OK so its been forever...

So it like 6:30 PM on a Friday night, and I should be working on something in the lab, but honestly I am just tired after a week of hard work, late and early nights.

I have been meaning to write a blog entry as sort of a year in review for 2008 for several weeks now, but haven't summoned the will to yet (if I ever will).  It was a year that covered the gamet of emotions.  I'm not sure I really want to re-hash all the lows again, or remember all the highs that may not be reached any time soon. Hmm...maybe this weekend?

Anyway some random odds and ends just to fill space:

1.  Windows 7

Today is the day that the much anticipated Windows 7 beta is to be released (supposedly).  And I have downloaded my copy (though through a somewhat roundabout fashion) depsite the massive traffic bombarding the Windows page that has been thwarting other excited users.  As of writing this I am still waiting on Microsoft to get their act together so I may get my activation key.  Once I get home tonight hopefully I will have a DVD so I may burn the ISO image.  Should I create a dual boot partition on my Vista machine or should I create a virtual machine on my Mac?  Tough question...

2.  Snowy Snowy

Its kinda been snowing on and off here over the last several weeks so the area is kinda building a nice foundation of snow.  Starting this afternoon, Ann Arbor is beginning to get dumped upon by a more significant snow fall.  By the afternoon tomorrow supposedly, we might expect upwards of 10 inches of snow.  (Which might be a very fine excuse not to come back into school tomorrow.)

Yesterday (or maybe it was the day before),  I rediscovered my love for the sound of falling snow.  There may not be a prettier sound than that of snow hitting the ground or other objects.  I guess in order to really appreciate it you need to be in a quite place.  (My favorite was alway, outside by myself, shoveling the driveway).  This makes me wonder....is there any aspect of snow that isn't wonderful?

3.  Finding my inner happiness

Something of a New Year's resolution I guess for me this year is what I am deeming "finding my inner happiness".  I think all too often last year I found my general happiness being tied to external events or people, which often led to great disappointment (see the Cowboys or Wolverines as prime examples of this).  Perhaps I just too emotional for own good.  So far this year, I have had some success just trying to stick to my own center-lotus-of-happiness thing and its been working pretty well.  I mean I don't think its exactly the greatest thing since sliced bread, and it can be a cause for a bit more isolation which often breeds a bit of loneliness.

Now some quick hitters...

(These really would make quite good Twitter posts...see the column on the right for little nuggets from my life.)

5.  Things are starting to get massively disorganized for me...looking at the piles of books and random papers scattered all around me.  As someone who usually likes things at least to some degreed organized, this is usually a prime sign that the times are becoming more and more stressful.

6.  I am really enjoying Windows Weekly more and more each week...its quickly become almost as much of an enjoy as MacBreak Weekly usually is. (Speaking of which...glad to have Merlin Mann back on the last show.)

7.  Sad to see Wright State lose to Butler...we really don't have a lot of offensive fire power these days which could be helped by Vaughn Duggins coming back from injury.  Also, you just can't give up lots of threes to Butler and turn the ball over and expect to beat Butler on a consistent basis.  Really its all about positioning for the Horizon League Tournament at this point...we really can't afford too many more losses if we want a good seed.  I would also prefer not to have play in the finals at Hinkle Fieldhouse, but I'm afraid the Bulldogs may be running away with the conference at this point.

8. Buzz Out Loud is just delightful...everyone should listen if he/she is interested in tech news.

9.  Really am enjoying using Google Reader as a feed aggregator...it really is a cool way to keep up with a bunch of sites that you might not frequent all that often otherwise.  Also sharing stuff is cool too.  (You can see the things I "share" from my read at the top...called "Stuff I'm Reading/Interested In"

10.  My current favorite song is The Fray's You Found Me. (It never hurts a song's chances when it is used in a LOST Promo.)

All right that's enough...I have been batting around the idea of like a "Graduate Student Song Mix" blog entry that I may revisit at some point later this weekend.

(oh and how great is the song "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield...I still love the dance Apolo and Julianne did to the song on DWTS a while back (look it up on Youtube))