April 2006 Archives

There is nothing much that is happening today. Really nothing at all is happening. I got up early and cleaned for a bit, but after 30 minutes or so I had gotten done with my pre-designated weekly cleaning and had nothing of substance to do. So I did the only thing that I could think of, I jumped onto WoW and tried for three hours to get into a group with my pally for one of the higher level instances to get some dungeon set pieces. It was no use. I ended up giving up and moving onto the next item on my list of things to do.

Okay, so having completed all the finals [or at least the ones I needed to] bu the predesignated deadline of 10pm Wednesday, I am being to reflect back on the past week with a grand WHAT THE HELL. So two of my classes were taught by the same teacher who in effect let both classes get out of taking the finals during finals week given we could get them done before reading days. Well for one of those classes was Statistical Programming which meant that the final was a program given certain specs.

Over the past two days I have made two batches of cookies. It is no secret the recipe that I am using or at least I dont think it is, so here it goes.

Last Friday marked the beginning of Finals for the semester. I think everybody around me deals with the stress and pressure to preform that finals puts on a person. I have my quirks, but mainly I try to avoid the situation all together. I have played a lot of violent video games in order to vent some of the stress. I really like to play First Person Shooters (FPS) because really it is something to do, and it doesn't take too much time to play a few rounds before going back to studying.

"I got a great Idea" is pretty much all my younger brother told me when he planned to head south to come "hang out" this evening. Well I knew something was up and for the two days that I knew about him coming down, wondered at what scheme had come up with that would need him to come talk to me face to face and not so much over the internet or over the phone.

The last two days have been exhausting. Well only because I might have made them that way.
I had a test due in my Regression class. It was originally scheduled to be turned in Tuesday evening at 5:00pm but the teacher himmed and hawed and within moments it became due before he arrived into his office Wednesday morning. So I took the time rechecked most of the test and then after 10 hours plus working on the test I was able to turn it in early Wednesday morning.

Earlier today I ended walking into the testing center to take a test that was 'popped' on my Statistical Regression class at the end of last week. I had studied what was indicated that would be seen on the test, as well as all of the material that was covered in the 4 or so chapters that had been 'covered' since the last test. It didnt take me that long to find out that yet again the test covered a totally different set than what the teacher gave us to study.

So the running title of the sight for some time has been "A Search for Something." I think when I used it first, I was using it temporarily in my head until I could come up with something better. And this past week I think I have just done that.
To justify the new name, I think that I should note that in effect is a Mis-Informaiton Campaigned aimed at my family to serve unstated purposes. Well in order to more properly bring the blog up into accordance to some paradigm changes in the MIC, the new name was drafted.
Hence from this time forth the site is now known as [feels like there should be a drum roll here]
Blatant Obfuscation.

Today and tomorrow comprise the last two days of classes before what I am considering as a dreaded week of Finals.
I don't think that I am too worried about taking the finals that I have a head of me, it is just that I don't like the fact that finals are Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Well it really doesn't seem that bad to me. I have taken care of at least two of my classes and wont have to worry about those finals during the next week, later this afternoon I am planning on going into one of my Professors offices and showing him that statistically that I should be getting an A on my final exam and that grade wont effect my final grade in the class which should be an A.

Late last week, in the midst of some serious smack talking between Nels and I, an idea was born. We have been talking sports for the better part of the year, and recently golf has come up as a main topic of conversation. Golf looks like a fun sport to play were I to have the clubs and the time to spend to improve my inability to play the sport.
Somewhere in the conversation, Nels brought up miniature golf. He began to talk about a course in the area that had some pretty cool sounding features to include sand traps in the form of shag carpeting.