Lincoln LS

Time to log another point in my life.

I'm purchasing my first vehicle. It's a 2005 Lincoln LS V6. It's a beautiful black car with black interior and silver trim. Since it is used with a salvaged title I'm getting it for a pretty sweet deal. $13,000. That's like $10,000 off of the retail price.

I've test driven it once now and must say the car can seriously spoil you. It's Fords approach to the import luxury sedans. It really is a great car and is built upon the Jaguar Type-S framing and engine.

Hopefully I'll be getting the vehicle tomorrow, however things are rather slow right now with the loan processing and papers. I'll find out by tonight if I'm getting the vehicle or not.

Anyways, that's all for now, maybe I'll come back with a quick review of the car when I'm driving it next week :)

Only time will tell.

It's been a while

As the title suggests, it has definitely been a while since I've posted on my blog. Nothing too interesting happens in Zack and Caden land, however recently we have delved into something. Caden and I will be making a trip to Europe next June. We are going to be visiting Britain, France, and Italy.

The trip will be a blast I'm sure. It will be interesting for both of us. I have lived in Switzerland but have never been to many of the places we will be visiting, so it should be quite fun.

Caden and I have recently become interested in Mountain Biking. We took a trip up north of Russelville last Sunday to a place called Piney Creek nature reserve. It's a 1800 square mile piece of land in the Ozarks with some very beautiful scenery.

We are going to try and make a trip somewhere this weekend as well. I will post some pics of the trip and some pictures of the Piney creek trip when we return.

Until next time.

Freebord - Snowboard the Streets

So, recently I've become irritated that there is an incredible lack of snow in Arkansas. I began to search. After looking over the internet for about an hour I came across a website: http://www.freebord.com I couldn't be any more ecstatic. I finally had found a board which allows you to snowboard on the street.

I ordered mine up last week and have taken it out twice now. The first time I sucked majorly at it, and the second I was a lot better. I am now waiting to get pads and a helmet so that I can bomb a street and not be afraid of busting my face open.

These freebords are amazing, they allow you to snowboard on asphalt. It feels just like the real thing, you can carve, slide, and slash just like you would on a snowboard.

Anyways, this has become my new passion and I should be taking some vids/pics to put up on the blog over the next couple of weeks. Spring break is coming up here soon and I'll be going up to Mount Magazine again to try out freebording on some big hills. I'll have to get my pads and practice all next week if I plan on doing anything spectacular.

Well, that's the update, if you live anywhere near me central arkansas and like to snowboard and decide to purchase a freebord, hit me up. We can go out and do it together.

Sickness

Caden has come down with a bilateral kidney infection. Last night she was complaining that her side hurt her, and was running a 104 degree temperature. Her mother took her to children's in little rock and they've been running tests all night to find out that her kidneys have an infection. The most likely cause is because she had the flu about a week ago. Needless to say I'm going to go to LR and stay with her this afternoon till around 9:00 and then head back home. I'd stay the night but I've got class tomorrow. Fun stuff.

I hope the IV drip helps to remove the infection. We don't need anymore problems; Caden doesn't need to miss anymore school.

*sigh*

Well, I just spent another 5 hours wasting my time. I can't get the hang of this pointer shit in computer science II. I should have been going to class since the beginning, but made the mistake of not doing so. Now I guess I have to suffer the consequences.

Tomorrow I guess I'll try to find a tutor. I can't accept a failure, especially when I know I can do this.

Another day ending, another day beginning.

Carpe Diem

Procrastination - The Illogical Delay of Behavior

I just completed writing a rough draft for an assignment in composition II. It's a paper on procrastination; something I have experienced many times throughout my school/college career. In writing the paper I'm hoping to find some tips to overcome my procrastination, as well as tell others about it.

Here's a quick run-through of how to avoid procrastination.

- Organization. Being thoroughly organized can help drastically reduce procrastination.
- Make the activity you are trying to accomplish fun, invite a friend along for the ride!
- Make a plan of action for your more difficult tasks.

Recently I've started to be more organized and have found that it can help. The next thing I'm going to implement is making a plan of action for my tasks. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up, relax, eat lunch, and jump into coding a project for my computer science class. I've got to teach myself the materials in order to complete the assignment, so this should be fun.

I think the last way to avoid procrastination will come in handy tomorrow, so I'm going to make up a plan of action to take while performing the task. First gotta read up on the chapter it involves, then write out exactly what it is I need to code, and finally start coding.

Wish me luck!

Nothing Much

Although there isn't much going on, I figured I'd post just to keep myself in the habit of posting.

Yesterday was fun, I worked out some with my KPED class and it was interesting. We made a fun time out of it. Of course, after working out I felt tired, but I slept so well last night it was great. I'm loving this working out thing, it really makes me feel energetic compared to what I usually feel when I don't work out.

Aside from that, I'm trying to turn over a new leaf. Recently I've been slacking off going to my computer science class. However, after bombing a test the other day, I've found that I can't get by with just skinned knees this time around. It's not like last semester where an easy 100 would come with no studying. I'm figuring out the ways of college, and it's coming down to study, study, study.

Right now I'm just looking at the future, the more I study, the more free time I get to do stuff in the future. Hopefully, with the intense studying, will come a grand lifestyle. I guess we'll see. Recently I've been told of two occasions where computer software engineers are making at least 70,000 in north east Arkansas. If this is what I have to look forward too then I'm ecstatic. If CSE's can make 70,000 in Arkansas, I can only imagine what I can do in Georgia; where I'd like to move upon graduation.

Well, that's all for now, gotta start studying so I can get my computer science grade up there. Hope you enjoyed the read, more to come later.