Durham has events

Wow, there are actually three cool-sounding events happening right here on the UNH campus this weekend: a Home and garden show at the Whittemore centre, a greenhouse show at the Thompson school, and a paddle sports show at the Field House. Why are they all converging on this one weekend? I'm not sure.

New easel!

John got me an easel yesterday without telling me. We went out for pizza with Val and Kurt, and when we got home, I found it in the upstairs living room. It's so cool, it folds up into a little suitcase, so if I wanted I could take it out somewhere to paint. He also got two new rugs and re-arranged the living room. Thanks John! It was pretty hard to say no to painting last night, but I had math homework :( My painting skillz are pretty much non-existent, but it's nice to have someone who's encouraging me anyway. Pretty soon our entire apartment will be wallpapered with mediochre artwork by me. I'm not good, but I can paint fast!

Scrabble and ice cream

Janice had a great dessert potluck/scrabble party on Saturday night. It's wonderful to eat tons of sugar and listen to music and think of obscure scrabble words. This time we decided not to keep score since it became far too competitive last time. Not only that, but we decided that interesting words that had 'cred' were allowed to be used. Hence UNIX. and novae. and jedi.

Subversionland

It is kind of lame and more than a little bit dorky to write about this in my blog, but it's so exciting I just can't help it. I have finally got a Subversion folder of my very own set up on the CCOM server - woo hoo! It's better than a backup system (hold on to your hats folks) - it will save every single revision that I ever do on my thesis, even if I make 700 revisions! Holy moley.

I haven't quite got the commands or structure sorted out in my head though, so I'm a little bit dangerous to myself right now. I need to make sure I don't inadvertantly overwrite something that's on my computer, yikes. Okay, if any of my CCOM friends are interested in learning how, I will show you whatever I know (which is not much right now, I'll admit). You should definitely get Nathan to set up a subversion account for you, you won't regret it.

Here's the book, it's online and it's totally free, and in a variety of formats (namely pdf and html): Subversion book .

And yes, I said holy moley. There's just no better way to describe it.

Thesis defense

Kim's thesis defense is today, it's on estuary current modelling - cool. I bet she's going to feel pretty good after about 5 o'clock. I'll find out what it's like a short year and a half from now. I got a sneak preview of her presentation and it's very neat. She kept the scary equations down to a minimum and she explained things well. I hope that I can manage to do that when my turn comes. Good luck, Kim!

Snow and sun and trees

UNH campus can be so nice. This was taken last night as I was walking home. It's facing DeMerritt which I think is the physics building, but I'm not sure.

Crock pot cooking adventures

I was inspired to make soup last night for some reason - I don't know, I might have been just avoiding math homework, but I guess that's okay for one night. The giant slow cooker was excavated from its hiding place and put to use once again. It's definitely one of my favorite kitchen appliances - that and the foodsaver. Anyhow, here's a picture of the chopped veg right before it got tossed into the pot. I was inspired by Val and Alice's split pea and lentil soup, and thought I'd try it myself. Except I added bacon, so it's not vegetarian friendly.
John was bugging me about having no pictures of myself on my blog. So here I am - look at me I'm cooking!