Screen Resolution

Just found out that I skimped on a higher resolution screen for my new thinkpad... sigh... the day isn't getting any better...

Wednesday

It's just one of those days where everything has to go wrong at the same time. You can go ahead and skip this post, I'm just going to bitch for a bit. It all started with water seeping into the holes of my shoes. Figured it was going to be a miserable day, but I didn't expect to get bombarded by things I have to fix. The moment I walk into work I find that my experiment isn't calibrating like it should. Easy enough fix, I thought. 30 minutes later and its up and running as it should. Within the 1.5 hours I hadn't looked at my email, I get one from France with the "URGENT PROBLEM" of getting null data out of two of our drifters. 3 phone calls later after fixing some faulty code and reviewing current and past data, it seems likely that the way we sealed the drifters might have disconnected some things. This would suck immensely. We'll see what happened with the other 5 drifters. Sometime during this fiasco I feel the very distinct sensation of an infection landing in my sinus cavity. Looks like the buggers are ready to fight for a piece of my sanity. Meanwhile, I get an email from the group that owns the calibration system that we're borrowing for our experiment saying that they're returning on Monday and need the system to test their devices. Wonderful. They could have let us know just a little sooner. It didn't help that the machine was broken for two weeks. Tack on the fact that I still need to settle billing with the company that fixed it. Sigh... I think that gray hair is going to pop up a little earlier than my genetic predisposition might suggest it should. Lastly I find the laptop that was supposed to get delivered to me today actually got delivered to my boss, who just so happens to be in South Korea, so I had to make an angry phone call to lenovo and get them to rectify their mistake, AGAIN. This all happened in a matter of 3 hours... how shitty is that? I'm not really looking forward to what the rest of today is going to entail, if its going to continue being bad news. There are a few other minor issues, but its no big deal...

heh... and I just left this post up in the Asayake journal for a good 10 minutes before I realized... wonderful...

I fighting the learning curve

Agh... Linux is so fickle... My mastery of the command line needs a lot more work. I'm so useless without a gui. I've been trying to configure Mandriva on my new thinkpad. It's proving to be pretty difficult, almost like learning how to walk again, except in a different environment. At this age it might be beneficial though as M$ is slowly tightening its grip on its users, if I can get passed this learning curve, I will be free from M$'s hands. I can't wait.

Leaks

Ha ha... I haven't had to deal with roof leaks for a long time... let's hope the heavy rains won't come for awhile...

Change

I guess I'll start off the post with... whoo hoo!! I got tickets to see bunraku... now I need to find someone to go with...

Something I realized last night is that this year, a lot of us are on the brink of a transitionary period in our lives. Many are graduating... and I don't just mean from university. A lot of my friends are also graduating from accupuncture school... or are about to have some other major change in their lives. Maybe that's why I feel this drive for improvement. I want to see everyone get through this trial, and emerge on top of things. More importantly though, I want to get through and not forget everyone that I may or may not see anymore. I made this mistake in high school where I got so wrapped up in my own life after graduating that I lost contact with a lot of my friends. I would rather that not happen to such an extent this time around, even if it is an inevitable outcome of change.

Post in Review

Wow... I must have been really sleepy and disoriented to write the previous post. I'll need to clean it up so its actually readable as opposed to the incoherent rant that it is right now. In case the reader is wondering, no I was not drunk when I wrote it, and no I had not been under the influence for atleast a few days when I wrote it. I still think having goals and a roadmap is a very good idea. How well we adhere to it is how well our group can come together to get things done without getting sidetracked. If my last writing is any indication of how I will perform under times of duress, then I'm in big trouble.

::CONCERNED::

A Path in the Dark

I'm sorry... this post is just too poorly written for reading. I'll mull over it some more and rewrite it... hopefully in a coherent manner. I need to change the title too.

Fatigue

Today has been one of the longer days I've had in awhile. Woke up to walk to an 8am class. Paperwork after that. That damn refrigerator never got fixed. Class and an alteration to an already tight schedule... then one colossal meeting... and here we are.. 18 hours later.

I'm stuck in overdrive right now. Can't sleep... but can't think straight. I don't really like this mode... because I know I should be getting rest, but my mind is tired and restless. Oh well... hopefully Yukai's event on Saturday will be worthwhile. I really like hanging out with them.

Alright, time to try another hand at sleeping.