Just a quick one.....

....I had a funny quote from Dr. Kuban from last night but instead I am just posting a quick update. I am leaving after work today to go to Abilene for a couple of days. I'll have lunch with the kids tomorrow, do some studying while they are in school and then pick them up. Mason has a b-ball game Saturday [pictures to come] and then I will head home with some fun stuff in between, I am sure.

So, no new posts until Sunday - everyone reading, have a great weekend.

P.S. Courtney noticed a new element of my blog design - when you hover over any links, like the title of this post or the stuff to the side, you will see a sparkly background. I found this on someone else's blog and stole it - the color scheme doesn't really match, but it is fun.

Joe Kuban : Plants are easy to measure because they don't run away from you.

Well, Professor Kuban was fairly tame last night....but I thought the above quote was fairly insightful. He was talking about measuring the population of something and these were his words of wisdom. It was a toss up between that one and "It's a keeper." - which was uttered during the story of a foot fungus he acquired in Peru in 1994 and has never had treated because he likes how it turns his nail blue when the spores do something. Sadly, apparently, even his dermatologist thinks it's "cool".

The rest of the evening was fine.....I'm not really digging my Stats class. I don't mind the topic but our teacher is not very good at explaining stuff and goes really fast. When we finish a chapter, the homework for that chapter is due during the next class period. Last night, he said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you we finished Chapter 4 last Wednesday....so that should have been due today. So, we will finish Chapter 5 tonight and it will all be due Wednesday."

WTF ?

Guess how many problems are due for Chatpers 4 and 5 tomorrow night ? And, let me tell you these are not 2+2 problems - they are "story" problems sometimes with 2-5 parts.

65

Yep, I had last night, today and tomorrow to do 65 problems. RIDICULOUS ! So, I promptly raised my hand and asked him if he accepts late homework. He wanted to know why I was asking and I simply said, I have to work all day tomorrow, I have class tomorrow night and work all day Wednesday so getting 65 problems done in there will be tough. I'll try but it will be tough. He said he didn't like late work but he would accept it. And, get this, he said "The answers are in the back of the book so you just have to copy them." Are you kidding me ?? He wants me to just copy all the answers for the 65 problems and not even work them. While that might sound appealing in the short term - I doubt that is going to help me much on the 1st test.

By the end of class.....without any more comments from me......he modified his earlier deadline for the whole class and stated that Chapter 4 would be due Wednesday and Chapter 5 on Monday. Much better. Of course, someone then raised their hand and said, "If we finish it all, can we turn in both on Wednesday ?"

Bastards.

Congrats Peyton and the Colts.....

.....on their Super Bowl XLI win !! I was kinda rooting for the Bears just to be different - but I am glad the Colts won.....and thank goodness, otherwise these guys would have felt really foolish walking around downtown Miami last night.

I spent the evening at my friend Charles's house watching the game. We all agreed that while the half-time show with PRINCE rocked, the commercials were LAME this year....nothing really worth remembering. Another NFL season in the books.....maybe with a new coach we can be cheering for the Cowboys sometime in the near future.