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Running around Greenlake

I had to get up at 7:30 this morning…at Saturday morning…just to go run around Greenlake. But wait, it gets better! I had to do it in under 30 minutes…and to even my amazement, I did! In 29 minutes and 30 some seconds, just under the cutoff. Perhaps even more impressive than running around all 3.2 miles of Greenlake in under 30 minutes was the fact that I didn’t see a single Canadia Goose! Not a single one! Not even a trace of one. What ever the Seattle Parks Department did, it worked. No crap on the bottom of my shoes this time ’round.

The end is near

Well, I just finished by 5th and final Final of my entire high school career. It feels rather good, however, also unsettling. While I work on closing one book in my life, I have to work on opening a brand new book. This has never really been done before, so it will be an interesting time.

Culmination of my High School Career

Tomorrow pretty much begins the begin of the end for high school. After four years of pain and suffering, I’m almost done and get to move on to 4+ more years of pain and suffering at college. However, some exciting things have been happening. As I’ve already mentioned multiple times, Andy and Julia were married on Sunday. I also am going to start working on seting up my Windows Server 2003 box today. Tomorrow I have my English test, which will conclude an entire trimester of various trips to hell and back. I also have my final vocal performance. Thursday has a Physics test at 8:30am followed by a Project Materials test at 10:30. I finish the week with a Calc II test and an American Government test. Sounds like buckets of joy…but not.

A sense of completeness

Well, Andy and Julia were married today at approximately 1:40pm PST. Afterwords, I felt an unusual sense of completeness, that I had done whatever I needed to do and that I could begin working on whatever I needed to work on next. There’s no telling about what my job was that I complete or what I will work on next, but it feels good. The world feels good. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are heading to Mexico for about the next week or so. All I can really say is Happy Honeymooning and thanks for letting me be a part of you life and your wedding.

Yours Truly,

Andrew Ferguson[sig]

Times are a changin’

This past week has been rather busy. However, it has also given me a chance to reflect about the past four years the next four to six years. On Friday, I was able to spend a day at CSM and unless CSM falls off the face of the Earth, or CalPolybecome non-traditional, or Caltech suddenly becomes less liberal, Golden, Colorado will be my next stop. Then on Monday and Tuesday, the entire Senior class went to Camp Burton to discus graduation at Meany Hall. That sort of set into motion the idea that there really is only a limited time left. I think that changed the entire attitude of the Senior class. And now today, I’m working on the slide show for one of my buddies who’s getting married in 3 days!! So much has happened, is happening, and will happen over the few months, it’s going to be amazing. The farthest event that I’ve put on my calendar is starting college and that’s only 6 months away or so. I’m not even out of high school. Between now and then I have to:

  • Andy and Julia’s Wedding
  • Ski @ Whistler
  • Hike @ Canyonlands
  • Build @ Mexico
  • Finish School
  • Senior Project @ UW
  • Work on Graduation
  • Upgrade the Server Hardware
  • Upgrade the Server to W2K3 Server
  • Figure out long term plans for fergcorp.com and andrewferguson.net
  • Configure the entire network to either run by itself or remotely from my dorm in Colorado
  • Graduate
  • Say Goodbye
  • Day Camp
  • Clean my room
  • Pack
  • Go to Shasta
  • Migrate to Colorado

…among other things. And that’s just the major stuff I can think of right now. I’m almost afraid to blink my eyes because everything is going to pass by so fast. Ack.

Feeling the pressure

So while I didn’t have an ear infection, the doctor did say that I had fluid in the middle part of my right ear, more specificly, the Eustachian Tube. When there was a pressure change, the tube could not open

Colds, College Trips, and Ear Infections, oh my!

Interestingly enough, all three things I mentioned above fit together. About a week ago, I developed a pretty bad cold. By Wednesday the cold was in full swing and I had to fly to Colorado for a college tour. Well, living in Seattle at an elevation of about 30 feet above sea level, I had to equalize my ear. This happened to be bad. I assume that some of fluid from my cold leaked into the middle chamber of my right ear where it had the chance to grow some more bacteria and become a ear infection…I think. I called the nurses hotline (not the 900 number one, the real nurses hotline) and then scheduled an appointment for the doc first thing tomorrow morning. We’ll see if I get this one right.

The past few days

The past few days have been rather hectic. On Monday and Tuesday, I went in for some spiffy brain scanning called SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) which involves the intravenious injection of Technium-99, a gamma emiting agent often used in nuclear medicene with a half-life of just 6 hours. The Technium flows to certain parts of the brain where the SPECT machine can detect it. Results should be back within a few weeks.

Then on Wednesday, I finally got my cell phone fixed. Funny story there, I had been to the Verizon store in South Center. One of the sales person their said that I was eligle to upgrade and would recieve $100 of the phone if I signed a new 2 year contract (my contract had just expired less then 2 weeks ago). However, I had to wait for my father becuase he was the one paying the bills. It makes complete sense and I had no complaints. So then the sales person puts a little note in the computer system saying that I’m eligble for the $100 rebate and that I just needed my father. Since my dad was Chicago at the time, I him call Verizon and say that it was okay for my mother to be present. We went into the Downtown store and the sales rep tells us that since I’m a second line on my mothers cellphone plan, I don’t qualify for the rebate. We tell him the entire story, he goes and looks in the database and bam…free phone. So Verizon pretty much gained some very good points in my book, at least enough to talk about them.

I get the phone, go to the airport, catch my 11am flight to Colorado on a 777. That was fun. I have pictures and will upload them as soon as I get a chance.

Then today I went to Colorado School of Mines, and toured the campus, again. I got to talk with one of the prof’s. Tomorrow I get to follow a student around for the whole day. That should prove to be exciting.

Hey ya!

Hey ya!

I’m not what you would call a contempory music aficionado. Most of what I listen to is based on what other people play and what I happen to like. However, I know nothing about who plays what and what band members are in what group and soforth. I have heard Hey Ya, the latest hit from OutKast. I also, by random chance, watched the Andre 3000 perfom the song at the Grammy’s the other week. Today, however, it appears that Native American’s are launching an attack against CBS, OutKast, Arista, and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. I’m thinking, “What they heck are you complaing about??” It so happened that OutKast’s little dance routine used war paint, feathers, and fringe. Now you’ve really got to be joking.  Do you think I would get upset if someone were to drink grape juice, or wine, and eat bread in a music video? No! (I’m refering to communion. Grape juice is typically subsitiuted for wine, the blood of Christ) Why? Becuase those things are not specific to my religion and are in public domain, just like fringe, paint, and feathers. Perhaps the only case anyone has is using war paint, but even that is crap. If you want to after someone for using war paint, then you better go after every Major League Baseball player who uses paint under their eyes. “Tom Bee, an Albuquerque record producer and musician…was particularly angered that the dancers who accompanied Benjamin wore feathers, a sacred symbol for Natives.” Yea…you’ve definatly got to be kidding me.

That’s just scary!

I was working on adding some meta tags to my website and happened to be a TerraServer.com so I could get the lat/long coordinates for my house. When I went to get them, I noticed that TerraServer had some new pictures taken in ’02. So I looked at them. And, yea…they were awesome. 1/2 meter color resolution. It was absolutely fantastic. Anyways, click on the roofs of the houses below and try to figure out which one is mine.