After a few days of taking a break from Alias, I think I’m going to start watching it again tonight. With as addicted as I’ve gotten to it, there better be a very satisfying ending at the end of the series. If not, J.J. Abrams is going to be in big trouble with me. On the other hand, if there is, then that’ll probably just make me watch Lost and Fringe that much faster.
I finally put the new website for the game event live earlier tonight, so that’s one more project down that I don’t need to worry about anymore. Sure, I’ll have a few small changes here and there to make to it, but overall, I should be able to move onto other things. Other things such as the two homework assignments I’m going to have to do this weekend. At least next week goes back to being a short school week for me.
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It should come as no shock to anyone that I won’t continue to make posts every single day for the rest of my life. For the people who haven’t blocked me from their Facebook news feeds yet, this will probably be a welcome change. So, the big remaining question is what happens when I miss my first day? What will be the cause of the great streak, likely to never be repeated, being broken?
If I have anything to say about it (and to some extent, I’m the only one), the cause will be me. As some point I’ll probably think to myself, “this is enough, I’m ready to stop having to come up with something every day to write about,” and that will be it. When that happens, the world won’t come to an end, the sky won’t fall, and life will continue as normal. There will simply be a few less bytes of my writings on the internet for everyone to read (or ignore).
With all that said, if it wasn’t painfully obvious, I had nothing on my mind to type for today.
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As I’ve been reading through Sorcerer’s Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban, the differences between the books and movies keep jumping out at me. The latter especially has many differences, none that fundamentally alter the plot of the story, but significant enough that they would change an in-depth verbal summary. Since I know the movies better, I don’t tend to notice the differences as much when watching them. Some of the changes they make probably are for the better, but I’m still bitter about a few of the things left out of the Prisoner of Azkaban movie.
Today was yet another reminder of the lack of holidays that UTD gets, but since I only had one class to go to, it wasn’t quite as annoying as it has been in years past. Still, it’d be nicer to get more than just two holidays off each semester. Hey, I know, they could get rid of the reading days before exams in exchange for doing that! See, UTD really should put me in charge of their schedule.
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After being able to read the first 10 or 11 chapters of Prizoner of Azkaban yesterday on my phone in the dugout, I’m pretty much sold on the whole eBook idea even if I wasn’t before. While my phone works ok for this, having a Kindle would be nice. The main barrier there is the price tag though for the time being. $100 drop and it’d be very tempting, $150 drop and it’d be all but in my cart. Until then, I’ll make do with my phone (or at least until I feel the need to make a big gadget purchase).
In addition to finishing that book up tomorrow, I get to go to HP for my third straight day in a row (which I get to extend to four on Tuesday). Aside from that, my Monday should be fairly normal. Actually, this whole week is fairly normal as far as I can tell for now. When I get my first network class homework tomorrow, we’ll see exactly how normal or not it stays.
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Wordpress finally now has a feature to handle automatic upgrades, so I no longer need to go download the new version, do some rezipping magic, upload the zip, delete some files, extract the zip, and then finally run the upgrade script. I also realized that Facebook does a very nice job of backing up all of my posts for me, so I don’t even need to be that concerned with backing up my database before. Not that I’m advocating skipping backups, mind you, but it’d just be more work for something that most likely is not going to happen (as long as Murphy isn’t hanging around).
I really don’t get how a day of baseball that was supposed to go until 5:00 ended up lasting until 7:00, but it once again isn’t part of my job description to handle the schedule. At least now all of our doubleheader scrimmages and all of our away scrimmages are done with, so now I just have the ones that go for 13 innings left to deal with. Honestly, I’m not sure which I hate more, but I think the latter are the more predictable ones.
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Since I was busy watching a movie (not review worthy) earlier tonight, I missed the series premiere of Dollhouse on TV. My “acquiring” of it is not yet quite complete, however, so I can’t watch it immediately. I’ll probably finish up the third season of Alias instead, and then either watch Dollhouse after that or tomorrow once I get back from the baseball scrimmages. Of course it would have to be colder tomorrow than it has been the past few days, but it shouldn’t be freezing. At least that’s something.
What I probably will do for tomorrow is take the third Harry Potter book on my iPhone and read it while I’d otherwise be bored. I have to have it read for next week anyway, and I might as well make good use of my time, right? Rhetorical question; the answer is yes.
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My titles recently seem to have a lot to do with lengths of time. Forever, longer, eternal…I wonder what that says about my state of mind? I won’t bother trying to analyze that right now; I have enough other things to occupy my time with.
Tomorrow night I’m going over to someone’s house to watch a movie that no one actually has a copy of, so I’ve been attempting to burn a DVD of a copy that I have on my computer. This has to be one of the most excruciatingly painful exercises ever known to man. One brand of disc that I have just refuses to burn the movie, and the other has a weird skipping glitch for about the first 20 seconds but is fine after that. You wouldn’t think that doing something so seemingly simple would be such an effort in mental sanity management, but truth be told, it is. At least the DVD to computer direction is stupidly simple.
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I write this still at the baseball scrimmage with three innings left to go. Forever was apparently an understatement for the length of time that by day was going to be today. We might be done in an hour from now, and I’ll be happy to be home near midnight at this point. This day has been going on so long, the umpires have already left.
Tomorrow or Friday I’ll probably buy the pocket camcorder, and as of right now, I’ve switched my choice over to the Vado HD. The reviews I’ve read seem to prefer it slightly over the Mino, and right now I could buy either for the same price. Why can’t I ever decide on a cheap gadget to want to buy?
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When the weather gods and schedule gods start conspiring, you know something bad is about to go down. As it turns out, the schedule gods weren’t happy with the length of day that I would have had today, so they told the weather gods to make a bunch of noise about this big storm that was supposed to happen tonight. All that noise caused the games to get postponed from today until tomorrow (fortunately at like 11:00 this morning so I had fair warning about the change), and then the storm turned out to be like 5 minutes of really heavy rain. I hope the schedule gods are pleased with themselves as my day tomorrow is now a 10:30-10:30 day at least.
Fortunately my expanded day tomorrow cases no problems as far as the rest of my weekly schedule is concerned. I have no other real work to do this week, so I don’t have to scramble in order to finish up any work due Thursday or Friday. This will allow me to focus on other important things like watchin Survivor on Thursday night and sitting mindlessly at my computer doing nothing of importance.
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Tomorrow I am quite fortunate that my “day” doesn’t start until 1:00. The reason for this being that my day probably won’t end until 11:00 or so. After my two classes, I get to go to HP for a 4:00 scrimmage and an 8:00 scrimmage. Luckily the first one isn’t four hours long (which would imply the second would be also), but there’s one at 6:00 that HP isn’t a part of. So, class and then a whole lot of (boring) baseball is in my forecast for tomorrow. At least it’s going to be decently warm and not miserable.
I’ve tested our project on my laptop and everything works just fine (go go portability of .NET!), so all that’s really left of that is wrapping up everything that we want to demo on Friday. I was slightly worried there were going to be issues due to the documentation only listing “Windows Vista” under it’s supported platforms, but there do not seem to be any of the issues I was expecting to have. This is very good because the alternative was going to involve remote desktoping to a computer with Vista rather than me trying to install Vista on my laptop and get everything working for Friday.
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