last day in lansing

I was in East Lansing all day. I got into town around 11:30 AM, and tried to get a haircut. However, when I walked into the barbershop the two barbers that were just sitting around talking and reading magazines said they couldn't take care of me until noon, for whatever reason. I then called my friend Lisa to try and get some lunch, but she wasn't answering. I found out later she was in the shower - I told here I figured that and I wouldn't get angry for cleanliness. As far as getting a haircut goes, I decided to hell with the normal place, those bastards aren't the only barbers in town, and went to another barber like 100 feet away.

After successfully obtaining a haircut, I got in touch with Lisa and had lunch a Qdoba. I was surprised to see Lisa has a brand new car, a black Pontiac Vibe. She loves it. I then visited with grandparents all afternoon. I then went over to PJ and Paul's place. I brought Freeman so we set it up to do a huge file swap (20GB+ each way over crossover) and we went to see War of the Worlds. Review on my other site. When we got back I parted ways with PJ and Paul, which is sad becuse I'm probably not going to see them again for a long time. I had to drive home in the dark but it wasn't too bad, and now I'm putting the newly pirated music somewhere I can sort it, writing this and writing my WotW review.

Well, it's July now. I have a crapload of packing and prepping to do tomorrow. Leaving on Saturday - I can't believe it's this close already. Next week is the Trail and finding an apartment - hopefully I'll be settling in a week from now.

i'm way behind on my beating quota

I spent a good part of the day in East Lansing. Had lunch with the guys, then we went to Best Buy where Charlie found Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (the game with the bongos) very amusing. No one else was in EL afterwards though, so I just came home.

Got plenty of road time with the iPod/iTrip. It works pretty well, but I am still trying to figure out where to put it in the car to make the signal strongest. I used shuffle mode on the way home, mixing it up is good for listening in the car. Traffic was kind of heavy but not stop-and-go. I-75 is pretty torn up right now.

I felt like stirring up some trouble today so I cashed part of a birthday check in $2 bills. I spent three of them so far and the cashiers are surprised but take it in stride. Maybe I'll get some more.

I installed the expansion pack for Dungeon Siege, but it is starting to get boring too. I might try out some of the network stuff but I don't really feel like continuing on with the single player campaign. It's not exactly the mark of an excellent game when the player gets bored halfway through and stops playing.

Lunch and maybe hanging out with my friend Erin tomorrow, and perhaps some sorting of stuff. I have been really bad about getting ready for Oregon. I haven't even gotten oxen yet, I just know some of them are gonna drown when we try to ford the river.

heavy cloud but no rain

I want to go relax in the hot tub but there is lightning outside, even though it's not raining at all. Stupid weather.

The new hard drive enclosure I got works great. My computer is running slow from moving all these huge files around though. The enclosure also gets very warm when the hard drive is active, but it's made of aluminum so at least the heat is dissipating. I'm glad I got this new thing, because the one thing I was worried about with this laptop was hard drive space.

I decided to reclaim some room in my movie holder by putting all of the Gundam Wing episodes onto a single DVD instead of 6 CDs, but it turns out a couple of the files were corrupted and I'm going to have to replace them before I can burn them to DVD.

I think I've been spending too much time playing with the laptop, I need to get out a bit. If anyone is in Clarkston feel free to hit me up, and I'm planning to go up to E.L. in the near future so I'll be up there at some point too. I'm going to have lunch with my old high school physics teacher sometime, which I am looking forward to because I haven't seen him in a while and he was a big influence on me and my going to MSU.

My reimbursement check from UCSD finally showed up. I'm relieved - that was $1000 I had tied up for over two months because whoever was processing it took their sweet time.

aligning sensor matrix

I've been graduated for about three weeks now. I'm not sure what to think about MSU now. I beat it. I won. I graduated - with honors, even. I am fairly indifferent to MSU right now though. I am not sobbing like everyone else is about how my carefree undergrad days are over. It is time to move on, there is no reason to look back. I'm recovering and moving on. For me, Oregon State is not just about getting another piece of paper. It's about leaving behind what didn't work, taking what does, and using it as the foundation for the next phase of my life.

I've been up to East Lansing a couple times this week. The weather was very nice, the campus is very green again, and it is much quieter with no one else around. I think that's how I want to remember it.

One more chapter of Atlas Shrugged, then it's bedtime.

initiating reactor startup sequence

In other news, I got new windshield wipers today because the ones I have were trying to fall apart. I also put Rain-X all over my car windows because it's been raining so much. Better living through chemistry. I saw at least five Chevy Cobalts today, and one Prius. Car watching is fun.

I'm kinda stuck for things to do in Gran Turismo 4 so I'm just buying new cars, tricking them out and driving them for fun. I enjoy just looking at all the cars in my garage. Each car is someone else's take on what a car should be like. That game has given me a newfound respect for cars.

I got this month's issue of WIRED today, which was cool. That magazine is fun to go through for a geek like me.

I'm going up to East Lansing tomorrow to take care of some business. It's good to get out and about.