Oh man

First things first, I finally have internet in my room in Chicago. This means I will now resume wasting time.
Things have really picked up this week. We're about done with training now, and starting to get our assignments (starting, I'm still unsure exactly what I'm doing). Tomorrow, we get our PPE (personal protective equipment) and tour the plant. It's going to be pretty cool, and it'll probably give a better idea of what we're going to be expected to do. After our physicals on Monday or Tuesday, we're essentially doing our thing for the rest of the summer. Should be pretty cool.

I've had some opportunities to get out and explore, but now that I'm waking up around 5:30 to get to work on time, that's not going down during the week. I'll figure out what my weekends will be like come Saturday, but my expectation is that it'll be pretty cool.

Well, I'll be online now, and probably IMing a lot of people between the hours of 8 and 10 EST, since that's when I'll be in my room, not doing much.

Home

Well, I'm home, and already doing productive things. Today I went to a junkyard with my brother, and we picked up a door for the Celica. Now, it can be repaired, and my brother will have a car. I'm so selfless.
I leave for Chicago on Sunday. Let's see what other productive things can be done in that time.

I am sitting in a room...

...with no furniture in it. Well, almost no furniture, save my bed. Everything has been moved out, and I'm just waiting to pack up and leave tomorrow. I guess it's kind of melancholy, but I'm looking forward to the summer, and when I come back next year, the renovated new house will be amazing.

Onward and upward.

Shutdown

OK, so here's the deal:

Now that I'm essentially done with finals, I need to start packing my room more seriously. My desk and dresser are going to be gone on Wednesday, so both need to be emptied. Additionally, anything I want stored over the summer has to go by Tuesday. So, tomorrow I will finish cleaning out both my desk and my dresser. This means my computer will go away, and come back out maybe Tuesday, maybe Wednesday depending on how long it takes me to clean everything else out. So, I won't be getting emails or anything else for at least all of tomorrow. I'm kind of excited. Kind of still hoping my bike lock key is buried somewhere on this desk.

So yeah. If you need me for something important, call the cell or text message me. If you don't have my number...well, you have until tomorrow morning. Have fun.

I'm excited now. I'm going home soon, and I'll be in Chicago soon after that. Summer will begin.

As promised: Cars!

Chevrolet SSR:



Subaru SVX:



Nissan Sentra SE-R:



A Lamborghini (probably a Gallardo, I don't know):



Mazdaspeed 6:



2nd gen Toyota Celica:



BMW 735i:



Mazdaspeed3:

Time for: Stealthy/Pious Random-ass Site Statistics!

No real statistics, but...

So I have a visitor tracker, because I like to see who visits my blog. Mostly it's people I know, from cmu.edu domains and stuff like that. The interesting ones, however, are the people I don't know. They used to come in droves through referrals from my brother's site. Not anymore. Now they come from Google image search.
So, a while ago, I posted an entry with some cell phone pics of cool cars in the Pittsburgh area. I get 2-3 hits per day on my Toyota X-Runner pic. The X-Runner, a tunerized Tacoma, is pretty cool, but I wasn't aware my picture would be good enough to warrant 40-60 hits per month on that pic alone. Well, I guess I was wrong. So, in a blind effort to get more traffic, I'm going to upload the rest of my cell phone car pictures later this week. Should be awesome.

Oh yeah. Essentially done with finals. One project to go.

Last Final

My last final is in about four hours. Should be good. Finish the thermal project over the weekend, and that's everything.

I started packing yesterday, and let me just say, I have a lot of stuff. Like, a lot. I've only managed to pack up about half of my clothing, which is a problem, because the dresser needs to be moved out on Tuesday, as does the desk. Desk is also a mess, but I'm somehow making progress there, which is good.

More to come later. Then, next week, I go home! Woot.

One final down...

One final, one assignment, one lab, and two final projects to go.

Phew.

I just need to get past next Monday. It's my last due date...I'm so close right now.

Then, I get to do other lovely things like pack all my stuff away. That'll be interesting.