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]