2800 miles. 151.583 gallons of gas at an average price of $3.375 a gallon for $514.26 of gas. The Audi was very hungry eating it up at 18.538 miles a gallon.

Well I am at the Apple store in Phoenix right now. So tempted to just get one I must say. Macs are so beautiful. I just left the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Gilbert, AZ and they have a really good looking program there. I need to get my application finished up when I get home and start the process. Well I have about 1300 miles down now, and about 1500 to go. I am going to try to get to just outside LA tonight and find someplace to sleep. Tomorrow I am going to try and drop by Pastor Bill’s house for a bit to see how he is doing.

Right now it is looking like I will be home sometime around Saturday I think.

Well I think that is all for now. Time to do some more dreaming and get back on the road.

Eric

Well I have made it to Tucson, AZ and am at my uncles house.  2 days and 1100 miles isn’t too bad.  Last night I spent the night in Midland, TX.  Tomorrow will bring checking out the recording school in Phoenix I am looking at and a visit to the Apple store for a bit.  It looks like I will be home sometime Friday or Saturday.  About 1700 miles to go.

E

Here is a map/directions for my way home if anyone is interested.

Eric

routehome.pdf

Well I am almost done packing.  I don’t have a whole lot of time because people will be moving in shortly.  I have decided to head out tomorrow since I am pretty tired.  I am going to stay in another guy’s room.  Well that is all for now I guess.  If you get bored this next week give me a call at 360.990.2904 and keep me awake .

Peace
-E

All done with school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Accounting – B
Math – D* (if I got higher than a 60 on the final… otherwise… an F)
Speech – C
Bib Foundations – B*
Fitness – B*

Alright, this confirms it. Joel (my roommate) and myself are pathetic (see pdf below). We are officially obsessed with getting a Mac this summer. I am sure that some people won’t see the light and think we are stupid. Well here is the deal; after you have read every page on Apple’s website about the Mac, then you can complain. Seriously though, if you really go into it with an open mind, you can see that simply, Apple has a much better thing going than the PC. Check out this quote proudly displayed on the Apple website that was written by David Pogue of the New York Times: “You get the feeling that Microsoft’s managers put Mac OS X on an easel and told the programmers, ‘Copy that’”. Oh how true that statement really is.

I am totally stoked for the new Mac OS to come out… named Leopard which follows their line of cat names. With Vista, Microsoft finally caught up to what Apple had going on, albeit not very well done. Once Leopard comes out, Microsoft is going to be left in the dust.Check out the comparison I whipped up a few nights back comparing the iMac to the MacBook Pro (again, the picture below). My biggest problem with upgrading to a Mac is picking which of those machines I want to purchase. Ideally, within a year or so I will want to have both, but for now, one is in order. By listing everything out like that I was able to come up with a good comparison which points to the iMac being the right machine for now. The score actually came out 10 to 2 for benefits of each machine. While a laptop would be nice, I just really like having the security of knowing that the desktop will always be sitting on my desk back at home.

Now, you might be asking, why would I make this switch.  Well I have been a PC man since birth really.  I grew up administering Windows machines for networks and was really good at what I did.  Well here is the deal, I am tired of ‘dealing’ with my PC.  I want it to just work.  Also, with wanting to pursue a career in Audio Production/Recording/Engineering/etc., this switch only makes sense.  Macs are the industry standard for music/video/graphics/etc.  The only thing PCs are really good at is office and games, Macs do all that and then some. With Vista coming out and seeing what an incredible waste of the processor it is and how horribly Microsoft has copied Apple, there would be no way that I would upgrade to Vista.  So that leaves sticking with XP… or switching to the operating system that has it all together… MacOSX.

Well that is enough for now. Hope you enjoyed the rant.

Eric

Guess who is a lazy bum… me.  Well I have been way to busy (sometimes) lately.  I think overall I just haven’t really felt like talking.  Two Tuesdays past, I had a 14 page paper… my Exegetical Paper… due and that must have taken a lot of words out of me.  Well not all that much has really been going on.  Today is Good Friday and being that I am going to a Christian school, we have the day off.  Quite nice actually and perfectly placed as the activity of the world around me has been draining me dry.  Well I guess you are probably wondering what the smack I mean by the title and so we shall forgo the past for now and talk about last night.

It was about 2AM and Joel was in the bathroom getting ready for bed and I was finishing up some projects on my computer to follow suit shortly and head for bed.  I started to detect a faint smell in the room and couldn’t quite put my finger on what was going on.  After a few minutes with the smell growing, I realized that it was cigarette smoke I was smelling.  Well hmm, that is odd.  The fact that I am at a Christian school where things like that are explicitly forbidden, something wasn’t right at all.  Now there are only 5 people total living in my hall, 4 of which were actually here.  Joel and myself… well, no, we don’t smoke.  Sam, the RA… agian, not a smoker.  I wonder who it could be.  Maybe the guy who got busted smoking in his room last year.  Well, gee, I wonder, maybe that is him at it again.  Seriously, WTF was he thinking.  Why would you light up a cigarette in YOUR ROOM?  Especially when you were busted for it last semester. I can’t believe how stupid and audacious people are.

So last night was great… falling asleep to the wonderful smell of burnt chemicals and tobacco.  Then to make my sleeping experience even better last night… well this morning… the birds kindly woke me up at 10AM by squaking like no other.  Thanks again to the tobacco smell left in our room which forced us to open the window so we could breathe.

Now that that information is out, lets talk about the past two weeks.  As I said, not a whole lot going on.  Tonight is going to be a busy night as I will be moving Silverdale Baptist’s website over to a new content management system.  The one they are using was released in September of 2005.  They were on revision 15 or something then and now are up to 28… just a little bit of difference.  I am so ready to get out of here.  Just about 35 days or so left here in Texas, then the road trip back to Seattle will begin.  Hopefully this weekend I will get my application done for the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences (www.cras.org), as I would really like to go there next year.  We shall see what happens.

Well it is time to get back to work on the SBC upgrade.

Peace-