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So took a final at 8am yesterday in about 30 minutes, moped about, packed up half my room, drove home, took a nap, unloaded my car, ate dinner with the family, drove back to school with my parents truck, had a bonfire in a professors backyard, and we lit of a few hundred dollars worth of fire works. It was a good day ™. And after such a good day, I’m finding in hard to actually get motivated to study for all the hard exams that will kick my ass, as opposed to the two easy ones that I’ve had thus far. It’s also stupid nice out, and I’m inside on the computer.

8 am final on a Saturday, it’s just not right. I’m not too worried about the test, but I still should have at least studied a bit, which didn’t really happen because last night was a Friday night, and you can’t study on a Friday night. Instead, a lot of sushi, sashimi, and maki was consumed, and then much Bond on the Gamecube was played. Oh well. Atleast I got my final lab memo for materials fininshed and turned in.

I’ve also apparently broken MT, as every time I click on any link in the back end, whether to navigate or to create an entry, it prompts me to log in.

edit: Yay, I didn’t break it, turns out it was a bug introduced in MT 3.16, which I upgraded to the other day.

So as soon as finals kick in, I loose alll sense of time. I can barely keep track of it as it is with a regimented schedule, but as soon as everything goes willy nilly, I’m lost. Aparently its Friday, and I have a final tomarrow morning at 8 am. I also need to get a car load of stuff home at some point this weekend, but I also need to study for the final tomarrow morning, as well as my English and DifEq finals on Monday, go to Hobart and eat sushi, cut up a professors deck with a sawzall, and then set off fireworks in his back yard (out side of city limits, so hopefully less attractive to police).

Im also done with finals Tuesday, need to be out of the dorms by Wednesday noon, and I think I’m also supposed to be on a plane flying to Montana for my sisters graduation at some point on Wednesday as well. Hecktic.

So what better to do on reading day than to golf. The fact that I haven’t golfed in six or seven years not withstanding, the College of Engineering is putting on a golf outting, and I got talked into it. Should be “interesting” to say the least.

Ok, so wow, I just realized that I made two (2) updates during the entire month of April. Slackerpaloza. I’ve spent a few hours to actually kludge my way through customizing the site. So far, so good. I’ve got most everything accomplished that I set out to do.

So in Indiana, you can find a fireworks stand literally every two miles, yet tonight I came to learn that anything that fires into the air is illegal to use. And I have a $50 ticket to prove this. So you can buy everything from bottle rockets to roman candles to repeaters to 6″ mortars, but you can’t fucking use them. Jesus christ. That makes no fucking sense. Also shows that I’m a fucking idiot for not checking into it, as if I had known setting off fireworks was illegal, I probably wouldn’t have a ticket, as I would have ditched the evidence and booked it once I saw a patrol car.

I know that I suck at keeping to things. As evidenced by the two weeks of no posting. Things just slip my mind, so I finally had the good sense to add this page to the links on my start page, so that I might actually remember to write something now and again.

And the impetus for this site was so that I could record my memories, before I forget them, things about high school and college. Things I did, teachers I had, and people I knew, so that one day I might have record of it all, as I’m chronically bad with names to begin with. So hopefully with the link I’ll actually start putting some of those thoughts to “paper.”

Although I really shouldn’t be complaining. Considering last week was the last full week of classes, it could have been much worse. Only one test (Chemistry) and the last English paper I’ll ever have to write. That gave me the warm fuzzies for a while. Papers have been the scourge of my learning experience for, well, ever.

The bridges are also winding down for the semester. The replacement bridge is set at the Vineyard site, after far to many last minute things and far too much half assed work just to get them done. But it’s placed, and still standing. We also just cut 95% of the cap stones for the retaining wall for the campus site. Nothing like a Partner saw with a giant 14″ concrete abrasive blade.

On a typical Thursday, I’d be in lab right now. But I’ve been excused from the lab by the professor as right now I’m supposed to be helping prep the Vineyard bridge site for installation of the sonnotubes that will be used as the legs for the bridge. Yet here I am, posting online. Colin, who’s in charge of the plans for the legs, is currently running around NW Indiana getting the drawings approved and stamped. So until that happens, it’s back to hurry up and wait.

In other news, all you can eat wings night at Hooters is a good thing. Tony, Andrew, Derek, Colin and myself made our way to the Merriville Hooters last night to partake in the festivities. After getting there around 8:45 to find the place packed, we were told that it would be ~45 minutes until we could get a table. So what other option was there than to go to BestBuy. After returning after half a hour, we learned that we had already been called (which is what I called as we were leaving for BestBuy). But in short order we were called again, so all was well. 23 is really by no means old, but I have to say, I feel older and older every day. I find myself slowly drifting out of the hip cool youth demographic, which was hit home by the fact that I’m now older than a lot of the Hooters girls.