College Starts Soon

Last night Little Kat was not looking so good. Momoko sent him to bed early. He was sick this morning, so he stayed home with me. I picked him up some soup at the Chinese restaurant. He ate this for lunch. My lunch got cut short due to work emergencies.

Next semester at college starts soon for me. I am taking what looks to be an easy course. I still need to practice with some of the technology I learned from last semester's course. The rest of the week looked busy for me at work. So after work today, I went to college and bought my textbook. For once, the cost of the book seemed reasonable.

I should not care too much. My company pays for the books. I read Chatpers 1 and 2 to be ahead of the game in class. These chapters were easy, almost too easy. I did a little programming today on my own to prepare for a programming contest that happens in about a month. Even though the class might be a cake walk, I am excited about going back to school next semester. It is just one evening course. Got to work full time to make the $$$.

Go for Bravo

The XBox 360 has been permanently moved downstairs. My Wii is hooked back up to our main TV. Now I can watch my anime series from Netflix on the Wii. I do this every day at lunch. Good times.

Previously I had been watching Bravo, an anime series about a boy that became allergic to girls. I was on the second season of the series when the XBox 360 displaced me. Well I am back and have finished the series.

I have been searching for the next anime series for me to watch. I queued up about 10 of them on Netflix. Five of the ten seem superior. I will narrow it down to one. Each day at lunch I will watch one episode from the series. These will keep me busy as each season can be anwhere from 12 to 24 episodes.

Remote Start Trouble

Kit Kat was going to work with Momoko to help work in the classroom. Momoko told Kit Kat to remote start her car so it would be warm. Kit Kat comes down where I am working, opens the door, and struggles with the remote start. She fumbled with the remote control for minutes. The room I was in got so cold that I kicked Kit Kat out. She went outside and continued to fail to start the car.

Finally Kit Kat came back in and got Little Kat to help. He remote starts the car every day. Little Kat spent most of the day in the basement playing Skyrim on the XBox 360. He loved that he could go play and not get in anyone's way. I took Little Kat with me to pick up some Chinese take out for our lunch. We both got lunch specials.

Eventually Momoko and Kit Kat came home. I took a nap. Little Kat and Kit Kat must have done a bit of grocery shopping. They forgot to pick up cake. So Momoko sent them back to the store. It is nice when Kit Kat can drive by herself.

XBox 360 Setup

Our new Xbox 360 from Christmas was hooked up to our main TV. But usually the TV is being used. Plus that meant my Wii was disconnected (I use the Wii to view Netflix videos). My solution was to buy another big screen TV, which I did. But I was sick. So setup had to wait.

Slowly I started cleaning out the basement. It was a mess down there. Kit Kat helped me move a dresser to hold the TV. I assembled the TV this week. It had been in its box for a while. Then I hooked everything up. One bad coax cable had me puzzled for a day.

Today I finally moved down the XBox 360 to the basement TV. I played my Finaly Fantasy XIII game. It is sweet. Still need to arrange the furniture by the TV, and do some final cleanup. But the gaming system is a go.

Little Kat had been on restriction for the last week because he hid some laundry he was supposed to do. But I think he gets electronics priviledges back today. I bet he will be down there playing his new Skyrim game for XBox 360. He also bought Rage fort he XBox 360 as well. We are definitely reading to take full advantage of the XBox.

Prepared for Snow and Ice

Last night the weatherman called for snow and ice. By the time we went to sleep, my car was covered with snow tonight. Momoko thought it would be warm enough today to melt everything. Nope. So when I woke up, we got the family up for ice duty.

The big driveway was covered with a sheet of ice. It was thicker on the new part of the driveway. Kit Kat and Little Kat spread rock salt all over the huge driveway. I was prepared. I had around 6 big bags of rock salt. After about 30 minutes, the salt had done some work on the ice. It turned a different color. The rock salt penetrated through to weaken it.

Little Kat broke out a shovel and started scraping off the ice. I joined him with our big shovel. A new neighbor came over begging to borrow a snow shovel. We are prepared. I think we have 6 or more snow shovels. We loaned him two. Kit Kat and Momoko joined Little Kat and I in scraping up all the ice. Now the driveway looks like a rain had come by. No evidence of snow or ice.

Little Kat and I waited for our neighbor to finish his work. Then he and his son came over to return our shovels. His son was very shy and hid behind his dad. After we came in, Kit Kat cooked us all fried egg sandwiches. Very efficient.

Teepees and Spiders

Little Kat has started taking two of our gerbils upstairs to bed with him each night. Momoko was concerned that Little Kat was carrying a heavy fish tank with gerbils up and down the stairs. So we had Little Kat keep a separate tank upstairs and downstairs.

Within the tank, we have a small wooden house for the gerbils to sleep in. That house is up in Little Kat's bedroom. During the day the gerbils don't need a full house. But we wanted to give them something to hide in. So Little Kat provided the gerbils with a Kleenex box.

Unfortunately the gerbils liked chewing the box. Only two side of the box are left. The thing forms a small teepee under which the gerbils rest during the day. Let's hope they don't chew any more. Otherwise no teepee.

In other news, I finished reading a chapter in my Anne Rice book last night. I noticed a spider on the ceiling in the bedroom. So I put a chair underneath and went to get some tissue to grab the spider. When I returned, the spider was not on the ceiling. I looked around and found that the spider was hanging by its web. No problem. I grabbed it and flushed it.

Anne Rice Books

Recently I have been on an Anne Rice reading binge. I have reread a bunch of her books that I own. Most of them are about vampires. But there have been some about witches.

I just bought a few items from Amazon. So I added a new Anne Rice book to the order. Now I am reading it slowly, enjoying every word. I am forcing myself to slow down and only read one chapter a day.

In other news, I read a blog post about bad error messages. The author said you can't win when things break down. You even fail if you try to put up a cute screen. But don't you love the little doggy in the picture above?