Things that go on in my life that cannot be catagorized somewhere else, sort of a catch-all
We were supposed to come back with two cats, but we ended up with only one. The cat that I wanted doesn’t like other cats. Poo. So we’re going to check the Denver Dumb Friends League on Friday (or maybe tomorrow if I can make it work). Ben’s cat is named Kitty. Original, isn’t it?
I’m getting a cat. Kind of big news. Sorry it’s not a girlfriend or anything like that. Just a cat. I’ll be back in an hour or so. Check back then for more details!
In case you’ve been out of touch with reality for the last few weeks, here’s a quick recap of what going on in my life for the month of August (’cause we all know it’s about the Ferg):
In the three weeks that I’ve been in Colorado and the week or so that I’ve actually been in school, a lot has happened. First I moved into my house and at some point, I promise to post pictures to my site. I’m the chief engineer for our brand spankin’ new Internet Radio Station (Mines Internet Radio, or MIR as we call it [cue the Soviet jokes just about…..now]). That involved quite a bit of running around and cajoling (yes, that is a real word). But the fruits of my labor have almost paid off. Check out http://radio.mines.edu now to see what little we have, but don’t forget to check back in about a week or so to see how much things have changed (in short, we’re waiting on some licenses so we are sort of limited to what we can do right now). The Sunday before school started, I went this little community church not far from where I live. It was awesome, even though the service was a little long this week (2+ hours). I didn’t go last Sunday because of a scheduling snafu, but I plan on going this Sunday. I also think I found a Bible Study with some other Sophomores. School started last Tuesday. It was definitely (see, I can spell that word now) a different experience than last year. I actually knew who some of my teachers where and, more importantly, where I was going. For the record, I am taking Calculus II, Chemistry II, Physics I, Physics Studio (the lab part of Physics I), Human Systems, and Handball. I plan on not only passing each class, but doing so with good marks. Tomorrow, something interesting will happen between 12 and 1pm MDT time, so check my site tomorrow anytime after that for the low down on what’s going on. I’ll even post a spoiler in the morning, but only viewable to those that register at my site (yes, a little shameless marketing): http://www.andrewferguson.net/wp-register.php
I’m going to have some rather exciting news tomorrow around 1pm MDT (which is 12pm PDT or 7pm GMT). Sorry, can’t say anything about it now, so don’t even bother calling (yes Dad, that’s targeted at you).
Mike took a shower in the downstairs bathroom and now he can’t turn the water off. I took a look at it and I can’t figure it out either. Kevin Hunt, our landlord is getting back from his vacation today, so I left him a message. Hopefully he’ll call us back soon. I need to go to class now.
First Monday of the school year. Not a very exciting school day: Physics, Calc, Handball, Chem. I did get my loan check today, so I was able to pay my tuition and rent. Ben, Chris, Mike, Jens, and myself went and looked at cats too. Ben almost got one and we’ll be back tomorrow to get Benzyl (that’s what Ben named her, he’s a Chem E major).
And our Comcast Highspeed Internet is going slow again. Ben’s going to chew them out.
Laura and Amy had a Taco Party at their house. A group of us (Paul, Emily, Shanan, Amy, Michael, and Emily…am I missing anyone?) had a great little talk about Autism, squeezing cows, creating a cottage chalk-making industry in Uzbekistan, and trying to condense quantum mechanics into a 60 second song. Links here and here.
Ugh. Comcast is here right now, taking a look at our cable modem connection. It’s been really slow lately. I didn’t get to bed until 4am this morning, so I’m running on really nothing right now. Oh, but this does remind me about my little billing fiasco with Comcast earlier this week.
I called into Comcast on Tuesday because of an error in our billing. They charged us $29.99 to install Cable TV, even though we didn’t order TV. They also over-billed us for the cable internet. So they get it all worked out and I hang up and not even 5 minutes passes and the Nancy from Comcast calls me back saying that she talked with her supervisor and she actually can’t credit us the $29.99 for the Cable TV install…saying it has something to do with the fact that we didn’t have cable before….yada yada yada.
You have got to be shitting me! I’m thinking. Did you seriously call me back to say that you made a mistake in my favor and want to take it back? Yea…I don’t think so. So I says, “But you already told me that you could.” And that pretty much took care of that. But still! If there were another way to get high speed internet, I would dump Comcast in a femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second). Idiots!
Quinn got a gmail account and really like Google Talk. So I’m going to try it out. My username is fergbrain [att] gmail [doot] com.
Our team, Team Seattle (No Witnesses), and Kinski McStonesberry (Dead End Job) won the Audience Award! That’s freaking awesome! Check out our awarding winning film: No Witnesses.