My ramblings...

Well it is Monday, at least for a couple more hours. It is the beginning of a week I am ready to be over already. I have a major project due on Wednesday (group none the less) and my first test in my other class. I am slightly worried about that test as a big chuck of the questions will be to develop code while in class. I wouldn’t be such a big deal but it is a 50 minute class. There will be 3-4 questions and only 50 minutes to complete them in. I need to be studying for that now but have no motivation to start that. Perhaps a little latter tonight. I am scheduled to work tomorrow but could really use the day off so I can study. I guess depending on where I get tonight I will make a decision in the morning. I am totally looking forward to this next week, no school, no work, life will be great. I got a good laugh tonight when my supervisor called to ask me to work for her this weekend. My response... NO. I worked last weekend for her and I don’t plan on stepping foot in that station for the almost 2 weeks I am going to be off.

In other news, I got a Gmail account. It’s great, for most of you this means nothing. But it is a supped up version of Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. Powered by Google so that makes it that much better. Currently they are still in testing phase. I signed up to be part of the beta test sometime back, at least 6 months or so, probably even longer. It took them forever to send me an invite, currently the only way to get a gmail account. Most of you will see a similar message in your email soon telling you what the address is.

Not much going on otherwise. Just thought I would give everyone a quick update. Since I got back in school it has been harder to keep this updated as much as I used to. I am also running out of topics to talk about other than the mundane occurrences in my life. So, if anyone has a suggestion let me know.

- Larry

Thursday, and all is well in the world of Larry. Valentines day came and passed with out incident. I was not familiar with the tradition of buying those around you gifts. As I am currently single I let this holiday come with out any preparations. I also blame part of this on the fact that I am a guy, and that really isn’t something that guys are very intoned too. My cuz bought me this print that you see above, I tried to take a picture with my digital camera but could not get the lighting conditions correct to do the picture any justice. Unfortunately all I could find online was the small one you see here, though it small it is still better than the ones I was taking. You can’t read the caption/phrase that accompanies it so here it is: “Quite Places The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”. I have to say that she did a great job picking this print out for me I think that it fits my personality quite well plus I love being on the water in a setting as the one depicted. I have it temporarily hung with a couple of tacks, I can’t wait to get a frame and hang it on the wall. I have chose a location over my bed, which fits nicely in the room. Other than feeling horrible for not having a gift to give in return it wasn’t that bad of a day. I relished in the fact that I didn’t have to try and impress a girlfriend and contend with all of the other guys that were trying to do the same.

Other news, school still sucks. Big group project we just started working on. We have to type a 5-10 page proposal on well just about anything. Data structures, I am starting to get back into the grove of programming. I actually just finished my homework that is due Friday night. That really surprised me since I thought these programs were going to give me the hardest time. I still have to put comments in and answer a couple of questions about the code itself but other than that I am done. We have our first test coming up next Wednesday, which should prove to be very interesting. I can’t wait until next week is over with, Spring Break officially begins on Friday the 25^th. Not really any concrete plans made yet, I definitely plan on getting in the kayak at some point over that week. I am sure that a theme park will also be visited. All of these will be solidified and whenever possible photos taken of the activities to share with you good people. I do have one photo I will share before I close. I found this leaf while walking Draco and thought it was really neat. The changes that are occurring on the leaf and just the coloration caught my eye. Well my bum is soar from sitting here for the last couple of hours straight so I am going to put it in bed and sleep the better part of the morning. Enjoy.

- Larry

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. We are coming to you live from the bedroom of Larry. There is very little in the way of excitement going on here. We just figured you were getting tired of commercials so we thought it was time for an update.

School sucks!
I was extremely happy this afternoon. I completed my programming a full 8 hours ahead of the due time. I actually just finished tweaking the code a little to run more efficiently. I have another group project that is due of the next couple of weeks. I really hate having to work with other people on something. Most of the time it proves to be a bigger waste of time than an advantage. I will have a test coming up soon in data structures that I am not quite sure how to study for. I suppose that is something for a future rant.

Home life – great.
I fixed dinner tonight, not what I planned on fixing, but my roommate is a Catholic she can only eat fish as a meat today and forgot to mention this prior to me making plans. So, I put previous dinner plans on hold and ran to the grocery store again. She made a very good point tonight, for as much as I love to cook I really haven’t cook a lot of common items. This was the first time for me frying fish. I have helped in the process plenty of times, but never been head chef when it came to the preparation. I had to make a phone call to the wonderful little grandma to seek ‘professional’ advice. Dinner turned out to be great, fried flounder, tater-tots (per request), baked beans (vegetarian, no pork products included), grits (for me) and mini cornbread muffins.

Love life – non-existent.
Not much else to say here.

I am off to bed.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program already in progress.

- Larry

Monday is finally coming to an end. I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was absolutely awesome, I got to spend time with two close friends and take some time out to have fun. As you read in previous updates Riverdance was this weekend. The show in and of itself was wonderful but to top it off I was escorted by two absolutely stunning women. Bonnie met us here at the apartment where she finished getting ready then we went off to dinner at Carabba’s. Before we left I made the ladies pose for some pictures. (Me and Heather, Me and Bonnie, Heather and Bonnie) During dinner we sat at the kitchen bar (area overlooking the kitchen) which was very interesting. We got to watch as they prepared all of the specialties that they offered. Dinner was excellent as you might imagine from a place like this. It was nice to sit and relax for a while in good company I was thoroughly enjoying my evening already. As time neared we made our way to the Phillips Center to watch the show. If you have never seen one of these performances you need to go at least once in your life. This is my second time seeing Riverdance and I plan on going again if the come to our area again in the future. There are no words that can accurately describe the show so I am not even going to try; it is something you have to experience first hand. After about two hours we were on our back to the apartment. Bonnie left our company unfortunately, and Heather and I went off to play a couple rounds of pool. I am not sure who ended up winning, it never really matters we just go to have a good time. There was a young lady there that caught my eye that I never pursued. I did however, make and hold eye contact with her, something I very rarely do so perhaps I am making strides in the right direction.

Sunday morning came all too early; Heater and I were off to the Hogtown Medieval Faire. I had never been before and enjoyed it, I was not sure what to expect. There were gypsies and knights; lots of food and a plethora of vendors pedaling their wares. I fell victim to two of them and bought myself this really neat mug. I also bought this rope puzzle that some of you should expect to try and figure out in the future. Heather also fell victim, since she is a ‘princess’ she felt the over whelming urge to purchase headdress that only solidified her claim. Heather and I watched several performances that were going on, she even got to participate. I can’t post too many of these pictures as I am sure she will kill me, but she got pulled to learn how to gypsy shake. It was quite comical. We also watched actual jousting. The squire the knight pulled from the crowd kept getting in the way of my pictures but I did manage to catch a couple of good shots (another one) minus the fence. It turned out to me a wonderful afternoon, and I even got a little bit of a sunburn. When we finally left I had to get ready to go to work. I did go and have dinner with the family which was nice before having to deal with Super Bowl traffic. The night proved to be fairly uneventful, we did end up with one arrest but nothing more.

Today, not much today, I cleaned my room and tried to do some homework. Heather spent the day studding as she has her first statistics test on Wednesday. Other than that not much going on around the house. We stayed busy all weekend long, just in time to start the week all over again. Until next time.

- Larry