Saturday, April 29, 2006

As You Can See

There is now a new design to this page. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Let me know what you think, or if there's anything that doesn't quite work.

Thanks.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

A Public Service Announcement on Comments

Hi everyone. I'm posting again; must be your lucky week. Don't bother buying a lottery ticket, though, it's a waste of money.

I went to our gmail account today and noticed that there were several comments which we got in our email, but did not see on the blog. I even said something about that last night, viz., "Comment so we know you're reading." Well, apparently you HAVE been commenting. I just didn't see it.

After a little poking around on the help groups, I realized that Amy set up our comments to be reviewed by us before posting. This is because we had a rash of comment spam, i.e. "Your blog are very coole. Cum too this sight I think u will like it." My blog, suckers! Not your personal comment graffiti space! Got it?

Anyway, that's why we're doing it. So, put in a comment just once, and we'll be more diligent about reviewing them. If they're from people we know, they will be posted. Sorry about the confusion. Trust me, I was a little confused this morning. We appreciate that you read, we appreciate your prayers, and we're glad that you are commenting. Thanks for the memories.

Later!

Saturday, April 22, 2006

If I Only Had a Brain

Precalculus beats up my brain like a pack of starving ninjas. I'm ready to become a monk or something so I don't have to think about radians and trigonometry anymore. I suppose I'm sort of committed now. I have to find some way to make more money to pay off the student loans, and longshoring just doesn't sound good to me. I don't have a high enough tolerance for alcohol.

We're down in Portland visiting people. It's a lot of fun, but I feel somehow that I should be getting lots of homework done. That just isn't happening. If anyone out there feels like praying for me, now would be a very good time.

In other news, our car was broken into the other night. Amy was going to work and called me because the dash was all torn apart. Thieves in Puyallup are apparently rather inept, because they managed to get into the car, tore the dash apart, failed to get the CD player, and didn't take anything out of the trunk. If we had lived in Tacoma, we would have lost the car.

Speaking of Tacoma, on our way down to Portland, we stopped to depost Amy's paycheck at a BECU on 38th St. As we were sitting listening to the 5:20 Funny on KMTT, we felt a dull thud. I looked back and there was a blue minivan trying to back up, but its progress was being impeded by our car. I got out and the van had scraped up our rear bumper on the driver's side. I had to laugh; what the heck was that? Really? We have to get our car fixed already, I guess. One more repair won't hurt.

Comment so we know you're reading. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - Mark Twain

Hey everyone. Yes, I'm still out here. I would apologize for not writing more, but I have to confess that I think I have had too much on my plate lately to feel very bad about not writing on my blog. Hopefully you'll forgive my lack of remorse. :)

I think Amy has taken care of writing up most of the big stuff lately...sooo...um....Oh, I finished my first quarter back at Pierce. I'm taking prerequisites for the computer science program at UW Tacoma. Since I avoided math and science as much as possible the first time around, that means that I have a lot of math and science to take. This quarter was statistics and precalculus. Next quarter (beginning Monday) is my second precalculus class. Then I will take physics and calculus, and THEN I can finally start on the coursework for my BS. (Which stands for Bachelor of Science, not...well, you know.)

So I'm looking forward to finishing school. Total time will be a little less than 3 years now. Should be interesting.

Stop by and say hi sometime. Bye for now...