{"id":167,"date":"2007-11-12T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2007\/11\/12\/accomplished\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T03:01:34","slug":"accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2007\/11\/12\/accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Accomplished."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently completed two major life tasks. One involved eBay <\/a>and the other Mensa<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The eBay feat was more of a co-inky-dink. Having spent considerable sums of money buying and selling on eBay since a pre-historic 1999, I’ve finally obtained a Turquoise Star. This is eBay rating for a 100+ positive rating. Even more impressive in my book, is that I did it without a negative review about me as a seller or a buyer. That probably means more to mean than the 100+ rating, but it’s still nice. They sent me an email with a fancy little certificate that would go great as plaque or framed accolade.<\/p>\n

The other recent feat took a bit more brain power. Mensa has always had that geekish-nerd calling to me. Having pondered how to get into it since high school, I finally talked with some members at the Minnesota State Fair<\/a>. After taking a pre-test and being given a discount to join by the sister’s boyfriend for National Testing Day<\/a>, I decided to pull the trigger on this deal and see if I could get in. So after a 3 hour test which really included 2 tests,each in it’s own right an intelligence, one the infamous Wonderlic Test (the great football genius test). The test went good and all, with a bunch of similarly aged kids trying to see if they had it as well.<\/p>\n

Just last week, I got a letter from Mensa. It said I passed. That’s it, you’re in. No score, no numbers. That was a bit anti-climactic, but being in the 98th percentile should be good enough I guess. I was told at the testing for a score, the proctor would have to be licensed to give a score by the state (i.e. psychologist) and such. Bummer, teachers aways had great pleasure in handing out scores, good or bad, but I guess they were paid to unlike our proctor. <\/p>\n

So two such neat accomplishments in such a short span feels good, now I’ll have to go after a few more things on the list…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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