Fall changes & Howl-O-Ween

The past semester's flown by. Lots of studying, work, and partying. (All work and no play makes Kevin a dull boy.) After my last post school really picked up. It's still crazy but things have calmed down a bit. Only a bit.

I took down the ugly wallpaper in my bathroom at the apartment and painted. That was a fun project.




That little project took a few nights of work, but it went a lot faster thanks to some friends coming over to help. (Thanks again, guys!) School has been nuts. I've got the hardest class in the CS curriculum with the most difficult professor in the department, and that's a recipe for fun if I've ever had one. Work has been a bit slow with school but I picked up a new freelance web development job and that's been nice.

This past weekend was Halloween on the beach in Alabama with 14 other friends. :) That was a blast. First time on the beach in 2010. The water was cold but still swimmable, surprisingly.








The trip was a blast - I'd love to do it again. The only drawback was the 6.5 hour drive and only staying for one day. Two days there instead of just one would've made the drive a bit more worth it. We were staying at a friend's parents' beach house though, so the cost of the trip was gas and food. :)

The beach house was on stilts so the house swayed a bit when people walked around or danced around. That took some getting used to. We went to some pretty great local restaurants, but it was terrible having only one bathroom for the house and all fifteen of us. On Saturday we hit up a local bar where they had some live bands playing and a costume contest going on. Our group got a special shoutout from the singer of one of the bands, saying he wished he had some dog treats to throw at us or something. There was also a bachelorette party going on so they had our group of costumes dance with her on stage. That was a lot of fun!

I had some friends go to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear this past weekend. I haven't heard much, but I hope it was a great rally.

I'll be going to Chicago in a few weeks to see a lot of friends and to DJ what will hopefully be a large party. :) Very excited about that. I'm still doing the weekly podcast over at http://djkainu.com/podcast . I'm a bit late with this week's episode since I was driving most of the day yesterday.

Time to get back to work and school. Hope all is well with everyone.