[Spring Break in Cancun]^-1

So aka in cold, cloudy, Western Washington. Basically I have been running computer updates and troubleshooting for my family, getting sleep, eating food, and trying to make headway with my homework. I need to see if I am on the right track with my Geotech Lab and homework, write a research paper for Russian Film, circuits is confusing as usual, and for water resources we can only do the first problem because we have yet to learn how to do the rest, and without the book, it will be harder to teach myself. At least the wind turbine has been making solid progress, so I will be setting up shop times when the break is over to continue builds again.

Break . . . hitting the reset button.

This semester has been incredibly busy and I have not had time to update, from ski and snow shoeing trips, to a Young Dublinders concert, and a great deal of homework, projects and exams. Here are a couple pictures shot with my Fuji S5700, they are actually a mix of a ski trip and a snow shoeing trip. I also got to see the Young Dublinders in concert, and the next day go up to silver mountain and snow shoeing, here are some of the pictures at John's Alley of the concert. I am excited about spring break, not only for the chance to relax, but it has also been a while since I have been able to go home, however this spring break is also going to be packed with a great deal of work, my Russian 410 paper on East-West the movie, the build of the wind turbine prototype, Geotechnincal Engineering Lab writeup, Circuits 304 homework, and WSU alum social. There is so much to do it hardly seems like a break, yet just being able to go back will be a relief. This summer is also going to be quite full, as I will be taking classes for the first half and studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, so that I will be able to take the exam by the fall, I will also be moving into a house with a few friends, and I will be working though the summer as well. I have gotten hooked on skiing and will be looking forward to the ski swap during this summer and for the winter I hope to get a season pass for Silver Mountain and have the time to go skiing and get better. Back to the present, Introduction to Environmental Engineering 341 just finished up the Air section and is now switching to the Water section, Dr. Young is very entertaining and funny, I am looking forward to this section of the class.

In knee deep already . . .

It is the spring semester of 2009 at Washington State University, and already I am knee deep with homework and labs; trying to study for everything is like trying to focus on every conversation going on in a crowded room. So aside from trying to survive my engineering classes and a flurry of other things, for the holidays I got an Eee PC 4G and it is awesome, I have recently added credits on Skype so I can make calls to cell phones and land lines for dirt cheap. Quite distracting in it's own right, I have tried Ubuntu and XP on it, I may be going back to Ubuntu the 8.04 distro with the internet setting fixed with a script and all the anoying tweaks fixed, [this repeated OS switching is getting tiresome]. Recently I have been preoccupied and have not been able to take as many pictures I would have liked with my digital Camera.

Steam is awesome

If you do not already own BioShock, go buy it NOW. It is $5 on Steam. One of the best games ever made is on sale for less than eating out, it has only been out for a little more then a year. If you have any taste in FPS gaming, BioShock is some where you can't go wrong. If you already own BioShock, go buy it for a friend, you have until January 2nd. The truth is that before, I was holding out in buying the game because I had alot of school work going on and was also a little strapped for cash, but at $5 especially after the holidays, is a steal. I normally don't like to campain for some product but this is truely an amazing deal on an amazing game. So get to it.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone, it has been snowing for more then a week now and it is nice to be back home to be able to enjoy the break. This last semester has not gone well as my study group fell apart after people started dropping out and I lost focus, it seems that this late in the game having a backup crew is essential to my academic success. Therefore I will be rebuilding that team and focus more on set study times no matter the class to get a focused time to do homework, I believe that this will help me greatly in doing well in classes. So to everyone Good Night and Good Luck.

Wasted Talent

Wasted Talent is basically Engineering in comic form, and it is awesome, if you enjoy the likes of XKCD, then this is for you.

Happy Thanksgiving break

This break could not come soon enough, school has been killing me and I really needed to get away, and although I will have to do homework over the holiday regardless, it is unbelievably more relaxing at home, not to mention far more convenient. There is so much to work on, the ETF proposal for EWB , thank you letters to all the people who showed to the professional meeting, and getting things signed for the writing portfolio, practice exams, homework, reading up on SOPs for my lab work and project planning for what is up ahead. It seems like I have taken on far too much, but just having this break is bliss, even with all that work, cause at least there is family and rest.

Hopefully I can get everything in order before the end of the break that way the remaining semester will not be nearly as stressful as if could have been without said break. With luck and a great deal of work I may be able to pull through this semester, although one class entirely depends on how the points fall for the final, it is incredibly stressful to have so much at stake in such a small amount of time. Well time to get on that structures practice test . . .