Happy 4th of July
Today I spoke with 3 musicians from Congo, and they told me that we take all that we have for granted here in the US. We live in wonderland. I must say that after that conversation they really opened my eyes to how blessed we really are. Everyone have a Happy 4th of July Weekend
Just recently I’ve ran across the Educational side of Youtube, more specifically the section that includes various videos from many well known universities. Today I sat down and watched through a few beginner programming courses, from the Stanford University Computer Sciences department, and beginner courses in Electronics Engineering. This is mind blowing and amazing all at once because most of these videos were recorded inside of the classroom of that University and if you can dig deep enough in the Universities website you can probably get a hold of other classroom handouts and other useful materials from that specific class. I won’t even speak of the MIT Open Course website because that alone is a gold mine of education. In any case I’m going to be cancelling all my dates and appointments and hide myself away from a few months while I sit and go through these classes online for free.
I’m trying to keep with my New Years resolutions this year. One of them being, working on my Japanese reading and writing skills, unfortunately I can’t work on my speaking skills all too well because I don’t have anyone Japanese to speak to. So I’ve been going over some Kana and Kanji flash cards and trying to translate and read some basic japanese books. I’ve started with the iPhone app Hiragana Lite and Kotoba!
It’s the free versions of the software but so far so good. I just need to work harder on my writing skills as I haven’t really practiced much at all. Learning a new language can be pretty frustrating at times especially while self studying. I still plan on sometime taking a class here or a series of courses in Japan.
Happy Belated Thanks Giving! Woke up with no hang over, not feeling any post wine drinking session side effects. I really had a great time at my aunts house last night, with all my family, the food was outstanding, and had a good few laughs listening to my aunt joke around. I seriously woke up with sore cheeks. I won’t be doing any Black Friday shopping as I hate shopping with huge crowds around, and with a huge mess in every store. I’m sure I could find good enough deals without having to wake up at 4 a.m in the morning or some crazy thing like that. All in I wish everyone a good long weekend.
I decided to log on to my Yahoo mail account today, one of which I don’t use anymore because the high level of spam it receives. Once sifting through all that junk I managed to pick up some really old e-mails. It was really interesting digging through some stuff that has been sitting in a folder since 1999. It’s almost like going through that little box full of your personal junk and reading through your school year book or something.