Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Sad Yesterday

Pointless:
http://gprime.net/flash.php/walksmashwalk

I thought this was cool. I like when people put meaning to meaningless things. It was a funny animation.

Work:
I was very frustrated with work yesterday. It sucked hardcore. I couldn't get anything done because I am not anywhere near the team. I think the fact that there wasn't anyone here to talk to yesterday added to that. Also my project is frustrating me. Anyway, yesterday sucked.

Thesis Failure:
Comcast is down too. So I couldn't work on my project because I didn't have access to the CS mail account. Damn that sucked. Nothing went right yesterday. If I hadn't already said this, that was the e-mail where Kaminsky brought up disbanding the comittee.

New Thought:
I would like to submit my paper from my connected home implementation to a call for papers in Germany. I think that would be grand. I have contacted Derek about this and I await his response. There is a call for abstracts due today. This should be fun.

Monday, February 21, 2005

Wes Visits

So Wes visited this weekend. Ill start from earlier last week.

I was expecting both and Alex to show up this weekend. For whatever reason they couldn't drive together even though they live about 45 minutes apart. This is fine, Alex said that he was going to go even if he had to drive alone. So anyway, since Alex was going to be staying at my place I figured it was a good idea to clean up. Even if this meant cleaning up after the roommates which I despise doing. So I did that and I also worked a few extra hours earlier in the week so I could get out when I expected him to arrive. I neglected to work on my project thursday because I was cleaning(*).

Thursday he called and said he wasn't showing up. I am over it because we had a great time.

Wes showed up Friday night and we went to Cheeburger Cheeburger and got some pretty good food and some excellent shakes. We stuck around for a long time and just talked about pretty much everything. It was cool. Ended up at my place and watched an episode of family guy. Ended the night early.

Saturday we got up at about 9, ran an errand or 2 and headed to Derek's for a FULL day of DC. We got a sweet ass free parking spot thanks to Derek's dad. We walked to the mall and saw the "Cap". Went to the Museum of Modern Art and laughed at the garbage^1. However, I did notice a nude woman in a very abstract painting (one track mind). Ate lunch and planned on meeting up with Kedron Elliott (Alex will be pissed when he finds out she was there). Ended up walking ALL over DC looking for some bars and food. We got pretty loaded at Adams Morgan^2 and ended up meeting some girls. They were nice. One had a girlfriend. Wes had the balls to talk to them. It was a success. We thought they were lesbians, they were not. It was great.

Note to self: Must go to Dan's bar more often. You ask for vodka and they give you like a full glass of vodka. OMG.

We didn't end up meeting up with Kedron anyway. She had to bail early Sunday so they called it an early saturday. That sucks. We were so close. Well, I heard her voice when I was talking to Shawn, that is close enough.

(*) Kaminsky e-mailed me, it seems that I have a deadline now. I feel that he approached this a little harshly also. It felt rude. This e-mail added to the frustration about Alex's neglecting to be considerate.

^1
crapmore crap

^2
theCap

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Mind dump

Money:
The massive Credit Card payback starts monday. I got the word that my purchases were not 0%. So "It's payback time"...Literally.

I have thrown around buying a house. It is not gonna happen in September.

Social:
Wes and Alex are visiting. Should be very very interesting. They are both coming from the cuse area but not driving together. I am pretty sure I know why ;). We will see what happens. I am excited to talk to wes about jobs and careers and stuff like that.

We have been eating at Amanda's place. It has been really cool. She is really fun and her friends are just great. Kathy and I would like to bring a pot roast next week. We are going to go dancing with Azella (Amanda's roommate...really attractive...nuff said) and her mother. Her mother is a professional/competition dancer. Sweet. That will rule. She is gonna teach us some hot Merengue moves. Should be good.

Mario and Nikki are going to FL for her Board exams. That should be sweet. She will come back as a Lawyer. She is going to be really successfull. They are gonna be a wealthy household.

Mario was out of hand at the Winter Gala in January. It was hilarious.
That video should be on TV forever.

I think I am going to be living with Mario when my lease is up. I feel like the situation at home is becoming hostile. Our gas bill was $400 last month. And I am paying for telephone and television services that I do not receive. That is unacceptable. I want out. I will talk to them...I swear.

Health:
General:
I was violently ill a few weeks back. Just like I was 2 years ago in January. This time was not quite as bad but it certainly rivaled it. That sucked.

Racquetball:
Here are the stats:
Men's C:
1) Hamid Toossi, W=7
2) Mike Selman, W=6
3) Irwin Weinstein, W=5
4) John Hallgren, W=3
5) Jared Zingman, W=2
6) Alan Prigal, W=2
7) Rebecca Levine, W=1
8) Roderic Campbell, W=0

Not doing so well. I won't quit my day job. Playoffs are tonight. Hopefully my terrible seed will give me a prime schedule.

Work:
Work is slowly getting better.. Like I said, I have my own code. Thats cool. Things are just ungodly slow. Kathy and I have been talking about it. *edit*(Kathy and I had our first heart to heart on work and where we were going...) That would be nice.

Derek, if you are reading...Do you think I could publish the paper I wrote on connecting a cell phone to a garage door? Id like to talk about that.
Here is the link to the paper. What could I do to change it. Id like to publish it. I saw some dude publish something about feeding his cat remotely. This is far more sophisticated.

I would like to post more often. I just don't.