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Some scary eval() errors in my watchdog listing prompted me to get off my fat ass and update. I opted for a clean install of 4.6.2 which went rather smoothly. Things, however, turned ugly when the image update script failed and eventually failed upon renaming all of my images. So poof. . .all my galleries were gone. Oh well, one of these days I'll get around to upping them again. . .

I'm having second thoughts about the Japanese course I am in already. Its fast, probably too fast for most in the class, but at the moment is just a pile of review. My fear is that complete boredom will overtake me in the classroom and I'll eventually lose interest, essentially throwing $900 out the window. I guess I'll wait and see though. . . won't take long before new things start appearing. After all, we are doing a complete textbook in 6 weeks time.

I need 6 credits to graduate. That's 2 courses and so I budgeted for that. I guess I was much too comfortable thinking that this year's tuition would amount to a seemingly gentle $1000 or so. When the time came to register, it was a different story. After some juggling and frustration that some conflicts arose, the dust cleared and I was left with 7 registered courses with an extra in mind for second term.

Now the last time I was in school was almost 2 years ago, right about the time when tuitions were bumped up a notch, well a couple of notches. When I saw the amount due this time, however, a feeling of disgust followed by panic over took me. "Damn. Shit. Oh man. Student Loan?" For at least 1 year of study it would've been nice not to work, not to schedule studying around my 4 o'clock shift. But that's not going to happen this year :(

Micfo has launched a great little promotion which runs until August 28th, 2005. Current clients can upgrade their accounts for a one time fee for the lifetime of their account. For new customers there is no restriction as well, assuming that a new account is purchased before the promotion deadline.

There are 3 upgrades:

1GB storage $10
10GB bandwith $10

Now that 2 months has passed since my return to Vancouver, I can safely say I am accustomed. The 3 steaks a week, the term "sunny breaks" and that funny smell reminiscent of a skunk having coffee have all become the norm. While I do feel a bit in a state of limbo, the boys over at mingus language services have kept me busy. I've been jumping back and forth between the diagnostic app and getting the template up for the site, while trying to fit in an hour or two of Japanese every now and then.

I've been meeting with 2 Japanese students of English for language exchange with the hope that w/ some more interest upon completion of jc cafe that we can get a free japanese english language exchange club for the Vancouver area going.