The Happy News thread

[CX]

Only Marines and special forces would think that rocked. Everyone else would bitch.

[CoffeeCat]

yay!

I just passed my placement test for college I don't have to take all the extra classes.
I scored 110% in English, but only 85 in math.

CONGRATS, that is a huge relief, let me tell you. If you're in a math-related field (any science, engineering, comp sci, or math) you'll have less trouble having to take Calc 1/2 in college (which I have been informed is somewhere between being drawn & quartered and an acid bath). If you're not in one of those related fields, it's just a huge pain in the ass you don't have to deal with, so congrats!

What were you able to opt out of by doing that? College Algebra/Trig/Calc1/Calc2 ? When I started as a freshman I failed the Trig. placement test (which normally means you have to take a "refresher" course (trig with a firehose) but I aced the Calc 1/2 placement so they waived it. Whew!

Just about everybody fails the trig placement here... It's insanity.

Don't have to take any refresher classes. I can go strait to the accounting classes. Big relief.
I was actually going for a Microsoft cert., an office assistant cert, and then a CIS degree. Hopefully I can test out of HTML, keyboarding, and a few others as well. I was thinking about just getting W3C certified anyway.

[Distracted]

Blue blisters are from cold injury, Elessar. You've officially been frostbitten.

Hoo-rah.

[Entilzha]

Eating Egyptian Halawa mmm sooo gooood

[Distracted]

What's that?

[Entilzha]

http://www.halwani.com.sa/hbproducts/halawa.html it is really good. I only get my hands on it if a friend or family brings it from Egypt which is very rarely. They do make it in my country and in some EU countries but it is not the same as the real stuff it is usually hard whereas the real stuff you can eat with a spoon.

[TPoptarts]

Happy news: I got my FanLib prizes!!







Lookie here's my iPod nano



And they said I could engrave something so look what I engraved

[justTripn]

Wowie!

[JadziaKathryn]

That's a great thing to have engraved, and it'll identify it as yours too!

[TPoptarts]

^ Heh actually all the rest of the Trekkers probably engraved the same thing

[Distracted]

What's in the spiral bound notebook?

[dark_rain]

Ahh, christmas and another HUGE WORKLOAD!!!

Still, from that pile I can now (almost) cross of the following;

Installation of 10 iMacs and associated LAN infrastructure.

Server for the above (this is a BIG puppy. 1.45TB (yes, thats Terrabytes) of space on RAID 0 with ext3, which took 10+ hours just to format!)


I love christmas! Everything slows down now.

On a happier note, I'm seeing Dara Ó Briain LIVE!

[TPoptarts]

What's in the spiral bound notebook?

It's a journal with blank white pages. Where I can draw lots of pictures

[Asso]

My daughter is 29 today!
Well!:
How time flies!

[evcake]

Kewl! Any grandkids?