School

I have now been to four days of classes. So far so good. But then again we have only had one quiz. I did manage to get 100 on my very first quiz of this semester. Hope I can keep up some semblence to that. I have a new desktop computer now from Dell. It is the inspiron 1520. Very nice but I have not been a pc guy ever. I am having some trouble getting used to the differences. Right click....what the f is that all about? I know I will get used to this beast and learn to love it but right now it is very foreign to me. Sorry that I am not putting out very many blogs for all you allt for me.(that would be southern talk) to read but I won't be able to do much about that.

The homework is already being piled up but so far I am wading through it. Lots of reading to do also. Damn my brain isn't used to this much thinking. But I do like it. I am really glad I decided to do this. There will be days (daze?) when I might question my sanity about this going to college thing but I know I will be rewarded in the end. Plus the support I am getting from Leigh is great. She was a grad student several years ago so she knows what is happening to me. One of the things I don't like about being away from home all day is that many of my jobs at home are now turning in Leigh's jobs. She has to work all day too so I feel a little bit bad when she does my chores. I am also working about 15 hours a week too. Mind you none of this is whining or complaing just merely stating facts. I am very lucky to have a wife who is so supportive of my new goals in life.

I hope everyone is doing great. Keep on blogging so I can keep up with all you are doing.

On a side note now. Hey Man Computer World aka Mikey get it together dude. How about a few posts?

Chilly Start

I noticed when I went outside this morning that there was a bit more of a chill than we have had since probably last May. As I walked to the barn to feed the horses and chickens I noticed that there was frost on the windrows from where I had been mowing with the tractor yesterday. WhenI got back to the house I looked at the thermometer and sure enough---36 degrees. What the frost is up with that? I heard no warnings that it might get cold last night. I suppose the real test of how cold it was last night is to look at the basil. And it is fine. So we had very scattered frost last night. We have only just gotten our first few red tomatoes. It can't frost yet. Just had corn last night. Still needed a few more days on the stalk but I was getting impatient.

Yesterday we did some harvesting in the bean and broccoli rows. Leigh froze about 12 quarts of yellow beans and I froze 10 quarts of broccoli. We now have over 50 qts of beans, mostly green, and about 40 qts of broccoli in our new upright freezer. Plus we have about a dozen quarts of raspberries. Oh we have a few qts of peas too. Our old freezer was a small, old(35 years), chest freezer. Now we have a new energy efficient 17 cu ft frost free freezer.

What to wear on my first day of school....

I remember back a few decades ago when it was the first day of school. We would always get our clothes out the night before. Well we did it for a few years but of course MCW and beermaker stopped that long before Lynn and I did. But I just happened to think about that as tonight is back to school eve for me. I am very nervous about this. I want to do really well. I want to get great grades. I don't question my ability to do this as I proved to myself durint the Summer Bridge that I am able to do the work. I think I am nervous because it is a new beginning. Entering into unknown areas. I don't think my being nervous is a bad thing. I think it is a very common thing. I will try to keep you up to date on my progress.

I was going to take a picture of the boys in my closet deciding for me what to wear tomorrow but I just don't have the energy right now to do it. So just imagine that photo is included in this post.

Happy Birthday Mom.....Part 2

Hello All,

I was a little quick on the draw on my first birthday post.

I hope you have a great day today Mom as you enter into your eighth decade. WOW....you are going to catch Sudsy if you keep up this rate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from all your Vermont friends and relatives.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

What the ....part 2

I am going to send a letter to the NCAA to see if I can find out why I didn't get tickets this year. I hope they respond to my query.

Summer Bridge

It went by even faster than I thought it would. My summer bridge program ended today. All we had today was a ten minute meeting with the physics and math professors. I had a good chat with them. For the second week in a row I got 100% on my end of the week math tests. My physics test from two weeks ago was 70%. Third highest in our small class. I am happy to report that on my test this week I received a 78%. Highest grade in the class. Nice way to close out the program. I am really happy I took this bridge program. It will be nice to have some other classes such as Surveying and CAD in addition to Chemistry and Tech Math.

Good to be past the first hurdle.

What the......

How could the NCAA Ice Hockey selection process do this to me? After 3 successful years of going to the Frozen Four I was denied tickets this year. I got my notice in the mail today. So of course I called the beermaker immediately to tell him of my woes. All we could figure was that people who were higher on the list (that is more than 3 FFs to their credit) who had not gone in the past decided to go this year. I have no other explanation. Unless the beermaker and Ray got luckier than I, we will be buying our FF tickets this year from eBay.

Damn.....or as Frank would say "Holy Crap"

gotta get back to my studying.