The coffee cat…
This video is from Dave Rat, the Front of House sound engineer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
February 20th, 2007
Glad Friday is over!
November 5th, 2006Well Friday was incredibly evil. I had a computer science exam, a biblical literature exam, five journals due for bib lit, work, needed to get a TB skin test so I can clear my registration holds, sleep, breakfast, lunch, dinner, accounting, etc. Out of all that I missed Accounting, breakfast, and lunch. I went to get the TB skin test at 11 but the wait was going to be about 25 minutes and I just didn’t have the time so I had to leave… there was about 30 minutes of travel time wasted.
In the end I made it through the exams… not so well on the bib lit one though. I went back after classes to get the skin test… it took all of 10 minutes in the office. And… all in all… it is over.
Well Friday night was good… watched some TV shows I haven’t seen in a while and mostly just chilled. Today was the same. Had the same thing we have every Saturday for lunch and dinner… make your own pizza. So pathetic.. they need to come up with some better ideas… it gets old having it twice a week. Tonight a bunch of us watched Office Space… great movie except for two scenes. Ohh well… definitely worth buying it though.
I have decided that on school nights I am going to bed between 11 and midnight and weekends between 12 and 1. I have been staying up WAY too late and it is pathetic. We shall see how that goes this week. I am also going to force myself to do the reading for class. Bib lit homework was to read about 45 pages in the Zondervan Handbook to the Bible. That book is AWFUL. So mundane and boring… horrible. It just goes on and on about things you could care less about. I would much rather read scripture… even Leviticus… than to read that book. I have read about 10 pages so far… grr.
Well I am going to go to church tomorrow… wasn’t really up to it tonight. Probably go at 11… 9 is way too early for a weekend morning.
Did a bunch of SBC website stuff this weekend. Moved them to a new web and mail server. We are about 75% through the migration. Tomorrow night I will drop the services on the old server, forward any emails that are still on that machine and then it will be complete. Also, I have to get the calendar going again… it decided to go haywire. Hopefully will get that resolved tomorrow. I am waiting on the NOC [network operations center] to respond to a support ticket. Their problem… not mine! Gotta love that.
Hmmm… what else. I need to get some new music… it has been about a month since I have gotten a new cd. Payday should be soon so I will hopefully take care of that soon. I seriously think I would go crazy without music. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t listen to some form of music for at least 30 minutes. Right now I have the ‘Background Check’ cds on that came from Oneighty when Andy, Brandon and Donovan went there a few years ago. Speaking of… I need to call a bunch of people to catch up… my sister, Donovan, Nancy, Morgan and others. Hopefully tomorrow.
Well I think that is all for now. Nite yall.
I want real pineapple!
November 2nd, 2006Well I was doing some browsing over at instructables.com and came across this article… on how to chunk pineapple like an island boy… and now I have a craving for some real pineapple. The stuff the cafeteria has is usually in some cocktail and isn’t too bad… but this weekend I am determined to get some real pineapple… only problem will be knives… hopefully the pocket knife will do.
Well that was a bit random. Work is going swell… today we set some stuff up over in the gym building… unfortunately it was raining… I thought moving from Seattle to Texas would improve on the weather stuff… ohh well. Hopefully it won’t last too long… rain and overcast skys is depressing. Bring out the sunshine.
Class today was good… nothing too exciting though. I have two exams on Friday… that should be fun.
Well I think that is all for now… I really should have gone to bed an hour ago… it was so nice to go to bed at 11… but I am such a night owl that it is just incredibly hard.
Nite!
Started my new job today…
October 30th, 2006Well I am again sitting in Computer Science and bored. We did some binary conversions today… guess those Cisco Networking classes came to use.
Well as the title says, today was the first day of my new job in ITS [Instructional Technology Services]. Essentially ITS supports all projectors, sound, editing, recording, video conferencing, etc around campus. I will work around 8 hours a week so not too bad. If the opportunity arises, I will try to add in some more hours.
This past weekend was great. Didn’t do a whole lot. Went to Walmart with some guys on Friday, played generals, slept in and went to church on Saturday. Since daylight savings was Saturday night, we decided to watch Constantine at 2 AM… which would have been 3 AM… so essentially we were up till 5. Sunday was more sleeping in, House marathon, dinner at Joe’s Pizza and evening praise and worship.
For some strange reason I decided to go to bed at 11 PM last night. Granted I got woken up two times when people knocked on my door a few times but I just blew it off. It was real nice to get close to eight hours of sleep last night. Then today after Accounting, I went back to the room and slept for another 90 minutes or so… I decided chapel wasn’t going to be worth it. It was some player [former?] of the 49ers. From what I have heard it wasn’t too great… he brought his family with him… like 10+ kids or something… crazy.
Well class is almost out… time for Biblical Literature… joy.
Peace.
Rain… lots
October 25th, 2006Well I am in Computer Science right now and am a bit bored… not really motivated to do anything. As the title says, we are getting lots of rain. It started last night and from what I have seen… it hasn’t stopped. Ridiculous I say… I thought that an advantage of leaving Washington would be some better weather. Ohh well… hopefully it will stop soon.
Well tonight should be interesting… I have to write a two page paper for Principles of Management. Joy! Tomorrow is the Career Fair and that should be alright. Even though I was planning on going… we are required to for the management class. But, that means that there is no class… we just have to go up to three of the company reps and ask them each one question. Should be nice and easy. And, if I am lucky, I might be able to find an internship or something for the summer. That would be real nice.
I think after Biblical Literature today I will go in to the library and try to find the Tech Director lady… I really need to talk to her about getting a job. I am tired of not having much to do… and I need to get involved in sound or IT to keep my sanity.
One great thing about having a four day Fall Break is a three day school week. Only five more classes until the weekend! Not too shabby.
Well I have been an IE fan for a long time but after using the newest version of IE… version 7 for almost a month and a half… it just won’t cut it for me. Too many weird things that I just couldn’t get used to. Last week I noted that I was trying Firefox out… which was then version 1.5 and I was starting to really like it. For those that don’t know… Firefox is a web browser, just like Internet Explorer. So last night I was browsing around and noticed that a new version of Firefox came out… version 2.0. I am definitely hooked on Firefox now. There are just so many things that are so much better. From tabbed browsing, password manager, download manager, built in search, etc. Granted, IE 7 has a lot of these features but Firefox just does a better job of it.
It’s over :(
October 25th, 2006Well Fall Break is over. Today was a really slack day… woke up around 1 PM and had some lunch. Then played Command and Conquer Generals with a bunch of the guys most of the day. We went to Taco Bell tonight since, indeed, it is Taco Bell Tuesday.
I didn’t get everything accomplished today that I really wanted to but it has been incredibly nice to just relax this weekend.
Well it is bed time! Nite y’all.
Nice relaxing break!
October 24th, 2006Well lots has been going on. As some might have noticed, the blog was down for a few days. On Thursday, the server hosting erictrudeau.com locked up and I couldn’t contact support for over 12 hours… so a new host had to be found. The new one is running great and all is well… it even runs incredibly faster!
Well I got done with classes at 3:30 on Friday and am free for four days! It is real nice because Alex [roommate] and Craig [suitemate] are gone. It is nice to have a clean bathroom this weekend. I also spent about 20 minutes on Friday cleaning the room and that is REAL nice. No messy floor and such.
Friday night Shane messaged me and asked if I wanted to go see Brandon and Lynsey [Wheeler] Wright on Saturday… well I didn’t have anything planned so we went for it. It is crazy; they live about an hour away from us, in Shreveport, LA. We spent about 6 hours there and Lynsey made us dinner. That was real nice and delicious… definitely about a million times better than what we would have had to choose from here on campus.
Went to LifePoint on Sunday and that was great. Pretty much just bummed around most of the evening… spent a lot of time on migrating web stuff. Monday was more web stuff. Played a few games of Command and Conquer Generals with the guys… brings back memories of many long nights playing with Ben.
I spent the last few hours making upgrades to the blog. Cleaning up the template a bit, customizing the search box and adding in a random image rotator to the header. No more stale picture… right now there are ten in the loop… as time goes on I will continue to add to it.
Well I should probably get in bed… it is almost 2 AM. Granted I don’t have school tomorrow… I should probably do some homework… even though I really don’t want to. I have a 2 page paper due Thursday… nothing major.
Nite.
Two more days until fall break!
October 19th, 2006Well not too much to report in on. Next Monday and Tuesday is Fall Break so no classes. Totally excited for that. I only have 3 classes to go… Management, Accounting and Bib Lit. Not too shabby. Accounting exam on Friday so we shall see how that goes.
Well today was nice and relaxing, all I did was do a bunch of reading online. No homework to do for class on Thursday which was real nice. I came across a site that had information on how to rip DVDs and put them on the iPod which was real cool. And to top it all off… it was all with completely free software… no shareware or trialware!
I also did a lot of research into ‘Portable Applications’. Portable Apps are cool because they don’t need to be installed in order to be used. One thing that bugs me about the lab computers here is the fact that everything you saved on the machine gets erased upon reboot… so if you create favorites, save a file on the desktop, etc… it will all be gone when you reboot. So by using Portable Apps run off of my 2gb usb drive, I am able to take the software [with my settings] around with me and use it anywhere. Pretty cool.
For some reason I am not in a very talkative mood tonight… I am pretty tired so that must be why. Well I think it is time to take a shower and hit the hay.
Music for today is still the new Snow Patrol cd… so good.
Peace
Funny comic I found…
October 19th, 2006
–> Pictures <–
October 17th, 2006Just wanted to throw this in there… if you haven’t noticed already there is a ‘Photos’ link on the right-hand side under the ‘Main Menu’. Enjoy!