{"id":51,"date":"2003-09-30T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.uberbroc.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2003-09-30T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T22:48:53","slug":"back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.uberbroc.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies, seems like I just wrote in here, but I guess I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve been working at Moore each weekend since I wrote last. Mostly I&#8217;ve been doing the manifesting, which is slightly more exciting than stuffing envelopes. We&#8217;re going back tomorrow (a day earlier for the week) because they called and asked us to come in. The 1st is also the beginning of the big quarter-end project with them, so after this we&#8217;ll probably be there every day for the next 2 weeks or so, if it&#8217;s anything like last time. Kelly hasn&#8217;t actually called to tell us what is going on with it, I think they think they already told us \ud83d\ude42 Tomorrow won&#8217;t be the quarter-end stuff yet though, I think we&#8217;re just getting the other stuff done so they can concentrate on the quarter. It should be a long couple weeks between that and school, but that&#8217;s ok.<\/p>\n<p>The next quarter for Strayer was supposed to start on the 22nd, but was delayed a week because of the hurricane. The school is in the middle of where it hit the hardest, so they waited a week to start classes so people could recover. I did all of the first week&#8217;s stuff then anyway, because I knew the quarter end stuff for Moore was coming and I don&#8217;t want to have to do all my school work and also work every day any more than I had to. I did all the reading for next week today too, so all I&#8217;ll have to do is watch the lectures and do homework. That&#8217;s a fair amount as it is, but not too bad. At least I can spread it out over the whole week instead of having to do it at specific times. I would have done more already, but the assignments aren&#8217;t posted in advance for any of the classes, so I can&#8217;t do it early. Oh well. <\/p>\n<p>So far the classes seem ok. The C++ class I&#8217;m taking seems to have a nice professor, so that&#8217;s good. The networking class has a good one too. The business class is much more dry, there&#8217;s no discussion, just reading and lectures, then quizes to take on each week&#8217;s material. Very dull, but easy enough. The other two classes have more discussion involved, and feedback from the professors, which is nice. I&#8217;m not big on interaction in general, but it&#8217;s nice to have at least some feedback on what you are doing. I just wish the stuff was posted in advance so I could work ahead some. I know what the reading will be for all of them each week, but nothing else. <\/p>\n<p>We went for a walk in <a href=\"http:\/\/dep.state.ct.us\/stateparks\/parks\/penwood.htm\" target=\"new1\">Penwood State Park<\/a> today. It took us almost 2 hours to walk around the main loop, but it was a nice day for it. We stopped here and there to take pictures and were generally strolling. Sabrina had the day off too so it was nice to do something before I was working non-stop for a couple weeks. We won&#8217;t see much of eachother until it&#8217;s over with both of us working different times. It was a good day for a walk, nice and cool and sunny. You can certainly tell that fall is coming. Some of the trees are changing here, but not many so far. We&#8217;ll have to go again when there&#8217;s more foliage to look at. <\/p>\n<p>We went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohegansun.com\" target=\"new1\">casino<\/a> last weekend too, which was fun. We didn&#8217;t get back until almost 3am I think, after leaving around 7pm. We stopped for dinner on the way, then spent the rest of the night wandering around and playing slots and video poker. We had a good night again, after 2 big losing nights. We ended up with $3 more than we started with, so we were happy. Sometime we&#8217;ll have to stay for the night, but it&#8217;s pretty expensive. I&#8217;m not excited about spending $200 to stay there when it&#8217;s only an hour from home or so. It&#8217;ll still be fun sometime though, just for the experience of staying all night in a casino. <\/p>\n<p>The only other thing new is that Sabrina got tickets to go see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnlmusic.com\" target=\"new1\">Barenaked Ladies<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushnell.org\" target=\"new1\">Bushnell Theater<\/a> in Hartford. That&#8217;ll be fun, I like the group alot, and didn&#8217;t realize they were even going on tour again. Sabrina had heard about it on the radio. The show is already sold-out, so we were lucky to get tickets. Sabrina bought them online about an hour and a half after they went on sale and within about an hour after that it was already almost impossible to get 2 tickets together. That&#8217;ll be November 13th, and we&#8217;ll probably head to Maine the next day for an early Thanksgiving. We want to avoid traffic and bad weather as much as possible, so we&#8217;re going early. It&#8217;ll be a big week for us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies, seems like I just wrote in here, but I guess I didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve been working at Moore each weekend since I wrote last. Mostly I&#8217;ve been doing the manifesting, which is slightly more exciting than stuffing envelopes. 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