Fri, 04 Jul 2008
Makin' some changes
Ugh. Yes. It's been two months. Two and a half months. Sumimasen.
The weather has been quite variable. Hot, cold, sunny, wet, off, on. But we've had a couple of really nice days this week, and the weekend looks equally awesome. I'm off to visit friends at the beach that I hardly ever get to see, and I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm just getting my gear ready now to head out.
In the meantime, I've finally got around to doing something about making the place I live in a little brighter. The person I'd bought it from had chosen some really nice warm colours for all the rooms, so I hadn't ever bothered to really worry about it, but the main room's main wall is this deep red which, especially in the winter, makes everything seem that much darker. Plus, a recent shopping trip to Ikea netted me some rather nice shelving, all in a dark mahogany colour. It's a bit much. So it's time to paint!
What you're seeing is a reasonable facsimile of my colour selections (unless you've overridden the CSS, in which case I have no idea what you're seeing). The furniture I have is the orange and dark brown, and I can't do much about that. The deep red wall is going to be painted the same light beige as the rest of the walls in the main area, and I have a much smaller wall that's going to be painted that "Soaring Eagle" blue.
I'll post some before and after photos when I get farther along in the process! For now though, I'm off to the beach!
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008
Rez plz
My goodness, but the weather has been nice all week. It's reached at least 20 every day since Thursday, and it's been Sunny all weekend. Too bad I managed to come down with something at the end of the weekend, but it could be worse. At least I have some opportunity to catch up on sleep, and more importantly, studying for my exam tomorrow morning.
Once the exam's done, I'm going to have over four whole months without all that book learnin'. I'm not sure what to do with my time. I've actually considered picking up WoW again, for kicks. I'm told there's a referral program where active players can get a free month if they bring back an inactive player to the fold. Aptly titled the Scroll of Resurrection
So I'm going to assume that someone out there who reads this (though I really don't know how big my audience is, to be honest) is a WoW player. If you want a free month, send me an e-mail, and I'll give you my WoW account name or the e-mail address I used to sign up, or whatever it is that's needed to make this thing work.
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Thu, 10 Apr 2008
There is that
The past week has been largely sunny and quite mild, with highs around 15 or so each day, which has been fantastic. Spring is clearly here, though it's odd so still see huge snowbanks remaining all over the place, with so much green everywhere.
Classes are done for the term now, and I handed in my last assignment for the term on Monday. Now there are no obligations remaining until my final exam on the 22nd.
Oh, there's that work thing, I suppose...
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Tue, 11 Mar 2008
I went home
Winter is almost done, and what a winter it's been. According to the UW weather station this winter has seen the most snow in recorded history. Believe it or not, I'm not complaining. It's been awesome, even if I haven't been out skiing or tobogganing or what have you. Thanks to Condo living, I haven't had to shovel it, and that's something these days.
I actually took a week's vacation from work in February. Reading week was the week of the 18th, and since I didn't have any classes, I thought it would be a good opportunity to just not come in to school at all. What did I do all week? Nothing. I read a bit. Had coffee. Played some video games. It was fantastic.
One of those video games was the North American release of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. That's right. I wussed out. I gave up trying to translate the import version and just played the English one. It's a fun game though. Played it for two days straight, and zipped through the whole thing. Decent story, logic puzzles galore, smooth animation and interface. Zero replay value though.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008
I have just one thousand words for you:
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Thu, 24 Jan 2008
Hard drivin'
Only a little over two weeks since my last post. Hopefully I can keep things flowing a little better than last term.
I think that over the Christmas break, someone must have buried a giant supermagnet underneath the Math building. Since I've come back, I've been dealing with five systems that have had hard drive issues of one sort or another. It's been a little frustrating.
My network flows course has been pretty straight-forward so far. The lecturer hasn't taught before, and is sticking pretty closely to the course notes, and in that respect, she's doing well enough. The material isn't terribly challenging so far, but we'll see how things progress.
Life otherwise is pretty quiet. I've been trying to save up some money by not eating out for lunch (maybe only once a week, instead of every day), and not buying bus tickets. That's been working reasonably well so far. Those two things will save me about $50 a week. I've been making far too many big purchases recently (and am thinking about one more) so this will certainly help. In the meantime, I've been doing a lot of staying in, and watching DVDs. I probably should get out more.
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Tue, 08 Jan 2008
A quiet evening in
I almost never cook anymore. I like to, however by myself I'm largely practical, valuing function over form, and so tend to eat a lot of pasta. However, having spent a lot of money last month, having lunches to bring to work is a big big advantage.
Yesterday, I went and bought a bunch of sundries, and made me some fantastic tuna salad. Had some yummy tuna melts for dinner, plus makings from sandwiches for lunch today.
Today, I made an omelette which turned out quite fantastic as well, and I'm having it with a Shiraz, and watching episodes of Firefly. It's a very fine evening. I'm feeling mellow and relaxed. I wish I had someone to spend the evening with, but I guess I can't have everything.
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Sun, 06 Jan 2008
New.
New year (2008). New term (taking CO351). New TV (Panasonic 42" Viera). Uh... New pants (Columbia. Is it just me or does the Columbia Sportswear logo look a lot like the Sun Microsystems logo?).
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