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Books
I've had the last five days off work, and in addition to hanging around with my family, I kinda dove into a pile of books I have at home. Below is a list of what I've read, and a few brief thoughts on them.. I've tried to catalog the books I've read before, hopefully I'll keep up on it this time. (also shamelessly stealing the star-rating system ( Read more... ) -
What the hell is that?
I worked at the Renaissance Center in Detroit yesterday, and since I was down there, kreie and I decided to hang out, so about 6:30pm - 7pm, I headed down to Ann Arbor.
There was a pretty large set of storms that came through the area yesterday, but there were no tornado watches/warnings. However, when I was driving along 14, I saw...
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Hurray, overtime
So, I've been at work for 17 hours, now.
We're slammed, and when I told my boss I'd be happy to work until my brain stops, he jumped at it.
And considering I owe my gas/electric company $500, this is a good thing.
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Ugh. Learning.
So, I'm sitting hear reading my Astronomy assignment, and I realize that I like learning about -people- more. I LIKE learning about psychology, and religion and history. The 'harder' science, such as Astronomy and Algebra (the two classes I'm taking this semester) seem awfully dry to me ( Read more... ) -
Centralia, Pennsylvania
There are a number of places around the US I want to visit for various odd reasons (Cahokia, IL, and Paulding, MI are two of them), and I just found another one.
Centralia, PennsylvaniaHome of an underground mine fire that has been burning for 45 years ( Read more... ) -
Mid-winter cleaning
So, I'm in a bit of a mid-winter Christmas cleaning, most likely brought on by the excess of the holiday season ( Read more... ) -
Big fish!
I went fishing with my dad and his friends yesterday. This is after winning a Euchre tournament with my grandfather last weekend. I'm so country :P
This is my eleven pound steelhead. I call him dinner ! (the other person in the photo is my dad)
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Teen Barbie says "Math is Hard!"
I haven't done algebra by the book in about thirteen years. So it's not a big surprise that I tested low, showing that I needed to retake introductory algebra.
Fuck. Is there a "positive numbers only" algebra? Because the whole difference between -3^2, -(3)^2, and -(3^2) is screwing me up, everytime. -
Magically coming up with $5000
I've magically got to come up with $5000.
I noticed quite the leak today, and called a roofer. They came over, showed me what was going on, and long story short... I need the entire roof redone.
This shouldn't surprise me, with the previous owners being completely incompitent . But here I thought I was getting ahead of the house, and.. *smack ( Read more... ) -
Random book quotes
I occasionally stumble across quotes that make me happy, sad or summon up some strong emotion for me in books. It's part of the reason I enjoy reading so much. I tend to scribble them down on paper, not really having anything useful to do with them. So, I thought I'd put one here that made me giggle tonight ( Read more... )