Until I get my lazy ass to update my website and photo gallery, I added some more photos of Carmel, IN to my facebook account.

Clicky here to see the album



I also added a video too, which I'll post shortly.

I know you all want to see what the inside of my crib looks like and you will get photos when I completely unpack and get everything all organized and put away.

Took a half sick day off work. That's all I'm going to say about that.

Later this evening I decided to give the cats a grooming and bath. They both screamed bloody murder but the grey tabby started to irritate me when he kept jumping out of the bath tub and I'm chasing him around trying to put him back. We did not have a pleasant evening. But a few hours later they decided to make peace with me and they started rubbing against me and purring. That's a good sign.

I'm not celebrating St Patrick's Day by going out anywhere. I often spend drinking holidays at home because I fear drunk drivers and the fatalities. The real reason is I have no friends or parties to go to. I want to change that part of my life. People need friends to do things with...

Speaking of which I'm starting to talk to some people online. Maybe we can met at a coffee shop and play some board games. They seem into sci-fi.

I've got a problem. I spend too much time cleaning and organizing my apartment, especially my kitchen. I spend hours a day making sure things are neat and clean. What's funny is that I haven't done much work on my second bedroom aka office/entertainment/cat room. I usually spend a good friday night or saturday vacuuming, polishing, sanitizing, or treating furniture.

Recovered from the period. Done. It was less severe than most. Friday I started and was feverish pretty much all day. Saturday I didn't want to go anywhere because of it. Sunday I started to feel like going out, which I did.

The cat Dana has a vet appointment at the cat care clinic this Thursday. He's still on his antiobotics and I haven't seen him stooping around the apartment anymore. That's good but he's still going to finish his medicine.

I am planning on going to the Carmel BMV (Bureau of Motor Vehichles) this Wednesday to try and get vehicle registration, drivers license, and state id. I hate being reliant on government issue documentation. I feel that without any id I'd be like homeless in the world!

Felt a little lonely today. I can't believe this month is flying by so quickly and I can't believe Easter is this Sunday. I'm driving to visit the parents in Hammond and my boyfriend is going to join us for Easter dinner. I look forward to seeing him. I kind of miss my boyfriend and I thought about my life and that coming here was still the best decision. I hated the living and financial situation where I was before. Someone at work told me that they bought a condo in the area for 105k with an attached garage and that renting was stupid (those were some nice condos btw). Yes, but the same people who buy are renting while they are single or new to the area. I am not jumping to buy something so soon. I really want to be engaged or married before I move into a house and move into a house with a man and ring on my finger. There is hope. But there are things I need to do to increase the probability of that.


Overate for dinner. I was feeling sick so I ate more than I should have for dinner. This weekend I picked up some ice cream, something new and different. Something that brought happiness to my soul and something that I could only get at certain mexican restaurants.

It was fried ice cream basically cinnamon, honey, tortilla shells, honey grams, very tasty.

Here is a recipe for Cinnamon Fried Ice Cream Recipe which is similar.




While searching the internet for the website I came across an ice cream brand and flavor I'd like to try one day:

Bart's Homemade Ice Cream

Three Geeks and a Red Head: Coconut Ice Cream, Coconut flakes, Chocolate Chunks, Fudge Brownies and a Red Raspberry Swirl.

Just thought that was cool :)

I've been feeling special sympathy for frankprovo because they closed the cheesebuger in paradise near him. I'm so so sorry.

What else is going on? I took some photos of Carmel not too many of my apartment. I took this photos on a little walk around the apartment and town. More to come. I placed some photos on my facebook albumn temporarily. It is a project of mine to get my photo gallery back online and organized, amongst other things!

See Some Photos of My Apartment from the outside and Carmel, IN

It's raining right now outside.

Took Some Cute Photos Tonight. My current collection is here until I get my site photo gallery backup.

This saturday I had the opportunity to take a bus tour sponsered by IEEE Chicago Section and Chicago PES to the Twin Groves Wind Farm. The bus tour was nicely organized. I met many interesting people including students at iit from foreign countries. Some of them were in some of my masters classes but they're going for their PH.D's and doing research. One guy we talked about the differences between the US and Iran. I think it is interesting how there are many students from Iran studying in the US, especially power engineering. Also there were many chinese and asian students. IIT has a lot of international students.



We had an excellent tour guide from Horizon Energy and it was nice of them to allow us to tour the wind turbines. I learned a lot from the manufacturers website but I did not reliaze the size and awe of these wind turbines until I saw them up close and better yet when their parts were on the ground to be constructed. the individual blades for the tubines looked as big as a plane!

I have many photos in my photo gallery. One gentleman was nice enough to take some photos and e-mail them to me. My camera batteries died about half-way through the tour.




This is me standing outside the service door and compartment for the wind farm individual turbine. Each unit has their own SCADA controls, generator, and meters that say what the speed it, how much energy is being generated, and the motor drive outputs of the generators. This is sophisticated technology in a sense that the generators and motor drive controls maintain synchronism with the grid. The output of the generator unit is 600 V and it gets transformed to 34.5 kV and networked with the rest of the tubrines and then stepped up to 345kV and then connected to the ComEd substation for interrconnection. Part of my job I get to see the metering at all the individual substations. Kind of geeky cool. I love it :)



This last photo I was amazed at how big these parts are! I imagine it must be fun to construct these wind farms and wish I was part of it!

For your viewing pleasure, you may now view my Orlando vacation photos here





I have placed a few of my favorites ( here )

I'll probably have more photos to add after tomorrow...