2003.04.13 @ 1939

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Well, I did it. I tried to sign up for courses this fall. Karen kept on telling me to do it, and I kept on poo-poo'ing it, saying that I won't have any problems. Well, guess what? I have problems. I can't get into either course that I wanted to get into. So sad. So I ended up emailing the person that helps me "decide" what courses to take to see if she can get me into those classes. In the past they have been helpful, making room in the classes for me. Hopefully it'll work this time too. fingers crossed

Other than that, I have not been up to too much. I think that this semister I will finally get this blog to be dynamic. With the restrictions that Tripod has, i.e. only Perl, no command line access, only in the cgi-bin directory, etc. I was having a hard time figuring exactly how I would do it. But I think that I figured it out this time. I was thinking that I would use Perl to create static pages that only had to be generated every time I made a post. I think that I am going to scrap that idea. I think instead I am going to have it fully dynamic. All I have to do is read the files and output them over the net to the person requesting the page. But, (this is the part that I don't like that much), I will move my blog. It will have to be in a sub directory of my main page. I don't know if I'll do a redirect, or just have a link. We'll see. Anyways, I don't think that it'll be too hard. I just have to figure out the easy thing of opening a file and dumping it to the screen. The hard part (?) will be figuring out what files to dump. I think that I will either need to do a dir listing, or have a file that contains a list of all of the files. (I don't like that idea). Ah well. I'll figure that out after exams.

Listening to: John Williams - E. T. - Adventures On Earth

2003.04.11 @ 2140

It was one of the weirdest things that I have ever done. I helped interview people for a co-op job. It wasn't weird because of the nature of the task itself, but because I felt so out of place doing it. Help interview people who turn out to be taking the same course as me (SEG2910). strange. I just sort of hope that none of them recognize me at school. I think that would just be too weird. And I hope that they don't get pissed 'cause they didn't get the job. I mean, they are interviewing 9 ppl for two positions. You do the math.

I am just glad that it is getting warmer. Pretty soon it will be nice enough for me to be out washing my car, and getting it into prime shape for picking up all those babes... well, maybe it'll just be clean.

Listening to: Moby - Extreme Ways

2003.04.10 @ 2020

Holy frigging crap. I hate my adm prof. Good thing that I really don't have to deal with her anymore. I just got a reply from her for a email that I sent out like a week ago. From her blackberry. Nothing about that lady doesn't piss me off. Both her and my Law prof work for the place that I am going to working at this summer. I keep on having a really bad thought where I will have to work with her. I wouldn't mind working with the law guy, but she is a real ... Well, I shouldn't say it. Grrr...

You can tell it is spring... As I was going along the 417, four deer ran across the four lanes of traffic... I am glad that no one was close enough to hit them. And it was about 1500h. Crazy, crazy deer.

Listening to: Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D

2003.04.07 @ 2137

You can always tell when it is spring... there are more animals on the road to dodge. Tonight it was just a couple of coons, but pretty soon it will be deer. Hopefully not a bear. I don't even want to think of the damage that hitting a bear would do to my car. I think that I would have a hard time dealing with it too... It made me really sad when I took out bunnies... not something that "makes your day" if you know what I mean. Gross and sad. And if I hit a bear? It's not really like I am going to get close to it to see if it is all right. Oh no! I'll just get closer and se-AhhH!!! *chomp!*

I bought another pile of books today... good books. Things that I know will distract me when I should be doing other things. But I figure pretty soon I'll be riding the bus into work all the time and will have an hour to kill each day. I just hope that I can control myself enough not to read them too much while I should be studying like mad for my exams. I think that I know what I want to do when I retire... Read. Spend my time just reading and thinking. Hey, if I could figure out a job like that I would probably take that, but I don't think that I could. To get a good head start on that, I am at the wrong end of campus. Go figure.

For my business course this semester, we had do an interview with someone who owned or operated a small business. One of the questions that I asked was if you were to do it again, would you do anything different?. The answer sort of surprised me. Most of it. I sort of feel that way right now too. Most of it, if not all. I can see how all of those sci-fi shows had people's personal hells where they did the same day over and over again, not really able to change anything. Imagine having to re-do your whole life over and over without being able to change it, being inside of yourself screaming at yourself when you are about to make mistakes, and not being able to change them anyways.
Somehow, I know what this would be like. Screaming.

Listening to: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Universally Speaking

2003.04.06 @ 1923

Another weekend totally wasted. Ah well. I am just saying that it was a waste because I didn't get anything school related done (yet). I still have to do an assignment, but I am not too concerned about that. I have the second part done... I just have to figure out the first part. There are several things that I did want to get done that I haven't including getting my oil changed, writing letters to friends that I have not really spoken to in a while, burning a CD for Phil, seeing my family, getting together with my grandma, ... *sigh* Ah well.

This next week will not be too bad... I just have to do a few things. One of the things that I have to really get down to is studying for school. Something new that has come out that I didn't think would is that my Astronomy book is now 30 Jupiter moons out. That is something that I didn't think they would add to... It sort of tells you how much we do not know about space. Not only do our fundamental theories about how everything works changes every couple of years, but what is observable can change so much. It isn't because we have missed them, it's is more that no one was looking. I find that sort of scary. And that is just the stuff around us... I have been speaking to a friend in science at school and all of the things that no one knows about. Like how Tylenol really works. Pretty scary if you think about it. Ah well. I guess that is what Life is all about... not really having a clue but pretending that we have the answers. I guess it is appearance over substance. Truly scary.

Listening to: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Melancholy Mechanics

2003.04.05 @ 1637

Hell week is finally over. I just have one half of an assignment to do at this point, and I am not too worried about that. I am not worried I think because of my total lack of caring. Pretty scarry eh? Ya, I guess that is what all this school work has done to be. I am just giving up in a sense.

I've read some good articles today. One of them is about the RIAA and how they are suing some collage kids in the states. One of the guys they are suing for about $97.8 billion (ya, I did get the B in there). It's pretty silly in a way. I just want to see how this file sharing is going to work out in the end. I guess if I want it to turn out well, I should do something to help make the world how I want it to be... but I am too damn busy right now relaxing.

The other article that I read today was about coding. It was talking about how some companies have thrown out code when they just should have kept building and building on the old. Refactoring when they need to change / clean things up. Not throwing out all the work that was done before. One one of my old work terms we did exactly this. They didn't like what the old code was, found it too hard to read and work with, so they just tossed it out and started over. In this case it might have been a good decision because of the size of the project. But in larger projects, I can see how this would be a mistake. A big mistake.

The weather here still sucks now... it is snowing and snowing... I just wish that it would stop some. The more it snows, the farther I am from going skydiving or doing any sort of kayaking. I don't think that I will have too much time this year to go tripping, so I won't be able to get away to Killarney, but I might be about to get away to Algonquin. We shall see. I just have to wait for the snow to stop.

Listening to: P.O.D - Youth Of The Nation

2003.04.02 @ 2229

Another month, another post. Yay me! Humm... I just felt like making another post while avoiding doing some work. Same old story I guess. For some reason, I am just so tired lately... I really, really need a nap. I am falling asleep just typing this. It is all that I can think about. Maybe it'll be different by Friday when all the major things are in and I just have to worry about exams.

For some weird reason, one of the things playing over and over in my head (other than music) is that line from Forest Gump: They told me that I don't have to worry about money anymore. I said "good, one less thing". When the weekend comes I should have "one less thing" to worry about. But it won't be money. ;-)

Listening to: Meatloaf - Paradise By the Dashboard Lights