Today is my whine post. I’m not in class today because yesterday I fell down in a parking lot. My foot got caught in a pothole and I landed hard on my foot, knee and hand. My foot got the worst of it. My hand is fine though my wrist is a bit iffy. My knee has a bruise and my foot is in pain. It was really bad yesterday it hurt to move on it. I used a heating pad on it for a few hours last night.

This morning though we decided it would be better for me not to go to class, that way I won’t be messing it up more by walking all across campus. So i am home today. Which isn’t too bad, but it still hurts some, less then yesterday but still.

I also have a cold, half of it is alergies, I hate fall, all the pollen and such is out in full force and so is my urge to sneeze. But I apparently caught something as well, I had a sore throat/ear on Saturday and it expanded to a full blown cold yesterday and today.

So I’m at home in pain and with a cold, whine!

Well today was family day. My parents were in town because my mom had some kind of dinner thing in DC this evening. So we were supose to meet them around 10am in DC, maybe go to the Smithsonian or something. We ended up just meeting them for lunch.

We went to a sport bar called Tommy Joes (maybe?), because we were also meeting family friends (good friends of my parents) and the husband of the group wanted to watch the Michigan football game. So we head down for the 12 o’clock lunch. After 15 minutes we finally find somewhere to park, yay closed streets and parking garages.

We get to the restaurant and the family friends are there but my parents aren’t yet. My parents arrive shortly afterwards. We had a nice lunch, though it was fairly loud with the football game on all 8 or 10 tv screens in the place. Talked to everyone and spent about 2 hours there.

We head out and say bye to my parents. Then we head back to our car. We are only about 15 minutes from my inlaws so we decided to stop by and visit them.

We had been talking about visiting them tomorrow, but the traffic is supose to be horrible tomorrow. So we drive over, and surprise them, since they weren’t expecting anyone.

We hang out with them from about 2:30 till 9:30 talk and have dinner. It was nice, and we got all caught up. My father in law is retiring at the end of the month, and they are going to Paris for 12 days in November which sounds like a lot of fun.

Over all it was a nice day, but dang there were a lot of parents seen and talked too!

My brain is slowly being drained from my body and my will to live is decreasing. I am in the middle of the discussion section for Macro Economics and it ranks high as the most boring thing I have ever had to attend. I think I would rather have a tooth pulled without novicane, or maybe a cavity drilled.

Heck I’d probably go for a finger being chopped off. It is mind numblingly boring…

The TAs voice isn’t helping any, he has a slight accent which for some reason is really grating on my nerves, which is odd I normally am never annoyed by accents but for some reason he is really grating today and I am losing my will to live. Oh thank god he is done!

So my first math homework is due tomorrow. And I have to prove: A = B if and only if (A is a subset of B and B is a subset of A). Which doesn’t seem to bad until you get to the point where it is really obvious. However, it is a pain because it is obvious, yet proving something obvious is harder then proving something that isn’t as obvious.

Sigh well I’m about half done, but I think it is going to end up wrong. Then again I guess getting the first homework wrong is better then getting the first test wrong.

Many students have not been able to acquire the Aplia package. Those students with the package should do the assigned work, but all deadlines for turning in assignments have been suspended until the bookstores make the package available to all students. Professor Terrell

Of course this comes up on the website after I spend the $60 on just the program because the bookstore has no more packages.

The frames came in yesterday so I now have glasses! and don’t have to wander around at midnight in sunglasses. I am quite pleased with this fact, yay glasses!

So yesterday in History I notice I have the wrong edition of the spine book we are using (spine book the main book which the rest of the books in the class spider off from). So I figure maybe there weren’t many changes.

I head to the bookstore since I need to check on the Econ book because I really don’t want to spend 60$ on the computer program only when the whole package is only $100. Of course they don’t have the package, so no package for me it looks like I’ll have to spend that $60. I also check out the history book and learn that yes in the past 9 years it has been majorly updated and I do need to get the newer version.

So I pick up the book for $40. Which was not high on my list to spend, on the plus side the last edition of the book which I did buy was only $4.50 so I didn’t really lose money, I just spent money I didn’t want to.

So in otherwords I get to spend an extra $100 on books for my classes that wasn’t in my originial plan. Which sucks, but in the end since my Dad more or less pays for my books I can’t really complain too much.

On the plus side I am getting money back from refunds, though mail in refunds are a pain because you spend the money and then get back the refund 8 to 10 weeks later.

So Hubby works somewhere where he gets a lot of interesting e-mail especially about ways to stop natural disaster type things. Anyways today he got the following two e-mails:

Would it be possible to drop a bomb, especially a thermal bomb, in the eye of the storm, thus disrupting the flow pattern and destroying the hurricane? I was wondering if such an idea has ever been analyzed or tried before. Could this therory be also used on tornatos, or, are they sustained differently.

He gets the e-mail about bombing hurricanes everytime one hits the US. It is rather amusing how many people come up with this idea.

my idea is to create a machine that can slow down the hurricaine. this machine is like a fan, maybe we could disassemble a helicopter, or a few, and i guess flip the propellor over so instead of lifting the helicoptor, it would be pushing air away. now what if we were to channel that air into a finer stream…and punch several holes into the clouds that make the hurricaine. would this slow the hurricaine down?

As my hubby said, Why didn’t we thinkg of this before? We can stop hurricanes and typhoons with a GIANT FAN!!!!

Okay so I am a member of a messageboard for various games I like. On one of these boards there are a ton of teenagers. There are some older people in their twenties etc. The majority is probably in the 15 to 20 range.

Anyways with teenagers you tend to get a higher concentration of idiots. Unfortunately it seems a sterotype, but I have noticed it to be true. Anyways there is a girl in the community and we’ll call her Purple Duck (names changed to protect the idiots). Anyways most people in the community think she is a twit, she has done numerous twitish things.

So Purple Duck decides she doesn’t like her reputation and creates a new allias which we’ll call InluvwGerard. Now InluvwGerard fairly quickly makes it obvious that she is Purple Duck. Let’s be honest it is really hard to mask yourself and pretend to be someone else. Normally you are found out.

And she isn’t very good at. So in AIM Chat we unmask her and point out that Purple Duck and InluvwGerard are using the same IP at the same time. Since she isn’t very smart, and they claim not to know each other she can’t even claim they are in the same house and sisters. So we tell her we know who she is. She gets affronted and attempts to claim otherwise, those of us that have at least a basic bit of intellegence laugh at her (I’m mean so shoot me).

Anyways I mention a number of new names she can come back as when she creates a new persona for her multiple personalities the next day. Fast forward to this morning. First InluvwGerard has posted she is leaving the community last night. This morning there is a new post from a new person we’ll call Hillary. Hillary posts and I feel the need to check between her and InluvwGerard off her first three posts. And shock they have the same IP.

Hillary also comes into the chat room, where me and another person who we’ll call hanger are. She attempts to be a new person. Both of us knowing better, play with her for awhile. So I am now the grandmother of hanger. It is nice to have a granddaughter before I’ve had any spawns.

I don’t know who she is trying to fool, but it obviously isn’t working. I still find it amusing though and I am having fun making fun of her multiple personality problem (yes I have fun making fun of 15 year old girls, we all have our vices).

Went to the other bookstore today and they are out of the Micro Economics Packages to, so looks like I may have to bite the bullet and spend the extra 60$ blegh.

Went to the applestore as well and got my nifty keyboard cover thing for the laptop. Had lunch at the Jungle Cafe thing which was nice and got a sparkly glass. Also went to William and Sonoma, they had a sale on the stand mixers. So we got this one:

It was over 30% off so we got a really nice deal on it. Dan has been wanted one for a couple of years, so I’m glad we finally got him one.

Not much else going on it is a quiet holiday weekend. We watched the end of season 2 of Law and Order last night from NetFlicks and will start on season 3 this week. I have a bit of reading to do for homework but nothing major for any of my classes yet.

Oh I still don’t have my glasses fixed hopefully I will by Tuesday, since the sunglasses look just isn’t me.

Have a good day all I think I am off to play some Sims2.