Stellafane was somewhat of a bust, all things considered. While it was great to see Dad, Chuck, and Johnny again, the weather was less than savory. I would say that Stellafane is much less fun when you spend most of it under a tarp.
Friday night was fairly clear until 1am, which provided some nice viewing, but Saturday was overcast most of the day, and towards the end of the day it poured, which really sucked. I ended up going to bed at 9pm just to get out of the rain.
Oh, did I fail to mention that my car still overheats?!?!? Most of the way up and all the way back I had to stop every 50 miles or so to let the car cool off for awhile. That’s 3 times that Mr. Joe Legno told me the same problem was fixed and it hasn’t been… He will be hearing from me. :)
Chuck started back for NJ a little while ago, which is why I am into work so early today. The office is VERY hot this morning, I pressed the override button for the thermostat, hopefully it will cool down soon. I suspect that the cooling is just busted, and it will probably take weeks to fix.
My roommate, Jon Parise is allegedly visiting today, for a week or so, which is way-cool. It is always fun to geek-out with Jon, and it will be nice to get to hang out with him without the pressures of classes getting in the way.
It is really late, and I have been busy all day cooking and stuff. I made Chili for camping tomorrow, and I made Filet Mignon wrapped in bacon for dinner tonight (thursday). It was amazing…
Anyway, I am encoding a few CD’s before I go to bed for the trip, and I am on the road by 4am. Talk to y’all on Sunday!
Made a George Carlin MP3 CD while I was in the shower this morning, but it doesn’t seem to function. The MP3’s ‘skip’ in my Genica, but I am not sure if the fault lies with the MP3’s or the CD. I will have to figure it out when I get home.
I am kinda looking forward to school starting up again, as I am definately looking forward to “Operating Systems 2”. There is so much I need to know about Operating System design, and I am hoping that this class will really help me out. It is being taught by Jim Vallino, who I have had in the past for CS4. He was a good professor then, so I hope that carries through to this class (which I believe he designed the curriculum for).
I am also looking forward to seeing some CSH people, but there are others I wish I didn’t have to see. I hate social politics….
My parents left this afternoon, after a nice breakfast at the Highland Park Diner (the closest thing I have found to a real diner here in Rochester).
I have to say that Rochester is really grating on me lately, I guess it is simply all the recent negativity in my life compounded, and Rochester doesn’t provide anything to counter that, especially during the summer. I feel really lonely, but I have quite a few people around me… I can’t really figure it out….
I have to burn a few MP3 cd’s to use on the trip to Vermont on Friday. I don’t know when I am going to do this, because it takes quite awhile to rip, encode, and burn the discs.
My parents visited today, and it was great to see them, It’s been far too long…
Other than that, nothing too exciting, i’m tired. Might go climbing with Sean & Kelly tomorrow, but I don’t know when they are going yet… RockVentures closes at 6, and I don’t quite know when the ‘rents are leaving, so…
Music is the amoeba that fills any void in my life, and right now I sure am digging on the Secret Chiefs 3 CDs I recently acquired. The good-fellow James Izzo (aka Thread) sent me an advance of his new CD “Abnormal Love”, and it is as good as I expected. James’ power supply recently exploded (literally), and luckily it didn’t take any of the other equipment inside his computer (or outside, for that matter).
Got belay certified last night at RockVentures, which was fun, but my climbing experience was poor last night; I only made it to the top on one of the climbs I attempted… Perhaps I was just tired.
I received the aforementioned CD’s in the mail yesterday, and so far I have listened to one of the two. I am impressed by what I heard, but I will need a bit longer to form an opinion.
Sean Hammond is coming over and making dinner tonight, and Adam’s girl Molly is going to bring dessert. It will be nice not having to cook at all for a change (even when it isn’t my night to cook, I generally offer my services to help out whoever _is_ cooking).
I am looking forward to my parents visiting tomorrow, ‘cause I haven’t seen them since May. They are coming up to plain-ol’ visit, and to check out my apartment in person. Too bad it is only my apartment for a few more weeks, but living CSH isn’t that bad… As I have said several times, my problem with living at CSH isn’t CSH-related, it is dorm-related. I want to live in a slightly larger place, the dorms are so confined. Ah well, it is only for a few more months, right?
Mike Felice is visiting Rochester for a few days, for the CSH orientations, and he is crashing at our place. This is good because Mike can cook, and he is hooking us up with some Chicken Franchaise (sp?).
Tonight we get to watch Junkyard Wars. Between Junkyard Wars and Iron Chef, I don’t know how much better television can get. I can’t wait until Junkyard is a regular show… :)
Right now I am just chilling at work, working on some DTD’s and listening to some Faith No More. Right now that is the only MP3 cd that I have which functions properly in my player. The rest of my CD’s are older, and I haven’t gotten around to figuring why the older ones don’t work. Perhaps I will look at that tonight.
I am also expecting to get two “Secret Chiefs 3” cd’s in the mail soon (“First Grand Constitution and Bylaws” and “Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws”). I hadn’t heard much of SC3, but I bought the CD’s knowing I like the work of the bandmembers (SC3 is a sideproject of Mr. Bungle members Trey Spruance, Trevor Dunn, Danny Heifetz, and Bar McKinnon, with other talented musicians on more of a ‘rolling’ roster). I never really get nervous when I blindly buy CDs, because even if they suck, they expose me to new music usually, and I can always sell them used. Last night, however, I found a site that was Webcasting a SC3 live performance. Somehow, after seeing/listening to that, I can’t imagine that the CDs will disappoint me.
OK, so yesterday I established that I do have some definite dorky qualities. Last night, I discovered how much dorkier people can get.
So me and the roomies were playing Counter-Strike last night after going over to CSH again for orientations. The introduction of Quake into the gaming world brought about the concept of ‘Clans’. Clans are groups of friends who play together as a team. Unfortunately this devo’ed into a bunch of losers, most of whom suck-ass at the game, but believe that they are the best players ever.
Clans have spread out to many other games, and Counter-Strike is no exception. My roomies and I thought it would be funny to play as “Clan IronChef”, and we renamed our server “Kitchen Stadium”. Now, we aren’t serious about being a clan whatsoever, but apparently other people are.. :) This clan of idiots joined our server last night, and some of them joined our team. One of the members of this clan decided that we shouldn’t take this one particular route through the map. We ignored him, because the 3 of us are pretty decent at the game. Well he got pissed that we weren’t listening to him, so he started publically yelling out our positions to his friends on the opposing team. Now, while I understand that it is just a game, that just seems uncool…
I warned his buddies (and him), that if he kept acting like a flake, that I would ban the whole lot from our server… Then they just turned into 12 year olds (who knows, they might be 12 year olds in real life). It was just really lame… Some people just don’t understand that A) it’s just a game, and B) the game is there to enjoy, so why ruin it?
We kicked their asses without equivocation, so I guess we settled the argument the old fashioned way, but it was still really lame. :)