Category: my ramblings

Operation: Move the Heck Out Already got under way today. Sandy and I moved a lot of boxes with the car today. We made 5 or 6 trips to the new place and unloaded everything into the machine room (at least, it will be the machine room when we’re done with it). It was a bit of mayhem as there were people moving out of our new place, U-Hauls parked everywhere, cats running around, and the like. We moved a ton of stuff though. All that’s really left is our furniture (desks, tables, beds), my computer, and a box or two of clothes and miscellaneous stuff.

Other stuff I’ve been working on that needs to be complained about:

• The Newton’s representation of repeating events is really hard to decode.
• The vCalendar specification is a little looney.
• The vCalendar test application is very, very looney. Especially when it doesn’t handle times in accordance with the spec.

Yeah, I’m working on vCalendar support for NewtDump. Repeat meetings and events are going to be tough, though.

To: Jason, who called at around 11:30 EDT tonight from 518-834-7937
From: well, me
Subject: meh, no, I won’t give a subject

Dear Jason, who decided to call and tell me off:

If you don’t like what I write here, don’t read it.

Thank you.

PS: Reverse lookup is your friend.

On the way back today Sandy got caught for speeding. She took it pretty well. For a little while while we were waiting for the officer to run through her paperwork, I thought she might not be alright, but she held up. He knocked down the charge so that it didn’t cost her any demerit points, so I think that settled her down too.

More driving fun: driving to our new house to pick up the keys, we almost got t-boned while I was driving. We were approaching an intersection and had a green light, but there was this old man in a Pontiac Trans Sport inching along, trying to go through the intersection on a red light. Well, I saw him coming and slowed right down until he finally noticed me (about 1/3 of the way across the intersection) and I leaned on the horn until I went passed him. He had a look of shock on his face, if I remember. I’m sorry, I don’t care how young or old you are, but if you make a mistake like that, get off the road.

Caitlin, I really don’t want to see you anymore, so next time you have to talk to me, no matter how brief it’s going to be, put some goddamn pants on. I was doing great not seeing your face until today. Let’s try to break that streak now, hm?

Wow, it’s been a damn long time since I wrote here! I think I’ll summarize with a list:

• Went to Toronto last Thursday. Did some shopping, saw Calum for lunch, signed the contract for my summer job, had dinner at home, and then saw The Lion King musical with Sandy. IT was an awesome day. I did feel sad after though… signing that contract meant that I wouldn’t be able to spend the summer with Sandy.
• Sunday until today Sandy and I stayed at her parents’ house. We relaxed a lot… it was very stress-free. I helped out at her brother’s new computer store and such. It was great.

Okay, a short list. We just got back, and the cable is gone, so I’m stuck on dialup for a little while. Anyways. We’re moving in four days! Holy crap on a stick!

Today was a lot of nothing, mostly. Did come coding, mostly on my Newton Batch Package Uploader. Finally started packing for the move. We can’t move until the evening of the 30th, which really sucks.

Tomorrow is Toronto and the Lion King and I can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait.

INXS was so good. Why do all the good rock stars have to kill themselves?

Exam today was good. Overall, it was pretty easy, but the first third was stuff from earlier in the semester that I didn’t do well on in the midterm, but the rest was great. No worries.

Good? news came this evening, apparently now Maptuit can take me on for the summer. Good, because I get to make boatloads of cash. Bad, because I don’t get to spend the summer with Sandy.

Oh yeah, chuma.org’s been over 7000 hits for a little while now. It’s closer to 7500 actual hits, because of the counter that I had before going to NedStat. Still, I think that’s kickass hardcore.

About 45 minutes until my next exam. Gah. Useless things.

Thursday Sandy and I are going to Toronto for a day of shopping and then seeing the Lion King in the evening. Yay! It’s going to be so much fun, I can’t wait.

So I upgrade to the Apr 12 Mozilla build, ’cause there are lots of cool bug fixes, and what bug do I find? Fuckin’ form submit buttons don’t work. Period. Sigh. Back to the previous build…

I’m back from vacation. It was nice to be away. Back to exams and trying to find a job…

Mood:

It looks like another nice day today. I wonrer why I’m still inside…

From the uog.police_security newsgroup:
Date: March 12 00:37
Window broken in Lennox-Addington where a can of soup was thrown through it. ACTION: Under investigation.

Phew, glad I don’t live there anymore. Here’s another one:

Date March 16 02:12
Someone damaged the mirror on a police cruiser near the University Centre. ACTION: Under investigation.

It’s your day when you look in the cupboard and find a box of cookies that you forgot you had. Yum.

Exam today was alright. There was one or two things that I should have studied more closely, but it was alright. An alright on the final + a wicked mark on the midterm + okay grades on the assignments should = a decent grade for me.

I decided that when I got home I would play Heroes III until my eyeballs fell out, because I could. So that’s what I did. Although I did just do a bit of programming for me.

I feel like I’ve started to regress back into what I was like when I was living alone in res. Late nights, playing computer games, intaking lots of caffeine… Sandy come back!

Mood: