Lexington Square

Lexington Square
Originally uploaded by Dr Peppers.

Here's a shot of the courtyard inside my townhouse complex. Just one of a few of the photos I made with my new camera. Check out my photo feed here

The rest of this weekend, however, will most likely be devoted to studying and taking practice quizzes. Hopefully, at least.

The world on foot

Recently I've run into some serious problems with my brakes on my Jeep, that forced me into taking it to a garage last Saturday to be inspected. I was expecting a minor problem; my friend Adam had helped me look at it and thought the problem was only a leaky rear wheel cylinder, letting air into the brake lines and lowering the braking pressure. When I got an estimate from the mechanic it was around $350, and consisted of replacing both rear wheel cylinders, both rear wheel brakes, and new wheel drums. After talking with my father and then calling Adam again I decided to get a second opinion and new estimate. In between patient visits I called around a few recommended mechanics and found a second one I felt comfortable going to. After taking my Jeep to them yesterday, though, they found that all breaks needed to be replaced, and the front rotors and rear cylinders, but the drums could be spared. It would actually cost me almost $500 to repair. Since Saturday I have had to rely on t...

Summer Daze

I'm in a halt with research lately, since there are no more subjects I can currently gather data on. Why is that bad? Because I start class in the second week of August, and because I'm not even halfway to finished with this research project. Why can't my research move forward? It's because the billing department's wonderful worker who's been helping us has not been able to find subjects using the search method she is employing. Also, she's a tad slow in getting work done and to us in a timely manner. In other news, my grandparents came to visit on Friday of last week. I love my grandparents with a passion. Age has definately awarded them wisdom. It has also awarded them humor. The highlights: Grandma: "Want to go in that Lakota place and get some coffee?" Grandpa: "We can't go in there, we're not carrying laptops!" "Those fancy coffeeshops don't have senior coffee. I can get one for $.50 at McDonald's" - Grandpa...

The $2000 monkey on my back, deferred

It’s been more than a week, and I think an update is due. Plus, I can give updates on my own status with my heart murmur, having seen the doctor this past Friday. The only thing that has kept me from updating until now is simply laziness (in other words, I was far too busy studying/eating/cleaning/sleeping to actually relax and write). This past Friday I went to the Student Health Center to see my doctor about the previously mentioned murmur recently discovered. My doctor presumed it was most likely an innocent flow murmur, which occurs if a heart valve doesn’t close all the way or in time when the heart beats, allowing blood to flow back the opposite way, and the blood causes turbulence heard as noise. If you’ve ever heard turbulent water flowing over and through rocks and back upstream in eddies in a river, you should get the idea of what a murmur is. It was recommended that I have an echocardiography done, or an ultrasound picture of my heart. This would allow us to see exactly how ...

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