Anxiously Awaiting

I was accepted to Georgia Tech for my masters in computer science. It’s going to be interesting figuring out how I can juggle college life and full time work at MSFT. Prayer would be appreciated, as I have a lot of decisions to make in a short amount of time. I thought I was going to be considered for the Spring 2009 Semester, but it appears that I was let in for Fall 2008. That means I start classes in a week (o.O). It’s a bit overwhelming, but I figure everything will probably work out.

Hello college kid with full time MSFT work. Some responsibilities will need to be dropped for this to be feasible, and I’m working on figuring out what those are.

Man life has been busy. Work, cycling, working out, seeing the wonderful lady, and things of those sorts have consumed me lately. The next couple of weeks are going to be pretty crazy too. Hopefully I’ll find some time to do a little recording in there somewhere. I found some settings on my rig that make me very happy =D.

Signing off for now. I must roll a software patch ;).

Couple of new CD’s have been ripped and added to my archive. I deleted all the CD’s that I didn’t own in my iTunes collection, and I have been buying the ones that I really want to keep or listen to a lot. I don’t buy music off iTunes because I dislike DRM, and the only archive format option I have is Apple lossless–not my beloved FLAC. I’m back up to around 1500 songs, all archived to FLAC and then encoded to NeroAAC thanks to vmWare fusion and an uber small Windows XP install. All 1500 of those songs fit on my 8GB nano (7.41 GB total), and they sound great through my Bose Tri-ports.

Anyway, here’s a list of my new arrivals. I’m excited about having Demonhunter’s self titled album again. I remember listening to that entire album during long runs right after I graduated from high school. I never knew how much I missed it =).

Chris Tomlin - Arriving
Muse - Showbiz
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Def Tones - Around the Fur
Sevendust - Animosity
Sevendust - Home
Demonhunter - Self Titled
Demonhunter - Summer of Darkness
Demonhunter - The Tryptic
Demonhunter - Storm the Gates of Hell

I still have a couple of albums that I want to pick up sometime soon. I have a huge amazon wishlist with all the music that I want, but I should be able to knock it out pretty quickly if I buy about 3-5 or so CD’s a month. If anyone has any good band recommendations based on my wish list feel free to post.

I went home last weekend to see the family and check up on the blueberry bush that my grandpa set out when I was little. We used to have four, but disease and not having the time to take care of them cut us down to only one. I think it would be awesome if Dad planted four or so more of these guys (hint hint) next spring. I love growing things, and I wish I had the space here in ATL to have a mini garden. There’s nothing better than fresh, home grown tomatoes!

Wow it’s been a while since I last posted. I guess that means I haven’t bought anything cool–thank the Lord for restraint–or nothing interesting has happened.  I was cruising the archives of my little virtual space here on anxaw, and I found some old posts that I would love to revisit. So, dearest reader, follow me chronologically back to the times of research labs, ghetto housing, and working IT at a law firm.

A Memorial to the Unnamed. Read the riveting tale of a heroic golden algae eater, and how he likes to hide behind rocks.

Dude, Where’s my car? Remember that time my car almost got stolen? No? Details inside.

A personal struggle. Nothing profound here, just Jduv vs A Tie.

W32.Bobber. I wrote a virus and installed it on a co workers machine–well, sorta ;).

Whaaaa? The adventures of jduv as related to lottery commercials.

So I was almost in a rap video. Apple bottom jeans, boots wif da furrrrrrrrr!!!111

I hope to produce more of such epic content sometime in the future. Reading through these has inspired me to write more. Hopefully I can write a couple of those posts that I have been promising to produce–such as my theorem 1.1 post, and why I like console video games over PC video games. Guess I’ll get cranking!