paying the Saint John Telegraph Journal each year expecting them to get it right only to have them screw up the announcement.

Funeral notice wasn’t placed until two days had passed. Nigh on too late. Last year it was placed in the Moncton paper. This year they ran it on the 19th instead of today!

Least they got my sister’s notice correct…

I miss you dad.

Completed my first weekend class at the tech college and really enjoyed myself. The instructor was great & his enthusiasm for the subject was contagious. I have another class next weekend in beginning animation. I suspect I’ll enroll in a number of the other levels as the year progresses. I forgot how much fun learning can be when you’re just taking a class for the sake of learning how to do something new instead of attempting to juggle a degree & full-time work.

The FedEx tracking site tells me that my Adobe eLearning suite is somewhere in the city. Actually, it told me it was out for delivery this am and back at the FedEx depot this afternoon. Drew was home all day and says no delivery attempt was made and that the doorbell never rang. Boo-urns! I was really looking forward to installing it this weekend. At least I know I’ll have it before I head into my Flash level 1 and 2 classes over the upcoming weekends…

I must be crazy.

I’ve registered for three classes this semester. Obviously I’ve learned nothing from my experience last semester and am doomed to repeat the experience. Panic. Stress. Too many papers. Not enough me time.

I’m still deluded enough to think that school is the perfect way to spend my time while Drew’s away (And back. Then away again). What better way to fill up my time than to work through a bunch of 4th year classes like a maniac? Since I no longer need to complete a degree in order to convince the powers that be that I have a clue what I’m doing in the workplace, I need to tell myself something to motivate me through ’til completion. 

If that weren’t enough, I’ve signed myself up for two back-to-back weekend classes at the college I used to work at. Bye-bye Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I might as well get used to the loss immediately so I don’t feel like it’s snuck up on me while I wasn’t paying attention this semester.

Why did I think I could manage this? Well, for starters the weekend classes are running over the first two weekends of my university courses. I figure that’s the only time that my work load will be low enough for me to give up an entire weekend. I won’t have any papers due and I’m delusional enough to think I’ll get my reading and weekly assignments done during the work week.

Secondly, for the first time in years I don’t work in a job where I have to work crazy OT hours in order to pull-off a project committment at the last minute. No more mad dash heroics that, in reality, benefits my employer greatly and me least of all.

And, of course, it wouldn’t hurt for me to get a better understanding of some of the software I use now. At the moment I stumble my way through editing existing Flash files. What I’d really like to be able to do is develop basic interactions on my own without having to spend hours digging through help files and watching tutorials. Since I just spent a minor fortune and gifted myself with a (student) copy of Adobe’s eLearning Suite I better get off my tush and start taking classes to ensure I can do more than just flounder around in Flash and Photoshop. If all goes well, I’ll take a class in Illustrator through work next month as well. 

Just call me crazy.