it's finally over

i'm so happy that this cursed week is finally over. i'm not saying that there was a curse of the mummy over my life or anything (and that's a reference to an NCIS episode that i watched recently). but i'm just happy that i don't have to worry about anything else, except for the scavenger hunt survey that i have due for a class which i'm sure is going to be harder than i think it will be, until monday.

as for this weekend...

what is there to do you ask? in a boring college town? well there's the Notre Dame game to consider going to but i can watch that on tv for (almost) free and hear the crowd from my living room.

side note, i actually find that really entertaining. there's about a 15-20 second delay from the live game and i live a block and a half from Ross Ade and can hear when we score, or boo... it's quite fun...

so i know i won't be going to that. then there's probably a soccer game which i wouldn't mind going to. i love our soccer team, and it's a girls team for those of you who automatically thought it was a guys team... i know you're out there.

and then there's sunday. whatever is there to do on sunday? i mean, it's sunday! i would be working, honestly, but for the fact that i'm going to a TIGERS game in Chicago, one of my favorite cities, to see them play the White Sox. i am so freaking excited!!!!
so that will be what i'm looking forward to all weekend. the in-between highlights will be seeing my friends finally and having a life and not staying in my apt toiling away at my homework like i'm a hermit crab in a shell.

so for now i'm off... i'll probably write again very soon! at least to let you know how fun the game(s) were! GO BOILERS and TIGERS!!!!!

turbulance causing problems, both in turbines and class

So ever since I drove around the country with Steve and saw the endless amounts of wind turbines scattered, almost decoratively, across the expanses of the West I have been quite intrigued with them. Thus I am pleased to discover that GE has been doing their part to increase the efficiency and usage of them.

GE is the second-largest maker of wind turbines, something I didn't know until recently, and they install them globally. But apparently it's been wanting to expand its offshore market so it has been making acquisitions which include a company that is making gearless turbines. Now, instead of a gearbox that deteriorates quickly due to the stress it takes from wind turbulance and requires constant attention, the new turbines use magnets to generate the power as the shaft spins.

It's really quite neat and makes me wonder if they'll start putting them in here. They've been tested on the Norwegian coast since 2003 so I think they're pretty reliable...

Wanna know more? Check out "GE Grabs Gearless Wind Turbines"

On a more personal note, I haven't been feeling all that well today but I think I'll be alright. There's so much to do this week I don't have the time to feel bad. A five-page paper due Friday that we were just told about this last Friday with no time to organize our schedule around it (work schedules are made for 2 weeks and require 2 weeks advance for time off) and the fact that I had a 2 page paper due yesterday, have a 3 page paper due tomorrow, a presentation tomorrow, work tonight, a speech to cover tomorrow night for class and a story to write on it, and ads to finish for my other job. All of that I already had to do this week and knew about it and planned for it, and then we got a SURPRISE 5 page paper that isn't on the syllabus. Thanks so much. Maybe if we were told two weeks in advance it would be better, but for right now I'm very angry... but at least I have my required blog done!

A disappointing weekend

It wasn't all bad, not everything was a complete fail. But a few things did go wrong. The majority of the problem was football, let me explain...

So the Boilermakers lost at football again this weekend :(
It's not like our team is bad, things just go really wrong for them when they start out doing so well! The turnovers really drove me crazy too, not that it was just our team doing it, there were plenty on both sides. I'm just sad that they let the game get away from them. Better luck next week I guess...

My other football problem is just beginning. I'm talking about work. I ref intramural football, and I love it, but it's starting to be the rainy part of the year and yesterday was the beginning of it. It wasn't bad, I had a hat to wear and it didn't last long, but it just makes me remember last year and all the pouring down rain I'm going to get to work in and those memories just make me all warm and fuzzy inside...

But on a better football note, the NY Giants won... so it wasn't all bad!

First Blog with Class Specifications...

A car show took place recently... the Frankfurt Motor Show of 2009 to be more specific. The car show had a few welcomed newbies to the crowd, and they were cars! Duh...

I was browsing through the cars and the one that caught my eye was the Peugeot RCZ Hybrid4. It's pretty... and not only is it pretty but it's pretty fast for a hybrid at 76mph on a good run. It's a feat of technology I think, with a diesel engine driving the front wheels and a separate motor running the back wheels.

If you want to learn more about it just follow the link above!

This post, and the blog itself honestly, was prompted by my class that I'm in now about emerging technologies in communication. I found this hybrid car more entertaining than any communication advancements that I've seen lately so I wrote about it instead. But if you wanna follow me and stay tuned then I will be writing about college and my life, so it should be fun!

I'll throw some tech stuff in for good measure, and a good grade... :)