Brian’s Weblog

Just doing a drive by to show I am still alive and kickin. Later

Ahhh, another day, another week. Last week, I probably sounded like the world was falling in, but don’t worry. Things just didn’t quite work out to expectations last week. Guess what they say about expectation is true. This week is going just fine. I haven’t done too much on here, but I have been a little busy with school stuff. Anyway, things are looking up and I have faith that they will continue to get better.
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The entire monologue about Kendra has been removed.

Well, I am finished with the first week at school. Still trying to get into the routine. Other things in my life aren’t quite working out as flawlessly as I had hoped, but I am not going to give up. SO I guess things in general for me is that this week wasn’t the best. I am still confident that in the end all will be well, because sometimes life is out of your hands, and all you can do is believe.

Well, things are going okay at school, I am figuring out my German class layout. Its part text, part workbook and the key, is the audio files online. Before I knew about the online audio, I couldn’t figure out what was going on. I guess I will only be able to do homework in front of a computer. That shouldn’t be a problem. Fixture and Design is heavy AutoCAD and parametric modeling, I am already AutoCAD certified and have both programs at home, so I am currently blowing that homework out of the water. Other students take 30 minutes to do a drawing it takes me about 5. English a paper is due tomorrow. Just a page, shouldn’t be too bad. Physics is going great, great teacher, night and day difference to the other teacher.

Well first day is over, and it was a long day. I will comment class by class:

1. German I – Maybe 20 students. Older, nice teacher that laughs and smiles a lot. Sigfried Bottjer is his name. It went okay, we started learning common sayings like Guten Tag Herr Bottjer, which is Good Day Mr. Bottjer. Anyway, the class was moving fast and my head was very confused, I bought the book, which was an amazing 160 dollars. So I am sure I will be able to follow easier. Not happy that the book costs that much, but it should do for German II as well. Probably will do German Rosetta Stone in spare time to help out.
2. Detailing Assembly and Fixture Design – 6 students, well, this one didn’t go so well. I guess last Friday the teacher quit, so Saturday the AutoCAD teacher agreed to fill in. Mr. Raschka is a good teacher, but I don’t know if he will keep teaching it or not. Technically, he teaches too many classes already (6). I am sure I will do fine in this no matter who teaches it.
3. English Composition II – 25 Students. Well this one is reading short stories, poems and sonnets and writing a paper on it. Everyone that knows me, already knows my problem with this. Enough said, I am not looking forward to this.
4. Technical Physics II – 8 Students. I like physics and this time I have a really good teacher. Much more relaxed and easier to understand. Completely different teaching style then the other teacher. This one stresses more, that he wants us to understand what we are doing more then memorizing equations. I am happy that I followed Lloyd’s suggestion and took this instructor.

Mon and Wed, I am there 8am to 8pm. Friday 8 to early afternoon. Thats it, lets see how it goes.
Took a picture: The school at classtime

I updated my blog without blowing it up. It was offline for about 30 minutes. I backed the entire site up last night. SO I figured I would try and update it and if I did blow it up, I could reupload. The worse that could have happened is that it would have taken a couple days to get it uploaded and lose all my passwords. Anyway, it seemed to go well. If anyone sees anything broken, email me. Thanks

Well, school starts tomorrow and I just learned that I have a class dropped by the school for not enough people enrolled. Apparently they made this decision on Friday and did not tell me, I looked at my  schedule to find out that it was dropped. Nice huh. BUT, they haven’t credited me my money back yet, I guess they make sure that they cover there ass at our expense. I am not thrilled with the standards at DCCC, I will go elsewhere soon. Thats it. Well my classes are:
German I
Detailing Assembly and Fixture Design
English Composition II
Technical Physics II

Well holidays are over and I am still alive, have to admit, they were not one for the record books, but it also wasn’t that bad. I haven’t been doing much on here or my picture gallery lately. Don’t know why, just lazy I guess. School is going to start next week, so sort of excited about that. Can’t wait to get done with school. I have 5 classes this semester. I will put up links to them eventually. Anyway, I am alive, and here.