My family went wine touring (a yearly tradition) in upstate NY this past weekend. I bought quite a bit this year, the wines at Hazlitt's were quite good ( Read more... )

I just got back from a trip to NYC to visit my friend Brooke whom I met at CTY this summer about an hour ago. I SHOULD have been home last night, but I'll get into that story later. It was a really nice trip, and it was good to spend the afternoon and evening with a very cool person ( Read more... )

The textbook for my single course this semester is available online for free. :)

Gonna cost a bit to print it out in deadtree format though. (I prefer deadtree for textbooks...)

My family went to the beach today, which was nice ( Read more... )

Go to interdictor

Edited with clickable link, thank you kvance. :)

I thought classes started Wednesday (Tomorrow ( Read more... )

Maine was fun but tiring. Came back with a bunch of pictures, a six-pack of one local Bar Harbor microbrew, and a whole case of another local brew. I'm glad to have 'net access again, and I'm looking forward to seeing friends in a week or two. I need to start planning some trips. Thanks to the gas prices from hell, I will likely be taking the ( Read more... )

I recently discovered that the software for my dad's new GPS unit doesn't do turn-by-turn navigation. Topo maps yes. Turn-by-turn which is available with basically any mapping software released in the past decade, no ( Read more... )

Finally finished the first (and most important) phase of rewiring parts of the house. I no longer have a long length of Cat5 snaking out the door to my room, down the hallway, downstairs, and then to the house's router in the living room. I also no longer have coax running from the crawlspace next to my room, into the closet, then out of the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago while at class, I got an IM from some unknown screenname, basically saying, "howdy". I figured it was one of my session 1 kids saying hello. (This was during S2.) I checked the S1 contact list for my class, and the screenname in particular wasn't on it. The person had logged out by this point, not to be seen again for quite a ( Read more... )