Today I am thankful that I am debt free.

My car is paid for. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I bought my car with money my grandfather left me when he passed away. I would much rather have had my grandfather for a few more years, but I am grateful that his gift meant I could pay for a car without a loan ( Read more... )

Today I am thankful that I have no major allergies ( Read more... )

From jimhines today, for your LEGO geekery pleasure:

Monster Chess, a roughly 12' x 12' chess board featuring "thirty-two robot pieces (plus spares), each working independently. It cost about $30K to build, and includes more than 100,000 pieces."

Holy game board, Batman!

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The pieces move out of each other's way, and the board can reset itself. So ( Read more... )

See, now that I finally got myself off my duff and looked into hotels and flights, now I'm starting to get excited about CV. Not just excited in principle because Star Wars is awesome, ESB is awesome and I had such an awesome time at CIV...no, now I'm really, tangibly excited. For real ( Read more... )

I've been given notice to pack up my stuff in my office ( Read more... )

Holy geez...I got a raise. As in RAISE raise. I think ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in lecture and I'm watching someone employ what as got to be the oldest trick in the book: he's reading a magazine behind his spiral notebook. Asshat.

Unfortunatly, this class is too big for the prof to really notice what he's up to.

It's kind of fun having a class that I can absolutely kick butt in. I know it's way beneath me but my Intro to Programming class is just too much fun. How cool is it when I can whip out the two hour lab in 20 minutes? As the class progresses I may actually have to work. There are some subjects I've just completely forgotten how to do, thus the ( Read more... )

Payday today, woohoo! Plus, state tax returns came today, and I'm hoping to get my security deposit for last year back soon. The money just trickles in ( Read more... )

I'm an idiot.

I"m taking a three credit class this summer. I think: three credits, three hours on Thursday nights, easy right? Oh, guess what? It's three hours on Thursdays AND TUESDAYS. I completely missed the first day of class. The teacher walked in to class today and said, "you survived the first day and you're back for more, eh?" I felt ( Read more... )