Saturday ramblin'...
It's interesting to see how far the exodus from LJ has become or maybe the evolution from blogging to Twitter and if that's the case, god knows what happens after Twitter.
Months ago I was scrolling through pages of friends during breakfast, now I'm doing it on Twitter instead. It's nice to see actors, writers, directors and comic book peeps on it too.
So last week, mother nature decided to give us one last storm in the North East. Knowing full well what was about to happen I went into the garage and pulled a snow thrower that was probably made before I was born and brought it inside waiting for mother nature to play some cruel trick and give us a dusting instead we got a lot.
The 19", electric, yellow, snow thrower worked just fine and managed to throw enough snow so I could get to work. Classes in the morning were canceled but the night courses went on, of course. I came home and the plows had missed half the street.
Tuesday I had the Bug in for the 5k inspection at 7am, got in and out with no problems and was home by 9am. The plows came through again and remember the other half of the street, they remembered it enough to plow snow across the driveway. I decided to be lazy and ignore it. I've driven through the snow hump before with no problems.
Thursday, I backed out into the street, hit the snow hump the wrong way and drove to work hearing something dragging. I figured it was a rock or snow. Got to work, didn't see anything, left work, heard it again, stopped in the parking lot and looked, nothing in the wheel well. Drove home. Got out and there was my driver side fog lamp on the ground still attached to the electrical cable.
Opps.
I was fairly impressed it was still attached. So, a quick call back to VW and in 3 days I'm going back the fog lamp replaced and the grill which came loose from hitting the snow hump the wrong way on Thursday.
Lesson lerned I shoveled out the snow hump down to bare pavement and mother nature did the rest this morning.
Managed to clean a bit in the house this morning, after being in this house for almost 3 years most of my grandparents things are still occupying the bookshelves and such. The oddest/coolest thing I've found is a Stonemason book that belonged to my grandfather since he was into fixing clocks and hardware.
So, most of the novels I've gotten are now occupying at least one bookshelf. The comic trade paperbacks in the basement will have to wait. The overall idea is to move the TV into the bedroom I've taken over as a computer work area. This has been hastened by the fact that 1/3 of the bottom of my 5yr old Pbook is fuzting in and out probably due to a loose wiring. Thankfully bookendz fix that problem rather well at least for now.
Once the taxes are done and if I get a refund like I normally do, it's time for a new gear. Probably an iMac and down the road a Macbook. As much as I'd love to go with a Macbook Pro, the iMac can monitor span w/ my 20" monitor. I know NEIT did a buy back of their used Mac Pros/iMacs last semester, if they do it this semester than maybe a MacPro instead for cheap then a MacBook Pro.
School is going well, the teacher we all seem to dislike we're getting next semester for Illustrator. The bad news is none of the teacher we had this quarter are teaching classes next semester for our group. At this rate, I'll be done with Associates Degree next year this same time, the courses I brought over from RIC helped out enough where additional electives aren't needed.
This brings up several questions: What to do next? Since NEIT has no Bachelor's program for Graphic Design, at least not yet. I've been nosing around and RISD looks pretty good and SCAD's online classes look interesting too.
Looks like New England Webcomic Weekend has officially sold out and registration is closed. Glad I signed up early, myself, Paul C and Brenden are going on Saturday. Mostly we'll be walking around and not be chained to a table. I think if this turns out to be a big deal and if the organizers want to persue it further I think with some tweaking it could be the start of a New England Con which would be great in this neck of the woods if Wizard World Boston is officially dead.
And during the week, several trailers came out: Star Trek, Terminator, Up!, Pandorma, Wolverine, Public Enemy and a slew of others.
All of them look good to me, many of the previous trailers for Trek, Terminator and Wolvy looked interesting but these recent trailers really hit it out the park. As for Star Trek, granted, after Insurrection, Nemesis and 4 years of Enterprise anything looks good but I think they got it right. It looks really good.
Find it curious the UK Trailer for Star Trek has a bid more Uhura and Chekov then the US Version.
Last thing, before I get back to my supposed school work: Remember, set the clock forward an hour..