The Nameless

Last weekend was a good time, I took my daughter to the renaissance festival. Normally when I go to faire, I hang out with my friends at the White Heart or the Dragon inn. However since I had my daughter with me, I did not want to do that since she would have been bored out of her skull, and besides it would not have been fair to her. So while I did pop in to the taverns from time to time to visit with friends, most of my time was spent seeing what faire had to offer. We went to shows, I played games with my daughter, we even took in the joust. All in all I have not had this much fun at faire in years. I had a geek proud poppa moment at faire. The thing Morgan was most excited for at faire was the joust. All of the way there and back she could not stop talking about it. Furthermore she has said that she wants to become a knight, not a princess, a knight. She wants to wear plate mail, joust, and fight with a sword and shield. After I explained to her what it was, Morgan said that sh

I am pleased. I put together my new telescope today, and after some trouble figuring out how to work the equatorial mount, went viewing the stars tonight. My list of objects viewed is as follows: The Moon Jupiter The Pleiades (M 45) Aldebaran Vega Altair The only problem was that the light pollution of the harvest moon, and the lights were I live, made viewing difficult. However viewing should be better as the moon wanes, and I know several places in the area were general light pollution is lessened. I cannot wait for the winter constellations to start rising earlier. The Crab and Orion nebulas will be easily visible, as well as a myriad other objects. I know there are just as many in the summer sky, but I know the winter constellations better, and it will be easier finding guide stars. In his book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, Carl Sagan quotes the poet Edward Young “The undevout astronomer is mad.” Now I do not wholly agree with that statement, as I am not a religious pe

Was just told in my Greek art and archeology class that the midterm will be pushed back to Friday. Well, good, except that I already have a midterm on Friday ten minutes after my Greek art and Archeology class is complete. This is just lovely, really I mean it. I swear by the time Friday evening comes round I will be drooling mess, ugh so not looking forward to it. At least Crisy has promised me a nice dinner on Friday night. On the good news I am doing well in both of the classes that I have midterms in, and more importantly,I think, I understand the material, so all in all things should go well. So once the midterms are over, Saturday I will start my big research paper for my Intro to the study of history course. The rough Draft is due 4/2 however they only want about five pages double-space. So all in all I am busy busy.

 

 

Sigh, I really should be taking notes for the class I am sitting in. However we are discussing the trades in the book I just spent the last few days reading, digesting, and re-reading, I think I have a pretty good handle on this particular subject. Was talking with my wife, Crisy, and half seriously suggested that once we finish our degrees that we sell our house and move to the Canadian Maritime s. I thinking that this maybe a fabulous idea. Neither of us really have ties here anymore. Still it is something to consider.

Well, I think I am finally getting the hang of this full time classes thing. Before when I was at HCC I was only taking two classes. This made it easy to focus on one class or the other. Now however that I am full time, I have to spread my focus out over four classes. I am getting a handle on it but the transition has been difficult. So, now I sit waiting for my Physical Geography class to start, it's interesting. Fortunately this classes grades are based on three tests, and class participation so no papers! thank god, I have enough writing to do in my other three classes.

So I invested in a Asus Eee PC netbook for taking notes, and writing at school. Because well, sometimes even I cannot read my own hand writing. I have used it for two different class periods so far and it has been a godsend. Although I am still getting used to its smaller keyboard, so I am making more typos than usual, but at least I can read what I am writing! Speaking of writing, I am writing a ton in my Greek art and archeology class. About twice a week my professor assigns study questions, that usually wind up being 2.5 to 3 pages typewritten single space. It is worth it though as I am learning an awful lot about bronze age Greece, the Minoan, and Cycladic civilizations. Especially the art and architecture. It is a fascinating class.

I have been back in school now for almost a month now and am very busy. I am definitely working harder than I ever did at HCC but it is worth it. For the first time in about ten years I feel that I am going somewhere with my life and it is good.

Gah, getting used to a daylight schedule again kind of really sucks. Especially after ten years of working nights. I am not really sleeping well at night as I feel I should be up and about doing things, and I am dragging during the day as I really should be sleeping. Then again however, that’s how I was before I was working nights. I guess I can’t win for losing. Speaking of sleeping at night, I must say that I really love my Doberman mix, Jasmine. She is the best dog I have ever owned. However, she has discovered the best way to wake daddy up , when she has to go potty, is sit over him and stare, and occasionally shuffle her two front paws. Now since Jasmine is a Doberman mix, she has the full Doberman markings. Namely she is all black, with tan around her jaws, paws, some on her chest, and of course the two tan dots on her eyebrows. Now, why this is so effective, is that in the dim light of our bedroom at night. When I finally become conscious of her looming over me, the first thin