Christmas Loot

Oh yeah, I have a blog. Almost forgot.

Hilights of this season's haul: Got a tablet from Mom and Bob, got a nifty screwdriver from Sister, and a hand-me-down TV from Father.

Good times were had by all.

Japan

Classes are over for the year, and thus with the exception of an assignment and 3 exams I'm completely free to waste away the days doing nothing at all.

Like, for example, watching this video:

Well hello there, Google

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My poor internets!

So it would seem that, out of nowhere, my network switch just up and died. Plug in more than 3 devices and it just pukes all over the place.

This isn't a huge deal since I was planning to replace it with a gig-e switch sooner or later, but I would have rather done it on my own schedule.

Guess I'll be taking a trip down to Memory Express tomorrow.

What once was dented, now is shiny

Just got my car back from the body shop yesterday afternoon, and they did a splendid job of removing the sister-induced dent, as well as repainting the mirrors and replacing the cowl.

About 1/3 of my car now looks brand new!

Birds!

So this afternoon as I'm heading off to class, I notice that a wayward bird has managed to find himself stuck in the front porch. No doubt he snuck in under the porch door the previous night looking for some place safe and warm to nap.

Now seeing as the front porch isn't a terribly good place for a bird to live, what with all the glass windows and complete lack of anything edible, I decided to help the bird back out into the wild blue. I opened the porch door, and set about chasing the little bugger out.

It didn't go quite as planned though, and the bird ended up parking himself on top of a wood pile in a corner of the porch. I used a stick to chase him out of there, at which point he hopped over to just behind the wood fridge (long story).

Seeing as his tail was sticking out, I came up with the bright idea that I would grab his tail, pluck him out, and toss him out the door. Well, as it turned out, his tail feathers were the only part I managed to pluck out. Oops.

Undeterred, I used the aforementioned stick to prod and poke the bird, eventually dragging him out from behind the wood fridge, at which point I just picked him up and tossed him out the door, and watched him safely fly away.

And that was my fun for the day.

Also, BIRDS!

Free Money!

I just got myself a $500 academic proficiency scholarship. Woot.