Category: General

Week 2

Well, it’s week 2 of classes here at UO. Haven’t been blogging frequently because I haven’t been doing anything interesting.

Some site news: I’ve been tweaking the layout a bit here and there, added some content to the music and movies sections, and I’ve signed up for a new hosting plan. Not sure how quickly I’ll migrate over, maybe in the next week or so, it’ll be nice to get this off of my computer at work.

Some requisite political mumbo-jumbo… I’ve been watching the debates and other goings on. I’ve gotta say Bush and Cheney piss me off more each time I hear either of them talk. Kerry seems to be much closer to my views, but is still not the “perfect guy for the job.” One thing I’ve heard that I agree with is “[if you dislike Bush and/or what’s happened in the world during his presidency], even if you don’t like Kerry, we need to get him elected and be just as hard on him as we are on Bush.” FWIW, if you haven’t seen/heard the debates, you can download the audio from them from Apple’s iTunes Music Store (the Democrat & Republican National Conventions, and 9-11 hearings are also available for free there).

Also within the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11” twice (a friend gave me a copy, and the SOC department had a free showing of it on campus last night), definitely worth a watching. The movie is quite biased against the Bush administration, but it is very interesting. I heard Moore was going to try to get it broadcast on national TV, and I hope he finds some large scale public outlet for it ($20 for a DVD that’s only “cool” to have for the next month isn’t worth it IMHO).

On to Minnesota Sports! The Twins are tied (1-1) with the NYYanks in the AL devision series, and the Vikings are 2-1, and play the Houston Texans this weekend. I’ve been watching the Vikings games at the Good Times bar, but I recently found out there’s a sports bar about 5 blocks from my apartment, so I’m going to check them out this weekend.

Mmmm, cheap movies.

I signed up for Columbia House’s DVD club a week or so ago, and got my 6 movies yesterday. Costed me $17.34 (and I have to buy 4 more at regular price over the next 2 years). Not a shabby deal in my opinion. I figure I’ll have it mostly completed by Christmas time, then I can cancel my membership and wait for them to beg me to rejoin 🙂 I updated my movies list to reflect what I got here.

  • Animal House
  • Matrix Rev’s
  • Office Space
  • Slap Shot 2
  • SLC Punk
  • Transformers The Movie

If you’re interested in joining, I’m more than interested in referring you. You can get 5 DVD’s for about $2.48/ea (including shipping), agree to buy more within 2 years, and I get 2 free movies! Everybody wins.

Work has been über-busy this past week, and it’ll be even busier next week with everyone being on campus for classes and such. This is by far the most hectic time of year for us.. closely followed by about six months from now when all these people’s passwords expire. My department has been reasonably interesting the last few weeks, what with having some general projects to take care of. Today, I “upgraded” an instructor’s computer from a 7600/132 to a beige G3/300, and ran software updates on two small labs of eMacs.

More pressing matters, in my opinion… I finally got my schtuff together from my parents for filing for residency here in Oregon. Not only do I hope I get it, I need to get it, or I’ll be rethinking this whole degree thing. One thought that’s popped into my head (if I don’t get it) is taking winter term off to ski a lot. I want to say hopefully it doesn’t come to this, but it sorta sounds like a win-win when I think about it in this light! 🙂