albany and beyond...
lets see.. what's gone on since i've last updated... i spent last weekend in fredonia with meagan (and mike and danielle).. and stopped in to see vinfein, where we rapped to eminem songs like we did back in the day.. monday i bought an iPod (i got the 20G.. but now i'm kinda wishing i got the 40G since i've already filled 1/4 of its capacity with just my mp3s from work and have not yet touched my home machine). I finished up the SRSVisionAcquisition module that i was writing for the Sperry Rail app. I also knocked off the Dirt Counter/Image Deletions system for International Paper.. Now i'm finishing up the app for General Electric and then i can move on to revamping the company website.. fun fun.. on tuesday, i went down to Olympus Industrial in orangeburg to demo a firewire camera.. it was a bit of a disaster, as the software that is used to run the camera is in what i would call a 'pre-alpha' state.. it really shouldnt be allowed to be seen at a demo for prospective customers.. but anyway.. i stayed in albany from monday night until wednesday night.. i had a good time hanging out at derek and spine's (sean) dorm.. spine skipped almost all of his classes and most of my time there was spent watching him play Final Fantasy VII and smoking mad cigarettes.. it made me feel like.. me.. only 2-3 years ago.. playing video games all day and smoking cigarettes and not doing anything else.. but anyway, i prolly watched about 16 hours of FFVII in the short time i was in albany.. i saw rory.. met mike goon (who was so excited to meet me that i really felt like a rockstar for a second) and this brittish kid named ben.. who they call 'Big Ben'.. and he walkes into the room and says "i dont mean to be a cheeky-asshole but can i skank a fag from one of you?" so of course i give him a cigarette and then laughter explodes once he leaves the room.. wednesday night, i am trying to convince derek to come home to syracuse with me early and skip 2 days of classes.. i finally succeed.. we make our way home.. and thus puts us basically up to present with interesting happenings.. oh.. also.. i 'bought' a leather jacket this week in albany.. here is the story.. before i left for my demo on tuesday, spine let me borrow his jacket.. and he's like "dude.. you like that jacket.. i'll sell it to you for $150.. i paid $300 for it.." and im like "no way dude.. im not paying that much for it.. but i'll tell you what i will do..." as i whip out a fresh, un-opened pack of cigarettes.. "i will leave these here while im on my business trip.. if by the time i return the pack has been opened and/or smoked, the jacket is mine." and as im walking out the door to drop derek off at the main campus and make my way to my demo, i hear spine in his room while the door is shutting i hear spine screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! MARKLE!!!! YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" as the story goes.. 2 minutes after we had left, he says aloud "i dont even wear that fucking jacket" and opened the pack.. he smoked one of the new cigarettes before the cigarette that i had given him out of my pack before the jacket even came into play.. and then, later in the day, someone asked to bum a cigarette from him.. and he was like "fuck no.. each one of these cigarettes just cost me $15 a piece!"