Summer Happenings

Been home for about three weeks now, and I've gotten a few things done. Not anything productive or noteworthy, but they've nonetheless happened.

TV Shows
Just finished the sixth season of South Park. I've never really sat down and watched the show until the last year or so. Good stuff, as I'm sure you all already know. I've got a couple more seasons lined up, so I'm set for a bit. I also finished the first season of How I Met Your Mother. Also great stuff. NPH does an awesome job, and I blew through the first season in no time. I've recently started recording ER on TNT. Again, good show - although I might be a bit biased. Ah well. Anyway, TNT is currently airing episodes from later seasons and these have been considered to be lesser quality vs. earlier seasons. If that's the case, then I think I'll be a fan of the series as a whole. Sadly, no one seems to rent out ER seasons. I watched a couple recorded episodes of Planet Earth (Discovery Channel). About what you'd expect from a nature show, but different - and I like it. It carries a theme throughout the show (mountains, ice worlds, ocenas), and moves reasonably quickly between different locales. Emperor penguins are cool and dolphins are smart ones. Ooo, and Man vs. Wild comes back on in a few weeks. If you don't already know, Bear Grylls is the man. If he needed to survive on the former planet of Pluto, he'd make it happen.

Video Games
As for the game that I'm currently working through, it'd be Call of Duty 2 for 360. If you played the first one, it's more of the same with some updated graphics. More of the same is, in this case, a good thing. I've started playing SimCity 2000 again. No real reason as to why, I just had the urge to play it again. Awesome game, even if it is something like ten years old. I've also got some random moments of Guitar Hero 2 and Halo 3. Halo 3, as far as multiplayer goes, is looking pretty good. They've updated a few things, and I'm a fan of what they've done. If you liked Halo 2 MP, you'll probably like Halo 3. I've also got a couple more games that I'm looking to beat this summer. How many I beat depends on how much I actually end up working this summer. Hooray loans!

Other Random Stuff
I got the radiator in my car replaced. Sadly, it didn't fix the issue of occasional bubbling sounds or the mysteriously overfilling/flowing coolant reservoir. Hopefully though, it has more cooling capacity than the old one, and can hold off overheats better. Not that it happened all the time with the last one, but maybe now it'll just never happen. Got my final financial aid letter from UIC, and it's actually $6 cheaper vs. their estimate. Hoo-rah. I cleaned my computer both on the inside and outside. It was long overdue. The outside was getting to be kinda nasty and even more so on the inside. There were layers of dust everywhere on the inside. Probably about 50% of my heat sink was covered in a 1/8 inch layer of dust. Clean all of that off, remount the heat sink, and now it's running 25°F cooler. Yay.

As you can tell, there's been a lot of exciting stuff happening... It beats school though. At least I get a trip up to Chicago in a few days.