http://www.chimptank.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The summer is now almost gone and the fall semester will soon be upon me. Arrrgghhh. It is good though. I hope to be able to really step out of this shell I seem to have formed around myself in the last few years. I am ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/08/19/lifes-a-beach-i-wish/ OK so for the past 9 weeks I've been battling HP over an accidental damage warranty issue.  It is finally resolved and so I will now proceed to keep my promise to them... It day was April 8th, 2008.  I was studying for my upcoming Physics exam with my laptop and ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/06/03/adventures-in-hp-tech-support-land/ I have arrived!... in St. louis. For those who do not know, I have transplanted myself from Salt Lake City to St. Louis for the summer. There are so many reasons for this move but mainly because Protective's office is out here and they want me to work full-time for ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/05/16/transplantion/ It's been a while since I've written anything here. It's been a while since anything worth writing about has happened. These past few months have been nothing but study study study. I had this Physics class that was way intense. The final was last friday and it destroyed me. It ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/05/02/moving-sale/ As I am sure all of you know by now, last Sunday, January 27th at 7:00 pm, Gordon B. Hinckley, Prophet, Seer and Revelator, died in his home. He was 97 years old. As I have reflected on this great loss, I have had many diverse feelings: happiness, ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/02/04/till-we-meet-again/ Ok everybody, I finally took a little bit of time and sorted through a bunch of my pictures from the past year and got them up in my gallery. I have added 5 new albums with approximately 700 new pictures along with close to 200 new pictures in assorted other albums.  ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/01/28/new-pictures/ Ok so, on January 3rd, I started to write this but then I got sidetracked and I'm just now coming back to it like a month later... Its Jan. 3rd and its 10:15 pm in Honolulu, Hawaii. We left the island of Kauai at 4:40 pm and landed on Oahu ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/01/28/theres-no-place-like-home-for-the-holidays-yeah-right/ "They" say that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. What "They" don't say is that it is more painful to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. While this pain is not explicitly stated in ... http://www.chimptank.com/2008/01/20/better-to-have-loved/ Yesterday was Turkey Day. Woohoo! A day we commemorate by stuffing ourselves silly and then passing out in front of a football game surrounded by family. I'm sure we do it just like our Pilgrim ancestors hundreds of years ago. Way to keep the tradition going! But ... http://www.chimptank.com/2007/11/23/turkey-sweet-turkey/ Yesterday as I sat on my computer doing what I do all day long... nothing, I received an IM from my swedish strawberry, Alexandra. It was an all too familiar link to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?blahblahblah). My initial reaction was, 'ughhh, YOUTUBE?!'. As we are all too well aware, ... http://www.chimptank.com/2007/11/19/kitties-sure-are-kittylicious/