New Bed and Some Big Changes Around Here...

First and most exciting, my new bed was delivered this morning!  I'm very excited because up until just now, I've been sleeping on this:

It's an air mattress with slightly too big everything!

It hasn't been too bad but I know the sleep quality hasn't been what many would term "awesome".  Fortunately, that's all in the past!  My new bed looks a little like this:

New bed!

In fact, my new bed looks exactly like that.  I'm very excited to sleep in a bed that doesn't require an air pump.  It came just in time, so I can have a good night's sleep before the big race tomorrow!  As far as that goes, I'm a little nervous but I know that I'll do just fine and hopefully walk away with a couple extra bucks.  I just hope that if I get a check, I'll be able to cash it instead of framing it and putting it up on my wall.

As you may have noticed, there have been some cosmetic and structural changes to the blog recently.  I have been trying to find a suitable picture-font-color combination for this blog to replace the ridiculous map theme that existed here previously.  The Don Quixote picture is a favorite of mine for a couple reasons, so I'd like to keep it as the background but a black and white picture presents challenges when choosing a color for the text.  I like the Don Quixote picture because I have always seen the friendship between Alex and me as something like that of Don Quixote and Sancho in the first part of the story and since this is our shared blog, I thought it a fitting background.  Also, there has been a structural change to make editing and creation of mathematics a little better, as mentioned here.  The major problem with this is it makes the use of the dollar sign nearly impossible but I think that I can survive that.

Finally, I finished my first full week of work, got bills, and got paid and then paid my bills!  What a good feeling to get something, get the bill, and be able to pay it.  On the other hand, I saw how much Uncle Sam was taking out of my paycheck and that was a little less inspiring, but I suppose I'll think about that while I'm driving on the roads and enjoying the freedom made possible by our armed forces.  On the other hand, I'll probably think about it when I see satellite dishes on every unit in a government subsidized housing complex.  In any case, this was a good week and it's not even over yet!

-Lane