You can’t really say that you’re playing poorly in baseball when you hit home runs and score 10 runs in the game. Unfortunately, when the other team scores 17 runs, it means that you’re not playing quite well enough. After one of the longer baseball games in recent memory (3+ hours!), we get to basically have attempt #2 tomorrow night. If we win then, we play Saturday afternoon; if we don’t, then I guess I’ll be done with baseball.
One thing I need to get back to doing is ripping all of my DVDs onto our server. It’s not a very hard process at all, and now I even have it so that they can play on our HTPC just fine, but it’s just a very time consuming process to do. If only I could build some robot slaves that could swap out discs, then it would likely get done much sooner.
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On Monday I made an Amazon purchase, today I made another Amazon purchase, and today I also made two purchases from other websites for accessories for my Macbook. The internet, if you weren’t already aware, is an awesome way to shop. In fact, I was able to do my Amazon purchase from work today so that I could make sure it would get here by Friday. That’s just a slightly important requirement since I’d like to have it before we leave on Sunday to go to Seattle.
I just realized as I wrote that last sentence that this will be my first time to get to use one of my Trips categories for a second time. I still haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do when we move, but I still have about two months to figure that out. Not exactly two months, mind you, since that would be my start date at Microsoft, but two months minus approximately a week or so.
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Games against Hillcrest are not supposed to come down to the last inning. They especially aren’t supposed to come down to the last inning with us down by two runs. In a single game series, this was a very not good situation. Luckily, a final score of 6-5 is good enough to move onto the next round.
We’ll play again either Thursday or Friday depending on what the coaches agree on, most likely against Heath. This would be a district rematch that could be very interesting. Hopefully any games in that series won’t be quite as “exciting”, especially at the end.
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One of the things that I figure will be better to get out of the way sooner rather than later is the fact that I need to work on “organizing”/cleaning my room before people want to come put everything into boxes and take it up to Seattle. My first order of business will be to clean up the fllor of my closet where quite a bit of stuff has accumulated from being placed there for a later use which has still yet to arrive. For a month or two, I might actually be able to walk into my closet rather than have to stand near the door and reach for everything that I want.
Tomorrow should be a lot like Friday as far as my schedule goes. I don’t know the exact time the bus will be leaving, but I figure it’s not going to be too different from before. After all, two schools that are about 10 minutes from each other really need to travel about 30 minutes to a place that’s far away from both.
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I can’t yet tell if it’s the fact that it’s summer that I feel quite relaxed and not pressured to do anything or if it’s actually from the fact that I’m out of school for good. Either way, today was nothing but one gigantic day of computer and TV without even thinking about anything else that needed to be done. All in all, a very good start to the summer, school being done or not.
Facebook has informed me that we play Hillcrest on Tuesday night in Coppell at 7:30. We played them back in 2006 in a series that we won 16-6, 5-1; the general feeling I got on Friday was that if we were going to face them again, the game wasn’t going to be that hard. Actually, I can’t ever remember us losing to Hillcrest before. That’s a pretty good record to have, and it’s not something that really needs to change at this point in time.
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In another four days, it would have been exactly four years since I graduated from HP. However, I think that I can manage with it not being precisely lined up like that. Last year at this point I was getting ready to start summer school and take a trip to Japan. This year the parallel is close, but the trip isn’t quite as far away and the work I have to do over the summer is actually work.
UTD’s graduation seemed like it was much more efficient and streamlined than HP’s was. They didn’t try to put too much order into it (such as having us all alphabetized) but instead just had us grouped together by majors. There were also a bunch of ceremonies throughout the day, so each one only had two schools, keeping the number of people in each reasonable. All in all, not a process that I liked so much that I want to spend another four years to do it again, but it was better than I was anticipating.
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So, who’s ready for the stats?
- Past year, 365 posts. Starting with “The Perfectly Flawed Year” and wrapping up with “Making Good on the Name Once Again”, I had 798 posts going into last year and came out with 1163. This was (as previously mentioned) one post short of my year #4 count, but I still increased the total amount of posts here by almost 46%.
- Longest updateless streak: Still 15 days (9/2/04-9/18/04)
- Longest daily posting streak: 755 posts/days (4/22/07-today)
- Post titles with “…”: 11 (I seem to like to hover in this range, because the counts each year have been 13, 5 (my off year), 15, 12, and now 11)
- No vlog posts or anything of equal uniqueness to speak of
I think I might need to work on getting some new stats for the future, as these are becoming slightly boring. The two streaks are unlikely to ever be broken, the ellipsis one is just getting old, and without those all I have is the total count. Oh well I have a whole year to come up with some new ones now. Maybe Seattle will give me inspiration for what to use for year #6.
HP won 4-1 against McKinney (take that, first place district team!), and with the UIL schedule adjustments, we will (potentially) play two series next week. The first will be a single game series against either Hillcrest or Kimball on Tuesday, and then next weekend there would be another three game series (or I guess possibly a single if that’s what was decided on). My first week being done with school, and I’m barely going to get any rest at all. I guess I should have seen it coming…
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Tomorrow is anniversary day, and for the second straight year I can say that this truly has been The “Daily” Goob. Granted, I got off totally easy this year with only 365 days to post instead of 366, but not much I could do about that. If it was up to me, I would have gone for 367 (or maybe just round it up to an even 370) just so I didn’t seem like so much of a slacker.
If HP can keep playing in the playoffs like we did tonight, our chances look decent for going far. We beat McKinney (and their ace pitcher) 7-1 tonight, so if we can go back and do it again tomorrow, I won’t have to be thinking about how the game is going during graduation on Saturday. If this is going to end up being just a two game series, we’re definitely in the better of the two positions right now.
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I began my education at UTD on August 18th, 2005 (easily findable courtesy of this blog). Today, 1365 days later, I can say that my education at UTD has come to an end. Barring a near impossible act of me failing one of my three CS classes that I’ve yet to see my final grades for, today was my last day of school. Unlike HP, graduation doesn’t take place for another couple days, so my time being at UTD isn’t really done yet. For that time to come, I have another 72 hours or so to wait.
Tomorrow my agenda consists of basically two things: my main thing to do is obviously the baseball playoff game in Mesquite that I need to be up at HP around 4:00 or 4:30 for. The other thing is to finally rehook up the HTPC to our downstairs TV and make sure that everything works there. Having it in the floor of my room ws getting slightly tiring, so as long as everything plays as nicely downstairs as it did up here, that’s one more project I can cross off my list of stuff to do.
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Star Trek was a very good movie. I didn’t havwe a lot of knowledge of the specifics of the series beforehand so I can’t point out the exact contradictions of the original series, but JJ Abrams did a very good job in explaining in how the big contradictions happened. The new trend seems to be doing reboots of old franchises, and this definitely provides a good relaunching point for more movies. Definitely a purchase when it comes out. My score: 8.5/10.
Tomorrow, my last official day of school, is my busiest of the week, even moreso than this weekend will be. The ironic part about that is that I’ll only be aup at UTD for probably 5-10 minutes to drop something off for a teacher. After that, I can declare my college career complete.
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