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It has been a while since I've updated this. A lot has been happening lately and I suppose I really haven't had that much free time. Tom and I are done working for the Daily, and are glad about that. Church on Wednesday last week felt really good since I was able to take a break from constant work and actually socialize. This weekend Gaila and I spent a lot of quality time together. She had a banquet for her scholarship in the college of Ag on Friday and Saturday we went to see Batman Begins after having dinner at Gangelos. Sunday we rented some movies and I was able to actually sleep in.

I have joined the MIS club for some free swag and pizza before MUG meetings. ClubFest was lots of fun, being able to play around with an iPod nano. I have posted pictures.

Anyway, it's getting late so that's my update.

This weekend really sucked. From Saturday 10:00 AM to about 9:30 this morning I worked a total of 45 hours for the Daily. This job was only supposed to take Saturday, but thankfully we (Tom [my boss] and I) were able to get things up and running for them to get a paper out on Tuesday. I am exhausted and want at least an entire day off, which probably won't happen until at least Sunday. The reason it took so long was because everything was disorganized and the person who was suppose to let us know how things were supposed to work was not very helpful. The only good thing is that I will be getting some good money for it and it will look really good on my resume.

So, anyway, I'm really tired and would rather not be on a computer right now.

Laters.

I have stumbled on a blog giving accounts of a group of people in a New Orleans data center (that hosts somethingawful.com). The information provided in this blog is a lot more personal and more "real" than what you would get from CNN or any other new source. These people have been keeping their data center running through the disaster using gas generators and have been helping with what they can to keep order and security and are helping authorities with communications.

mgno.com

They are mentioned in a recent Wired News Article.

So, now that class has started I'm finding myself getting really busy. AmesMUG will be doing ClubFest on the 14th, AmesFUG needs some student leadership to keep the student organization, which I will probably get into. All homework and projects for MIS 331 are done as a group, so I will be needing to find time to meet with my partner when we need to do homework or projects.

This weekend I may be doing some work with the Daily to get their servers back up and running, for extra perks at work or perhaps an extra pay. I am also setting up a web site for my brother at JasonRearick.com, and now I have a month to get a web site and catalog going for my cousin who will be running an ad for it as part of the statements given by Greater Iowa Credit Union, which means this will be a fairly important project. I will, of course, be paid for this work.

I also am working to getting a subversion going for ATX. I have it running, but am now working on making authorization work so that only Colin and I can make commits while allowing anyone to checkout. I may even host a few other projects for some friends who are doing collaborative work.

Anyway, I got Pirates of Silicon Valley on DVD today, so I'm going to watch that.

Laters.

So, school has started and I've had all my classes at least once by now. Mondays and Wednesdays are very easy days. Marketing changed instructors, and IMHO they changed to a worse instructor who does not organize thoughts or ideas very well. Management seems like any standard business course, throwing terms and stuff around, though I have a feeling the instructor is going to rely on the book way too much ("This slide I'm not going to cover because the book does it"). At least I got the hint in this class. History seems cool. My professor is from England and is very interactive. Though if I catch someone drop one of those duel credit history/US Diversity courses, I'm going to snap that up and drop 201. MIS is pretty cool, and seems like it's going to be easy. Though, all the projects are going to be done in groups (rolleyes). I hope my partner is competent.

It appears MUG is going to be on Thursday nights (I believe it was last year). Last Saturday Ben R came down to help us move the MUG server to Tiger Server and change ISUMUG to AmesMUG on all things. Took us 7 hours to do.

Last weekend was also fun as Gaila and I went to Ottumwa to visit her extended family Saturday night to Sunday. Apparently I got the seal of approval (again). Sunday, I finally got on a horse.

I have books to buy, another "clicker" to buy and activate, and other stuff to take care of tonight. So, laters.

Colin, I refuse to let you design a program supported by COBOL on the backend.

So, summer is coming to an end. All that is left is the weekend and school starts again on Monday. Looking back on my goals for the summer, I only really accomplished one for moving into my apartment. This summer was another summer that found me wanting to learn Cocoa, but somehow I didn't get around to it. I also haven't done any major overhaul on my web site. I don't think I've done very much with my web site since last summer, and going a year without overhauling a web site of mine is a really long time. So, here's my list:

• Get apartment
• Learn Cocoa
• Work on bobbis.net
• PHP Bug and Feature request (project management) system
• Build or Buy Windows PC

Class starting next week. The following is my tenative schedule:

• Hist 201 Griffiths, Stine
• Mgmt 370 Hunger
• MIS 331 Tandradinata
• Mkt 447 Akili

I have had Akili for my intro Marketing class, and thought it was pretty interesting (and easy), so I'm taking this interesting-looking class to see if I want to pickup an emphasis in Marketing. MIS 331 will be learning C# .NET, and Mgmt 370 will be using the blasted clickers again! I added Hist 201 (Western Civ.) earlier this afternoon to fulfill a history requirement.

So, that is the overview of my summer and an outlook onto the fall. Right now I have to finish the Ag Support Information System so that we can set up our schedules in it.

Laters.

It's been a while since I posted last. So, I guess I'll fill in a little bit about what has been happening.

The apartment has become habitable, but it's still a bit of a mess, so no pictures yet. Last night Colin and I finally organized the living room the way we want it and found that we have more space than we know what to do with. My parents finally ended up taking the camper out and have been at Saylorville since I moved out, thus the past two weekends Gaila and I took the boat out for a couple hours.

Since the Internet started working at home, I have been looking for ways to get the rest of my wired computers to access the wireless network though my router, though I haven't been having much luck bridging the networks wireless to wired. Apparently wireless routers are a lot cheaper than access points, and the cheap access points don't support bridging wireless to wired and the routers only route. Hopefully I can get this figured out soon so I can work comfortably in my room with my display.

Last Thursday and Friday at work we have been cleaning and painting the new office that we were supposed to move in to over a year ago. Pictures of the project can be found here. They still need to install a drain for the cooling unit up there, so as soon as they finish that we get to finish painting and then start moving. Our hopes are for next weekend, which is also scheduled to be the time we upgrade our MUG server to Tiger. I hope we will be able to figure this out.

School starts in one week, so I guess I should also be thinking about that. I still need to find 3 credits that will go towards filling some graduation requirements. I suppose I'll just take some history class and satisfy my US Diversity and History requirements separately.

The Internet is finally working at the apartment. I'll be happy until I need an external IP address. No time to actually use the Internets now, time to do more work moving a desk and organizing a mess.