Spring Semester

So I missed the deadline last Friday for enrollment into my bank's health insurance plan, which means that I must continue on as a full-time student to stay on my parents' insurance. Loan deferment is a perk, but my payments are not unmanageable. Insurance on the other hand, that's life or death man.

Which brings me to my problem: Should I take German 2 or retake Spanish 3?

German
Pros: Easy, cool to speak, useful if I go back to Germany, good teacher
Cons: Useless if I don't go back to Germany, impractical unless I study in Germany/Work in Germany/Marry a German chick/become Amish

Spanish
Pros: Completely practical and useful, can actually have a meaningful conversation with my grandma
Cons: Already taken up to Spanish 3 and forgot most of it, will probably have to do a considerable amount of HW (considerable in the sense that I don't have ANY in German)

Also: podcast coming this week.

Word to yo mother

Compaq

My dad is back from Singapore, which means I have my laptop back. Oh happy days are here again.

Bored

I like how the last time I updated this thing my computer was having problems, and once again its acting up. Its not nearly as bad back then - that malware BS SUCKED - but I'll still likely have to replace the RAM, and if so I might as well take the time to upgrade my CPU and board, and that's going to cost all kinds of money I don't want to spend.

My Saturday...

If this wasn't the highlight of the month, then its at least tied for the title. Its Stone, so the beer was obviously spectacular; nice and strong, right up my alley. I brought back a 2L growler of some Barley Wine style Ale. Sooo good. The Mac n' Cheese I got at the bistro was really good too. The brewery tour was sweet, and the only "cost" was time. Chris and I got there a little before 3 and had to spend the hour in the gift shop to score the limited tickets they distributed at 4 for the 6 o'clock tour. The food, beer and souvenirs did cost me around $60 total, but it was pretty well worth it, and definitely worth going back (if for nothing else then to fill the growler).

Afterwards I picked up Lah for some jamming and hanging out. Then around 10 Chris rolls on over with Gran Turino and Slum Dig Millionaire. Gran Turino was such a great movie. I don't know if Clint Eastwood being a super racist and abrasive was intentionally supposed to be hilarious, but it was. I missed the beginning of Slum Dog Millionaire, and by the time I got home I was done for. I may have lasted 20 minutes before sleeping through the rest. Whatev, hopefully i'll catch the whole thing soon enough.

On an unrelated note, my desktop comp has been down for a week and a half after catching some gnarly malware. It was brutal enough for me to go ahead and try reinstalling Windows, but in the process something happened to my HD's driver and the installer won't recognize a SATA drive. AND I seemed to have lost the HD's driver CD. I can just download it, but i've been busy/lazy. I'll get to it this week though...I got some schoolwork to get started and recording i'd like to do.