I have a partment, and I moved into it on Monday. It's definitely reasonable - the room has a nice view of a soccer field and such - in fact, I probably have the best view of any of the Walker Avenue partments (yes, I'm having fun leaving off the 'a'...). I can even kinda see the sunset/sunrise (don't ask me how that's possible from one window!). My sheets don't fit the bed (this will have to be fixed), so currently I'm wrapping myself in the fitted sheet, which actually works reasonably well.
More excitingly (for me) is that the parts for my new computer are (should be) arriving tomorrow! I can hardly wait to put it all together and see what happens (hopefully, a gentle hum, and a working computer....I didn't see fireworks on the 4th of July, but I'll wait until next year, thank you very much)...it should be screamingly fast, and certainly screamingly faster than my working but often painfully slow Ferrari (ha....now THAT's good for a laugh) laptop. I'm sure I'll post pictures and specs once I have it working.
Which brings up another topic - I guess I'll have to borrow Dad's camera if I want to take any pictures, because my lovely camera died a little more than halfway through the Tennessee trip (which brings up
another topic). I sent it in to Canon for warranty repair, and hopefully it will cost me nothing (i.e. they don't decide that it was water damage). But that won't be returning to me, poor me until 7ish days from now, I think.
Yeah, so - Tennessee. It went well, though we were all awfully tired by the end of the week. No airsoft took place; in fact, we spent basically the entire first half of the week building a raft on Cherokee Lake - we started on Monday and didn't get it actually finished until some time on Thursday. It was definitely a good time, though I personally needed a vacation from that vacation (thank goodness - rather, thank God for July 4th....)
Work is going pretty well, I guess - I seem to have a reasonably good feel for how to do most things, and there are enough helpful people to manage. The 20-minute commute from my partment (oops, I did it again) is a LOOOT better than the 1:30 commute from home....and I can subsist on sandwiches and milk for a while....
Oh...lastly, Wendy and Dad were in the area today for Wendy's orientation at UMBC. She signed up fer classes an' ev'r'thing. Also, she discovered that the great Iain Roush's younger brother, Griffin, will also be attending UMBC starting this fall.
Soooo...yup. That's life for the past few weeks. Oops, almost forgot to mention - the Rebel, she leaketh not. Or, rather, she leaketh not much. Maybe a few drops of transmission fluid here and there (and everywhere), but the oil leak is down to a bare minimum. Which is probably good - I think the Maryland Department of Transportation has kinda been counting on me for the last year or so, you know, to keep the asphalt well-conditioned with fresh motor oil. (I've been using almost strictly Quaker State 10W-40, guys, don't you worry! I'll be picking up my check at some point in the near future when I get the time.) In any case, it's nice to be able to drive for a whole three days without having the red oil pressure light start lighting up my world every time I take a fast turn. Or stop. Orrr.....go. Yeah...I think that pretty much covers it.
I have a craaaaazy sleep schedule these days - you know, getting sleepy before 10, that sort of thing. So I should probably go obsessively track my UPS/FedEx packages for about half an hour, read my Bible, and get to sleep. I hope at least one of you made it all the way through this post. Waaaahahahahahahahaaaaa.....riiiiiight.
Hey guys: Wut 'n the wurld!?
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