Been a while, eh? Let's see if I can sum up about the last 2 months.
Ended up doing alright in all my classes. Mostly C's and a B. Mostly just glad to get that semester the hell over with. Nothing more boring then general ed. Then I went back home for winter break. Spent time with the family, got to see my dog, tolerated the cats, turned 21. The best part about being home was that I got to spend a little time with my friends, high quality time. Even managed to earn some dough working. Seemed like break was over before I knew it and I was back on a plane to Florida. Thats alright though, I was happy to get back.
The new semester is interesting. Finally back in an Air Traffic Control class. As usual its pretty challenging, but so far I'm averaging a solid A. Also started work on my minor which is going to be Space Studies. Pretty interesting, and somewhat boring, course material. This last week I had 4 tests. I beleive the end result was 3 A's and a B. 100 out of 100 on the math test much to my utter astonishment.
Free time seems to be nill these days. We haven't had time for paintballing at all. No time to go to the shooting range either. Both are planned for next weekend but who knows what will happen between here and then. One thing we did have time for was some races. With speedweeks going on things are pretty hectic in Daytona, but one should always find time for a race or two. Especially when something as high quality as the Grand Am is in town. We went to the Grand Am Cup and the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.
The rest of the photos can be found right about here. I had good fun taking the shots, so much fun in fact, that I decided it was high time to upgrade my camera. So after some research on what was best for my specific camera, I ended up with this:
What you see is the base camera, which I've had for about a year now, its a Fujifilm S7000. Attached is what I bought, a 55mm Adapter Tube, a UV Filter, and an Olympus TCON-17 Teleconverter. The TCON gives me 1.7x zoom, increasing my effective optical zoom from 6x to 10.2x. Good stuff.
I built my brother a computer. No just any computer, the most amazing computer I've ever seen. Found that building a computer system (once all the proper research is done) can be quite fun. Needless to say its a fast machine. Fastest computer I've ever seen, and thats exactly what I built it for. Parts list looks something like...
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 Processor
ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard (best mobo EVER!)
eVGA Geforce 7800GT 256mb PCI-Express Graphics Card
Antec 550W Power Supply
1 Stick of Corsair 1 gig DDR RAM
Western Digital 250 gig Serial ATA Hard Drive
Anyway, thats just the main components. Its a very nice machine, I'm rather proud of it. Pity I forgot to take pictures of it.
Well, I think thats everything I can really remember to say about the last couple months. Getting ready soon to start looking into whats going on next year what with living arrangements and so forth. Yeah, definitely gonna do the apartment thing. Just need a roomate I'm not going to kill. But other then that, times are good. Weather could be warmer but s'all good.
Later.
