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The Final Week

My last week at Delta, so sad.

So, the party went well. Fifteen people including myself, and loads of fun. Sadly, I do have quite a pile of leftovers though.

My physics professor made us the deal that if we get 100% on the last 3 assignments we don’t need to take the exam. Well, I just submitted the third and have 100% all around. Honestly, with a 91.9%, the exam is more likely to hut me. We have 3 lab grades coming back, but the chances of an A in the class are pretty much nil. A 4.0 semester would have been nice, but it doesn’t look like it will happen at Delta.

I had last CNC today, last Physics tomorrow (since I don’t need to show for exam I don’t need to take Thursday), and last Materials will be Wednesday. Quite exciting.

Scott earned the honor of 6000th visitor on Saturday morning. 6058th will break the old counters record later this week I hope.

Tulip festival starts May 5th, I think Jenn and I will go to that. Maybe get some camping in around there too.

Jenn has 4 interviews tomorrow at Spectrum and Saint Mary’s in GR.

OK, that’s all I have for now.

nick

Untitled 11

I just did some old post editing, so am down to 40 remaining un-re-categorized posts.

I did better on my Physics test that I though, managed an A-. My Industrial Safety grade finally posted as an A too. Right now, I have 3 As and an A-. I just might have a chance at finally making Presidents List (Perfect 4.0)!

My room still isn’t clean. It’s funny, I have been cleaning room since I started the blog 4 years ago, and have not yet finished. I think I was really close once, but I doubt it was actually clean, just really un-dirty.

I am rather tired today due to the weather reverting to being winter and a lack of sleep this week. I can sleep in tomorrow, if I get to bed on time.

I have been doing surprisingly well at posting every other day, though I am sure it wont last. I’t fun while it does though.

I am going to Alpena with Jenn Saturday for Easter, returning Sunday. My Mom mentioned cooking the turkey breast I bought for Christmas, or maybe Thanksgiving, I forget.

OK, I really didn’t have much to say, just wanted to keep up the 2 day trend and was bored.

See you all Friday maybe.

nick

Ohh, A Twofer!

Is twofer a word? Oddly enough, I think so. My spell check isn’t complaining anyway.

Anyway, clicking the comment link should now open a pop-up window for you to read/leave comments.

I will, for a while anyway, try and keep polls similar to the current ones. Remember though, you can always leave poll suggestions.

On February 24th I estimated a month to make it from 5492 to 6017 visits. Well, its been over a month and am currently at 5827. So, thats a little under 100 a week, so we will guess 2 more weeks now. Maybe a prize to the 6018th who breaks the record.

I made a post to my old blogger. I partly wanted to have a link to current blog rather than dead .Mac page, and partly wanted to update after 3 years absence. I hope nobody was reading page waiting for me to update.

I got a reply on my fin-aid question to Ferris, and supposedly my additional aid is in the works. Good stuff.

I really want to hang my hammock up somewhere. What is the point in owning a hammock if you can’t hang it anywhere? I don’t really want to put holes in my walls, but not sure where I would put it at all. It could be fun to replace bed maybe?

OK, off to think up poll ideas. Need a new one by the 5th.

nick

Quickie

So, apparently the polls are now fully functioning. This is a little odd, because they are now considered invalid code, and when they were “broke” they were fully valid code. Stupid IE.

Comment pop-ups will be worked on later. I can get them working in about 30 seconds, but there is a color issue with them and my style-sheet not agreeing or something.

Weekend was relatively uneventful. Jenn and I did some shopping yesterday for things we couldn’t afford.

My Adsense account is up to like $0.16 or something. I have the feeling it will be going away. The time it takes to make it to $100.00 is looking to be well over a year, or several.

So, I think that’s it. Vote please, and comment on any other things you miss.

nick

Spring Has Sprung

Well, it’s officially spring, A&W opened today. Kind of odd that they opened on a Saturday though.

I am in the process of cleaning my room up, and needed a break, and since I have been rather good at posting every other day, thought I would blog.

Apparently the poll doesn’t work under certain circumstances in IE for some reason. I made a change that maybe will help, if not I can make another. Not that I particularly care if it works in IE, since it sucks, but still.

Google says I my ad is at 235 impressions, and I have earned $0.00. I am waiting for 1000+ impressions to see what I get, and depending on that it may either stay or go.

New season of Man vs Wild supposedly begins April 6, with Survivorman coming later in the year.

I really want to go camping. If Jenn didn’t work this weekend I would have been trying to convince her. Next weekend is Easter and we are going to her parents, then the following 2 weekends are the last of the school year and will be studying and homework galore I am sure. Maybe a “We’re out of school and summer is here” trip from the 27th till whenever?

Yeah, so school is down to 4 weeks, thats 16 actual days of class, 20 classes total. Uhm, 80 hours of class time? My total time left at Delta is 88 hours total then, including my 2 hour break on Mondays.

I received my financial aid award offer from Ferris yesterday, but it was missing 1 grant that I know of, and I possibly qualify for a second. I emailed and asked, should hear back Monday or Tuesday. I also get my grade for my Industrial Safety class Tuesday, since it was an independent study and ended early in the semester. Probably find out how mad I screwed up on my Physics test too.

OK, that is all. Back to cleaning.

New poll tomorrow at Midnight, presuming I got the auto posting to finally work.

nick

Blogger 35

Wow, I can’t believe this is even still here. I mean, I haven’t updated in almost FOUR YEARS!

Anyway, since August 31, 2003, I moved my site to .Mac, and then to a new host. For whatever reason you are here, you may want to head over to my current site Atomicow for more relevant information.

Number 450

So, I am pretty much ready for school, but I don’t need to leave for 20 minutes, so you get a post.

This is entry #450. According to the 3 day rule, this would be day 1350, making today 3.69 years since the first post on May 27, so 3 years, 8 months, 11 days from then is February 4, 2007. So, I am about 2 months behind where I should be. Oh well.

I decided since you all keep voting so fast, I got one more site-related poll. That should post at midnight tonight for you to all consider. Non-site type poll will go up 12 AM April 2nd.

Discovery keeps showing Survivorman and Man vs Wild, but they are all still reruns. I am happy watching old episodes though.

The last episode of This Old House for the season is on tonight. That’s kind of sad, though it means I get to go to bed earlier since I generally have to wait up for the 1 or 3 AM episode.

I have been making a few other minor changes here and there on the blog, but nothing real big.

I have a Physics test today, which is non-exciting. The class average on the last one was 60%, and this material was similar but harder. We will see how it went in a week.

I made french onion soup at Jenn’s yesterday. It was slightly different that what you would expect, having mushrooms added to it, but still quite good.

It keeps getting nice out and making me want to ride my bike or start yard work or go camping, but most nice temperature days end up with rain or high winds it seems. I guess I just need to wait a bit longer.

OK, I think it’s time to get off to school. See you all in a few days.

nick

Ads Added

Thanks to a new feature in my poll software, I can set future polls that automatically post. I had set the next one to post at midnight on April 1, but since everyone voted already I moved it up to midnight tonight. I will begin thinking up the next poll soon.

As far as this poll, the results were yes as long as it isn’t distracting. So, I will be putting up a small ad near the bottom of the sidebar soon, maybe tonight. I will leave it for a while to see what it actually does. Google only pays out when you reach $100, so if it is going to take me several years to reach that I will probably not keep the ad.

I was going down Wilder a few days ago, and saw at a gas station that they have an electronic display for the price of regular out on the street sign, but the plastic numbers for mid and premium. Why? They all change at the same time, always $0.10 from each other. How is it any easier to change 2 prices with their long poll than 3? Isn’t the whole point of switching to electric display so you don’t need to go out and change the prices? I have seen this at several stations, and it just confounds me.

OK, thats all for tonight.

Next time, uhm, I can’t remember.
Bike Racing and Survival shows I think. TV stuff, I am pretty sure of that.

Kinda Lonely

There are several billion websites on the internet, yet none link to me. I don’t know for sure how that is possible, but it is. Then again, I only link to 20 or so. There are the links to Dan and Sarah’s blogs in the sidebar, and then the few links on the links page.

I added a favicon to the site, so there should be a little dogcow next to the address in your browser. I may switch to a different one at a later date.

I have 2 polls I to put up, remember to vote in them. The one is a tough decision for me, because its something I was always kind of against, but I see some possible benefit. The other, is a kind of similar situation, but not. These will be the last site-related polls for a while then, and I will try to stick with more “fun” and irrelevant polls for a while. My invitation is still open for commenting poll ideas.

Thats all for now.

nick

Polls and Date-Time

I have just gone through and added all the old polls to the current poll system, since it turned out not to be as much of a pain as I though. Afterward, getting them to show up in the right order in the poll archive, was a big hassle, but I managed anyway. I will create a semi-accessable link to all posts with old comment polls that I cant enter into new system later on.

I also added a plug-in that displays seconds/minutes/hours ago next to the post time for posts and comments posted that day, and today/yesterday/days/weeks ago next to the date for posts and comments within the last month. I know that the date part is working, but this post is the test for if the time is working.

That would be it for this update, though I plan for another one by Sunday night, along with a new poll.

nick