.youtube.com/destroyerx2…
Twitter - http://twitter.com/destroyerx2001

Anyway, I'll try to check back in sometime in the next few weeks.

Ciao for now!

First, I want to mention that I'm only posting this on Facebook and LiveJournal.  I've pretty much given up on Myspace, because it's changed so much since News Corp. acquired it, it's no longer enjoyable for me to visit that Website.  In addition, I think their navigation is a mess.

Anyway, I think I should get back on topic.

As I was driving home from Glenpool Reunion Night at SoCo's Sports Bar & Grill, a few thoughts went through my mind.  One of those thoughts was that I should reconsider attending my 10-year high school reunion.

This leads me to the primary subject matter.  A few times, my ex-girlfriend and I discussed how I'm pretty much anti-social around people I don't know since leaving high school, and she mentioned that I was likely anti-social long before I left high school.  During my car ride home, I thought back to my days at Glenpool Public Schools and at the University of Oklahoma, and after thinking about it, I realized I was pretty much the quiet one in the social circles I would hang around.

At times, I think to myself that I'm worse than Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.

When I first attended the University of Oklahoma, it took me two or three weeks before I ventured outside my dorm room.  I eventually stumbled upon the Couch/Cross P.C. Office, and the thing that drew me to hanging out there was the fact that they had a large television and a video game system (I think the first game I remember playing in there was Mario Kart 64) playing in the office that were free for people to play.  Eventually, it got to the point where I spent a lot of my time over at Couch Center.  Granted, I wasn't very talkative when I was at the office, but I hung out with people, made several friends, and enjoyed myself.

Eventually, I ended up making friends at Cate Center, but I still spent a good portion of my freshman year at Couch Center.  When most of my friends ended up moving off-campus for the 2002-2003 school year, I mostly stayed at Cate Center.

At Glenpool Public Schools, if I remembered correctly, usually the few times I talked around people, it was related to the subject matter being discussed.  At times, I would throw out some random thing regarding anime, cartoons, and video games, but those were some of the things I was proficient in talking about.  As I learned more about computers, I found myself talking about those more as well.

The only exception to me being anti-social and socially awkward that I can recall in the past few years was when I went to Boy Scout meetings and campouts when I used to be in Troop 185 in Jenks, OK.  Of course, when one is camping without modern technology around (such a thought would drive me crazy today, because I'm addicted to modern technology), not talking would drive someone batty, so it wouldn't matter too much if I was socially awkward or not.

Heck, a few years back, I bought myself Upgrading and Repairing PCs: 14th Edition that I've barely cracked into (mostly bought it as a reference point for when I started building my custom rig).

I got off topic again.

Anyway, the reason I'm reconsidering going to my 10-year reunion is that I'm likely to do the same thing I did at Glenpool Reunion Night:  pretty much be the person who would watch other people talk, socialize, take pictures, and have fun while I stood there saying little to nothing at all.  Granted, I'm a lot more worldly and knowledgeable now compared to when I was in the public school system, but there is still a lot I don't know.

I swear, there was more that I was going to type, but I think I covered most of my talking points.

Anyway, comments and thoughts are gladly appreciated, because I would love to get some input about this.

Otherwise, I'll write more another day.

Ciao for now!

Well, after being outside locked out of my mom's house for around an hour and-a-half, I managed to get back inside.  Unfortunately, I had to pay $105 for someone from a company called Mobile Locksmith to unlock the door.  Anyway, while I was outside freezing and waiting on the locksmith, I was thinking about karma.  It seems that lately, when I do a certain thing, an equal and opposite reaction occurs that doesn't work to my benefit.

Let's start with work at Wal-Mart.  In nine years that I've worked at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., I believe I've had four Verbal Coachings (the typical disciplinary process being the following: Verbal Coaching, Written Coaching, Decision Making Day, and Termination).  My most recent Verbal Coaching occurred 157 days ago (yes, I keep track of how many days until a Verbal Coaching disappears on my calendar in my room).  I was rude to a customer's grandson, her grandma got extremely mad at me, I ended up lucky not to be hit by the customer, and I ended up getting a Verbal Coaching.  Every Verbal Coaching I've had at Wal-Mart has been customer service related.

Of course (and many people that I work with can attest to it), I don't get along with many people I work with.  As one person pretty much describes me, I'm incredibly mean and rude to other associates.  Taking it a step further, I admit I'm not much of a team player.  I tend to work on projects on my own (mostly because I can be occupied with a project for hours), I don't ask for help (mostly due to the fact that I believe that if certain projects aren't done a certain way, they get messed up and the fact that if a project gets done quicker, there is less to do - the old adage about "many hands makes work light"), and I'm incredibly anti-social (for the most part, I almost always sit by myself in the Break Room when I'm on break, I mostly talk about work related issues when I'm at work and don't talk about my personal life all that much, and I almost always go home for lunch).

As far as my family goes, I tell them less about my life than I tell my friends.  In short, my friends know a lot more about me than my family does.  In the past 27 years of my existence, I've lied to my mom and dad on countless occasions.  One friend of mine said to me that it's getting to the point where it'll be difficult to remember when I told the truth about something versus when I've lied about something.  For the most part, Mom and Dad can be pretty overprotective at times (good parents tend to be that way), and if I do something I know they probably won't approve of, it's easier to lie about it then to tell them the truth.

Of course, some recent times where karma has come back to bite my lately where the events prior to the breakup with my ex-girlfriend.

This one particular instance, a friend of mine knows very well, and as a matter of fact, she was mad at me for quite a while because of it.  Anyway, while I was dating my ex-girlfriend, we would tend to go out to restaurants quite a bit (mostly because she's a pescetarian).  Unfortunately, going out to restaurants all the time tends to become a bit pricey, and it was getting to a point where I was going broke.  My friend Monica told me that her ex-girlfriend Amber had some warrants out for her arrest in Tulsa, Mayes, and Wagoner Counties.  Instead of fessing up to my ex-girlfriend that the dates were causing me to go broke, I decided to call Tulsa Crime Stoppers to turn in Amber.  Ultimately, Amber was arrested, eventually had her day in court, and she had to pay restitution.  I didn't get any money from Tulsa Crime Stoppers, because she was arrested in Mayes County instead of Tulsa County.

The story doesn't have a happy ending though, because Monica's ex-girlfriend Amber died a few years ago.  Eventually, I told Monica and my ex-girlfriend about what I did (after a year later).  Monica was mad at me for a while, but she eventually started talking to me again.  However, our friendship is incredibly strained because of what I did, and she won't trust me with sensitive information again.  My ex-girlfriend wasn't happy about what I did either, and she was even more upset that I wasn't honest with her about my finances.

Most people know about how my relationship with my ex-girlfriend started to decline and we eventually broke up.  One of the things I did to try and save my relationship was to try and organize a game night to meet some new friends and reconnect with old friends.  However, I believe since I mostly did it for selfish reasons, that's why my game night failed miserably.  Some other things I did to try and save my relationship was going back to church, talk to people at Resources For Living about my stress, anger, depression, and other issues, and started taking the anti-depressant known as Fluoxetine.  However, while I said I was doing those things for myself, in my mind, I knew I was only doing those things for my girlfriend to avoid a breakup.

Karma has a way of working in my life, and usually it doesn't work out in a good way.

Well, one of the things I'm going to do to try and get through the depressing time I'm going through right now is start writing random things again in my journals.  That means, I'll be updating my journals on Myspace and LiveJournal again very soon.  Facebook may not have a blog system, but posting notes is the closest thing to a blog that I can get on Facebook.

Anyway, every so often, I get asked about my chosen major in school, Management Information Systems.  To answer some questions, I figured I would quote the degree description sheets I managed to retrieve from Langston University-Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa.

Starting with Langston-Tulsa:

"The Information Systems program encompasses such areas as technical competence combined with organizational insight adopted by today's organizational leaders.  Evaluation of information networks, management of database centers, and storage and retrieval of requisite data are among the crucial aspects of technical education.  Instruction emphasizes current industry computer applications, while exploring projected trends in information science."

From the OSU-Tulsa degree description sheet:

"The Management Information Systems (MIS) degree focuses on the business applications of information technology.  This includes emphasizing the necessary skills required in the analysis, development, evaluation and implementation of various information and communication technologies critical for today's internet-enabled organizations.  The integration of information technology throughout all aspects of business coupled with the critical need for responsive information systems has created a strong demand for graduates with expertise in both information systems and business administration.  The MIS degree provides students with the opportunity to specialize in areas such as data mining, network management, electronic commerce and enterprise systems."


Taken from the OSU-Tulsa degree description sheet from OSU-Tulsa, here are some occupations that I can pursue with a degree in Management Information Systems:

• Analyst/Programmer
• Computer Hardware Analyst
• Internet Developer
• PC Support Manager
• Operations Manager
• Webmaster
• Technology Consultant

Here are some additional occupations I can pursue with a degree in Management Information Systems that I've obtained from Education-Portal.com:

• Information Systems Manager
• Information Technology Asset Managers
• Computer Systems Analyst

To wrap things up, here are some additional occupations I can pursue with a degree in Management Information Systems that I've obtained from DegreeDirectory.org:

• Data network security administrator
• Systems analyst
• Project manager
• Network administrator
• Web developer
• Software engineer
• Technical consultant

Well, in a nutshell, that is what my degree encompasses and the career opportunities I will have upon graduating with my Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems.

Ciao for now!

This is an incredibly long entry, so I'm going to use a LiveJournal cut for the first time.

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Well, I know I don't get a lot of readers in my journals, but it's okay though.  I haven't been posting in them much these past few months, because posting about my life these past few months has been low priority compared to maintaining a social life, working, going to school, and being with my girlfriend.  As for how things are going between my girlfriend and I, things have been absolutely terrific.  I love how that whenever I have a bad day, talking to her on the phone or seeing her cheers me up right away.  My girlfriend is my best friend, and I love her so much.  I've never had a girlfriend as a best friend before, but there's a first time for everything, and I love how the two of us can share things with each other.  Once again, I know she doesn't read my journals, but on the off chance that she reads this post, I love you, sweetheart.

One of the things I've done in the past few months was go to the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival twice with my girlfriend.  I need to see what pictures I have in my camera from the festival, because I didn't take very many this year.  Also, in July, I went to Tokyo in Tulsa 2009 with my girlfriend.  This is the first year in several years that I didn't spend the entire weekend at the convention (personal reasons I'm not going to go into in this entry), but for the duration that we were there, we had fun.

This month, my girlfriend and I celebrated our ten month anniversary.  We didn't celebrate it on our anniversary date (August 11), but we did go to Oklahoma City, OK and Norman, OK on August 12 for trips to Science Museum Oklahoma and the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.  I wish we could've spent longer at each museum, because both museums were interesting, but we were on a schedule that I made, so we could only spend a little bit of time at each museum.  Nevertheless, we both had a terrific time, and I definitely can't wait to share more things with my girlfriend.

Anyway, as I mentioned for the subject, one of my journals is going to be discontinued.  The question is which journal will it be: LiveJournal, Xanga, or Myspace.  Well, seeing how some of the people I talk to have pretty much abandoned Xanga, and I'm on LiveJournal and Myspace more than LiveJournal, I ended shutting down my Xanga journal.  However, since I post the same thing in Myspace and LiveJournal, it's not that big of a loss, but it is one less journal that I'll be updating.  Eventually, I'm going to stop posting in LiveJournal and Myspace in favor of my Website (whenever that is relaunched), but I'll still keep accounts on both for commenting purposes.

I would post more, but my lunch hour is nearly over, so I need to head back to the store.  I'll post again another day.

Ciao for now!

It's been four months since I last updated my journals, and I figured I'd finally give everyone an update on what's been going on in my life lately.  Hopefully, it won't take me this long to update again, but we'll see what happens.  I'm not making any promises that I'll keep these journals updated on a regular basis though.

Anyway, Kaitlynn and I are doing fantastic.  We've been going out for almost seven months now, and each day, the two of us get closer and closer as a couple.  We've been to so many places together and done so many things together.  I definitely can't wait to share more things with her this summer.  I love and care about Kaitlynn so much.

For the first time in many years, I actually had a fun birthday and a fun Spring Break as well.  I requested off a few months in advance and was actually approved for a Paid Vacation during Spring Break (which was shocking in itself, because I was never able to request off for Spring Break at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sapulpa, because it was usually around inventory time).  Kaitlynn and I have had several dates during Spring Break, and we even celebrated my 26th birthday together as well.  One of the things that we did that really stood out in my mind was being able to travel on Oklahoma State Highway 66 to Oklahoma City.  We saw many things along the way, such as OK County 66, the Round Barn, and Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma.  All and all, it was a terrific Spring Break, and I'm glad I was able to share it with the woman I love so much.

I managed to get an Exceeds Expectations for my evaluation at Wal-Mart, so, effective May 7, I'll be making $11.07 an hour.  I'm really excited about it, because the pay raise will really help out in terms of paying for college tuition and other bills.  The Wal-Mart Supercenter in Glenpool had its inventory day on April 28, and near the end of March, I was asked if I could be part of a crew that would Test Scan UPCs in the store prior to inventory.  For the most part, things went really well during that period.

This month, I'm really looking forward to going to the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival at the Castle of Muskogee.  Kaitlynn and I are planning to go to the festival on May 23 and May 31.  I still need to get a few things, but I hope I'll have them before we go to the fair.  As soon as I find out what I'll be working on May 16 and May 17, I hope that the two of us will be able to go to Mayfest as well.  Also, the two of us are going to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 6 and Star Trek at some point.

School has been going pretty well lately.  I'm just glad my last day of school for this semester is May 14, because I'm starting to get burned out.  Of course, I plan to take a few courses this summer, but I'll post more about that another day.

Lately, I haven't been too talkative on MySpace, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and MySpaceIM.  I've been trying to limit the amount of time I spend on the Internet lately, and I've been pretty busy with work, school, and spending time with my girlfriend.  However, I hope I'll be able to catch up with all of my friends at some point.

Well, I think I'm going to go ahead and split.  I'll be back another day with more things to post about how the semester ended, how the Oklahoma Renaissance Festival was, and all of the things that are going on in my life lately.  Of course, I'll keep letting everyone know how Kaitlynn and I are doing.

Also, in case I get asked (since I've been asked a few times), I don't plan on proposing to Kaitlynn for a good while.  I've had a few people jokingly ask me when's the wedding :-P

Lol

I still have a long way to go before I'm ready for marriage, but when I get done with college, I'll only have a few things that need to be done before marriage.  Until then, I'm just going to focus on the present.

Ciao for now!

Well, according to my LiveJournal, it's been eight weeks since I last wrote an entry in my journals.  To be quite honest, I didn't really feel like writing in them for a while.  However, I figured I'd let everyone know how things have been going since I last wrote in them.  First off, Kaitlynn and I have been together for almost three months now (it'll be three months on January 11).  Things are going well between the two of us.  For Christmas, I got her a Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Deluxe: Complete Edition soundtrack, an old-time picture the two of us took at the Tulsa State Fair, and I made her a Christmas slideshow with pictures of most of the places the two of us went to since we met.  She gave me a new necklace for my dragon, a sushi making kit with nori, packaged smoked salmon, wasabi, pickled ginger, and sushi rice vinegar, a new wallet, a toy dragon, and a dragon oil incense burner with candles and oil incense.

Unexpectedly, she gave my mom, my brother, and my brother's wife gifts as well.  My mom got some curried rice and some cookie mix, and my brother and his wife got some cookie mix and some chocolate rice pudding.  Also, I got clothes from my brother and my mom, and I got some money from my mom as well.

All and all, it was a very good Christmas and definitely one to remember.

Due to laziness, I didn't mail off my Christmas cards until almost the last minute.  However, it seems like most people got their Christmas cards before Christmas (mostly due to me using the +4 zipcode).

Also, this has been my least stressful Christmas I've spent at Wal-Mart compared to the previous years.  The Wal-Mart Supercenter in Glenpool is pretty laid back and much larger than the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sapulpa.  In previous years, I've honestly considered quitting after Christmas, but spending the Christmas holiday season in Glenpool wasn't bad at all.

Back in October, I bought myself a Sharp 32" 720p LCD HDTV and a Philips 1080i upconverting DVD player.  For the most part, they both work very well, but I'm planning on returning my DVD player soon.  The reason I'm returning it soon is because there's an LG 1080p DVD Recorder/VCR combo that I'm really wanting to buy, and I think I'll go on Overstock.com to get it.

Anyway, the New Year is going very well so far.  Very soon, I'll be starting school again, and I'm currently 42 credit hours away from my Bachelor's degree.

Oh yes!  For those who've been wondering why I don't have more pictures of Kaitlynn and I, I don't often remember to bring my camera with me on dates.  The pictures I took of us when we went to see The Nutcracker ended up being completely blurry, and that's because my camera wasn't on a tripod, and my camera predates image stabilization that's found on some of the newer cameras.  However, I'm going to try to bring my camera and tripod on more dates, because I would love to get more pictures of the two of us.

Not only that, I need a new camera, and I'm going to try to get a new one before I start going to anime conventions this year.

Well, I can't really think of anything else to add, so here's 2008 in review:

• Joined the Tulsa Anime Organization
• Saw Gina and Andrea
• Went to Hana-Con 2008
• Met Monica P. and her friends
• Transferred to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Glenpool
• Went to Defcon 7 and Tokyo in Tulsa
• Started talking to Kaitlynn on September 1
• Started dating Kaitlynn on October 11

I know there are other things that happened in 2008, but I can't think of anything at the moment.  Well, I'll be back to post again another day.  I'm completely out of things to talk about right now.

Ciao for now!

Well, Election Day came and went.  Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic Party) is our President-elect of the United States of America and will be sworn in as President of the Untied States on January 20, 2009.  While I am black, I didn't vote for Barack Obama.  My first choice for President was Robert Laurence Barr, Jr. (the Libertarian Party nominee), but he wasn't on the ballot in Oklahoma.  Because of this, I went with my next choice: John Sidney McCain III (Republican Party).

Others that weren't on the ballot in Oklahoma include the following: Charles O. Baldwin (Constitution Party), Cynthia Ann McKinney (Green Party), and Ralph Nader (Independent).  This goes to show that the United States of America is truly a country that focuses on two political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

By the way, while I do consider myself a conservative, I have tended to shift libertarian on many occassions.

Anyway, not too much has been going on since I last posted.  Well, if some have seen my default picture on Myspace, you know that I am now dating Kaitlynn A.  The first time Kaitlynn hung out was on September 28 when we went to the Tulsa State Fair.  At the time, the two of us were just friends, because she was dating someone else at the time.  Unfortunately, due to reasons I won't disclose, she and her boyfriend at the time ended up breaking up.  However, it seems like things are working out well for her ex-boyfriend, because he's dating someone else now, and I wish him the best.

At any rate, she and I agreed to remain as friends after she and her ex-boyfriend broke up, and while I liked her (and she knew it), I respected her decision.

October 11, the two of us were mostly at the RiverWalk Crossing walking around and ate dinner at Te Kei's Chinese/Asian Kitchen.  The two of us were sitting at a bench at the RiverWalk, and I asked her if she wanted to go out (well, go out as a boyfriend/girlfriend couple), and she agreed to go out with me.  Since then, the two of us have gone out on a date each week, and she and I have grown to love each other.

I know she is unlikely to read my journals on Myspace, Xanga, and LiveJournal, but if she does read this, I just want to let you know that I love you so much, Kaitlynn.  You're the Kagome to my InuYasha, my Usagi/Serena to my Mamoru/Darien, and other anime couple references.  Hardly a moment goes by that I don't think about you, and you're the sunshine of my life.

Also, I'm officially kicking off my Christmas Card List 2008.  For those who have no clue what I'm talking about, each year, I send a bulletin on Myspace, make a mention on my journals, and send an IM to everyone on my Yahoo! Messenger Friend List that if they send me their name and a current address within a month's time, I will send them a Christmas card.  This year, I'm going to take addresses from November 5, 2008 to December 5, 2008.  After December 5, I'll buy the Christmas cards, write messages in each of them, and mail them out.

Well, I'm going to go ahead and take off, but I'll post again another day.

Ciao for now!