Moving!

Yup, I decided to move.  I will now be posting at http://mnskyscraper.blogspot.com, hopefully more often than I do here.  It doesn't feel like theres as much of a requirement over there to make a full "post," I can just post a sentence or two and that's fine.

P.S. I'll still read people's over here

Hmm...  I don't like this new UI.  It took me 2 minutes to figure out how to add this post.  Turns out a post is actually called a "weblog" now.  Interesting...  Looking around, I'm actually just now deciding that I'm considering a move over to blogspot, which doesn't try to be a social community, unlike here.  I'll look in to that.

I have a new account over at flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/mnskyscraper.  I've really only posted pictures from my Ireland trip in 2005, but I should be investing in a nice new digital camera soon (Canon PowerShot SX100-IS) that will allow me to get a lot more pictures up there.

All of winter break was spent on Solar Car: except for the week sorrounding Christmas, I was at Northwest Airlines' Composites Shop working on building the body of the car for 8-10 hours a day.  It's nice to be done with that now.

digg.com is a wonderful website.  I spend way too much time there.

Spring Classes:
*AEM 4303W Flight Dynamics & Control
*AEM 4202 Aerodynamics
*AEM 4501 Aerospace Structures
*AEM 4601 Insturmentation Lab

Thoughts on Spring Semester:
*Hooray for no more lib-eds!
*No class on tuesday, only a lab on Thrusday = more work hours
*All of my classes are in the same building complex.  I don't have to leave there for 7 hours.  feels like high school.
*Upper division rules.  I'm actually interested in most of the material now!

3M is Awesome

Today, I met the guy that invented Post-It Notes.

I (literally) have no free time between 9AM last Thursday and 11AM next Monday.

Welcome to my life.

My (weekly) to-do list:
- School
- Marching Band
- Hockey Pep Band
- Solar Car
- Work (10 hours/week)
- Social Life

I can see it coming now: something's gotta go, or life will soon become completely unbearable.

I missed two meetings tonight; one intentionally and one I just plain forgot about.  I just now realized every weekday evening is pretty much booked, and I have virtually no time during the weekdays.  I'm starting to feel like it's one of "those" weeks where everything is going on, and I haven't even started homework or pep band yet.

For the second time in my life, it would appear I've taken on more than I can do.  I don't want to go through that again.

I love it all too much to give it up.

Now what?

School?

Spat Camp: Long, tough, fun
     Leadership: new, exciting, more work than normal marching band

Solar Car: Dead as of Aug. 1, Back on as of Aug. 30
     Solar Car Timeline: Unknown
     Solar Car attitude: Mixed

Classes: none on Tuesday, only one on Thursday!  Should be a good semester.
     Lib-Ed's: Mus1001 - Clapping for credit as a night class

Apartment: nearly fully moved in; Gopher shrine shaping up

Sports: can't wait for hockey, still pretty excited for football despite loss