Well, February is over. Traditionally it’s the shortest month of the year, although this year’s got boosted with an extra day. I was very excited that I didn’t get sick in February for once in my life, so I guess flu shots are good things after all.

Personal Life
The majority of this month focused on my Sojourn to the Past trip, including packing, preparation, actually going on the trip, and then (as of this week), making up homework on it. So that took care of most of that.
However, I did spend the February 5th “Super Tuesday” election working a 15-hour day through the student poll worker program, which was a lot of fun. I talked about that in this blog article.
On Saturday, February 9th, my father was involved in a car accident. It wasn’t my father’s fault at all, it was the other guy who came over to the wrong side of the road on a very narrow freeway overpass (that has been made even more narrow by recent Caltrans construction). However, it pretty much totaled my mom’s 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser (which only had a year’s worth of payments left on it), so while I was gone on my trip, my parents got a used 2007 Toyota Prius to take its place. They seem to like it, particularly how much more fuel efficient it is compared to the 22 MPG PT Cruiser (here in $3.50/gallon San Francisco area).
I also found out this month that I’ve become a staff member of Teen Media Productions, which heads the Teen Podcast Network.

Significant Blog Posts from This Month

Election Day at the Polls
My fifteen-hour work day at below minimum wage. (Not that I had a problem with that.)

Sojourn to the Past Itinerary, Feb. 14-23
My bucket list for my ten days in the South.

Guest Blog: The Art of Personal Blogging
Blogger extraordinaire Lorelle VanFossen comments on the “art” of spilling your guts online.

Leopard’s Redemption
At last, Leopard goes from ‘good’ to ‘awesome’, and my menu bar is normal again.

How Many Elections Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
My rant on the ridiculousness of having four elections in a single year. After all, the deficit is only $16 billion.

Californians: Get Cash Back on Your Gift Cards
Know your rights, get free money.

Once Every Four Years
I spend some time marveling at the unimportance of the leap year.

Podcast Episodes

phpBB Weekly #049
A tutorial all about the wonderful, amazing, genius idea of BBCode. Too bad I’m so used to HTML.

PreviewCast #051: The Tic-Tac-Toe Laptop
And you thought the MacBook Air was a trimmed down laptop…

phpBB Weekly #050: Guest Patrick O’Keefe of phpBBHacks.com
Quite possibly my favorite episode of phpBB Weekly ever, not to mention that it was our fiftieth.

phpBB Weekly #051
David’s so-called MOD Team Takeover episode.

And now, on to a hopefully much calmer month of March! Stay tuned…

Tags: accident, Best Of, car, episodes, February, leap year, Podcasts, Sojourn