Hmmmm... I said awhile back that I would fill my life w/blog worthy events and I guess I have. Lots of stuff but I haven't been in the blogging mood as of late so why don't I take a cue from my friend Lauren and make myself a little list. Lists are so lite and yet so filling (or something along those lines), so here we have in no particular order a list of my so-called-life.
- Finished ceramics class - that was a total blast. I got a 4.0 (natch) and rocked the final project (photos & description are in the works). The final project was to be a ceremony that involved at least 5 people and had to use some sort of ceramic vessels.
- Finished the research methods class (LIS 570) - my least favorite class to date in ye olde iSchool. Somehow, through the grace of god and a pretty lax grading professor, I pulled out a 3.8. T'ever. I'm just glad it's done. Of course there was some milestone event w/my divorce towards the end of the class that confounded my efforts and made it that much more akin to the pulling of my teeth (more on that below). It was the sort of class that could have really turned my opinion of academic research a full 180° but alas it was not to be. Oddly enough I'm probably going to continue to refine and improve on my research proposal in hope of using it for the writing component of my portfolio. To which I must quote the poignant words of the incredible hulk. Bah!
- Divorce is final - I guess this is a good thing, at least it's over and done with. No more surprises, events and milestones. It seems as though through the entire process something always came up, or a conversation needed to happen or something needed to be signed right in the middle of a paper, project or work deliverable. WTF, timing is a bitch and apparently not one that I'm on very good terms with. She came over one day w/the papers for to me sign and that was it. It happened a few weeks back... I considered blogging about it but at the time I was in the middle of 570 hell, but mostly didn't have anything good to say. She's moving tonight and although I'm sad to see her go, because I'll miss having her around, I feel like some ominous presence is passing.
Maybe it's time that the ol' Dave came back around.
- Sailing - Pardon my French but fuck yeah! Going in on the moorage w/Anders and Slo-kell was the smartest thing I've done in ages. I hadn't been able to sail in a few weeks but did get the chance to take the boat out this weekend w/my friend Ame. We did more drifting around than actual sailing, but the day was great and the beer was cold.
Oh yeah, and we ate grapes.
- iPod - took a complete dump. Fortunately I have all my songs on my computers (which is a problem considering they are spread out over 3 machines!) I took it into the Apple store and they done-diddly-done me right. The fella working at the genius bar explained to me (off the record of course) that he was going to need to fix it and it would behoove me to just buy Apple Care because by fixing it what he really meant was just to give me a new one. Now in the end I spent $30 more than I would have had I just got it fixed w/out the Apple Care, but I got an additional 2 years service which should cover the new battery that I will eventually need. Long and short of it is, I would never have gotten that type of service had I gone into any PC retailer.
- Xbox - took another fuggin dump. I already had one piece of hardware replaced on this fuckin' thing. What the hell I say. I really don't use it that much for it to have broken twice in the 3 years I've owned the fuggin thing. Shoddy hardware MS, shoddy I say!
- XHTML/CSS - Not very exciting I know but I'm teaching an XHTML / CSS workshop to the builders and developers at a creative company I used to work at. Somewhere along the line I was able to really ramp up on a bunch of stuff (XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, RDF) and lo-and-behold I know more than I thought I did (although I still feel I have tons more to learn before I would call myself an expert). Actually I know exactly where I learned it all... school silly. At an early point in the development of the research project I work on I somehow talked them into, at the very least, trying to adopt web standards and make an accessible, usable, semantically correct web site. I had to do a lot of research to figure out what that meant but I think we are doing a pretty good job of it.
Ok, I'm bored w/this post now and it's almost time for poker. I'll put the aforementioned pics of ceramics up as soon as I get a round tuit.
Oh yeah.
I've been having some classic rock moments so in the iPod:
Cheap Trick - In Color and In Black and White
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Hives - Typranasarus Hives
