Mind dump

Wow, writers block or something. I haven't been able to really post an update. Maybe I am just too busy to deal with it.

Can my whole life pretty much fall into the categories of school, FIRST, social life, family, and hobbies? I guess when you blend any number of those you get a pretty diverse gradient.

I have been working ~40 hrs a week (usually 6am to 3pm) which means I wake up at 430, get home by 4. Then on what is turning out to be tuesday through friday I go to robotics which means I barely have enough time to eat and shower before leaving, and I usually don't get back until around 1130. So 5 hours of sleep a night (which usually ends up being 4). Then on saturday and maybe even sunday we will schedule another 8-16 hrs on the robot. Just those two roughly take 100-110 hrs out of my week. If I only account for 6 hours of sleep average a night add 42 which brings you to 142-152. This leaves about 10-15 hours of actual free time a week where I get to cram in my social life, family and hobbies. For this I apologize to all my friends, and I hope you understand ;) I would never willingly give up FIRST but that doesn't keep me from missing the time with others.

Needless to say - I called in sick, wrapped up in a blanket and installed vista on my desktop. This is something that my brain needed. See reinstalling my computers is almost therapeutic for me. I don't understand and couldn't imagine many others would either, but it is one of my favorite things to do with my free time. I am just a huge fan of organization and optimization and when things get a bit too cluttered I have to break down and start from scratch.

I went to Ellensburg for Adam's birthday last Sunday. It was a lot of time taken out of my schedule but it was fun, and always good to tear him away from his busy schoolwork once and a while. By CWU there has developed an absolute ton of hoar frost on everything, antennas, trees, fences, Christmas lights. It is amazingly beautiful and if you have the chance (not sure if it still around) I recommend checking it out. It is a fairly rare phenomenon, especially in that quantity. My mom and my step dad beat my brother and I at euchre, that should not happen. We had horrible luck.

I hate sandblasting.

Yesterday, I found out that someone I knew didn't believe in global warming. Heh.

I wore a tacky t-shirt to work the other day, its one from Hawaii that my dad and step mom got me. Its so clever in that it looks like the Budweiser logo but in actuality it says some Hawaiian shit that I have not taken the time to read. Funny thing was however, one person complemented me on the shirt and another said they had that same exact one! I was laughing so hard on the inside.

A friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer the other day. I hope she is doing okay although I feel like talking to her about it might make me seem either cold or invasive and the chances are low that she might divulge much more information.

This might get edited a bit for a while. I want to include a list of stuff I have been meaning to do, but have yet to accomplish.