Brian's World

Bomb

Well finals are done for me, I finished my CS exam in Malik’s office this morning. I look forward to seeing how I did on that one. CS I actually care about, the others don’t matter as much to me.

That means I’ll be heading back to South Hadley tonight, starting a month long break. Of couse I can’t take a break for a month, I have enough trouble taking a break for a day, sometimes an hour or two kills me.

Workwise there are a few things I’ll be looking at over break. My primary plan was to work for SHHS, but apparently its cool to threaten to blow up the school. No, this is not a threat. I emailed my boss and he said he’d see if he could find money but he wasn’t to optimistic. I think this is becase of the half dozen evacuations that happen, all that costs money. Money that they didn’t have in the first place. So thanks guys, if your computer is still broken you can blame the bomb threats on that.

Well, what else will I do? I’ve got a couple of plans on the burner. I know I’ve got to work on the Message Board program for SHHS, but coding all day can get boring at times, especially when I’m not very competatnt with VB.net. I’ve got another idea that I haven’t pitched yet, again to the High School, but the idea is a club management system to allow clubs to have their own mini-webpage on the High School site. The code to do this isn’t hard at all, but of course it would have to be cleared through the appropriate channels and all.

CHSBA will mostly get a swift kick in the rear to get it off the group. I need to play around with my compression software, as well as a private Bit Torrent tracker.

What else will I probably do? Well I know I’ll have a Christmas, New Years, and Cotillion, all of which are pretty exciting!

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Let me start with a disclaimer. I have no will to write this blog, my brain isn’t functioning, its frozen like Windows ME and needs someone to push the reset button. Unfortunately that button is only pushable by one person. And that person isn’t me.

I have to push myself to write, because if I don’t I’ll start collecting dust. No one wants something dusty.

I reserved this weekend for studying and preparing for finals. I know that Calc and IEA in the same day will be tricky, but if I prepare early I think I can beat it. I need to get a very good grade in calc to have an A in the class, IEA i need to get higher than an 86 to get an A. Both are doable, I’ve beaten a math final before, but can I do it again? I pretty much need to teach myself the entire course, as I said earlier I lived test to test.. the wrong way to live.

This weekend stinks, my pre-planning skills are disasterous. I think thats why “live” news floats my boat. Well, I was trying to handle a few situations and clearly my soluation wasn’t correct. I’ll explain what I was dealing with.

1. Friday Night – Holiday Stroll. I’ve always wanted to go
2. Saturday – Katie needs to go dress shopping because I screwed up Prom
3. Sunday – 1 year 1 month anniversary

So, logically it would have worked fine if the weekend could have gone Friday > Sunday > Saturday. Or course I don’t have that much time bending power. The only conclusion was to do nothing, or not come to an effective conclusion. As a result I’m slouching in my chair thinking rather depressing thoughts.

To add a further complication, I remembered this morning that someone was going to be visiting RPI for a tour and wanted to me to talk to them and stuff. Well I was running late, very tired from everything in the past week, and slept until 10:30. I went to try and explain the situation to Katie but she was away, so i left a message. I knew she would want to know where I was because I’m her boyfriend and I can’t just be disappeared for a while.

Oh yea, last night i was feeling ill and decided I should be safe and prepare an “if i die” document. I’ve had the idea for this website, where an email would be sent to someone if you didn’t check in with this service in X days. Until I develop such a system, I’ve place an email in my gmail that tells what should happen if I’m dead. No, it doesn’t contain DNR orders, or what to do with my organs, but it has a few thoughts so people get it right. To find it, search for “ICE” in gmail. Please, don’t read it unless the situation is such. I trust that the few with my password won’t.

I’m feeling happier, Katie is online now.

Heart Attack Heart Attack

Today I turned in my CAD final. Thas was probably the worst computer assignment I’ve ever had, even worse then Malik. The assignment itself wasn’t tricky, but the program.. UGS NX 4 is terrible. It likes to crash and tell me about tiny pieces it found as if I care. I would have been done around midnight but of course copy and paste isn’t true copy and paste. You can only paste to things it approves of.. so I had to redo the entire thing pretty much. blah to that.

In other news I have another world changing idea, or nationwide at least. I’ll do some development over break and hope to push it through and make headway.

I have finals next week, so this weekend is study time. Specifically calc, where I lived studying test to test and not really remembering anything inbetween. I also decided that no matter how “unlucky” you think you are, there is always someone in the world unluckier. Its hard to do, but you can always remember someone is worse off than you are, and your lucky to be who you are.

Right.. the title.. I always get so side tracked in my blogs, but I guess my life is just a constant sidetrack of something else. Last night I felt like I was having another heart attack. It was probably stress induced with the cad, but they are uncool. No, I didn;’t die or require medical attention, sleep solves them. Its related to my fainting at a young age that caused my heart to get out of wack. It still beats uneven, so I’ve concluded I’m not done “growing out of it yet.” For all I know I could die tomorrow and the Doctors didn’t want to tell me. I doubt it tho. But I decided I should write a will, so things don’t get confused as to who specifically can spend the money.

I dislike it when people take drastic steps to take control of a situation, especially when the situation should be resolved differently. I don’t think a Job Description should be changed to force that person to be the advisor of a group because there is conflict in the group. Grr