Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Free Opera
For those of you interested in alternative browsing, the Opera web browser is now being offered ad free. I used to use this before Firefox and it's a pretty nice browser. It can be found at http://www.opera.com.
Drive-in
I haven't done anything much exciting recently excepting a trip to Murray with some friends on Saturday night to go to the drive-in. Apparently it's the only drive-in still in business anywhere around here. It was really fun and cheap ($6/person for a double feature), something I'll have to file away for future dates. We watched Sky High and Charlie & CF. I had already seen Charlie, but I was pleasantly surprised by Sky High. It was corny and predictable, but I'm kind of a sucker for superhero movies and rather enjoyed it.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Update
Time has once again gone faster than the speed of blogging. But I have my excuses. Procrastination, mostly.
I've been experiencing a strange sensation lately that I haven't felt for at least 4 months... cold! I think summer has officially died around these parts and it's starting to get downright chilly on occasion. It doesn't seem that long ago that I banished my jacket to the back of the closet and now it's already time to bring it back out.
And of course the cold just signifies that school is back in full swing and with it the lack of anything resembling free time. My two classes are well past the lackadaisical first week and it's time to do some real work. This has coincided well with a slight reduction in my TA work after the flurry of activity during the first week getting the classes ready.
There were a couple of "Grad School" events that I went to this past week. The CS department had a introductory meeting for all new grad students, but since I had already figured out most of what they told me, all I got was some free donuts. The university also sponsored a new-grad-student dinner on Thursday night that also had very little purpose other than to make us feel good. There's no reason to pass up a free dinner, however, and I was rewarded by winning a T-shirt in the raffle. (On the back it has a list of "You might be a grad student if...". The best one: "You find yourself explaining to kids that you're in the 20th grade.")
I've been staying really busy in my non-school, non-official-work time doing database work. My one client that does personal fitness wants me to make him another database, which I'm working on right now, and then continue to improve his other one, possibly reworking the whole thing. I'm also still visiting my materials testing company to make their database, and I have another one on the back burner.
Warren and I started a new, family blog (BrownBytes.net) that we're hoping will catch on. My reasoning was that it's easier to post a short message to the blog than compose a masterpiece of a weekly email. It's too soon to tell if it will work, but some have signed onto the idea.
Other than that, not much is new. I'm getting to know my new ward better. Better than I did last semester anyway. I'm just getting over a cold I've had for the last week. The Redskins won their first game, but I didn't get to see it. I was going to visit Dan to watch it, but the game started during church and by the time I got there it would have been nearly over.
I've been experiencing a strange sensation lately that I haven't felt for at least 4 months... cold! I think summer has officially died around these parts and it's starting to get downright chilly on occasion. It doesn't seem that long ago that I banished my jacket to the back of the closet and now it's already time to bring it back out.
And of course the cold just signifies that school is back in full swing and with it the lack of anything resembling free time. My two classes are well past the lackadaisical first week and it's time to do some real work. This has coincided well with a slight reduction in my TA work after the flurry of activity during the first week getting the classes ready.
There were a couple of "Grad School" events that I went to this past week. The CS department had a introductory meeting for all new grad students, but since I had already figured out most of what they told me, all I got was some free donuts. The university also sponsored a new-grad-student dinner on Thursday night that also had very little purpose other than to make us feel good. There's no reason to pass up a free dinner, however, and I was rewarded by winning a T-shirt in the raffle. (On the back it has a list of "You might be a grad student if...". The best one: "You find yourself explaining to kids that you're in the 20th grade.")
I've been staying really busy in my non-school, non-official-work time doing database work. My one client that does personal fitness wants me to make him another database, which I'm working on right now, and then continue to improve his other one, possibly reworking the whole thing. I'm also still visiting my materials testing company to make their database, and I have another one on the back burner.
Warren and I started a new, family blog (BrownBytes.net) that we're hoping will catch on. My reasoning was that it's easier to post a short message to the blog than compose a masterpiece of a weekly email. It's too soon to tell if it will work, but some have signed onto the idea.
Other than that, not much is new. I'm getting to know my new ward better. Better than I did last semester anyway. I'm just getting over a cold I've had for the last week. The Redskins won their first game, but I didn't get to see it. I was going to visit Dan to watch it, but the game started during church and by the time I got there it would have been nearly over.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Y Pictures
I posted a couple pictures I took from the "Y" on my Pictures page. It's more of a hike than you'd think, but the view is great.
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