What School Costs These Days

Physics 111:
Textbooks, Vol. I & II (Paperback) $209.00
I-clicker $ 38.00
Chemistry 298
Organic Chemistry Textbook,
Solutions Manual, and
Molecule kit $285.25
Lab Text $115.75
Lab Notebook $ 12.25
Chemistry 112
Some little paperback book
like 100 pages long $ 52.25

Total (with tax) $755.21

NOW, there's still one book I have to purchase for Physics that the bookstore did not have in yet (class starts MONDAY)

ALSO. The text and lab notebook I purchased for CHEM 111 is the same one that is used for CHEM 112...if not, you could add another $200 to this total.

When the cost for your books approaches the cost for your tuition, it makes you blink a little.

Plunking down that credit card today was a little nerve-wracking, considering my financial aid is bouncing around somewhere out there in cyberspace, and while I'm pretty darn sure I'll be getting a Pell Grant that'll cover the cost, it'd be nice to KNOW it.

A completely different kind of Nazgul

I think our servicemen are generally rockin', and this just proves it.

Potato battery powered MP3 Player

I seem to be youtubing today, and I'm finding all sorts of cool stuff. Out of batteries for your mp3 player? Use your groceries!

Mongoose Dirt Grinder

Here's a video of Nolan riding his new ATV. Now he can go with Mommie and Daddy! This is with the speed control set to 1/2 speed.

Nazgul Dance

Being a LOTR fan long before LOTR was movie-ized, I stumbled across this video on youtube, and thought it was pretty hilarious. Nazgul ROCK!