Well, last week was interesting. The good news is I played my first two games of paintball ever last (over a week ago) Sunday. Don’t ask me if it hurts to be hit with a paintball, I still don’t know:). I got the game winning hit on the second game and I didn’t even get splatter on my clothes. Now the bad news, I couldn’t find my keys after paintball. Even worse, my laptop was locked to a folding table. So, I had to borrow the table from the camp I was as and bring it home until I got a replacement key on Wednesday. Then the next day at school I accidentally forgot to put up my hangtag for an hour and I wound up with a No Permit ticket for $36. Now more good news, the ticket should have been for “Hangtag not properly displayed,” which is only $11, so I can get the ticket waived completely because they screwed up. Then, this past Sunday we used Scuba gear for the first time in class. It was really cool. Breathing under water for the first time wasn’t as weird for me as most people say it is. I guess maybe I have just a little too much faith in technology. Though as long as it works, what do I care.
September 30, 2002
September 8, 2002
SCUBA and other cool stuff
Lets see, school has been interesting and fun so far. I’ve signed up for SCUBA certification and bought my gear. I’m REALLY looking forward to SCUBA. I want to learn to SCUBA Dive, skydive, and fly, so learning to SCUBA dive is a big step. I can’t quite figure out what my DSA professor means by “constant” memory on my project, oh well. I guess that is what I’ll have to do after class this week. The laptop is working out great. Rensselaer Christian Association rocks and everybody should at least check out one meeting. It’s sort of funny, I’m getting more sleep on weekdays than I am on weekends. I guess that is a change from high school. I’m working with Video’s for Change over in the incubator chamber as a part-time editor/consultant. I’m also working with UPAC Lights and UPAC Sound as a tech. I’m glad AIM exists, cause it is a really easy way of staying in contact with my friends that are out at college. Oh, and I got one of those wireless optical mice. It’s really nice when I’m working with Maya. Maya, for those of you who don’t know is a piece of computer graphics software. Alias/Wavefront makes a free copy called Personal Learning Edition. It’s available at http://www.aliaswavefront.com/ . It has a really good tutorial if you have never done computer graphics but have been interested. If you want any help with it, just IM me or e-mail me and I can help you out.