Weekend Update..

The day at the game was okay.  The game was fairly boring.  No double plays, few hits, and a whole lot of walks.  It cost me $6.75 to find out that I still don’t like beer, but maybe I’ll try it again in another six years.  When I finally got home I had been up [...]

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Well, in just a few more hours I’ll be heading off to Wrigley Field to see the Cubs play the Phillies.  I’ve never been inside Wrigley Field, so I’m excited except for the fact that baseball games tend to be long if you’re sober and/or not terribly interested in baseball.  Still, I feel it’s a [...]

Graduate School Update

MCAD Cost of Tuition: $28,200/yr Apartment, books, meals, and other expenses: $8170 Portfolio due: Jan 15 Financial aid received by 88%  of all students in the form of loans, grants, work-study programs and scholarships UCLA Cost of Tuition: $22,226.50 (versus $9670 for California residents) Portfolio due: Jan 15, Application due: Dec 15 Financial aid available [...]

Graduate School, Eh?

Too often in the past I have threatened to go to graduate school.  Unfortunately I’ve never actually applied.  I keep saying I’ll do it the next year, but I think it might be this year.  I’m going to be pretty hard pressed to get a portfolio ready in time.  I’m not sure how many schools [...]

Regularly Scheduled Programming

Yesterday morning I had a meeting with the de facto plant manager and quality manager and I tried to find out when we were getting more people to our understaffed shift and what my continuing role was going to be seeing as the third shift supervisor was all set to start training on first shift [...]

New Monitor Day!

Well I’m not set up with this nifty dual screen thing.  Actually, at the moment I’m ignoring the laptop screen completely and using it as a keyboard. I’d like to write a review of the monitor, but I’m not sure what I think yet.  At first I liked the colors better, but text didn’t seem [...]