OUT OF THE BLUE

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So much for winter break. Classes start again on Monday. This semester should be a little more manageable, since I’m taking one of my classes online. (Stay tuned for more on that– my online class is Fundamentals of Speech. I’m wondering just how this one’s going to work.) It’s still going to be interesting, though, because my other class is Calc 2, which will be new territory for me. The next couple of months will be busy at work, too. After this weekend, I think my next weekend off will be around the end of March. (I should start listing 601 W. Dayton as my alternate address, I’m there often enough.)

I remember working a lot of 12 hour shifts, back in the day- with school and work now, I think I need to re-enlist so I can get back on that kind of an easy schedule. I have quite a few days now where I start work at 0610 and my day isn’t over until around 2300 (or 2130 on class nights). It’s not easy, and I’m not sure I’m rested and relaxed enough before starting another semester. I have an espresso machine now, though, so I should be good and wired/sleep deprived by about this time next week. Even more than normal.

Once again, I know, I haven’t posted much. Life has kept me pretty busy through fall semester, and then busy again recovering from fall semester. Hopefully by the time spring semester starts, I’ll have some of the projects done that homework has overshadowed.

I think I mentioned in a previous post, that my old iMac died– I’ve been using my iBook and surplus-parts Ubuntu machine since. At some point during fall semester I upgraded the iBook’s RAM, installed 10.2.8, and can now run iTunes again, which is a iGoodThing. My ‘ol iBook is almost out of disk space, however, which causes iTunes to get uppity. The easy solution would be to go spend $100 on an external hard drive, but that wouldn’t be any fun, especially when I’ve got 8GB of disk space on the Ubuntu machine, which is only one network cable away. So now I’ve got my iTunes library sitting on the Ubuntu machine. Let’s just say it works, but since downloading a track requires a lot of moving said track back and forth between machine, we’ll call it slow, too.

I haven’t been to the Y nearly as much as I need to be lately; school and work really took up more of my time than I thought they would since August. I’m trying to get back into the routine of getting there three times a week. Winter in Wisconsin makes it harder– it’s easy to not leave the house when it’s either cold out, the roads are icy, or both. So in addition to trying to get to the Y, I’m getting my DVD player patched in with my DTV box so I can watch my Biggest Loser workout DVD. (It’s one of three DVD’s I own– the other two are Jarhead and Roadhouse.)

I had a lot of fun on the mountain bike while the weather was still warm, so a winter project is going to be realigning the gears and shifters that locked up and “autoshifted” on me while heading downhill. I’m going to give that bike exactly one realignment, and if that doesn’t work I’m going bike shopping.

I’m trying to figure out how to afford a kayak. Might not make that this year– it costs around $25/day to rent one, so even if I go kayaking a lot this year, it’s still not quite cost effective. (Unless I find one really cheap, in which case I’ll be writing about how I intend to carry it on my car.)

There’s more going on than that, but this post is getting a little long. As always, I’ll see what I can do about posting more this year. :p