I haven’t posted a non-computer entry in a long time, so here we go. I’ve been relaxing over Spring Break, despite my 11-point list of things I wanted to accomplish over break (I’ve done 4ish). But, I feel much better than I did over the past month or so; passing ME 410 definitely made this week much more awesome than it was originally. I moved out of my studio apartment that cost $515/mo. to a much cheaper one – I’m shackin’ up with the girlfriend. She has plenty of space, and splitting the rent will save a decent chunk of money. So far, it’s gone quite well and I’m finally getting the apartment cleaned up after all of the mess around moving.

I hung out with Tammy the other day and went to a birthday party, both were pretty nice; it was good to get out of the house that I’ve been in for most of the week. Basically, my plan for the near future:

• Coast through my last quarter at OSU
• Find an apartment without seeing it, via housingmaps.com
• Do the graduation thing, yadda yadda yadda
• Pack up all of U. and my things and put them on a truck bound for Seattle
• Say goodbye for the summer while U. goes to Dresden, bummer.
• Get on a plane and fly to Seattle
• Start working for Microsoft

I did find out several of my friends will be in the area over the summer (or permanently!), so that’s pretty awesome. I’ll at least start out with more people I know in Seattle than I had last time, which will be good. I’m still not looking forward to empty apartments though. I will however enjoy finally starting the next part of my life instead of langishing in the current one – that will definitely be exciting. And new. Excitanew, if you will. Now if only I can convince Crazy Timmels to teach in Seattle I’ll be good to go.

If all of these features aren’t enough for you, you’re in luck. Amarok has a ridiculously large collection of user-submitted scripts that do everything from making .sig files from your current tracks, to controlling your player via a bluetooth remote, to auto searching and downloading .torrents of a song, artist, or album that’s currently playing (don’t steal music kids. Stealing is bad, mmmkay?)

Wil Wheaton, via an article on SuicideGirls.com

Link and title shamelessly stolen from my friend Aaron

• Going to classes, which ranges from pretty awesome to completely awful and a waste of my time (aka ME 410 – Statics)
• Writing lots of code, but never finishing everything due to boredom / exhaustion / laziness
• Working at OSC, which is a mixed bag
• Playing Nintendo DS a lot more now that I’ve got an SD adapter for it
• Watching through Arrested Development again
• Reading the Internets a lot, LifeHacker really is an awesome site, everyone should read it

In general though, I feel as if my big problem is the same as most other people who have graduated / will graduate soon, I have no one to really hang out with. My girlfriend is great and if it weren’t for her I probably would’ve went insane by now but as Kurt Vonnegut puts it, I need to “join a gang”; I’m really down to only two people who are still in Columbus that I still hang out with. We spend time with the German department kids, but they don’t do things that often and I still kind of feel like an accessory a bit (not because of them, they’re great).

Normally I’d take this upon myself to start anew and get to fixing this problem, but I’m hesitant because I’m leaving soon for a whole new city where I’ll really have to start again. I suppose that this is just a transition period that I’ll have to get through.

Found at http://bugi.oulu.fi/~heikkiv/chan (actually on reddit, but who’s counting)

Now every week on Sunday I am reminded to haxor the gibson. Excellent.

I’ve recently discovered (via Lifehacker) the task management (aka To-Do list) tool Remember the Milk. Basically, it’s a to-do list that can automatically harass you via AIM/Text Message/EMail when to do something.

Now I don’t really need someone reminding me to do one-off things, I’ve got my own to-do lists for that. What I do want to use it for is to avoid one of the top 10 things that annoys me the most. Corporations screwing me over. I put everyone that I need to pay fees to every month on a recurring task based on the due date. That way, I don’t actually have to remember these things, and f’ing corporations that charge me late fees go broke.

Some of my friends tell me “I read your blog, but I have no idea what it’s ever talking about”, so I came up with an easy solution; if you visit my blog via the link http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/category/not-nerdy, you can skip out on the 10110101 stuff you’re probably not interested in.

I didn’t really know this until today, but turns out Stevie Ray Vaughn is really fucking good at guitar.