Howdy people type persons. I'm back yet again for more blogging fun. OK, enough of the chitting of the chat and onward to whatever this is that I bother to call my life. Actually, I guess all I'm doing is the chatting of the chit. Anyways, today I'm coming to you from my Intro to C++ class. Let me tell you how exciting this place is...ummm....wait....it really isn't exciting at all. That's why I'm writing this instead of paying attention. OK, so I'm paying attention a bit but it is far from getting my undivided attention. I'm really in a rambling mood today.
Right now, life seems to be pretty insane. I know for a fact that there has not been a night this week that I have gotten over 7 hours of sleep and I don't think that there have been any (perhaps 1 or 2) nights that I have gotten more that 6 hours of sleep. Caffeine has been keeping me going this whole time. It's sad, but true. Then I have 3 tests next week so I'm thinking that it's really not gonna be slowing down. Oh, not to mention that I'm working at 8:30 on Saturday. No sleep for me! Such is life. I will live, unless I die. It is official now that Physical Chemistry is a sufficient pain in the butt. Not that I don't need to do the homework, because I know I do, but the fact that it takes me hours on end is quite annoying to me. Gah!!!
I don't really know what else to talk about right now because I'm pretty much zombie-like. I'm out of here. Peace and God bless.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Caffeine Fiend
First off, I'd like to preface this post with letting you all know that I'm a MORON. OK, now that that's out of the way, onto the post. Perhaps I'll even get to why I'm a moron (owwws and ahhhhs). I hope you all had a great SAD (Singles Awareness Day), and by you all I mean anyone who reads this blog, and by anyone who reads this blog I'm pretty much just referring to myself. I worked this SAD. After work I went and tried to do some of my caffeine extraction lab. This was a homebrew experiment where I was trying to extract caffeine from tea and coffee (get it, homeBREW. har har har). This is where I confirmed, once again, that I am indeed a moron.
Tea went fine. No problems extracting it from the aquesous layer into the organic layer and all that good stuff. Coffee, on the other hand, well, let's just say that I now know that there was good reason why I really couldn't find any experiments that extracted caffeine from coffee. I discovered (much to my dismay) that caffeine was not the only thing that I got in the organic layer when I tried to extract from coffee. It was really thick and looked nothing like what I got from the tea. Then it dawned on me: oils and fats. Coffee has lots of oils, I've known that for quite sometime from looking at the clear windows of bean dispensers and they're covered in oil. I'm such a moron. Oh well, at least the tea came along fine and at least the extraction process is quick and relatively painless.
OK, so maybe that wasn't the dumbest thing that I've ever done, but I definitely felt stupid after it was done. In other news, I got a care package yesterday from my church! I haven't gotten a care package since freaking freshman year! I have all sorts of junk foody snacks now to munch on when I know I shouldn't be munching. It's all gotta be a conseriacy to make me fat...ter.
Although the care package was good, it has not been the highlight package of my last couple of days. A new power cord for my laptop arrived on Monday. Hurray! My laptop is no longer an oversized paperweight (and there was much rejoicing...yay). Now I can do all sorts of things with a portable computer that a desktop just won't cut it for. Like, I can take my computer to work or, I can type a paper outside--if the weather was warm...and if knew how to get to this "outside" place.
OK, I need to be wrapping it up because I need to get a shower in before class. I'm sure you all wanted to know that so there it is. Before I head out though I have one last announcement. My brothers and mother are coming down to the Indy area this weekend, huzza! Alex has state vocal competition in 3 different groups and mom and Jonathan are coming down to watch him. I really hope that his performances are in the afternoon because I have to work in the morning *sigh*. After the performance, Jonathan's going to spend the night with me and it will be pretty cool to get to hang out with mi hermano. Then Sunday I'm going to meet my dad halfway in taking him home. It should be good fun.
Now I really am heading out. With any luck it won't be another 15 months before I bother updating this thing again. You all take care and God bless.
Tea went fine. No problems extracting it from the aquesous layer into the organic layer and all that good stuff. Coffee, on the other hand, well, let's just say that I now know that there was good reason why I really couldn't find any experiments that extracted caffeine from coffee. I discovered (much to my dismay) that caffeine was not the only thing that I got in the organic layer when I tried to extract from coffee. It was really thick and looked nothing like what I got from the tea. Then it dawned on me: oils and fats. Coffee has lots of oils, I've known that for quite sometime from looking at the clear windows of bean dispensers and they're covered in oil. I'm such a moron. Oh well, at least the tea came along fine and at least the extraction process is quick and relatively painless.
OK, so maybe that wasn't the dumbest thing that I've ever done, but I definitely felt stupid after it was done. In other news, I got a care package yesterday from my church! I haven't gotten a care package since freaking freshman year! I have all sorts of junk foody snacks now to munch on when I know I shouldn't be munching. It's all gotta be a conseriacy to make me fat...ter.
Although the care package was good, it has not been the highlight package of my last couple of days. A new power cord for my laptop arrived on Monday. Hurray! My laptop is no longer an oversized paperweight (and there was much rejoicing...yay). Now I can do all sorts of things with a portable computer that a desktop just won't cut it for. Like, I can take my computer to work or, I can type a paper outside--if the weather was warm...and if knew how to get to this "outside" place.
OK, I need to be wrapping it up because I need to get a shower in before class. I'm sure you all wanted to know that so there it is. Before I head out though I have one last announcement. My brothers and mother are coming down to the Indy area this weekend, huzza! Alex has state vocal competition in 3 different groups and mom and Jonathan are coming down to watch him. I really hope that his performances are in the afternoon because I have to work in the morning *sigh*. After the performance, Jonathan's going to spend the night with me and it will be pretty cool to get to hang out with mi hermano. Then Sunday I'm going to meet my dad halfway in taking him home. It should be good fun.
Now I really am heading out. With any luck it won't be another 15 months before I bother updating this thing again. You all take care and God bless.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Muahahaha, I'm so freaking lazy
First post in over a month. Oh yeah, I sure know how to keep this stuff updated! Anyways, I decided that instead of doing homework like I should, I would update this thing.
Here's a brief rundown on what's been happening in the time that I was gone. My laptop still isn't working but I ordered a cord for it yesterday so hopefully it won't be out of commission for to much longer. I'm also considering ordering a wireless router/wireless card combo for my laptop from newegg. 108 mbs speeds for both and with a $40 mail in rebate, only $45 total! Great deal, but I'm still hesitant because, well, I don't really have money at this moment. I started a job just a few days ago, but it pays monthly so I don't really wanna spend money that I don't have. But, man, that is a great deal and I really wanna purchase it.
Like I said, I just started a job yesterday. I'm working at the help desk. WooHoo! Meh, it's pretty easy work and, even though it is minimum wage, I'm getting 15 hours a week. I'm also working a couple of Saturdays this month at a extracurricular math thing for middle and high schooler's. That pays $50 a Saturday and it's just a few hours of work. Rock on!
Started a couple of video games. Played a couple of levels of Thief Deadly Shadows, finished up Final Fantasy X (I was really close to the end. Perhaps I'll bother to go try the super bosses sometime) and have now started Xenosaga. Xenosaga, interesting game. Different than a lot of other RPG's that I've played before not in the way the battle system is set up or in the controls or anything like that (although it is a bit different from the Final Fantasy series that I'm so accustomed to playing when it comes to RPGs). What makes Xenosaga so different from other RPGs that I've played is that it's SO focused on cut scenes. I know that RPGs are meant to have a story but this is almost taking it to far. I have logged over 4 hours of game time and out of those 4 hours have had control of a character for perhaps 3. That's an hour or more of cut scenes. Maybe it will have more game play time later on but right now I feel a little bogged down with 10 min of game play followed by 20 min of cut scene. It may seem like I am exaggerating, but I really an not. I sat through a 30 cut scene earlier! It was crazy! Anyways, enough ranting about Xenosaga. It seems like a good game so far but I would really love it if I could just have an opportunity to PLAY it. Oh well.
Well, I think that that's all I'm gonna put in here right now. I really do need to go get a lab proposal done. Blessings.
Here's a brief rundown on what's been happening in the time that I was gone. My laptop still isn't working but I ordered a cord for it yesterday so hopefully it won't be out of commission for to much longer. I'm also considering ordering a wireless router/wireless card combo for my laptop from newegg. 108 mbs speeds for both and with a $40 mail in rebate, only $45 total! Great deal, but I'm still hesitant because, well, I don't really have money at this moment. I started a job just a few days ago, but it pays monthly so I don't really wanna spend money that I don't have. But, man, that is a great deal and I really wanna purchase it.
Like I said, I just started a job yesterday. I'm working at the help desk. WooHoo! Meh, it's pretty easy work and, even though it is minimum wage, I'm getting 15 hours a week. I'm also working a couple of Saturdays this month at a extracurricular math thing for middle and high schooler's. That pays $50 a Saturday and it's just a few hours of work. Rock on!
Started a couple of video games. Played a couple of levels of Thief Deadly Shadows, finished up Final Fantasy X (I was really close to the end. Perhaps I'll bother to go try the super bosses sometime) and have now started Xenosaga. Xenosaga, interesting game. Different than a lot of other RPG's that I've played before not in the way the battle system is set up or in the controls or anything like that (although it is a bit different from the Final Fantasy series that I'm so accustomed to playing when it comes to RPGs). What makes Xenosaga so different from other RPGs that I've played is that it's SO focused on cut scenes. I know that RPGs are meant to have a story but this is almost taking it to far. I have logged over 4 hours of game time and out of those 4 hours have had control of a character for perhaps 3. That's an hour or more of cut scenes. Maybe it will have more game play time later on but right now I feel a little bogged down with 10 min of game play followed by 20 min of cut scene. It may seem like I am exaggerating, but I really an not. I sat through a 30 cut scene earlier! It was crazy! Anyways, enough ranting about Xenosaga. It seems like a good game so far but I would really love it if I could just have an opportunity to PLAY it. Oh well.
Well, I think that that's all I'm gonna put in here right now. I really do need to go get a lab proposal done. Blessings.
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