October 2005

I went to Georgia this weekend with Tatiana. We first went to Milledgeville on Friday, where we surprised my cousin Bailey for her 21st birthday present. We went to Chili's for dinner and then we attended her birthday party. At around 11:30 Tat and I were tired so we went to Bailey's house to go to bed while her and her friends went "clubbing" in downtown Milledgeville. They got home at around 3:00 and woke me up, but it was fun to see them plastered... The next morning we all drove to Atlanta. In Atlanta we went to my cousin Austin's football game and then we went to a really really really nice restaurant. We were rushed at the restaurant because we had to be a t a comedy club, called the Whole World Theater, in downtown Atlanta by 10:00... It was hilarious... we had good seats as well... They gave out a free beer to everyone who was having a birthday, but I also got a beer because for the first skit they used my suggestion. However, I was DD and hate beer anyway, so I gave it to Bailey.

We rushed home on Sunday so that I could make it to bowling... I bowled the 3 best games ever, but we still lost one of the 3 games... and so we are still dead last since we started 2 weeks late and couldn't establish a handicap.

In the next 2 weeks I have like 100000 assignments due... to name a few:

• 5 page research paper on Neural Networks due the 28th
• Program that simulates K-d tree classification due the 1st
• Program that mimics footballpickem.net due the 1st
• File sharing program due the 7th
• Bookwork for Pattern Recognition due the 25th
• Bookwork for Pattern Recognition due the 1st

On top of all this work, I want to go and visit friends in Gainesville this weekend but I know I won't have time... well, despite the fact that Wilma will probably restrict travel to and from there anyway... Oh well, I have Jäger to keep me company and help reduce stress...

Labels: austin foster, bailey foster, bowling, grad school, tatiana treffehn

I got a dog on Saturday! I got it from the local shelter... it is a German Shepherd mix (they think it is mixed with a black lab, but it looks more like a German Shepherd but without the extremely pointy ears) He has to be neutered before I can bring him home, so I won't get him until Tuesday. I am really excited... now my family has 4 dogs so Christmas and Thanksgiving are going to be hectic... His name at the shelter was Pirate, but he needs a manly name since he is being neutered, so that name is definitely out of the question. I went and bought him food, food dishes, toys, collar, leash, etc at Petsmart already... and I bought a collar for the invisible fence... I can't wait till Tuesday...

UPDATE: I decided to name him Jäger!

Labels: dogs, family, vacation