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Martinelli's makes the best apple-related juice on the planet, no questions asked. I've had plenty of freshly made apple juice, and even that only competes with Martinelli's. Its as if they pick a ton of apples, chose the best 20, and then made me a glass of apple juice. I don't mind drinking my apple a day, and you shouldn't either.

In lieu of payment, I'll be asking this fine company for some free juice for such a sparking review of their beveridges. I will be denied. However, for someone who does not drink soda and has been disenchanted with snapples less-than-best-stuff-on-earth policy, I do greatly appreciate readilly available juice that is so fine as Martinelli's gold medal 100% pure apple juice from fresh apples, no concentrates, no sweeteners, no additives. At $2.50 for a 750 ml (25.4 Oz for those metric impaired) bottle at the village market, its not really too steep where quality is concerned; compared with a buck 75 for a big snapple, which I don't think tips the scales at half a litre. Despite claims of sour milk, a claim these days I can think would only be made by an illiterate man or a dwarf, the latter for reasons I can't explain in this already lengthy segue, I've never had a problem with the store and find the quality of their juices to be fairly excellent; with a variety of Lakewood products and of course, Martinelli's 100% yadda yadda yadda.

This past week, and indeed most of my recent life, has gone by within a shroud of confusion and not-all-quite-thereness. For instance, I don't know when to go to sleep anymore. I can't really tell if I'm tired or not. Point in case. You know when you are doing whatever it is that you do, and all of a sudden feel a bit sleepy? It happens for most people around 1 to 2 o'clock when our own biological ones are telling us that we need a little nap. Ignore it for 5 minutes, and you're good to go for another 10 hours. Well, I feel no difference between that and the its 5 o clock in the morning and my eyes are about to fall onto the floor feeling. To complicate issues, I've gained the remarkable "_ability_" to sleep for only 3 - 4 hours at a time, disregarding whatever inclinations I have towards further sleep and, after the aforementioned naps, going on about my business for usually longer than the nap. This presents a problem. No matter what day it is, I will be up at some strangely early hour. No matter what day it is, I will be sleeping at some strangely normal hour. Its a strange system where a yawn could be the final nail in your sleepy coffin or just another yawn; who can live and function in a world like this?

I've decided to drop cs437 for some obvious and even more obvious reasons. I need to keep my scholarship, and for this I need at least a 3.0. That means if i can stick to getting B's or better, which I can, I'll be sitting pretty. Already I figure myself for 1 A and 1 in the B - A range. 1 class is currently a tossup and yet another is totally in the air. But 437 is cruising for a C; an extraneous C which I really don't need right now. I figure I'll cut loose this dead weight and take it again another semester, homeworks and concepts in hand, experience and all. An A in some other semester would be a grand help in keeping the scholarship I'm fighting for with all of my gimpy might.

Now its time to reflect what running Linux means for doing homework and being successful in class for a would be gamer. The results are: inconclusive. I have no idea how I would have performed this semester had I not spent approximately a month and a half of it in constant pain with heavy inclinations towards not walking or moving much from my bed, chair or couch. I feel I was doing well and participating up until the time of my injury, where I was kept in limbo, waiting for surgery, putting off assignments because I would simply be unable to do them and then having them pounce my hapless ass when surgery was moved back. Then, with surgery, came grogginess and more innability to perform or do any work. I'm only now fully able, in my own opinion, to go to class and perform on homework and tests, and yet I'm writing this while I should be at an, albeit useless, micro lecture. I'll be attending the other classes that I do not plan to drop or hopefully, at the wistful whims of dean russ, have wiped from the record. This really only ammounts to 2 today and 3 on thursday. I am, however, going to apply myself and do the rest of the homeworks assigned for micro processors. I believe I've missed 3, and if I'm not mistaken, there will be 10. The website/syllabus is a little hard to make out, but it seems as though 2 might be dropped, leaving me with somewhere along the lines of a 90% homework grade if I complete the rest of them. If they aren't dropped, which I suspect, I'll have a 70% homework grade, which really ammounts to about 22 points out of 30, a 25 out of 30 for the midterm, and a possible 40 for the final. I can score big time on the final; I know I can, leaving me the unlikely recipient of an 80 - 87 average; if there are dropped homeworks, which I suspect there are not (since the lecturer doesn't seem to have a firm grasp with the language that I am so gracefully pounding out, as a fine artisan would, to my every will and desire), that'd be somewhere around a 90. Either way, minimal effort would yield excellent results; and I'm capable of that. Getting back to linux, since I really have absolutely nothing better to do, other than play the Legend of Zelda cartidge which seems to corrupt its sprites pretty annoyingly after about 5 minutes of playing time, I think running it (and thus not playing any games) will in fact do marvelous wonders for my grades in spite of my injury. And if it doesn't, I can blame football; isn't this a wonderful world we live in?

The Demon is coming for a visit on the 27th in which he will visit everyone but me! I am saddened. In any case, I hope you all enjoy your Martinelli's gold medal 100% pure apple juice from fresh apples; no concentrates, no sweeteners, and no additives. Its great stuff. Its even kosher. Ciao.