Farewell!

Ok, so it is very obvious that I have not been updating this thing in a timely manner. This has been mostly due to the fact that I have started journalling - which is what this blog was originally intended for - but in my journal I can record more AND not have it seen by everyone who has access to the internet. In short: at least for now I will not be updating this blog again. Who knows, I may start posting again in the future...

New look

Is the new look acceptable?

*Phew*...finally a break

The last, well, month has been incredibly hectic and draining. I have not journaled or posted anything here for a while and now I finally have a little while to do it in. First off, a funny comic.

Now that I got that over with, I will discuss what is on my mind, which is unfortunately incredibly un-interesting. Anyway, I have been looking at messenger bags again and have almost completely decided to get a chrome citizen with a black buckle (if I actually end up getting a messenger bag at all). Ever since my old Heidelburg University messenger died a while back after only about a year and a half of medium use I have been pining for a bag of messengers that is more durable. I cut off the emblem from my old bag to use as a patch on my new one in order to remember my trip.

Okay, turns out that I cannot write a paragraph that flows right now. Signing off.

Courtesy of Dinosaur Comics

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1672

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1672

HRM

This week has been hard, and this weekend is filled with take-home tests. I don't know how well I actually did on either of my tests, but I think I did decently. Now if only I completely understood all the material.

Reminiscing

I have just reaped one of the many benefits of keeping this blog going: I read my old posts and remembered life gone by. It is amazing that I am going through the same thing now that I went through a year ago and six months ago...will I never learn?

Journaling

I have been inspired by my j-term trip to journal. By "inspired" I mean it was part of the class that we had to write a journal entry every day and now I am just used to it. Really, I started this blog to do more or less of the same thing: record what is happening to me so that I can look back at it in the future and laugh at myself. I cannot, however, put anything I want on this blog since anyone with a computer that has a connection ranging from 150 baud to infinite gigabits can access it. This is the purpose of my journal.

I am trying to think of a name for it right now so I can label it and tell it apart from my other moleskine journals. Hmmmmm... maybe "man-diary."

Oops!

Well, someone failed miserably at keeping this updated on his trip...oh well. I am currently back at Taylor and working on my homework for the Footsteps of Paul trip. Just putting the finishing touches on my paper, then it's on to my picture slideshow.

I also just looked up the correct punctuation usages for "it's" and "its." Let me expound for those of you which find this confusing (don't worry, I do, too):

it's - a contraction for "it is"

its - the possessive form of "it"

I realize that this flies in the face of putting an apostrophe s ( 's) at the end of a word we want to make possessive, but that is the english language for you.

Greece

So currently I am in Thessaloniki, Greece, and am having a great time. I would have updated this earlier, but everything was in greek, so it took me a while to figure it out.I probably won't post too many huge updates because I already have to journal daily (something I am actually not always doing) and I don't feel like typing it out again. As for pictures I am trying to post them every once in a while on Facebook.

Bluetooth-isms

In a conversation with my good friend David, I pulled a bluetooth-ism. You know when you hear people say, "look at my new bluetooth"? Well, that is one of my biggest pet peeves. Bluetooth is a data transfer protocol, thus the previous quoted phrase is equivalent to "let me your english, I need it for my required reading" (in reference to a book). Sadly, tonight I pulled one of these, and am so ashamed of it, I must confess to you in order to procure divine forgiveness.

I said "do you have a facebook".....fail.

Yo.

I have no idea what God did, but somehow I passed all my classes that I was worried about passing! There must have been some MAD curving, but all is well.

Anyways, it is Christmas time and I thought I would update my blog for once. I have been trying to run every other day at the least, but its been getting harder and harder to motivate myself to get on a treadmill. Been sick today and yesterday. I am extremely bored. Still have to get christmas shopping done.

Well, if you could follow that last paragraph, you are more conscious than I.

Amazing flash game

Been passing the time with a flash game: Clockwords (on ninjakiwi.com). Think a really fast tower defense scrabble...Awesome!

Essential Christmas Movies [u]

I am trying to compile a list of Christmas movies that need to be watched every Christmas. Here is what I have so far:

It's a Wonderful Life

Die Hard

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Muppets Christmas Carol

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

Charlie Brown Christmas

*Sigh*...family history

Over Thanksgiving break I decided to try and compile a genealogy of my mother's side of the family. Luckily, people in my family have already done a lot of work in this area, and I just had to root through a bunch of old papers and texts to find what I needed. I am far from finished, but I found that my mom's side comes from nobility in England. Turns out that the reason we even came to the United States is really odd. Here is the story I copied from our family history-thingy (This happened before the revolutionary war, as James, my ancestor, was able to enlist and serve a full term of service.):

"When James was about twelve years of age he was playing with his cousin Francis King and some other boys on the King's royal grounds at the rear of the palace. the boys were having great sport with sling shots, trying to hit some geese in an artificial lake. While showing his skill James Jr. accidently killed one of the royal geese belonging to the King. James, knowing, that the English king had people heheaded for more trivial things than killing a goose, was badly frightened and his first thought was to run away from the king's wrath and parental punishment. So with his cousin, Francis King, who considered himself an accessory to the crime, the two little boys hastened to the London warfs where they found a large vessel about to sail. Stealthily going aboard the ship the boys concealed themselves in the hold and were not discovered until well out at sea. When the ship reached Boston, the captain of the vessel had the boys bound out to a ship builder for a term of years that they might earn money to pay for their passage to America."

It figures that this would be my noble, goose-slaying lineage.

Single cycle cpu

Working on my single cycle cpu for computer architecture. Surprisingly, it is coming along without too many headaches. I still need to write an assembler to test it but I would say I am a third done with my processor.

One of the best IM conversations ever:

Daniel: I'm texting in Haiku

Daniel: !

Daniel:

Anthony: so you are my friend

Anthony: if only you would text me

Anthony: i would gladly talk

Daniel: k I'll wait for you

this cell phone is quite the beast

hippopotamus

Daniel:

Anthony: dead I have nay been

but eating cherries always

!

Anthony: (exclamation mark)

Daniel: I would text you sir

Do you have a Texting Plan?

I just need to know

Daniel: LOL

Daniels: Nice

Anthony: that I do my sir

250 texts free

it renews monthly

Daniel: Pigs are mostly pink

Rice is dandy when eaten

Bacon is tasty

Anthony: my pants are on fire

water should put them out soon

but i like hot pants

Anthony: i am going up

my room i will occupy

back i will soon be

Daniel: dastardly she taught

her teaching is way too foul

get me out of here

Daniel: I call it Wah

Daniel: WAH

Daniel: And I have a revision

Daniels: dastardly she taught

the teaching is way too foul

get me out of here

Anthony: her name I wonder

what class art thou in my friend

does it spell your doom?

Anthony: help I wish to lend

not so much to be a fiend

but aid will i give

Anthony: cries of pain I hear

but teaching cannot be cause

pain is nay all bad

Daniel: rachel smith it is

the western art history

much better than AAH

Daniel: Orvieto helps

the second class avoided

crisis averted

Anthony: class has not ended?

how long are you confined there?

prayers are in order

Anthony: ha, Orvieto

legendary place it is

your tales excite me

Anthony: the cries of many

the whimpering of a few

you speak for both groups

Daniel: from one until three

my bindings grow tighter still

glad to have such friends

Daniel: Tuesday and thursday

the time constantly repeats

semester ends soon

Anthony: so true are those words

better friends I cannot have

less they have bacon

Anthony: too soon does it end

my GPA is not strong

graduation? ha!

Daniel: Truly i am bacon

so in many ways i win

rajaonarivony

Anthony: my last name you spell

the syllables are correct

proud I am of you

Daniels:

Anthony: the pig-meat speaks truth

how I wish for cook-ed pork

filling arteries

Daniel: I am logging these

a moment forever more

saved on my compy

Anthony: I am logging, too

the internet will soon see

real conversations

Anthony: how long can we go

wonder I in my free time

until we are stopped

Daniel: hour and a half

short banter demonstrates wit

i will dare to say

Anthony: a long time that is

to exercise my brain cells

they may not make it

Daniels: strong sleep approaches

i will not make it either

very sad panda

Daniel: T.T

Anthony: argument is null

Shaq is holding a panda

what think you now, friend?

Anthony: I hope you sleep well

to homework I must venture

death in its embrace

Daniel: Have fun my good friend

I hope a swift death ensues

lingering pain sucks...

Anthony: so true are your words

homework drains my life slowly

dead I will be soon

Anthony: on my blog i post

of good conversations long

true friends have I, bye

J-Term Trip and major.

This J-term I am lucky enough to be able to go on the Footsteps of Paul trip! Through the donations of others and my summer job I was able to stockpile enough money to pay it off... *phew* load off my mind. Pretty psyched about that.

As for my major, there was much talk as to me changing it, mostly because I didn't like it anymore. I was sure God was telling me to change it, I just didn't know what to change it to. But after a harrowing set of events I am still a computer engineer and as confused as always. Honestly, I feel like I have been tossed around by God over this decision, but I still trust him (not to mention that all the stress and worry that I had about this decision was probably unwarranted).

Fall Break

So fall "break" (its "break" because in reality its only a 3 day weekend) is upon us. Actually, its Saturday, so fall "break" is already here and halfway over. I was lucky enough to not have classes Thursday, and therefore acquired an extra day of breakage. Yay!

Have done list:

- Play Halo 3 ODST more than I should

- Work on the processor I am coding (I got a lot to work!!!)

- Listen to good music on good speakers

- Work the front desk

To do list:

- Hang out with people not in my dorm

- Get grotesque amounts of sleep

- Possibly go do construction

Ahhhh "break"

YAY!!!!!!

Today my friend Jesse proposed to his (now) fiancée, Jessica!!! I am so incredibly excited!!!

Hrm.

Life is interesting. I am confused, and slowly coming to grips with the fact that I have no idea where God is taking me. I am also learning how socially immature I am; not like a junior higher making crude jokes, but like a person who is new to this whole "be with people" thing. My world crumbles quickly when I am faced with stress. The problem is that I work better under stress, so I subconsciously make myself stressed...this sucks.

ANYWHO, I have homework to do.