Where did the sun go?

Today went by pretty fast. I got up, got dressed, drove over to Terry Café for lunch and then went to OUGL for a few hours and yea....Came back to my room and few minutes later headed back to Terry for dinner. I ate with Andrew, he is in Lander 8th floor for Summer. Poor guy, the room is so small I can't even go in the door, LITERALLY. I think most of the people didn't think to hard while designing. Hell, look at me! I am on the top floor of a building, and I thought being one floor up at McCarty was bad. But hey what do we know, we are just little peons. When I came back from dinner, around 6:15 it was bright and sunny, now it's gone!
I upgraded to XP Pro on Friday, I didn't pay a dime, borrow a disk, or "sample it from KaZaA". It is a 100% legal copy too, muwhahahaha. I haven't seen any real changes yet, but I have a list from a buddy that states like 30 differences between Home and Professional. So, I am going to check them out. I am still waiting for NateDogg (& Mindy?) to say if he is using my room or not. He blames Mindy for not knowing yet, aaaw poor Mindy. :'( LOL My mom also sent me this e-mail, thought it was good: YEAR OF 1903: The year is 1903, one hundred years ago ... what a difference a century makes. Here are the US statistics for 1903.... The average life expectancy in the US was forty-seven (47). Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000. More than 95 percent of all births in the US took place at home. Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. The five leading causes of death in the US were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30. Canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented. There were no Mother's Day or Father's Day. One in ten US adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time servant or domestic. There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US. Just think what it will be like in another 100 years from now. It boggles the mind..........

The life and times

Today while glancing through the paper, I found a few good stories. Some are just so sad....
Ex-UW President is mugged (read where)
This is sad for us guys. LOL
Aside from that high quality reading I am a little disappointed about the campus lately. I haven't seen any stupid people. Since a few weeks before Spring quarter ended, I saw a few a week, literally. Yes, yes I know it is the end of Summer quarter and there isn't too many people around here in general. But I am keeping my eyes pealed!

NateDawg- I looked at Jeremy's code, and opened up an account at squakbox...I haven't gotten to customize it too much....

Hey, I think I have the comments now working. Maybe?

I am just doing a test to see how this thing looks. I'll get more up later maybe...

Somehow this week I managed to get to bed everyday around 2 AM, but hopefully I can make it to bed by midnight. Today, DO-IT ended.(Ask me about DO-IT later, if you want.) Anyways, one of the people who is around my age, who also helped out by being a counselor is from Florida. He has a plane trip home, that he gets picked up at 5:30 AM tomorrow. Usually, the dorm that DO-IT uses for the camp kicked DO-IT out this evening, lets them stay until mid-day Saturday. So, one of the staff members asked me if I was willing to help. Of course I did, and he is currently is sleeping. A little after he was dropped off we met up with a few people that we know from the program. We got some pizza on the AVE and then saw American Wedding at the Metro. It was okay I suppose, there were a few scenes I nearly gagged, but it's all good now. I believe that there is now like two weeks of Summer Quarter '03 left. Oh, I also talked with a CS counselor this afternoon. Well, that's all for now.

This summer has been flying by so fast, is that good or bad? Today I got to go to my high quality wheelchair company this afternoon. I went back in November, and got new batteries, an armrest, and a joystick. When I was there then, I also said 'hey, look at the battery charger', the lovely guy was like 'oh, no it's fine, your batteries were bad'. I knew that was a lie, but didn't want to get in a fight with those idiotic people. So, from then on I was plugging it in for around 10 hours, oh by the way it's an 8 hour charger, but remember that it was perfect. Then once, I believe, they asked if I was plugging it in properly. It's not to trivial, take the normal plug-in push it into a wall socket, and the other end into the chair. OH, don't forget the all complicated task of moving the switch from OFF to ON. hmmm hard? Many areas to screw up? Yea, ok,sure.
  So, what made me call in last Thursday was on Wednesday night I plugged my chair in around 9:30 PM and didn't touch it until 10:15 AM Thursday night. That's almost 13 hours and it was only half way full. Today, I am like 'look, my charger is messed up, it's supposed to be an 8 hour charge, I plug it in almost nightly for 10 hours, and it's half dead by 5 PM.' FYI-I am supposed to go roughly 15 miles per charge. Their first question, was about my batteries, and of course didn't believe me and had to do this stuff to "verify". In the end they said my charger wasn't functioning properly, WHOA NO WAY. How weird, I was right? hmm. So, I ended up getting a new charger and new rear wheels,purty.

Wow...It has been a while since I said anything on this, but who really looks, LOL. So I have been doing the same stuff really, homework, eat,sleep, try to stay cool. Right now, it is only 84° in my room right now. Not too bad right? So far the elevator here in Steven's Court hasn't broke down for a few days now. Which is surprising, but I am glad though. But when I tried coming back from dinner tonight, the elevator over in Terry wasn't working. But at least I can drive around the building there to come back to my room.
   I meant to post it, but anyway the 4th of July sucked for me. I almost got hit with a big firework. I am not talking about a Roman Candle, but a 20 shot, 5 lbs firework made by Black Cat, this thing shoots off pretty good sized mortars, and somehow it tipped over and shot all directions. Luckily, I was one of the people that was at our gathering that didn't get hit. Another thing that happened was my Dad's girlfriend tried to prove me wrong on something about the computer...bad idea.
   I have just been doing homework and stuff all day or at least trying to...

This week went pretty fast. I have just been just trying to with the heat and the loads of homework. Nothing really happened this week. I got to go to the housing people everyday to see if my food money has came in, not yet though. On Monday my note taker for both math and architecture dropped the class. My note taker for arch came in later though that day. I don't really need notes for arch though. It took only three or four e-mails and that same number of calls to get her to come in. Also on Monday I got to talk to the guy from DCMA and when I sent him my resumé; he really liked it. But I may not get to work for them until the year because the summer internship/job thing only lasts until the beginning of September. One of the people that works there is trying to see if I can be used for summer and carried over to the regular year. If that is the case and I get to work during the year, they mentioned it may be a full-time job after I graduate. Oh darn! Yesterday morning I an e-mail saying send in your CSE application, well see I looked at it online and I guess I automatically get entered in a database, then the lady asked why didn't I submit one because I am eligable. But then she saw that she looked at the wrong person. Oh well, I am going to in Winter '04. PS- To the guys here at the UW, ?Drumheller has been on everyday this week can you imagine that?