Adventures in Zephux

Finally, after three months of summer classes, I am back on my full-time co-op schedule. I, unfortunately, didn’t do so hot in my classes, this was the worst semester I’ve ever had and the only one where my gpa (for the semester, not overall) was less than a 3.0. That leaves my overall at around a 3.1. The last couple days of finals I started to get really sick. I thought my neck was out, no big deal, just give it a couple days of sleeping properly and it will be fine. Sadly, it didn’t turn out that way, Friday was worse, Saturday was terrible, and Sunday I felt like death and had a super high fever. After that I thought it was about time to look into this, but since I don’t have health insurance I had to settle for having my mom and girlfriend both diagnose me. They decided it was strep. I got some antibiotic and started taking that on Sunday morning. By Sunday night I wasn’t much better, but I went to sleep with intentions of going to work on Monday anyway. By the time I had woken up I realized there was NO WAY I was going to get to work. I thought I was dying. Another scan at my throat revealed white dots (A sure sign of strep) so I called in with the excuse that I was contagious and I was because I had not been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours yet.

After suffering through Monday on the couch, Tuesday morning (this morning) finally showed up. I don’t feel like killing myself thank goodness, but I’m not completely better yet. Most of the soreness in my throat has gone away, the fever has subsided, all I’m left with is a pain in the neck and a headache like you wouldn’t believe. I have been hopped up on ibuprofen for the last few days to avoid feeling my brain, but I don’t think that will work much longer, because it seems no matter how much I take at this point it feels like my brain is going to explode. If someone walked up and put pressure at just the right place on my skull I am fairly confident that there would be some splash damage. Hopefully, by tomorrow everything will feel better but right now I thought it would make me a little less inclined to try and create that explosion if I ranted to the internet.

p.s. I took my car apart last Wednesday and installed that iPod connector (which my Zen player is currently connected to) and it works great. I was a little scared to rip up the whole center console and take out the radio on my brand new car, but all in all I’m glad I did, that FM transmitter bologna was killing me. I have $1000 speakers damnit and I want to hear everything loud and clear lol. Well worth the time, money, and effort. Now I just need an iPod (even though they are evil) so I can change songs with the nicely placed buttons on my steering wheel.  =D

Since summer semester has started, I haven’t posted anything at all. For that I apologize. However, it is coming to a close next week (about time if you ask me). This has been the semester from Hell. I’ve still been here at my co-op job part time, but the school part is what has been killing me. The class lineup is a nightmare. If I was actually the type that did homework, I would probably have hogtied a professor by now. Actually, that’s probably not a half bad idea. It wouldn’t take much =)

Some other events have rolled out in the past few months. I did get those white evil fluff ball kitties (I stole my mom’s) but recently surrendered them back to her. They were originally my sister’s and she wanted them back. Also, I got out of the relationship I was in. It only lasted about 3 or 4 months and was fun, but it just wasn’t for me. I think that girl has moved on, I’m happy for her. I, too, have moved on. I am back with my ex-fiance. We have been on and off for almost four years now. I’m hoping it will work out this time, she’s the only person that has ever really made me happy. I was talking a lot before about jumping on a train and just riding until it stopped, it didn’t matter where I went. I actually would not do that now. I’m happy enough with my life that I would stay right here. She’s a good distance away so I only see her on weekends, but for now it’s worth it.

The other thing that has happened is really big… I BOUGHT A CAR! My truck for some reason was being dumb and refused to start when I would tell it too. I decided that instead of pouring money into it (every car I touch breaks) I would just say “forget it” and buy something new, I mean brand new off the lot new. That way, not only would it be beautiful, but would also have a long warranty so I could stop worrying. It can break all it wants now and I don’t care. Just for the sake of showing off (cause I’m an arrogant prick like that apparently… I’m just proud of the car, I think I paid enough to show off a little, give me a break lol) It’s a brand new Arrest Me Red, Mazda6 (Zoom Zoom is the Mazda saying if you didn’t know, hence the title). It’s a good car, I got a 72 month extended warranty (that’s 6 years for you non-math people). It also has a Bose sound system, heated leather seats, a moon roof, spoiler, insert other favorite option here. It’s fully loaded. I ended up with an automatic because there were no manuals left in red on this half of the country (it’s an ‘08, the ’09s don’t come out till the end of next month). I did test drive a manual Mazda3 and also an automatic. The 3’s are zippier because they are lighter and have the same engine, but don’t look nearly as sporty and have far less room inside (not to mention would have been $5,000 cheaper with all the same options lol, but money wasn’t the point). I like the 6, that’s what I went there to buy. They just happen to have a fully loaded one and I couldn’t resist. Don’t worry, it’s the end of the model year, so I talked them down to a very nice price lol. Well, I’m done bragging about my new baby, but someone had to hear it (my friends are pretty sick of hearing about it).

Expect to see a lot more getting done on the site now that school is finishing up. I’ll be back on co-op full time as of July 28th, so I will have much more freetime to write and work on projects, and I do have a few projects in mind despite my lack of usuable income (having a semi-financed car sucks, I want it paid off, I’m hoping to have it paid in full by December). It also looks like I’ll be on the robot team for the school next semester, so I’ll post all my info on that in a randomness or something. Also, maybe make a hardware section for it. I gotta get back into the groove here, I had so much nice content for a while =)