Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

This is the last week of classes. Next week we have exams. Everything in the world comes due right about now each semester. Suddenly about 2 or 3 assignments or tests make up 56% of your final grade. Man, it's stressful. Grad school is especially bad, since we have to worry about keeping our GPA high enough, and any course grade below a B- means we have to re-take the course. Hopefully we'll be fine this semester, and I think we will be. I can't wait for a break where I don't have any deadlines looming over my head. That'll be a good day.

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We met at Erika's parents' house in Greeneville for Thanksgiving. My parents and mom's parents came up too. We had a great time and lots of good food. We posted several pictures too.

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SRMUN is the Southern Regional Model United Nations conference. It's held annually in Atlanta, GA the week before Thanksgiving. It's also what we've been up to lately. We stopped to see Diane and Dave Tuesday night before the conference and had a great time with them. Then we headed to the Airport Marriott until Sunday. SRMUN is a conference run for college students mostly by college students. It's a really great way for getting an understanding of how the real UN works, and it's great to better understand negotiation and diplomatic writing.
Personally, I've been involved with model united nations since I was a freshman in highschool, so I've been steeped in it for a long time. Erika dabled a bit in highschool and then more in college. I could go on and on, but I'll spare you. Check out the pictures we took.

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We're still playing entry catchup. Last weekend we put up and trimmed the Christmas tree. I expected it might look a little bare, but all the ornaments filled it out pretty well. I took this picture with the new camera, you can click to zoom way in and check out the detail.

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How interesting!

Today I had two comments left on the site concerning the cell phone ringer that had zero to do with the topic. So I got curious and looked closer at them. They were both posted at exactly 5:28 pm, from IP # 82.94.251.206

One was from "Merideth Carleton" and the other from "Allison Trump". Each left an URL for a different site, something silly about guessing numbers. You can google these names and actually see basically carbon copies of the comments. I think these were from some automated spider that spams MT commenting systems to advertise other websites.

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A couple weeks ago we went to see Jorge Cham give a short talk on campus. He draws an online comic strip - PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) - that jokes about life as a grad student. PhD is pretty good, and you should all check it out: http://www.phdcomics.com/.

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The website's been acting a little screwy on my end, so we haven't posted much lately. Anybody out there notice any problems?

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So after my bad experience with Dell, I decided to find the camera somewhere else. eCost had a pretty good price with cheap overnight shipping, but after I ordered one, they told me they were out of stock. So I cancelled that, and found one on eBay. I like eBay when I know exactly what I want, and don't think I'll need to return it. That's pretty much the case with this camera, so I didn't feel too worried ordering one. After the bidding inched up a bit and shipping charges tacked on, it cost a bit more than what I agreed to with Dell, but the seller had it in hand (brand new) and ready to ship. So I got it. Hooray! And it was on the way.

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