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Just Kidding.

Not many updates this week cuz I've been super busy. Took a test on California Government today and I think I did pretty well. Thank goodness for one-unit classes, between my two one-unit labs, California Government, and IME 156 (2 units) hopefully I can get a 5-unit A to offset my GPA a bit (I'll sure need it). The next couple days will be busy... lots to do.

Going to the lake this weekend. I sure hope it's awesome. Last year Jen and I didn't go, but I haven't been to the lake in so long... I can't wait to go back. Anyway, I'll be back after this weekend to share the fun. Next week is gonna be hell though... I have my last Physics midterm, my EE final, my IME final, and finals for EE and CPE lab. Blech.

Current Music: Rancid - Rattlesnake
Link of the Day: Even Yak Farmers Have Wireless Internet Now
Random Picture:

Something Corporate - Cooler than Karl's Grandma. Maybe.

Oh man, the concert was so awesome. First of all, I really like Something Corporate... there's something about their music that just really has a genuine feel to it. Second, the venue, the Ventura Theatre was awesome. For anyone who's been to the Fillmore in San Francisco, this place was like half the size (really small). The place had really good acoustics and there were like four levels of floor so that it was easy to see even when we were towards the back. Finally, since this was the shoot for their DVD, they played tons of songs. They played almost every one of their songs, including ones from their first and second albums, they even played "Konstantine"... probably one of the most beautiful songs of our time. Go download it, I promise you will think it's good too. Anyway, the concert was so fun because everyone in the band looked like they were as thrilled to be there as the audience. They weren't just performing, they were enjoying themselves. The lead singer, who also plays piano sounded great live, possibly better than on the albums. Man, I still can't believe who awesome it was. Oh, and when they came back for the two-song encore, they played "Walking By", another really touching song, which is from their EP. The second song-- they played the first half of "Drunk Girl" then they broke into- get this "Hey Ya" by Outkast. And they totally pulled it off sounding great. The lead singer was stagediving and dancing on the tops of the huge speakers. I am so glad I went. Can't wait until the DVD comes out, maybe I'll be in it. - not likely though =)

Current Music: Something Corporate - Space (Playing in my head)
Link of the Day: SoCo Discography - You can listen to a songs from "North" their new album from the link at the top.
Random Picture:

Teen girl squad. Hilarious, you should watch these, that is, after you watch every single strongbad cartoon. C'mon, you don't have anything better to do for the next hour.

I just found out today that the creators of strongbad's emails have been doing more of this series. This started out as an email to Strongbad and apparantely spawned a whole spinoff. I find my self saying "(RANDOM ACTION)ED!!!" all the time, which I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing.

A couple more fun ones:
Strongbad teaches Homestar how to prank call
Easily the funniest "page not found" error I have seen

I really can't stress enough how much everyone should look at this webpage every day. The characters and scenes are awesome and weird. The only way to really understand everything that is going on is to watch every cartoon on the site. There are so many inside jokes in everything that it's only like 1/3 as funny if you just watch one cartoon without seeing the rest.

Doing Things Early Rules
Since I'm going to the concert on Thursday, I've had to make sure to get all my homework and stuff done early. However, I've been quite ahead of schedule, I got both my EE and Physics homework done on Monday, mainly because neither required a lot of calculations, but it is really nice to have them done. Since I need to leave on Thursday before 4 and I have a CPE lab 3-6, Jeff came over today and we did the whole lab in like 1 hour, so now I just need to write the report for it, which shouldn't take long.

I have a quiz in CPE tomorrow, which is open notes and open book, but I'm still kinda worried cuz he asks some crazy questions on his tests, and they're all multiple choice. The good news, though, is quizzes are 30% of my grade in the class, and I got a 97% on the first one, so hopefully that will offset my crappy midterm score.

I think that's about it for today... not much to say... busy week, but this weekend will be fun and worth the effort.

Current Music: Tenacious D - Tribute
Link of the Day: Watch me 0wn you
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Days are long when you wake up at 7am.

Today started with a wonderful awakening by Jen getting her dog, Lucky, to hop onto my bed next to me. At least I wasn't in the middle of one of those dreams like in the movies where you're making out with your girlfriend and then you wake up and it's your dog. That is gross. Nonetheless, Lucky laying on my pillow got me out of bed rather quickly. Once I was standing up, I finally started to wake up, only to have to carry a bunch of Jen's stuff out into the driveway, because we were having a garage sale. Once we got it all set out, the number of people driving by started to slow down. I guess most people were looking for bigger things like furniture, etc. because a lot of people drove by, but not that many of them stopped. Jen was still able to sell several of her things and several of her brother's things. In the end she made $45 before 11am, which is pretty decent for selling stuff she probably won't use again anyway.

Next, we came inside and at some lunch, watched tv, and generally acted like bums for a couple hours. Once Paul and Lauren (Jen's brother and his girlfriend) got there, we decided it was time to take a shower and get ready to go out to dinner. Jen got all dressed up and even wore heeels (something I've never seen before, but highly approve of). We went to dinner where Paul works, RJ's Sizzlin' Steer, which is a great steakhouse. I got a fat 15oz. prime rib, nice and pink.. mmm. Jen pretty much thought my whole meal was gross, what with my clam chowder and bleeding steak. Oh well, I thought it was great.

Finally, we came home to get ready for Paul's surprise birthday party. It wasn't huge, but a bunch of his friends came over and Jen and I helped her mom put out some snacks and drinks. Jen got Paul 18 lottery tickets, 15 scratchers and 3 super lotto tickets. Amazingly, he didn't win anything from all those tickets, not even a free scratcher! Bummer. However, Jen also got him Halo for xbox, because sadly, he own an xbox, but not halo. Come on, that's like owning a ninentdo without a mario game or a sega without a sonic game... Anyway, Paul and his friends all hung out and talked while I read slashdot and Jen did econ homework. After a while, he and his friends left to go to an indian casino nearby where you only have to be 18 to play. After his luck with lottery tickets, I'm surprised he still wanted to go gamble.

Once they were all gone, Jen pretty much fell asleep on the couch and I've just been sitting here watching the last SNL of the season. haha Jimmy Fallon just touched Tina Fey's boob. Awesome. A good end to a good season. I'm sad that Jimmy won't be on the show any more, as I'm not really sure how many of the other actors I really like that much. I still remember the good old days of Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Tracy Morgan, Chris Katan, and Cheri Oteri. I guess they can't stay on the show forever (Except for Darrell Hammond, I never remember him not being on the show). Sad to see Jimmy go, but hopefully he'll do some funny stuff. I think will miss weekend update with him and Tina Fey the most, I think they were the best weekend update people ever. Norm MacDonald would be my second pick, but he was a different kind of funny, his jokes weren't that funny, but he was.

This weekend was one of surprises. I came up to see Jen early, they threw a surprise party for Paul, but I also had one more trick up my sleeve. A few months ago, when we were in San Jose, Jen saw these cool nike watches that snap on to your wrist instead of with a band. I really wanted to get her one, but all of the present-giving holidays for us are between october and march. Anway, I decided that our 18 month anniversary was as good of a reson as any, and I knew she would like it. Like the fool that I am, I told her I had a surprise for her. Once I had said this, I realized I had already ruined some of the surprise value. Now she knew something was coming. This would not do. Then I came up with coming down early. It was the surprise she would think of first. So the surprise I wrote about on thursday night was actually a decoy surprise so that she would really be surprised when I gave her the watch. She was. She was also really excited. I thought it was really cute how now she shows all her family and friends the cool watch I got her. One thing that is also awesome, which you can't tell from the link above, when the minutes change, they roll over, like an odometer on a car. Jen thought that was just about the coolest thing she had ever seen on a watch. Every time she shows it to someone now, she's like "wait, you have to watch the minute turn over!" and they sit there for like 30 seconds until the minute changes and she smiles this big, beautiful smile. Girls definitely like presents. I think I've got that figured out. =P

Current Music: Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, SNL Cast - "Summer Nights" (from Grease) parody
Link of the Day: "Spam My Gmail Account" experiment
Random Picture:
an engineer's view

I actually pulled one off!

I am the worst person ever at suprising people. I can never keep the secret if I'm the one planning the surprise. I always end up in a situation where I just tell the person because I can't figure out what to do. Like Mother's Day last weekend. I was going to go up to San Jose and surprise my mom by coming when I told her I was going to Temecula for the weekend. Once I got a house though, she really wanted to come look at the house and there was no other time that they could come down to see it. I ended up letting the cat out of the bag and they came down. Such is my history.

Until now! Jen always says "Come see me" on Thursdays nights, knowing well that I can't usually miss class on Fridays because I have homework to turn in and possible tests/quizzes. This week though, I decided I was going to actually come Thursday night to surprise her. I got all my homework done and turned in early, and made sure I won't miss anything important in my classes.

Today was the toughest, because it involved the most thinking on my feet. The five hour period while I was on the road (6pm-11pm) is a tough block of time to not talk to your girlfriend for. Especially when you always talk in the evenings. I pretended I had tons of hard EE homework to do and she believed me. But then around 10 or so, she was talking about going to bed before long. This would not do. I said I was almost done with EE and wanted to get it done before I relaxed and called her. This bought me 45 minutes. Unfortunately, I needed an hour. 10 minutes away from her house, she called me. Oh no. I should also mention that I had to get off the freeway every time she called, because the road noise would be way too obvious. I didn't get stopped in time to pick it up the first time, so she called me back a couple minutes later and sounded kinda mad that I hadn't picked up. I told her "I am super close to finishing, let me call you back in a few minutes."

With that I got back on the freeway, drove the few miles and got off. I parked a little ways from her house so she wouldn't see my car. When I called her I forgot to remember one key thing. Cell phone reception is terrible by her house. I told her about 4 times that I was standing in her driveway, but she didn't hear any of them. Once I finally got through though, she didn't believe me "No you're not! Really?"

Awesome. I am the surprise master.

By the way, Jen finally wrote about the wood-fiber lady in her LiveJournal. I highly suggest reading it. Also, I might get to meet the wood-fiber lady tomorrow if I go to work with Jen! How cool would that be?

One more thing, while I was in Marcos' room earlier I helped coach Kevin Roberts through his first game of Warcraft on battle.net on his new account. This is a new chapter in the life of Kevin Roberts. For those of you who don't have the privelege of knowing Kevin as I do, he played Warcraft (note: single player) for like 7 months of the last school year. Then, around May, we all started playing it, but he stopped, cuz he didn't think he was good at multiplayer. As you can see, he has faced his fears and he already has 5 wins from one day! Go Kevin go! Now it's time for us to fix your computer so you can play at home =P

Current Music: AFI - "Sing the Sorrow" Listened to the album like 10 times on the way down.
Link of the Day: Guy digs a hole in his backyard - Remind you of the good ol' days, Marcos?
Random Picture:

It's finally over.

note:I finished this huge ass entry and what happened? While I was looking for a "link of the day" firefox crashed. What crap. Anyway. Here is a re-written version, divided into parts for your reading pleasure.

I woke up at the bright hour of 10:30AM today to go to class. I came back on my break from 12-1 to do some last minute studying for my IME-156 test and to grab some taquitos. I think I did decently on my IME test, but who knows.

IME Tests blow
My tests for IME-156 are the worst tests I have ever had in my life. Even worse than those DMV driver's license/permit tests. Here are a few reasons they're so terrible.
1. All the tests are multiple choice questions on stuff we've barely touched on in our 1-hour-per-week lecture.
2. The entire test is matching. It is divided up into sections of 5 terms and 5 possible answers.
2. Some answers are used multiple times or not at all. This kills any hope of using process of elimination to figure out what it could be.
3. The questions and the answers are all less than 2 or 3 words, so it's like multiple choice-matching-word association.
4. One set of questions was a step-by-step process. We had to list the steps for making a silicon wafer in order (first action A, second action B, etc.) If you put one of the steps in the wrong place, you get all five question wrong. What ass.

To give you an idea of what it's like and not confuse you with crazy IME terms that even I don't understand, here is an example of a test I think our teacher would give to preschoolers:

1. Dog       A. Grows
2. Cat        B. Has Legs
3. Tree      C. Fur
4. Sky        D. Bark
5. Grass     E. Is alive

The one upside is that he curves grades. However, there is always going to be that one person who defies all logic and odds and somehow gets the answers to the assbackwards test right. On the last test I was that bastard. Somehow I got a 46/50. I still have no clue how.

Dogs are Illogical

As you can imagine, I had had quite enough of IME by the time I finished, so like a fat kid at dodgeball, I was out of there. I stopped by Marcos' room and Kevin Roberts was there. I went with him, grabbed Chris (would have grabbed Matt but he was being a little bitch "I have class".. we were back in time.) and went to drop off our applications and deposit checks for our house next year. Our landlady wasn't there, but her husband was happy to take our apps and checks (I just realized that we handed this guy like $3000 in checks, hmm.)

The most interesting thing about this trip was her dogs. As we got to the house, this pack of 4 dogs comes running toward us. I'm not particularly a dog person, so this was a bit scary at first, I sorta stood behind Kevin and Chris. They were nice though, especially one in particular. She had this big pinecone in her mouth and brought it up to me while we were standing there on the porch. She dropped it and barked at me like "throw it, you fool" I bent to pick it up and she grabs it and turns away. How am I supposed to throw it if you won't let me pick it up, silly dog. I wasn't about to grab the pinecone as it was pretty sharp and I didn't want to mess up my hand or the dog's mouth. As we're leaving, she runs over by my car door and stands there like "please throw it" I try again, but she won't drop it. I give up and get in my car. As we drive away, she is standing there, perfectly still, staring at me all sad, like "Why didn't he throw it for me..? :*( " It's her fault, she should have dropped the damned pinecone.

Goodbye to Math
My procrastination activity for today was my AIM away messages. I went through deleting old ones and changing some so that they were better. I deleted ones I'd never use again, like "Tennis", "Playing Pool", and "Tech Writing". I came across my "Math" away message and realized that I never have to take another math class again. At first it seemed weird, but then I'm like "What am I thinking? Math sucks." DELETED

Winamp Weirdness
I know my winamp is on random playlist order, but it's been kinda weird today. I have almost 3000 songs but sometimes I wonder if it can read my mind. I've had words from "You Know How I Do" by Taking Back Sunday in my head all day. The thing is, I didn't know the name of the song until I looked it up, but this evening while I was working on homework, it came on! Madness. Also, "4 AM" by Our Lady Peace came on, which is a really touching song (not touching in the Michael Jackson way). Right after that, "Not Enough" also by Our Lady Peace, came on- Jen's favorite OLP song. Weird. Winamp is crazy sometimes, especially when the next random song it plays is the one that just played. If you aren't paying attention it makes you go "What the heck? Did I restart the song or something?"

That's about enough out of me, time for some sleep.

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Word of the Day: "Booblets"
Current Music:
    Marilyn Mason - Doll-Digga-Buzz-Buzz-Ziggety-Zag
    Something Corporate - Globes & Maps
    Soundgarden - Zero Chance
    Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Link of the Day: You're not Dave Chappelle - I love Maddox
Random Picture:

They both rock.

Not too much happened today... just went to some classes. I got my CPE midterm back yesterday, 67% =o Hopefully I'll do well in the rest of the class and it shouldn't be a problem. I also took a physics test yesterday and it was pretty tough, so we'll see how it went, I guess.

I got the PC software for my phone, which is fun cuz now I can have backgrounds on it that aren't lame sunsets that are so dark you can't see half the menu options or so ugly they make you never want to look at your phone.

As for the title, I just found out that Something Corporate is going to have a concert in Ventura on May 20th! They are filming their DVD at the concert because apparantely they are from Ventura. Tickets were only $20 too! The biggest problem is school. I will probably skip school that friday, but if I can't, I'll have to drive back 2.5 hours to go to class the next day. Here's hoping.

Now, by request,
An Ode to Karl's Grandma:
O, Karl's Grandma,
You made him lunch, when he was little,
You gave him a car, when he was bigger,
You needed milk and an onion, so we brought you one,
You live in the villages, which is cool,
You are awesome, Karl's Grandma.

Current Music: Deftones - Pink Maggit, Rage - Fuck Tha Police (Awesome Cover)
Link of the Day: Video Card Showdown - Actually read it, it's funny.
Random Picture:
don't ask me, I just found it on google.

Government Control of Fashion! That's the Answer!

(Click title to read story)
This is just plain rediculous.

“In our society we have a line of decency that should not be crossed, and that line starts around the waist area,” said Rep. Derrick Shepherd, D-Marrero, sponsor of the bill.

What a tool. The government's job isn't to decide what is morally right outside of basics. This is like amending the contitution to limit marriage to heterosexual couples. (A whole 'nother can of worms) That is what church is for. I agree that the government should set a certain set of morals as "standard" like don't kill, don't steal, etc. but things like "Don't wear your pants so that I can see your boxers." are amazing that these fools are so out of touch with the people who are going to be voting for them (or not) in a year or two.

“We should be able to say what is moral, what is decent and what is acceptable behavior for our young people,” said Glenn Green, a Westwego city councilman.

NO. This is the parents' job. In the good ol' Land of the Free you say what is right for your kids, not the government. They're yours. Personally, if I were a parent, I would see nothing wrong with my kids wearing their pants low, but I would also inform them that if they go too far they'll get made fun of.

“I don’t know that it’s respectful to pay my respects at a funeral without my shirt on, but that’s not illegal; that’s just stupid,” he said. “Government can’t fix everything.”

The only person who has ANY CLUE in this whole house. GET THE CONTROL FREAKS OUT OF GOVERNMENT!!! NOW!!! There are some things the government cannot fix. These people need to stop trying to run the lives of young people because "it's in their best interest." This law is like the RIAA shutting down Napster, more will just spring up. Soon the fashion will be to have the shortest shirt, or something of that nature.

In related news, I believe I will be voting for John Kerry this election. I don't like him that much, but I sure as hell like him better than Bush. From what I've heard from him, he seems to appreciate common sense more than beareucracy. We'll see I guess.

Current Music: Outkast - Throw your hands in the air
Link of the Day: Search waffles on google - he's still better than Bush.
Random Picture:
remember the 80's?

It's a great day to be a bum.

Since I spent all day with my parents yesterday, they decided to leave early today so they could go home and get some stuff done. This left me with the ability to sleep in as late as I chose to. I just happened to choose 2:30pm as my time to get up. Man was that nice to be able to lay there for so long.

After that I got up and went downtown to get a couple things done, including getting a jamba juice smoothie (mmm). Then I came home and proceeded to play warcraft for a couple hours. I started a new account for playing random (ceeKay on USWest). I won three and lost one, so it was pretty cool.

Next I ate some dinner and then studied physics. I have a midterm tomorrow so hopefully I'll do pretty well. We'll see. Not much more to say I suppose since I haven't even been awake for 12 hours yet. It's getting really annoying how I always post after midnight and it says it's the next day, but when I say "today" I mean the day before the one listed. Whatever, I guess I would change the post time and date, but then I'd be lying to you, reader, and I think we've established too much trust to do that now, haven't we?

Current Music: Millencolin - No Cigar
Link of the Day: Do we really need "smart" shoes ?
Random Picture:
too bad he didn't become the governor of California.

Yay mom.

Today (Saturday) was a really fun day. My family came down to visit so I had to roll my ass out of bed at 10, which was tough as I couldn't sleep until late last night. They got here and we went to lunch at Gus' Grocery. For those of you who have never been there, don't let the name fool you. It is an awesome sandwich place.

Afterwards, we drove over to the house I'm going to be living in next year. Kevin Roberts wasn't able to leave me a key so we could let ourselves in, so we went and knocked on the door. When nobody answered, we tried the doorknob. It was unlocked. Unsure whether this was intentional or not, my dad and my brother stayed out front to keep watch for the people who live with there now. Nobody seemed to be home so I took my mom on a quick tour of the house. She seemed to think it was really nice and that this would be a great place for me.

For dinner we went to a place on Monterey Street called Pepe Delgado's. The food there was awesome. For like 8 dollars, you got a huge plate full of food. After dinner we went back to the hotel my family was staying at and went in the spa. Unfortunately, it wasn't that hot and I got out after a little bit.

Bryan sounded thrilled when I mentioned that Chris has three trail bikes that he might bring down over the summer to fix up. He wants to come live with me now, bringing my current number of long-term summer guests to two.

I really wish Jen would write a LiveJournal entry about the wood-fiber lady, as only she can tell the story because only she has experienced firsthand, the hilarity, the frustration, and the mystery that is the wood-fiber lady.
UPDATE: Jen wrote in her journal about the wood-fiber lady!

Jen was noticing that Mother's Day always seems to be a big deal but Father's Day is just sorta like call your dad and be like "hey dad, happy father's day. yeah." My first reaction that since mothers are women, it is a bigger deal to them that you go out of your way to thank them for putting up with you all those years. Fathers, being men, don't really need more than a "thanks, good job" and maybe a new tie.

However after some thought I realized why mother's day is such a big deal. Childbirth. Possibly the most painful thing a person could be asked to do, and your mom did it for you. Guys should probably give their mothers even more attention on this holiday because they will never be able to understand the kind of pain their moms went through to bring them into this world. That plus them putting up with you all those years is worth at least a flower and a card. Go mom. Yeah.

Current Music: the quit hum of my laptop
Link of the Day: We Like the Moon - This came before the Quizno's commercials you fools.
Random Picture:
a toast to my mother

It's 3:45 in the morning
i should be sleeping
some little thought of her
comes out of nowhere
something cute she says or does
it makes me tickle all over
i smile uncontrollably
i hold her teddy bear tight
as if she were her here with me now
i think about how much i love her
i think about how much she loves me
my cheeks hurt from smiling so big
this is paradise.

It looks like it's Saturday... but it's not.

This is kind of weird. I was here on a friday afternoon and I won't see Jen this weekend. Sucks. =/

I did have a pretty cool day though. I did decently on my CPE midterm. I hate multiple choice, but so far I seem to be doing well with the testsso far, so we'll see.

After classes I went to Marcos' room and hung out for a bit whilst struggling with today's crossword puzzle. Yeah, all my confidence with crosswords gained the other day: gone. After that we went and played volleyball and swam for a bit. Robert was nice and tried to teach me how to set the ball. Someday with enough practice I might be OK at a sport- haha, doubtful though =P

When we came back I found out that Marcos, Rob, Sarah, and Amy were going to Sushi with Sarah & Amy's mom and they asked me if I wanted to go. I haven't had sushi for a while and Jen abhores fish, so I figured it would be fun. The place (can't remember the name but it's in the same center as Scolari's) was really good and they were a little different from most places I had been to. Most of their main dishes were rolls. Imagine a long, skinny burrito cut up into slices. Exept instead of a burrito it's got rice, a layer of seaweed (you don't taste it at all, its like lettuce), and some sort of filling you choose (fish, veggies, etc). At first when they brought mine I wondered if it would be enough, but I left quite full. Fun place.

After that we went to Rob's house and watched the Last Samaurai. Such a great movie. I know the story is really sad, but I like a movie that makes you feel for and understand the characters' situations and attitudes. Plus the scenes in it are gorgeous. I wonder if Japan really looks like that. Either way, I'd really like to go there someday.

After that, I came home and talked to Jen for a while, which felt really good cuz I am missing her a lot right now. It was fun to be out with friends, but I still miss being with her. Can't wait until this summer.

All in all, another good day.

Current Music: Rage Against the Machine - New Millenium Homes, Sublime - Seed, Outkast - Ghetto Musick
Link of the Day: ExplodingDog.com - not what it sounds like. People email this guy random phrases and he draws pictures about the phrase.
Random Picture:

Has the world gone mad?

--ok I just realized that it's "officially" Friday, but come on, the day doesn't change until you go to sleep and wake up

Just thought of a couple more things I wanted to write about... I watched the last episode of Friends tonight. It just seems weird that it's not going to be on anymore- I mean the show started when I was in 5th grade. I can only hope that it is in syndication forever or maybe I'll just buy some of the DVD's and play them in background so I can still pretend it's on. I never really watched it that much, but the times that I turned on the TV and it was on I never left or changed the channel.

Anyway, I'm a little sad about that, but there is a bright spot-- I finished a crossword puzzle the other day. Since the beginning of the year, the Mustang Daily has been running the New York Times crossword puzzles on the back page. A few times I've tried them, been able to fill in like 5 words, then I just gave up and felt like I didn't know anything. This particular puzzle, though, I started going and before I knew it, I had half the puzzle done. Once I got that many just based on the hints, I was able to start figuring them out, and I eventually finished the puzzle. Man was that satisfying.

Well, Carson Daly told me to go to bed because it's late. I've been watching TV since 8... It is now 2. I guess that's enough TV for a while. See ya.

Two days in a row. Are you impressed yet?

Today was one big lump of tiredness. I got to my IME class, thinking I was almost done with the layout of my circuit board. However, I soon found out that I hadn't followed the directions (I didn't even know there were directions!) and I had to start the board over. I screwed things up two or three times importing my schematic into the layout program, but eventually I got it. After a bit (an hour? I never know how much time is passing in that lab) of fighting with the Layout program I finally got my whole board layed out. I asked the TA (who is a tool) to come over and check it and he said, "UH, your ground circuit should be connected to a lot more components." crap. I forgot to connect one wire in my schematic and thus my layout was missing like 8 important traces. Finally I got that fixed, I called the TA over again, and he looks at my schematic and goes "UH, I think you forgot another wire" double crap. I hadn't connected another wire the right way. I thought two particular wires connected to each other, but one actually crossed OVER the other without touching. After fixing the schematic, importing it for like the 10th time into Layout, and drawing the damned traces in, I finally had it. What a pain.

The rest of the day was actually decent. In physics we learned about the Schrodinger Equation, which is freakin crazy stuff. I really like that class because it feels like every day I'm learning something new instead of just rehashing things that we already know. CPE lab was pretty cool. I'm glad I'm in the major I'm in. CSC was ok, EE is tough, but ok, but all my CPE classes have been awesome.

I have a CPE test tomorrow and it's 40 or so multiple choice questions. Considering on the first quiz I got 19/20 and didn't even study (hell, I barely paid attention for the first couple weeks), I'm not too worried. But that's what I should be doing right now and it's what I will probably do after I post this.

It's funny the effect shopping has on girls. It's like therapy, but cheaper. Yesterday Jen had an absolutely hellish day at work. This did not make her mood for the rest of the day very good. Today she went shopping after she came home from school. Total transformation. She called me, sounded really happy and excited. It was awesome. Yay for shopping. I guess getting new things makes everyone feel good, like when I buy a new toy of some sort (computer game, etc) I feel happy... I guess I just don't get excited about clothes like I do electronics, hehe.

I need to get back into playing some games. I stopped playing Warcraft while I was learning Linux (like a month or so) and I've found it tough to get back into playing. I need a good first-person shooter. I think maybe I'll get Splinter Cell, since I've heard it's awesome and the second one just came out. At some point I should probably play Hitman as well-- Karl says it's a lot of fun, so it's probably good times.

Oh man, I am getting so pro at this blog stuff.

Current Music: Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
Link of the Day: Scavenger Hunt List from University of Chicago
Random Picture:
me with a stuffed gopher on my head

now throw me a housewarming party or something

I think I may start actually writing in this thing. I had the livejournal thingy for a while but I kinda got tired of the interface. This just seems faster and easier for the kind of things I do.

Speaking of housewarming parties, we now have a house to live in next year, so that will be awesome. I'm living with Kevin, Matt, and Chris, all of whom are aweosme. We are all engineers, so hopefully things don't get too nerdy (hah, just wait).

Things are looking great for this summer. Jen is coming up to stay for 6 weeks or so, which is going to be awesome, because we can finally spend some time in the same town. Hopefully I'll be able to find some sort of job and take some sorts of classes so I won't be a total bum. Things are going really great between Jen and myself and I'm so excited that they're only going to get better.

I am slowly become more and more nerdish. I am now running Linux 100% of the time on my laptop... it's not really as hard of a conversion as one might think, but i'm still scared about installing it on my desktop... there's just something I like about having everything work on it without having to screw around. Plus I have way too many weird devices (webcam, remote control, gameboy transfer cable) that don't have simple-to-use linux equivalents. I also found that Cal Poly has a Linux User's Group (LUG), which is sort of like a nerd club, but is very helpful when you have questions about things and need someone's opinion or help. It's also kind of interesting because they go to my school and I feel like I'm meeting people, even if for now it's only in their IRC Channel (Chat Room) ( You need and IRC program to visit it). Well, that's probably enough nerdyness from me.

My parents are coming for Mother's Day weekend so that should be fun. I am kind of annoyed at how dirty our apartment is though... I finally started getting in the habit of cleaning my dishes right after I eat and now I notice that someone isn't even doing theirs at all. I think I used to do these dishes for them because by the time I got around to doing my dishes, I had no idea what was mine, so I just did them all. We are out of forks. That is kind of sad.

Anyway, that about does it for my first entry in my new, hopefully more updated, blog. Enjoy.