"And I believe it's just God hugging us closer..."

If you have not seen this, you need to...

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

GONG!

Letter a roommate of mine sent to a gong manufacturer...

Hello,

Three roommates and myself have always envisioned a gong in our abode, centrally located and for the purpose of announcing to the rest of the house a successful conquest in the bedroom. Started as a joke and has now become a serious desire. We have recently moved into our new house which just happens to have a built in "shelf" in the corner made between 3 bedrooms. It's perfect for a gong. Now we need the largest and loudest gong, for the least amount of money that will fit comfortably in that space. (All 4 of us are either 5th year undergrad or master's students at Virginia Tech, so money isn't exactly freely flowing).

If I gave you the measurements and/or a picture of the proposed space, do you think you could suggest a few gongs that might fit our requirements? If so, you tell me the best way to describe it to you or send you a picture and I'll jump right on it.

Manufacturer's response...

I am pleased to hear that a gong may be used for such a noble porpoise.

Yep. Give me the size of the space - because the Gong stand takes up space too.LXWxD will help.

And the general size the room. Picture is okay too for room.But I need measurements of shelf if that is where you plan it to go.

That will help me suggest the best gong for the money.

Thanks,


EPIC...

...technology...

"The client sat on this camera during the VT vs. ECU disaster."

That is what the guy at Best Buy put on my service request for my new digital camera. I thought it was funny. Needless to say, my one month old camera is broken because I forgot that it was in the back pocket of my uniform and when we sat down for ECU to perform it met with my reed case and cracked the screen. Oh well....at least it's getting fixed.

The game sucked...don't want to talk about it. It was one of the hottest games that I have been to, but I still have high hopes for my Hokies this season. We'll see about this whole Tyrod red-shirt shinanigans here soon...

It smells like Asian...

So between Process, Planning, and Design, me, Brandon, Jeff, and Jon went to AJ so Jeff could use his sister's computer to print something off for class. On the way up someone mentioned that it smelled in the stairwell. Right as a girl of Asian descent passed me I said "It smells like AJ in here." Apparently evenyone thought I said it smelled like Asian. Needless to say I felt really bad that it sounded like that and I now wonder what that girl thinks of me. It is funny to a point but also bad...so I apologize to anyone I may have offended today...

I am really enjoying my new computer. It runs a lot faster and Vista isn't too bad...yet. There have been a few issues I have had with it but nothing to get me to downgrade to XP. I am going to see how it turns out. I figure this computer is built to run Vista so it should be good. Other than that, I wish my webcam would be able to communicate with those of my friends that have Macs and iSights...oh well.

Well I was just asked to head Downtown....later!

oh yea....NO CLASS TOMORROW!!!! :-)

DUDE!..You're getting a Dell...

So my computer decided to kick the bucket yesterday. Not cool. I went to Best Buy to try and get them to finally honor their "No Lemon" policy. No such luck. "We can't make that call hear." They have to send it off for 1-3 weeks and let Geek Squad HQ (aka Satan's other asshole) make that call. So needless to say, with the warranty running up in two weeks I just but the bullet and got a new one. It's a Dell...wish i could have gotten a Mac, but I guess that will have to wait until after college.

It's been a stressful week so far...hopefully it will calm down now...

...that's what it's all about!

Well, I just survived my last band camp of my college career. It was a lot of fun and very tiring. I think that we have some awesome rookies and that this year will be a blast...as always. One of the biggest things that I am excited about is that I get to be on the fence this year for football games!

Classes start tomorrow....kinda. I have one class tomorrow at 1:25 and then band. So not a huge day for me. I really don't start class till Tuesday when everything hits. My Tuesday/Thursday...

8:00 -  Process, Planning and Design

BREAK (aka breakfast)

11:00 - Construction Practice I

12:30 - Intro to Geotechnical Engineering

BREAK (aka lunch)

3:30 - Real Estate Law

5:30 - The Marching Virginians

HOME

...that is the price I pay for no Friday class I guess.

"and i pinned it up on my bulletin board, because i was amazed at how large it was"

Carly made my weekend with this quote... :-)

Tattoos...

Conversation with Caitlyn last night...

Caitlyn: "So I don't think I am going to get a tattoo anymore..."

Me: *laughs*

Caitlyn: "Would you ever get a tattoo for any reason?"

Me: "The only tattoo I would get is if I did something really big on the world stage. Like a lot of the people in the Olympics have the Olympic Rings tattooed on them. So, I would do something like that."

Caitlyn: "So you would only get a tattoo if you were in the Olympics..."

Me: "No. I mean if I did something really cool that was really hard to do. Like if I became President I would have to get the presidential seal tattooed on my arm."