- Signed: Matthew Hartman
- Filed under music , relationships , research , work .
It's been quite a while since I last wrote in here, so I figured I'd drop a note this evening. I guess I just haven't been motivated enough to write in here - and really, there hasn't been much to write about lately. Simply put, there hasn't been much excitement in my life over the past few weeks.
Work has been a little slow and I've been working a lot of office shifts lately. I won't complain. It's been giving me a chance to work on some research I've been wanting to work on since, well, college. Pretty sad that I have research I started as a junior at Valpo and am still not even half-way through. I've managed to generate the surface charts I need via Digital Atmosphere. And I'm now in the process of touching up my boundary layer vorticity theory with some research articles I've been stock-piling over the past several years. My research involves vorticity (the tendency for air to "spin" within the atmosphere) generated within the lower 1 km of the atmosphere (mainly at the surface), it's proximity to mesoscale (microscale, maybe?) boundaries, and the coincidence of both to tornadogenesis (the formation of tornadoes). I have six different cases I'm looking at, however, unfortunately a few of them were small events - where only a few tornadoes occurred. This may uncover some other clues, so I'm not overlooking them. I have three other office shifts this week, so I'm going to be taking that time to look over the papers I have. Hopefully, I'll be able to start writing up some conclusions and/or findings after, by closely studying the charts I've created. I have the raw data I need, so I may even have to look at other surface or possibly upper-air data/analysis. We'll see how it proceeds. Maybe if I can actually complete everything, I'll have something to present at next year's Northern Plains Convective Workshop.
Not much else is really going on, personally. I haven't really had the liberty to be out running around. I've been puting money back for my trip home in August, so as if I wasn't broke before, I'm even more so now. I'm pretty much pinching every cent out of my paycheck and haven't been spending it on anything. I'm cutting back on a lot of things. I haven't been eating out but maybe once a week or so. Yeah, surprisingly that makes a huge difference! I haven't been spending as much at the grocery. I used to spend quite a bit... thinking that since I only go about once every 3-4 weeks that it was justified. But, recently, I've spent much less and am finding that I can make "supplies" last just as long. I unsubcribed from match.com. That stupid service was withdrawing $30 out of my account a month. I've "sorta" met someone anyway, so it's been pretty much a waste of money for the past couple of months. CT and I have been e-mailing back and forth for a couple of months now and even though we haven't actually met each other or talked over the phone, it's been great getting to know her. I hope things start moving forward, but we'll see... It's never a bad thing to become friends first and I think we're getting towards that point.
Has anyone heard that Tom Delonge from Blink-182 has a new band? I didn't realize, but I heard the song "The Adventure" from them the other night, so I downloaded the CD earlier today. It's actually really good... It's certainly much different than his Blink albums, but it's still worth a listen. The band is called Angels and Airwaves... I've been listening to all the songs over and over this afternoon. I'm hooked...
Anyhow, I just got back in from taking a walk. It's been pretty warm up here the last few days, so I've been trying to take advantage of the great weather. I love these warm summer evenings...! The mosquitos are out there, but I didn't have too much of a problem with them until I got down towards Sertoma Park. They were a little thicker there, since the coulee winds through there. I'll have to start looking at the "skeeter meter" once again. Heheh, seems like such a silly thing, but the city of Grand Forks actually has one of these!
Think I'm gonna grab a snack and put in a movie...
Hope all is well!
Work has been a little slow and I've been working a lot of office shifts lately. I won't complain. It's been giving me a chance to work on some research I've been wanting to work on since, well, college. Pretty sad that I have research I started as a junior at Valpo and am still not even half-way through. I've managed to generate the surface charts I need via Digital Atmosphere. And I'm now in the process of touching up my boundary layer vorticity theory with some research articles I've been stock-piling over the past several years. My research involves vorticity (the tendency for air to "spin" within the atmosphere) generated within the lower 1 km of the atmosphere (mainly at the surface), it's proximity to mesoscale (microscale, maybe?) boundaries, and the coincidence of both to tornadogenesis (the formation of tornadoes). I have six different cases I'm looking at, however, unfortunately a few of them were small events - where only a few tornadoes occurred. This may uncover some other clues, so I'm not overlooking them. I have three other office shifts this week, so I'm going to be taking that time to look over the papers I have. Hopefully, I'll be able to start writing up some conclusions and/or findings after, by closely studying the charts I've created. I have the raw data I need, so I may even have to look at other surface or possibly upper-air data/analysis. We'll see how it proceeds. Maybe if I can actually complete everything, I'll have something to present at next year's Northern Plains Convective Workshop.
Not much else is really going on, personally. I haven't really had the liberty to be out running around. I've been puting money back for my trip home in August, so as if I wasn't broke before, I'm even more so now. I'm pretty much pinching every cent out of my paycheck and haven't been spending it on anything. I'm cutting back on a lot of things. I haven't been eating out but maybe once a week or so. Yeah, surprisingly that makes a huge difference! I haven't been spending as much at the grocery. I used to spend quite a bit... thinking that since I only go about once every 3-4 weeks that it was justified. But, recently, I've spent much less and am finding that I can make "supplies" last just as long. I unsubcribed from match.com. That stupid service was withdrawing $30 out of my account a month. I've "sorta" met someone anyway, so it's been pretty much a waste of money for the past couple of months. CT and I have been e-mailing back and forth for a couple of months now and even though we haven't actually met each other or talked over the phone, it's been great getting to know her. I hope things start moving forward, but we'll see... It's never a bad thing to become friends first and I think we're getting towards that point.
Has anyone heard that Tom Delonge from Blink-182 has a new band? I didn't realize, but I heard the song "The Adventure" from them the other night, so I downloaded the CD earlier today. It's actually really good... It's certainly much different than his Blink albums, but it's still worth a listen. The band is called Angels and Airwaves... I've been listening to all the songs over and over this afternoon. I'm hooked...
Anyhow, I just got back in from taking a walk. It's been pretty warm up here the last few days, so I've been trying to take advantage of the great weather. I love these warm summer evenings...! The mosquitos are out there, but I didn't have too much of a problem with them until I got down towards Sertoma Park. They were a little thicker there, since the coulee winds through there. I'll have to start looking at the "skeeter meter" once again. Heheh, seems like such a silly thing, but the city of Grand Forks actually has one of these!
Think I'm gonna grab a snack and put in a movie...
Hope all is well!
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