holy crap...I feel gobsmacked right now.

I spent the better part of today trying to write a script that would use an array to check them a number of devices

Scripting is not my strongest ability.

I did figure it out eventually, and it worked like a freaking charm. But by cramming about a weeks worth of classes into a few hours, I'm left with a frontal lobe that has more in common with pre chewed bubble gum than anything else.

Speaking of mental capacity (or lack thereof) school has also been difficult. I'm in the middle of writing the "big" paper for my class....you know the one that is 50% of your grade, and for some reason I convinced my instructor to let me write it on the sub prime market and predatory lending. It beats writing about obesity or myspace, plus for some unknown reason I have an unhealthy fascination with the whole real estate bubble that's been deflating for a while here now. In a lot of ways it's like those gruesome death pictures you see....where you stare at it for a while but you brain still can't figure out exactly how that body part got to where it is. It just doesn't make sense anyway you look at it. I mean how does somebody think that a loan with an interest rate in the double digits is a good idea in the long run (or even in the short run). How do you sell something that smells so bad flies are buzzing around it? It's like having respect for the devil for getting Adam and Eve to bite into the apple....you have to wonder how he did it.

I am still playing video games, and right now I'm working my way through Xenosaga III still. I'm gonna take my time and savour it, which is easy since I don't have a whole lot of time anyways. I did get a chance to play through CoD 4 recently, a co-worker actually lent it to me (which was a huge help), and while it seems like it went by to fast I did enjoy it. I think Jen did as well....I'm just kind of on the fence about playing it through again to get some of the other achievements I missed. With all the reading I need to do for this college paper, I don't have to much time really.

Well I complain about time now...but in three months it'll seem like the world will stand still. Hopefully Jen's family will be able to stay with us a bit after the kid is born, because I have a feeling we are going to need all the help we can get.