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This semester I am taking eighteen hours of classes. I have decided on Computer Science as my major. I am still taking mostly general classes, but I do have one C programming class.

One of the benifits to learning C is that the sytax of C is very similar to PHP. I have been able to use a lot of what I have learned in my php files. So far I am just getting the basics down, using functions, declaring variables, if then statements, switch, while and do while loops. We are beggining to get into arrays, which are a little different in php but the concepts are the same. I am hoping to begin writing tutorials for C and or PHP not only to help me learn a little better, but also to help others who want to learn.

Yesterday was my last official day at the Law Firm where I was working. As of today, I am now a web-developer… in training. But I am now working for LifeBoat creative, formerly J2 Design Solutions. This is something that I have been looking forward to with a lot of anticipation. I was able to work on two different projects today, doing some simple updates, but it was a lot of fun. Its the first time I feel like I am stepping into a job that could easily be a career for me. I’m still just a kid in the field, in terms of my knowledge, but it will be an awesome learning experience for me with a high learning curve.

The good news is that I will be able to get a lot of work experience and learn a lot of what I have been wanting to learn but haven’t had time to learn, and get paid for it. So I will post some of the jobs that I do from work. The bad news is, I will have to back off on my freelance work. I will still finish up Kansas Water Technologies, but from then I will stick with sites just for friends and family. But I have a lot of personal projects that I will be able to get done.

Even though I wont be able to actively pursue my freelance work, for those who want professional work, I now have the resources of a company, and can refer clients to Lifeboat creative where I work. If your interested then visit our site.

http://www.lifeboatcreative.com

This week is ending on a very good note. I have been waiting for a while to see if my college had received my fasfa scholarship application. About two weeks ago I made an update to my application when I registered for a different college, but my new college continued to say they hadn’t received my application. After some investigation the past few days, I found out that they never added on the new school. Well today I finally got an official notice that my application is being sent to my new school so that I can receive my financial aid. This is a very good thing, seeing as I paid for this semester up front.

Although I have not received word on how much I will receive from that, I did find out just a few minutes ago that I was accepted for a transfer scholarship for $1000. So that will help.

On Sunday night I ran into some technical difficulties with the site. Since I created the site I havent been able to get the rss feeds to work properly. Well I have tried to reload word press several times, with no success. I basically came to the conclusion the the google add that was at the top of the page was giving me some problems. But you can’t complain about ads when your getting free hosting.

Anyways I decided I would upgrade from free to not so free and it fixed my problem. Well unfortunately I changed a couple things that couldn’t be undone, and ended up losing my database files, which means all my posts are gone. If I was a little quicker and turned those gears upstairs a little faster I would have backed up my Database first. But I wasn’t. Hindsight is wonderful. So now I’m starting over again, but this time with rss Plus no more annoying ads. So with all that work I did feel free to subscribe.