2. Not miss a lecture except for a very good reason (sick, going out of town, natural disaster, family emergency).
I’ve been a bad kid and skipped a few classes. Two days were due to a lower-respiratory infection. I missed about 4 Physics Lectures, 2 Cal III Lectures, and 3 German Lectures. 3 out of 5 classes. Better than last year.

3. Semester GPA between 3.5 and 4.0.
Most of my midterms are in except two classes. A conservative estimate is 3.6 assuming I didn’t do as well as I think I did in German and Cal III.

4. 77 kg.
Between 79kg and 80kg fluctuating.

5. No more Walmart (purchasing).
Almost 3 months sober! Kroger and the Pig are my friends.

6. No more fast-food.
Work schedule has pretty much killed this. Oh well.

7. No more (plastic) bottled drink (2L exception)
I’ve bought 3 bottles worth. Doesn’t help that a vending machine is across the hall from my office.

7b. No more HFC-based soda.
The temptation was too great.

8. No more sweet packaged snack.
I have the cream savers in the bag of diabetes left. Other than that, nothing sweet.

9. Once a week maximum eating out.
As with the fast food issue, work.

10. Find an internship/decent job in the GTR area.
ITS Infrastructure Services. Student Worker. 20 hrs a week. Every afternoon. All day Friday.

First part: I go around town doing random things – don’t quite remember what they were. But I do remember my car was a four-door Audi R8. I don’t know how it would look, just knew it was a four-door Audi R8. I eventually get into a race with a few people, and win.

Second part: I’m underground. I’m some kind of humanoid person, but not. I’m in this room with a bunch of old human things – flashlights, radios, and weapons. I leave the room and a bunch of people start freaking out. The military comes in and starts shooting. I go back into the room with my friend and grab a few things and then go back up and fire back. But the weapons are ineffective and we are both taken down. Oh well. Can’t win everything.

Third part: I’m a super-villain. I’m in a police parking garage. The police are looking for me, but are too dumb to realize that I’m there. They spot me and ask why I’m there. I tell them I’m dropping off my fellow villain to pay a fine and they leave me alone. Then they realize who I am and chase me down the garage, but they loose me. I then see some cops chasing down other cops – there’s a force that enforces the police if they themselves break laws. Like speeding.

Fourth part: I’m in a field somewhere in Europe with a bunch of kids. We all have random parts. It’s part of a Top Gear Challenge. All of the hosts bring something important. Of course, none of it is whole. May has to bring the truck – it’s leaking fuel. Hammond brought stuff to go inside the truck. It’s all second-hand. And Clarkson has to bring parts to make the truck better. He, of course, is 12 hours late. So we have to rush to get the truck working better before time is up. It, of course, barely meets the goals.

I have weird dreams. Like Russian Mafia Bears and Laser Bulldozers.

1. Follow my schedule. Better.
Aside from the sleeping schedule, I’m doing very well.

2. Not miss a lecture except for a very good reason (sick, going out of town, natural disaster, family emergency).
Natural Disaster – the school canceled for a potential winter storm… that really didn’t happen.

3. Semester GPA between 3.5 and 4.0.
Too early in the game.

4. 77 kg.
Down to 81.6kg. Joint a competition with a group of friends online, so I might make the goal this year.

5. No more Walmart (purchasing).
I haven’t even stepped foot.

6. No more fast-food.
Tempted, but nope.

7. No more (plastic) bottled drink (2L exception)
7b. No more HFC-based soda.
Yup. Kept to it.

8. No more sweet packaged snack.
I have my bag of diabetes from this Christmas still. That’s the only thing, though.

9. Once a week maximum eating out.
This one’s hard. Keeping with it.

10. Find an internship/decent job in the GTR area.
Nope.

1. Follow my schedule. Better.
2. Not miss a lecture except for a very good reason (sick, going out of town, natural disaster, family emergency).
3. Semester GPA between 3.5 and 4.0.
4. 77 kg.
5. No more Walmart (purchasing).
6. No more fast-food.
7. No more (plastic) bottled drink (2L exception)
7b. No more HFC-based soda.
8. No more sweet packaged snack.
9. Once a week maximum eating out.
10. Find an internship/decent job in the GTR area.

My bets?

1. Probably last about three to four weeks. But I hope that this prediction doesn’t come true.
2. I’ll stick to this till about the end of the semester. Watch me.
3. If I work hard, 4.0. Otherwise, I’ll end up on the lower end of the resolution.
4. Probably not this year. But you never know.
5. There’ll be something I can’t get anywhere else in Starkville and I won’t want to go to Columbus to get it. That’ll be it. 4 – 5 months.
6. I’ll crave something and go for it anyways. 3 months.
7. If I’m good, I’ll stick to this one for at least 6 months or so. I’ll just end up getting glass bottles (which the BP near my apt does sell). Only problem is 7b – Coke Zero does not come in glass.
8. Easy. I really only eat this at home. 8 – 12 months.
9. I know my friends will tempt me to go out. 3 – 5 months.
10. With this job market, not sure about it.

Last Friday, I went into the Health Center claiming short of breath, coughing, and headaches. They said I had the common cold and sent me away with basic meds to treat some of the symptoms. They said if it got worse or didn’t improve in a week to come in. Well, Thursday night, it suddenly got worse again and stayed bad Friday.

I come in and the nurses immediately send me to a MD. They took my blood, x-rayed my chest, and the doctor looked at the results and listened to my lungs. He said pneumonia and sent me into another room for treatment. An hour later, I’m sent away with antibiotics and an inhaler with meds to help with breathing.

It’s working, but not quick enough. *sigh*

Minutes (450 min + 4109 rollover min + 5000 night and weekend (no rollover))
Minutes Predicted: 299 min
Minutes Used: 269 min
Error: 10% (down)

Data (unlimited)
Data Usage Predicted: 269836 kb
Data Usage Used: 136808 kb
Error: 49% (down)

Messages (1500 text + MMS)
Messages Predicted: 1202 messages
Likelihood of exceeding 1500: 45.15%
Messages Used: 1069 messages (1067 text, 2 MMS)
Error: 11% (down)

So let’s analyze this.

I really don’t use the minutes I’m alloted for by AT&T. Almost nobody I know makes calls any more. Most of my calls are to home. If AT&T had a low voice plan (200 min or so) for non-seniors, I would jump on that quick. That or I need to find more people to call. Case in point – since January 2008, the most I have called was 400 minutes in August. I got 50 rollover minutes from that.

Data usage is going down from summer. This is mostly due to the university having wireless everywhere on campus and wireless at the apartment. I rarely, if ever, go to 3G except when in Starkville. The predicted numbers should start falling in the next few months, bringing the 49% error rate down close to 10%.

Messaging is getting more accurate by the month. 11% down is very acceptable when talking about 1k messages.

So the equations aren’t perfect yet – I need to tweak them one more time, but they are fairly accurate based off past months.

My friend Jeff came up to Starkville for the weekend. He didn’t come for Bulldog Bash (which was extremely fun), but to work on an architecture project (long story short, Jackson’s campus had a non-working laser etcher). I found out Saturday he was here, so I headed on over to the Architecture building to chill with a friend who I haven’t seen in months.

After a little while, he comes to me with an idea. Why not etch my phone while we have access to the machine? It was a simple procedure, practicing on a piece of acrylic before putting the laser to my phone. Needless to say, it came out extremely pretty (albeit not centered – but that works, though).

Found from Gawker, this is a definitely interesting image of the president showing off his Jedi skills. No matter how you look at him, Obama is an interesting person.

School’s been on and off interesting for me. Even with 16 hours, the work-load isn’t as light as I had hoped it to be. Comes with being an EE I guess. Still better than the load I had with 19 and 18 hours. I can’t imagine doing that again. Either way, I can’t let myself slack off too much. I need to really kick work into high-gear. I’ve got EcoCAR, labs, and class all at the same time. Trying to throw a job into that will definitely be a juggling act.

Job. MFJ never contacted me back, so I’m going to be looking at housing for a source of income. I hear they have a shortage of IA staff for odd hours. Excellent for me (being a night-owl and all). That and being an IA is not all that difficult. You have to exist and not ignore everything. Hours upon hours of doing homework and occasionally signing somebody in or for a package. Gonna stop by housing this week and see if I can snag a job.