They’re moving in.

The whole thing started in April of last year.  A year and 4 months later students are moving in to the new dorms for Westminster College.

I went over there with Jim after he got off work at the Chevron to take a look around inside.  There was a welcoming committee, checking in the new students, so I asked if we could take a look around.  Not alone, but one of the students manning the front door was willing to take us for a tour.

All I can say is:  pretty nice.  We saw bunk beds, like in the blurry picture above, and thought that we’d been lied to when we were told each student would have their own room.

We were wrong about being lied to.  Each student has their own bedroom, a tiny one that I’m guessing is about 10’ by 6’ (3.5m by 2m).  To save room, the beds are raised up so that you can sit at the desk beneath it.  Weird, but ingenious.

There are 4 bedrooms to each suite, which has 2 bathrooms, an average apartment-sized kitchen, small dining room and a nice sized living room. (The floor plan above is supposed to be to scale, but since I recreated it from memory it’s just an estimate- click to enlarge.)

The appliances aren’t cheapo ones either, they are all as good or better than I have in my own home.  Wisely, they have solid, well built furniture for the dining and living room areas.

Cost?  I was told by someone who had no clue that they were charging $1,500 a month.  The guy who gave us the tour said that they go for $7,000 for the 10-month school year.

$700 a month, your own bedroom, a bathroom you have to share with only one other person, a nice kitchen, comfortable living area and a clothes washer and dryer.  Not bad.  I think I’ll rent out my house and move in there.

Facebook Find Fixed

When I saw this I knew it couldn’t be right.  It took me a few minutes to figure out the one fatal flaw.  I checked all the Algebraic steps, did the problem myself, and I’ll tell you that none of the steps are done wrong.

For the answer, click on the picture.

One of these things is not like the others…

One of these things just doesn’t belong.

Well, it does belong, because it fits the

theme of grey, but when I looked at all 4 of the pictures I picked for this post, I flashed back to Sesame Street and their little “doesn’t belong” game.

And the fun thing is that my infrared camera works perfectly for this theme, so here are some more infrared pictures.

I’m not sure what a “dry standpipe” is, but this shiny chrome setup is on the outside of the parking structure they built with the building next to the Chevron.

Art imitates life.

I actually did this a few times this summer.

Blood red sunset tonight.

The pictures came out orangey, but to the naked eye the sun was blood red as it set tonight.  With the strips of clouds going past it, it looked like a huge red moon setting, a scene straight out of Star Trek.

I took a bunch of pictures, changing the shutter speed back and forth, it’s hard to tell exactly how the pictures are going to turn out by looking at them on that small screen on the camera.  The darker ones show show the red better, I probably could have captured it if I had gone even faster on the shutter speed.  But the lighter ones show the stripes of the clouds going by, and the glow on the lake better, so I put a few of each in.