From when I spokr with the head trainer here two weeks ago, I thought the first day of baseball practice was the 24th (i.e. tomorrow). When I went today to give him my schedule though, I asked when practice started just to make sure, and he told me it was today (i.e. not tomorrow). So, I head back over there around 5:00, and big surprise, the gate is locked. I go back over to the training room, get the keys, go unlock the golf cart area, drive over to the training room, go in and give the head trainer his keys back, and then head on out to the baseball field. Only one problem (and you should have been able to see where this was going all along): no one was out there practicing, and the ice/water I’m supposed to bring in hasn’t been touched. Maybe it’s just me, but I interpret that as there not being practice today.
Charter guy is coming to our house tomorrow to fix a ghosting problem we’ve had for well over a month now, but hopefully he won;t be early like the Comcast guy was last week out here or else no one will be home. When someone says “2-5″, showing up at 12:30 is extremely nice for a change, but only if you’re there.
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2 weeks of school down, baseball starts next week….sound good? Ok, done.
Just kidding :). There’s been some big issue with the internet side of Comcast out at UTD, resulting in a technician visit yesterday that apparently didn’t fix the problem. Now troubleshooting has shifted over to the router since Comcast claimed they couldn’t detect any problems between them and the modem.
More and more I’m leaning towards a Toshiba Gigabyte S along with a Tivo Series 3 (in contrast to an iPod with Video and/or a Viiv HTPC) for device purchases this year. Well, in the case of the Tivo it would be my parents buying it, but I still get the benefit of using it (since I’ll be the only one who knows how). I’ll wait for reviews to come out for each to make sure there aren’t any glaring flaws that would annoy me instead of buying them immediately the first day they’re available, but what I’ve read so far looks favorable.
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Calc 2 and Computer Game Development were fine, and I should enjoy those classes. It looks like this semester will be all about writing instead of reading though. I used to have Humanities and History which were very heavy on the reading, but now I have Physics and Intro to Digital Systems which both require lab reports and then Comp Game Devel which has a few papers (with the last one being ~40 pages). I’m pretty good at writing so I don’t expect it to be overly difficult, but there’s just something about reading that allows you to do at the last minute that you don’t have with writing.
CES is now completely over and there’s a ton of stuff coming out that looks awesome. The Toshiba Gigabeat S Series could just be my iPod replacement (instead of going for an iPod with video), and with the Tivo Series 3 and Viiv Media Centers finally being launched, it would be pretty easy to get video on there. The only thing I wish they had was support for Xvid since that’s what all my DVD rips are in, and I’d prefer not to have to transcode them to get them on there.
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Tomorrow I have to start back to school again after having had slightly more than a month off. On paper I have 8 classes for a total of 16 hours, but 3 of those are lab/problem sections and 1 is baseball, so I really only have 4. I took care of the early evening class that I really didn’t want to have, so my days are all nicely spaced out and over the latest at 5:00 (Calc problem section again). Tomorrow I at least have the game development class, so it won’t end up being a horrible day. :)
Football banquet is Thursday, and I know I said I wasn’t planning on going, but I have nothing better to do with my time (and it also means I get to stay at home that night). I asked Swope to go with me because they gave me two tickets and maybe with someone to talk to it won’t be quite as boring. Nah, it’s still going to be boring…
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