Lots of Work, Little Accomplished
Fri, 2005-01-21 16:18 — jrearick
Wow, how have I not been able to post much this week? I've done a good job keeping myself busy this week. I came into campus early again on Wednesday only to find that Tom was still sick. The ad did run on Wednesday like we wanted so that was a good thing.
Also, there was an odd discussion started on the MUG mailing list. Djoe decided to forward a petition for Apple to include some very obscure feature into OS X. Far more technical than what would be in the scope of the general mailing list. Djoe has a reputation for being quite stubborn with ideas and very vocal about his opinion. If he reads this, I'm sure he would find something to comment about.
Anyway, later that night Colin and I went to FUG and started the meeting out with discussion on the earlier debate that happened on the MUG list. Later on we went to church then I went home to crash.
Thursday was a bit of a long day. 9:30 class taught by someone with a thick, monotoneistic, eastern European accent that doesn't use a microphone in a large auditorium allowed me to nap a little more in the morning. Tom was in so I finally got the intramural in. I wanted to get a lot done with the scholarship system, but ended up doing some trivial work on the freshman system that was already running. The circuit breaker blew in the office so half the computers (nothing on the rack went down thanks to backup batteries) went off, including my web server. When I brought it back on, the date got set to 4 hours into the future.
MUG was ok. I had to use my laptop to watch the low quality ripped stream of the keynote, so I was not able to make it to a computer security contest briefing meeting that night. Though it is nice to be able to present a video full screen to a projector and still use the same computer for IM, web browsing, and general computer work at the same time. Every day, except maybe Tuesday, felt like I was really busy, but not much got done. I hate that feeling.
I found this article about what you wish you would have known when you were in high school. Even though the article is geared towards high school students, it can still be applied to people who are in college, are already in in their careers, or still looking for something to do. I thought it offered a different way into looking how you live your life and it might have some useful nuggets of advice. It was an interesting read.
Anyway, I should probably get some work done.
Also, there was an odd discussion started on the MUG mailing list. Djoe decided to forward a petition for Apple to include some very obscure feature into OS X. Far more technical than what would be in the scope of the general mailing list. Djoe has a reputation for being quite stubborn with ideas and very vocal about his opinion. If he reads this, I'm sure he would find something to comment about.
Anyway, later that night Colin and I went to FUG and started the meeting out with discussion on the earlier debate that happened on the MUG list. Later on we went to church then I went home to crash.
Thursday was a bit of a long day. 9:30 class taught by someone with a thick, monotoneistic, eastern European accent that doesn't use a microphone in a large auditorium allowed me to nap a little more in the morning. Tom was in so I finally got the intramural in. I wanted to get a lot done with the scholarship system, but ended up doing some trivial work on the freshman system that was already running. The circuit breaker blew in the office so half the computers (nothing on the rack went down thanks to backup batteries) went off, including my web server. When I brought it back on, the date got set to 4 hours into the future.
MUG was ok. I had to use my laptop to watch the low quality ripped stream of the keynote, so I was not able to make it to a computer security contest briefing meeting that night. Though it is nice to be able to present a video full screen to a projector and still use the same computer for IM, web browsing, and general computer work at the same time. Every day, except maybe Tuesday, felt like I was really busy, but not much got done. I hate that feeling.
I found this article about what you wish you would have known when you were in high school. Even though the article is geared towards high school students, it can still be applied to people who are in college, are already in in their careers, or still looking for something to do. I thought it offered a different way into looking how you live your life and it might have some useful nuggets of advice. It was an interesting read.
Anyway, I should probably get some work done.
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