Yannblog

Sorry for the weeks of silence, however my life has been a little too busy of late. Of course, part of that busy-ness has been business (www.freeit4less.com is in part mine) and part of it is just playing around (I am now a proud owner of the Nintendo Wii, the sweetest console out there). But at any rate I have to say that things have been going fairly well of late…I think I’m getting my priorities straight and all that, which is always a good thing. Though I’m still a little strapped for time.

Well gotta go. It is about ten seconds till the beginning of Physics class. Fortunately though, I’mall set up…

Let’s see here…

• Finished reading chemistry’s Lewis paper this morning.
• Started www.itsyouriphone.com
• Will finish remaining chemistry homework tonight (reading and lab notes)
• Finished physics homework problems (no exam prep right now but I don’t care yet) including extra credit
• Have 250 or so Tracfone cards that I need to pay for, will have to be via credit card due to item #2 above
• Tomorrow will finish physics reading, CSM 101, math work, all before 11 a.m.
• Tomorrow will see about hosting www.itsyouriphone.com outside of WordPress
• Bought Toshiba R100 ultralight laptop
• Went to church
• Ate two relatively square meals
• Going to make a profit of maybe $80 tomorrow on item #2
• Waiting on a near-$7000 payment re: item 5 in the near future

Whew, I feel better about myself now. Now for a show and some more homework…

Okay, it’s not really Sprint’s fault…I love Sprint to death and all carriers do this I think…but I’ve had service credits for my last…let’s see…three months of service I think, due to me paying a higher price for my phone than was needed and getting a service credit back to cover that charge. Anyhow, my bill for this month? $0.70. Okay, Sprint, you take 38 cents of that while the credit card company takes 32 cents and we’ll all be happy, right? Heh. My bill this month was $42.84 with a $42.14 credit hence the charge.

Okay, and before I pay my bill I have to brag about what I get with my oh-so-cheap plan:

• 500 anytime minutes
• Unlimited Sprint Mobile To Mobile
• Unlimited Text, Picture and Video Messages
• Unlimited web access (EvDO rocks!)
• Unlimited Nights and Weekends starting at 7 p.m.
• $50-deductible phone insurance (when you have a phone that has a street price of $400 it’s a wise investment)

But now to paying my 70-cent bill.

EDIT: I have to pay at least a buck on any transaction, so I now have a whopping 30-cent credit to my account. Also, since my airline rewards credit card now registers as having my billing address in college, I had to use my cash rewards card to pay the dollar. Big whoop.

I thought I’d at least get Calculus done tonight, but I got distracted, making this website. Ah well…there’s always tomorrow, or rather today after I’ve slept awhile. At least I now have a decent-looking, unified, content-managed website. The bad thing about it is that this actually looks better than some parts of Go4Prepaid. Drat. I wish I had enough time to fix those…but that’d mean switching to WordPress for the whole shebang and migrating five hundred fifty plus posts over to the new system. Not fun, though I’m sure there’s an easy way to do it…

Well, I’m starting up my blog again, writing posts as I’m in line and/or waiting for various things on campus…which means that info may not be particularly timely but at least it’ll be there.

And yes, I’m at college now. Classes start tomorrow…I’m at Colorado School of Mines.

Anyhow, I got up at 7:10 this morning and headed out, helmet in hand (they had given me one Saturday) and more-than-ten-pound rock in the other, to the school’s Intramural Field to start the famous/infamous “M Climb”. No, I didn’t eat breakfast.

What followed was relatively insane but I survived…

First, our helmets were spray painted. Then out of the mass of upeerclassmen that were generally administrating the affair burst the school fight song…I’ll probably quote it in a latter post but let’s just say it reflacts the fact that Coors came a year before Mines…and Coors is just down the road.

We then walked out of the field and toward the big white “M” made of whitewashed rocks that was a prominent feature of a nearby low mountain. Then the fun began…at least it was fun for somebody…

Water balloons started pelting at the group. For the first bit…I am no judge of length of distance…most of the balloons were misses, only getting the class of ’11 wet indirectly. But as we progressed, direct hits became way too common. One such hit got me in the foot, leaving me limping for the next minute or two. I survived a few such direct hits and am thankful for the helmet that protected me from the slightly more lethal headshots that knocked other’s headgear temporarily off.

Oh, and at random points roadblocks were set up along the road, full of people chucking water balloons at us…and for some people flour balloons as well…who would only let us through after we had sung the fight song.

Finally, we got to a point where we were being given water in cups instead of blloons. But then the hard part began. For what seemed like at least a quarter mile we struggled straight up the mountainside on what couldn’t legally be called an improved trail. I had the bright idea of, at the end of the ascent, throwing my rock slightly ahead of me, then climbing up after it. Problem was that it would roll down, at one point catching my hand in the middle of thins, leaving a few abrasions.

We finally got to the road again, and started up a much better trail toward the M. As we got closer to the open gate at the lower-right corner we saw anews helicopter flying around…I wonder if I was in that video.

We finally got positioned around the M…and waited…for an hour…while eeryone else came up. Meanwhile we handed buckets of dirty water up to I have no idea where, then handed them back down. I suppose that they might have been mixed with paint to form whitewash…

More later..

Well, I’ve looked around a little and here are my favorite podcasts (i.e. the ones that I’ll actually listen to\watch). Funny how some of ’em are Mac-related and I passed up the iPhone for a Sprint Mogul…and these are relatively in order of interest…

1. This Week In Tech
2. The Daily Giz Wiz
3. MacBreak Weekly
4. InDigital
5. Net@Nite
6. SecurityNow
7. Windows Weekly
8. CommandN
9. The Tech Guy
10. GigaOM

InDigital and CommandN are both video podcasts. The rest of the 10 are audio. Yes, theyre all tech-related. Just thought I’d note these…