Quick Cash

Well this is a quick college update, Will; one of my roommates made $30. We were supposed to right down goals and turn them into our RA. We had will turn in one saying "Bang the RA". He also put a real goal on there too. She read it and laughed so much. We are still laughing about it.
Than 2 of us decided to put on towel capes and walk around the building. Some people gave us funny looks, but no one asked. Though we might have scared the guy in the elevator.

Towel Man Away!!!

Moving Day!!

Well I suck at keeping up on my posting. So cry me a river.

Anywho, I moved in to college yesterday. I am living in one of the best buildings on campus at UNCC. We have a suite with two rooms attached to one living room and bathroom, all shared by four people. My classes start on Monday and I hope I do well in them. Post more tonight.

How To Waste a Indefinite length of time

How To Waste a Indefinite length of time

By: Evan Schatz

Early this morning my father informed me that I had a Dermatologist appointment at 2:30 that afternoon. Visiting the dermatologist dose not bother me, but the fact that we use the best one in the state and there is a minimum hour long wait to get in. A typical visit starts with me arriving 10 minutes early, and signing in on the registry. Than I wait anywhere from the unusual 45 minutes wait to get called to a room, to the normal 1 hour and 10 minute wait, or all the way to the sometimes 2 and a half hour wait. Now after all that time sitting in a completely silent room, where all you hear is the flipping of pages in woman’s magazines, you think you would get in a room and the doctor would see you. But instead you wait more, this second wait time vary in length and can easily be expressed in words, but since I am now in the doctors waiting room trying to kill time with my new laptop I will instead create some mathematical formulas to represent the time that you have to wait.

First I need to create some variables:

t₁ = The first wait time

t2 = The second wait time

A simple idea could be something along the lines of:

t1(1/2)=t2

or in basic terms the second wait time is half the first, but this is only true is basic terms, where as there is in fact a margin or error in calculating this statistic and given a sample of wait times I could calculate that. Maybe I will start to record wait times in order to find this out.

But to be more accurate I could include the time of day and number of people in the equation, possibly a coefficient derived from both added to the equation would work. And if I am going that far why not add in external factors such as time of year, day of the week and so on. Why, if I was not so lazy, and limited by battery life than I could accurately predict just how long I will have to be sitting here.

But I digress.

Even with all of that I am still sitting here in a silent room getting funny glances from people over there magazines because I am typing on my laptop in the middle of the doctor’s waiting room; I can imagine their thoughts now as they look at me. Something along the lines of this:

“look at the young man over there, so caught up in modern technology that he has to carry around on of those machines with him where ever he goes. I bet he couldn’t go for one day with out that infernal contraption on his lap.”

Well, for your information imaginary person; I just got this thing and I have lived for years of my life without it.

“look at that weird guy over their with that laptop, who dose he think he is with that thing anyway? Just because he is rich enough to be able to afford one of those things dose not mean he is better than me!”

I may be weird, but I am most assuredly not rich, in fact I had to get this thing for collage and my dad paid for it. And I am better than you even with out this thing anyway.

“Look at that hot guy over their with the fancy laptop, I wonder if I can get his phone number”

Sorry ladies I am already taken.

So as you can see, the waiting room is full of strange people, one of which is on a laptop and paranoidly imagining what other people are thinking about him.

[[Life lesson #1: avoid waiting rooms, the crazy people will get you if you don’t, and all doctors do is witchcraft any way.]]

What was that just now in the double brackets? That was my new blog feature I just made up, where I point out important life lessons in my writing.

So after all that typing I am still here… waiting.

Well I went off and waited for while, listening to music and what now. But I just overheard that they are a hour behind, but when they admit that it really means they are much more than an hour behind. Oh well, I still got 58% battery remaining and my power supply cord if I really wanted to keep running. I disabled my wireless antennas and turned my screen brightness all the way down; that should conserve my battery a little more. This is a good test of the power system and power saving setup. There is quite a difference between the predicted battery life when in ‘power saver’ vs. ‘performance’ mode. Almost and hours and a half extra time.

Wow, this is turning into a 2 page long rant in MS Word. Oh well, no one reads my stuff anyway so I guess no one minds a long post.

Well I think I changed the room’s impression of me, an elderly woman with a walker tried to leave, but she was having difficulty with the heavy door. When I looked and saw this the rest of the room just watched, probably wondering I the old woman would make it or not, while also thinking about dinner or something. So I pulled out my earbuds and set my $1800 laptop on the floor to hold the door open for that woman to get out. Now I remember why I hate people, they never help anyone but themselves.

[[Life Lesson #2: Old Ladies can be funny to watch, but helping them is a good thing. Helping someone out make you feel better about yourself.]]

Haha! I used the life lesson thing more than once! It might catch on with me.

Well, now they say there an hour and twenty minutes behind. I have been here for exactly and hour and twenty minutes so I hope I will get through soon. I helped another elderly person with a walker through the door, so now the room probably thinks I am Jesus or something. At 38% battery on maximum power saver I have exactly 1 hour remaining.

Well finally I was called in to see the doctor, 2 hours after my appointment. Although I only waited for five minutes for him to come see me, which is strangely short. I had my five minutes with the doctor, than I left. Making an appointment for another visit in six months, better bring my laptop again.

Sunset Beach

Well, I have been at Sunset Beach since Saturday, and I am leaving Friday morning. I love it up here. Every year we rent a beach house on the far end of the island where it is not very crowded and spend a week or two relaxing. My days here consist of waking up, applying sunscreen and eating, walking up the street to the beach assess and than onto the beach. Once on the beach I set up my chair and umbrella, and chill. Sometimes I dig a hole, sometimes I swim, I read my book in the shade, than toss discus in the water. Around lunch time I walk back down to the beach house, shower, then make some nachos for lunch. Some times in the afternoon I head back to the beach, other times I read or go into the small shops in Calabash.

My only link to the outside world is either my stolen wireless signal or my cell phone that only gets reception on the roof. Hopefully I will be not lazy and I will post some more about my vacation when I get back. After I leave here Friday, I got on a canoe trip on the New River, then onto Student Orientation at UNCC.

Love of my Life

I have never mentioned her in a post before, but I think she deserves some recognition. For over Five months now I have had the greatest Girlfriend in the world. We had been friends for quite a while beforehand, and afterward it just seemed so obvious that we where made for each other. As per my policy I don't give out and specific personal information about people, but suffice it to say she is beautiful (and pocket sized). I just felt like posting something about her and how luck I am to have her.

I have never mentioned her in a post before, but I think she deserves some recognition. For over Five months now I have had the greatest Girlfriend in the world. We had been friends for quite a while beforehand, and afterward it just seemed so obvious that we where made for each other. As per my policy I don't give out and specific personal information about people, but suffice it to say she is beautiful, and pocket sized. I just felt like posting something about her and how luck I am to have her.

Green Thumb

It’s been a while and I need to post an update post, but that’s boring. So I got one of them to do later. For now I have a random and unlikely topic to blab on.

I came home today to find piles of rosemary branches on my driveway, now to any one else this would mean my dad has killed the rosemary bush and thrown it all away. But to me, it means the bush just got a trim, there is no way he could have cut down our massively large rosemary bush in one day. Well I had been meaning to root some more rosemary for some people, so I decided to root a few of the branches my dad was throwing out.

The first thing I needed was something to put the branch in soaking in water so it will grow roots, I normally used glass jars, but I didn’t have any so after a few minutes of searching I found a large number of deer park water bottles. By cutting the tops off and inverting them back down into the bottle I created the perfect rosemary holder. I made four of theses and put two sprigs in each one and placed them on my windowsill than held them in place with some spring clips. Hopefully they will root in a few weeks and I can give them away.

Great ...

So with all this rain the ground is saturated and the water table is rising, unfortunately the water that flows underground hits one of the walls to the crawl space under my house, which in turn works into the crawlspace. In short the area under my house is flooding. And when this happens who's job is it to crawl down there in the water and set up the electric pump? Mine!

But hey, life's not all bad. I found out I have one reader! She even commented once! And thats why I love her. So if their are any more of you out there, comment.

8 Ohm Wonder

So along time ago I rescued my dads 21 or so year old stero system. What’s left is the original amplifier, the tuner, and phonograph. The tape deck is dead. I set up the system with a large FM radio antenna and some small 8 ohm speakers. I later added a tie in for my mp3 player. Well that set up was fine and good, but I always enjoyed the sound of some large speakers with subwoofers that shake the whole room. But for a while I was content. But recently I have felt the urge to hear my Boston and Doobie Brothers in their loud and right form. So I ventured to my local Goodwill (my major supplier of things I want cheep) and found a set of very nice 8 ohms. I spent a few minutes wiring them in to the secondary channel, and I was off. There is something about large speakers that allows them to sound loud and deep without sounding like they are trying hard. Right now I am leaning back, with Boston playing loudly and crisply; annoying my parents and watching the end of Star Trek.

Life is good.

So Yea...

If you haven’t noticed, (and I know no one reads this so I know no one noticed) I haven’t posted at all recently. Why? Because I am a lazy slacker and don’t do much of anything online that requires typing. I aim to change this, so I might post a bit some. Hey what do you know? I might even say something interesting. If you non-existent readers have anything you want to read about email me or leave a comment and I will write about it. Email to: wesjansonni (at) hotmail.com

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