December the 31st - Goodbye 2008

Winter Break: Day 12

*wakeup*

Breakfast

Rhodobacter planning and Google Docs configuration

Cereal with almonds, walnuts, pecans, soymilk

Halogen Oven quesadilla

Shower

Fenske
Halo, >> 2009, Rock Band
Back to my apartment with Brian and Bryan
Quesadillas, blueberry cranberry smoothies, Deep Sky Map, black-and-white photography
Shower
*crash*

December the Thirtieth

Winter Break: Day 11

Bike Bath!  (Yes, in the bathtub and all!)

Bike Wax!  (Sooo shiny now)

Bike Lube! (Rides like... [and that's what... {I'll stop.}])

Halogen oven test-drive! (Melted cheese on 15-grain bread, ate with Southwestern corn soup)

Shower

Refrigerator rack shower (I spent a long time accompanied in the bathtub today)

Speaker system ordering (Scratch-and-dent stretches every dollar further)

Kitchen layout design and execution (positioning the tabletop, stacking appliances)

Cereal for late lunch

Apartment junk shifting and reorganization

Bike to Fenske

Rhodo Resurrection

Pasta cookup

IM with Bryan and Annette

Project updates, general online organization

Shower II

*crash*

December the Twenty-Ninth

Winter Break: Day 10

*wakeup* (late!  noon!)

Shuttle home

Bike retrieval

Bike ride

Lab unlock

Bank (closed until the 2nd!)

Bicycle Shop

Lab organization

Algae sampling help

Soup dinner at home

Lab flyby: water the plants, collect junk, etc

Apartment

*crash*

December the Twenty-Eighth

Winter Break: Day 9

*wakeup*
CurtisLab website construction
Bathroom setup
Kitchen setup
Soup!
Rhodobacter stuff
Shopping Trip - Apartment Cooking Stuff and Food
Fenske dishwashing
Lab stuff
Fenske dinner

December the Twenty-Seventh

Winter Break: Day 8

*wakeup* (9:30am)

Wayne's World web design
Lab stuff
Apartment organization
Bed setup
*crash*

December the Twenty-Sixth

Winter Break: Day 7

It's the end of the first week of winter break, so it's probably a good time to review the progress I've made on various projects so far.

Organization

• Box Sorting: Completed!  Highschool stuff is a project for another day
• Apartment Move-In: Big progress made!  Additional furniture procured
• CurtisLab Data Backup: decent progress made; still a bunch of computers to back up
  
• Wayne's World Site Construction: no progress since finals week
  

Courses

• ENGR 497E book purchase: Completed!  Should arrive any day
• ENGR 497E site construction: waiting on book arrival

Health

• Workout Plan: Progressing well!  Will be improved by the move to the apartment

Finances

• Knowhow Notes: first set of test banks procured; no progress on solutions yet
• Scholarship Apps: no progress yet

Teaching

• ChE 340 Class Planning: no progress yet

Publication

• Write A Paper!: experimental plan converted to HTML and rewritten; still lots of work!

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Today I'll be rather busy: Secret Plans

*wakeup* (6am)

Weekly Review

Breakfast

Shower

Bed pickup

Home stuff procurement

Apartment move-in

Lunch

Nap

Resume Update and PDF conversion

Dinner

Website Updates

Projector Planning

Speaker Planning

Kyle Visit

Grad School Planning

*crash*

December the Twenty-Fifth

Winter Break: Day 6

Merry Christmas!... where appropriate.

*wakeup* (6am)

Gift Exchange

Breakfast

Box sorting

Netbook setup

Guitar Hero: World Tour

Craigslist furniture hunt

Lunch

More box sorting

Weights

Dinner

*crash*