School’s Out!

Monday, May 15th, 2006 @ 9:12pm

Woohoo! Schools out for summer! Only one more year to go… I still have a few finals to go, it’s not really a big deal. Piano juries are over, and that’s honestly the worst part of finals.

On to other news. Summer is looking good so far. I finally got a job! It pays well, and it’s right in the computer science field too. I also recently got a letter from Samford letting me know they’re giving me a small scholarship! It’s not much but hey, it’s better than anything I’ve had before so I can’t really complain.

Also my parents said they would chip in for a Camera for my birthday. So I just recently ordered a Canon Powershot S2 IS off of Amazon.com. So I’m waiting for that to come in… I’ll be sure to post some pictures once it comes in.

Also if you’re going to be in town this summer, let me know. I’ll probably be bored and looking for things to do (when I’m not working that is…)

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Another Year…

Sunday, May 7th, 2006 @ 1:38pm

So, I suppose it’s probably a good time to post how my Birthday went.

But yeah, I had a pretty good Saturday. It started off somewhat uneventful though. Woke up in the morning and tried to go get my brakes fixed, but no one was really around. Jeremy had a wedding to attend, Rick was working, and other people were just as busy as well. So I eventially called Clint to come pick me up and take me to school.

At 1 o’clock went to Brian Dilk’s senior recital. He played a really good recital, although I’m going to be sad to see him go. We’re losing a lot of seniors in the music school this year, and it’s kind of odd too because I could be graduating with them too. Anyway, after the recital was over, I got Rick and Sadie to pick up my car. Thanks guys! After that, I vacuumed my car and practiced for piano juries. Nothing real exciting.

Finally, went to school and picked up Dana for dinner. Jeremy and Kenny met us at Surin. We had a good dinner, although I wish I hadn’t picked a night when half the music school was at a formal. But I had fun with everyone that was there. After dinner, we headed back to the apartment and as seems to be tradition now, lit a cake on fire. Thankfully, no injuries from the lighting of the cake this year. Afterwards, we started to watch a movie but it got sidetracked by Mentos and Pepsi. We had the idea that it would be cool to use glowsticks in a clear drink at night and see what the effect would be. Sadly, it didn’t work out as planned but we got some good pictures! (Which I’ll post later in my comments)

So to everyone who showed up last night, or even just wished me a happy birthday at school… Thanks! I did have enjoyable 22nd, and here’s to many more!

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I’m Thankful For…

Thursday, May 4th, 2006 @ 2:56pm

I know this is kind of an odd thing. I put this blog up so I’d have a place to rant. Rant about things I don’t like, or what’s going on. So to break the mold, I’m going a completely different direction. Here are things that I’m happy are happening and glad to have…

I’m thankful that God has given me the opportunity to go to Samford. There have been times I’ve thought, “Hey, I could’ve gone somewhere else.” Sure, it would’ve been cheaper, I might even have gotten a scholarship or two. Sure, it’s been difficult here at Samford and I’ve had trying times. But I don’t think I could imagine life without being here at Samford. All of the friends here that I never would’ve met. All of the fun times, never had. For those of you that do read this, I’m glad I’ve had the opportunity to get to know each and every one of you. So many names to mention, I’m sure I could probably fill up several pages just of names. Some of you, I wish I could’ve gotten to know better. But to each and every one of you, thanks for putting up with me!

I’m thankful for the talents and interests God has provided. I don’t know what I would do without music and piano. Even if I’m not very good at it, I enjoy every bit of it. It’s such a stress reliever sometimes! I’m thankful for the interest in computers I have. It’s not often that there’s something you can do, and love to do, and make a living at it.

In closing, I’m thankful for a lot of things. In retrospect I realize I may be unsatisfied with certain situations. But I wouldn’t be where I am today without some of those things happen. I wouldn’t have the friends that I have, or know the people I know. Sure, I may not have accomplished things I might have planned, but hey, I still have a great future to look forward too!

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April Is Almost Over?

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 @ 1:32am

Not that I really have much to say most of the time, but I’m not even really sure how many readers I have that actually pay attention. So I probably spend a lot more time in this site than it’s really worth. But I suppose I do enjoy it, hey it’s what I want to do!

So that brings me to what I’ve been wasting my precious freetime on, a completely brand new layout! It allows me to do a lot of cool things that I haven’t really done before, and it actually is nearly fully functional! But yeah, feel free to comment on the design or something if you really feel like it.

It’s hard to believe that this month is almost over, and school is nearing an end. It doesn’t feel like that long ago school had just started. Yet, I must admit April did move along pretty fast, it was quite a busy month with class trips and the like. I guess I’m nearly ready for it to be over, but not at least until I finish a few more projects!

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How I Feel…

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 @ 12:42am

Down the drain

Yes, it’s that time of year folks. I hope you got your tax returns in! Even though I got mine in especially early, the above image generally describes how I feel about taxes. Oh well, at least I’ll get most of it back say… a few months from now… with no interest.

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Holiday Weekend

Monday, April 17th, 2006 @ 11:07am

Happy Easter! Ahh… it’s so nice to have a holiday weekend. Even though I probably still have a lot of stuff to do, it’s just nice to have a break.

Friday, I was out of classes all day. One of my professors decided to cancel class, because we had all participated in a trip down to Perry County on Thursday, and another professor decided to cancel as well since most of us wouldn’t be there anyway. But, it ended up I had to go back up to Samford anyway since I had left my piano books at school… go figure! So I finished the day out by teaching my students, then going over to visit a friend’s house for a couple of hours.

Satuday, I ran a few errands and stuff but mostly just stayed around the apartment until mid-afternoon. Went out to dinner for a little while, and came back.

Sunday, of course I went to church for our Easter service. It was pretty good! After church, went home for lunch where my dad cooked steaks, with mashed potatoes and gravy. I miss his steaks being up here at the apartment and at school. At least I get to get a taste of them every now and then. After lunch, Clint and I contemplated about doing something that afternoon, but really couldn’t decide on anything. So we just drove around for a little while, and crashed in on Timothy at his apartment then went to visit the Vulcan. Not too long after that, we went back to my apartment and pretty much goofed off for the rest of the night. And so, I guess we have to decide on something to do again today as I procrastinate on projects that are due at the end of the year, don’t you just love it how that happens? I think I should probably go wake him up first though, considering it’s after 10am already…

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Sleepless

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 @ 12:57am

So here I am yet again, trying to actually go to bed on time yet I just manage to sit staring at the ceiling. Neither of my roommates aren’t back yet, so I really don’t know what to do other than just ramble on my blog.

I guess I’ve had a lot on my mind for the past couple of days, mostly random things just going through my head about the future, and what’s going to happen. Nothing really bad, but still just random things I’ve been thinking about. The semester is nearly coming to an end and I’ll reach the pivotal point in my college career where I’ll become a senior. I guess it’s kind of thrilling, and exciting to think that I only have one more year of school left. Yet, somewhat scary and daunting at the same time. I’m nearly 22 as well, so I feel like I’m getting old and have barely accomplished anything! Sometimes, I really don’t know what to think at times about what’s going to happen.

But you know, amazingly even through all of that there has been some sense of calm and peace which I can’t really explain. I really feel that God has opened some doors recently that just kind of popped out of nowhere and was exactly what I was looking for (cue the summer jobs!).

Sorry you’ve had to read some of my boring, yet somewhat random thoughts recently. I’m not depressed! Honestly! Just… thoughtful as of recently. I guess my blog is finally serving somewhat of a purpose to let me rant when I need to, especially if there isn’t anyone around to talk to. But, I’ll leave you with Isaiah 12:2 at the very least, “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He is also my salvation.

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Not Much to Say!

Sunday, April 9th, 2006 @ 6:46pm

So a rather uninteresting, and somewhat uneventful weekend. There was supposed to be a big storm Friday, that never really developed into anything. So I just did my usual thing, teach piano and come home. Had a somewhat of a surprise visit by Julie and her posse, as it was her birthday.

Not much really changed on Saturday though. Slept in late until Jeremy invited me out to lunch at the Olive Garden with him and Mike. Went to CompUSA to check out the sales they had, then eventially meeting up with Timothy at Circuit City and going out to lunch with him (again!). We talked for a while over lunch, which was a good thing. I haven’t gotten to see him much since we’ve both moved out and have each gone our own seperate ways. It’s kind of sad now that I really think about it, we’ve known each other for… at least as long as I remember. Since we were little kids pretty much, we’d always be over at one another’s house doing one thing or another. Playing Nintendo, making a trip down to the creek, or even just playing baseball in the backyard… I miss those days sometimes. Sometimes I just wish I could go back to being 12 again. I didn’t have to worry about too much, other than the occasional fight with my mom over clothing choices, or hats!

I feel like I didn’t get much accomplished today either. I accidentally missed church today because I set my alarm for 8pm instead of 8am, oops! Played with the PS2 for a little while, but then started to try to work on my final project for my Languages and Theory class. I think I’ve coded myself into a corner, I don’t know what to do next. Although, I did take a swim in the pool which felt really good. I’ll be looking forward to the weather getting a little warmer, and pool trips being more frequent.

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Apple Boot Camp

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 @ 10:45pm

Big news today. Apple now does windows. Apple has finally taken an official stance, from the move to Intel processers from Motorola, to now allowing Windows XP to be installed on Apple hardware. A move I never expected to see from their side, but now provides an ever bigger shoe in the door for Apple to sell their products.

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Movin’ On Up

Saturday, April 1st, 2006 @ 12:34am

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been a little busy with things. I’ve been trying to get things back in order since Spring Break and adjust being back in school. It’s amazing what one week away will do to you!

So balancing projects, school, and play. It’s a complicated process! We have basically two different types of projects due for Computer Science. In my database class, we got the awesome oppertunity to visit some schools in Perry County and in sync with the database class here at Samford we’re working on designing a database that will help suit their needs. It’s a little daunting right now to try to keep track of everything that they want to keep track of, and a little crazy. But I’m sure everything will work out fine once we go visit them again to present them a design. The other big project that is due at the end of the semester is creating a interpreter for Tiny Basic which is based off of the programming language BASIC. But we have to create an interpreter in Java that will take in a valid Tiny Basic program. It’s a little difficult at the moment, and I have a feeling our whole group (myself included) is going to probably put this off until close until the end of the semester.

Oh yeah, play. Almost forgot about that. I’ve been recently playing Genso Suikoden V. This roughly translates into English, something like “Water Margin”, but of course that doesn’t make any sense. The story is roughly based off of a Chinese Novel with the idea of 108 Stars of Destiny. Basicly 108 different people band together as heros to overcome some sort of evil. Anyway, I’ve been really enjoying it and the game has a feel much like the original 2 Suikodens which is a plus considering that IV had taken a little rabbit trail from the series. But there’s neat little mini-games within the game that are always entertaining. There’s even RTS (real time strategy) type battles that are very entertaining to play! If you have a PS2 and have played any of the previous Suikodens, I would recommend picking a copy up (this means you Jered! ;)

I also have some other exciting things going on right now, but I’m not really in the position to talk about them yet. Hopefully when things become a bit more clear I’ll be able to release more information. Until then, jya mata!

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