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February 1, 2003 - Chillin'

So, has everyone been enjoying the Quote of the Day? I've been pretty good about keeping it updated... So good, in fact, that I'm thinking of renaming it the Quote Of The Eighteen Hours Or So.
This weekend has been good so far - Went rollerskating Friday night with Patricia's floor (pictures up soon if I get industrious), played racquetball this afternoon, went to a basketball game this evening, and played cards with Patricia and Robert later tonight. Good deal, but notice that there's nothing about homework in there. Rrrrright...
My first test of the new semester is Wednesday, so I suppose I should be preparing or something. Maybe Tuesday night ;)
Short update tonight. Next on the site's agenda is a Links page, followed by a guestbook. Look for those soon; and by soon, I mean maybe. Goodnight!

February 3, 2003 - Back to the grind

Wow, this weekend was a flurry of activity. Things included playing racquetball, attending a basketball game, playing cards, watching movies, going to Target, getting my hair cut, going rollerskating.... And, starting at about 2:30 this morning, some homework too. Oh, and I installed a second hard drive in my computer, for backup purposes. Thanks again, Chad!
Tonight's update consists entirely of pictures - I have one telling shot of the condition of my floor, and a whole gallery of our Friday night spent rollerskating in Ogden. That, and I changed the Quote of the Day, but I'm going to stop mentioning that pretty soon, as it's sort of perpetually changing.
Very bad deal about the Colombia this weekend. Best wishes to those who survive the fallen.
I have a Flash up at the Daily already - it's not a 'special feature', and it's nothing really special, but humor me and check it out. On the minus side of things at the Daily, I have a total of five meetings there this upcoming week, plus the Flash work that I guess I'll be starting soon. Wow.
Somehow, I managed to get all my homework done tonight, despite starting at 2:30, so I think it's bedtime for now. First test is Wednesday; I'm not too concerned.
I hope everyone has a good week!

February 4, 2003 - Another new section

Two updates in two days. Don't get used to it, but I've actually been working on the site recently.
Case in point: another updated Quote of the Day (okay, I'll stop mentioning it, since you all should have it bookmarked by now), a small addition to the work page to reflect yesterday's Flash, and a brand-new Programs section. For now, there's only one there, but I think it's release-quality, and I have many more ideas for some others in the near future, if this homework ever lets go of me. Enjoy, kids.
We got absolutely slammed with snow today. I went to eat lunch at noon, and it had just started with a few small flurries, and by the time I got out of class at three, there were near-blizzard conditions, with upwards of three inches of snow on the ground, and it was just generally hazardous to be out and about. So what did I do? I went back out at about four and took a bunch of pictures... Hopefully I'll have them all up here tomorrow. (For now, I need to go to bed; it's 3:45, and I have a 9:30 class...) It's really pretty, if more than a little hazardous. We'll see what campus is like tomorrow morning.
That's it. Big, big thanks go to Mr. Tom Robinson for helping me resolve some issues I've been having with my Palm Pilot.

February 6, 2003 - Whole lotta pictures

I'm proud to say I didn't do anything tonight. This is the first night without crazy-madd amounts of schoolwork to do this week. It may have helped that I had my first test today... It was in Circuits, and I'm not worried at all.
Speaking of school, I got a referral from my Discrete Math professor, Dr. Russell, and I'm now going to be doing a one-credit independent study with a senior this semester for him, which I'm thinking will be very cool. But again, it eats up just that much more time. We'll see how it goes.
As far as work goes, I got another photo gallery up yesterday on the Daily. This time, choose Flash or non-Flash, and you can move through the pictures at your own pace. Much better. Two more meetings tomorrow for the Daily, and then I'm off scot-free for the week.
The big site news (and boy, is it big) is the creation of the Photo Gallery of Monday's snowstorm! A lot of very pretty pictures are in there, and there are thirty-one altogether. Definitely worth taking a look.
Lastly, I love my roommate. He works at Wendy's, and brings me food.

February 9, 2003 - AWOL

I've been AWOL for a couple of days. So sue me.
This weekend was cool; A little work (but not very much), a little play (probably too much), and a little sleep (quite a bit actually, but it's never enough) make quite the well-rounded weekend. Saw One Hour Photo, a psychological-type flick with Robin Williams, and I would recommend it if you saw and liked Memento and/or The Bone Collector, though it's not scary/creepy like those; it's more of a realistic/creepy.
So for my first three semesters, I wasn't quite sure about this whole college thing. I mean, most people say, 'Oh, you're going to be so busy, I never had a free moment, yadda yadda yadda' - and, well, it just seemed like I always had all the time in the world. Everyone else was constantly studying or working or running frantically from place to place, and I always sort of thought I was doing something wrong, because I wasn't. Well, now I think I'm falling into that trap. As an example, Tomorrow's schedule is:

February 13, 2003 - Technical difficulties

It seems there have been some technical difficulties over the last couple of days... For example, I posted something late Tuesday night, and then on Wednesday it was gone, and all my scripts (pictures, Quote of the Day, etc) were broken. More on this situation as it develops. For now... I survived the week. Yahoo.
Now I get to be on cruise control for a couple days.
Nothing else tonight. Happy V-day, all!

February 16, 2003 - Late-night update

I've been slacking recently, especially with the site. On the plus side, I came up with a great idea for the site, but it's going to be a pain in the arse to implement it. We'll see when/if it happens.
I don't think I've told y'all about the latest work I've done for the Daily... But you should know that all of the graphics, and most of everything else, was actually done by another guy on the project. I worked with the layout, the actual articles, and a little bit of the formatting; I guess I also did the pages of the form and the page where they pop up when you click on them. All in all, it turned out very well, I think.
Unlike the current project, which I'm extremely bitter about. It's set to run at 11:59 PM Monday night, and as of 2:30 AM Monday morning, neither I nor the graphics guy nor the editor has any of the following: The pictures for the story, the graphics for the story, the copy (article text) for the story, or even the fricking title of the story. I've been told that "we'll have them by 5:00 PM". Great. That leaves a lot of time to make a quality product.
School continues to beat me mercilessly. I spent a good five hours today on homework for just two classes, both of which I had to end up doing twice because I screwed them up so badly the first time. So it goes, I guess.
Tonight's shoutouts go to Patty for sending me a five-hour email on Friday.
Enjoy the week, everyone.

February 19, 2003 - Update from my 10:00 Lab

I've still been slacking. Okay, not really, as I've had nothing but crap to do, among them a new feature for the Daily, lots and lots of homework, a test tomorrow, living arrangements, honors applications, Australia crap... The list goes on. Oh, and night before last, my computer crashed and I had to reinstall Windows. That kept me up until 5:30, and allowed me to get a grand total of about two hours of sleep that night. Good times.
So I hope everyone is doing well. Until I dig my way out from under this pile of sh*t that I've been wallowing in recently, expect little to nothing here. Not that you do anyways ;)

February 21, 2003 - Lightening?

So I took a couple big steps this week toward reducing my stress level, and a couple nice things happened.

So I might actualy be surviving, or something. Still very little recreation time (read: video games ;)), but I might actually get through this semester, which is not to say that there's not plenty still to occupy me. Guess it's a good thing I didn't take that extra Sociology class I was thinking about.
No site updates tonight, but I really do hope to be implementing some other stuff soon. Once I get more time....

February 23, 2003 - *gasp* A site addition!

Well, I finally did something for the site. Should I have been doing something else? Yeah, probably. But so it goes. Amazingly enough, I'm mostly caught up on schoolwork, but it's the out-of-class things that continue to mount and throw a wrench into the whole deal. The Daily has a big project for me to do by Tuesday midnight, I'm supposed to be working on a small program for my building, my Honors application refuses to die, and my Independent Study isn't getting the attention it should. Perhaps one day I'll get industrious and actually do some of this stuff.
Right, I was talking about the site addition. Lo and behold, I bring unto you, a Links section! Complete and rather long, it took me a good couple hours tonight. Of course, it's open to suggestions, and I would encourage anyone and everyone to contact me with their proposed additions. All are graciously accepted.
This weekend was good; went to our thrilling basketball game, by far the best this year, went square dancing with a big ol' group, had some late-night pizza, and bummed quite a bit. A nice change from last week.
Aside from being really cold, all is well here. The week isn't looking too bad once I get past the Daily project. I hope everyone enjoys their week.

February 25, 2003 - Disenchanted

I'm becoming bitter about some of my classes. Electrical Engineering confused me for nigh on five hours today, I never have a clue what's going on in my Matrix Theory course, my Sociology class has very interesting material but the professor makes it so very, very hard to stay awake through, and my Computer Engineering courses move either way too fast or way too slow. I'm just buried under stuff to do right now, and I guess I'm finding fault with anything I can. So naturally, the classes take the brunt. Oh, and I have a lab at ten tomorrow. Good times.
But hey, at least we won our basketball game tonight, in decisive fashion. We seem to be starting to come out and play, now that there are a whopping two games left in the season. However, the last two home games have been very fun to watch.
Another huge project for the Daily is done, as of tonight. That should take a load off until our next project, which is due sometime early next week. Of course, that big project means I haven't had time to do anything else, but hey.
On a similar note, I'm thinking of starting a new project - but this will be something I want to do, so I'll actually work on it. See, there's a bunch of Christian organizations on campus that have all sort of rallied behind this website, called everystudent.com. (I'm not going to link to it, because that would imply endorsing it, which I simply can't do.) Given my sharply opposing views, and my general bitterness toward in-your-face proclamations of religion and telling me what I should do with my life, I'm thinking of starting nostudent.com as sort of an anti-everystudent.com site. Let me know what you think about that idea.
In the meantime, it's the same thing as always: Try to survive this week so I can sleep on the weekend. Lather, rinse, repeat.