Archive for December, 2002

All I Want for Christmas is Legolas!

Monday, December 23rd, 2002

The discrete math final went okay. I got a B in the class. That made me happy, because it was kind of a difficult class. Luke got an A, which shows that there is no justice for those that attend class, but whatever. I still got a B, and that’s awesome.

Today involved going to the Altoona store to save Christmas. For some reason we canneled his layaway a month early. I was not happy about that. Anyway, I had to go get the stuff that we didn’t have from Altoona. I go that from Brian, who I used to work with, and brought it back. When I got back and was checking the merchandise into our store, who shows up but Shallon! She was there to get things from us for Marshalltown. It was just MTR (Merchandise Transfer [Report]) madness between stores today.

Anyway, Christmas was saved yet again. It occured to me on the way back to my store that I’ve probably saved more Christmases than I’ve actually seen. No joke.

Lord of the Rings got canceled last night, because Lewis wasn’t going to be punctual. Big suprise. Anyway, we’re going some other time, I guess. I saw it on Saturday and I have to say that it fucking rules. Oh, and Legolas is fucking, fucking hot!

Kerblaaam!

Friday, December 20th, 2002

It’s over! I’m finally done with this semester. I got an A in software engineering, so I didn’t have to take the final. That was exciting. The discrete math final was a mixed bag. I’ll just have to see how I did. The average on the speech final was pretty bad, but I’m not worried about my grade in there. I mean, it’s speech.

After the discrete math final we went to celebrate. How did we do this? We went to the memorial union to get lunch! Of course, while we were hoping to get the meals for $3.30 (hence, Computer Science 330), we got Chinese instead. Mmm. Afterwards, we said our goodbyes to Mike. He’s leaving for a junior college back home in California, and then to one of the UC’s next year.

Luke’s mom is going to get a kitten for Christmas, so we went kitty shopping too. The only pet store that we knew of in town was the Ark, which didn’t have them. He suggested that we go to the College of Veterinary Medicine, since they had just operated on some cats (free spay and declawing). We went there, and it was a difficult journey. First of all, the place is like the Pentagon meets some kind of fucked up hospital. It’s way easy to get lost in there. However this really, really nice lady helped us around until we found who had the cats that could be adopted. Then another really, really nice lady let us look at the kittens and told us how to get them adopted.

Luke, a dog person, fell in love with the first kitten that he was handed. I guess this is the one that his mom is getting. Don’t get me wrong, this kitten is way cute; but then again, it’s a kitten, how could it not be way cute? We tried to adopt the animal from the Ames Animal Shelter, because we thought it was the Story County Animal Shelter. Oops. We ran out of time because of this. So tomorrow, Luke is going to adopt a cute, cuddley, little kitten.

When I got home, I worked on some basic scripting for my web site. I’ve got some ideas in the works. However, when MySQL was being a complete bitch at me, I decided that I should just store information in XML files. Of course, I had forgotten that parsing XML confuses me in PHP. So I guess we’ll see if anything comes of my ideas.

I’m on Christmas break, and that rocks.