The last two and a half weeks have been crazy. Let's start with the days immediately after the last blog. On February 21, Erika and I celebrated 8 years together. I took her to a restaurant in Birmingham that she really likes as well as to the local nature preserve where they rehabilitate injured animals. This is the same place that hosted the chocolate buffet a week earlier. That night, we went to see Tammy Pascatelli at The Stardome. Monday, I fixed a nice picnic lunch and we went to see The Wedding Date.

The following week was finals week at ITT. That's always a busy time. Finals week ended with my 30th birthday on the 26th. The Friday before was games day as I spent about 8 straight hours playing everything from pool to Disney Trivial Pursuit to Paper Mario to poker. My family came down on my birthday to celebrate with me for the weekend.

Last week was spent closing out my classes. Now it's time for the next quarter. Thankfully I got my new schedule last Thursday. Nevermind that I should have had it weeks ago. If you want to revisit that rant, just scroll down. The schedule never got any better. In fact it got much worse. Now I'm teaching 6 classes, all but one of them at night. I even have a Friday night class now. It's definitely time for me to move on. I'm done with this crap. I also found out that I have no avenue for complaints lest I get on the wrong side of the dean. I'd rather just take what I'm given and give them notice when I find something else. For those of you at ITT in Strongsville, let's not make this public, ok?

To finish off my hectic 17 days, I spent a few days in Athens, Georgia with Erika at a conference she presented at. It was nice and relaxing. I managed to finish off Gradius Galaxies on GBA and catch up on some reading.

To cap off my hectic schedule, some hax0rz decided my message board was a nice target thanks to some security holes. Those were patched with an upgrade. I still have some minor changes to make, but at least the board is functional.

For those of you that participated in Trivia Challenge 3, I'll get to the rewards this week (hopefully Tuesday). Another challenge should be up this week as well as a review of Paper Mario. If you aren't tired of reading, jump over to Now Playing and check out my review of The Wedding Date.