Pics

We ordered some expensive pictures today.

I think Dave's all pictured out.

Today was our Christmas with Shannon's family. I will post pictures sometime. But let me tell you some of the main things thus far. We spent 3 1/2 days at my mom's with her and my sisters, and Jerry and baby Nicole. It was quite nice. We ate yummy food and got to play with the marvelous baby Nicole. :)

Then we came to GC and we have seen much of Shannon's family and opened a second set of gifts. Good times are being had and we are next off to Colorado to see Shannon's dad.

Sugar Coated Fennel Seeds

Mom and I went to the Asian Market to find fish. Instead we found a plethera of fun foods, including what you see above. We bought some fun stuff. These fennel seeds were not purchased.

One thing we found were tapioca pearls, like they have in tea bubble drinks. We tried to make them go, but they lost all their color and looked a bit smaller than normal.

Good times.

Grinch socks

Aren't these the coolest socks ever! Shannon and I saw them at Target. They remind me so much of something you'd picture the Grinch wearing. I love them.

Oh What Fun.

Yesterday Shannon and I exchanged Wii's with Jenette and Chris. We opened them around 10:30 PM and I played until 3:00 AM. Shannon and them played until about 6:00 AM.

It's pretty fun. I look forward to getting other games. Wii Sports is fun and all, but the possibilities! Oh the possibilities! Shannon and I are playing boxing above. I won with a KO in Round 2.

Are you running?

Today ended it. My first semester of real graduate school is done. I didn't sit around in "classes" and pay 1000$ per A. I sat in classes and was paid. As for the outcomes, well, lets just say I am never again taking a class from Dr. Haiyan Wang. I had two classes this semester, STAT 713 Applications of Linear Models with Dr. Song and STAT 770 Statistical Theory I with Dr. Wang.

713 was a pretty good class. Learned stuff did homework for a grade and that I understood. I took the final today at 11:50 and feel I may have gotten an A, at least a B.

770 sucked. I did homework almost every day that isn't part of my grade and I didn't really learn much at all. I had that final today at 9:40 and cried afterwards. That's right, I shed tears over a test. It was the worst test I've ever taken. Not hardest, that award goes to my PLT Mathematics test for getting my teaching license. This test was just bad. There were 9 questions, four of which he had not talked about in class. I think I got two right and possibly a 3rd. But really, even 3 out of nine is only gonna get me a 33%. I just hope I don't have to re-take 770 next fall.

But you know what? It's over. In a few minutes I'm gonna go eat something and open up a Nintendo Wii and play for hours.

P.S. I'm glad I don't have to teach middle school for week still.

Go Bioassay. And go Experimental Design.

For Shannon's STAT350 final he had a wonderful extra credit problem. Qwantz is a web comic that uses the same template for each day. Just the words change. They go from funny, to funny. It's great.

Well, he used the template and had his students write a qwantz comic. There were a few good ones, but this was probably the best. You can click the picture to see a bigger version of it.

Warriors of Chaos

These are my most recent paintings. I finished them before Thanksgiving. They were a birthday gift from Shannon. I really like the way they came out. Not only do they look good, but I actually painted them a banner. It's not a great banner, but it is a banner with something on it. That's more than I usually do.


If I paint two more models, my Tzeentch Chaos army will be 2000 points. Yay.

Sno Bawls

We went to Dara's for a drink. Their bottled drinks are too expensive, so we looked at the slushies. They had Bawls in slushie form. Needless to say we got a 64 oz. slushies with half Bawls and half Mountain Dew. It is not only neat looking, but tasty.

There is a thumb of rule.

Tonight was the Statistics Department Christmas party at Dr. Boyer's house. I, the Stat Club president, picked up the meat and cheese tray before hand. While Shannon baked some Cheddar Bay Biscuits, then Jenette drove him there.

It was a good time. We ate, played a game and just sat around and talked. A nice time.

One thing of note that happened while we were there, I got a call on my phone. But it is better than that. I had just (and I mean just) finished going pee when my pants vibrated. I answered the phone (because that's what I do when it's Jayme). She was all excited (as Jayme usually is) and asked me about a Christmas song. Here's her problem... Sing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and then help us out. Oh, and you have to sing it with the echo's. You know, like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (reindeer), Had a very shiny..." and so on.

Okay, sing it.






Did you sing it?

Now, when do you say "like a light bulb"? (I really would like to know, so please leave a comment and share. For Jayme's sake.)