Merry Christmas/a bunch of random things

Yeah, I know I've been neglecting to post here, but Merry CHRISTmas all!  And a happy New Year Too!

Oh, and I got a 4.0 GPA this semester, which was nice.

I just hope I can pull another one this spring.

So, yeah.  OOHHH, I've got all of the currently completed chapters up on my story blog (diomfanfic.blogspot.com), umm...  I'm hoping to be able to get together with friends sometime here, it gets boring when you're by yourself.  (ok, technically I'm not alone, but younger siblings aren't exactly the kind of people that I meant...)

The only other thing I can think of is that my family and I made a 8 foot tall snowman.  I have pictures of it on my facebook, and I can post a link here if anyone wants me to.

sudoku solver

So, I've been working on this, and it might still have some bugs, but there shouldn't be too many...

http://www.filefactory.com/file/bfc73e/n/SUDOKU_xls

(you'll have to download it)

lemme know what you think

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I'm not sure why I didn't post this earlier, but... I GOT TO MEET BREE AND SHAE!!!

it was great. we talked for a while, but unfortunately I had to go, so we didn't get to talk for long. but still, we did get to meet.

Yeah, that was a short post, but other than that I don't have anything to say...

My story (click here)

ok, so I started a new blog for my story...

the link is here

something you need to read

I found this very intriguing. I knew about this, but Mr Davis writes so much better than I do... (which is probably one of the reasons he's a published author and I'm not...)



http://dragonsinourmidst.blogspot.com/2008/10/senator-obama-either-stand-up-or-step.html



and that's all I'm going to say about the elections... except that I hope that MN doesn't go blue (i.e. goes red)

story update!

For those of you who have a DioM account, I have updated my story that I posted there, and the snippet I posted previously here is in that section. I'm not sure if I'll post the story here, but I'm thinking about it.

For those of you who have DioM accounts it's right here...

If you have ANY suggestions on the story, email me at djbrandstetter@msn.com (I don't check the gmail one very often), facebook message me (same name as the one on this blog), or DioM PM me (SoS there)...

Rant

*WARNING* the following is a rant on canceling college classes. *WARNING*

This has happened to me like five times now, I go to class early in the morning (today I was up at 5:30) in order to get a ride in because it will be too cold to bike. Not all day mind you, but just in the morning. If my first class was canceled I could sleep in and then ride-in in-time for class. So I get up, check my emails (in case my class is canceled, that way I would be able to go back to bed), see that there is nothing there, and get ready for class. I get there a few hours before class starts because I had to get a ride in, so I study for a while, get on the computers and check the DioM forums for PMs, my facebook account for messages, and here for comments. And now I get to class and there is this little sign on the door that says. HEY, SUCKER! YOUR CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED, TO BAD YOU HAD TO COME IN SO EARLY. HAHA!!

Ok, so maybe it doesn't use those words, but now I have to wait longer (I go back to the computer lab and find out that I did get an email saying that the class is canceled, 30 minutes AFTER I got to school. Now I'm pissed, why didn't they send it 45 minutes earlier, I checked them again right before I left, just in case this happened. Now not only do I have to wait, but since all of my books together are so heavy, I didn't being any others, since I could study the ones I had with me (enough for the time I had, but not much more. But now I have at least 1 more hour to burn, and now I don't get that nice break from studying (called class), so it feels like 3.

So I'm not in the mood to study, so I get on the computer and play around on facebook, some AE games, and the DioM forums. Now I get off that 1.5-2 hours later and I have ALLOT of studying to do, and not much time to do it. Now I can manage that, but I know that I have other things that I need to study when I get home so I don't want to push my self too hard and then have no motivation left for the stuff that I need to do.

So at the end of the day, I was less productive than if I had been in class and I feel ticked and over tired from getting up so stink'n early.

Now imaging if this happens to you a twice in a three day period (ok, one of them was my fault, he had it canceled on the syllabus, I just forgot to look at that...). Now you begin to see where I'm coming from.

[note] I realize that there are good reasons that this happened, my prof for the class today is sick, and it must be a bug that's going around because some of my other teachers have canceled class for the same reason. But it still irks me. Just a little [/note]

A snipit of my story

for those of you who don't know, I've been working on a DioM fanfiction for a little while now. Here's just a part of it. Actualy, this is the first time I've posted this part, but I'm not going to tell who this is, where they are, or what they are doing...

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"Something wrong?" I asked.

"No, I'm..." she trailed off.”Yes, something happened to me, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do, and the only one who knows anything about it left and said that she might be gone for a very long time, but that she would be back."

"Wow", I responded, not knowing what else to say. "What happened?"

"She said not to tell anyone. She said that everything is repeatable, and the wrong people might figure out how it happened and do it again, only to their benefit."

"Who's this 'she' that told you this?"

"I don't know her name..."

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thththat's all fokes!!!



Oh, and if you read this, could you comment saying so? I'm curious how many people actualy see this...

a long weekend

I've had my cousins over for the last few days, it's fun all-in-all, but I'm glad that it'll be over in a few hours.  I had fun, but boy, It's tiring looking after four kids all under that age of eight.

on a more positive note, I learned how to pop someone's shoulder out of it's socket, shatter someone's elbow, and break their wrist on saturday.  plus, on monday I should learn how to kick and punch with out any pain to my self (or at least I won't break anything...)

and I'm finally getting around to picking up my guitar again.  So all's well.

funny translator

lol! I was lurking around on facebook and found the facebook trannslator... it even translates into pirate! YARRRRR! it's hillarious to see that so-and-so scrawled on another person's plank, or that someone sent you a message in a bottle...

I'm going to co-op in a few minutes, and we get to play basketball there, and then it's off to school for chem class, then I get home, and then turn a round and go back to church (that's where co-op is) to pick up some of my cousins so that we can watch them over the weekend while their parrents are out of town.

other than, that... I don't think there is anything else much new, I got 100 percent on a quiz in econ, and I didn't ever study exsept for 5 minutes before the quiz.

My first post!!

Ok, here is my first post:

what am I supposed to put here? just miscellaneous junk?

well I'm passing micro Econ with out even trying, I'm doing well in chemistry, and typing, and I finally seem to be getting a grasp on Bio.  (all these are college level classes)

I saw the new episode of heroes (the one that came out on monday, yes, I'm slow).  I knew Hiro wouldn't kill Ando, though with peter loosing his powers, and Gabriel and Mrs. Petrelli in commas, I'm thinking that Hiro, Matt, Daphne, and that 'fear to strength guy' are going to have to step up and take out Petrelli Sr. (though Claire and HRG will have to help).