MCOQueen's Ramblings

I came in last place again with my Nascar Fantasy racing league on CBS sportsline with insignia_void and D.S. from work.  I even picked the winner of the race, Kyle Busch!  I stupidly forgot to check to see if all my drivers were qualified for the race.  Unfortunately, one of the driver's I picked did not qualify.   Double ugh!  I just know I'm gong to end up in last place by the end of the season at this rate.  I finished doing my unit 5 project and seminar discussion for one of my classes.  We are currently on Unit 6.  One of my professors allows us to turn these two assignments up to a week late without penalty.  As a result, I am always behind in that class.  Ugh!  I just finished reading the chapter for Unit 6.  I am hoping to catch up so I can get ahead and start working on my Final Projects for my classes.  I really can't wait for this quarter to end.  I need to do my FAFSA for my next quarter of the year.  I had a lot of fun at my brother's birthday party last night.  Great food and the Wii!  Too cool!  I showed off my laptop to my family.  It's the first time they've seen it.  I am getting used to typing and using it now.  Laptops rule!  For my Unit 6 project for one of my classes, I have to watch a tv show that I like and watch it with no audio and jot down all the nonverbal communication taking place.  I then have to write a paper on it.  Thank goodness my parents have cable and a DVR.  I do not have cable.  I am procrastinating at the moment and need to get back to my assignments.  Later. 

 This has been one long week.  I worked from Saturday through Friday.  I was having to use my brother's compuer until my new laptop came in.  Of course, it comes in this past Tuesday while I'm in the middle of doing a paper.  I'm still trying to get used to a laptop.  I've always had a pc.  I think I will never go back to that.  My games play so well on this laptop.  I'm not surprised.  It is a gaming laptop.  I'm actually liking all the services that Dell offers.  My laptop is an XPS m1530 Dell laptop.  I'm still tryin to get used to Vista.  It runs well.  I have so much school work to do.  I'm going to be writing papers and watching Nascar tomorrow.  I'm currently at my parent's place.  We're celebrating Varqa's birthday today even though it was last week.  Mom is cooking and the food smells wonderful.  Everybody around me seems to be getting sick.  I've been taking the airborne stuff and so far I haven't gotten sick.  I'm hoping this will last.  Later.

Last night, work got a bit crazy. It's all because of the stinking baseball playoffs. Had a slight rain scare in NY but it only lasted ten minutes and it was a light rain. They did not stop the game. It would have been interesting to start airing the news and then have to go back once the rain delay was over. Satellite was just insane for A.W. last night. Around 10pm, all the vcr's in satellite and in P.P.'s room were being used at the same time. Earlier, when he had to send our news breaks over about 3 times because the ENG people didn't have a long enough tape the first two times even though he told them how long it was going to be. Also, he had tapes and stuff left over from the previous shift, because B.J. was hardly in Satellite yesterday. He had lots of commercials and promos to do as well. By the time midnight came around, he had to leave about 8 tapes for R.P.M. to check and some commercials for him to dub as well. I'm really dreading going into work today. We have a double header of baseball (4pm & 8pm game). The reason Detroit's game is at 4 is because they are expecting snow flurries later in the evening. Things are really going to get interesting today. Also, I just know I'm going to get loaded down with tons of stuff to do today considering that it is indeed a Friday.

I have been wanting to get a laptop for a while now. My dad had sent me an e-mail stating that mom wanted to use a laptop when she's recovering from her surgery to do some work and if I knew anyone who I could borrow a laptop from. I had been debating for a year now to get one. I have finally decided that I'm going to go to Best Buy with my brother Adib tomorrow and get one. Laptops have gotten cheaper in price and there are some sales going on. I want to take my new laptop to Arizona with me and pretty much anywhere else I'm going to travel this year and next year. I think it'll be something useful to have. I finally got around to picking up the luggage from my parents today. I'm going to do all my packing tomorrow. I can't wait for today to end! Vacation! Woo-hoo!