I’m now back in Sugar Land, TX, and I will be back for only the weekend.  Afterwards, I’m returning to UT to work with the solar car team.  Many people tell me, “Wow, that sucks!” but I think quite the contrary.  I am passionate about getting this car built; and even though I haven’t done much in the way of design, I have devoted at least a hundred hours this semester to working with logistics, documentation, IT, and outreach while maintaining my school-social balance.  As far as this weekend is concerned, I suspect the schedule looks something like this, with studying and more solar car team stuff wherever I can fit it:

Saturday:

• Calculate the tab with my parents
• Teach little brother how to blow the dust out of his laptop
• Remove gunk from my littlest brother’s computer
• Do FAFSA forms in front of my parents

Sunday:Celebrate Dad’s birthday

Monday:Day of fun with two very close friends while returning to Austin.

Cleaning up my little brothers’ computers reminds me of why I love Linux so much.  In Windows, we are constantly bombarded with pop-ups from the diverse range of software installed asking you to update or to deliver some message/ad.  Also, it continues to baffle me as to how a limited user should be allowed to make global changes to a computer.  Microsoft, there is a reason why I would want to place a user on a “limited” account — it’s because I don’t want them installing programs willy-nilly.

For all you fun-loving folks out there, I will have fun… I promise.  I will have fun in the pursuit of my passions.  That road trip to Calgary, AB, Canada IS going to happen!