Snow! Yesterday was white most of the day, and we likely had half an inch of snow in cool places (black asphalt = no accumulation). I can almost sympathize with stores putting up Christmas decorations weeks before Thanksgiving as long as it’s snowing ( Read more... )

I’m back at Rose-Hulman! The career fair is on the 19th and as emailing resumes has not resulted in anything but paperwork and a phone interview, it seemed like a good idea to try talking to people again. So I’ve acquired a couch in Christin’s room by promising pizza, and wandered around the campus seeing how many people I still know ( Read more... )

Serenity is great.

Frost in the mornings! Snow on the mountains! Fall has come to Central Oregon. Since it’s cool here now, I’ve been doing quite a bit of cooking. I cooked lasagna, quiche, bread and pizza recently… what shall I try next? (Dad said the quiche was the best he’d ever had, then apologized to Mom for saying it ^_^ Mom said it was just because she’d ( Read more... )

Yesterday was quite the eventful day. I had a phone interview with Toyota Industrial (which went fairly well [aka well if they pay for me to go back to Indiana for a face to face interview, fair otherwise]), went out for coffee (aka Starbucks mint mocha frappuccino) with Dad afterwards, then split the winnings in a pick-up Magic sealed event. ( Read more... )

Someone with even more Lego (gasp) and more free time (gasp2) then I has done a wonderful thing ( Read more... )

Reading binge! I read though the last six hundred pages or so of my book (Peter F. Hamilton’s Fallen Dragon) in nearly a single sitting last night, finishing the book around four am ( Read more... )

“Congratulations on receiving a passing score on the Fundamentals [of engineering] examination!” The date on the top of the letter is June 2, and I just got the letter yesterday (August 1). Looking at the envelope though, it may not be the fault of the post office. The home address line is off by a digit (a 0 where a 9 should be) and the zip ( Read more... )

Back in Bend ( Read more... )

Stranded at the Portland airport ( Read more... )