I reactivated my WoW account today after having taken a few months off, and it’ll be interesting to see how much I play it. My highly educated guess would be not that much for the first few days, but then I’ll get readdicted and start playing it a ton for a while. I can’t control my WoW addiction, I just have to succumb to it and try to resist playing when the time is inopportune.
I’ve once again been fighting with the whole video transcoding/editing situation on my computer. If I’d seriously known it was going to have been this much of a pain, I might have chosen the Flip just for the pure convenience. Actually, scratch that. If I knew the Flip worked ahead of time, I definitely would have chosen it instead.
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While HP’s district losses may have all been very close up to this point in time, the same can’t be said about the wins. The average margin of victory has been by 9.4 runs (so, almost a run rule each game) with only one being even remotely close. This would seem to indicate that it’s fairly obvious whether we’re going to win a game or not; if the game is a close one, we haven’t been doing too well in those so far this year.
Without actually working through the remaining schedule, I don’t think we can just win out and make it into the playoffs without some help. Currently we’re in 5th place, and only the top three teams make it into the playoffs. Granted, I think that the matchups are favorable for things to fall our way assuming that we do continue to win, but with another loss or two, we would be seeing a very early end to our season.
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I really hope that whatever bugs happen to be left in our program aren’t important ones because tomorrow isn’t going to be a great day for me to be fixing them. Once I leave to go to UTD, I won’t be coming back home until probably 11:00 or so at night since HP has a baseball game in Greenville. The good news is that it should be an insanely easy game for us to win; the bad news is that it drastically cuts into my homework time.
Another entry on my to do list is my Computer Networks homework which I can fortunately do on the bus tomorrow since there’s no programming part required. Our homework is really just a set of eight questions on various topics outlined in the book, so I can write them up on the bus and then either scan my sheets or retype them for submitting online. Whichever ends up happening will likely be a function of the time I get home and how long I feel it would take me to type everything up.
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Coming off our third straight loss tonight, HP now has 4 district losses by a total of 5 runs. In fact, tonight was our first district loss by more than one run (two, obviously, or else the math wouldn’t work). The good news is that we’re not getting blown out of the water, but the bad news is that the amount you lose by doesn’t matter at all. I don’t think we quite have to win out to get into the playoffs yet, but there definitely can’t be too many more losses.
Deciding to scrap usability, I’m just getting the functionality into our project’s GUI so that it can be there to demo. The last stage (for me) is all about polish and documentation, so I can worry about that then. After all, isn’t a poorly looking program that works better than a shiny program that does nothing?
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While it’s fairly easy to include all of the necessary functionality in our P2P project, the problem for me is finding a way to organize it all on the screen so that it makes some amount of sense. It’d be nice to actually be able to use the program after all, so I have to make something that looks decent and is understandable enough without people needing to red a manual in order to figure out how to use it. Aside from the random C#/.NET oddities that just love to make my life difficult, that’s probably my hardest role as far as the project goes.
Tomorrow is pretty much a normal Tuesday for me which is quite nice seeing as how I’m tired of all of my extra, non-usual stuff that has been going on recently. I just get to go to school, talk about Harry Potter and databases, come home, and then go to HP for a baseball game. Is there anything stressful or hard about a day like that? The answer to that rhetorical question would be “no”.
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About once a month or so it seems like I always tend to get ground burn on my leg while playing ultimate. At least when it happened today, it resulted in me making a fairly cool play. Granted, my leg will now hurt some for about a week, but that’s the price of wanting to wear shorts and not trying to play with pants on.
Baseball this week is home on Tuesday and then at Greenville on Thursday (since the rest of the world aside from UTD actually gets Friday off as a holiday), so I’ll need to have my work on our P2P project wrapped up by Wednesday night. Friday afternoon, however, I’ll most likely be working on my CV poster rather than getting to pretend it’s a holiday.
Oh, and by some complete randomness, the template here seems to be acting back to normal again. I touched nothing to make it break, and I touched nothing to have it start working again. Maybe it was just a week long April Fools’ Day joke that my site was playing on me?
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Our game event wasn’t the success that I would have liked for it to be, but it also wasn’t a complete failure. The perfectionist in me wants to grade the day as a C+; anyone else would probably give it a solid B. Either way, it’s done with and isn’t anything that I have to worry about planning again.
Towards the end of the event (when I was tired and ready to come home), I thought about how much I would like to just be sitting in front of my computer working on one of my various programming projects. Unfortunately, that desire to code didn’t last until I actually did get home. Regardless, tomorrow will likely be a day of mainly relaxation (aside from an ultimate game), and so I could see myself getting sucked in by the coding monster sometime then.
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So far my car has been loaded up with all the drinks and coolers for tomorrow, but that has left a quite noticeable lack of space for everything else that needs to fit in my car. I’d really like to avoid making two trips tomorrow morning, so there’s going to be some interesting item shifting that goes on. Most likely though I’m not going to be able to get everything to fit in one trip, so it’ll be a matter of what needs to go up first and what can wait until later in the day. If I can get everything except for one of the two large boxes that I need to take, then that decision becomes quite easy.
HP lost tonight 3-4 just as they did on Tuesday, so we’ve supposedly dropped from playing for a tie at 1st down to 4th (and out of the playoff picture at the moment). Now we start the second round of district play, and hopefully we’ll go better than 4-3 this time. HP hasn’t not made the playofs since at least my junior year there, so missing it this year would be the first in quite a while.
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The shirts have arrived, the drinks are bought, and I shouldn’t have a single thing to do related to the game event tomorrow. Granted, Saturday is nothing but the game event, but at least for one day I finally get a break. The trick is going to be getting everything up there Saturday morning (drinks, coolers, hardware for the game tournaments, and boxes with the rest of the stuff) in my car. It’s very likely that I might need to make two trips unless some very creative loading is done. It’s times like this when having an SUV comes in quite handy.
I wish tomorrow could be nothing but rest for me as a reward for surviving this week so far (and in preparation for Saturday), but I still have my project class and then a baseball game at Heath (the stadium I probably hate the most that we travel to). At least it’s mostly passive work that I have to do, and sitting is definitely something that is on my short list of things I’ll gladly do tomorrow. On the bus (which yes, involves sitting) I’ll probably watch the Family Guy episode from this last week that I just experimented with converting to a format for my iPhone. I could take my Zune, but I think Microsoft will be getting enough of my love in the not too distant future.
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Well, seeing as how my website didn’t seem to self-heal itself in the past 24 hours, I’ll probably be on the search for a new theme. I actually have already found one that I like the appearance of; it just needs some tweaking done to it in order to make it more appropriate for what I do and don’t use in WordPress. Expect no changes to anything before Sunday though, as that will be my first time to probably breathe between now and then.
While we’re aiming to have most of the work done on our P2P project by this Firday, fortunately our real deadline isn’t for another week. That means that as long as I can get 75% or so of the functionality working for this week (a very reachable goal considering how little should be changing), there shouldn’t be any rushed work to do come a week from now. That way, I can hopefully spend most of Good Friday at my home pretending like I have a vacation day rather than actually be worried about school related things.
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