Heading back to Rochester with Jon in an hour or so… I really don’t want to leave, nor do I want to go back to Rochester…. This is the final assault before I graduate… Sigh
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Open the pod bay doors, HAL
Wow…. Another year gone by… And more importantly, the last day on my “Pop-up Video” Day-by-Day Calendar that My Roommate, Jon Parise gave me last Christmas.
I think I remotely finished up my work on Drink for this break… I made quite a few improvements to it overall, allowing multiple client connections at a time, wrote a dirt-simple logging server so we can keep track of what’s going on, tested the latest beta TINI OS (which is way more stable). I am looking forward to getting back and hooking it up to the machine (but that’s the ONLY thing I am looking forward to back there).
Finished up the First season of the Sopranos last night, and I watched an Interview of the series creator that was on the last disc… It was 1:15h long! It was a pretty good interview though…
Chuck called me this morning, we are going to go get him another DVD or so after he runs some errands… He finally has the ability to play DVDs, and he only has one… He is thinking about Willy Wonka, which I think is a great idea… :P
Get the hell out of bed…
I pseudo-woke-up to My Roommate, Jon Parise’s visit early this morning, although I was already kinda awake. Last night I read some more of Cryptonomicon, I would like to finish it before I go back to school, cause I simply don’t have the time to read when classes are in swing…
Inching towards Christmas….
Ok, with the CSH Holiday Party (and Secret Santa) this evening, I am starting to feel the slightest twinges of Christmas Spirit. It probably won’t be full-force until I leave on Thursday, but I am feeling good.
This weekend was good… I went over to Trouble, Ben, and Chris’ apartment Friday to celebrate Trouble’s birthday. Contrary to My Roommate’s earlier post, I did not spend the night (but I arrived back here about an hour after his post). Saturday I hung out here most of the day, but ended up going to The Distillery to celebrate Ethan’s 21st birthday. Ironically, he decided he didn’t want to drink anything, which is A-OK in my book. I, however, took advantage of their 2-for-1 Margarita special… :)
I am just about to go out to procure my gift for Secret Santa, which I will describe in more detail after it has been deployed. :P I am kinda shaky on this one, because I am not super-good friends with the person who I was assigned…. We will see how it goes… :P
Here? Again???
Let me make a few things clear…. First of all, it is odd to recognize that one day you walk to the store down the street in shorts, and the next day you are dreaming of warm clothes as you wait for your ride from the airport…. Second, I have come to the realization that the human mind simply does not deal well with travelling long distances in short times.
I arrived in Rochester last night, and was ferried to RIT by My Roommate, Jon Parise. I spent most of last night unpacking and trying to force myself back to an East Coast schedule. I finally fell asleep around 2am, and woke up at 7:30am for my Intro to Organic and Biological Chemistry class at 8am. That class is interesting, go over to the page and check out the grading policy… I don’t think it will be to difficult to pass the course. :) Which is good, because that means I have more time to devote to Calculus (again).
Jon and I are heading over to Imaging Science for a little lunchtime showing of Junkyard Wars in the Carlson Learning Center. Word has it that that Bryce will either be showing the “Gliders” or the “Cannons” episode, either of which rock (but “Cannons” by far wins in a vs. match.. :P)
Wow…
Yeah, being home is fun…. I have been chilling with the family, which is cool. My youngest sister Aimee doesn’t return from school until Tuesday, but Larissa is home…. Everyone has a decent amount of time off this weekend, so…
I hacked more on the new server for drink today…. I had some ideas in the car (some inspired by Jon) that I implemented earlier today. Originally my code had it’s own authentication database, but now I authenticate against the house’s db. Only the account balances are kept in the server’s own db now, and once the RTP’s get LDAP kicking on the house’s machines, I can get rid of that too.
Long time, no see….
Yeah, so I have been somewhat reclusive lately, both in real life and on this thing… After finishing up our OS2 project, I kinda just hid for awhile, it just took away alot of my energy, and it took me awhile to recover. But no, no chance to recover, I had to deal with Finals. I took 3 of my finals today (one was a take-home), and finished a extra-credit project for Data Comm… So it’s official, it is time to move on to my last quarter at RIT….. Sheesh…
Jon, Ethan, and I are leaving this hell-hole tomorrow, a few days earlier than planned. As you can read over in Jon’s journal, he talked his way out of his Monday final, so we have no reason to wait around here. It will be good to get home, and most importantly, to have some time off.
We watched Saturday Night Live, and while alot of the show was off, Weekend Update was hilarious. They finally replaced Colin Quinn… The new crew was dead-on-balls. I hope they keep it up, Weekend Update was always one of my favorite parts of SNL.
My Roommate, Jon Parise, Has Left The Building
Jon’s watching Teletubbies. ’nuff said.
Yay!
My roommate, Jon Parise, is listed in the about box for the new LiveJournal client… :)
Now if only the author of the BeOS client would release a version incorporating my changes.. :) I guess if he sits on it too long I can always just release my own version of it. Yay open source… :)
Happy Birthday, My Roommate, Jon Parise
It’s My Roommate, Jon Parise’s birthday today. He is turning 21.
To celebrate, we were thinking about getting wild at the library or something… :)