For those of you who know more about these things than I do, I have a question: How come every time I turn on my windows computer I set the screen resolution to 1680x1050 and yet, every time I turn it on it's reset itself to 1080x768 and I have to change it again to make things display normally? Why can't it just stay how I put it? Also, why does it think my flash drive is a new piece of hardware it's never seen before EVERY TIME I plug it in??
Someone, help me...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Jeff is Back!!
YAY!!
Aside from it just being nice to have him home, I actually managed to sleep last night.
Aside from it just being nice to have him home, I actually managed to sleep last night.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
ARE here I come!
I have an NCARB Council Record!!!
After sitting around being ambivalent for 5 years, I've suddenly gotten it into my head that I NEED to get my license. So, I created my record online today and am currently in the process of getting my hours straight for my employment verification. I also need to request a transcript from RPI to prove I actually graduated. Once I send all this stuff in and they approve it all, they officially say I'm eligable to take the exam. However, if I want them to actually send my record to a state registration board so I can sign up for the actual tests, I either have to wait a year, or pay them an extra $570 to do it within a year of my creating my record. The reason for this, I believe, is to encourage people to start the record when they graduate and start working, and gradually submit hours as they're completed, rather than doing it all 5 years down the road and basically making the hours up, like I'm doing. (I have the experience, but do I really know how many hours of Construction Documents I did at Sacco + McKinney vs. at Crisp? No.) But, I am a procrastinator, so this is how I'm doing it. I don't want to pay the extra money, but if I wait a year I'll be taking a totally redesigned version of the Exam and I'm not sure I want to do that either. ::sigh::
Jennifer is also thinking about getting herself moving again, and finishing the exam, so we've decided to study together. She scans her practice books to work on them anyway, so she's going to e-mail the scans to me and we'll work on them at the same time, and she's sending me half her flashcards, so we can ask them to each other at lunch. Should be fun. She has so ridiculously much energy and motivation, it should keep me going :oD
**update** I found binders of review materials, practice tests, and flashcards at my office, so I actually have prep material to contribute to this joint effort.
After sitting around being ambivalent for 5 years, I've suddenly gotten it into my head that I NEED to get my license. So, I created my record online today and am currently in the process of getting my hours straight for my employment verification. I also need to request a transcript from RPI to prove I actually graduated. Once I send all this stuff in and they approve it all, they officially say I'm eligable to take the exam. However, if I want them to actually send my record to a state registration board so I can sign up for the actual tests, I either have to wait a year, or pay them an extra $570 to do it within a year of my creating my record. The reason for this, I believe, is to encourage people to start the record when they graduate and start working, and gradually submit hours as they're completed, rather than doing it all 5 years down the road and basically making the hours up, like I'm doing. (I have the experience, but do I really know how many hours of Construction Documents I did at Sacco + McKinney vs. at Crisp? No.) But, I am a procrastinator, so this is how I'm doing it. I don't want to pay the extra money, but if I wait a year I'll be taking a totally redesigned version of the Exam and I'm not sure I want to do that either. ::sigh::
Jennifer is also thinking about getting herself moving again, and finishing the exam, so we've decided to study together. She scans her practice books to work on them anyway, so she's going to e-mail the scans to me and we'll work on them at the same time, and she's sending me half her flashcards, so we can ask them to each other at lunch. Should be fun. She has so ridiculously much energy and motivation, it should keep me going :oD
**update** I found binders of review materials, practice tests, and flashcards at my office, so I actually have prep material to contribute to this joint effort.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Updates
Well, it's been a while since I wrote anything of any consequence, so I'm thinking it's time for an update. The problem is, there's not much to update. Our variance process is at basically the same stage as it was after the meeting-- we have talked to an engineer, but at this point we haven't actually hired him as we haven't actually determined what he's going to do for us, other than accompany us to the November ZBA meeting to use his professional engineering authority to squelch our neighbor's whining. He's also going to come to our house on Wednesday to meet with us, someone from the Mecklenburg County water quality dept., the Matthews Town Engineer, and possibly one of the Town Planners to talk about impact and mitigation, and the impossibility of anything we build affecting drainage in our neighbor's yard. We've also invited our neighbor, but I'll be really really surprised if she comes.
We've also been getting some quotes on things like appliances, and looking into financing. Since we don't really have any equity, we need to get a construction loan, which might take some fancy finagling since we're planning to only contract out a small amount of the project and have Jeff do most of it on his own. However, there are options, we're just going to start at what's likely to be the least expensive way and go from there.
Another inconsequential (to anyone but me) update is that Jeff has to go to Chapel Hill for a week for job training. He's going to be away for 5 nights... the most we've ever spent apart since we've been married is 2 nights, and we've only done that twice in 5 years. ::sigh:: (Rose, if you read this, just ignore me :o)
Other than that, I can't really think of anything. Life is just mooching along. Will update if there's any news.
We've also been getting some quotes on things like appliances, and looking into financing. Since we don't really have any equity, we need to get a construction loan, which might take some fancy finagling since we're planning to only contract out a small amount of the project and have Jeff do most of it on his own. However, there are options, we're just going to start at what's likely to be the least expensive way and go from there.
Another inconsequential (to anyone but me) update is that Jeff has to go to Chapel Hill for a week for job training. He's going to be away for 5 nights... the most we've ever spent apart since we've been married is 2 nights, and we've only done that twice in 5 years. ::sigh:: (Rose, if you read this, just ignore me :o)
Other than that, I can't really think of anything. Life is just mooching along. Will update if there's any news.
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