Christmas in Arizona rocked. It was 80 degrees today... my parents and I swam in the pool a bit, which was fun to do at the end of December :). For Christmas my main present was my hotel in Hong Kong - parents paid for that last month. But I got a set of nice measuring spoons from Williams Sonoma (nice kitchen store), a really nice monogrammed ( Read more... )

My parents are completely nuts... I have no idea why they want to leave Arizona. Well, I do (jobs, house is too big, etc.). But the weather now is absolutely perfect. The high yesterday was 77 degrees - yes, 77! It's gorgeous. Normally the highs are in the upper 60's and low 70's, so this is just perfect ( Read more... )

Since I've had so much free time from Tuesday through now, you're probably wondering what I did to keep myself sane.. haha. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, well, I really didn't do a whole lot. Organized my room and stuff, cleaned a bit, etc. I made a couple more involved (read: time consuming) dinners, which was fun. Did a beef stir-fry ( Read more... )

Done with finals, and oh boy it feels good. Had my IE 305 final Monday, and it went pretty well. Got 9/12 of the multiple choice questions right, and I'm pretty sure the other two questions (last 25% of test) I did correctly. Finished up and turned in my lab report for ChE 426 today. Then had ChE 421 final today, which went fairly well, ( Read more... )

Friday night a few of the ChE's (Eric Niemeyer, Eric Divishek, Jenna, and Jenna's non-ChE friend) went to Mickey's for FAC at around 4pm. My plan was just to stay for a couple hours, go back and eat, go to Laura's party across the hall, stay for a couple hours, then go to Kim's party wherever she was. Yeah, ended up staying at Mickey's from 4pm ( Read more... )

So I forgot to update on the activities of last weekend as well ( Read more... )

Only dead week, then finals Monday and Tuesday remaining. I have my third and final exam in EE 332 (Semiconductors) this Tuesday which I need to study for hardcore, a lab report due next Tuesday, then finals for IE 305 (Engineering Economic Analysis) on Monday, and ChE 421 (Process Control) on Tuesday. I have the option of taking the ChE 421 ( Read more... )

Okay, I finally have a few minutes to update y'all on my trip last week to Hong Kong! This got quite lengthy, but it should recap just about everything. I crammed a lot into those four days. Pictures are posted here: http://www.imagestation.com/member/?name=JeffISU

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Had a meeting tonight with my boss and two other employees so that we can get a better idea of the situation at Mid-States. Two other companies, Baker Commodities and Superior Process Technologies, have shares in MSB. Superior was the team that designed the plant and has a contract with Mid-States to run it. Originally Superior had the engineers ( Read more... )

I'm in debt, probably for the first time in as long as I can remember. I've always been working, so I've always had money. Now expenses/spending has caught up with my small paycheck. I've never borrowed from my parents (quite proud of that), but they offered, so I might take them up on that. Just a short term loan - I will pay them back. Might ( Read more... )