Yay for Christmas

Well, I know a bunch of you have been complaining that I never update my blog, well, I'm a busy person with not a lot to say all the time so you all should just be happy that I have a blog in the first place. But I must say I'm very happy to be home for Christmas, in fact Christmas is just ending now and it's been a very nice and relaxing day-except for the parts where Max was running around yelling, those bits were more exciting. I like that little fellow Max, he is acceptable as a nephew. I got a bunch of neat gifts, a bunch of stuff that I will definitely be using back in college. It's kinda strange now, because I didn't really get a lot that I can mess around with immediately, but that's nice because in the long run the gifts I got will be really useful to me and I'll remember that they're gifts everytime I use them. I really really like the pen, I'm very happy to have gotten that especially, I shall be using it often so I foresee the need for ink cartages for that. I really like the shirt I got as well, but my favorite clothes item is probably the bathrobe, something that will see a great deal of use, now if only I had a bubble pipe.... well, that's really all I have to say for now, I really really want to be able to play the bass like Spud can, but now that he has one he can teach more, but he still has to practice every day-I figure it'll be a nice hobby for him that he can do sitting in his chair and maybe it'll even help his blood pressure, cause I know playing music helps mine. well it seems to be read and sleep time.
good night.

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Staying till the End

Well, My room is pretty much ready to go. It's all cleaned and organized and what now, and at this point I'm more or less just hanging out as long as I possibly can. I have a neat way to either brush up on old languages or learn new ones for free. I have also found a bunch more CDs in the process of cleaning my room and I have updated my database accordingly. I also found out today that one of the things I get for the bowl game this year is a sony home theater set up, with 5.1 surround sound and a 5 disk DVD changer. I think that's pretty darn neat frankly. umm not much is really going on, I have to figure out a way to carry my laundry bag, duffel bag, backpack, and bass when it comes time for me to leave here, but that's still about an hour away. I would bring home my amp but I don't really think it's feasible for me to carry and I'd like to learn the basics of slap bass over the break, which I don't really need an amp for any way. Another short post, but I don't have much to say really. I'm glad classes are done, only a week before I get to go home, and I'm going to be mostly lazy this week. ahh well, I guess I should take out the trash soon

Reflection on this Semester

Well, now that I've taken the last exam for this semester it is officially over and I can safely say that I learned a whole lot and the vast majority of it doesn't fit in any kind of book. I think my grades are poor this semester, but I also think I passed all my classes and that's what really counts. I don't think I want to be an A student anyway, I'd much rather learn a whole lot and pull in B's and the occasional C, basically just pass. I care about my grades this semester but I don't, they bother me but they don't. I just really really want a break, especially after the madness of exams, I'm just going to lay around the rest of the time I'm here, I know practice isn't going to be that hard, and I know I need to rest and do just fun things for a while with no stress. I'm going to crush a couple of my classes next time round, but that's a way's off so I don't even care about that right now. I really wish I could go home, I miss being there, but this next week is going to fly by and I'll be there and bored soon enough. It just sucks when I'm the only one left in the dorms and everybody else is home. Oh well, I'm going to take this time to organize the room a bit, listen to loud music, play my bass, and play some video games or watch tv or something. It's time for me to rest.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

well, it seems the studying has made me thorough insane, but those dried potatoes from a bag are great!!! Also those chunky chili thingies are amazing, no back to futile studying, or perhaps a wee break to settle the madness

A new day with one less paper

Well I finished the paper I had to write yesterday and I think it turned out rather nicely. This leaves only two projects left for the week and as it currently looks I should get at least one today and I should already have more than half of the second one done. It looks like the worst case scenario for my grades this semester is a 2.75 GPA which would bring me to a 3.5ish overall. Best case seems to be a 3.5 which would put me at around a 3.6or7 overall-I think that's pretty darn good considering the happens of this semester. Today, apparently I'm either sick or getting over being so, I have to lift at sometime and work on projects!! The end of these crazy projects is definitely in sight. I just hope I get them all done well.

It's Snowing

Yup it really is snowing here. Things seem to be going in fits and starts for me, today is a tough one and tomorrow is going to be a little better hopefully I can get enough done then that the rest of the week will go especially well.
You know it's strange, I just kinda want to be done with these projects so I can study for exams-it might be that I know after exams I get to go home and relax for a like while, or it might just be that I really enjoy the subject material that I would be studying, I don't know but I just know that I'm getting tired of this whole "I don't actually decided what work I get to do thing" I just kinda want to be left to mine own devices and do things the way that works for me instead of the way that somebody else thinks will work for me

It's December now

Well, this weekend went better for me than I expected, not only did VT win, but my school work went fairly smoothly, i fought somethings are due until later than I expected, and I even got to have some time to spend with friends, so it went well. This is going to be an especially short post because in the mist of my studying I felt like doing a little writing as break, so I wrote a little story that I will post for all of you to read


Here it is:

-hi my name is hatch and I’m a werewolf and I’m here to tell you about my life story it all started when I was a wee little wolf much smaller than I am now, and even a little less fury. Back then I would run through the woods day and night, fleeing from the creatures bigger than I and devouring those smaller. As I grew I developed my skills, but I had a calling I didn’t notice in any other creature, a calling to the shadows, to the dark life of the unseen warrior. I was the only one who knew of this calling and I grew my powers of stealth up from within. I no longer had to flee from the creature that were larger and strong then I for they could no longer detect my presence. I no longer devoured creatures smaller than I, rather I stalked them and in the last moments of their lives I would peer into their unseeing eyes right before I sunk my sharp fangs into their soft necks and tasted the warmth of their life itself oozing into my gullet. I became a master of this trade which only I seemed to know. My confidence grew and grew until it grew beyond my actual skill. I still remember that day, I will always remember that day. As my skill grew I began stalking and feasting on the flesh of larger more powerful beasts; it was on one such day that as I was drinking in the glazed unknowing look of a truly mighty beast I felt it for the first time. The air itself became the fires of hell as it danced truth the hairs on my back. As molten even poured through the forest of my own fur my blood froze for I knew what this meant, there was one that stalked me as I stalked all others. Even as I was preparing for a glorious feast this other hinted to me not his presence but that I had already entered the final moments of my life. I knew he was there I felt him savor the fear that fell from my eyes as I planed my last seconds in this life. And then I knew what I must do. In the second that the world itself spun backwards, the second that the skilled other made the leap to his flesh that same flesh deftly responded to my command. I ducked underneath the very beast that I myself stalked as it stupidly stood there chewing the bones of some creature even more foolish than it self. I round and ran slightly as only the truly practiced can; I ran until my very blood betrayed me and became the same hellfire that now possessed the vector of my being. I collapsed, body frozen with pain, but eyes darting frantically to catch glimpse of he who had bested me. As I searched the once familiar forest with my last bit of strength the specter that haunted my last moments of existed failed to appear. Then my blood froze as I realized the truth. The hellish transformation of air and freeze in time where not warning of my enemy’s attack, they were in fact the aftermath of that strike. At that moment I feel out of conciseness into a dream world of horrid visions about a twisted and disfigure soul that wondered through a barren unwelcoming world spreading fear and unrest as he drug his grotesque form from barred window to locked gate searching all the while for…. In this moment I am once again greeted by the sun, but it is not the sun that I know, it now has more fire and less warmth. I pry open my assaulted eyes to survey the strange new world around me filled not with the familiarities of old, but instead with hard cold stone and strange unknown formations. I found this new world to be more detailed but less informative than the old, devoid of the traces that I so often used to stalk pray. Now I stood to find my connection with mother earth halved and my protective fur gone. I had become a new beast no less ferocious but much less familiar. This was the first time I had taken this fresh form and even though I have seen vast change and witnessed the start and completion of innumerable lives in the intervening time, those moments and my flight from my transformer have burn indelible images into my mind. I must find what I have become I must know why I never sleep, I must master this new life as I mastered the old….

No Hat :(

Well I ordered a hat the day after Thanksgiving and they said it would get to me in 2-3 business days and still no hat :-(, but I guess since it's going to handmade in Ireland I guess that's ok. Ah well, busy busy busy round here-many projects due and exam time is coming round, but I've finished my last practice here in Blacksburg for this year. This time of year is always crazy.

Yet another one

Well, kind of a mad hatter, I guess, but perhaps not, I shall see.

Anyway, here I are relaxing, as it is Sunday-my day of relaxation, in this here University mall by the math emporium, cause I can get the VT wireless signal here. I have been kicked out of my dorm for a week, I'm not entirely sure why, but I was kicked out and I'm not very pleased about it, but at least I'm not entirely homeless as I shall be staying with Chad, from the team. My rump is not pleased by this bench it's all with the hard/not comfortablness. Anyhow, I have recently updated my Best Buy rewards account thingy and it seems that I only have 94 points which is not cool, but I do now get double points for shopping before 11am until December 22, I picked that Holiday reward because it was the only I felt mostly likely to use. On tap for day is laying around, eating at some point and planing my studying for this week. I really only have three things to do: 1)Programing Project in Assembly Language for Intro to Computer Eng. 2) Study For Data Structures/start project 4a 3)Slides for Professionalism presentation-I guess you could count that as four things (breaking up #2 in to two seperate things) but I'm not going to be doing that I like only three things more. well I guess that's good for a blocky low tech post, perhaps I'll post again later.

A Little More Organized

Well, Everybody this time round I'm a bit more organized with my post. It seems the best way to keep everybody current with my wishlist is to publish it to a unique page that will be updated as needed, also I will be creating a database of what I already have and posting a link to that shortly

In other news VTech crushed Miama 44-14, so that was nice. Also Mom, brought a nice cataloge for me to look upon and within such I have a pair of hats that I shall eventually be getting for myself...hmm lets see if I can find a link to the hat I intend to get first so you all can see it and offer opinions....well this is the best I can really do for you. The hats I like are the Inside-Out Patchwork Hat (which I intend to get first) and the Patchwork Vintage Cap (which will be a later thing). umm, I'm not particually looking forward to this next week, but I guess it'll go well enough. I guess that's really everything that's happening for now.

Well I decided to just make the music database right now for you all to view and here it is. I know that Trans-Siberian isn't listed on the wishlist, but the wishlist is just a collection of wants for now.

Hullo Again

Hi everybody, I have posted a document to this here blog of mine that contains the names of several bands in no particular order. I have decided that since I really enjoy music I wish to build up a CD collection of epic proportions. Eventually I would like to own every album made by each of the bands included in the posted list on CD and many more. I understand this is going to be a huge number of cds and take a really really long time, but I have posted this list because currently I do not own any cds from any of these bands, that way any one feeling especially giving but unknowing on what to give now has a whole big list of things they could give if they felt like it.
I know this post is kinda of poorly written and all, but I've a lot to do currently (don't worry I'll tell you all about it later) and I've tried a couple new things with this post (although it'll probably be hard to tell) what with the synchronizing with google documents and all. any way I must now depart

The Allman Brothers Band
Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
Kansas
The Beatles
Dream Theater
Metallica
Megadeth
Audioslave
Tchaikovsky
Boston
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Daft Punk
Cake
Carbon Leaf
Alter Bridge
Queen
Deep Purple
Disturbed
Dragonforce
Flogging Molly
Electric Light Orchestra
Fatboy Slim
Aphex Twin
Godsmack
Guess Who
The Who
Queensryche
Iron Maiden
Liquid Tension Experiment
Nirvana
Ozzy Osbourne
Paul McCartney
Wings
Rush
Slayer
Steppenwolf
Wolfmother
Stone Temple Pilots
They Might Be Giants
The Vines
Unwritten Law
Van Morrison
ZZ Top

Honestly, In a cup?!?

Well, I'm up because I had to take a drug test this morning and I'm waiting to wake Connor up so we can go to breakfast and I haven't posted in a bit so I figured I shall currently. Let's see, on Monday I benched 330lbs which is currently the most I've ever done, Tuesday I didn't really do anything exciting and Wednesday I got to play around on the bass a little and I wrote a simple little ditty, which is nice because it gives me something new to play instead of the same old stuff all the time, also I found an online tool that looks like it'll help me learn some stuff on the bass. I haven't looked at it that much, so I don't know if I'm even going to use it, aka if it's free, but stumbleupon found it for me. Hey why is my pillow down there...? anyway time for breakfast than maybe more sleep

And in This Corner a 340lb Gorilla

Well, I have much to do, much to do. By Friday I must design and implement a 4 bit arithmetic processor that can also preform a shift and and bitwise or operation. Now frankly as crazy as that sounds it shouldn't be that hard and circuit design is something I'm pretty good at usually, but then again I'm not entirely sure what a bitwise or operation is, although I shall learn that last bit today. I also have to write some crazy program for data structures by Sunday, I hate that class because among other things it's the only one in which I do not currently have an A. Then I have to do two circuit labs and various other homeworky type things. Thus it is good that I'm not going to Georgia because if I were I'd have no time to do any of this, plus now I get to hang out and relax a bit, sometimes, ok maybe not that much. Oh well, at least I get a weekend again, finally.

In other news I push jerked the most weight that I have ever pushed jerked in my life, 250lbs today. This is up a whole bunch, not sure the exact amount, from my previous max because I was able to fix up my form with the help of some of my buddies and the coaches.

Umm other than that, nothing too crazy going on, just kinda hanging out, relaxing because I get 5 more days off from practice this week, although I will be lifting on Friday-hope to power clean 275. Well ok I'm off to eat or sleep or maybe smash, possible work on projects, but unlikely till later today.

Right then, we'll call it a draw

Well, if any of you can place the quote that provides the title of this post you deserve a cookie and I urge to go forth and capture one.

Today's post is pretty much about how I hate weekend practices. They screw up my schedule and make all sorts of trouble. Now my room is all messy and we (actually only Connor, but still...) keep losing stuff. I feel like I'm behind in all of my classes, although I'm pretty much fine in all of them expect for Data Structures, which I'm still on target to pass easy, but still I would like it to be better than that. Ah well, sometimes these things happen and simply have to be dealt with. Sadly I strained my back today as well, and I missed my first lab submission, which is completely ok because I have extra credit opportunities to deal with that but again I wish it didn't have to be like that. ahh well, tomorrow I'll be able to get back on track for the most part, but I'm going to be completely honest with every one here, I really hope I do not dress for the Georgia Tech game, just because I'd like to just stay here relax and take care of business. I have a project due on Friday that I haven't been able to put much time into. So this week will be interesting, but when it's over I'll actually get to experience a for real weekend again, which will be awesome. Well, I'm going to go relax and play some video games, that's right video games-I'm a doing just fine at school and I've been destroying people at practice and playing really really well for pretty much a solid month now, so screw work for the rest of the night I'm going to relax and enjoy my evening.

Fine People of the Wilderness

That was strange this here post pretty much just posted it self in a blank state....

Anyhow

I feel as though I must share with you my powers of StumbleUpon, a strange and dangerous science that can bring content like this or maybe this. Anyway I won't be spamming the blog with random links to things like the wikipedia page for postcards-Now I won't mention the name of this particular blogger, because she does very fine work but it seems that the last few posts of her's have slightly gone down in quality in an effort to post more times that another blogger I know that also does very fine work. Frankly I only mention all of this be the first blogger post a single line blog, which while it did mention my dressing for the BC game was disappointing to me, and the fact that now I link all you readers to there pages, granted the vast majority of you readers are the same that upkeep those pages, I like to think of it as preparing for a wave of potential future readers.

Sidenote: Connor has not gone to Philosophy in about 2.5 weeks because his teacher keeps canceling class.

Well, as some of you know I recently got a new computer that is surprising in working condition for free. So to expand my computer literacy and test out a potentially useful technology I am using to learn linux the specific package I'm using is ubuntu. Let me tell you it's fairly complicated and a little hard to get used after being so used to pretty much being able to do whatever I want with windows. But ubuntu is a good package to learn on and I'm definitely in no rush to learn so I figure it's all good. Well, kinda because the rub about getting this free computer deal is that I did not get a monitor to go with it now I need a KVM, which unfortunately seems like it shall cost with the moneys and what not.


Ok well, this week has been odd for me, chiefly because the practice schedule has caused Saturday to be Monday, Sunday to be Tuesday, and so forth for the hours of practice time, so it's been strange. But I only really have to do two things this week, both relate to circuit analysis, so that's not bad. This weekend is going to be crazy because I'm on Friday we are definitely not have a "quiet get together with a tiny group of friends" so we definitely won't hang-out play video games and certainly not partake of any bread (in liquid form) then on Saturday I'm going to two friends certainly not for parties and costumes are definitely not involved. It's going to be interesting because I have practice at 3ish on both Saturday and Sunday...but it'll all work out fine.

I hope you people enjoyed this post now to leave with an unrelated picture, thank Skip for the idea...
That's my next roommate, which reminds me that we need to figure out where we're living....

Ok I have a question

Has anybody every heard of the "Golden Key International Honour Society"? They sent me a letter and they want $70 so I can join because I'm in the top 15% of my class. Benefits apparently include possible scholarships/grants, internships, access to their special library, conferences, and "special offers & discounts from a wide variety of special benefits partners"

What do all think? A group just looking to make money or an honest deal trying to better the lives of peoples?

Programming MADNESS!!!

This is SPARTAAAAA!!!!!!

Any how, this weekend has been really crazy, i guess mostly because of the practices, it doesn't even feel like a weekend. But good news everyone I have gotten my program to work and I'm feeling more and more comfortable with data structures, although I'm still behind in that class things are looking better. I pretty much spent all of today programing so I have the urge to do things like end lines with semicolons and line up brackets and such. But it's ok. I had to spend today programing because this program is due at midnight tonight and I didn't get any work done on it yesterday because Connor's family showed up and kidnapped me and forced me to go eat pizza and watch Across the Universe and then brought me back here, where the hall was engaging in a "massive multi-discipline work study" which I was also press ganged into. I have to say though I really enjoyed Across the Universe and although I've never taken any drugs I'm pretty sure that after seeing that movie I've had the experience of being on way too many of them at once. Although programming also seems to have that effect on the mind as well. I don't really want to go to practice today because it's Sunday and all I've done is program and I just want to finish the exception handling and commenting so I can just chill for a while, but no I have to go, so blah, stupid weekend practices...

Ahh the Weekend Kinda...

Hullo All, well yesterday was a fun day-started off with 4 am fire alarm and ended with slight brain deadism followed by a burst through to cleverness. So that was a little frustrating, but Connor and I did watch Green Street Hooligans and Alpha Dog and i have to say that Green Street Hooligans is a much much better movie. Alpha Dog did seem like it went away and I didn't really like it but both Connor and Trevor seemed to enjoy it so I might of just missed something.
But today so far Connor sleep in until awoken by the knock of Connor's family on the door so now his brothers are hanging out here before they all go to food. I have practice at 3 so that kinda bites on a Saturday but...
ok time to end this one for now

Tired, but Happy

Well, I am in fact both, long day but I feel it went I'm not entirely sure why I feel that way but I figure it's not a bad thing now to response to so comments

I have seen the picture of me from the duke game and it is most excellent. and hey, I really haven't a lot of time to play with fun bloggy bits yet, I will eventually get around to exciting bits for all you readers. well that's all the posts that I can remember the response to for now.

I found out today that I got a 98 on my design project for Intro to CPE and that was most excellent. Um data structures test didn't really go well, but ya win some ya lose some and I still have time to get that class right. I still love circuit analysis... um yeah that's pretty much it for today. I'll remember to post again soon

To My Readers....

No, faith readers i have not died and neglected to inform all of you. Rather, I have endured the week from the pit of blackness and punishment and lived. Plus i got to dress for the duke game so i guess it wasn't all that bad.
On tap for this week is relaxation because i only practice once until Saturday, a little bit of catching up and getting my course request in for next semester. Currently I have returned from talking to my awesome adviser who always provides me with all the info i need and i learned that I'm actually on schedule to graduate with a degree in EE in the summer of 2009. I won't be doing that of course but it's nice to know that that's where i am. I've also gotten all caught in Intro to Computer-an easy class that slides when things get busy sometimes. Now i just have to do some more work in Data Structure-i swear this is one of Satan's inventions-and then get ahead in circuits lab because i'll have to practice this week because of the impending Thursday night game, that i hope i'll get to dress for but i wouldn't be surprised if i didn't. um right now the hall is boring but that only because it's still earlier ( 11:44) which reminds me that I have to email my football adviser types to tell them that I'll be in on Thursday to deal with the likes of them and that they should stop being frantic and know that when it comes to my academics I kinda have it covered. Well, that's all for now I'll update all you all again some time later

Design

I tell you i really like design, i'm designing an odd little county circuit now and i can think of anything that i would rather do-i really like the whole "heres a problem now go come up with an answer" aspect of this project. It doesn't walk me through every step like a lab, it just lets me do it how i want, which is very nice.
In other news today has been fairly relaxed, nothing much has happened yet, but now it is time for me to go forth and meet a couple friends for lunch.

Upon Request

Beep Beep Beep, the microwave calls....

Hullo, I am creating this blog because it's a darn good way to tell my family about how the days go for me, plus my siblings gave me the motivation and the means-i'm stealling their blog website. Well, i must say that i'm losing my mind today, just because it's wednesday though, those are the worst days-stupid wednesday being all stuffed to the brim with things for me to do, oh yeah, well i'll thwart your evil plot and what not. I've already made it through the really tough portion of today, the lifting bit, and now i just have a test and practice to get done then i may partake of tasty tasty sleep and maybe evil a bit of circuit analysis homework. well i must rest for the times to come and i shall post more in the future