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My battery doesn't have much time left, and I still have my stat assignment to complete so this one may be a little short.

I was informed today that I need to mow the law, tare out the sandbox, and construct a shed this weekend. I also am planning on having some friends over Monday for grilling and hanging out. That means I need to clean up the house a bit as well. I'll email details in the next day or so. Also, I want to visit Colin on Saturday during his bro's graduation party.

Time to complete the stat assignment and get to bed.

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Well, today was somewhat productive. I actually got a little extra sleep last night by going to bed early. As a result I was slightly more awake and not as much out of it as I have been. I was able to create a budget template for me to use on a monthly basis in Excel and create a balance sheet for my accounts in FileMaker. Though, I have to say FileMaker is a raging pile of crap for a database, but I'm not about to write a PHP/MySQL system for that. There are still a few bugs in the database, but I assume a little more tweaking will make things work somewhat to my liking.

I went to church today as well. I decided to stay for the service. Meri showed up but seemed extremely out of it. She looked nice, but I didn't really get a chance to talk much with her. Her singing was really good as well. Everyone else there seemed out of it as well. We weren't as roudy as usual, but the summer group seems to be a lot older than the usual school year group. Even so, I felt an extreme lack of energy in everyone.

I got home relatively early and did some work on the basement. Watched a few Stargates. The last episode I saw, something happened that caused two people to repeat the same 10 hours over and over again. Sort of like Groundhog Day. What would you do if you relived the same time over and over again? If there would be no consequences for today's actions tomorrow. I just hope that if I relived a 10 hour period over and over again, that I would be in good health and had plenty of rest.

I'm listening to "My Way" by Sinatra. Television commercials have totally ruined good music with their cheap rip-offs using their own lyrics. "I did it eBay," I can't stop hearing that in this song. Bahh..

Anyway, I should get to bed so I can have a decent day tomorrow. Good night.

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OK, I didn't get anything done with the basement last night. I ended up getting on AIM to tell Colin something about his new ATX build and got side tracked in talking about a camping trip, Memorial Day weekend plans and plans for this afternoon. I still have not decided weather to go to service or graduation, though I am leaning towards just going to service no matter what. I probably won't make that decision until the last minute. I will be going to church for the food though.

I'm also thinking about having a BBQ memorial day weekend at my place. I have not run it by my 'rents yet, but I doubt they will have any objections. I don't really care what day of the weekend it will be on, but I was thinking Saturday or Sunday. Comments welcome. I'll probably send out an email later today after I get permission.

During my free time at work, I should get my budget figured out. I have been spending a lot of money lately. Being late for school a few times has forced me to park in the ramp, my books cost a ton of money for stat. There are more books to be bought for MIS, and I just had to satisfy my craving for the wireless mouse. The good thing is now I'm making a lot more money with more hours at work.

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Progress report on summer goals:
  • Get good grade in Stat 226 -- Perfect so far
  • Learn basic Cocoa programming -- Went though 1 tutorial in xCode
  • Improve on my blog program you are using now -- Nothing
  • Catch up with Stargate series -- Season 4 of 7
  • Create a budget for the next year that includes getting an apartment near campus -- Got example budget from Meri

I haven't done much other than Stargate. Perhaps I should schedule my evening time to get some of this other stuff done. I also need to be getting to bed earlier as I'm drained of energy most days.

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More storms last night. It was nice to see more of the sky from the sun room now that the willow tree is gone. There wasn't much lightning in Ames, but there was a lot of rain and a lot of wind.

I still need to finish the basement. I will conclude the current Stargate cliffhanger I am on now and finish the basement if I have enough energy. Right now I am about asleep.

Earlier today I put together another lab of G4s and iMac G3s. Hopefully that will be the last lab I have to do in a while. Imaging a lab is really boring and time consuming.

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Yawn. I got up this morning (noonish, closer to one) to the sound of the doorbell. It was my aunt and uncle Hawn. I was told that they were possibly going to stop by today, but I did not know what they were stopping by here for. Apparently, they were here to help us do a backyard overhaul. I was content with finishing up the basement and watching the rest of season 3 Stargate. We trimmed the hedge in the front yard, took out a bunch of weeds that were overgrown from our neighbor's yard, cleared out a lot of brush from the back of the yard, took down several volunteer trees and our dying willow tree, planted some flowers, and got our deck stuff out for the summer. It was a lot of unexpected work. I know the idea was past by me before about doing this stuff, but it was more of a "something we should do" rather than a "something we are going to do." I can sympathize with Colin when he unexpectedly gets drafted to do work without prior notice.

Yesterday was lots of fun as well. I got a bunch of episodes of season 3 taken care of and left off on the mid-season cliffhanger to do some grocery shopping. I was able to get myself some twizzlers, candy bars, and cookies to stow in the basement for my consumption. Though the only problem with shopping was the fact that I did it during the beginning of the storms. I ended up waiting for a good 30 mins or so in a parking lot waiting for the hail to stop and the rain to let up a little so that it would be safe for me to drive. I got very wet loading the groceries as well. Though, I do like storms, I really don't like getting caught IN storms.

I got quite a few submissions already for the quote rotator. I must specify, that I'm looking for some things that are original and make some sense to me. I have accepted Colin and Anya's submissions. Perhaps I should set up a way people can just look through all the quotes, but it wouldn't be any fun to already be familiar with the quote that appears on my website or blog page most of the time you visit.

Also, Anya pointed out the urban legend website associated with my previously posted article about a married couple not knowing how to procreate. Though, something like this can go in the comments of the post.

Well, I am tired, I've got another week ahead of me. Good night.

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As you can see, I have added a quote rotator to the blog. Though, there is one more difference I did with the rotator. You can now add your own quotes. Click the Add Quote button below the quote to submit your quote to be in the rounds. These will appear on the first page of my blog and on my main page.

Have Fun.

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I'm sorry, I just can't believe this.

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Wow, today turned out to be something unexpected. I got into work at a decent time. My schedule has been modified so that I don't have to be in at 7:30, but will after class at 10:40. I finished up a computer for someone I don't really know, but she is happy. Tom said fix, and I fixed. I remembered what my little summer work project was supposed to be. I'm going to create an administration system for the administrators to use while online scholarship applications are coming in. This way they will be able to see, modify, and act on data as it comes in rather than waiting until the deadline has passed.

Church was nice. The brats were good, and there was ice cream. The meal was well worth the $3. Meri volunteered to sing during service, and I tired to think when I actually heard her sing a performance. To think I have known her so long, but I can't remember a time I heard her preform. I know it is something that is really important to her, but I don't understand why I never experienced it before. She did an excellent job, btw.

After church, Adrienne, Colin, Molly, and I hung out and watched the Lewis Black HBO special (taped) at Adrienne and Molly's place before we headed out to the theater to see Shrek 2. I really liked the movie. All the little things they put in there that make it entertaining for adults, but still somewhat appropriate for the kids. Example: "Looks like we are up chocolate creek without a pop-sickle stick." Plus, the story didn't totally suck as they usually do for most sequels. I recommend this movie.

I'm going to take a shower now and get to bed. Tonight was lots of fun. Best of luck to Meri as she gets ready to leave early tomorrow morning for Olympiad.

Ohh, I almost forgot. I got myself a present. I usually don't give in to material urges to buy stuff, but this is something that I have been wanting for a while. I broke down and got a bluetooth mouse. I got the Logitech MX900 mouse. Granted, it's not officially supported for the Mac, but I have found that it works just great if you don't press the connect button. If you press the connect button, you will have to restart the computer to be able to pair with the device again. Other than that, I belive the mouse works just fine. I have no doubts that Logitech will eventually release official support for it anyway. I already have the buttons mapped to expose functions, so every button does something.

Again, good night.

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This summer I have not been getting enough sleep. Summer is supposed to be a relaxing time. Since summer has started I have been going though Stargate episodes like crazy. Though, anytime I set down to watch some episodes, I keep thinking to myself I can get one more episode in before I go to bed. This ends up happening until maybe 2:00 AM. I have work at 7:30. This is been happening a lot lately and I really should set my foot down to make me get to bed earlier.

Last night Meri and I went to the library to be productive for an hour. She was very productive and I was not. I did not have any stat homework assigned on the first day (or even today for that matter). I ended up online chatting with Colin and Adrienne while surfing the forums. Meri was extremely tired and I'm glad she got home at a decent time to get some sleep. She has a long week ahead of her with Olympiad Nationals coming up.

After I got home, I managed to clean up the basement "living space" (ie not my room and "office"). I got the entertainment area set up so the VCR is not setting in the middle of the floor when I want to plug my computer in. I finally found my VCR remote under the couch. Without it I can't set the VCR to AV to watch the computer input. Tonight I might get the refreshment/munchie area figured out with the island, then watch a bunch of Stargate and get to bed EARLY.

When I got into work after class today we had to move some office desks from 3rd floor Beardshear to 3rd floor Curtiss. These things were heavy metal desks. We loaded them onto a truck and had fun maneuvering the desks into the Curtiss elevator. The basement elevator access is very cramp. Eventually these desks will become ours when we move into 301 Curtiss in late summer.

I've got a computer to rebuild now. Everyone have a good day.
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