I am driving up to Boston in a few hours, so I might be out of touch for a few days…. I am not looking forward to the drive, but I am looking forward to seeing some friends upon arrival. :)
Later!
travel
Back in Crotchfester
Jon and I arrived at RIT a little while ago, and I am fairly unpacked…. Wish I had more time to acclimate here, but they have us back in classes tomorrow (and we couldn’t move back in until today).
I don’t wanna go to the bad place
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
Welcome to the next level.
It’s 01-01-01… It’s a binary year, enjoy it…
Not looking forward to going back to Rochester tomorrow… Perhaps it’s just me being bitchy, but I am so tired of being there…
I just made a Taylor Ham & Cheese sandwich, which is damn-difficult to find outside of Jersey (at least, a good one is hard to find).
Should I work on putting more information on my webpage, like bio info, links, and shiz? Does anyone actually care about me that much?
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
Snow rocks when you don’t have to go anywhere..
I wouldn’t say we are trapped in the house, but the snow (which is currently about 16.5″ deep) is definately good encouragement to stay inside… Luckily Santa Claus left me lots of movies and toys to play with… :P
I ventured out into the wild before to deploy our Snow Cat/Mow Cat, which is a graduated board (in the shape of a cat), which tells you how deep the snow is… Being that the forecast is saying that parts of Sussex County could see up to 30″, it might come in handy!
Another thing that came in handy was my new jacket. It is a Columbia, and replaces my older Columbia, which was getting toward retirement… I got the Ice Dragon Parka, which is crazy-complicated, and has lots of goodies to keep snow out of my arms, chest, and crotch. It is super warm, and has a super-comfy fleece liner…. And it is completely waterproof… :P
Not gonna phone it in tonight…
Today was very productive for me…. I acquired a hub and some 10Base-T so I could start hacking on my TINI, and I did so. I upgraded the TINI OS to 1.02b3 (we are only using 1.01 in drink right now) for testing, and I had to hack the drink source to work on it, since there were some API changes. This version of the OS allegedely addressed the “Telnet Server dying randomly” bug, which will be a major benefit to drink. I fixed another bug in drink earlier tonight regarding refunds if the drop fails, and I am thinking of hacking on multiple client threads for the SundayServer if I really have lots of energy in a few minutes.. :)
After dinner, I headed over to Chris’ place to see her one last time before she returns to CA tomorrow morning…. It really bums me out that we are so seperated these days.. It really depresses me. You never really know how much someone means to you until they are gone. Chris isn’t exactly gone from my life, but I only get to see her every few months, it is really upsetting… She is probably my best friend, and I wish I could spend time with her without feeling that the clock is ticking…. Maybe after graduation..
Ok, now off to possibly work on drink, but maybe to just call it a night and crash… We will see how I feel when I reach my bedroom. :P
Always an interesting time….
Just got back from the rellies a few minutes ago…. It wasn’t a bad time at all, but my back really started hurting sitting on the couch at our last stop… Fortunately, just as it started to get really bad, we needed to leave, so we coudl go home to drain our dog.
Merry Christmas to everyone, I will talk to y’all later tomorrow!
Spendin’ time in West Mildew….
I headed over to Chris’ house today so we could exchange gifts…. I gave her a book on OSPF and I also took a Christmas Tape that she loves and put it onto CD (and spent many moons cleaning up the audio) because it is out of print (and was never available on CD in the first place). She gave me 2 DVD’s (Seven and Jurassic Park) and a book on “The Sopranos” (which looks pretty cool, and I hadn’t heard of)..
I am all excited, I have delivered a few gifts now to a few people, and my Christmas spirit is definately in full swing now…
We are going out to see all the family tomorrow, and we are getting to stay in on Christmas day… Unfortunately, this is because my mother has to work on Christmas day… Blow.
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…