The server that I (currently) play on in WoW with Andrew has down virtually all day because of weird lag issues that a group of servers has been having for the past week or so, and Blizzard apparently wasn’t having too much success in determining what the problem was. What was supposed to be just a small downtime turned into a whole day event, so I haven’t ventured into Azeroth or Outland any today. Before I go to sleep, I’m probably going to try some more Mass Effect and hope I am able to read what’s going on. If that fails, then there’s always Mario Kart.
Quakecon registration began earlier this evening, and you’d think that after having it this many times, they’d be able to come up with a solution that doesn’t involve their server crashing and burning for an extended period of time. About an hour later everything worked fine though, so I’m now registered for that at the end of July. Being able to have a very flexible summer schedule will be nice with respect to that.
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I. Hate. Flash. Fortunately, with the game project presentation finished, I won’t need to work with Flash ever again in the foreseeable future unless I want to (which is pretty unlikely). Tomorrow I have to be up at UTD for about an hour for a meeting and completely different type of presentation (related to the game event from a month or so ago), but aside from that, but next class related happening is my Automata final on Friday morning.
I played Mario Kart Wii today since as far as I’m concerned it’s not a game that can be beaten, and I’m liking the new control scheme so far. I’ve only used the Wii Wheel, but I haven’t really had any problems turning or having the controller not be responsive, so I’m willing to keep going with it for a while. Could I be more effective with a Wavebird? Possibly, but since I’m just playing the AI right now, being “effective” is a very relative term.
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The banquet tonight was fine, but I now remember why I wasn’t a huge fan of the football banquets. The video that they had showing went a little bit longer than it needed to IMO, and the food was Blue Mesa (definitely nowhere near as good as El Fenix) which we all know isn’t exactly my favorite in the world. Even with those complaints though, it was fun, I’m glad I went, and hopefully we’ll get a chance to have another after coming back from Round Rock with the State trophy.
My test today went fine (but considering I’d have to get like a 50 to not get an A in that class, “fine” can be a relative term at the moment), and now I just have Automata on Friday and Linear Algebra next Monday. My schedule is still wide open on Thursday, so I might pencil in a movie with my grandparents since we’ve fallen a bit behind on the new releases. Saturday is out for a movie since we’re playing in Frisco, and as long as HP keeps winning, my weekends are probably going to be like that.
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I started out the weekend at 64, by the end of yesterday I was at 65, and just a little while ago I hit 66 — talk about progress! Now, I don’t expect to get another full level tomorrow (or Tuesday, or maybe any day this week except for Thursday), but after two months or so of no levels, two in two days comes across as pretty impressive, no? Once I hit 68 I can begin the task of attunement for the first raid dungeon that I’ll be able to participate in, and then hopefully by the time I hit 70, I’ll almost be ready to start doing it. Is it a coincidence that all of this just happens to coincide with the start of summer? Yeah, it actually is, because had it not been for OS and the game project this semester, I’d probably already be at 70.
The baseball banquet is tomorrow at 6:00, so what I’ll most likely do is stay in my Linear Algebra class until 4:30 at the latest (he will be reviewing us for the exam) so that I’ll have time to get home, change, and then get to HP. The food is likely to be a tad more “formal” than the Campisi’s pizza and El Fenix queso from the party a little over a week ago, but as long as it’s not “fancy formal”, I’ll probably like it just fine. It would be a good idea to figure out exactly what to wear though so that I match with the rest of the team; that’ll be a project for tomorrow afternoon right before I leave.
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I started playing Mass Effect tonight (yeah, I haven’t beaten any games recently, but I wasn’t in the mood to play any of them), and while I really like the story and gameplay so far, playing it on the normal TV in my room makes the text almost impossible to read in some cases. The game was very obviously designed for HDTV since it’s in permanent widescreen, but come on, Bioware, let people who choose not to play on an HDTV (or who can’t) at least be able to read the text in your game! If I wanted to have to guess what what my button presses were doing, I’d import games from Japan.
We play Frisco (the non-Centennial variety) this week at HP on Friday night (Game 1) and then at Frisco on Saturday (Game 2 and Game 3, if necessary). That doesn’t conflict at all with my schedule at the present time, so at least for now, my week is fairly smooth. After this week, baseball virtually can’t conflict with my schedule until the end of May (seeing as how I don’t have one until then), and then any conflicts that arise then I’ll just deal with as they come (but hopefully I won’t need to because there won’t be any :) ).
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While I was up at HP this morning, I heard on the morning announcements that the baseball game had been moved back to Heath since Pearce’s field was apparently too wet to play on. Well, that didn’t cause any problems with my schedule for the day, so I showed up about 3:45 at the high school and basically twiddled my thumbs until we got around to leaving at 5:20. The new route we’ve been taking this year to pretty much every school except Pearce is hopping on the Tollway then taking this weird shortcut through downtown to the I-30 HOV lane. The downtown portion normally takes on the order of 10 minutes or so.
This bus driver apparently either a) wasn’t aware of the “quick” shortcut, or b) felt like taking a nice, scenic drive through downtown. I saw parts of downtown I had no idea even existed, and it took us 30 minutes just to get to I-30. We weren’t really late getting to Heath, but we were later than the coaches had anticipated us being. Regardless, we put the smackdown on Forney 14-1 and showed them who was more deserving of the 2nd seed. Our first playoff round will either be against Frisco or Frisco Centennial, and I figure that I’ll probably get some more info on it at the banquet Monday night (if not earlier). Now if only Poteet could somehow get eliminated from the playoffs before they’d be facing us again…
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Yes, I’m back to my dual monitor setup and couldn’t be happier!! I’ve already played WoW on one screen while chatting and looking up info on the other, so I’ve already utilized them. For example, right now I have this Firefox window on my left monitor, and on the right monitor I have a Firefox window with only Facebook open (for Facebook chat) and my AIM conversations on top of that. Once this becomes a triple monitor setup, I’m going to have more screen real estate than I know what to do with.
Stuff about the baseball game changed tomorrow, but I was lucky enough to hear about it today. The game got moved a lot closer to us, and we’re now playing at Pearce at 7:30. Coach Gibbins didn’t have a bus time when we talked earlier, but if I remember correctly, it wasn’t until almost 5:30 or so. That should give me plenty of time to go to my house after Linear Algebra before I need to head to HP. Once that game is done, time for a completely event free weekend!
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Tomorrow is my first “final”, but in reality it’s just a 4th noncumulative test for Educational Psychology. After tomorrow I have my last tests/finals on Monday (in OS), the Friday of exam week (Linear Algebra), and then finally on the Monday of exam week(Automata; exam week at UTD being a Thursday-Wednesday). I then basically get almost 3 weeks off until the summer semester starts a month from today.
There will be a game on Friday vs Forney, but as of this moment I am not privy to the specifics. I’ve heard that it would be at Rockwall Heath and either a 7:00 or 7:30 start time, so once the team learns about it tomorrow afternoon, hopefully it’ll trickle down to me by tomorrow night. If not, I’ve never had any issues being proactive in finding out a schedule, especially when trainers are pretty much the last people on the communication chain.
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Can I pull off another year of continuous posts? Well, it’s bound to be more difficult with 3 trips lined up, but never say anything is impossible, I guess. This would be the first post in that second year, so we’ll take it one post at a time.
HP won 10-0 tonight to finish district 11-3 putting us either alone or (more likely) tied for 2nd place. Assuming the tie exists, a game would be played Friday between us and Forney solely for seeding purposes before the real playoffs start next week. For as much HP related stuff I’ve been doing on Fridays this semester, having Linear Algebra at 2:30 in the afternoon has been quite inconvenient to say the least. No Friday classes in the fall though, so there shouldn’t be any problem with me not being able to get to the school on time for an away game.
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A milestone a year in the making. A historic event that shall be recorded in this blog forever. Today, my friends, is the day that I announce the impossible. I announce something that wasn’t supposed to be able to be done. There were doubters, there were saboteurs, there were obstacles that seemed insurmountable. However, I was never discouraged. I persevered through all adversity so that I could write before you today and say: World, look here at this blog! I have done it! I have made an entire year of continuous posts; one post per day for 366 days!
On a momentous occasion such as this, it is only right to look back at where we came from. Starting from a small, resurrected Blogger account, this blog has grown, evolved, and shown exactly what can happen when someone has way too much free time on their hands. Today is not the end but another beginning; this blog will continue into the future with more posts, more rants, and new features that once could have only been dreamt of. So, ladies and gentlemen, I leave you tonight with hope, with a vision, and with the knowledge that, if we work together, monumental things can happen. Thank you.
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