Back at It

The new school year has started, and along with budget woes, & what it may mean for the future of any of us on campus, I'm also back in class, & scratching my head of Oracle & SQL.

Our program is largely distance ed, with groups in five locations throughout the region.
In the spring, due to a combination of technical glitches, and calendar issues, we missed three classes.
That doesn't seem like too much, until you consider that we only meet once a week, so we really missed three weeks of the semester!
And now that the we're in the next section of that class, at least a handful of students feel woefully unable to get a hold of what we're doing.

And it feels worse since there are students in the class who didn't have that issue in the spring.

With any luck the instructor will set up a major review session for us.

Learning

Remember when you were little, & after summer vacation you had to learn long division (or whatever) all over again?
That's exactly how I'm feeling about SQL queries...
Argh!

Dear Sirs

All we want is to do our fucking jobs, without all of the petty B.S. that goes on at the higher levels of Administration.

Sincerely yours,
Everyone!

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Hitchhiker

I picked up Armani on Rt 11 yesterday, at a spot that turned out to be about 2 miles from his house! He must have taken himself for quite the walk.

I eased off the shoulder of the road behind him, & as soon as the door was open he jumped into the back seat without my even having to ask if wanted to go for a ride.

He's lucky enough to have a tag with a phone number, so I was able to get him home, though he must have been lonely — he got back into my car three times before I was able to leave!

A very friendly (and large) guy, I'm happy to have made his acquaintance.

Black Tea Energy Drink.

Possibly my new favorite!
Amp Energy with Black Tea is not too sweet, with a hint of lemon in the black tea. And who doesn't like a nice glass of iced tea?
The lose points, though, for having a flash based web site that is thoroughly inaccessible to any non-mouse user.
Like all of the amp drinks, though, & most brands for that matter, the can is more than anybody really needs at one time.
Red Bull, Guru, & Blue Sky are still readily available in the 8 ounce size, which makes them perennial winners.

New Netbook Ready for Action

The HP-2133, with the default installation of Windohs XP Home on it.
It runs great with Linux on it, but I was having a devil of a time getting the resolution set up on an external monitor, or getting decent output to a printer!
When I have more time to dig into the X11 config file, I'll try it again, but it's not something I can get to right now, as I'm trying to create a Windows XP installer with SATA drivers for the wife's new Dell notebook that came with their Linux install on it.

Back to School Savings!

Back to School, Summer Edition

So sometimes I wonder why I'm still working on this B.S., especially now that it's going to become a three year program for me (and a few others in the cohort), instead of the two year plan.
The work load is heavy enough that some of us decided to much demand on the rest of our lives to struggle through it, so I & a couple of others aren't taking the software engineering sections this year, but putting them off until the fall 2010 semester.
But I made it through the summer, after a jumpy start. The programming class they wanted to jam into the 6 week summer session was so packed that they gave anyone who wanted the option to drop it & take it as offered in a 10 week summer session next year — all but two of us took advantage of it!
But that also freed up my second short summer session to pick up a geography class that I needed — paid with a tuition waiver, so that's a bonus!
A month off, & then we're back to it with everyone in session.

Vacation Destination!

Berlin 'sex academy' offers tips for visitors

The show features several life-sized plastic models, naked and in various positions. One female mannequin light ups when touched in the right spot. A voice shrieks "That's it!" when the visitor manages to put his finger on the elusive G-spot.

Next to it is what the museum called its "Spank-o-metre." It measures the level of pleasure a mannequin receives when spanked with a leather whip.

Pack your bags!

Yum-E

Beam Me Up Scotty

• Looks nice in the glass.
• Has a wonderful aroma.
• Tastes exquisite going down!

Rudy serves himself.

When Rudy didn't want his breakfast this morning, I figured I'd take the boys for some playtime to work up his appetite.
It must have worked -- he caught & ate two baby rabbits, much to the chagrin of the other dog parents at the park!

A startling wakeup

So glad they cleared that up!

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What the cat does all night

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You lie..

This not the park at all!

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What makes America so Great!

Voters can vote to pick up free stuff on Election Day

Coffee
Starbucks expects to hand out "hundreds of thousands" of free 12-ounce drip coffees (valued at about $1.75 each), says spokeswoman Jenny McCabe. "If everyone who votes comes in for a free cup of coffee, we'll have some lines," she says.

Doughnuts
Some 85 of Krispy Kreme's 231 locations in the U.S. will hand out star-shaped, red-white-and-blue sprinkled doughnuts "while supplies last," says spokesperson Dana Hughens. The chain will give out about 200,000 doughnuts valued at 99 cents each. "People are definitely talking about the brand as a result of this," she says.

Ice cream
Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. in each time zone, Ben & Jerry's ice cream shops will hand out single-scoop ice cream cones (a $3.40 value). "What better way to encourage people to be politically active than to give away free ice cream?" asks spokeswoman Liz Brenna.

Sandwiches
In a local market promotion, several hundred of the nation's 1,400 Chick-fil-A stores will hand out $2.70 chicken sandwiches to adults who show proof that they voted, says spokesman Jerry Johnston.

Stupid Daylight Savings

Why don't my dogs understand the concepts of "setting the clock back", and "sleeping later"?

How the Fight Started

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive.....so, I took her to a gas station..... and that's how the fight started....

I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95. Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95. I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream. And that's how the fight started.

After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later. The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application. When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office. She said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too'. And that's how the fight started.....

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife asked, 'Do you know her?' 'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.' 'My God!' says my wife, 'Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'
And that's how the fight started.....

I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes yo u just get soooo stressed and little things just seem funny? Yeah, well I couldn't believe it.... he was a DWARF!!! He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, 'I AM NOT HAPPY!!!' So, I looked down at him and said, 'Well, then which one are you?' And that's how the fight started.....

I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. 'I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.' He said, 'Aren't you worried about the mad cow?' 'Nah, she can order for herself.' And that's how the fight started.....