Well, I said I would update this soon, so I decided I should update. Sorry I did not get around to it last week. I was distracted by all of the other things I had going on at home. I did have a good time over break, though. I was able to spend a lot of time with Megan, and to spend a lot of time with my family. I played cards with Megan three times, once with friends, once with Beth, and once with Megan's parents. A lot happened this past week, but a lot has happened since my last real update, so I will try to bring everyone up to date.
For starters, my semester is going fairly well. I am now half way through with all of my classes, and the only problem I am having is with Analog Electronics. I tried to talk to the professor, and even his department chair, about the problems I am having with the course, but it doesn't look like that got me very far. I really need a tutor or something to help me through the homework because I don't know how to do it, and I don't expect that he'll be teaching us how to do it any time soon. Unfortunately, there are no tutors for the course, so I may have to talk to Chris, who is also in the class and is the only person that seems to understand what is going on, for help on the homework. Currently I'm four assignments behind, and further behind on the labs now because I do not have time to go in after class to catch up with the labs. I wonder if I can get the software to work on the labs in my room in my spare time?
The biggest thing that has happened since the last time I updated was that Megan came up to look at a place I thought we might be able to live in starting next semester. Megan and I have been planning on moving in together after she finished her degree, and that is after this semester. Since I still have two more years, our plan is to find a place around my school to live in until I graduate. We are still working out the details for what happens after I graduate, but the point I'm trying to make is that we need to find a place to live if she plans on moving up here. Well, a few weeks ago I was talking to a man I work with, Troy, about this, and he mentioned that he was planning on moving out of his trailer and into a house, which he's always wanted, this spring. He told me that we could work out a deal and I could take the trailer from him if I wanted it. When all is said and done, the deal on the trailer ended up being a lot cheaper than any deal I've seen for an apartment, so I suggested to Megan that we take it.
Well, even though neither Megan nor I really want to live in a trailer park, because living in the trailer would be hundreds of dollars cheaper a month than living in an apartment would be, and because living in the trailer means that we can have pets, we both decided that looking into the place would be a really good idea. Megan drove out last Friday (the eighth) so that we could go see the trailer together. Unfortunately, we could not get a hold of Troy because his wife was in the hospital, and we were unable to see the trailer. I still feel awful that Megan wasted her time and money to drive out here for nothing, but I can't do anything about it.
Either way, we spent that night and the next morning looking through the newspaper and penny savers to try and find some other place to live. Every single apartment listed was far too expensive or already leased or rented, so we did not see a single place the entire time Megan was here. Still, I am going to talk to Troy, tonight hopefully, and see if I can go and see the trailer sometime soon. I am upset that we were unable to get in touch with him while Megan was here, but I am still hopeful that the deal he offered me is still valid. Otherwise, I am going to be spending a lot of time looking for an apartment that I can afford.
The worst possible outcome is that I cannot find a place and I have to stay on campus another year or two. In which case Megan has the option of moving into an apartment of her own in Beaver County, or living at home for another year or two. I have hopes that even if we can't find a place to live around Mansfield, Megan can find an apartment in Beaver County and live on her own until I finish school and join her there. However, I am not saying that is the path I most want to follow. I still want to find a place around here.
Well, I have to head off to class. I should be updating again soon, hopefully with good news.
Later,
Joshua
Monday, March 15
Thursday, March 4
Reconfiguration
Well, if you haven't already noticed, I recently had to reconfigure my entire site. The reason for this was quite simple (though the means were not). Blogger sent me an email last month that said by the end of March I will no longer be able to update my blog via FTP because they were dropping FTP support. Apparently they have a ton of new things to add to the site, but are unable to add them because the FTP portion of the site is lagging and takes too long to update. Either way, it really stunk for me because I was one of the users who still updates his blog via FTP. According to the email I got, though, there are not may of us left that are even relatively active, so I totally understand the reasoning behind dropping FTP support.
Still, the drop affected me because, while I could keep the old blogs on my site permanently, after this month I would no longer be able to update them. Therefore I decided it was in my best interest to reconfigure. I dropped A Little Deeper because it was an old blog and the only real reason I was holding onto it was all of the poetry it contained. Not that any of that poetry was easy to find, but it was there. If you noticed, I brought with me to the reality of the situation all of the old posts from A Little Deeper that were not poetry related (probably because I'm a pack rat and can't find it in myself to get rid of them). I moved this blog to a blogspot account page, which you already know because you're visiting it on said page. I also rid this blog of all poetry related posts.
The reason for getting rid of the poetry was simple: I decided to add all of my poetry into one location on my web site. I made a Virtual Book of Poetry on my site, which contains, as far as I know, every poem and lyric I've ever written. I figured that I could justify getting rid of a blog that way, which saves time and space, and also makes it easier for my readers to find my poetry, even if most of the stuff that was difficult to find probably wasn't worth finding.
So, where does that leave me? I am left annoyed that I had to do this update, but glad that I did it. I am very happy with the new Virtual Book, especially considering how much time and effort I put into making it. I will be adding poetry directly to this book from now on. Therefore, this blog will now be devoted purely to updates in my life, and not poetry. Also, since Megan's blog was set up through my site as well, I had to move it to a blogspot account. Both of us have decided to keep our blogs and continue updating, even though they can no longer appear on my site.
I'm supposed to add something about how life has been lately, but I have other things I need to get to tonight. I'll try to update next week during Spring Break.
Later,
Joshua
Still, the drop affected me because, while I could keep the old blogs on my site permanently, after this month I would no longer be able to update them. Therefore I decided it was in my best interest to reconfigure. I dropped A Little Deeper because it was an old blog and the only real reason I was holding onto it was all of the poetry it contained. Not that any of that poetry was easy to find, but it was there. If you noticed, I brought with me to the reality of the situation all of the old posts from A Little Deeper that were not poetry related (probably because I'm a pack rat and can't find it in myself to get rid of them). I moved this blog to a blogspot account page, which you already know because you're visiting it on said page. I also rid this blog of all poetry related posts.
The reason for getting rid of the poetry was simple: I decided to add all of my poetry into one location on my web site. I made a Virtual Book of Poetry on my site, which contains, as far as I know, every poem and lyric I've ever written. I figured that I could justify getting rid of a blog that way, which saves time and space, and also makes it easier for my readers to find my poetry, even if most of the stuff that was difficult to find probably wasn't worth finding.
So, where does that leave me? I am left annoyed that I had to do this update, but glad that I did it. I am very happy with the new Virtual Book, especially considering how much time and effort I put into making it. I will be adding poetry directly to this book from now on. Therefore, this blog will now be devoted purely to updates in my life, and not poetry. Also, since Megan's blog was set up through my site as well, I had to move it to a blogspot account. Both of us have decided to keep our blogs and continue updating, even though they can no longer appear on my site.
I'm supposed to add something about how life has been lately, but I have other things I need to get to tonight. I'll try to update next week during Spring Break.
Later,
Joshua
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