Headed to Portland
I am off to Portland to visit my brother. I’ll be out on the west coast from Friday through Tuesday.
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I just got the last of my grades. I got a 3.42 GPA for the semester. Not the best but still higher than any semester GPA I had during my original college run. Since I managed to pass everything they asked me to take, I should be holding my diploma in 8-10 weeks. If they tell me I have to come back for a credit of gym or something, they’ll have a fight on their hands.
Cheaper to Replace It
It was a pleasant night. The last of my college work was turned in just a couple of days before and I was heading to Milwaukee for the first time in a long time. Cruising down the highway, my iPod playing in my ears and nothing but trees and stars to see. I had hit that pleasant nighttime driving groove.
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Adiós, Burrito del Amor
When I moved out of the dorms and into my first apartment, I needed to buy a bed. In a fairly typical college student move, I maxed out the little room left on my new credit card to get a cool futon. It wasn’t just a cotton batting one, no, it had a two-layer foam core and a life expectancy of five to ten years.
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Manager of the First National Brain & Trust
So I occasionally post on this forum that has a couple of ongoing threads; “SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF” and “SHIT THAT MAKES ME FUCKING HAPPY”. These are very popular threads where people post various things going on in their lives. I just posted to both of them.
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Apologies To My Fellow IMers
Recently I picked up a USB drive and I have put some portable apps on it including Cross-platform Portable Firefox, Gaim, and PortaPuTTY. I can pop my USB drive into any computer (campus lab, work, etc.) and have all of my bookmarks, IM contacts, terminal sessions, etc. It’s been really nice.
Normally I hide the “groups” in my IM clients. I think they are distracting and annoying. Gaim doesn’t have a feature to hide groups and it doesn’t let you create “meta-contacts” for people with contacts in different groups. So I decided to move of my contacts into a single group to make Gaim look more to my taste.
Something didn’t work right. I think that ICQ contacts were deleted rather than moved. So some people on ICQ weren’t on my list anymore. And then to compound the problem, my home IM client is set to ignore any ICQ messages from contacts that were not on my list. I finally figured this out today when I was using Gaim and a couple of people asked why I had been ignoring them for days.
So if you have sent me some ICQ message and I haven’t responded, I am sorry. I think I have fixed the problem so go ahead and try sending again. If I am still not responding, send a email or something.
Thanks.
Turkey Carcasses?
I noticed something looking through my pictures. I seem to like taking pictures of turkey remains.
Should I be concerned about this?
I Shoulda Stood In Bed
Some days it just doesn’t pay to leave the house.
Sunday was a beautiful spring day. Mostly sunny, brisk wind, and warm temperatures. I figured that I could spend the afternoon shopping for a programming book and taking my kite out for the first time this year.
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Happy Tax Day
Yup, it’s that time of year again. Luckily tax day is two days late this year since the 15th was on a Saturday.
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Small Towns Are Different
Small towns are different. I went home on Sunday to visit my mom and was reminded of this fact.
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