stupid snow

ya know what really sucks… when your writing a blog entry and then when you go to add it to the database, you get a nice little internal server error. that sucks. i had this whole post typed out yesterday, but when i went to send it, it died, so i’m typin it again…

i was tellin you about that render i was working on that was takin like 6 days… well, we went up to my girlie’s parent’s house for christmas, and it was snowing pretty good up there, so after the day was over, we decided that it would probably be better if we left earlier instead of staying and watching a movie with the fam. so we left and when we got to the bottom of the canyon, it was snowing pretty hard. one of the first things i did when i got home was check on the status of the render… it was coming along nicely, and it actually looked pretty good at the point it was at, so i saved a version at that point and went about the rest of my evening.

when i woke up, i noticed that the clock was blinking… fuck. the power had bliped. it doesn’t really matter if the render had finished during the night, i hadn’t had a chance to save it completed before the power bliped. 6 days of rendering, lost. but not completely… i still had the almost complete version saved from the night before, which is good or i would have been really upset. but it snowed pretty hard that night and there was like a foot of snow on the ground in the morning and it was still snowing!  it’s a good thing we left early or we would have been stuck up the canyon for 2 days.

i shoveled the driveway that afternoon with my gilrie and again that night by myself because it had snowed another 6 inches. all in all, over two days it snowed about 2 feet at my house. it looks cool, but it sucks to have to shovel that damn driveway three times a day to keep it managable. otherwise we’d have to shovel a foot at a time, which really sucks. it took us about 2 hours the first time.

oh well, sammie likes it.

plur, lates.

christmas

wow… christmas really snuck up on me this year. usually, around this time, i know that it is christmas, i just don’t have any of the shopping done.

this year, i went shopping yesterday (which was awesome by the way, it’s so nice to be able to buy about half of the stuff you need to get at one store, although the store i got everything at wasn’t even close to the kind of store that i thought i would be able to get everything at… and everything else at another store, which was also a big surprise, anywho…) i went shopping yesterday, and didn’t really get the christmas feeling until last night after that awesome day of shopping, but thats okay, cuz i gots it now, and i’m excited!!  i only have to buy a few more things today, but they’re the important ones, for my girlie, and then i’m done, and it’ll be christmas before you know it, and i’ll get lots of stuff.

and i know that may seem selfish… but whatever, you know you get excited when you get cool stuff for christmas, too.

don’t get me wrong, i love being able to buy stuff for other people, but gettin stuff is cool as hell, too.   =)

anywho…   Merry Christmas!!!

and i hope you get everything you wanted!

on a completely unrelated note… i’m currently rendering something in bryce that is taking like 6 days to render, not even kidding… i started it on friday or saturday and it has been running solid ever since (today is tuesday). it still has about 2 days to go (it’s currently about 65% completed), so… takin a while. i’ll post it when it’s done so you can see what all of the trouble is for, it’s pretty cool…

grades

well, i was checkin my grades for the past semester and just about shit myself…

i was takin a PDE’s class that was rather difficult, and the teacher kinda sucked, so i quit going about halfway through the semester. i was going to drop it, but i had debated whether or not i should drop it too long and missed the deadline to drop the class, and i figured i was going to need to take it again anyway… so why bother going anymore, ya know? so i quit going.

I GOT A B IN THE CLASS!! holy shit!

i only took one test out of three, turned in two homeworks out of about 20, and never took the final. got a B.
i’m not really complaining, but dang, that’s messed up.

anywho… the other classes…

i got an A in complex variables, which is dope, because i was kinda worried about that one.
i got an A in computational physics, which isn’t surprising, but coolio nonetheless.
i got an A in undergrad seminar, but that wasn’t hard, all i had to do was show up, but that class was dope as hell, i loved it. it was basically a class where you go and listen to professors talk about their current (or past) experiments and studies that they are working on. pretty interesting stuff.
the other classes (optics and the lab that goes with it) don’t have the grades up yet, so i’ll keep you posted.

just thought i’d share that interesting turn of events with you.

plur, l8s

EDIT: I got A’s in all of my other classes, for a grand total GPA of aboout 3.85

finals

i took my optics final yesterday, it was okay. it was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. usually the professor gives out these really easy tests with 3 problems and a 4th problem as a graduate student problem or extra credit for the undergrads. it usually harder than the other questions, but this time it was the easiest question on the test, with the first question takin up like 45 min of the 2 hrs allotted for the test. i feel like i did okay though, it wasn’t too bad, but then again, it hasn’t been graded yet…

i took my complex variables test this morning, it was a lot easier than i thought it was going to be. i’ve been pretty much slackin this whole semester in that class, but my test scores have been improving. the good part about it is that he figures the grade for the final, then figures the grades for the tests and adds them to the grade for the final, and whichever is better, with or without the tests, is the final grade for the class. so basically, my whole grade rests on this one test, and i already know i got a few wrong, so…

i have one more final to take today, but i’m not worried about it. although i know it’s going to take me pretty much the whole 2 hrs to do it, just because most of the assignments and lab exercises have been very work intensive. but it’s because of that that i feel pretty confident going into the test…

we’ll see…

plur(it’s like plus, just not spelled the same) l8s

EDIT: well…  i took the last test of my first semester at the U. man that was a hard test, not to brag, but i was the first one done, and it took me the full two hours to do it. it was tough, as i thought it would be, but i never thought it would be that tough. oh well, time to go have some liquor or something…

it’s about time

wow…   i can’t believe the semester is actually over. it’s so nice to not have to do anything…   i can sit around, lay in bed, watch tv, stay up late, eat whatever i want, wait…   i could do that before, but now i can do it whenever i want, i don’t have to wait till class is over.

i have three finals next week. but i don’t think any of them will be really hard, i mean, all three of them are open book/open notes, and one of them is like four problems long… in two hours?!? and i know what you may be thinking…  those four problems are gonna be HARD!   nope   they’re not. its gonna be easy, and then one of the other ones is online, but that class was pretty time intensive. i just spent the better part of a week working on the final project and i’m not talkin like when i had free time all week, i’m talkin like for 10hrs a day all week, as well as going to school and sleeping and eating. it was tough but it turned out pretty good. (i’ll put it on the site for ya’ll, go to http://www.iohelix.net/proj/ and check it out. click the .pdf file for the final report, or check out the source code i wrote in the .cc file).

the third final has me a little worried, but not too bad, besides if i do good on the final, the grade comes off of it completely, and if not, then the other tests are figured into the grade as well, nice, huh?

so now i’m at work, and when i get home i’m prolly gonna clean my room cuz my girlie is complaining that it’s dirty. next week, i’ll be workin at all three of my jobs, as well as trying to figure out what classes to take next semester, and prolly start thinking about what i’m gonna be gettin peeps for chrismukah (and no, i don’t watch the o.c.,  i just happened to be laying there last night while my girl was watchin it).  then i’ll be workin at egi pretty much the whole christmas break trying to get money so i can buy those presents, and that’s about it…

i miss school.

plur, l8s

p.s.- if you have any questions about that final project, the code, the LaTeX files, whatever, let me know. they are NOT for use though, so don’t copy them, unless you ask, and i say ok.

weird

so some weird stuff has been happening in my life lately…  for one, my friend beaker called me up out of the blue (which itself is weird, cuz he never calls me), and invited me to come and play at manhattan on monday, which i did, and it was pretty fun, except that the person i was hoping would come (it was his birthday), didn’t. but it was still fun. (insert topic change here)

another thing is, while we (my parents and i) were at lunch about two weeks ago, my mom was talkin about how my brother is trying to get in touch with his biological father, and that they had set up a meeting, and then she asked me if i was interested in meeting my biological father, which i said i was, but only to see what he looks like, to see what kind of genetics i have, and if i have any other siblings that i don’t know about, etc. not to fill any ‘holes’ that i may have in my life, my adoptive father takes care of us very well. but right after i had said to her, that i was interested in finding out if i had any siblings, she told me in a very ‘it-happens-all-the-time’ way, that i had a sister who was about 23-24 yrs old.   !!!   that pretty much floored me for the rest of the day…  i mean, its not everyday that you find out that you have another sister out there that you don’t even know.

so it got me thinkin that i’d like to meet her, and find out about them and everything, which is weird, because two weeks ago i was fine with my life, and had no real desire to meet my father or anybody from that side of my family, but last night my mom called me up to tell me that she had found my uncle and had contacted him about me and my father…   and he wants to meet me…   so we’re (my parents and i) are going to go to lunch with him on friday.

yeah… weird.

i have to admit, i’m a little nervous. i mean, its so weird to find out that there are people out there who are related to me that i don’t even know, that know about me, and want to meet me. its kinda messin with my head.

while my mom was visiting with my uncle, she gave him a picture of me, and he told her that he was going to put that picture on my fathers workbench and see if he notices and what he says about it…   that would be weird also (i told you this post was about weird stuff), to all of a sudden have a picture of your long lost son on your workbench and not know who it was…

anywho…   long post, gonna go now
plur

school is catchin up

i just remembered like 20 min ago that i have a lab that is due tomorrow, (it shoulda been done two weeks ago), along with the lab that i have to do tomorrow, on top of that i took a math test today, which i got at most 3 out of 8 correct. my boss at egi is askin about these figures that i’m supposed to have drawn by tomorrow, and my bosses at paulsen are asking if i can come in tomorrow to work…

that’s a lot of stuff for one day:

  • do the lab that’s due tomorrow
  • work on egi stuff
  • work at paulsen
  • and go to lab

poopy

starting to get a little bit stressed, anybody wanna do my homework for me?

crap-on-a-stick, lates

stupid computers

the computer at paulsen construction was gettin to be pretty full, so i decided that it was about time to wipe the hard drive, get rid of the dual-boot that was on there and repartition the drive with one drive. because the reason that there were two partitions is no longer an issue.

so i did, except that the dumb thing decided that it wanted to make the new drive (freshly formatted, etc.) drive letter f ??? so i get windows all installed (all the while not knowing it was installing on drive f), which takes about an hour, and then check the thing and notice that its drive f. so i take the drive that was supposed to be f, and change it to d and try to change the new drive to drive c, but it won’t let me. but it’s okay, i’m not too pissed, just a little annoyed, cuz i can easily reformat, remove the conflicting drive, and reinstall windows, not that big a deal, except that when i remove the drive, and go to reformat, the computer doesn’t detect the hard drive !!!  OMG!  so i have to flash the BIOS, fiddle with shit, and finally get it to detect the hard drive after about a half an hour of stress. so it’s finally installing, and i’m playing on another computer, but i just wanted to let everybody know, that computers suck!  just buy ’em and leave ’em alone.

grrr, lates

posting

wow…   kate pointed out to me in my guestbook that i haven’t posted in a while, so i looked at the calendar today and noticed that it has been a really long while.

it has been that way because i’m pretty busy with school and what little work i do do. it kinda sucks because i don’t have the internet at home, although i’m supposed to be able to post blog entries from my phone’s text messaging, i can’t, because of some errors i get when i run the script that does it, so i can’t post unless i’m at work or school, in which case i’m usually rushing to get to lab so i can work on the assignment, or i forget, etc. anywho…

we went to a halloween rave on sat night, it was pretty dope, they played lots of breaks, which is okay, when they play the right kind of breaks, which they did, so it was good. aaron carter of cirrus and loki went OFF!  they were throwing down some of the phattest breaks tracks i’ve ever heard, so i went up to aaron carter after his set and gave him props and he gave me a cd, which is cool, and i was all excited to listen to it, but then i threw it in on my way to school, and got all bummed, cuz it has no energy at all. just a nice monotonous energy that never goes up or down (but i guess when you start with no energy, you can’t go down  =/ ).  don’t get me wrong, he’s a good dj…   live. but the cd leaves something to be desired.

so now i’m at school, workin in the library trying to get my optics homework done before class that i haven’t even started yet, so i can go to lab and work on that assignment that i haven’t even started yet either…    so you see now why i haven’t posted in a while. but that’s it for now.

oh, and i tweaked my ankle again on saturday, which sucked, couldn’t play airsoft all day. bummer.

plur, lates

btw, i checked the ip address for ‘kate’ and it came up as a salt lake address, but kate put canada as her address, which makes me wonder about kate’s identity…
so…   who is ‘kate’?

bad sleep

it’s funny…   you think when your girlfriend leaves for a little trip, that you would get the whole bed to yourself and sleep a whole lot better, well…   this isn’t necessarily the case.

my girl left for a little trip to help her friend move from ny to la, and i’ve got the whole bed to myself, but last night, i had the weirdest dreams of my life, and lots of them too, i think i was aware of every dream i had last night.

most of the time, people are only aware of the last dream they have in any given night, because people usually have somewhere between 3-5 rem cycles, and are usually only aware of the last one of the night, but i was aware during every one of them, and it sucked, because if you are aware of your dreams, then your not fully asleep. so my sleep was no good, and i woke up bad, etc.

maybe even while your asleep, you can be used to someone, and miss them when they are gone.

mly bd

plur, l8