Caught In The Whirlwind
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Been A While
Mar 4th 2011
It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated here. I’ve just been busy and haven’t felt like writing so much about myself.
General Life Update
The house that my roommates put in an offer for that I mentioned in my christmas post was accepted and they’ve gone all the way through the entire process to where they’re waiting for the closing date. The deadline in the contract is March 16th, so there will be a house by that date assuming all goes well. Just need to wait for the relevant people to get together to actually close. I’ve been spending time packing and such the past couple of weeks so that’s been fun. We’re moving out of this hell-hole of an apartment at the end of the month.
As it turns out, so is everybody else. Our downstairs neighbor moved out over the weekend and the people across the hall are looking to move too. Must be because of our neighbors from hell. Ugh. Anyway, it’ll soon be over with.
School Stuff
We’re in the middle of another school semester and as I think I may have mentioned here, I’m taking General Drawing this time out. It’s going about as well as expected considering I don’t really have any drawing skills to speak of. Half the class is perspective drawing and the other half is still life. The perspective stuff is a lot of fun for me since it’s all creating a composition, measuring and then drawing it out. I can do that sort of thing. Still life is…touch and go. Some weeks are better than others.
In other news, two of my photographs from last semester ended up being shown in the MVCC Faculty Select student art show.
I was hopeful that I could get something in but the deadline had unknowingly passed and the show was coming up. I spoke with my instructor and she managed to sneak these two into the show. If you’re local and want to swing by, it’s in the Information Technology and Theather building on the Utica Campus on the second floor. Tuesday-Friday 1pm to 6pm until April 7th. My roommate has a lot of stuff in there this year as well.
New Toy
And last, but not least, I have a new technological toy to play with! If you’ve seen my facebook status updates at all, you’ll probably know this already, but I’ve purchased a brand new Apple Macbook Pro.
My old laptop was the original Macbook Pro from 2006, bought a week or so after they first came out. It was still performing all right, especially in non game tasks but it was starting to fall apart and the wireless was REALLY spotty (aka, works fine one minute, next needs to be within 3 feet of the router in order to pick up a signal). It was time to put it out to pasture, as good of a laptop as it had been for me over the years. With Apple being rumored to update their laptop lineup relatively soon, I hunkered down and waited.
Finally the day came and I pounced on the store as soon as it came up and came away with an order for a new laptop. The spec bumps in the 15″ MacBook Pros were…incredibly impressive. I came away with a 15″ MacBook Pro with a 2.2ghz quad core sandy bridge i7, 4GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon 6750m with 1GB of memory, the 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive option and the high res (1680×1050) anti-glare display.
It was delivered on Wendsday and all I have to say is, OMG this thing is FAST. I haven’t been able to find anything I do that really taxes it yet and when I boot into windows for games…wow. I’m playing Half Life 2 with everything enabled at over 100+ FPS at 1680×1050. City of Heroes with ultra mode enabled for almost everything works silky smooth. I’m REALLY impressed by the graphics card they put into these as historically apple tends to skimp on graphics.
I’m VERY happy with my purchase. This thing should last me another 5 years. Sure they’re expensive laptops, but if I’m only getting a new one every 4-5 years, it works out pretty well.
Vox Hunt: Thanksgiving Traditions
Nov 23rd 2007
Show us one of your Thanksgiving traditions.
Every thanksgiving I go over to my parents house and watch the parade on TV while we assemble the (artificial) Christmas tree. My dad sits in his recliner reading the ads for the doorbuster sales on Black Friday while injecting comments such as "It's too early!" We've been doing this for a few years. Here's a picture of the tree we put up this morning:
QotD: Well, I Never!
Oct 6th 2007
Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___."
Submitted by chl*.
Smoked. Aside from the second hand smoke cloud that tends to reside outside of buildings next to the freaking huge no smoking sign. Funny how that works isn't it?
I honestly don't see the appeal. I mean at this point in time where the side effects of smoking are so well known, it boggles my mind that somebody would say "Yes, I'll take some lung cancer please! Anyone got a lighter?"
Vox Hunt: What The Weekend Holds
Sep 30th 2007
Show us what the weekend has in store for you.
A little too late to show what the weekend holds. How about what it did already:
Yep, I went to the Zoo and picked up my drunken penguins. They're now holding my wine. Woo.
Since I was at the zoo, I snapped a couple of mandatory pictures of animals. So here we go.
I'm too tired to post much more right now though, so a full roundup of today's activities will be forthcoming tomorrow at some point.
Frustration Venting Time
Apr 17th 2007
Whoops. I was supposed to run up to school today to work on my scheduling problems, but I completely forgot about it, so I'm going to have to do it tomorrow. Won't forget this time, although who knows how much I'll actually get accomplished.
That's the thing that really annoys me about the whole college thing. It's not so much the crappy required courses, or the horrible teachers although those things aren't fun either. It's the fact that they make you jump through all sorts of hoops and never tell you exactly what hoop to jump through, or even that there's going to be hoops along the way.
It's all so frustrating, and makes me feel "stuck" because I don't really like where I am at the moment, but I can't really change much of anything until I get finished with this whole school thing, and I can't finish that until I finish jumping through imaginary hoops.
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