I meant to post this yesterday and never got around to it. Got to the Uni yesterday morning and decided to buy my books since the semester starts on Wednesday. Went down picked up my 4 books for my 4 classes and got in line to pay. Now the credit card system was down, what joy. So got to wait 15 minutes or so for them to fix it (I figured it was still faster then getting them Wednesday). Got up to the counter and the girl starts rining up my books, my Hebrew book won’t scan, so she had to have one of the manager type people take it back and figure it out, so after another 5 minutes or so she finally finished ringing up my books. $430 later I leave with my books.

Let me say right here $430 for books is insane, especially since if i take out the price of the Hebrew book it is $380 on 3 books which is really really pricey. I mean I bought them all, thanks Dad, but I look at the price and keep thinking I could have a nice 4 day vaction in Aruba for that.

Got my books and lunch and then surfed for awhile before heading to my final. Took the final, completely didn’t know the answer to one question, but it was only a 6 point question, plus if I was calculating my grade right I needed a 72 on the final to get an A in the class. Finished the final which was fairly easy discounting the problem with that one problem, well that and I remembered afterwards how to do another piece better, but no biggie there either.

So yesterday wasn’t too horrible except for the whole pay outrageous ammounts on books and it really is insane how much books are.

Thank goodness men landed on the moon in 1969; I watched it on tv. It is certainly true that man will become so clever that he will destroy himself. I wanted to work for Nasa when I was a child. Sometimes I convulse and I think the British Government have put something in my body to tag me. I used to have a security tag in my left ankle on the outside part of my leg. It was removed at Christmas 1968 when my father was still alive. I was told to put my feet in the oven at 18 Pitmansfield Harlow Essex and warm my feet up. Then I laid down beside the fire and I was with my fiance Paul Maliszewski (his father was Marion Maliszewski from Poland – he escaped in the second world war on a motorbike and he was from Warsaw. He was a school caretaker at Churchgate Street School in Old Harlow Essex when I married Paul Maliszewski in 1969. Marion Maliszewski died of a massive heart attack at Epping Hospital after suffering a heart attack at Somerfield (Summerwood?) School Harlow Essex and he was almost due to retire.

He was a lovely man. After the removal of my tag which used to show a bump in my ankle, I woke up with a huge blister on my ankle and still have a circular scar. My father was then taken to hospital and put in an oxygen tent at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow Essex. Strange things began to happen in our family and then he fled to Merthyr Tydfil and died suddenly. Sometimes I convulse violently. There are too many spies on the Earth with low IQ’s!

I don’t know what this one was drinking or smoking, but I know I don’t want any. People scare me.

So K goes to daycamp (8 hours of playing with other dogs) on Mondays and Thursdays since they are a nice break and still wear him out for most of the week (plus we can’t really afford more then two days a week). Anyways that is background. So he went to daycamp today. There is another dog there another Jack Bailey, who is there when K is there sometimes. Bailey likes to attack K and has bitten him and given him scrapes and bruises and cuts before. At the begining K won’t fight back, but after the last time when he got a semi nasty cut he has started to fight back.

So Bailey started in on K again today and K fought back. The girls working there couldn’t break them up with water in the face (K tends to ignore water). So apparently from what I can tell one of the girls grabbed the dogs to seperate them and K bite her hard enough to break skin. So she got to go to the hospital. He then bit another of the girls on her knee and left a bruise.

So he gets to take a break from daycamp for the week. While they were fighting Bailey bit K hard enough to break his skin as well. So he has a huge nasty mark on the back of his neck as well.

Okay sucks, but dealable, of course if a dog bites hard enough that it pierces skin and the person has to go to the hospital animal control gets involved, oh joy. So we may be having animal control contact us, yay.

And K can’t go back to next week, which won’t be a huge deal, except for the major hyperness this weekend. Except we are going to Les Mis on Friday and will be out of the house from like 9am till midnight, so I had planned on putting him in daycamp/overnight care Friday so we didn’t have to worry about him in the house alone all day and evening. Which just sucks overall that I can’t do that now.

I am not overly worried about it, other then we are thinking about scheduling K’s daycamp for days Bailey isn’t there (Bailey has been kicked out for the day numerous times for fighting with K this is K’s first time), just so we don’t have to worry about it.

My Laptop is at the Apple Store now, being sent out to be fixed tomorrrow. It started throwing kernel errors every 10 to 15 minutes earlier this week, so it was impossible for me to use it in my programing class. Dan and I went to the Apple store today. Talked to the Genius bar guy, who wasn’t overly helpful, but did fill out everything so it could be sent in and fixed. Hopefully it will be a minor fix and I won’t lose everything on my harddrive (I backed up the important stuff I hope). So at the moment I am borrowing Dan’s laptop since it is useful to have one for class and while I’m at school waiting for class. Hopefully mine will be fixed for next semester.

Link shamelessly stolen from Auz, beans and atty.

I”m not sure where I’m getting these diapers from for the smuggling, but hey I’m open to experimentation.

Well I’m in the middle of my new javascript class. It isn’t too bad so far. He is going over some extremely simple concepts right now though, so it is a bit boring. I appriciate that he assumes we know nothing, it would be really helpful if I did know nothing. However, he is going over html right now, and I know basic html, I know intermediate html, I’m not willing to go so far as to say I know expert level html. However, I can do CSS and make any basic HTML website with no problem what so ever. Which means this piece of the class is kind of pointless for me.

We should be getting into psuedocode/javascript soon though maybe not till tomorrow and that will at least be semi new (I did do psuedo code back in 2006-2007 at GATech, but at least that was 9+ years ago).

The professor is fairly amusing which is nice, and the class is about 95% math majors, the rest are EE and other types like that majors. No real CS people since it isn’t a CS major class.

Well hopefully it will be a fairly easy class overall.

Just got back from NYC on Sunday. We went from the 29th through the 1st. We left around 11am on the train and arrived in the city around 1:30, got to the hotel after a short misdirection on the subway and got our room. We got a nice room you could see Times Square from the room, well a drop of it.

We dropped off our stuff and headed out for lunch, then headed back to the room and hung out for awhile since Dan was feeling kind of icky and it was raining outside so shopping and stuff wasn’t likely. We had dinner from the Deli in the hotel and it was good, before heading to bed. We didn’t do much the first day.

On the 30th Dan woke up first and went and picked up bagels, we ate in the room and got a semi late start. Headed out around 1pm because we were being semi-lazy, got to Wicked fairly quickly was only a couple of blocks from the hotel, we left early since it wasn’t right on broadway so we weren’t exactly sure where it was. The show was amazing. The songs were great, the story was good, it all came together amazingly. Dan had a few problems with it because it was not true to the book. Since I had never read the book it didn’t bother me at all. It was so worth it and it is probably something we will see again.

Got home after the show and rested in the room before heading out to dinner around 6ish. There was a nice restaurant across the street from the hotel that we ate at last time we were there. So we headed over, the food was great though the service was a bit slow since the waitress was in charge of about 15 tables. Got back to the room around 8:30/9pm and watched the Law and Order SVU marathon on USA.

Got up a bit late again on Saturday and had bagels again for breakfast. Headed out for the show a little early because we had to get wrist bands so we could get through security and into the hotel. Got to the show a bit early, since it was all of 3 minutes from the hotel (the hotel is right next to the Phantom of the Opera theatre and Spamalot is right next to The Phantom of the Opera). The seats were smaller then the ones in Wicked which kind of sucked. The show itself was hilarious. However, compared to Wicked it was just okay. They broke the 4th wall a bit too often and it didn’t work as escapism, which is fine, but part of what I like about the theatre. I am really glad we went, but we probably won’t see it again.

On the plus side I did get killer rabbit slippers.

Got home and got an early dinner from the deli. We then opened the curtains in the room and watched the people freezing in Time Square from our hotel room as we were nice and comfy and watching the Law and Order CI marathon on USA. It was a nice night. Wished each other Happy New Year. Headed to bed a bit early.

Got up on the first and packed everything up and headed to the subway. Caught our train and headed home. Got home, and hung out a bit there. Overall it was a great trip and really enjoyable I’m glad we did it, won’t have minded an extra day so that we would have had time to shop some, but I can always go back.