School, life, and stuff.
I've been meaning to make some posts for a while but I've been lazy.
To say I have been lazy these past two weeks has been an understatement. Sometime around the 11th a circuit breaker in my head popped, and I just stopped caring. For the previous 45 days I've been going to a summer session class which involved a fair amount of writing, a full time job with overtime, some extra part time work, and hour introductory Spanish class, and all of the other stuff I've been doing at home. I had a grand total of five days off since the middle of June. I'm defining 'off' as not required to leave the house for some kind of work. Homework still loomed during the off days. Three of those days every week were some kind of combination of school and work that made 14-16hour days. I scheduled my next class that I thought would start after Labor day, but was discovered that it actually began on the 20th. I was hoping to have a month's reprieve. Sometime that Friday I tried to get up to do my lawn, and… I suddenly didn't care. I suddenly wasn't worried that my bushes were growing like creeping vines all over the front. I was no longer concerned that I would need a wheat thresher to cross my lawn. I wasn't bothered by the pictures that I had unfinished, nor did I fret about my unfinished projects. Just like Pierre I didn't care. I spent the next week hanging out in some old chatrooms, catching up with some old friends online, and meeting some new ones. I think I've really missed the socializing I used to do on the net. I felt no guilt during the whole time. None at all even though nothing was getting done. The whole experience was pretty cleansing, and I knew it wouldn't last forever. Early this week I began putting together the dreaded "lists of stuff to do", and began to clean up. The niece thing is that I'm not avoiding doing any of it anymore. I'm still not jumping into it with both feet, but I'm not finding reasons not to get things done now.
Therefore since I am behind on a lot of posting I shall put most of the junk I was thinking about posting in an attempt to create First, Endeavour is safely back on the Earth. Yeah, I know a little late on this news, right? Like I said I've been lazy. I got a brief glimpse of it as it flew over some puffy clouds just before the two booms rang out. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that the NASA tile gurus were right. Photos of the area show absolutely no burn through. Even an exposed red layer beneath the tiles was completely untouched. There were brief rumors that the two launches this year were going to be postponed until the spring when a newer model tank arrived. This tank is supposed to be even less prone to shedding then the ones were using now. The postponement made some sense, but doesn't seem to be true. The Oct 23 launch of Discovery appears to be on schedule. I know I said Atlantis was launching in my last post. I had gotten some bad information.
Savant posted a little something about webcomics so I thought I would share some of the ones I check on. I think Irregular Webcomic! is my overall favorite. I can both laugh because it's funny with humor that gamers can easily identify with, and and learn with excellent explanations of math and physics.
I've noticed I have a fair amount of rodents watching me so I also offer this ratty comic: http://www.docrat.com.au/ I'm beginning to think that Australians make the best comics.
It's a good thing that I'm not afraid of spiders, except for brown recluses, because lately I've seen a lot of them inside. They aren't just little guys either. Check this lady out:
That egg sac was about the size of a nickel. To the best of my knowledge they aren't dangerous, but they are fast. I do enjoy watching them walk, and coordinating all of those legs. I let her go, outside, about ten minutes after this pic.
I began my latest and scariest class on the 20th. This is the literature writing class I need to take. I'm going to be expected to write like an adult about literature. The instructor sounds tough, but fair. I don't think my comma splices, run on sentences, dangling participles, and incomplete phrases are going to do well. Hopefully my writing here will improve. A fact for which I am sure you all will be grateful. :D I know the college crowd expects me to know all of this stuff already, but I would benefit far more from a basic "this is how to write" class. Since I wouldn't get any credit for it I have to slug it out the hard way and try to suffer through with a C.
The computer hunt is steadily progressing. I'm leaning towards getting some kind of ASUS motherboard. Anyone have any comments on that company?
My tangerine tree is beginning to bear fruit. It's also drooping heavily from the weight of said fruit. I've got to get my book about tree pruning and clip it back some. I want the tree to grow taller, and I don't think I could eat that many tangerines before they went bad.
And it got rain today. Our first real rain in about three weeks. It's been pretty dry recently, but a tropical wave just came ashore yesterday bringing much moisture. It was very considerate storm that it did not transform into Erin before it moving over us. If it had it would have followed our typical weekend hurricane pattern. We're all very grateful here that Dean decided to go somewhere else.
In my Spanish class I have recently learned that everything has a gender. English, apparently does not do this. I've found something that this crazy language that is actually easier than other ones. I wholeheartedly embrace the power of the 'the'.
I keep asking, and then I keep forgetting. I must really remember to write down how to download some of these flash images that I've seen. I find it really annoying that I can't save them the same way that pictures can be.
Well that should justify using a lot of my tags. I'll try to make something more in depth later.
To say I have been lazy these past two weeks has been an understatement. Sometime around the 11th a circuit breaker in my head popped, and I just stopped caring. For the previous 45 days I've been going to a summer session class which involved a fair amount of writing, a full time job with overtime, some extra part time work, and hour introductory Spanish class, and all of the other stuff I've been doing at home. I had a grand total of five days off since the middle of June. I'm defining 'off' as not required to leave the house for some kind of work. Homework still loomed during the off days. Three of those days every week were some kind of combination of school and work that made 14-16hour days. I scheduled my next class that I thought would start after Labor day, but was discovered that it actually began on the 20th. I was hoping to have a month's reprieve. Sometime that Friday I tried to get up to do my lawn, and… I suddenly didn't care. I suddenly wasn't worried that my bushes were growing like creeping vines all over the front. I was no longer concerned that I would need a wheat thresher to cross my lawn. I wasn't bothered by the pictures that I had unfinished, nor did I fret about my unfinished projects. Just like Pierre I didn't care. I spent the next week hanging out in some old chatrooms, catching up with some old friends online, and meeting some new ones. I think I've really missed the socializing I used to do on the net. I felt no guilt during the whole time. None at all even though nothing was getting done. The whole experience was pretty cleansing, and I knew it wouldn't last forever. Early this week I began putting together the dreaded "lists of stuff to do", and began to clean up. The niece thing is that I'm not avoiding doing any of it anymore. I'm still not jumping into it with both feet, but I'm not finding reasons not to get things done now.
Therefore since I am behind on a lot of posting I shall put most of the junk I was thinking about posting in an attempt to create First, Endeavour is safely back on the Earth. Yeah, I know a little late on this news, right? Like I said I've been lazy. I got a brief glimpse of it as it flew over some puffy clouds just before the two booms rang out. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief that the NASA tile gurus were right. Photos of the area show absolutely no burn through. Even an exposed red layer beneath the tiles was completely untouched. There were brief rumors that the two launches this year were going to be postponed until the spring when a newer model tank arrived. This tank is supposed to be even less prone to shedding then the ones were using now. The postponement made some sense, but doesn't seem to be true. The Oct 23 launch of Discovery appears to be on schedule. I know I said Atlantis was launching in my last post. I had gotten some bad information.
Savant posted a little something about webcomics so I thought I would share some of the ones I check on. I think Irregular Webcomic! is my overall favorite. I can both laugh because it's funny with humor that gamers can easily identify with, and and learn with excellent explanations of math and physics.
I've noticed I have a fair amount of rodents watching me so I also offer this ratty comic: http://www.docrat.com.au/ I'm beginning to think that Australians make the best comics.
It's a good thing that I'm not afraid of spiders, except for brown recluses, because lately I've seen a lot of them inside. They aren't just little guys either. Check this lady out:
That egg sac was about the size of a nickel. To the best of my knowledge they aren't dangerous, but they are fast. I do enjoy watching them walk, and coordinating all of those legs. I let her go, outside, about ten minutes after this pic.
I began my latest and scariest class on the 20th. This is the literature writing class I need to take. I'm going to be expected to write like an adult about literature. The instructor sounds tough, but fair. I don't think my comma splices, run on sentences, dangling participles, and incomplete phrases are going to do well. Hopefully my writing here will improve. A fact for which I am sure you all will be grateful. :D I know the college crowd expects me to know all of this stuff already, but I would benefit far more from a basic "this is how to write" class. Since I wouldn't get any credit for it I have to slug it out the hard way and try to suffer through with a C.
The computer hunt is steadily progressing. I'm leaning towards getting some kind of ASUS motherboard. Anyone have any comments on that company?
My tangerine tree is beginning to bear fruit. It's also drooping heavily from the weight of said fruit. I've got to get my book about tree pruning and clip it back some. I want the tree to grow taller, and I don't think I could eat that many tangerines before they went bad.
And it got rain today. Our first real rain in about three weeks. It's been pretty dry recently, but a tropical wave just came ashore yesterday bringing much moisture. It was very considerate storm that it did not transform into Erin before it moving over us. If it had it would have followed our typical weekend hurricane pattern. We're all very grateful here that Dean decided to go somewhere else.
In my Spanish class I have recently learned that everything has a gender. English, apparently does not do this. I've found something that this crazy language that is actually easier than other ones. I wholeheartedly embrace the power of the 'the'.
I keep asking, and then I keep forgetting. I must really remember to write down how to download some of these flash images that I've seen. I find it really annoying that I can't save them the same way that pictures can be.
Well that should justify using a lot of my tags. I'll try to make something more in depth later.