Last two weeks of my primary educational career

School

So… I only have this week, next week (dead week), and finals (only one final), and then I’m done with 22 years of education. Wow.

Okay, so it really hasn’t quite sunk in, but around this time each semester, I usually post about what I have left to do. I’m also usually quite stressed about it. Not at all this semester. Maybe it’s the senioritis; maybe it’s just because all my classes are more or less done. But I’m definitely relaxing and not too worried about these last few days. I have two exams and two presentations left. That’s pretty much it. Detailed remaining activities follow…
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It’s a wrap

Life Musings

After several days of delibrations, the verdict is in: I will be starting work at Epic Systems in Madison, WI on June 6, 2005. Now I can ramble on about all the stuff I’ve been wanting to journal about, but didn’t really want to since this is public (yeah, I know, nobody ever reads this) and I hadn’t yet made a decision. So if you want to hear all about the search and my deliberations, read on. If you want the short version… it’s just this:

I have a job finally! And I’m really looking forward to it. Busy couple of months ahead! (okay, so that last part will be in another post)

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Exercise is Dangerous

Leisure

Ow. So, probably a couple of hours ago I decided to head out on my bike and put in a good hour, if not more, of biking as I was so bored in the apartment and didn’t really have anything major to do.

I had planned to ride the trails that go just east of Elwood, but when I crossed Elwood and started riding along 6th, I noticed the trail I wanted was 20 feet over. So, like the shortcut-taking man that I am, I just rode down the small valley between the two trails. Unfortunately, the shadow from a tree was falling on a nice hole at the bottom of that valley. Since I was going fast to make it up the other side, I hit it at full speed. My bike stopped; I didn’t. I landed hard on my left shoulder as I watched my bike go flying over me.

I’m fine; well, a little (okay a lot) sore in my left shoulder, but nothing’s broken or cracked (or so “they” say at Student Health). Ice and Ibuproffen are my therapy. And no playing piano for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship tonight. As for the bike… the front fork is bent in a bunch and the wheel is, of course, nice and mangled. Big bummer since I had just gotten into the habit of biking to class and everywhere else I went. *Sigh* Only a few more weeks and then I’m out of here anyway. Thank you to my nice roommate Tom who picked me and my bike up and carted me over to Student Health.

Alternative Galleries

Computer Stuff

Sooooo. Since everything else on my site is changing around, I thought I’d take a look at the new version of the gallery software I’m running. Gallery2 can be found at http://digimuzik.com/gallery2/ . I guess at first glance I don’t like it, but that’s just because it’s so bright. It’s also a little busy. But these are mainly configuration things. Anyway, I know that there aren’t that many people that look at my site, let alone view the galleries, but if you do happen to read this, would you mind dropping a comment to this post on which you prefer?

Gallery1
Gallery2

Warranties are useful… part two!

Computer Stuff

Once upon a time, ( actually a couple of months ago), I made a post about replacing my motherboard on my laptop. I thought that was cool just by itself… But since then, my useful warranty has replaced 4 different parts! This doesn’t necessarily mean that Dell parts are junk… it just means that I have found legitimate reasons to replace hardware in this laptop. Story of my warranty follows…

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Sleep helps

Computer Stuff

So I woke up with a fresh mind and after an hour or two of tweaking code here and there and looking for a theme I kindof liked, I think I have my site running the way I wanted. I was able to hack the admin functions so I can now go directly to creating a new post (yay!), and I now have the “Schedule,” “Some More Favorites,” and my “Page” page all set up to use the new template. I also figured out how to get my yearly/monthly calendar to work with the new version… now just to see if I can get today’s date to blink like it did before.

Other fun stuff I found (having nothing to do with the upgrade) was the random-gallery image feature of my gallery. I don’t know for sure how much I like it… I have some strange pictures in my gallery, but for now it’s kindof neat over there on the right sidebar.

Upgrade schmupgrade

Computer Stuff

So I tried upgrading WordPress to 1.5 tonight. I don’t like it. I’ll give myself a couple of days on it, but I still don’t think I’ll like it…. I see my menu has completely changed, so I get to re-write that from scratch, since the old one doesn’t seem to work. And my cool calendar I had set up doesn’t work. Then I see if you view a full post (I think now in this version it says “Click here to read the rest of the story”) that you don’t have a menu bar at all…. Oh… that’s a third file I’ll have to edit. And when I “login” to make a new entry, I now have to login and then click on “Write” rather than going directly to it like before…. just because people wanted a “Dashboard” in their admin area. Maybe there’s a way to change that, but I don’t see it right now…. I liked my site the way I had it before. Maybe I’m just grouchy and need some sleep…. Sounds like a good plan!

Exciting, Fun-filled March

Life Musings

Whew, so I guess I haven’t been updating too much over the last few weeks. And I won’t talk too much about the biggest thing going on in the last couple of weeks since I don’t quite know an answer yet…. but I’m hoping to have more information on one or two different job offers later this week. Here’s hoping….

If I really ramble on…. here’s what it’ll be on… Last week was spring break… had some good times there. The week before was midterm mayhem, but I think I pulled through that with some (hopefully) flying colors. The wedding planning is still going smoothly. We met with several different people over the last couple of weeks… sometimes getting contradicting messages, but hopefully we can sort them all out.

You know… instead of one rambling post, I think I’ll break it up…. sounds like a plan. (Entries will probably be back-dated, so if I’m reading this in the future, this post probably won’t make any sense!)