The Fintons

This is how it’s supposed to be

Well, as life never lets me down, one of my classes is being taught by the devil.

Okay, maybe he’s not the devil, but he sure knows how to torture.  And he has these little beady eyes that make me think he is really evil deep down and enjoys seeing people fail.

Or maybe it’s just me.

As my blog is horribly uninteresting, and I think I’m pretty much the only one that reads it, I find it pretty easy to not hold back when talking about people who might stumble upon my blog.  I’m confident that I am safe here in my little bubble.  Safe is squishy.

Erik’s birthday is in 10 days.  He will be 3.  As mother’s go, I am a pretty sucky one, so I’m not so sure what we are doing for his birthday.  Or what we are getting him for that matter.  Maybe he would like a new computer.  Or maybe I would like one and I’m using his birthday as an excuse.  Heh.

Tags: Erik Milestones, Rambling, School

Score

So I feel like I won the lottery.  Husband forgot to insist to watch a Christmas Story on Christmas day.

I hate that movie.  And all the sayings.  So Merry Christmas, to me!

Tags: Rambling

Headache

I really have a horrible headache.  My eyes hurt.

I’m done with school, but I can’t access myslice because it’s down, so I have no idea if I have gotten any grades yet.  I shouldn’t really expect to get any until like the week before we go back.

So I have a month off now.  And nothing to do!  *sigh*  I went from being potentially really busy, to, well, not.busy.at.all.  Sucks.

Tags: Rambling, School

Blahblahblah

I’m sick of the constant every.minute.of.my.life.updates on facebook.

Me thinks I’ll *hide* all these people.  Sheesh.

Tags: Rambling

I hate cars!

Owning a car is ridiculously expensive! Worse, they all cost the same really. You can buy a reliable vehicle that is maintenance free and doens’t give you any grief, but you’re going to end up paying $500 or more a month for a loan and then a ton for insurance. On the other hand, you can get yourself something cheaper, but then you’re probably going to be forking out cash to keep the freakin thing running! Either way, you’re screwed!

Tags: Life, Rambling

Wordpress Junk

I really like Wordpress, a lot.  Of all the Content Management Systems (CMS)/blog systems that I have used (and I’ve used a LOT), Wordpress takes the cake.  I think it’s powerful, easy to use, easy to manage, very easy to understand and tweak, and has a HUGE assortment of plugins.

That plethora of plugins is also it’s biggest downfall.  It seems like for every one good plugin I find, there are at least ten more bad ones that either screw everything up, don;t work as expected, or just plain don’t do anything.

Kinda annoying if you ask me!

Tags: Rambling, Website, Wordpress

Matching Christmas P.J.’s

Okay, so I really want these P.J.’s.

But, if I get them, it’s around $170. Now I think these are pretty much down right adorable, but, I just can’t see spending this much on P.J.’s for one morning. *sigh* I wish I could blindly spend money and not care.

Tags: Life, Rambling

Ugh

I gotta tell ya, I hate the Sirius online listening system. If you are using anything other than Internet Explorer, the artist and song will not display. So, are you going to pay oodles a month for a streaming radio station when you can listen online at random places for free…and they display the artist name and the songs?

If you own a Sirius radio and pay for the subscription, you have to pay 3 dollars EXTRA a month to use their internet player as well. WTH!

Get a grip, Sirius. Seriously.

Tags: Music, Rambling

Who needs high school when you have Google?

So a guy at work is planning an addition to his house and wanted to buy some nice windows off Craigslist for the addition.  The windows go in the gables of the house and he needed to know the angle of the windows to see if they ere the same as the angle of the roofline.  We knew the dimensions of the windows, but not the angles.  Sounds like a textbook trigonometry example from high school to me.  Ya know, the kind that your math teacher claims you’ll need in the real world after somone complains “why do we have to learn this crap?!”

So, here we are.  Three intelligent, reasonably educated IT professionals, a white board, and plenty of computing power.  After some head scratching we were able to remember “SOHCAHTOA” and what it stood for (Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent), but that was about it…

Next, came the power of Google!  A simple search for “tangent triangle” and a click on the second result labeled “right triangles” and we had our answer about two paragraphs down!

The result?  5 minutes of head scratching followed by less than 2 of skimming a Google search result and we had our answer.

So tell me, why did I take 4 years of highs school math (including a year of trigonometry) and then a bunch of classes in college as well?  Yea, I know we remembered that we needed tangent, but I’m sure Google would have given us the answer even if we didn’t know what we needed.  Just kind of shows how times have changed in the 25 years I’ve been alive (almost 26 as Patti would point out).

Tags: Rambling, School, Work

Der

So, in one of my classes I no longer need the book.  Seriously.

I have only just finished the first half of the semester, and the book is now useless.  I am literally thinking of selling it.  After tomorrow night I have one grade left for the entire semester for that class.  I can literally skip the rest of the year if I wanted to because all I have to turn in is a paper.  But yet a month ago I was in a rush about that class because I had all of these things due and a midterm.

C’mon professor, you get paid enough, you think you would be able to write a simple schedule.

Tags: Rambling, School