After another surprisingly close win (49-39, but just 42-39 with 3 minutes left to play), next week will be a battle of the undefeated. On the bad side for us, it’s an away game. On the good side, my guess is that we’ll still be favored. It’s the final Thursday night game also, so it’ll be interesting to see the turnout. Our last two Thursday night games had maybe about 1000 total people in attendance combined, but I see the stakes on this one being just a tad higher.
This weekend I don’t really have much of an option on whether or not I want to do work on my game document, but beyond that I have nothing else super pressing to do. I went and played some ultimate frisbee this afternoon with at least some of the people that will be there tomorrow night for about 40 minutes before I had to be over at the stadium. The “real” student trainer had to be there at 5:00, but me? 6:00. Yes, I’m special enough to get a whole extra hour in the afternoon that I get to spend how I desire. Today, I desired frisbee.
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It’s possible that I may have purposefully not been mentioning something going on recently in my posts here. It’s possible that this possible thing might require the creation of a new category for posts concerning said possible topic to go into. Of course, since all of this is just possible, it may or may not show up here. That’s just the risk you take when you only use this blog as a source of information for all things concerning my life.
I was right, I was working with Coach Clark at HP tonight (and I actually had a message from yesterday telling me that, but apparently when the message was left I was in the ECS building with no phone reception). It’s possible that I might have enjoyed working work with Coach Harris just because of the sheer number of injuries that the other team had which we had to deal with (freshman teams, so not important enough for them to send a head trainer to the game). Hopefully the injury gods got their fill tonight so that tomorrow will be uneventful (and quick). If not, there might just be an HP trainer revolt.
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This afternoon I checked my email and had a message from Coach Harris saying that he wanted me to go to Rockwall with him tomorrow. About 30 minutes after seeing that, I got a phone call from Coach Gibbins saying that Coach Clark wanted me to work the home games with her tomorrow night. Obviously I was not going to be able to satisfy both of these requests, so I left them to fight it out in a battle royale, and I should know who the winner was by tomorrow. If I had to bet though, I’d say I’m going to be at HP.
It’s getting harder and harder to come up with a second paragraph to write (because let’s face it, you’ve noticed by now that virtually all my posts are two paragraphs long) since I’m just in the middle of school. Sure, aliens could attack UTD and that would make for some interesting material, but I’m taking my classes. That’s really about it. Boring? Yes. Interesting? Well, depends how much you like stalking me…
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Tonight, while I’ve been playing WoW, I’ve also been working on a “presentation” for tomorrow which is basically just a Powerpoint of different websites that we find. Easy project to work on while playing a game, especially with triple monitors. So, Powerpoint on the left, WoW in the middle, and Firefox on the right. Who said that triple monitors was too much?
Looking at all the Microsoft news coming out this week, Windows 7 appears that it will be a nice improvement on top of Vista. There’s also some other products being talked about, but considering that I wouldn’t be using those, they’re of less interest to me. Well, not use now, but I’m sure that I could end up using them in the future.
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I either a) was massively underprepared for my test today, leading me to not even know that I knew nothing about the questions; b) was misled by the teacher into thinking that the test would be hard when in reality it wasn’t; or c) know way more about machine learning that I ever thought possible. Personally, I’m going with choice b. Basically, it took me about an hour to be the first one done, and I honestly feel like I got maybe all but one question right. For me, that much confidence in a test is never a good thing. More times than not, that feel turns around and bites me in the butt when I get a grade in the low 80s or … *gulp* … 70s.
Tomorrow is a typical school day, but with the added bonus of me getting to start making my course schedule for my next (and final) semester at UTD. The listing was supposed to go online earlier today, but when I checked at some point this afternoon, it still wasn’t up. Sure, I guess that they technically can put it up anytime today, but still, you’d assume that is it “goes online” today, it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch to have it up in the morning.
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If my test tomorrow didn’t allow us to have a cheat sheet with various information on it (for me, primarily formulas), there would probably be a proverbial creek and paddle somewhere in my near future. As it stands, I’m taking the review noties, pulling out the information I believe to be useful, and then will probably fill up the rest with example problems or something else that could end up helping me. As bad as cheating is, you’d think that people would have another name for a “cheat sheet”. A rose, other name, you know the drill.
Not to in any way imply that this week’s football game is not important, but really the only one that matters is our Thursday game (our 3rd one!) the next week. Basically, that’s the week we play the only other undefeated team in our district. No matter what happens this week, that’s going to be the game that ends up deciding which one of us is district champion. Either one of us will have the outright better record, or our records will be tied and the winner of the game will hold the tiebreaker over the other team. This is the type fo stuff I think about when I get bored making previously mentioned sheet of cheating.
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Part of our Machine Learning homework this past time was an extra credit programming problem as opposed to having the program be a core part of the assignment. I hadn’t been working on it this past week because we also get 4 free late days, and since I didn’t see myself using those for any of the normal assignments, I figured that if I needed to use one and get some bonus points as a result, it would be well worth it as opposed to just letting the day go to waste at the end of the semester. Well, doing the program took me all of under 2 hours, so I’ll get the extra credit and still get to hold onto all of my free days. One free day for some bonus points was a fair trade in my opinion, but no days for the same amount of points is much better.
One thing that I’m probably going to start doing on Saturdays is go to HP and play ultimate frisbee for an hour or two with a couple of my friends from the high school. This week it conflicted with everything that I was doing at UTD (due to an earlier than normal game because of HP’s homecoming being tonight), but next week the plan is apparently for it to be a night game and have lots of glow in the dark stuff. I think the last time I played ultimate frisbee was in PE class my freshman year at HP, so we’ll have to see how my skills have aged. Chances are they haven’t magically gotten a ton better.
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Almost four years to the day, we had another game that rivaled this one for being one of the closest regular season games at HP that I’ve worked. Similar situation in the fact that there were lots of penalties that didn’t get called, and it basically all hinged on one play at the end. Royse City 43, Highland Park 46. I know I complain about our games not being exciting, but come on guys, this was a little too close.
Tomorrow might be a Saturday on the calendar, but it’s definitely not one on my schedule. I have the second of my two worthless Saturday classes in the morning, then at 1:00 there’s the meeting at UTD for people who want to volunteer for the game event. Those two things combined will take up a good 4 hours or so of my day, but I should have the rest of the afternoon and evening free.
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So, Royse City was fun…not!! Well, actually I can’t truthfully say whether it was one way or the other because I didn’t go! Shock of the century, I know. At least this time I was informed before I got to the stadium, so it wasn’t like I got there way too early. Tomorrow, however, is pretty much set in stone for being at HP? Why, you ask? Well, varsity games don’t really shift places all that often (read: virtually never), and this weekend is HP’s homecoming. It’s a pretty safe bet in my opinion.
In fact, the only relatively unsafe bet you could place on my life in the near future is how well I’ll do on my test on Monday. We get to bring in a cheat sheet, but our teacher apparently likes to make tests that are insanely difficult and hard with which he then gives relative grades to everyone. I haven’t decided whether I like that or not for this class, but at least he seems to present it under the guise of not wanting to screw us over.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that it’s not 100 degrees outside when I have to work football games. I also recognize that this is nowhere as cold as the playoff game last year with the ninja masks. However, I’m going to be wearing pants, a long sleeve shirt, and likely a sweatshirt for the game tomorrow. If I have to dress up in that much clothing and am still going to be cold, all I ask for is some mountains and snow so that I can go skiing.
Speaking of tomorrow, I will be going to Royse City, The good news about that is that there’s only one game which is at 6:00. The bad news would obviously be that it’s an away game and therefore a longer trip back. I’ll take an away game tomorrow over one on Friday though.
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