Something title-like.

I never made the ChapStick flashlight. Instead, I got all the necessary parts, and then managed to snap a wire off my LED right at the plastic. Sucks.

But I'm back at school now, and trying not to slack off too much. I remember that homework sucks again. I'm thinking about getting a job, which will make getting homework done more unlikely. This stuff is getting pretty tough, but I guess that's what I expected.

My apartment is sweet, though. The roommate got a new TV over the summer, along with a media center PC. It is beautiful. We watch a lot of movies now.

So I'm going to finish off a few more saltines and this bottle of Gatorade, and then crash under my loft.

That's right. The bed is under the loft, and the desk is on top. Amazing, I know.

Here's a shot:

Yep. Good night.

Man, I don't use this much.

So I'm obviously off to a good start.

I'm making a ChapStick flashlight, but in order to do it, I'm going to have to go buy an A23 battery and some resistors. Eh, RadioShack.... That place is okay, I guess. I always end up spending more than I mean to there.

Olympics, man. Olympics. You already know what happened, so that's enough of that.

I'm working my way through some new bands. They aren't actually new, but I'm just starting to listen to them. Examples: Lydia, All Time Low, The Ting Tings, Cobra Starship, and This Providence. Thanks, Last.fm.

I need to face the other way in order to watch some gymnastics, so this is the end.

Later.

I decided something.

(Taken from Facebook)

I'm not going to go to Bolivar so often this school year. It was too expensive, and I'd like to make some friends in Rolla sometime before Lee graduates. Sorry if that disappoints anyone.

I also need to meet some girls. So there's that.

Later.

The junk in my pockets.

I was reading stuff on my trusty Google Reader a little while ago, when I saw this Lifehacker article with a link to this Instructable, which I'll probably do sometime.

But on the the Lifehacker article, I saw links to some show and tell albums where people showed what they carry in their pockets or their "go bags".

Then I decided to empty my pockets and take a picture of the stuff in them, and decided that this was the obvious place to put it.

The only problem is that I don't have a digital camera readily available right now, other than the one on my iPhone, which I won't be using because that would leave it out of the picture. My friend, Dan, is on his way over, so I'll find my camera and finish this later.

If a large (or any) number of people read this blog, I'd feel like a big jerk posting this without the whole reason for its creation. But fortunately for me, that isn't an issue.

Wait for the update....

UPDATE:



So here's the list:
1. Black, 8GB, iPhone 3G
2. Orange Tic Tacs
3. Wallet
4. Cheap Gerber knife from Walmart
5. Keys and stuff. Actually on my belt loop, but close enough.

Nail gun update.

I don't have to pay for the whole thing, but part of it. That's a little better.

On a side note, I want to go to Chick-fil-a.

Nail guns are expensive.

Wednesday was easily the worst day of work I've ever experienced.

I won't go into the fact that I wasn't planning on working this job ever again after last week, because I would feel immature and selfish, which I probably am.

I was on a rooftop, nailing some siding up on the face of a wall between that roof top and another one a few feet above it. I finished putting up the siding and started my descent, with my boss/coworker's nail gun attached to a hook on my tool belt, but the gun got to the ground much, much faster than I did.

It slipped off the hook while I was climbing cautiously down the ladder on the roof, slid 15 or so feet down the roof I was on, fell about 6 feet to a lower roof, then bounced or slid off that one the remaining 12 or so feet to the ground. After the obligatory "are you okay?" from a different coworker, I asked if the gun was broken, even though I already knew the answer.

"That gun cost $497," I'm told. Wonderful. After lunch the gun's owner told me it was about $200 worth of repairs, but he didn't ask me to pay for it or anything.

Being stupid, I didn't know how to respond. Then I was home sick yesterday, and today it's raining. That's actually what I was hoping for, because, as you may have guess, I hate this job. I hate it more now, though, that I'll barely be keeping any of the money I earned this week, thanks to gravity.

It's funny how it takes me 20 hours to earn $200, but only about 5 seconds to lose it again.

Float Trip Madness

There really wasn't any madness involved, but I thought it sounded good.

I haven't written anything here since before I got the iPhone 3G to work, which was over a week ago. I went to Bolivar, so that's probably why.

Then I came back and went floating, and these are the highlights of the trip:

1. Driving under not just one, but two stealth bombers on the way to the river. Those things are incredibly cool. Unfortunately, after taking a sweet picture on my phone to post on Twitter, I accidentally tapped the "Retake" button instead of the "Use photo" button, and lost it forever.

2. Wearing the same clothes for over two days. Granted, I had the shirt off a lot, but still. Who isn't homeless and does that? And it was completely okay just because of the context.

3. Rain. It pretty much only rained while we were on the river, which was surprisingly nice. It kept things cool and relaxed, and we didn't have to worry about much sunburning.

4. "Epic fog". That's what we called it. I could see approximately 30 feet in any direction for a while during the float, and that was cool. My buddy and I may as well have been alone on the river, since we somehow got a mile or so ahead of the rest of our friends.

5. No-stop pee breaks. Thanks to the fog, we could just stand up and aim sideways, and there was nobody around to mind.

6. Skipping rocks. It's just fun.

7. Putting on sunglasses to allow less obvious people watching. I only did this once, but it was effective and worth it.

8. No phone service. It's always nice every now and then. I did still use the iPhone to watch an episode of Weeds yesterday afternoon when everyone but me passed out, and I used it to listen to Death Cab for Cutie to drown out the obnoxious cicadas last night when I went to sleep, but the actually phone/communication part was nowhere to be found until the trip back.

9. No chicks. I think that's a lot of the reason we got done floating sooner than expected, leaving plenty of time for the afternoon nap during which I watched Weeds.

10. Using up the last of the firewood, along with some lighter fluid, to melt a few pop cans. It was just cool in pretty much every way.


That seems like a good number. I'm going to bed because I have to get up and get back to work tomorrow. Construction is not for me, by the way. Thank God for college.