Well...
It's Christmas break and things are finally starting to slow down a little. Everything has been going well for me and Tiffany, she's continuing to work at Kohl's and substitute teach every once in a while. I'm working at Benner Library still, although this year has been a little different with my new job description. I've been keeping the software development team on track this semester, and we've done some great work together.
Winter is here, and Christmas is coming quickly. There's been snow everywhere for the past couple of days now. It was snowing pretty hard when we went to go see the Kindles last weekend. It made the Christmas light display in Windmont park pretty awesome. Christmas came early at their house and we celebrated with stockings, gifts and games. It was a pretty good time. We ate dinner with Reeva and Dave, and I learned to play Dutch blitz!
I also heard that the Trotters got about a foot of snow--unbelievable! Tiffany and I can't wait to go and see them for Christmas. I hope that it's not too perilous of a journey--I went to go help Tiffany put some things in the car and almost fell over backward because of the ice. Olivet also closed at 10AM on account of the ice today, so I didn't go to work.
I didn't do much today--probably the most amount of nothing I've ever done in a long time. I played EVE Online with Jesse for about half the day. Nerd Paradise. Then I hopped on Monster.com to create a profile and post my resume. I was surprised to discover that the resume that I had written about a year and a half ago was still mostly accurate, I only needed to tweak a couple things here and there.
Well, I guess that's about it for now.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
New Car
So, after about 3-4 weeks (my math is probably a little off) of waiting, praying and trying not to worry we've finally found a car. It's a little black '95 Ford Contour, and a little bit of a fixer-upper. It's not too much to look at--seeing as it used to be purple and somebody gave it a custom paint job, window tints and a couple other "improvements".
We couldn't be happier though. It came with new tires and new brakes. It also runs great and we got $1000 off the original price!
We couldn't be happier though. It came with new tires and new brakes. It also runs great and we got $1000 off the original price!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Day the Buick Died
Well, I guess it had to happen sometime--I just wish it wouldn't have happened now.
We were driving home from school, nothing too out of the ordinary, when we rounded the corner coming in to our apartment parking lot. Tiffany was driving and all of a sudden we hear a big snap. We lost all steering, but luckily we weren't near any cars or buildings. Tiffany was able to stop the car and we both looked at each other wondering what do do next. We tried turning the wheel again and noticed quickly that it wasn't giving any resistance, it just spun freely.
Long story short, the reason we lost our steering was because our engine practically fell out on the ground. Yep. The back two brackets holding in the engine rusted and gave out at the same time--looks like good old Illinois weather got the best of us. I snapped a few pictures while I was out, if you want to see them you can go to this link:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=373847&l=df2d0&id=1151340017
John from Menz towing told us that this isn't the first GM that he's seen this happen to. Apparently it's a known problem with the design, there just aren't enough instances of this happening for a safety recall. I'm just glad we weren't barreling down I-80 when this happened.
Anyway, thanks for everyone's support and prayers... looks like we've got some car shopping to do.
We were driving home from school, nothing too out of the ordinary, when we rounded the corner coming in to our apartment parking lot. Tiffany was driving and all of a sudden we hear a big snap. We lost all steering, but luckily we weren't near any cars or buildings. Tiffany was able to stop the car and we both looked at each other wondering what do do next. We tried turning the wheel again and noticed quickly that it wasn't giving any resistance, it just spun freely.
Long story short, the reason we lost our steering was because our engine practically fell out on the ground. Yep. The back two brackets holding in the engine rusted and gave out at the same time--looks like good old Illinois weather got the best of us. I snapped a few pictures while I was out, if you want to see them you can go to this link:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=373847&l=df2d0&id=1151340017
John from Menz towing told us that this isn't the first GM that he's seen this happen to. Apparently it's a known problem with the design, there just aren't enough instances of this happening for a safety recall. I'm just glad we weren't barreling down I-80 when this happened.
Anyway, thanks for everyone's support and prayers... looks like we've got some car shopping to do.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Code Sprint
Yesterday I participated in the ACCA programming competition at North Central College in Naperville, IL. I've never been to one before, and on top of that I was placed in the advanced division. After finding out that we were only allowed to use one computer, we decided that we were going to have to solve most of these problems by hand--ouch. With 7 problems for our 4-man team to solve, we split up the problems starting with one for each of us. After 110 minutes, Adan was able to write up some quick and dirty code and submit one of the programs--that was the only one out of seven we completed all day... I ended up working the entire 4 hour period on one program on paper :-p.
It was kinda depressing actually. The team from Wheaton College was able to complete and submit all seven problems. I guess we've still got a lot to learn... haha...
It was kinda depressing actually. The team from Wheaton College was able to complete and submit all seven problems. I guess we've still got a lot to learn... haha...
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