Today I went shooting with the NJIT Gun club. Vlad invited me along so I decided to go because I’ve wanted to shoot for a long time. We went to The Bullet Hole in Belleville. The organizer, Rob brought a .22 rifle for everyone to use. We stayed there for about 3 hours. In that time I was able to shoot six times(we each shot 10 rounds and then switched). It’s nice to see the change in my skill from when I first shot and to the end before I left.

Danger Strikes!:
Myself and my Celica are crusing down Friendship Road in South Brunswick. I round a bend, and from the left side of the road a deer chooses that life was not worth it. The deer starts to run in to the road as I see this I apply the breaks very aggressively. The deer is now directly in front of my car, sensing its demise it looks at the front end of my car. It jumps, its back legs don’t quite make it. A flip ensues and I hear a thud outside my car to the right. My mind thinks of all the photos its seen of Celica’s after hitting a deer. I’m expecting the worst, I’m pretty shaken so I walk the long way around my car to see what happened. As I get to the front of my car I don’t see anything, this confused me. I was expecting torn sheet metal and blood. I crouched down to see if I missed damage to the lower front of my car. Nothing. God is good. My car should be seriously jacked up but its not, I have two little dents that have no scratches on them so they are hard to find unless the light is right.

Sunday I spent all day finishing off the bed I have been working on. Well, my Dad really built most of it, I wasn’t around to work on it so he just went ahead and finished. My part was to stain the wood so it looked nice. I went through a little more than a quart of Stain/Poly combo doing this. Sunday night Dad and I did the final drilling and assembly. The bed looks great now that its done and I’m happy I decided to do this.
Now that the bed is built I had to dispose of the old one from my room. My dad wanted to keep the old head and foot board so that made it easy. The only thing I had left was the frame that the matress rested on.
Nails Attack!:
Now I’ve known for a long time that this frame was pretty broken and that was part of my motivation for building this new bed. As we started to dissassemble the bed I decided to pull out the broken board by hand since it was an easy way to reduce the number of parts we had to take apart. After removing the boards I saw there were two nails sticking out. I did not want anyone to get hurt by them so I decided to bend them over with a hammer. Easy, a couple hits later and they were flattened to the board but they still stuck out out I decided to bend them over again on to the other side of the board. I took two hits the first did nothing, the second one caused a nail to come flying out of the board and right at my eye. I’m not sure if I closed it in time or not but I can still see, so thats all that matters.
The End:
Monday was a monday like every other monday, stupid 8:30AM Vector Analysis. However the catch is that is my last day of classes in college. Super awesome. The reality of graduation is here, I’m done. Four and a half years and lots of money has earned me the right to call myself a Computer Engineer(rock!).

I think I’ll be changing the title of my blog in the next few months(after I’ve Entered the Real World). I’m not sure what it will become.. but I’ve decided that it will change as my life changes.

I’m quickly coming to the realization of how soon I will be thrust in to the “Real World” as the title of this blog mentions. Every day this week I’ve been getting emails relating to the fact that I am going to have my course work completed in only 14 days. Beyond that in 30 days(or so) I will begin fulltime work and actually make real money.
Tonight is my first final exam, then Friday night I have my second. After this week I don’t really have much I have to do because of the spacing of my other finals. I have 2 math finals which are almost a week apart, the good thing is that the hard one is the last one.

Wednesday:
I went to my 8:30AM class and then went home around noon(skipping my 6:00PM class). At home I starting showing my Dad and brother the plans I had for a new bed I plan to build as soon as possible. Pretty uneventful.
Thursday:
Turkey is always good. This year was no exception to that. The meal was at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in Jackson. I spent the time I wasn’t eating hanging out with my younger cousins playing GameCube. The interesting part was my cousin Keven was there, I haven’t seen him in a quite a few years. He hasn’t changed much. After all of the meal activities were over I followed my Grandfather back to his house to fix his computer, he has all kinds of problems with it because its just too complicated(bad Microsoft for giving users too many options) for him at times.
Friday:
This was the day of the bed. I was up pretty early, off to Home Depot to buy 2×4′s and plywood to begin work on my bed. The rest of the day was in the basement cutting the wood down to size with my Dad and brother. By the time that was all over I was pretty tired. So I went bowling with Dave, Andrea, Jen, and Joel at BrunswickZone in North Brunswick. I didn’t get home from that till around 2AM. All together an exhausting day.

Skip a few days..

Tuesday(Today):
Nigerian food with Moses. We went to this place in Newark(about 3/4 mile away) and I had Moses order food for me. I had goat meat, it was interesting. I’m not sure I’ll get the goat again. All in all it was a very unusual meal that left me feeling extremely full. Moses loved it, it reminds him of home. He ate all his food and like half of mine.