Back again... maybe
Whew. I had TA training Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week. It only went from about 8 to noon each day, but it was so full of stuff that by the time I was done all I felt like doing was going home. I managed to get some lab work done anyway and today I'm pretty busy, but it makes me feel more productive, which is always good. Also, I managed to be dumb and didn't get nearly enough sleep so I was ridiculously exhausted yesterday. I made up for some of it last night, though, so it's better today. Hopefully tonight I'll get to bed relatively early too so I can go into the weekend on a good foot.
From xkcd.com.
Also, last week was fairly busy and stressful because I had a 1 week class from 9-5 each day. Hopefully this week will be better and I'll actually update. The weekend was good, very not busy. I have TA training Monday through Wednesday of this week, but it only goes until about 1 or 2 each day so it shouldn't be bad. We'll see.
Turkeys!
So, I'm taking a week-long class before classes officially start as part of the quantitative biology program. Earlier today I was about ready to just give up and go home and not go back to this (freaking stupid, mumble mumble) class. I talked to my parents and felt better about life, but still kind of "eh, I could do without this class, really."
Then I saw fifteen wild turkeys, eleven of which crossed the street in front of me. If it had been deer or ducks or geese I might have just thought "oh neat, that's kind of cool to see wildlife." But here's the thing: I've heard people talk about seeing turkeys in their backyards or whatever like some people talk about deer (and how they're all over) but I've never actually SEEN one. They looked a lot like this in case you're like me:
Anyway, now I just really don't care about the class and it can go ahead sucking if it wants. I saw some turkeys.
Then I saw fifteen wild turkeys, eleven of which crossed the street in front of me. If it had been deer or ducks or geese I might have just thought "oh neat, that's kind of cool to see wildlife." But here's the thing: I've heard people talk about seeing turkeys in their backyards or whatever like some people talk about deer (and how they're all over) but I've never actually SEEN one. They looked a lot like this in case you're like me:
Anyway, now I just really don't care about the class and it can go ahead sucking if it wants. I saw some turkeys.
So...
I went out to dinner with my roommate and a friend of hers from high school and GEEZ was it awkward... I just wanted to get away the whole time. Except my roommate had the keys (to both her car, which we took to the restaurant and the apartment).
Just kidding. This was brought up at dinner though and something along the lines of "haha I bet Nik's going to blog about this later. If he's a blogger that is" was said. I thought it was funny and just in case either of them actually read this I figured it'd be worth a post. Dinner was actually quite good (Sansu always is though) and both my roommate and her friend are fun to hang out with, so that works.
Just kidding. This was brought up at dinner though and something along the lines of "haha I bet Nik's going to blog about this later. If he's a blogger that is" was said. I thought it was funny and just in case either of them actually read this I figured it'd be worth a post. Dinner was actually quite good (Sansu always is though) and both my roommate and her friend are fun to hang out with, so that works.
Layout time again
Hey look, a different layout again! The last one I had was made by non-blogger people and the code was confusing. I want to finally build a layout of my own and I have to start from understandable code to do that, so here we are. I actually kind of like this layout, so I guess it's a good placeholder for now.
Oh wait... that's not the CSS doing that.
While I'm posting I may as well talk about what's actually happening. First of all, nothing really spectacular. I've been reading CSS: The Missing Manual and it's helped a LOT. I highly recommend it if anyone wants to learn to build websites. I think I'm almost finished with it (about 350 pages in and it's around 450-500 with references and an index at the end) but it would be a great reference book. Maybe I'll see about buying it at some point after I return it to the library in... three weeks? Sounds about right.
I've been sort of busy in lab and things are kind of progressing. How's that for a non-committal sentence? About half of my lab (including the professor) is out of town for the week, so I don't really have anyone to ask questions to. This wouldn't be an issue except for the fact that things invariably go wrong every once in a while. Also, I work pretty closely with one of the guys who's out of town so if I want to restart anything I have to dig through his stuff and even the best organized people have so much stuff that it's a pain to go through. I FINALLY found something I was looking for this morning (after looking in different places all day yesterday) but that just means I'll have work to do over the weekend. Oh well, now I have a possibility of finishing this part of the project by Monday instead of mid next week. My main project's going well though, so that's good.
This week's been a little interesting on the games front though. I kind of realized that I won't always have my brother's PS3 so I've been playing stuff on it for most of the week. I downloaded Fat Princess on Monday and played that for a bit. It's pretty fun but I think it'd be great playing with people I know. Now I just need to find those people. I've also played some Eternal Sonata which I got for my birthday. At first it didn't really suck me in, but now that I've played it for a bit I want to keep going. I guess we'll see how far I get before my brother takes his system back. I should probably get a PS3 of my own at some point now that I have three games for it...
Apparently this layout comes with some neat CSS stuff built in...Huh... that's cool.
And another fun thing?
Oh it makes "code" into a fixed width font.
That's useful I guess.Oh wait... that's not the CSS doing that.
While I'm posting I may as well talk about what's actually happening. First of all, nothing really spectacular. I've been reading CSS: The Missing Manual and it's helped a LOT. I highly recommend it if anyone wants to learn to build websites. I think I'm almost finished with it (about 350 pages in and it's around 450-500 with references and an index at the end) but it would be a great reference book. Maybe I'll see about buying it at some point after I return it to the library in... three weeks? Sounds about right.
I've been sort of busy in lab and things are kind of progressing. How's that for a non-committal sentence? About half of my lab (including the professor) is out of town for the week, so I don't really have anyone to ask questions to. This wouldn't be an issue except for the fact that things invariably go wrong every once in a while. Also, I work pretty closely with one of the guys who's out of town so if I want to restart anything I have to dig through his stuff and even the best organized people have so much stuff that it's a pain to go through. I FINALLY found something I was looking for this morning (after looking in different places all day yesterday) but that just means I'll have work to do over the weekend. Oh well, now I have a possibility of finishing this part of the project by Monday instead of mid next week. My main project's going well though, so that's good.
This week's been a little interesting on the games front though. I kind of realized that I won't always have my brother's PS3 so I've been playing stuff on it for most of the week. I downloaded Fat Princess on Monday and played that for a bit. It's pretty fun but I think it'd be great playing with people I know. Now I just need to find those people. I've also played some Eternal Sonata which I got for my birthday. At first it didn't really suck me in, but now that I've played it for a bit I want to keep going. I guess we'll see how far I get before my brother takes his system back. I should probably get a PS3 of my own at some point now that I have three games for it...
Woooohoooo
I have a functional C drive now! For some stupid reason the company that built my new laptop installed the operation system on the C drive and put the rest of the storage into a D drive. Sounds good (they even labeled the C drive "OS Install" and the D drive "Data") except for the fact that basically everything defaults to installing to Program Files or the User directory... both in the C drive. Anyway I was getting REALLY fed up with that until Mike pointed out a program that can change partitions without clearing your hard drive. I ended up using this one and it worked pretty well, especially for a free program. I ended up with all of my storage in my C drive and completely eliminated the D drive. Whew, now time for sleep.
Hey look!
What IS this?
Anyway, I'm visiting home for the weekend so I'm finally getting to catch up with sleep and just hanging out. So far we've gone out for dinner and I slept for about 11 hours last night, then we went out for brunch/lunch and done some errands. Right now my brother's looking at backpacks for hiking/camping which he apparently got interested in while I wasn't looking. Looks like we're heading out though, so I'm gonna go play games or something probably.
Hey guess what?!
It's three days later and I'm STILL dead tired! Woohoo for going to bed late three days in a row (Dokapon Kingdom will be the death of me... that and growth curves that go until 11. Mainly the Dokapon though). I'm going home for the weekend, though, so hopefully I'll be able to finally get some sleep.
I got a hold of CSS - The Missing Manual and I've read the first three chapters so far. It's just starting to get into actual stuff I don't know, but by the end of the book I should actually know what I'm doing, which is always neat. Then I just have to figure out how Blogger layouts work, which shouldn't be too terrible since I've seen tutorials around for that. Oh and I need to come up with a design and the art for it too... great. I seem to have a problem that goes something like this: if I don't have the skills to do something I have all sorts of great ideas, but when I actually know enough to implement ideas they all go running. Maybe I can hunt some down before I finish the book though.
I got a hold of CSS - The Missing Manual and I've read the first three chapters so far. It's just starting to get into actual stuff I don't know, but by the end of the book I should actually know what I'm doing, which is always neat. Then I just have to figure out how Blogger layouts work, which shouldn't be too terrible since I've seen tutorials around for that. Oh and I need to come up with a design and the art for it too... great. I seem to have a problem that goes something like this: if I don't have the skills to do something I have all sorts of great ideas, but when I actually know enough to implement ideas they all go running. Maybe I can hunt some down before I finish the book though.
aaand he's back!
Sort of anyway. It's been a fairly uneventful week and a few days since I posted, so I guess that's that. I've been playing around with my new laptop (which is pretty much fantastic!) and I haven't even really turned on my desktop since I got it. If/when I play games where I want a bit more power my desktop's still definitely the right choice, but it could heat my apartment in the dead of winter so I like this laptop instead. PLUS it keeps itself cool basically without the fans, which is pretty amazing. My other one overheats just... sitting there. Anyway, it's permanently in the lab now, which is also nice. I've moved/uninstalled pretty much anything entertaining so I'm less distracted, but I've also had more work to do, which always helps.
So... I'm dead tired. Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to get a library card. Turns out it's a problem when your driver's license doesn't explicitly say you live in the city you live in. Geez cmon people, I just want to read books for free, is that so hard? Sleep now.
So... I'm dead tired. Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to get a library card. Turns out it's a problem when your driver's license doesn't explicitly say you live in the city you live in. Geez cmon people, I just want to read books for free, is that so hard? Sleep now.