End of Year

Where did 2007 go?

January
-One of my best friends Nikki, passed away
-Two of my best friends from high school got married (mind you two days after my college friend passed away)

April
-Knoebels, opening weekend to see the band and ride the Phoenix till my heart was content

May
-1 yr. anniversary of employment

Summer
-Sick most of the summer, never totally figured out what was wrong with me. But I did find out I have anxiety and now that is being treated.
-Also did get to go to Great Adventure and meet up with some cool people from the RollerCoasterCentral.net message board
-Got to go to some Phillies games

September
-I turned 25

October
-Phoenix Phall Phunfest (Yep riding the Phoenix at night. Even better then in the day time)
-Toronto

November
-The Hooters concerts
-Fall Out Boy concert (My cousin is in Gym Class Heroes, so I went to see them perform.
-National Novel Writing Month (50K in 30 days, not so much this year, only 30K, but I can do it next year)

December
-Holidays
-New Phone, new Digital camera

If you have MySpace, you can see some of my goals for next year. I am participating in Big, Fun, Scary things over on the National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo) site. My goal is to get to accomplish most of that list. If I do I think 2008 will be one hell of a year.

On that note good bye 2007, it's been real.

Nicole

Long Time No Post

Really not much to update.

Still working, got to go to Toronto for some fun, a couple weeks ago. If you know me on MySpace you can check out the pics.

I was just at Homecoming this weekend. I must say the BU campus is gorgeous. I kind of wish I was still there.

But that's a small update on me.

Nicole

Time

Where does it go?

No I'm not trying to ponder that, but I mean here it is pretty close to September and Summer has passed me by.

I didn't get to do anything too exciting except for Great Adventure. (Go ride the tallest and fastest coaster if you haven't done so yet. It's awesome!)

I also find myself wanting to learn more about many different things, but yet the feasibility to take a class, just isn't possible.

Ah well, time goes on, and I basically wanted to post just to say "I haven't fallen off the face of the earth."

Hope everyone has a great last bit of their summer and a good Labor Day Holiday.


Nicole

Webspeak

Article on Webspeak

I found it very interesting that I had never heard of half of those terms in the article, and yet I work in a technology related field.

Ah well the interesting things you find when you are at work waiting for clients to get back to you.


Nicole

Knoebels

So this year was my first year in years to not be playing with the band during opening weekend of Knoebels. So I went up anyway just to see all my friends and ride on the Phoenix.

I'm pretty sure the few who read this know I love roller coasters, and know that the Phoenix is my all time favorite wooden coaster. (Remember how many times I rode it during summer 05??)

Good food and hanging out with friends made this day really fun. I'm being lazy and making a repost but here is my Trip Report I posted in the Yahoo! Group Roller Coaster Talk.

I arrived right around noon, and met up with my two friends and we
went straight to the ticket booth/handstamp line. It was a little
crowded but a 2 for 1 deal couldn't be beat as the weather was
wonderful out. So we are now all equipped with our wrist braclets
and hand stamps so we go to Cesari's for our pizza.

Our first ride was on the haunted house and I must admit, haunted
houses creep me out but my favorite part is the skull room. Next
ride was my personal favorite, The Phoenix. I was a little
disappointed in the fact that they had the Yellow train running
instead of the orange train (because at least for me I get more air
time riding on the orange train). I must say The Phoenix gets better
every year. After The Phoenix we went to Gasoline Alley (The Antique
Cars) my one friend had never gone on them so we let her be
the "driver" and drive the rest of us around the track. It was a
nice relaxing ride, and I wish I could have gotten a picture of the
Phoenix going while on the Antique cars.

Next we walked past the construction of The Flying Turns. They look
like its going to be an interesting ride to say the least, but there
is a lot more work to be done then I thought there was. (I mean from
all I had heard from friends up there was there wasn't that much to
do, but from what I saw there is still a lot to be done.) Hopefully
they will be open later this summer and I can take another trip up
to Knoebels.

Then came The Twister. Again they only had one train running and
for the length of the ride I would have thought they would have had
two trains running. At some points the line for The Twister was
ridiculously long, but we waited and it was a half decent ride. I
got more air time then I had in previous years, and at some spots it
was rougher than usual. Hopefully it will get better as the season
progresses.

After The Twister we got in line to ride the Grand Carousel. I love
that ride. I love trying to grab the rings and feeling like I'm
going to fall off the horse. My friends and I decided to see who
could grab more rings, we ended in a tie.

Next was a little refreshing ride on the Pioneer Train. I like this
just for the simplicity of the ride and it's a break from doing all
the other bigger rides.

My friends and I parted ways after the train so I headed back to The
Phoenix for my second ride on the coaster. I sat in the front as I
try to sit in the front at least once. I got a little more air time
this time around but still not as much as I would have gotten if I
were on the Orange train.

I then walked over to visit Hattie and Henry the Bald Eagles, and
one was sitting on a makeshift nest and the other was splashing
around in the water.

I then went over to get my funnel cake, as I always get funnel cake
before watching the Jazz Band performance. I caught up with some
friends and we had a good time. While the Jazz Band was still
getting ready I snuck over to the Phoenix one last time to get a
final ride in before the end of the day. It was the shortest wait I
had for The Phoenix but it was still busier then I had seen around
that time of day in recent years on opening weekend.

After that I went back to watch the rest of the Jazz Band
performance and visit the rest of my friends who I didn't get to see
before the Jazz Band took the stage.

All in all it was a good day at Knoebels.

Now to leave you with some pics of Knoebels:





The under construction of The Flying Turns



Henry the Bald Eagle



The Phoenix





Signs around the Phoenix that I hadn't noticed before or they were just put up or redid...



BU Jazz Band

CAC Spring 2007

This was my first opportunity to be apart of CAC since graduating from the IIT program in May 2006. I admit I was a little nervous to be going back and being on the other side of those presentations.

All of the presentations were really well done and I was impressed with their solutions. Second Life or any 3D environment seems like a learning wave of the future. I think if something done with time and effort a two phased solution like those that were provided could greatly benefit a learner, and a transfer of knowledge would increase because they are getting to see how things would happen "first hand" in a 3D environment.

It was also great to see so many people at CAC. I've forgotten how many people I know, and how good it was to be back in Bloom.

I'm also giving a shout out to Dr. Kapp, because now I know there is at least one person who reads my blog here. :-)

My only wish is that I could have been at CAC for all three days but seeing the presentations is well worth the trip.

A non CAC highlight was showing my boss around campus. He didn't recognize it at all. Heck, a lot has changed since I was there and that was only last year...

Well that about sums up this entry

Nicole

PS- I will try and update this blog more often, but I'm not making any promises. If you're really that interested about my life find me on MySpace :-P

First Post of 2007

For a while I forgot I had this Blog. I do need to update gnomette's travels as well. I've just been busy.

2007 has been an interesting year.

Janurary started off, kind of crappy. I lost one of my best friends from school.
February was Ok. I got to go on my first big business trip. Yay for Tampa, Florida. It was all nice and warm and I missed the snowstorm in Pa :-)
March I don't think anything too interesting happened.
Which brings me to April. Not much has happened in these first 12 days.

I'll post more of an update later.

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Nicole