New year, new classes, new computer parts
Well, it's 1/2/2000. Yesterday and the night before were too busy to allow me to log on. A bit has happened since then, some of it interesting, some of it not.
First off, I went to a New Years party at a friend's place. It was fun. Strobes, music, vodka, and more. We partied from about 7PM until 2AM, then I spent the night. Talked to a nice girl who has had some problems with an abusive significant other. She was pretty intellectual, so I could talk to her on a different level than others. I also talked sex with another girl, but ultimately got none. :)
I was surprisingly coherent considering I'd done the most abusing of chemicals of anyone there. Tolerance is building, I guess. I think I'll go to the next party there, too. I've never had a bad time there.
Things between my friend and his significant other(different people from above) seem to be degenerating rapidly. It's sad, really. Problems that are personal are affecting their ability to find happiness as a group. I hope they see their way through it intact, or at least learn something.
I got a ride from there to my grandparents' place the next afternoon, where the family festivities took place. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered together to celebrate the New Year together. I got requested to make some music discs. It otherwise was pretty unremarkable.
Sauerkraut and pork was the order of the day, as it has been for every year since before my birth. A late Christmas present, still in the mail at the time of the gift-giving, was handed off to me. I let the little kids beat the hell out of me for about an hour, they seemed to have fun.
Recently, an uncle of mine with a mental illness chose to have himself committed. We took this time to divide up his perishable goods among the family. I got his herbal supplements. I cannot help but feel a bit like a scavenger. He won't need them, of course, but I still feel badly.
I might talk a bit about him in a later entry, if I feel up to it. I fear what happened to him, if it was a result of genetic factors, could happen to me.
After spending last night reaching the end(but not completing) Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete, as well as moving my bookshelves and changing their configuration a bit, I woke up today and went to the University of Pittsburgh and dropped close to three bills on notebooks. I have to have my ID card upgraded, but after looking at the line, I decided to replace it some other day. I also have to see about overloading into another course.
My current course load includes Unix Programming in C, Discrete Structures, Organization and Assembly Code, and Analytical Geometry(Calculus III). I'm trying to get into Data Structures. I overloaded and got accepted, but it was never processed for some reason. I'm going to raise some hell after classes tomorrow. Of course, if I end up getting in, that's close to another hundred on books.
I received, while I was gone shopping for books, the last part I need to resurrect Turing. After I complete this article, I plan on descending into work and hopefully getting Turing 100% operational on either a Windows 98 SE or Windows Millenium Edition platform, with the new components.
Hope everyone else is having an eventful and fun New Year's. With my upcoming schedule, I think my life will be almost too "eventful" to handle. Hopefully I won't have to become too dependent on caffeine et al in order to survive the term. Either way I've got a long, hard, very educational road ahead of me. I'm excited.
First off, I went to a New Years party at a friend's place. It was fun. Strobes, music, vodka, and more. We partied from about 7PM until 2AM, then I spent the night. Talked to a nice girl who has had some problems with an abusive significant other. She was pretty intellectual, so I could talk to her on a different level than others. I also talked sex with another girl, but ultimately got none. :)
I was surprisingly coherent considering I'd done the most abusing of chemicals of anyone there. Tolerance is building, I guess. I think I'll go to the next party there, too. I've never had a bad time there.
Things between my friend and his significant other(different people from above) seem to be degenerating rapidly. It's sad, really. Problems that are personal are affecting their ability to find happiness as a group. I hope they see their way through it intact, or at least learn something.
I got a ride from there to my grandparents' place the next afternoon, where the family festivities took place. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered together to celebrate the New Year together. I got requested to make some music discs. It otherwise was pretty unremarkable.
Sauerkraut and pork was the order of the day, as it has been for every year since before my birth. A late Christmas present, still in the mail at the time of the gift-giving, was handed off to me. I let the little kids beat the hell out of me for about an hour, they seemed to have fun.
Recently, an uncle of mine with a mental illness chose to have himself committed. We took this time to divide up his perishable goods among the family. I got his herbal supplements. I cannot help but feel a bit like a scavenger. He won't need them, of course, but I still feel badly.
I might talk a bit about him in a later entry, if I feel up to it. I fear what happened to him, if it was a result of genetic factors, could happen to me.
After spending last night reaching the end(but not completing) Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete, as well as moving my bookshelves and changing their configuration a bit, I woke up today and went to the University of Pittsburgh and dropped close to three bills on notebooks. I have to have my ID card upgraded, but after looking at the line, I decided to replace it some other day. I also have to see about overloading into another course.
My current course load includes Unix Programming in C, Discrete Structures, Organization and Assembly Code, and Analytical Geometry(Calculus III). I'm trying to get into Data Structures. I overloaded and got accepted, but it was never processed for some reason. I'm going to raise some hell after classes tomorrow. Of course, if I end up getting in, that's close to another hundred on books.
I received, while I was gone shopping for books, the last part I need to resurrect Turing. After I complete this article, I plan on descending into work and hopefully getting Turing 100% operational on either a Windows 98 SE or Windows Millenium Edition platform, with the new components.
Hope everyone else is having an eventful and fun New Year's. With my upcoming schedule, I think my life will be almost too "eventful" to handle. Hopefully I won't have to become too dependent on caffeine et al in order to survive the term. Either way I've got a long, hard, very educational road ahead of me. I'm excited.