Pennsylvania (New York, actually) Skiing

Well, I was pleasantly surprised. I had a great time skiing on saturday. the snow was decent (although measured at times in the inch to half-an-inch to none range in certain locations), the slopes themselves were't bad (but not close to the Mount Rose proportions or steepness), and thte skiing itself was fun. I ended up hanging with one of the upperclassmen from the rugby team that consistantly reminds me of Mark Leonard and a friend of his. We ended up going just about all over the mountain for about 5 1/2 hours. This was a night skiing trip, but there were times that I forgot that it was night. That is one thing that this resort (Holiday Valley, in New York somewhere) has that is above and beyond anything that I have been to in CA - the night skiing. Most of the resort is open at night, and it is very well lit. All of the terrain parks, and probably 85-90% of the standard runs are completely open. Starting around 4:30 and ending around 10:30, theres about an entire day's skiing after a standard resort closes. I rented skis, and I got a pair of parabolic skis. WOW! Those things practically turn for you! I had heard that they were much better, but Goodness Gracious!! They were fun - making hard cuts and quick turns was almost simple. I'm glad that I learned to ski on straight skis, because they doubtless made me better - but the parabolics are fun!!

Anyway - that was yesterday. The first week of classes was good. It was kindof surprising - most of the classes seemed to get into the cource materials in the first day - although I didn't have any quizzes the first day or homework due the second, like some of my friends did. I think I will enjoy the Linear Algebra class (It will help that I have already seen most of the material that will be covered in the class), the Physics class (but not as fun and easy as last semester - electricity and magnetism are more confusing then simple applications of Newton's laws), and C++ (but the first couple of weeks will be difficult to sit through - I look forward to learning about C++ itself, but this is a class for those who havnt programmed before, and many of the topics that are common in all programming languages I already have a pretty good handle on [but the class is using the Professional edition of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 {sorry to any microsoft haters that are reading this - but their programming tools are supurb!} which I am glad to be able to install and use]). Civ won't be too bad - it will be more interesting then last semester. Biblical Revelation is the name of the class - I get to read through the entire bible in 4 months of class. Thats a big undertaking! My only complaint with that is it forces me to just read through it, without much time for thinking about it too deeply. Intro to engineering will probably be boring, but not too difficult. It will most likely be a blind memorization of facts. Fitwell will be better than last semester - no circuit training. I don't understand - the other fitwell labs seem to have a competition to see how easy they can make there classes. The swimming, free weights, and mechanical weights instructors each insist that thier class is the easiest that we will have in our time at GCC. Circuit training, on the other hand, requires lots of very hard, strenuous exertion. Oh well. I shouldn't complain - I got an A for the circuit training, but it still irks me.

Whoever is reading this, thank you and (If I know you) I am remembering you and wishing I could come home more often to talk and play and have fun. Talk at you later!!

Jeremy

Right Back At it

I didn't do much on here over break. I suppose I was too busy programming and building software to get to it. Thats about what I did over break - I worked. Dont think I am complaining, though. I enjoy programming, especially when I am paid for it and have a reason to continue past mishaps and difficulties. I ALMOST got the entire project done, too. I did all of the back end code that I have done so far in two work weeks - the first two weeks were planning it and starting on the UI. The back end and database work is the fun part, though. HTML is so tricky and weird - its simple and works well for most things, but then you find a bunch of examples of identical code and different rendered results. Talk about annoying. (OK, looks good. Just move every other tile two pixels to the left) Oh well. Its still fun. Well, I dont have that much else to type about, so I will have to say good-bye.

Jeremy

At home, with lots of stuff going on

Well, now it has really been a long time.
Since almost everyone who reads this is at home in California, this may or may not be a very interesting or enlightening post.
I've been home since the 21st of December, through Christmas and New Years. I have been mainly working for Bizflex doing programming work. Thats been fun, and actually relaxing compared to being at school. The work actually has a fixed start and beginning - there isn't work that is needed to be done at all hours of the day. I'm just getting past the planning stage of a big project - getting up to the fun programming and database work. I'm sorry if people think that I'm weird for spending my vaction working sitting at a desk, but, thats what I would have beem doing if I hadn't been at work. I might as well work on something meaningful and make some money as part of the deal. What say?
Theres been a couple of LAN parties up at my house since I've been home. It was fun, except my Tablet PC dosn't have the Graphical power to run all that many good games. Counter strike is fine, along with Unreal Tournament 2004, but Half Life 2 wasnt even close.
Not much else is going on - work, sleep, and play. My Tablet is actually working rather well as a development machine - the extra 512 MB of RAM that I put in before leaving school seem to have helped. It survives and handles pretty well, except for the couple of times that it has locked up and crashed completely.

Since I dont have anything else coherant or interesting to say (not to imply that the preceding words are actually interesting to anybody excepting myself) I will cease and desist now. School is only another 2 weeks away, so I will enjoy my freedom as much as I can.

Au Revoir!
Ciao!
ByeBye!
See Ya!

Jeremy