December Sunrise

The view from my front yard, 7:26 a.m., Dec. 28, 2006

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Things to do today

• Clean the kitchen and make pancakes.
• Put Christmas decoration boxes away
• Vacuum
• Write out Christmas cards
•  Clean the fish tank
• Cook out (Nothing like 70 degrees in mid-December)
• Print the Christmas letter/stuff envelopes
• No school work!

Out My Window

The blog needs another photo, so here it is. Click on the photo to see more:

It's Cold In Here

Up to 66 degrees. One hour to go on this thing and it's done, no matter how I feel about it. It's OK, though.

Another Weekend In The Office, II

It's Saturday and 64 degrees in here. I wear jackets when it's drops below 70 outside. I've been here 10 minutes and my hands are already like ice. Finishing up my research paper. How ever it looks at midnight is how it will stay. At least this will be the last weekend here for the next month or so.

Another Weekend In The Office

Just a reminder to myself that I am putting some effort into my schoolwork, sacrificing lots of TV watching. It's a balmy 62 degrees in here today. I would have come in yesterday too if it were not for taking David bowling; cleaning out the HHS concession stand; going to get a Christmas tree; and spending six hours at the Sangerville Ruritan Club for a youth bowling league fund-raiser. This must be the third or fourth weekend in a row I will be spending at least eight hours at the office. Just a reminder in case I one day think grad school was a breeze. At least the Redskins are making it easy with another lousy season.

No more political ads :)

For another nine months or so.

Once in a full moon

Baltimore Orioles' pitcher Kris Benson gives us the bonehead quote of the week.

Benson was asked Tuesday (9/5/2006) for his thoughts about the seven shutouts in Major League Baseball, the most shutouts in one day in the past 30 years. Kris got off to an OK start, but ... Here's what he said:

"It's a freakish day, that's all - especially with all the home runs that are being hit and all the offense in the American League. It's tough to understand why something like that happens. It's just one of those things, like a full moon."

For the sake of planet Earth, I'm sure it's a good thing we have a full moon more than once every 30 years.

I'm doing this BECAUSE I WANT TO!

After Day 1 of grad school, I really don't need this reminder, but .... it looks like a lot of work on top of my full-time job and a couple of volunteer gigs. On the bright side, I wasn't the only one without a laptop. In fact, I didn't see any. Plus, the classroom is a lab full of computers, so I guess I won't have to go out and start spending my future raise (I expect one, you know, after earning this degree.) to get a laptop or notebook or whatever they are called these days.

Going Back To School — 20 Years Later

Well, I've been accepted to grad school, 20 years after earning my undergrad degree. I guess I sort of expected to be accepted, but getting the letter was nice.

The toughest part so far, aside from finally getting myself to talk to the department head and then applying several months later than I should have, was studying for and taking the GRE. Lots of studying after work and on weekends for a month or so. I should have started sooner. I sure spent a lot of time talking and thinking about it before finally acting. Maybe I would have done better on the GRE had I given myself another month to study. It would have been nice to score higher on the verbal section, but who knows. Another month of studying vocabulary that I'll never use, that nobody uses. Besides, what's the chance any additional words I might have learned in that time would have shown up on the test anyway? Not very good. As for the math, give me three hours and I would do fine, but 45 minutes... Good thing I have some writing ability.

So now I have to do all those things a freshman has to do, like completing health forms, registering for classes and buying text books. I wonder if I will be the only student without a laptop in class? This is going to make me feel old, but I'll get over it.

Complaining

I wish people would pick up after themselves.

One Year on Blogger

That's all I have to say about that.

I'm Still Here, II

What good is a blog unmaintained??? Oh well.