Cerrisian Blog

Woo, it’s been quite a week.

Went to two potlucks (one for interns/new hires at work, one at church). Finished watching Blue Submarine Number 6, went to California Pizza Kitchen for the first time in a while, explored Drupal, finished up another feature at work, setup my new laptop.

Did I mention I’ve started using mnemosyne? It’s a flashcard program that uses spaced learning. So far, I’ve been quite impressed. I’m using it to learn the CSS 2.1 specifications and keep some drawing techniques in the forefront of my mind, as well as anything else that comes to interest. I have about 60 cards now, The 20 Rules of Formulating Knowledge For Learning really has good advice on making cards for mnemosyne.

It definitely seems to make studying easier, I’m definitely going to try it this semester, as well. It should be really useful in Astrophysics and Operating Systems (my two hardest classes, besides Senior Seminar).

I haven’t been taking very many photos or hiking this week, and I forgot to exercise this evening, but that’s ok. I need extra time to prepare for the next potluck

I went on an awesome hike today to Mount Herman, north of town. It was raining a little bit, but it was well worth it. The rain was beautiful in the setting sun, but I didn’t see any rainbows. It was falling on the first reservoir.

That’s when I saw a beautiful fox, it wasn’t afraid of humans and looked at me from about 3 feet away. I think that it wanted the rest of the sandwich in my backpack.

From there, I went to the second reservior, the rain stopped by then and the second reservior was absolutely gorgeous. Very calm, deep, green water. From there I went on the trail to The Winding Staircase, which was full of Aspen trees, Columbine, Indian Paintbrush and wild strawberries. There were many paths to follow and I’ll have to explore more next time I go.

To the right, there’s a trail that leads to a plane crash, to the left, there’s more wooded areas. I can’t wait to go with my camera (instead of my camera phone) and share more.