Summer Goals and the weekend

I've come up with some goals for the summer when I'm home and working.
1. Finish learning Spanish
2. Finish learning music theory
3. Try to learn some Greek (that's a big try)

Those goals are in the making, but I really find them important.

This past weekend we got 10 inches of snow on Saturday-Sunday, however by the end of sunday most of it was already melted, due to the grown not being frozen. Friday when I got home Jonathan and David were watching "Avatar, the last airbender" which was poorly acted and the script seemed to have been written by a 10 year old...it was rather amusing. The best part was Saturday evening, David came over and brought his NES and Jonathan and I had a blast playing with him! We simply had to try out every single game, and the one called "duck hunter" had a controller pistol that you actually pointed at the screen and shot the ducks with...I mean come on, that's a system at least 15-20 years old right?

The weather is getting increasingly colder...which I'm not sure if I like or not...it's definitely refreshing. I do enjoy the quiteness that a snowy landscape leaves...almost seperation from the world and dreamlike.

I'm so irritated right now, I just typed out a very long blog entry and the internet dropped and didn't save my draft...I EVEN COPIED IT AND NOW IT WON'T PASTE. It'll be a miracle if I live my whole life and don't smash at least 50 windows computers.

ASM Dinner Conference

So yesterday, my shop manager informed us of a dinner with a lecture/presentation related to our shop...so I decided to go.
It was a very formal dinner type thing, not my forte. They started out with free drinks, of course, as a non-alcoholic I took ginger ale...but everyone and their brother was sporting a green glass bottle. There was 8 of us at a round table with a table cloth about as long as a bridal gown thing and everytime I got out from it I thought my foot was going to catch and create an avalanche of expensive glass dishes. Thankfully it didn't.
The 'appetizer' was this egg, spinach, bacon bit and mushroom salad with a dressing on top. At first I wasn't sure about it, I don't like hard-boiled eggs, nor mushrooms (EVER!), spinach is average and I do love bacon...however I wolfed it down and must say...liked it a lot. The meal consisted of stuffed chicken (AMAZING), crab cakes, green beans, bread and some noodle cheese wrap thing. It was all very good. Coffee as well. The speaker might as well have spoken in Latin, not to say he wasn't good...I just wasn't really sure as to what he was talking about exactly. I've only been at this 8 weeks...my understanding of my probable future trade isn't exactly large.

Update: Birthday

So I had my birthday yesterday, I'm not real sure how everyone found out about it...I mean I told a few people but that doesn't mean the whole campus had to know. :D
At any rate, some of the guys in my shop bought pizza for supper, so that was really cool of them. After that I went to a Jubilee launch confrence in Philly....no time to explain now because I have a few minutes before my class is over...and I'm typing this on the computer...yes, we're allowed, we covered all the material for the day. The speaker was very good, clear and focused, I really enjoyed it.
We got back around 1010pm, lights out is at 1030, so I got a 3 minute shower and was getting dressed (about 1015...don't ask where the extra 12 minutes come in, not sure myself)...and my whole dorm is yelling to me to run outside...so I quickly got dressed and then ran outside. They had made a nice cake out of tasty cake brownies and zebra cakes...with one candle. There was a bunch of people yelling and saying "Keith! Keith!"...some of them I don't really even know so it was a bit surprising. All to say that there's quite a few cool people here.
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my friend David has a birthday gift for me, I'm looking forward to seeing it (psst, I think it's a drawing)...I'm really looking forward to going home this weekend! I really need to get a camera or something so I can take pictures of things here. My blog looks rather blasse without.
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I have a personal finance test today so I really gotta go study for it