I know, I haven't updated in forever. To be honest, the only time I think about it is when I'm at work. I've been keeping fairly busy with miscellaneous activities. I've been biking quite a bit and watching a bunch of movies. Netflix is really nice to have but sometimes I end up renting movies that are just terrible. I'm glad it's a flat fee and not based on how many I rent per month.

In the past month or so I've gone to two Twins games (vs. the Tigers) with Sarah, Justin, and some other friends from Rochester. I also went to a few Rochester Honkers games with work and again with Justin and some others from Rochester. It's been a pretty busy month actually. While I'm on the subject of baseball, the Cubs are only a game or so behind the Brewers for 1st place in the division now. I'd guess they will take it over at some point this week.

School starts again in early September so I'll be finishing up at work in Rochester the last week of August and then my parents will come help me move my stuff back to Green Bay. The place I'm renting in Hancock is supposed to be somewhat furnished, so I won't have to worry about moving too much stuff this time.

The Office Season 3 comes out on DVD the first day of classes. Thankfully I don't have any class Tuesday or Thursday this semester so I'll be able to head over to Wal-Mart and pick it up. I'm sure I'll be watching it quite a bit. The Office is probably one of the only TV shows I'd ever buy on DVD. I think a TV show needs a certain charm in order for people to be able to watch it over and over and The Office definitely has it.

Labels: baseball, moving, school, the office

Now that the Packers are done for the season I'm getting really excited for baseball season. The Cubs are vastly improved this season after adding Soriano and a bunch of other players. Rumor has it that they are up for sale and they are trying to maximize the value that they'd get for the club, but I hope it's just because they want to finally not suck.

My parents got me a brick from Wrigley Field for Christmas, I thought it was pretty cool. I'm assuming it used to be in the outfield area and was taken down after they added more bleacher seats last year. My dad made a stand for it too, it's pretty cool.

I'm disappointed that no one is making a realistic full-featured baseball game for the Wii. The Wii Sports baseball is really fun but imagine playing full games like that with real teams and players. The new baseball games seem to only be on the other consoles. Maybe I'll be forced to get it for XBox 360 instead.

The first week of school was interesting. It's different being off campus now. It's probably actually more productive for me since I have a lot of time between classes. I usually end up reading stuff for other classes in the computer lab. I think Computer Networks and possibly Programming Languages will be my favorite classes. The Computer Networks book is pretty interesting.

Skiing twice a week is pretty fun too though. The whole ski hill isn't open yet, but it's still been fun. Unfortunately, one of the times I have to go skiing is during The Office and Grey's Anatomy. I'll probably end up recording it every week and watching it when I get back.

Labels: baseball, cubs, school, skiing, the office, wii

Halloween is quickly approaching and I think it might be one of the coolest "holidays". A bunch of scary movies are in theaters, scary video games come out, Halloween specials are on TV, and there are decorations on people's homes. This year my parents made this spooky looking fence for our house (picture below). Anyone who has seen my dorm room or apartment in the past two years knows my dad likes to make things out of PVC pipe, because it's easy to take apart and reassemble. Well this fence is made from PVC pipe. It doesn't look like it at all, does it? They did a great job. Oh, the picture was taken by my brother Todd.



Not too much else new lately. The Office was a rerun this week which totally ruined my Thursday. I've become addicted to that show after buying season 1 and 2. Getting the full story so far is a lot better than just part of it, everything makes more sense in the current episodes.

I register for the spring semester of school on Monday. So far it looks like I'll be taking two humanities courses, to get all of my required general stuff done, and then three or four computer science classes depending on what I think I can handle. I'm also going to take a bunch of PE credits because I need four more classes in order to graduate. Winter is the best time, in my opinion, for PE classes. I'm planning on taking intermediate and advanced skiing which basically means show up at the hill and then go do whatever you want. It'll be fun to be forced to ski 4 hours a week. I may also be taking another bowling class, we'll see.

It looks like I'll be able to see the Packers again this week since the Vikings play on Monday night. It will be nice since I just bought new speakers for my TV and since we get the digital Fox HDTV station it will look and sound awesome. Now the Packers just have to come through and beat a crappy team (Cardinals).

Labels: halloween, packers, school, the office

So I decided I should finally post on here again. Really there hasn't been much to post about. It's been kind of cold out lately so I haven't done any Geocaching or anything like that or explored any strange places. I should have done more of that during the summer I guess.

I did buy seasons 1 and 2 of The Office though, since I got some Best Buy gift certificates for using our reward zone card when I bought my TV a while ago. I figured it was a good excuse to buy The Office. Season 2 is really good. After watching all the episodes it makes the newer ones a lot better since you pick up on things you didn't know about before that are really jokes from past episodes.

I've been playing around with my older computer that I have here by using it as a server development environment for some php development I've been doing. I really don't know php so when I do things wrong I don't really want it to be on someone else's server but mine instead, so it's easier to tell what is happening. It's pretty useful too because I don't need to upload the files anywhere. Ubuntu is really great, I really love how they are pretty much the only distribution that realizes they need to make everything easy for people.

We saw The Prestige at the theater on Friday. It was actually pretty good. The movie has a few things you have to think about and I won't say what they are, but it will definitely keep you wondering during the movie. This weekend was mostly movie filled as well. I saw about half of War of the Worlds and then Batman Begins and part of The Island today. Mostly I like watching the movies on the HD stations, it looks really good. Since the Vikings were playing at a different time than the Packers this week I actually got to watch it on TV. I don't know if I mentioned this before or not, but football in HD is WAY better than standard definition. You think that the announcers are full of crap when they tell you that all the time but they aren't. After seeing games in HD it's almost hard to watch them when they aren't.

Labels: high definition, movies, php, programming, the office