The internet at my apartment complex is still all messed up. I can logon to things like AIM and games but web pages and e-mail just don’t work. It is really great to see that the apartment management sees this as a problem (that was sarcasm by the way).

So now I am up at the BA doing my programming class assignment. It really sucks when you could do something at your own house and not have to leave…

As far as finals go, I have two left. One is tomorrow at 7:30am and the last one is on Tuesday at 4:30pm, then I’m done for this semester, finally!

When you are studying for finals everything seems to slow down and pretty much come to a halt. Well for me (and everyone at my apartment complex) the internet has been the focus of this slow down. The stupid SASSER.B worm has pretty much stopped internet traffic at our apartment and it really sucks. I can’t check e-mail, print out some online assignments or anything that has to do with the internet. And of course, the office does n’t give a crap, they pretty much ignore everyone who complains.

So enough ranting, I only have three finals left and one of them is today. Of course it’s Managerial Accounting, which for some reason I am not too stressed about. I mean, I should be stressed since the exam is worth 150 pts. but I’m not. After today I’ll have the weekend to get ready for Marketing which is an exam that will actually determine my final average.

Alright, enough school talk…

Since Accounting and Business Law are this coming week I am going to spend most of my time focusing on them. Next weekend I am devoting all of my time to Marketing so I can pull a ‘B’ out of there… Right now as it stands I have a ‘B’ in accounting but I have to make a pretty good grade on the final to keep it, yuck.

I do not know why MTV calls itself Music Television!! They barely play any music and when they do, it usually sucks. They should change the stations letters to CFTB, Crap For Teenie-Boppers…

There is a really strong storm moving into the Lubbock area and it has caused the sky to look really neat. Half of the sky is black and the other half looks like a perfect blue. I wish I had a decent camera to grab a shot of it.

Now I am just praying that my truck doesn’t take any hail damage.

Well, Google has filed with the SEC for IPO status. Google says it plans to raise $2.7 billion from the sale of its stock. They will be offering the stock in an online auction, which is a brand new way of doing things. Google claims the method will make the stock available to more people.

Google’s net income is actually higher than Amazon’s (Amazon sees more revenue but has a lot more costs).

So how do I feel about this? Well, I do like the fact that Google’s numbers are available to the people but I also see that as a bad thing. Google has to release their advertising numbers and the numbers from their AdWords and AdSense programs, which will give the competition an insight into what to charge.

I do know for a fact that the average “Joe” will not be able to afford this stock for a while. I am expecting the price to rise immediately and not taper off for a couple of years. It will be a hot buy for a while.

Well, I was looking through all of the traffic I have been getting lately and I noticed that a lot of it was coming from Google.fr which is the French version of Google. It seems that there is a TV actor that goes by the name “Badice”… I found this about him. I do not really feel like getting it translated but I think he may be on a reality based TV show.

To all of you French visitors, I am not this Badice guy, nor does this site contain anything about him! =)…. Now in French:

So, I signed up for the iTunes Music Store today… Let me just say, I am very impressed. For $.99 you can download a song and not worry about the entire album, plus you can preview the song before you buy it. If you want the whole album, the price is usually $9.99 for 12-13 songs, which blows Best Buy’s prices out of the water. The great thing about iTunes is that I can then put the songs on a CD, add them to an iPod (when I get one), or share them over a network. I am just wholeheartedly impressed with Apple and the whole iTunes idea. If you have not checked it out yet, definitely give it a look.

Just a couple of classes tomorrow and this week is over, then the finals begin.

My programming teacher tried explaining databases today. Now, he’s not the most versed person in the world of databases so it was even confusing me, and I understand databases!

At work I am trying to get a update script to work completely. Basically I am having to update multiple records with different “keys” in different tables…. ugh…. The kicker is that all of the records have to be updated at the same time. Where’s Oracle when you need it!?

Well, that’s pretty much it for today…

School is almost out! I have about a week left of classes then finals, so the end of year 2 of college is coming to a close. I am not too worried about any of the finals except for of course, Managerial Accounting. Since it is cumulative it is a whole lot of information stuffed into an eighty question test.

The final for my programming class should not be too hard at all. It is basically common knowledge things that I already know.

Now Marketing, this is where it gets interesting. We are allowed to have 12 pages of hand written notes during the test. Now, I know this sounds great and all but trying to go through 12 pages of notes to find an answer is a little crazy. I think my strategy for this one will be 6 pages of notes with extremely important stuff highlighted.

My Business Law exam is not cumulative which takes a lot of stress off. The reason being is that this guy’s tests are insanely difficult and a cumulative test would be right up there on the impossible chart.

What else is going on in my life? Well, for one, my job is going great. I really enjoy working with these guys as the work is challenging but lets me do what I like doing.

I have also recently found out that I can paint the vinyl part of my truck’s top with spray paint to make the fade go away. This is probably an undertaking that will happen when I get back to Houston because if I do it here the chances of getting dust in the paint are 100%.

Adam Polselli, has posted some great new photos of spring and the spring feel. You can take a look a them here. Very nice work Adam!