November 30, 2004
O' Christmas Tree
I got my Christmas tree put up last night. I don't have any ornaments on it yet because I expect it to be knocked over when I get home today from Mico. He kept trying to climb it while I was putting it up, funny at first, then annoying. At one point he was sitting in the tree while I was putting the lights on. What a dork. I tied it to the door so hopefully he'll have some trouble knocking it over, I guess I"ll see when I get home today.
November 26, 2004
Congratulations
Congratulations to the newly engaged Dut and Sara. Can't wait to go to the wedding, I better be invited!
November 24, 2004
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Hope everybody has a safe trip and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
November 23, 2004
Wireless Internet
You have to love wireless internet. Apparently about 4 of my parents neighbors have it and half of them are unsecured. So since my parents just have slow dial-up, I'm borrowing some bandwidth from their neighbors :-)
November 22, 2004
Gone
Well I hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving. I leave bright and early tomorrow morning to go see my parents in St. Louis until Sunday. Poor mico will be all alone, but the apartment people are checking on him for me.
Its just me and my parents for Thanksgiving this year. That will be strange. It will be nice to get to spend more than a weekend with them though so I"m looking forward to it.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
It actually happened
Its amazing. The roadwork on the way to work is actually all gone. For the first time in 6 months I didn't have to sit in a traffic jam at 6;30 in the morning. In fact, I left 10 minutes later than normal today since I'm doing community service and was in no hurry to get to my office before-hand, and I still got here 5 minutes earlier than normal! So just from that construction clearing I gained back 15 minutes of everyday now.
Now if the construction for the way home is cleared up, then I'll be happy as a lark :-)
November 21, 2004
Construction
Well supposedly when I go to work in the morning, the construction on 96 will now be cleaned up and I won't have to take the detour anymore. We'll see. Even better then that, after Thanksgiving when I come home from work that should be cleared up too. That means between both of those I'll gain about 20 or 30 minute back from every work day. Cross your fingers.
November 19, 2004
November 18, 2004
Spring?
You've gotta love fall in the midwest. A week ago it was butt-cold out. Today its about 65 and feels like Spring. Tomorrow it will probably snow a foot.
Apparently here in Michigan the temperatures in the buildings fluctuate with those outside, since its now 95 in here and last week it was about 40.
November 16, 2004
Holidays
What to say........
Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here? A week from today already I fly down to St. Louis to see my parents. Too bad my sister won't be around, she'll be with her hubby's family in Atlanta. Its nice to have most of next week off too. Actually I'll be out of the office all week, since I'm doing community service again at the Henry Ford Estate on Monday.
Work is actually getting busy though, so I have a lot of things to get done this week before the holidays. I also have another big project for school. Lucky me :-) It keeps me busy and out of trouble though. I registered for class for next semester yesterday. Yay for school. I even figured out what I want to do for my last rotation today, so its been a productive week so far.
Anyway, enough rambling, I'm boring today. Hope things are going well for everyone so far this week, have a good one.
November 15, 2004
Mico
It was nice to get home and see Mico missed me being around. He sat and watched a movie with me last night, and even was ready for bed the same time as me. Then this morning he tried to go to work with me and ran out the door. Maybe sometime I'll take him, ha.
November 14, 2004
About Time
Well it was good to see Purdue win for a change this weekend. It was nice to have a 3-day weekend and get to see a lot of my friends as well. Hopefully everybody made it back to their places safely. I'm going to bed, this weekend wore me out.
November 10, 2004
Google Rules All
Google is amazing. Most people don't realize how powerful it really is. You can find anything from credit card numbers to someone's phonebook listing just by doing a search. One new thing I just found out about is you can get the results on your cell phone by text messaging google now too! So if you want to find a pizza place and don't have a phone book, just google "pizza
Google is on their way to taking over the world like Microsoft tried to do. Scary.
Def, Definitely 246
I saw an article today that the real "Rain Man"'s brain is being studied by NASA now. (for some entertaining comments on this, check out SlashDot's article on it here)This peaked my interest so I did a little further reading on Kim Peek, (who is the "real" Rain Man) and savants. I just find it interesting how these people can be so inhibited at things (like Kim Peek can't find the silverware drawer or dress himself) but is an expert in 15 subjects from history to zip codes, and can remember and retain 98% of material read in books.
I'm lucky if I can remember the previous sentence.
Now, what was I talking about???
November 9, 2004
2005 Mustang
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm not a big fan of cars. I love my truck. I'm especially not a fan of little cars with no back seats (like your old Probe Dut, ha).
But I want to get a 2005 Mustang.
If you haven't seen this car yet, just take a look below.
OK, so these pictures don't do a whole lot of justice to the way it looks, but just check it out here.
I'm not even a big Mustang fan either, but I love the way this car looks, and 300 horses in the GT? 0-60 in 5.1 seconds. Plus it gets better gas mileage than my truck does. The only problem would be insurance. I don't even want to know what it would cost on a car like that. It doesn't matter though, I wouldn't want to drive it in the winter, and I'm not about to buy a second vehicle, so for now I'll just look and drool.
Comments
300 horses???...that's not that fast...the pinkly should do 0-60 in about 5.3, or was that 15.3?
That car is awesome. I haven't seen one up close, that is until you buy one, ha. I guess we have to take turns riding in it and listening to Lil' Troy though, since it only has 2 seats.
Later,
Koop
That is so funny that you wrote about this today. On my way home from work, I stopped by the Ford dealer by my apartment to look at these. Though I wouldn't get one, I do admit they are pretty sharp looking. I think you should get one man, then we can go cruisin' and listen to Lil' Troy....we'd be Baller's.
Later,
Dut
November 8, 2004
Cold
Well geez, the weather today is as cold as Purdue's offense the last 4 games (insert laugh here). Its back to feeling like November, and its back to the grind at work. No more training, just another shortened week thanks to Veteran's Day on Friday.
Tomorrow is patch day for Microsoft, but supposedly there is only one being released and its not for Windows. That'd be too bad if they actually patched a couple of the known holes in Internet Explorer.
November 7, 2004
Movie Day
Well today I was finally able to catch up on some movie watching and watch 3 movies (yeah I'm lazy). It was nice to just have a relaxing day.
On another note, I wish sometimes that I had an explanation for why things happen. I know things happen for a reason. I just wish the reason was more clear and visible when I wanted it to be.
November 6, 2004
Better Weather
Of course after I complain about the weather, the next several days are absolutely beautiful. 60 degrees and sunny in November? I could get used to this :-)
November 4, 2004
Fall in the Midwest
Weather this time of year is depressing. Its cloudy a lot, the days are short so it always seems like its dark out, and today it has been raining all day long. Days like this always make me just want to curl up on the couch with Mico and watch movies. If I can get this program done in the next two days, maybe I can do that this weekend. Now there's some motivation for me to actually do it.
November 3, 2004
Update Off
Well just to update this from earlier, I think I was just confused. Having Monday and Tuesday off threw off my calendar, and I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on when I woke up. I had training today so I was out of the office, I guess thats what I was thinking of. Fun Fun. Anyway, I'm back "on" and off to bed. ha. Tomorrow is Thursday already :-) If I was only at Purdue for the Cactus...
Off
Do you ever just wake up and feel like something is not right, but you can't figure out what? Thats me so far today. Something just seems off, but I can't put my finger on what it is. It almost feels like something is going to happen today and I just don't know what. Very strange, and not sure I really like it.
Comments
Hey everyone go here and check out the video's if you can. There are 2 on there that are really good. These were made by some guys that used to go to PU. You may want to do it on a high speed connection though, each movie is over 60mb.
http://www.averagesportsguys.com
Later,
Dut
November 2, 2004
Get out and Vote
I encourage everyone to get out and vote in this election. I'm sad to say that at 23, this was the first election I have voted in. I figured since I got the day off work to vote, I better do so. Plus the place for me to vote was less than a mile away :-)
I'm not big into politics, and I'm sick of hearing about hte elections, but I guess its still important to exercise your right. Mainly there were a couple bills on the ballot here that could have an affect on me.
Good day to you, and VOTE!
Comments
Mico is the world's coolest cat...wish Elly were as awesome.
Posted by: andrea | December 1, 2004 4:26 PM
I haven't wrote anything on here in a while...so here you go. I really don't have anything to say. Thanks for the congrats!
Later,
dut
Posted by: Dut | November 30, 2004 9:27 PM