Life and Times

Vacation
I needed one

Well, I have taken something of an abrupt vacation. My intention was to go south on 101/1 making the rounds visiting various people, San Fransisco, LA, etc.

The trip has not gone as planned, my cell phone died to what I’m thinking is some type of antenna failure, but I didn’t bring a torx set with me and not sure I really feel like doing much about it at the moment anyway. So, it’s little more than an alarm clock at the moment, and at last check it had become 3 hours 15 minutes fast which requires some extra computation to set an alarm properly.

Came to Hyak reasonably early (9ish) Thursday night, it was drizzling but a few inches of fresh snow had fallen and I trudged in and at some point made the decision to just stay here. The snow has almost completely melted that fell, but a fairly good amount is falling now.

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I have watched the snow come down, and now I have watched it melt. Guess I’ll wander home when it’s all gone again.

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Just noticed something, I now have more songs in iTunes rated than unrated (1342 and 1297).

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Home.

03/01/2005 14:14
[edit 03/02/2005 14:39 half of post was missing]
[edit 03/02/2005 14:41 fixed it again]
[edit 03/02/2005 14:42 question my competency, added a " that was causing the post to be truncated]
[edit 03/02/2005 14:43 corrected New Hope International Hospital's name]
Hello, World!

Been a bit, but there’s been almost nothing to report until the past week or so, and I’ve been too busy to write about it.

So, now I’m sitting on the ferry heading back toward Seattle and trying to type on a laptop in full sunlight.

The ferries have free wireless now, but I’m too lazy to go upstairs and use it for all of 10 minutes left on this trip.

Took the ASSET test (no idea what that stands for, assume it’s an accronym) for CBC last week for placement in math/english. Decided at 10pm the night before the test that I wanted to place relatively high in math, so got on the phone with Andy who caught me up on various concepts that were escaping my memory and taught me trigonometry. Got to sleep about 11:30 and got up at 6 to get going for the test. I placed 99th percentile in all the english tests and algebra and also scored high enough to bypass geometry, advanced algebra, and trigonometry and at least part of pre-calculus. All of which I consider decent as I bypassed 2 classes I’d never taken. Andy rules.

This weekend and early week went to the annual IEO meeting, I missed it last year in Nevada, but progress last year seems to have been phenomenal.

I formally announced my intention to sign on in a semi-permanent capacity with IEO, specifically at the new hospital New Hope International Hospital that is currently under construction and will likely be completed or approaching completion when I graduate. My parents also volunteered me for setting up a flight department for IEO, an idea I had talked about but hadn’t formalized but with the advances coming out of Europe with the TDI engines that can run on diesel, jet fuel, and (yes, I’m serious) cooking oil makes operating a small flight department there much more feasible than gasoline powered piston aircraft ever could given the lack of gasoline availability in _most_ of the world.

That pretty well sums up the past week or so, I’ll register for classes tomorrow I think and get to find out how well my past credits transfered, I either get 1.5x or 2x for them up here, but my degree program is primarily based on required classes rather than required credits, but it is the same accreditation of the program itself so has the exact same class requirements. Up here though, I don’t have to take Nevada State Constitution, so one less class, but they have declared that I have to take some new student orientation class and I haven’t found a way to get out of that yet.