Well, Just taking a break from today's studying to write an update. Cleared the first test last Wednesday and did pretty well. The test today is going to suck bigtime, but that's life. I've got 7 hours to study, so hoepfully I'll be all set by this evening. Still have two projects due next week, but they're not due until Friday & Saturday which is very cool...more time to procrastiante!

On a totally different topic, yesterday marked the 90th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Titanic. Sunday night at 11:40 PM marks 90 years since the iceberg, and Monday morning at 2:20 AM marks 90 years since it sank. As a side note, this year, the days also conincide, i.e. it struck the Iceberg on a Sunday evening and sank on Monday morning. There are now only five survivors of the disaster left. For those who don't know, the Titanic is my favorite historical subject.

So, everyone knows that I'm way too invovled with the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi. Well, it has just gotten worse! As of last week, I was appointed as a district seven director for Tau Beta Pi. So, you ask, what does that mean? Basically district directors are regional representatives of the national organization. In district seven's case, that region includes the southern penninsula of Michigan plus Ohio. District directors assist the local collegaite chapters by servering as sources of information and providing help when necessary. They also serve as the representatives of the region they represent and try to foster relations between the collegiate chapeters, alumnus chapters, and the national organization.

So the next question is how much do you make for this illustrious job? Can you believe, $75,000 per year. Of course you can't because that's only in my dreams. District directors get paid a whopping $0.00. Pretty cool, huh? The neat part is I get to go to meetings free of charge and I get to play a bigger role in an organization that I really enjoy being a part of. So I'm looking forward to the next three years as a district seven director...although the district had better watch out!

Some of you have had the misfortune of working with me and my laptop. My laptop has had lots of issues over the past year including pressing enter by itself and entering into a continuous reboot cycle. So, I finally decided to call Dell and see if it could be fixed. Unfortunately, it's out of warrantly, so I'd have to pay for any repairs. So after a bried conversation with the technical support gentleman, the cause was defaulted to a bad motherboard. So it would have to be sent to their repair facility.

So it got picked up on Monday and I figured they would get it Wednesday or Thursday. So Tuesday night, I checked my voice-mail around 8:00 PM and had two messages, one at 8:30 AM and one at 11:30 AM. Both were from Dell and the first one asked me to call them and the 2nd one said, "we've run tests for two hours and can't find anything wrong. We're shipping it back to you." Doh! So I call them Wednesday morning and ask if they already shipped it back since it didn't have any problems. The person said, "well we did send it back, but there was a problem." So she elaborated and it turns out that it worked fine when she was testing it. Then it went to the QA people for verification of her tests were it prompty decided to stop working!

So I was happy because I would have had to send it back since it was broken, but it finally showed them that it sucked. So I asked what the repair cost would be, and she said, well it's a long story, but since I didn't catch it, there is NO CHARGE! I was like, yes! For once that stupid laptop knew how to save its owner a few bucks by failing to work at exactly the right moment. And that, ladies and gentlemen is why Dell rocks.

Happy April Fool's everyone! Unfortunately, I have no really long story to tell that actually ends up not being true. However, my Dell story is true, that's not BS. I just wanted to share and it happens to be April Fool's Day. Oh, and if you are of the inclination, Happy late Easter!