Author: chuma

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.

Sad title, but it shouldn’t be. I’ve been doing really well lately, it’s just that I finally saw the full video for that Eminem song and now I’ve got it in my head. It’s a good song, sad but good.

Today did a road trip to Toronto with Sandy. It was nice to be back home. Also kind of strange to be merging together part of my Guelph life with my Toronto life. We had lunch with my friend Calum, where I ruthlessly coaxed Sandy into trying some sushi 🙂 She also gawked at his LEGO collection, insane as it is. And we cruised through Rexdale and talked about drive-bys and lowered Honda Civics and cars with the licence plate “TITO”. And stopped in at Toys R’ Us.

Then we drove downtown to the Eaton Centre for a bit of shopping. Actually we didn’t do that much, but Sandy found a really nice stuffed giraffe on sale and bought it. Me, I bought pen refills, dangerous guy that I am :P. The drive down was more exciting, with Sandy white-knuckled and driving and me trying to remember where to go. We made it, but it was a bit stressful on her.

Next we went to my parents’ place for dinner. I was somewhat worried that Sandy’s head would explode. She was somewhat afraid of my parents before, but I think now that’s mostly gone. We had a good time, Sandy also got to meet my sister and her boyfriend, which was great. She really wasn’t too nervous at all and I’m really proud of her.

And then we came home, went to the soccer game, and won 2-0. Woo!

Yesterday Sandy, Emily, Mark, and I finally saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which I am happy to see has a 9/10 rating on IMDB. Go. Run. See it now. Even if you think you don’t like martial arts movies. It’s not a martial arts movie. It’s magic.

Got midterm on Wednesday. Must read 300 pages of boring specification stuff. Will go sleep now though. It’s been a good day.

Yesterday was a very very long day. I finally got my philosophy essay done. After my night lab, and council meeting. I was very very tired. I just have to do my 320 assignment tonight and then I’ll be free for a little while, until my 320 midterm next week. I think in that I’ll take a little time during that period and work on some of my personal project stuff, like the Ultralite page, or NewtDump, or the Batch Package Installer I started.

I just had a strange revelation: my life seems to be settling down at an alarming rate. Last year I was completely involved in IRC, hacking around with Linux, and generally my social life was just hanging around with the guys. Now I’m living with my girlfriend, don’t see the guys as often, run Win2000 much more often than Linux (to the point where my distro is getting out of date, but I just don’t care), and have gotten heavily involved in all things Newton.

Not that any of this is bad.