Regrets of time and music that rhymes.
So I decided not to do the Phoenix degree program. It would have been $515 per credit hour. That’s $1545 per class. At 60 credits needed that’s over $30,000. All of which would need to be student loans through Stanford. I’ll apply for grants but the bulk of the cost will be out of pocket unless I get a job that pays tuition re-embursements.
But I’m not giving up on getting that higher degree. I spoke to a contact in the Computer Science program at FSU to do the fast-track-dual BS+MS program online. Which means when complete I’ll have a MS instead of a BS. At $109 dollars per credit hour it’s much cheaper and I can still do 90 percent of my course load online.
Although just to get into the program I’ll need to take some rather advanced math classes (trig, calc) and a science course (physics, bio). Plus 3 semesters of a foreign language.
So I’m checking into the local community college to get started and applying for the Computer Science program for the Summer of 09. That should give me some time to work it all out.
Slow and steady I should be done in twenty years and then I can go to Korea and teach english. 
In the meantime I need music. I’m in a musical rut. Every year I usually polled my students and asked for their top three bands/albums on the final exam. Just to get a flavor for what’s out there in new music. This year I didn’t. So if you have any good albums (not just singles) I’d be interested in hearing about them.
I just ripped all my .wav files to .mp3 files and have 40 gigs of mp3 music. That’s a lot of music but after ten years of listening to mostly the same artists they get kinda stale. Don’t get me wrong I still throw in the classics now and again but a lot of my favorite artists have stopped making music also and there are no more albums by them.
So who you listening too these days?