Long Awaited Update
Well, I'm sure some of you care a bit about how little I've been updating recently. I am sorry for that. As I mentioned on my home page, I have been dealing with a lot lately and updating my blog and site have been the last things on my mind.
Since we last spoke, I finished my last fall semester, somehow with a 4.00. I'm excited that I kept up my grade point average when I thought for sure I had messed it up. I went home for a month, and during that month a lot happened. My Grandma died, and it was a very painful time. I wasn't (and probably still am not) entirely rational for the rest of the time I was home, and decided to do something dumb: I helped Megan get a dog. I knew it was a bad idea, but I couldn't say no, so now she's got a new puppy. I'll have photos of him up on facebook by the end of the night, and they're already up on deviantart. His name is Viggo, and he's a black lab, border collie mix, probably with some shepherd in there as well. We took him home when we were getting Dad's cat, Squeaky Z, updated on his shots. The vet we went to was taking care of him (she named him), and she was looking for a good home for him. It turns out Megan was looking for a good dog, and the rest is history. We're still training him, and Megan's neighbors probably hate us for him, but he's adorable even if he's a big pain.
I've started my final semester at Mansfield. I'm taking a ton of general education classes that I'd rather not be taking, and I dropped Electricity and Magnetism II in favor of another math class, Complex Variables. I also stopped working at Wal-Mart this semester in favor of Manser and tutoring so that I can stop stressing so much. It's been helpful so far, but now I don't have the constant pressure to do my homework, and thus have been procrastinating a lot.
Over the break I put in applications to the University of Pittsburgh and Binghamton University for graduate school. I'm hoping to hear back from them sometime this month. I'm really hoping the I'll get in at Pitt because I want to be closer to home.
I finally updated my site (for the most part). Technolock no longer exists, and I had links to that site on every page, so I had to go through and remove them all. I also added new pictures, so check it out.
I've been pretty bad lately with my extra cash. For Christmas I bought me and Megan a new 42" LED Vizio HDTV, as well as a Vizio Blu-Ray player to go along with it. I have also been buying a lot of books, and so my online bookshelf is not up-to-date. I have to go through and figure out which books aren't on the page yet, and add them all. It might take some time because I'm not sure that I brought all the new books with me. Also, for Christmas I got a gift card to Amazon.com, and instead of using it for books or music, I bought a Zune HD (Microsoft's version of the ipod touch). I am very excited about it because it's much larger than my last mp3 player (16GB compared to 4GB), and it has a few exciting new features. The Zune comes with software, a lot like an ipod, that lets me download new music from Zune's site. The really interesting thing about the Zune (which I don't think the ipod does), is a feature called the Zune Pass. It's a monthly subscription that allows me to download as many songs as I want each month to sample, and I get to keep ten of them every month. It also has a few other features, including channels, which pick new music for me based on what I listen to and add that music to my Zune for the month so I can hear new stuff. The best feature of the Zune Pass has been the "Smart DJ" option. It works on the Zune itself, and even better on the computer. The Smart DJ will take a song or artist and create a playlist of similar music automatically. On the Zune it can only use the music I own, but on the computer it can use all of the music available through the Zune site, which is another way I hear new music constantly. All in all, I'm really excited, and I've been snatching a lot of new music, which is why my music library page on my site is not up-to-date. I'll work on fixing that, too, as soon as I get my actual music library in order.
Well, I've included all I can think of for now. I'll try and update again as soon as something interesting happens (maybe next week?).
Later,
Joshua
Since we last spoke, I finished my last fall semester, somehow with a 4.00. I'm excited that I kept up my grade point average when I thought for sure I had messed it up. I went home for a month, and during that month a lot happened. My Grandma died, and it was a very painful time. I wasn't (and probably still am not) entirely rational for the rest of the time I was home, and decided to do something dumb: I helped Megan get a dog. I knew it was a bad idea, but I couldn't say no, so now she's got a new puppy. I'll have photos of him up on facebook by the end of the night, and they're already up on deviantart. His name is Viggo, and he's a black lab, border collie mix, probably with some shepherd in there as well. We took him home when we were getting Dad's cat, Squeaky Z, updated on his shots. The vet we went to was taking care of him (she named him), and she was looking for a good home for him. It turns out Megan was looking for a good dog, and the rest is history. We're still training him, and Megan's neighbors probably hate us for him, but he's adorable even if he's a big pain.
I've started my final semester at Mansfield. I'm taking a ton of general education classes that I'd rather not be taking, and I dropped Electricity and Magnetism II in favor of another math class, Complex Variables. I also stopped working at Wal-Mart this semester in favor of Manser and tutoring so that I can stop stressing so much. It's been helpful so far, but now I don't have the constant pressure to do my homework, and thus have been procrastinating a lot.
Over the break I put in applications to the University of Pittsburgh and Binghamton University for graduate school. I'm hoping to hear back from them sometime this month. I'm really hoping the I'll get in at Pitt because I want to be closer to home.
I finally updated my site (for the most part). Technolock no longer exists, and I had links to that site on every page, so I had to go through and remove them all. I also added new pictures, so check it out.
I've been pretty bad lately with my extra cash. For Christmas I bought me and Megan a new 42" LED Vizio HDTV, as well as a Vizio Blu-Ray player to go along with it. I have also been buying a lot of books, and so my online bookshelf is not up-to-date. I have to go through and figure out which books aren't on the page yet, and add them all. It might take some time because I'm not sure that I brought all the new books with me. Also, for Christmas I got a gift card to Amazon.com, and instead of using it for books or music, I bought a Zune HD (Microsoft's version of the ipod touch). I am very excited about it because it's much larger than my last mp3 player (16GB compared to 4GB), and it has a few exciting new features. The Zune comes with software, a lot like an ipod, that lets me download new music from Zune's site. The really interesting thing about the Zune (which I don't think the ipod does), is a feature called the Zune Pass. It's a monthly subscription that allows me to download as many songs as I want each month to sample, and I get to keep ten of them every month. It also has a few other features, including channels, which pick new music for me based on what I listen to and add that music to my Zune for the month so I can hear new stuff. The best feature of the Zune Pass has been the "Smart DJ" option. It works on the Zune itself, and even better on the computer. The Smart DJ will take a song or artist and create a playlist of similar music automatically. On the Zune it can only use the music I own, but on the computer it can use all of the music available through the Zune site, which is another way I hear new music constantly. All in all, I'm really excited, and I've been snatching a lot of new music, which is why my music library page on my site is not up-to-date. I'll work on fixing that, too, as soon as I get my actual music library in order.
Well, I've included all I can think of for now. I'll try and update again as soon as something interesting happens (maybe next week?).
Later,
Joshua
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