Pictures

So I really just wanted to post some pictures. In other news ABQ is now an A Cluster. In Baha'i parlance that is EXCITING!!!!!!

Jemez RiverUndeveloped Hot Spring
Dinner!!!?
Jalal Studying his physics
My class on a field trip

Outside of our house
Sjonita with her flowers
Towards ABQ from our house

Getting lost in code

So this semester I decided to take two different programming classes in two different languages, one in Java and one in VBA for ArcObjects. While I enjoy programming when I can get something to work, it sure can be a frustrating and outright horrible, uncompromising process. Below is a method in the Java language that I just finally got to work (after hours of pain!!!). It rotates any string ( group of characters) represented by msg by the offset amount entered by the user and captured in the first line. The hard part was that the offset could be positive or negative and also much longer than the string itself, in which case it has to wrap around and start again.

public static String strRotateRight ( String msg, int offset ) {
String rightRotate = "";
if ( msg == null)
return rightRotate;
if (msg.length() ==0)
return msg;

if (offset>0){
int newOffset = (offset - (offset/msg.length()*msg.length()));
for (int i = (msg.length()-newOffset); i
rightRotate+=msg.charAt(i);
}
for (int i = 0; i < (msg.length()-newOffset); i++){
rightRotate+=msg.charAt(i);
}

}else if (offset<0){
int newOffset = (offset/msg.length()*msg.length())-offset;
for (int i = newOffset; i
rightRotate+=msg.charAt(i);
}
for (int i = 0; i < newOffset; i++){
rightRotate+=msg.charAt(i);

}
}else{ rightRotate=msg;

}

return rightRotate;
}

Happy Birthday Love of My Life!!!!!!

Today is March 19. My wonderful, beautiful wife is now 24 years young. She is the most wonderful person to ever come into my life. I don't deserve somebody at her level. She is the one of the most passionate people I have ever met. She is also one of the most moral, just, and spirited people I have known. I hope anybody reading this has the opportunity to get to know such a wonderful gem in this world.

I love you Sjona!! Thank you for lighting up my life. Happy Birthday!!

Heaven is a ski resort

yep.

Nothing like skiing on one of the best Mountains in the country to take the stress away.

I love Moguls!

Sjona has gotten SOOOO much better this year!!!

My embarrasing fall vid

Stressed!

That pretty much sums up my last few weeks. I have felt like I have a million things to do, and the more I do, the more there is to do. If I am doing something I feel like I should be doing something else also. Thus is the grad school/working part time/active in Baha'i community life. It is so hard to schedule while in school. Hours are so irregular, I long for the days that I can just go to work for 8-9 hours and be done with it.

Nevertheless, I can't complain. I generally like my classes, my job, and I absolutely love my wife. I am working in a Baha'i community that has the potential to help transform the world...

Still though, the stress, I always feel exhausted. Everything I do is to meet some deadline, haven't had much time for the bigger picture, or to stop and really experience the joys in life. I am hoping this fasting season will clear up my mind and give me new energy. I definitely need it.


It snowed a lot a while ago.

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