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Amazee Dayzee wrote:How long is it when you fly?

Been and returned, Amazee. An old pal was retiring, and I wanted to see him off.

Yes i know but how long was the flight? I live in Rhode Island and I'm going to NC to visit my sister and we have to fly and I am TERRIFIED of flying.

Well, your experience might be different. My first flight was NH to Baltimore, about 90 minutes. Then almost two hours layover in BWI. Finally, an hour and a few minutes down to Raleigh and a car rental to drive to Laurinburg. Hope that's reassuring, chum.

We have a direct flight which I guess is good because I don't have to worry about experiencing turbulence when we take off for the second time if we have to re-board.

After seeing that news article about the Florida plane going off the runway and into a river in my AOL feed I am SERIOUSLY hoping we don't end up having any mishaps. >.<

Well, travel well. If you don't like flying but you gotta fly, then fly direct!!

Joy: I'm almost done with classes for my entire life! Just two more weeks.

Joy (anticipated): Soooooo, you're graduating, then? Bravo, Sleet!

Joy: I only have one more class for the semester tomorrow!

Sorrow: Almost died today from caffeine overloading through my body.

Joy: Visited Heaven after getting a blessing from my brother. It is marvelous.

O_o You actually had a near-death experience from overdosing on caffeine?

Amazee Dayzee wrote:O_o You actually had a near-death experience from overdosing on caffeine?

Yes, I did. On the plus side, I got a taste of paradise as I was waiting for the almighty's verdict. Nothing pornographic but it have every possible media and video game material that could be made alongside meeting the greats and awesome stuff.

He decided I need more experience with life. That solidified my will to clean up my act as well as be the best I can be.

Joy: The rest of my furauit arrived! Stay tuned for another unboxing video, coming soon!

JamesTCat wrote:

Amazee Dayzee wrote:O_o You actually had a near-death experience from overdosing on caffeine?

Yes, I did. On the plus side, I got a taste of paradise as I was waiting for the almighty's verdict. Nothing pornographic but it have every possible media and video game material that could be made alongside meeting the greats and awesome stuff.

He decided I need more experience with life. That solidified my will to clean up my act as well as be the best I can be.

This is way more common than you know, and a good reason I don't drink coffee.

Sorrow...forgotten again...

Joy: Nice clear day today. maybe I'll take the dog to the beach.

Joy: FINALLY finished Spring Cleaning!
Sorrow: Though I'm still not done cleaning xD

Anxious: I'm waiting for my professor to post my grade for the final online.

Sorrow: Getting a sore throat, maybe a cold
Joy: I'm feeling a little better today than yesterday. But maybe that's because I went all out on the ibuprofen.

Joy: Saw Detective Pikachu (LOVED IT more then Avengers: Endgame) and got my mom two Mother's Day gifts (Thelma & Louise and The Best Of Sweet)
Joy: Saw an old friend from school as well!

Joy: My almost-brother-in-law passed his final exams! He's now officially a fully-fledged, fully-certified anaesthetist!
Joy: In 18.5 hours I'm getting on a plane and going to Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast for a few days of vacation followed by Australia's biggest furry convention!

That sounds really awesome! Do you actually surf?

Have fun, Hilaoroo, and congratulations to your almost brother-in-law

Joy: I am on the Jersey Shore as opposed to home so it is a lot cooler.

Sorrow: I might have to mow the lawn when it is 90+ at home.

Amazee Dayzee wrote:That sounds really awesome! Do you actually surf?

Nah. Surfer's Paradise is just the name of the suburb. It's so named because it does actually get decent surf at times.

Hope the fame lives up to the name! Enjoy!

A few weeks ago, I passed my two spring semester classes with flying colors. Cartography and an introductory SQL class. Cartography was easy, since I’ve been studying to get a degree in GIS for a bit now and the final was just “make two presentation-quality maps with the techniques you’ve learned.” Got a 100 on the final and a 97 in the class overall. SQL was tougher, though; I can learn the interface of mapmaking software inside and out over the course of two semesters, but memorizing a programming language is almost beyond me. Managed a B on the final and the class overall.

My summer class, Web GIS, starts up June 3rd. Probably going to have to learn how to use some markup language, but the Web GIS interface is built and managed by the same people who make the software I’ve already been using, and we already got some hands-on time with it as part of one of our Cartography assignments and it was real intuitive. I should be fine.

Overall, it feels phenomenal to finally have found something that’s so far in my wheelhouse. I just wish I’d learned about GIS sooner, closer to when I’d graduated high school. Spent way too long trying to get a Geology degree, but simply couldn’t crack the higher level math and chemistry.

...sorrow...Had to re-add all 2000+ songs to my broadcaster as a few songs didn't want to work...wasn't fun...
But the joy? Found some songs I forgot I had!

Ash Greytree wrote:A few weeks ago, I passed my two spring semester classes with flying colors. Cartography and an introductory SQL class. Cartography was easy, since I’ve been studying to get a degree in GIS for a bit now and the final was just “make two presentation-quality maps with the techniques you’ve learned.” Got a 100 on the final and a 97 in the class overall. SQL was tougher, though; I can learn the interface of mapmaking software inside and out over the course of two semesters, but memorizing a programming language is almost beyond me. Managed a B on the final and the class overall.

My summer class, Web GIS, starts up June 3rd. Probably going to have to learn how to use some markup language, but the Web GIS interface is built and managed by the same people who make the software I’ve already been using, and we already got some hands-on time with it as part of one of our Cartography assignments and it was real intuitive. I should be fine.

Overall, it feels phenomenal to finally have found something that’s so far in my wheelhouse. I just wish I’d learned about GIS sooner, closer to when I’d graduated high school. Spent way too long trying to get a Geology degree, but simply couldn’t crack the higher level math and chemistry.

Same here. Wanted to be a paleontologist, great at geology, botany, and zoology but the chemistry just didn't work. Did get to go on a couple digs much. much later so never quite lost the itch.

Why would you need chemistry to be a paleontologist?

Soil, physiological, biochemical and other compositional analytics.

Joy: Went to see the Memorial Day parade today.

Sorrow: I got sunburned. It ITCHES!

Joys: Professor's laid out the syllabus and course materials already. Everything's right there for me to download and organize into a folder. Wasn't really that big of a surprise, since the professor is the head of the GIS Department and is almost always on-point with stuff like this, but it's nice to have since the SQL class I took over the spring semester was more or less a disorganized mess. I do have to buy a textbook, but luckily it's only 50 bucks.

Sorrows: My sleep schedule is slipping. Had a good thing going over the last couple weeks, finally waking up in the morning, but over the course of this weekend I slipped back into my old habits. Going to have to fix that over the course of this week so I can settle into a good daily routine for my class.

Oh I know what you mean when it comes to a sleep schedule. I think that I have something great set up then I end up falling back into old patterns and its hard for me to fix it.

Sorrow: spent the evening drafting an obituary.

NHWestoN wrote:Sorrow: spent the evening drafting an obituary.

So sorry to hear that.

My condolences, West.

Thanks, chums … it was expected (brain cancer) but still hard. God bless, gang.

Sorry for your loss. My mother's friend just died of brain cancer and a day after that my mother's co-workers 18 month son died of leukemia.

Sorry to hear that, Dayzee.

It makes me hate the fact even more that cancer even exists and just develops for no reason. Dang it!

Cancer! You're an *******!

Sorrow: I just discovered what the inside of a scallop looks like.

Those blue orbs are it’s eyes by the way.

Joy: Ever seen a scallop "swim"? It's kinda neat...