Easter Break... well, not really..

HAPPY EASTER!!! I know I know... it been a long time since I updated this thing.. so here we go...

HOME: Chris is now 6 months old! He is growing fast and is becoming a young boy every day. First it was awesome to get him to sleep thru the night and now he is sitting up (almost by himself) and is starting the rice cereal. This week we take him to the Dr's for a 6-month checkup; lucky us- They moved the Dr office closer to my work.. its sorta nice, but one of the reasons why we picked that Dr office was the location- The old one was between work and home so it was easy for Nicole to get there and me to go on the way home... Now she might as well throw a rock at my car since she will drive right by here.. BUT at least I don't have to take time off to goto his appointments.

We also got a surprise for family coming very soon from us.. You can guess what it is, but everyone will see soon enough :D.

The house is doing good and gonna get better. With the tax return this year we are highly considering new kitchen cabinets and a new front door; it would be about 90% of the work that needs to get done in the unit. After that, there isn't much left aside from fixing the squeaky floor upstairs and replacing the carpet - but that can wait for another year. After going to Lowe's yesterday, we saw different styles of cabinets and floors, counter tops... so on. But we will be on a tight budget for the project- we want to get the kitchen up to date and functional - thats about it. We will save the big kitchen remodel for a future HOUSE, not a condo; besides, two of our neighbors have yet to sell their units, so it just makes it harder for us to spend serious coin on the condo.

The front Door is the other PITA that needs to get fixed and now replaced; I installed a new lock, but the handle does not line up correctly and is too big for the standard door.. so we will consider getting somehting newer and fits correctly in the unit.

SCHOOL: I'm on Spring break this week; Finished Lab 4 with a B : not sure why; our project worked and we got a perfect score on it - so I might email my professor and ask her what happened... ECES 302 has not posted their grade, but it was hard a CRAP on the final. I bombed the lab final and I hope i got enough points to get a C in the class. I cannot get another D. This coming quarter I got Lab 3 and intro to digital systems (?) on Wed and Thurs nights.

GAMING: Nothing new in the board game world- no one has asked to play something and no one has called about setting up a game day at their house; I am still wondering if it will ever happen. We HAve been gaming at night on WOW with a few friends (Amy, Gary and Wayne), so we got a nice 5-man group; were hitting mid-40s now and should be approaching 50 by the end of April, so outlands will be probably the end of June/ 4th July weekend (my prediction).

There is an excellent podcast for the WOW folks: THE INSTANCE; check it out..

XBOX: Got Vegas 2 last week and after getting my cable modem replaced, was able to get back online finally; Carlos M and Eric also got it and we have been able to group up later; its awesome and has made some good improvements, but a few minor down-steps too. Now the only way it seems that you earn points is to shoot a bad guy/ other team on some of the game modes. Before you would earn points simply by playing and I liked it that way; Just because I am guarding the flag doesnt mean my job was not important. not sure why they changed it, but at least when a teammate makes a kill, you get a point in T-hunt mode.

EVENTS:
* I want to goto the Franklin institute before the star wars thing goes away; Look for an email this week to see who is up for it.
* Ironman Movie - yes please
* Indiana Jones movie - Yes please too
* Comic Convention Philly: Waiting for the guest list, but the year that Batman came out we got to go see it Free at IMAX; guess what.. Batman comes out this year... hmm..

Thats it for now - Hope to stay more active once again.. email me for questions or concerns :D

-S

Just a quick posting

hey all,

As I sit here in class waiting for the doom of the results of Midterm test2, I wanted to get a quick update on the blog site - especially when I noticed its been over a month

FAMILY: Nicole, Chris and I just came back from a trip to CA! It was alot of fun, but the weather was not great - lots of rain.. I will be posting some pics soon of us and dad, Susan, and the regular CA folks.. Lots of InnOut, CJs, and mexican food :D Chris was a champ on the flights both ways and makes a good companion - except when he pees on the mat.. oh well..

GAMING: Wow is good- we are playing our alts and now about lvl 53/54 with them; the regulars are still waiting to be used as we could not play in CA.. XBOX is good- Im waiting for Rainbow Vegas 2 now (March 18?) and should be excellent - Im tired of COD4 already, so the tactical shooter is a good game for me.

HOME: we are working on the door- got a new lock, but want to replace the handle part... that and looking at our tax return and the economic $$ for possible spring/ summer projects - kitchen?? Floors??

SCHOOL: is almost done - got one more lab4 class tomorrow, then 2 more tests in ECES302; the lab final(coding) and the final in the class (cummelative). Should NOT be fun..

Thats it! I will post some pics soon and get some more updates out there..

OH- Ironman trailer#2 - simply rocks!

JS