It makes me sick to my stomach that the American people require a Supreme Court ruling to tell them that partial-birth abortions are an abomination. Consider this short, unemotional description of the procedure:
The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman’s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.
Read that one more time.
Our landlord OK’ed us to get a hot tub for our back deck earlier this week when we found a screaming deal on one from Craigslist. We spent all day yesterday renting a large trailer from U-Haul, imposing on a few friends to help us with their truck, and driving all over Salt Lake City waiting for the hot tub to be ready for us. We had a great moment at about 5:00 PM when the hot tub was finally resting in its intended location.
But, no silver lining is without a cloud.
Well, it looks like I can’t get back to BYU before Winter (January-April) 2008 semester. I just realized I needed to reapply to BYU to have the option of returning in the Fall. The deadline for returning students’ applications for Fall 2007 was March 1, no exceptions.
So I’ve applied for Winter 2008 admission and scholarships. I’m confident I’ll be accepted (3.98 GPA my first 2 years, 35 ACT, etc), but I am a little disappointed to have the earlier readmission unavailable.
Well, there are worse things in life than being involuntarily stuck in Park City a few extra months. Mountain biking season starts in a few weeks…
As discussed previously, I have a bit of a… problem with gadgets. My latest toy? A PPC-6700 from Sprint. I was tired of having my cell phone reception (previously from Cricket) go out every time I got on the highway. Or, for that matter, when I entered my house. So, in typical style, I decided it was finally time for me to get the coolest. phone. ever.
Anyone who has worked with me or knows me well understands my frustration with OSS (Linux, et al).Â
The other day, I set a new record in frustration level. I only wanted to set up the CentOS (Red Hat derivative) distribution with Apache/mod_ssl, PHP4, and MySQL5. By the third reformat and reinstall of the operating system, I could hardly form a coherent sentence through my anger, let alone deal with any more undocumented configuration files.
Unfortunately, you can’t physically destroy Linux. So I took it out on Linux’s cohort–the physical machine.