Almost all my coworkers, my best friend, and I all celebrated the 4th together down town atop my best friend's roof. She lives in Beacon Hill while overlooks Boston's firework display. The were really cool despite the lack of wind to clear the smoke up. While we were waiting for the fireworks to start, we played poker. It was quite a feat because we were crowded around a coffee table in a small sized room. Regardless, it was a lot of fun (well, except I also lost $5).

On Tuesday I have 10 relatives coming to visit me. Including Honey And Papa, The Fosters and The Moore/Mohrs... I can't wait, it has been to long since I've seen them all. I worked extra last week so that I can take some time off while they are here (considering I am lacking PTO due to the Australia trip, and want to save what I still have for My Sister's baby... oh by the way, I haven't mentioned that because I wasn't suppose to but now I can! My sister is pregnant! YAY! She is due on Christmas Eve, which is when I was due as well...) Anyways more on that later, I'll probably have quiet a bit more pictures next week.

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Since I graduated I have been really busy... I keep trying to finish organizing my things, but people keep needing my help in far away places. I've been traveling a ton lately, first I was flown out to Ft. Lauderdale for an interview... the next week, I had graduated so I went on a camping trip in Anastasia Park near St. Augustine. The dogs absolutely loved the beach. I bought a fishing license, a pole, lure, etc, and attempted to fish, but the poles we bought were too cheap and the wire would tangle after every cast.

The day after I got back from there, I headed to a celebration that my family had planned for me in Atlanta. It was good to see my aunt, and my cousins. They took me to the Atlanta aquarium, which was really really cool, just a little too crowded.

I got back from Atlanta, and the next day my uncle Mike calls me up and tells me his computer broke. Best Buy wanted $350 to even begin to fix it, so he decided to use frequent flier miles to get me to Birmingham, Alabama. Well, Tallahassee is extremely small, so I had to fly through Atlanta (I was just there the day before). Not only that, he decided he wanted me there ASAP, so he put me on the 6:15 AM flight. Turns out (once we looked at a map, that Birmingham is only a 300 mile drive, rather than the 400+ I thought it was). Well, I get there, and his hard drive was fried so we bought two new ones, I got Windows up and running for him, and finally I used Norton Ghost to make the second one identical. Now if one hard drive fails, the other automatically starts working, and all his files are the same. He also backs up to CD, and uses an online backup program (made by Quicken) to store his files on a server automatically, every night. A little paranoid! he he... It was good to get to know him better, he is my least known uncle.

I finally get home, spend a day trying to organize, when I get a call from Patti asking me to come to Gainesville to cheer her up. Unable to let a friend down, I dropped everything I was doing and made the 2 hour trek to the Gville. I think I have only slept in my bed one night in the last 3 weeks.

Next week is the Facebook conference in San Francisco that my friend Kyle and I are going to. I am pretty stoked about that! Then it is back to Ft. Lauderdale.

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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...

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MY CAT CAME BACK! After like two days, he came back... YAY, now I am going to keep it... I also got a job making a website B) which is really cool... good time good times... (except my dog died) I am seeing my aunt today too, she is coming with my cousin to Gainesville on her way to Ft. Lauderdale from Atlanta... Francisca is at school right now, so I am a little bored, but besides that I am excited...

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