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.
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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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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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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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.
I noticed something looking through my pictures. I seem to like taking pictures of turkey remains.
Should I be concerned about this?
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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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. I went home on Sunday to visit my mom and was reminded of this fact.
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There was a stretch in February and March that was pretty rough. Between classes, work, being sick, Trivia, and more, I got a little bogged down. Something had to give. Unfortunately, my ASP.NET class is what gave.
The professor mentioned to me that he was very forgiving on due dates for students that were in their CIS internship. I told him that he really shouldn’t have told me that. My attendance dropped drastically. I always intended on going to the next class, after I caught up on sleep or got the assignment completed. That just didn’t seem to happen though. (For the record, I was doing just fine in my other classes, it was just this one that I was having the problem with.)
Two weeks ago the professor sent out an email saying that the midterm was that Thursday. Panic time. I met with the professor. He was very understanding about the whole thing, much more than I had any right to expect. I did a couple of days of frantic studying and took the exam. Then came a week of spring break. Today I showed up for regular class for the first time in quite a while. He handed the midterms back and I got a solid B. Not perfect, but damn lucky.
This is the sort of stunt I used to pull the last time I was in college. Except that I used to just stop going to class, never to return, and I’d fail the class. So this is an improvement. Far from perfect, but at least I am passing the course instead of failing it.
