Eagle Crest - Day 5

After my demo day on Sunday and Karen left to go home, I headed back out to the golf course to play another round. The Ridge Course out here is just beautiful! Here is a pano-shot from the tee of the 12th hole. From this tee box you can see three mountains, they are spaced too far apart to get them into a good photo though.


I then went back to my room and packed up, Monday is going to be a long day. I have to be out on the range from 8am till 4pm to support the practice rounds for the Oregon Open.

After checking out I got to the range and got all my stuff set up. I then sat down and waited for some action, and waited, and waited... It was the hottest day of the weekend so in the morning only a few public groups played. And then the professionals started to arrive around 10am, but they didn't need to demo anything they are all sponsored by someone. A few of the Nike guys asked for help with some of their equipment, to make sure they had the correct thing. But mainly I just sat there, we were a title sponsor so that is why I am here.


So I hit quite a few balls and got all of my work done, thank god I brought my laptop! I got all packed up around 4pm and started to head home. The drive was so hot, and since the car was so loaded, everytime I turned on the A/C it would seriously bog down. So I just had to cruise with the windows down. The drive back sure seemed longer than the drive there, even though it turned out to be about a half-hour shorter...

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Eagle Crest - Day 2,3,4

On Friday I played in the Oregon Open Pro-Am, as an Amateur (sssshhhh.... nobody knows I am a pro, but we came in last anyways so it doesn't matter). We played on the Ridge Course, which is a much nicer course than the Resort Course that we played yesterday! I had to work in the morning, then pack up really quickly to play in the Pro-Am. I was excited to play, Keeley and Rick drove all the way down to play in it too.

We played in a Best 2 Ball Net Score game, good thing to since I was no help on the front side. Easily could have shot in the high 40's. So I decided to get serious about my game, and cracked open a few cold ones! And what do you know, I started to play better. I birdied the first 2 holes on the back side. Par a couple holes, take a double from a couple of horrendous lies, birdied 16 and then missed an eagle putt on 18, ending up with a two under 34. What a change in 9 holes, and I redeemed myself from the front side. I had a great time playing with Keeley, Rick, David, and Tim. Wish some of them could have stayed around over the weekend to play some more.

On Saturday and Sunday I ran demo days at the Ridge and Resort courses. Sure was hot, good thing the wind picked up. On Saturday we drove down to Bend and had dinner at the Deschutes Brewery, man that place has good food and beer! Man is this ever a tough business trip... :D

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Eagle Crest - Day 2

Today I woke up and had a total American Dad moment!


I awoke at 7am wide awake and got out of bed, totally "Good Morning USA...." And well this is what I woke up to.


It's right off of my back balcony...

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Eagle Crest Trip - Day 1

After working this morning at Langdon Farms I drove down to Eagle Crest for the weekend. I drove over the Santiam Pass (HWY 22) through Sisters. WOW, what a scenic drive, been about 6 years since I have come this way. Got in to Eagle Crest and played a quick 18 at the Resort Course, finishing in the dark! Didn't play the greatest, shot a 76. The course was okay, not the greatest layout but incredibly manicured (must be all of the sun). There was a few highlights like the 2nd hole, a very clever design.


The tee shot here was very intimidating! (I birdied the hole by the way...) And then on the sixth hole you get a great view of the Deschutes River.


And then as we were finishing up there was a great little downhill par 5 that was extremely pretty as the sun was setting. (By the way I birdied this hole too, maybe I should take pictures of all of the holes....)


All in a days work.

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Final Grades

Grades were posted today, and once again I did really well. I think the whole trick to this school thing is to just not care and only look to pass. I ended up getting an A in Private and Public Investment, A- in Semiconductors, C in Strength of Materials, and an A for my Senior Project. This gave me a 3.33 for the term and an overall GPA of 3.15, and my goal was to just get above a 3.0 overall, so I am very happy.

OMSI Capstone Project

So I made a real make-shift video of our Capstone project. It is real rough and when they mount it in the actual museum (and not in the hall) I will get a better video of it up.

Our project is a display to demonstrate Emergent Behavior. Which is when a simple object is combined in multiples will create complex systems. Our blocks light up only a single color, when they are grouped together they send signals out, allowing their neighboring blocks to react to the first block lighting up.



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I'm Edumicated!!

So the long adventure of studying and stressing is over! Thanks to eveyone for coming, I really appreciate it. For those of you unable to make it, here are some pictures from the day.


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I Am Done!

I walked out of my last final yesterday. Sure I got my ass kicked by both of them for the day, but it felt great to be done. Not sure what it is going to be like without going to school... I have been going to school for 7 out of the last 8 years. And will graduate with about 300 credits. Sure will be weird to not worry about homework, midterms, reports, finals...

Now to go play some golf.

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Google Albums

You all know how much I love Google web applications. Well they jsut added something that could eventually be really cool. Most photo hosting websites are a real pain in the ass to use. Flickr, Kodak, Snapfish, etc....

I have tried a few and have not liked any of them! Most sucked because it was hard for other people, or just myself, to look at my photos. Well Google has launched Google Albums and I am waiting anxiously to get access! Sign up too if you love Google, cause my guess is that it will be the best.



**Should have bought Google IPA :( **

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Google Earth Update

Well if you haven't noticed, now you know. There has been a major update to the satellite imagery for Google Earth! Australia has had a huge update, so has South America and the Gulf area. Also here in the States. Kelso/Longview now has high-resolution, before it was extremely grainy now you can look at the land slide...

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A Few Things

I walked out of my LAST class on Thursday, man did it ever feel good. Now all I have is a presentation on Monday, and if we do well could win the Portland State University's Outstanding Capstone Award. So you know, no pressure.

I then have a final on Wednesday in Strength of Materials, followed immediately with a Nike demo day at Hood River GC. Then on Thursday, I have my Private and Public Investment final at 10am and my Semiconductor final at 12pm.

Anyways after that I am all done!

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More PSU Pics

1 more week of school, then finals. I am so very excited! But it is going to be a jammed packed week. I have a few reports to do, some huge assignments are due, and then there is always studying for the exams... Plus throw in work and I am going to be constantly busy for the next two weeks!

The best thing about going to PSU, is the great walk through the Park Blocks to get there...

If you haven't heard, my Senior Project (Capstone) team is up for an award. We have been nominated for Outstanding Capstone Award. We don't really know anything about the award. We just know that we are the only ones in the ECE Capstone projects that have to record our presentation... I think this means that it is not department wide, but maybe its for the whole engineering school or maybe all of PSU. This will be awesome if we win. It will be great to put on our resumes.

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PSU Memories...

I was thinking that two weeks from now, when I am finally done here at PSU, that I will not have any pictures to remind me of PSU. Granted I am not that proud of my "last-chance" school, but I did spend a lot of time here. So the last few weeks of school I will be carrying the camera with me and taking pictures of things that I really liked about PSU and my time here.

First off are two great places to sit and read or eat lunch. The first one is from the rooftop of the Urban Studies Center, and the second one is the fountain across the street from Keller Auditorium.



P.S. I know I have stated this before. But this AutoStitch panoramic photo software is awesome! And Free!

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