Link: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6028

An article in MSU Today about crop breeders at MSU. Little tiny mention about one Amber Weitzel in there.

Author's Note: Now known as Amber Robbins

Well, on June 14th, 2008 around 7:30pm I (Jade Robbins) and Amber Weitzel became married. You're welcome farmers, you can finally unlock your daughters. I could painstakingly go through all the details of the day itself, but I'm pretty sure most the people that read this blog were there and for those who couldn't make it they can always look at the pictures. All I can say was that the wedding was absolutely beautiful and exactly what we both wanted. The weather the entire weekend was perfect, I couldn't have asked for more.

For our honeymoon we stayed in the Bird's Nest Treehouse that they offered at Gallatin River Hideaway which was absolutely wonderful. It is just a couple hundred yards away from the wedding site so we were able to get there quick after the ceremony and relax. We stayed 2 nights (the wedding night and the next) and it was soooo relaxing and romantic. There is something very exciting about being in a treehouse (with a hot tub, mind you) with your new wife completely alone with nature. I'm hoping that sometime around our first anniversary Amber and I can return for a couple nights in the treehouse (not joking, this thing was so awesome).

Well that is all I have now, any special memories or fun stuff you would like to share, be sure to put it in the comments!

Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wally-byam-assemble!

In response to the Wally Byam rally in Bozeman, I decided to set up a webcam facing the Roskie Fields behind my apartment. With this webcam you should be able to see all the craziness going on as they set up for the weekend. I'm trying to find a way to do some time lapse with my DSLR, but I guess I'm just too tarded.

Also, I haven't forgotten the wedding post yet! I'm on it!

Time for a composite post of my past couple weeks:

Early Bird Saturday
For some reason last Saturday morning I woke up at 5:30 and COULD NOT get back to sleep. I finally got up at 6:00 and started doing some things around the house. This is especially odd for me because with my recent graduation I’ve had some serious trouble waking up in the mornings. Being that ITC hasn’t made me officially staff I’ve been able to milk it a bit (going in to work at 10, only working 6 hour days) and blame it on post-graduation relaxation, but if I ever (and the jury is still out on this one) become real staff I’ll have to step up and start getting to work on time.

New Camera
I recently purchased a new digital camera. It is a [url=http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/K100D/K100DA.HTM]Pentax K100D[/url] DSL and I’m loving it! It’s a really nice camera for the price and is allowing me to learn a little bit about photography (which I’m sorely ignorant at). I’ve uploaded two albums of pictures: The Museum Trip and The Camping Scout Trip. I still don’t know the ins and outs of photography, but with what I know I think I am turning out some decent pictures.

Motorcycle
Well my sister’s boyfriend Stevie recently sold me his 1994 Yamaha YZ250 dirt bike. I had the money, but barely, and now I’m dirt poor! I’m very excited about this though. I’m not a motocross person or wannabe extreme biker, I just think it will be a fun way to get around in the mountains! How I just need to get it to Bozeman.

Graduation Party and new Grill
My graduation party was a couple weekends ago (May 10th) and I had a wonderful time. Some family came in from out of town to party it up, it was great to see the family all together again. My nephews and niece were especially adorable and it was super super fun to play with them all again. My parents got me a new Kenmore grill that is just pure AWESOME. It has 4 burners and is all shiny. Definitely an awesome gift, but to make it even more sweet the whole family gave me gifts that pertain to grilling! I got all kinds of fun accessories to go with my grill, can’t beat that.

That is all I have for now, but I might be trying to make more catch-up posts in the coming weeks!

I got two A-'s and two B+'s which gives me a semester GPA of 3.51 (Dean's List baby!) and a cumulative GPA of 2.90 for my collegiate career. Sad I couldn't get my cumulative up to a 3 before I graduated, but hey, I graduated. Not bad for a kid that ended his freshman semester with a 1.22 cumulative GPA, eh?

That's right, I did it. I still haven't officially received my grades yet so hopefully I'll get good enough grades to ACTUALLY graduate. Don't worry, I'm pretty optimistic about it, I think anyways.

For my last semester in my History 207 class, we had to do a final paper. Our teacher let us know that we could be as free as we wanted about the subject matter of this paper, as long as it was making a historical argument and supported with evidence. Well here is my paper, it's on Star Trek. I love you Carla Nappi.

That Klingon Stole My iPhone!

School is over finally! (Just for the summer for me, unfortunately, but for Jade, it's over for good)
The weather is starting to get nicer and things are less hectic. I'm definitely looking forward to camping, floating, BBQ's, Rockin' the Rivers, and a less stressed out Jade!

Life is good

Hello all, Jade here. Yes I am alive. For those who I don't see day-to-day and read this blog to keep up with the happenings in my life: I apologize. In general life is good, although rather busy. Trying to finish up my last semester of school, working with Amber to put finishing touches on our wedding, and trying to work and get a job at the same time. Pretty hectic, but I keep my eye on the prize (early May through mid June) and waiting for things to settle down.

School may suck, but freaking work has been great. I'm currently developing a blogging system for Montana State University using Wordpress MU. I've really enjoyed making the MSU template, working on widgets, and just playing around with Wordpress, I've dubbed it ThinkPress for now, and hopefully it will be widely adopted and enjoyed by the greater MSU community.

So soon I graduate and get married, I hope to see you all there for both!

Today I had another wrap for lunch, so I thought I would graph the my thoughts on wraps and how they should be.

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edit: So in conclusion, the optimal wrap from Avogadro's Number would be where the orange intersects the red (because not matter how many toppings you get a sloppy wrap, so you might as well get the toppings), while the best wrap at Pita Pit is an average amount of toppings (because you don't need THAT many toppings because it's a nice tight wrap).