Category: my ramblings

I spent most of the day just being with Sandy. I’m so proud of her. She really is taking this very well. This morning I drove her to her morning class but instead she went and talked to all of her profs about what happened and they were all supportive, which was nice. Then we went to the mall because she wasnted to use her Music World gift certificate, but we ended up just walking around a lot and not buying much. In the afternoon we cleaned the house just about from top to bottom: it looks great now. I love the feeling of clean things. After dinner we went to Bowlarama and played a few games of 10 pin with Emily (I didn’t win any games, dammit).

I finally got a good photo of Sandy that she will let me put on my photos page, so here it is.

No reason for the title, just the title of the Moby track I’m listening to right now.

Well, I didn’t have that group meeting tonight after all, so I decided I’d do some stress-relief exercises with my thumbs, that is, playing PSX. Unfortunately it was not to be, as Sandy got some bad news from her mother: her cousin had died earlier today, when he was struck by a car in Toronto. I was cooking while she was on the phone, and then I looked over at her and there was a look of sheer terror on her face, so I moved the frying pan off of the burner and went to her. From the look on her face I immediately thought the worst: that someone in her immediate family had died, or maybe her adopted grandmother. (Later she told me that she thought the same thing at the same time). I didn’t know what it actually was for several seconds, while I was holding her, and a million awful things raced through my head as I tried to guess what it was that had happened.

Sandy didn’t go to her night class and I just went out briefly to buy some garbage bags and put some gas in the car. I’m having a hard time understanding because this has just never happened to me before. All I seem to do is just be there for her.

And I was going to quote some Guster here, but I can’t remember what I wanted to quote. Dammit. Tomorrow I’m not going in: I’m staying here and working on my group design document.

My two midterm this week are done. Yesterday’s Operating Systems was not bad. Today’s Intro to Microcomputers was dead easy for me. If I don’t get at least an 80 on that one then there’s something wrong somewhere.

But hell isn’t over yet! I have a group meeting at 10pm tonight where we will be writing the better part of a 60+ page design document. And this weekend I have an assignment and a lab to complete.

But today after my class I’m going to relax with some Final Fantasy VIII. I deserve it.

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.