Author: lvidmar

Wow, the term is finally over, not counting my final exam next week. So far the only grade I know about is an 102% A in Multimedia Survey, and anxiously awaiting another grade that should be out by tomorrow sometime. I think the term went pretty well overall, hopefully the rest of my grades reflect this feeling!

Back 2 weeks ago, I went to Minnesota for my cousin Joel’s wedding (Congrats Joel and Angie!!), the trip started out kinda rough. As soon as I got home from work I started a load of laundry and made a beer-run (get some Oregon brews to trade for some Leinies in MN). Dan pulled up to give me a ride to the airport so I could be there early, and my plane took off a half hour late, I wasn’t worried as I had about a 4 hour layover in Las Vegas.

So when I got to Vegas, I found a map and find out where I’m supposed to be, wander in that general direction, check out a gift shop, and get to my gate. A mere half hour before my flight is supposed to take off, they announce that there was a scheduling error and there’s no crew for the flight, flight canceled. WTF?! They marched us down to the ticketing desk and got most everyone rebooked on flights the next day, one flight was leaving in about 4 more hours but I didn’t want to stay in the airport that long. They put me up in a cheap hotel room, gave me a voucher for a $5 breakfast in the airport, and a coupon for future travel. The catch was, I had to go through Phoenix rather than direct to Minneapolis. These legs of the trip went fairly smoothly, I think PHX to MSP was maybe 5 minutes late taking off.

My friend Andy met me at the baggage claim and we spent a good half hour searching for his car, then headed to his house where his girlfriend was bbqing some burgers. We ate, and drank quite a bit of beer, played some DVD Trivial Pursuit: Pop-Culture Edition. Hank joined in about an hour into the game and schooled us all. The next day we woke up a little late and Andy gave me a ride up to my brother’s apartment. We ate lunch, got dressed, and headed up to Joel’s house for the wedding. Was a nice outdoor ceremony that went off without incident. Then the reception, all I can say is I had a several cups of blue-raspberry vodka & lemonade and I danced more in one night than I had my entire life.

The next morning my family headed up to the cabin and got some work done, got the dock out, all the benches put out, tried to get the water turned on but the pump was apparently dead. So we headed home and went out for dinner with my grandma, and I had a new flavor of Leinies, “the high adventure” or something like that.

Then Monday, my brother, sister-in-law, and myself drove back to Minneapolis and departed to our respective cities. I got to Eugene at around 2am so nobody was available to pick me up so I took a cab, the fare was about $18 which is freaking outrageous if you ask me. Got home around 2:30am and had 2 papers due Tuesday. Low and behold, I got em done, still waiting to see what the grade the final revision of one of them turned out to be.

2 weeks later, I finally post here, I’ve been damn busy lately finishing up with classes and working. Work is going well, by the way. I think I’m about done going through the surplus computer equipment and getting stuff ready to be dispersed. Sounds like I might get to set up a set of ~20 eMacs at the end of summer, maybe a set of iBooks as well, hopefully both projects happen. We’ll see 🙂

So this weekend a bunch of us went to Bend, OR for the Pole, Pedal, Paddle competition. I was the “support” for the group, but I still had plenty of fun (and plenty of beer). The trip started out with Dan and I driving to Bend to meet my brother and some of his other buddies. They all got registered and such and we went to grab some mexican food for dinner and tried to find someplace to sleep for the night. Well, we decided on the Walmart parking lot– 3 of the guys rolled out their sleeping bags under a “windshield repair” canopy, my brother and I slept in a tent, and another guy slept in the trailer.

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast at a Sherry’s or something and wasted a few hours before the race started. Dan, Mark and I went a local playwave and Dan did a little surfing. Then it was back to the parking lot so those guys could get psyched up for the race. Things went off without a hitch, though the last transition or 2 were a bit rushed.

After the race we grabbed some beers while waiting for the results. They got 4th place in their division! Then it was off to the brew-pub for some more beer, then to probably the fanciest restaurant in town for dinner, and we slept at a motel for the night.

Pete, Dan and I took the kayaks out the next morning on the Matolias River for a short little jaunt while the rest of the guys went out mountain biking. We met up at a grocery store afterwards and ate lunch at Longboard Louie’s (Hawiian/Mexican food) and headed home.

Ok, so wining about spam these days is becoming cliché, but it’s really annoying, and it must stop! There are spammers out there who dedicate their lives to making innocent blogger’s lives a living hell. Luckily there is a fellow who dedicates much of his time making the world better for the rest of us. So not only did I delete each of the 19 comment spams that cropped up in the last 2 days and ban their IP addresses.. I also installed MT-Blacklist which should do a big part in curbing the annoyance.

If you want to advertise, pay for it like everyone else! I don’t spam your drug/pr0n sites, so don’t spam mine! Bastards!

On a lighter note, I’ve got most of my content up, including a jump start on my portfolio. I’ve almost got all the bases covered on the content now, and it will soon be time to deepen the pages so there might be some useful information around here again.

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