Back From Break

I'm back from break and I have some stories to tell.

It all started normally, get on the plane, get off, and wait for a ride. While waiting I pull out the laptop and start playing FF VII. After about 3 hours of that, it was getting time for my Dad's plane to roll in, so I start packing up the laptop. It then started running as if it had no RAM and was using the hard drive like it was RAM. Not good. I start freaking because it would do this once I was 6 hours away from any tech support, i.e. Terry. After about 10 min's it finally manages to shut down. I pack up and things turn back to normal; dad arrives, drive home, eat, sleep....

On Saturday, we celebrated my b-day. I got some T-shirts, pants, and a stapler. My parents promise me a digital caliper when they figure out where to get one.

Monday rolled around and I played, "Fix the Computer". It managed to start up and was running at a slow pace. Therefore, I run the disk stuff to help optimize it and stuff... I managed to do all that without error and in the usual time, it takes to defrag and scan disk a HD.

It seemed to be working so I started playing FF 7. I managed to get most of my starting materia mastered and get the crap ass player up to a decent lvl of 52. [note: crap ass players are; Cait Sith, Yuffie, Cid (meh he's alright)]

Played it again on Tuesday...

Wednesday I hung out with my older brother and watched "Constantine". It was a good movie.

Thursday, I, eventually, went shopping with my Mom at Union Station.

Friday, I went to my little brother s dorm and stayed the night. I was hoping to get some EQ 2 and some interneting done that night, but his schools internet setup is horrid. They require all computers on the network to have a login ID. My little bro couldn't even log out so that I could use his ID. I tried to get around this by setting up a VPN with my brothers computer and then going on the net through his ip and stuff, but that didn't work. I'm going to need to ask Terry how to do that.

Saturday, after sleeping a whole 2 hours on the floor of my bro's dorm room, we went paintballing. The high light of my week. I managed to have at least one kill per round. The place we went to was horrible compared to places here in WI. It had ONE woods area, and two speedball areas. We played woods twice and then took over one of the speedball areas for the rest of the day. For lunch, we went to a country style restaurant called Lambert’s. That was some good eating. Went back to the dorms, met up with the parents and ate supper, went home.

Sunday I flew back without incident. Got to the airport and called Jon asking if he would be kind enough to come pick me up. I got out of the terminal in the passenger pick up area and thought (stupidly) that Jon would go to the place where he dropped me off (check-in area). So I was sitting in the check-in area for close to an hour while Jon was tooling around the rest of the airport looking for me. This was my fault for over thinking.

My grades for the winter quarter are as fallows:

EE 201: BC
ME 206: B
MA 232: B
SS 461: B

Finally, I managed to get through a break without threats from my parents to pull me out.