Author: chuma

It’d really annoying when your monitor (FD Trinitron or not) shakes from side to side on your desk all the time. Could it be the streetcars going by?

Well, I’m at my second day at work. This morning I wasn’t quite runing around like a madman, so I guess I’m starting to remember the daily morning routing quickly. The other daily routine is also starting to come back: coffee. I need to get some green tea and bring it in to work, before this starts getting serious again.

Random thing in the garbage at work today: a copy of Solaris 2.5 server.

Well, we got fed up with bell not being able to update the darn DSLAM fast enough, so I called Rogers and they’ll be around on Tuesday, guaranteed. Now that’s some decent service.

Of course, this won’t help me much because I’m in Toronto now for the summer. Dial-up for me, yay. Woo-hoo. I’m so happy. <sarcasm>

On the bus today I finally got around to starting to read the excellent sci-fi novel Bellwether by Connie Willis. Calum, you would appreciate this book, especially:

1. Optimize potential.
2. Facilitate empowerment.
3. Implement visioning.
4. Strategize priorities.
5. Augment core structures.

Well…. we’re finally finished setting up our new apartment. The furniture has been built and moved, the posters have been hung, the bed has been assembled, everything has been cleaned, polished, or put away. Now, if only Bell can get off their sorry asses and get our DSL hooked up properly and send us the kit, we’d be 100%. As it is, I’m writing this from campus.

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.