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Dang nab it...I'm going to finish this Electronics degree some how. Haven't posted in two years while I've been sick. I've got a new girl, a new job, a new life. I hope Mary marries me.

Raven Steals the Sun

22 years of trying to get this published, to no avail, yet determined to share it, I am offering it free here on my blogspot, to all who wish to download and print it for personal use only.

Onward with DeVry

After taking a class in Photoshop, I realize that my career as a graphic artist is kaput, over. So I have transfered all my credits to DeVry, to study their AAAS degree in Computer Engineering Technology, hopefully to become a network engineer after I complete their online program. I might tough it out and continue on to get the Bachelor's degree, depending on the amount of debt it will require to finish such a degree. Time will tell if I am making the right choice. My foster brother is a teacher and always says: There are two types of people, those with degrees and those without! Onward and upwards with DeVry this time.

Back in Seattle.

Hello blogosphere, I'm back in Seattle after spending half a year in Boise, ID, visiting my younger brother, Chris. Chris earned an AA in computer electronics over a decade ago and does quite well, he inspired me to study the same, but with CIE, Cleveland Institute of Electronics, an online program once again. After nearly finishing my psychology degree with University of Phoenix and garnering a $6000 debt, I realized I wouldn't ever really do anything with such a degree. I was only studying it for self awareness and didn't think I would want to become a counselor or an overworked, underpaid social worker, so I quit that program and found CIE. Now I find that an AAAS in IT EE is also almost obsolete; most people don't get their computer's repaired anymore, they just throw them out and buy a new one. I'll be finished with CIE by the end of summer and already made plans to return to my former love; Graphic Arts! I've signed up to study Computer Graphics with my previous college, Shoreline CC, near here in Seattle, and earn my AA degree. Then, with an AAAS in hand, my goal is to return to WWU, Western Washington University in Bellingham and have only one quarter left to finish my BS in Graphic Design. I've started doing my NW Coast totemic art again with a second children's book: The Origins of the Orca, and with the story translated and all written, I've got 16 sketches roughed out to be polished and finished. Henry Holt Publisher's has expressed an interest in my Raven Steals the Sun book and I am hoping to land a contract soon. Maybe that 16 page book is too short and so I told them of my second book and my idea that I could do an anthology of mythic stories and legends; maybe do half a dozen stories in one book.

http://www.alternet.org/story/145142/

http://www.alternet.org/story/145142/ The true story of Haitian history. I think this should become public knowledge and taught in history classes alongside with American Colonialism and the decimation of Native Populations! This is my contribution to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month. It is a shame that we do not have a Native American History Month, or any National Holiday to Honor those of us "Indian's" who were conquered to make way for this Nation to arise to power!

Howdy,

I am tired of North Seattle Community College already! They have me taking required classes for graduating that have nothing to do with electronics. So I am transferring to CIE, Cleveland Institute of Electronics in the New Year, an online program like I did with Phoenix. Maybe now I will get the tech classes I want.

Happy Holidays

I'm baaaaaack!

I'm baaaaaaaack again. I had been away since I quit the University of Phoenix online, but now I am back. I will be starting college again with a local college, North Seattle Community College, in the Fall, to study and hopefully finish the electronics degree I started in the Air Force, back in the early 1980's. The UoPhoenix was an expensive education, but got me back in the study mode. I just didn't think a psychology degree would serve me well with a future career. I am never going back to printing though, that is for certain. 27 years in printing and nothing to show for it, makes me feel the need for a real career type job. Already I have started studying electronics with Barron's Electronics Made Easy and I remember a lot of things, like ohm's law and such. I signed up for the Electronics for IT program, to fit in with my hobby of fixing computers. I know that I am out of date and have a lot to learn, but thanks to UoPhoenix, I am ready to study again.