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May 8, 2005 - Alumnus. Weird word.

So, I've officially graduated. This is just a brief note, since it's 2 AM and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in about five days. I'm even too lazy to archive properly at the moment.
Anyway, just so no one thinks I've died, here's the deal:

• Tomorrow morning, I hop on a plane from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Myself and seven of the other ISU Scuba Club members go diving for a week.
• Next Monday, we all return to the airport, where everyone goes home but me.
• I pick up a rental car and drive across the state to Sarasota.
• I spend five days in Sarasota with my grandmother, visiting and doing odd jobs.
• On May 20th, I hop on a plane from Sarasota to Chicago, to come home and start my buying/sorting/packing frenzy that all leads up to my June 15th move to Seattle.

May 25, 2005 - Fun with websites

So I'm a bad person; I seem to be bad at updating this darn website of mine. On the plus side, I just recently moved my site over to new hosting. The wonderful folks at CalCon have decided to get out of the business, so I've found a new home -- and this one has PHP and databases! What does this mean for the site? Ideally, it'll be better, faster, and all my "cool stuff" (POTD, gaming, and the like) will be redone and made even cooler. Heck, I've even made the first new thing that's New And Improved™ - I went and put up all 400+ of the Scuba pictures from this last trip. Since there are so many, it might be better to go through them by days - in the future, I might even make them searchable.
But that all serves as a wonderful transition to the ever-so-interesting discussion of where I've been for two weeks and change. Really, it's not all that exciting; it pretty much follows the schedule I gave in my last update. The Scuba trip was awesome, of course, including a full six days of awesome diving and a bunch of good friends. The drive across the state was ... interesting, with three separate stops for naps. Four days with my grandmother was great, too - and of course, being in Florida is always awesome. The flight back sucked, with a delay of about five hours, plus lost luggage to boot. Long story short, it all worked out, and I got back unscathed. Since then, I've pretty much been sorting through all of my stuff, and buying a whole bunch of new (and boring) stuff for the impending move. It's astounding how much stuff I have here, especially considering that it's not even my 'home' anymore. Finding and sorting all this stuff is quite the chore.
So yeah, now I get to do this sorting business for a couple more weeks, and then get out of here for ... well ... ever, I guess. Fun times. More postings as I come up with more revamped stuff around here.