KRUG

i would have to say that this post is the most significant one that i have ever posted. it has nothing to do with the contents of this post either! well, i mean i guess it does because you will only know the significance of why this post is such a big deal by the content in the post. but the content is not important at all.

i’m posting this from home! in my room and at my desk! i have not had internet at my house for about 6 months now and it has been rough! if i needed to check my mail or catch up on something i would have to try to piggyback a neighbor’s wireless network, go to some place like port city java where i could connect (but that required a purchase), or just wait til i got to school. i have even missed quizzes and homework assignments over the lack of internet here. but not anymore!

so my monday was the worst ever.  well i guess it could have been worse but it ranked high up there on the “bad mondays” list.  first off, i woke up around 6 very sick.  and there was no warning.  i felt fine the night before and slept like a baby until 6 am.  i didn’t have to be at school until 11 30 so i thought if i just went back to sleep then maybe i would get over it enought o make it to class and work.  so i did.  i crashed back into my bed for a total of about 15 minutes before i was rudely awakened my montezuma.  without getting too graphic, the circumstances led me to realize that leaving my house was not a good idea for all involved.  since i couldn’t sleep, i sat at my computer desk and did math homework.  i had no tv shows to watch because i had watched everything i downloaded on friday and i don’t have internet at my house to get the ones from sunday.  plus, i don’t have cable and there is absolutely nothing good on television at 11 am.  i guess the upside to that is i got caught up on my linear algebra.

i wound up watching some friends episodes and got myself thouroughly bored.  i was starting to get braver about venturing into public.  even though i still felt dizzy and weak, i decided to take a quick trip to blockbuster and get a few movies for the rest of the day.  since i am a member of the rewards program i was able to get 4 movies for about $9 which was nice because i now had enough to kill about 7 hours.  so i get to my car and realize i can’t find my keys.  the short version is that i looked for my keys for 45 minutes in my car (i left it unlocked) and in blockbuster.  i aksed the neighboring stores if anybody had turned in a set of lost keys and even had the blockbuster folks helping me look in the store.

when i had given up on finding them i started trying to think of ways to get home.  i couldn’t get ahold of anybody!  finally lula’s dad was able to come out there and take me home to grab my spare key.  i then drive myself back home and crash in my bed.  i was feeling bad enough as it was and my quick trip to the store turned into a stressful 2 hours.  i still don’t know where my keys are.

this next part i wouldn’t actually find out until tuesday.

my calculus teacher likes to give us quizzes over the weekend.  he posts them on fridays and they are due first thing on mondays.  well, he hadn’t posted one by the time i left the school on friday and since i don’t have internet at home, i was unable to check to see if he had.  but we had just taken a test that wednesday so i felt fairly confident that he wouldn’t give us a quiz.  i was wrong.  so i got a zero for that one and i can’t afford those in calculus.

but hey, i can always count on tuesday.

today has been a strange day.  it’s strange because of my lack of stress.  i don’t normally get stressed out anyway but somedays stress is expected.  like today.  i had two tests and i wasn’t even slightly worried about them.  and it wasn’t because i studied my butt off and was prepared…because i didn’t.  i was prepared in the sense that i was ready to take the test but i hadn’t really looked at my notes.  bad on me for that call but i didn’t feel lke i needed to.

i guess the call was actually fairly close to a good one though.  i aced the first test in computer science.  it was a breeze.  i think it took me a total of 15 minutes to do the two page test.  it’s nice when you love a class because you really pay attention and soak things in.  i’m in that class to learn as much as possible and with that mindset, i do.  i guess i could make myself feel that way about every class but some of them just come naturally.  a person is good at what they enjoy and they enjoy what they are good at.

the second test wasn’t that bad either.  there was one section that i didn’t understand but i had forgotten that we even covered it.  unfortunately it was worth 16 points on the test.  so i think i made a B right off the bat.  she does curve however so there is a chance my grade will go up a little.  depends on how everyone else did.

but doing well on both tests has left me in the mellow mood i was in to start with.  i have no feelings of stress, being rushed, or weighed down.  it feels great and the best part is that it’s coming at the end of the week when i’ll have the weekend to cruise through on this emotional flatness.

i’m going to play golf on saturday.  for the second time in my life.  i’m going to keep score this time and see how i do.  i think i shot around a 110 my first time out (which was a year ago).  i need to go get some golf balls and tees today.  i’m going to try to take some pictures if i can get ahold of a camera and start up some albums for this site.

guess that’s all for now.

i gave in.  to myself.  i talked myself into getting another myspace account and i didn’t even have good reason.  i must be one heck of an arguer if i can talk someone into doing something they didn’t want to do and do it with weak reasons.  but then that must mean the person i persuaded was weak minded.  anyway.

point being i have a myspace account again.  maybe i’ll actually use it this time.

Craig’s MySpace Account

i am sitting in virtual services at the hub eating baked pretzels and mustard.  it’s not the same as the big soft ones from the braves game but i kinda like it.

my dad left today.  i really enjoyed having him here.  friday, him, lula, and i went up to stone mountain to watch the laser show.  we got to the entrance and just before we paid the $8 entrance fee, the lady told us, “so you know the laser show isn’t showing tonight, right?”  well, no.  that was why we went up there.  it turns out that after labor day, they only do the show on saturday nights.  so we went to golden corral which sucked for her i’m sure because she’s doing her lemon diet.

saturday me and my dad went to go see his mom and brother.  it was kind of a small family reunion.  while we were there, i came within one button of buying a brand new computer.  in fact, if my dell account had not been deactivated because of inactivity, i would have purchased it.  i clicked the ”confirm order” button and it told me about the error on my account.  it turns out that it was a good thing because i came up with a better plan to buy my new computer.  it will be cheaper and i’ll get more stuff with it.  the only problem is i have the technology bug now!

on another note.  i created a new myspace account.  i bet i delete in in about a year.  this was the same time last year that i created the first one and it lasted about a year.

so i have found a few projects that have really perked my interest.  one of them, luckily enough, happens to be one of the classes i am taking this semester.  i’m taking computer science and part of the class is learning the theory and logic of prgramming.  so, to do that, we are learning c++.  i know it’s outdated and old but it still seems to show the fundamentals of programming (which seems to me to be the reason it was picked for the class).

the point is that we have to do programming.  it’s been simple stuff so far.  a couple of simple games, adding two numbers, and stuff like that.  the great part is i really enjoy working out the logic and figuring out how to make it work.  for instance, i couldn’t sleep the other night and when i can’t sleep, i hate staying in bed.  the problem with that is i have to have something to do once i get up again.  so this particular night, i sat in front of my computer and worked on a project that was due.  the funny thing is that i had no idea what the project was about!  the project was labeled due on the 14th but as of the 9th, it was not open to the class yet.  all i knew was the name (it was titled HiLo).  i guessed that it was a guessing game that would randomly generate a number 1-100 and then the user would have to guess until they got it right.  so i sat there for about 45 minutes putting this thing together and i came up with something i was proud of.

i got to class today and found out that the assignment was open for us to look at and complete.  so i looked at it and it is nothing like what i created!  it has to do with dice and guessing the sums of two dice rolled and stuff like that.  the best part is that instead of being upset about spending almost an hour working on something that can’t be used, i was exicted to be given another project (and actually one more complicated)!

i know, i’m strange.  also, i found out today that i don’t have linear algebra on thursday!  i have my awesome comp sci class in the morning and that’s it.  no calculus III and no linear algebra and then i have to go to work.

on another note, my dad is coming in on thursday to stay for the weekend.  i’m really excited about seeing him and having him around.  i really miss the stability and structure of my dad.  can’t say there is another person in this worl like him and i am so glad of that.  it will be really nice to have him around for a few days.  i’m not sure how much time we’re actually going to get to spend together because i know he wants to do a few things like visit his mom and he has some errands to run but it will definitely be better than nothing.

my sister is having a girl!!!

emily kathleen elder.  i’m so excited!!!

today is going to be a long day.  mostly because it started a lot earlier than normal but partly because yesterday didn’t end as early as normal.

i was up around midnight cooking lunch for today and i called lula to check op on her and finish out the day with the call.  during the conversation, she slipped in there that i should probably go to bed since i had to pick her mom up in about six hours from then.  that was news to me.  i mean, i knew i was going to pick her mom up but i thought it was going to be wednesday morning.

see, earlier yesterday, riss called me and asked me if i would pick her mom up from the airport.  i said i would and she then asked me if i would prefer tuesday or wednesday early morning.  my preference was wednesday morning but i told her that i could easily just roll with whatever plans were made and asked for her to let me know what they were when they were finalized.  since i hadn’t heard from her about it for the rest of the day, i figured it wasn’t urgent because her mom was flying in wednesday morning.

so here i am, in the middle of cooking, and finding out that i am going to need to be at the airport in 6 hours.  which was really more funny than anything.  i wasn’t (and still am not) upset at all.  so i finished cooking and talking to her and then went to bed.  sort of.

i got distracted by my painting again because i got up to eat something since i couldn’t sleep.  so around 3 am i crawled into bed again.

all in all, none of that would be bad except that now, after 3 hours of sleep, i have to run a full day.  eight hours of work and then tutoring tonight.  so i think around 8 i’ll be able to get home.  it won’t stop there though.  i have some homework to finish tonight before school starts back tomorrow.  :-/

so it’s going to be a long day.

my friend is gone!  well not completely and not forever but it’s going to feel like that for the next few days.  lula went to oregon to be with her grandmother who is not doing real well right now which i’m glad she went.  her grandmother needs to have family with her right now and lula doesn’t live that close so any chance she gets to go out there she needs to take it.  but while she’s gone, i’m really going to miss her!  i just took her to the airport about 10 hours ago and i already feel like it’s been too long.  oh well i guess.  i’ll have to find things to occupy my time until she gets back.