Month: February 2001

I’m currently re-doing everything with style sheets, so if things look weird just be patient and reload.

I just ordered up a DNS switchover, so things might be wonky for a few days, but hopefully not. I should have fixed the MX record as well.

Song: Futurama Theme Remix

Oh yeah, Futurama. I haven’t been watching this season, but I intend to start again.

I had a relaxing week. It was really good staying with Sandy’s family. I wished that I was in Toronto at times, but OTOH it was nice to be forced to do nothing. Being bored can be good.

I’m forming this strange bond with Sandy’s brother. Sandy said he really really likes me and that he doesn’t usually open up to people like he’s been opening up to me. On wednesday night we drove around together to pick up Sandy’s PlayStation and assorted other things, and talked as equals. I suspect that he doesn’t have a lot of people up there that understand him, or are willing to listen. I hope he gets into college.

This week I have to help write a design doc, and I have two mid-terms. Tonight, though, I’m going to keep on relaxing. Those PlayStation controllers need some breaking in.

One of the NICs in my house router machine is just about dead. Granted, it is a 10+ year old SMC EtherEZ ISA card, but it has served me well. The crappy part is I don’t have any spare NICs right now, but I should be able to get one from Sandy’s brother when we visit her family from tomorrow until Sunday. So the internal house net is messed completely.

Yesterday was Sandy’s birthday. Since her b-day is during reading week, not a lot of people were around to celebrate. It was just Emily, Stina, Allan, Sandy and I last night bowling and watching movies. ‘Twas a good time (and I bowled a 170 my second game)

I’m just going to finish checking my e-mail from the router and then go and burn some CDs and play some Unreal Tournament.

Right now I feel like I lost all of my friends suddenly.

Tony’s in Toronto. Nic I barely see. Mark I have classes with, but he’s going through a lot of different things right now. Amy and Cait seem very distant. I just seem to have stopped doing things with people lately. Do people suddenly think they should stay the hell away from me because I have a successful relationship? Is this what it’s like to concentrate on school, cause if it is then this sucks.

It’s probably just the semi-yearly total change of relationships happening a little early. It just seems like I’m losing a lot and not gaining anything… yet. It’ll come.

I haven’t seen Jordan in so long, I miss her. I need to ingest some Kowloon food.

I’ve also got that life envy thing: Just browsing Pete’s web site and looking enviouslly at his photos of Prague. My sister’s going to Budapest. I’m stuck in Canada.

Song: Guster – Happier

Say goodbye, lose your friends
Make them go, don’t need them around
Cause’ it’s time, to lose your friends
Make them go, was never supposed to be like this
They were too weak, too prone to break
There needs to deep, their skin too thin
By now you took what was to take
tear it apart and start again

Okay, nowi I understand. There was once a video game called Zero Hour that had probably the worst-translated opening story in the history of videogames. And some insane individuals made a ShockWave Flash movie/thing using that line and a hardcore beat soundtrack here. It’s…um…interesting.

Nic sent me this crazy Flash animation/music video last night, but I don’t have the URL on me right now.

Ah, reading week is almost upon us. The joy of sleep and… sleep. LEGO building. Doing nothing. Writing web pages. Doing all of those projects that I do in my spare time. Cleaning my room. Folding my laundry.

I spent about all of my free time in the past 48 hours studying hard, and what happens?

• The TA is late
• He tells us that the prof will be 30 minutes late because he is making the midterms
• The prof shows up 50 minutes late, giving us 70 minutes to write a 90 minute exam
• The TA does not have a happy look on his face
• None of the students are very impressed by this

But it’s done now, and I think I did alright. I’m going home now to play Unreal Tournament and then do some coding.

I’m just testing to see if my new update script will add the date to these entries properly.

I already used that for a title two weeks ago, but now I’m listening to the track again and it’s just so appropriate.

Got a big-ass midterm on Wednesday. That’s basicially the only thing on my mind right now. I’ve got a lot of reading to do between now and then. It’s going to be a wild ride. I just gotta do what I gotta do. Which, at this moment, is read through An Introduction to Formal Specification and Z. Exciting.

I got a shock this afternoon when Jordan ICQd me out of the blue and told me that her father died on Friday, from a sudden heart attack. I didn’t really know what to say. I wish I could have attended the funeral (it was today). I haven’t seen her in a long time, I hope she’s okay.