Thursday, January 26, 2006
Cool things, I’m official! It actually didn’t get posted until just a few days ago, but I have been officially granted by the University of Southern California, a Masters Degree. Even got the official thingy in the mail. Not as out-and-out *manly* a document as I had been hoping, but they do have some neat little frames you can order. I may pick one up. I don’t have what you might call a lot of *love* for USC, but it’s a nice degree, and I might as well make it obvious that I DID A LOT OF WORK AND I’M TOTALLY SMRT!
Car: Serviced. Took some doing, but it got done. I’ve been going to a Mazda dealership to get my car totally and officially checked at big, checkpoint mileage points, and I’m coming up on 30K miles, so I decided to get that particular benchmark done and out of the way. Well, I drove up to my favorite spot, only to note that they are…no longer there. Yeah, gone! No more. Whoops.
So J(5) and I found another place to get my car serviced, then she was kind enough to follow me there and drive me around while I was without car. We actually spent most of the time, though, on the pretty darn famous Santa Monica Pier, and surrounding areas. (3rd Street Promenade, for those who care). I’ve been here for a while, but I’ve never checked that place out before. Few street performers, few…gentlemen in transitional periods…stuff like that. It was quite pretty, and the kind of important LA landmark that one just *has* to see, eventually, at least.
We stopped by a bookstore while on the promenade and I picked up the latest edition of Electronic Musician, which is important because it has the Editors Choice awards for 2006, which is a great way to start looking at the equipment to make my dream studio become reality. I found one really great piece of equipment, and a few others that look intriguing, as well as a few other questions that need to be asked and answered by me. I’m on the way.
Saturday, J(5) and I were going to go swimming (for exercise and fun!) but it turned out the pool was busy, with Water Polo! I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that J(5) played a LOT of water polo back in high school and college, but she did. She’s a pretty great swimmer, and seeing people going at it was getting her blood boiling for water polo again. Well, we sat there, watched the game for a while, and J(5) explained the basics of the rules to me. After a while, I was getting into it too. I was cheering for the team that had a left hander on it, and they were doing some mopping UP with the other team. Eventually we took off, though, because it was a whole, long tournament, and we weren’t going to be able to get our water time in.
We hit the library after that, and I picked up some more Pratchett, as well as a couple of other books. Saw a whole bunch of other books on various *awesome* subjects, but I’m trying to keep my checkout list a bit shorter, if only to keep myself out of trouble with checkout times. Course, I’ve already chewed up all the books I checked out, so I can already go back for more. Whee!
Next day, met at my place, soaked in the Jacuzzi for a while, did some more reading; it was a pretty lazy day. I got some running in, and I did a lot better. Same incline, and my three mile time was right around 33 minutes, and that’s with a pretty tough incline. I kept running for a while after that, working on that stamina, but my foot started hurting, so I kept it short. Not sure what’s wrong with it, feels just like a tweak or a strain somewhere along the top, oddly enough, of my foot. I’ve been walking a little gingerly, cause it tends to come and go, but it’s definitely a lot better, so I should be able to go to TKD tonight, though I’m going to be a little light on the toes for a while, just in case.
J(5), on the other hand, is not doing so well. She’s thinking bronchitis. Lots of coughing, and lots of not feeling good, which is unfortunate, because there’s really nothing I can do to help, and I do like helping. What is fortunate, though, is that what I can do to help mostly involves hugging and brushing hair and reading books and making comfortable. I can do that.
At work: turned in a ‘letter of verification’ (which pretty much just says: ‘yes, he has his degree’) to the HR people, so with some luck I’ll be getting a raise soon. Quite nice, but the best reward by far has definitely been not having to do school anymore. I’m looking into some community college classes, and I’m torn between Intro to Japanese and Stand Up Comedy. So much totally fun stuff to do, and so significantly much more time in which to do it! It’s a good time to be me.
-N
Car: Serviced. Took some doing, but it got done. I’ve been going to a Mazda dealership to get my car totally and officially checked at big, checkpoint mileage points, and I’m coming up on 30K miles, so I decided to get that particular benchmark done and out of the way. Well, I drove up to my favorite spot, only to note that they are…no longer there. Yeah, gone! No more. Whoops.
So J(5) and I found another place to get my car serviced, then she was kind enough to follow me there and drive me around while I was without car. We actually spent most of the time, though, on the pretty darn famous Santa Monica Pier, and surrounding areas. (3rd Street Promenade, for those who care). I’ve been here for a while, but I’ve never checked that place out before. Few street performers, few…gentlemen in transitional periods…stuff like that. It was quite pretty, and the kind of important LA landmark that one just *has* to see, eventually, at least.
We stopped by a bookstore while on the promenade and I picked up the latest edition of Electronic Musician, which is important because it has the Editors Choice awards for 2006, which is a great way to start looking at the equipment to make my dream studio become reality. I found one really great piece of equipment, and a few others that look intriguing, as well as a few other questions that need to be asked and answered by me. I’m on the way.
Saturday, J(5) and I were going to go swimming (for exercise and fun!) but it turned out the pool was busy, with Water Polo! I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that J(5) played a LOT of water polo back in high school and college, but she did. She’s a pretty great swimmer, and seeing people going at it was getting her blood boiling for water polo again. Well, we sat there, watched the game for a while, and J(5) explained the basics of the rules to me. After a while, I was getting into it too. I was cheering for the team that had a left hander on it, and they were doing some mopping UP with the other team. Eventually we took off, though, because it was a whole, long tournament, and we weren’t going to be able to get our water time in.
We hit the library after that, and I picked up some more Pratchett, as well as a couple of other books. Saw a whole bunch of other books on various *awesome* subjects, but I’m trying to keep my checkout list a bit shorter, if only to keep myself out of trouble with checkout times. Course, I’ve already chewed up all the books I checked out, so I can already go back for more. Whee!
Next day, met at my place, soaked in the Jacuzzi for a while, did some more reading; it was a pretty lazy day. I got some running in, and I did a lot better. Same incline, and my three mile time was right around 33 minutes, and that’s with a pretty tough incline. I kept running for a while after that, working on that stamina, but my foot started hurting, so I kept it short. Not sure what’s wrong with it, feels just like a tweak or a strain somewhere along the top, oddly enough, of my foot. I’ve been walking a little gingerly, cause it tends to come and go, but it’s definitely a lot better, so I should be able to go to TKD tonight, though I’m going to be a little light on the toes for a while, just in case.
J(5), on the other hand, is not doing so well. She’s thinking bronchitis. Lots of coughing, and lots of not feeling good, which is unfortunate, because there’s really nothing I can do to help, and I do like helping. What is fortunate, though, is that what I can do to help mostly involves hugging and brushing hair and reading books and making comfortable. I can do that.
At work: turned in a ‘letter of verification’ (which pretty much just says: ‘yes, he has his degree’) to the HR people, so with some luck I’ll be getting a raise soon. Quite nice, but the best reward by far has definitely been not having to do school anymore. I’m looking into some community college classes, and I’m torn between Intro to Japanese and Stand Up Comedy. So much totally fun stuff to do, and so significantly much more time in which to do it! It’s a good time to be me.
-N
Comments:
CONGRATULATIONS!! What are you going to do now? And as if life couldn't get better you get a raise.
you rockzorz your sockzorz
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you rockzorz your sockzorz
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