Today has been incredibly frustrating. Nothing worked. My damn computer felt like it was falling apart half the day. Our servers kept screwing up and failing to load things - apparently just for me. I couldn't figure out why my code wouldn't compile. Twice. The app I'm working on spontaneously quit on me, repeatedly, and refused to load. My debugger wouldn't connect to the app to help me figure out why. For three, separate, obscure reasons. I tried to relax on the deck for five minutes and the game I decided to try playing crashed when I tried to load it. My network connection kept cutting in and out all day. Both computers I'm trying to use are slow as hell. My stupid .profile file on my Mac is gone, so none of my shortcuts work.
ARGH.
Here's hoping tomorrow is better. I'm going to either shoot my computer (figuratively speaking), shoot myself (figuratively speaking), or have a mental breakdown (possibly not figuratively speaking) if they continue like this.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Whoah, kay.
Hi.
Another week, another post. I seem to have fallen into a weekly thing. I feel like there's not enough stuff to record, often, on a day by day basis. For instance!
This last week consisted, mostly, of trying to finish up our current project at work-land. I think we made steady progress, as today we're feeling more or less done. Otherwise, I think last week was one of those recover-from-vacation sorta things. It involved a good deal of laundry, cleaning, unpacking, reacquainting myself with Cambridge, etc.
This last weekend I took a little trip down to New Haven to see my brother and Aleksandra in their church's production of Annie. They did a great job! My brother was Rooster, and Aleksandra was Grace. Both excellent. Following the show, we went over to another cast member's house for Ye Olde Cast Party, which I probably wasn't invited to, but which I crashed on recommendation of my brother. They were all really cool people - we spent a great deal of time listening to tunes from the 70s and 80s and laughing at them. I think I was the youngest there by a good 5 years. But that's okay - I'm used to slightly-older company.
Sunday morning we (myself, Chris, and Aleksandra) drove over to Mom and Dad's, where I proceeded to spend the afternoon cleaning my car. I cleaned all the carpets, all the interior surfaces, and suds-upped the exterior and in-between-the-interior-and-exterior around the doors. The thing looks great now. Kinda like when I got it from Grandma.
I try. Sometimes it just takes me a while.
Today was a fairly productive day, I think, at the office. Lots of research into various annoying problems, but we managed to fix them, I think. I got in pretty early and left around 6:00 PM.
I've spent the evening thinking about music, lyrics, and trying to record some stuff. It's rather difficult, but one of those things I think you only get better at with practice. Timing is difficult - it's not easy to maintain a consistent pace for however-many minutes.
Another week, another post. I seem to have fallen into a weekly thing. I feel like there's not enough stuff to record, often, on a day by day basis. For instance!
This last week consisted, mostly, of trying to finish up our current project at work-land. I think we made steady progress, as today we're feeling more or less done. Otherwise, I think last week was one of those recover-from-vacation sorta things. It involved a good deal of laundry, cleaning, unpacking, reacquainting myself with Cambridge, etc.
This last weekend I took a little trip down to New Haven to see my brother and Aleksandra in their church's production of Annie. They did a great job! My brother was Rooster, and Aleksandra was Grace. Both excellent. Following the show, we went over to another cast member's house for Ye Olde Cast Party, which I probably wasn't invited to, but which I crashed on recommendation of my brother. They were all really cool people - we spent a great deal of time listening to tunes from the 70s and 80s and laughing at them. I think I was the youngest there by a good 5 years. But that's okay - I'm used to slightly-older company.
Sunday morning we (myself, Chris, and Aleksandra) drove over to Mom and Dad's, where I proceeded to spend the afternoon cleaning my car. I cleaned all the carpets, all the interior surfaces, and suds-upped the exterior and in-between-the-interior-and-exterior around the doors. The thing looks great now. Kinda like when I got it from Grandma.
I try. Sometimes it just takes me a while.
Today was a fairly productive day, I think, at the office. Lots of research into various annoying problems, but we managed to fix them, I think. I got in pretty early and left around 6:00 PM.
I've spent the evening thinking about music, lyrics, and trying to record some stuff. It's rather difficult, but one of those things I think you only get better at with practice. Timing is difficult - it's not easy to maintain a consistent pace for however-many minutes.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sharpen that saw.
So today involved a bit of organizing, a lot of sleeping, a bike ride, and a few hours of Ars Magica.
I woke up at perhaps 9:30 am or so, after deciding that, given that today was my last day of vacation, I might as well take advantage of it. Oh, and boy did I.
I got a few things done in the morning, organized some stuff, and then promptly took a three hour nap from 1:30 pm or so until 4:30 pm. Rockin'. Hey, cool, the iPad automatically added an apostrophe to rockin. Well... The first time, anyway. This thing is weird and inconsistent in its auto-correction.
Anyway, after waking up, I took a bike ride down Memorial Drive, back up to Harvard Square, and then back home. Whilst in H^2 I stopped at Dado for some iced coffee.
Yes, after all this I'm really hoping I'll be able to sleep AT ALL tonight.
Ars was fun - Jason is doing a great job. We quit for the evening around 10:00 pm because Pete had to work. On the way home, after dropping Jason off at his place, I stopped at the Star Market on 16 for some food stuffs.
And here I am.
I woke up at perhaps 9:30 am or so, after deciding that, given that today was my last day of vacation, I might as well take advantage of it. Oh, and boy did I.
I got a few things done in the morning, organized some stuff, and then promptly took a three hour nap from 1:30 pm or so until 4:30 pm. Rockin'. Hey, cool, the iPad automatically added an apostrophe to rockin. Well... The first time, anyway. This thing is weird and inconsistent in its auto-correction.
Anyway, after waking up, I took a bike ride down Memorial Drive, back up to Harvard Square, and then back home. Whilst in H^2 I stopped at Dado for some iced coffee.
Yes, after all this I'm really hoping I'll be able to sleep AT ALL tonight.
Ars was fun - Jason is doing a great job. We quit for the evening around 10:00 pm because Pete had to work. On the way home, after dropping Jason off at his place, I stopped at the Star Market on 16 for some food stuffs.
And here I am.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Races, Vacations, Cleaning, and Relaxationing
So it's been a few.
Major events that have occurred in the past week or two:
1. The Boilermaker!
2. Ocean Grove!
Starting in the proposed ordering, which also happens to be chronological: the Boilermaker was a success.
My results:
Totals (11539 Finishers 6418 M / 5121 F)
Div: M25-29
ChipTime: 1:26:12
Overall: 4060
SexPl: 3059
DivPl: 461
AgeGrade: 50% (pretty average)
Splits:
First 5k: 28:57
Second 5k: 27:10
10k: 56:07
Third 5k: 26:08
15k: 1:22:14
This, to me, must mean that "ChipTime" above is including the time between when the race started and I crossed the start line.
We had a pleasant evening at the World Famous (not really) Palatine Motel perhaps half an hour from the race in Palatine, NY. I'd stay there again, given the necessity and the lack of closer options.
After our time in Utica for the race, we drove out to Ithaca to spend Sunday night at Julia's friend Angie's place. Nice town - lovely gorges. Delicious bagels. Steep roads. Cool school. Lots of smart kids around. Angie has a pleasant apartment. Good times. We hung out with a bunch of her friends for the evening, and went to a delightful place called the Glenwood Pines Restaurant, or some such, which served rather delicious burgers and fried sides (Corn bites, broccoli bites, fries, jalapeno poppers, etc.).
Monday morning, we roused ourselves fairly early, as I recall, grabbed a bagel sandwich at Collegetown Bagels down a tad south of Cornell, and then set out for New Jersey. We got there sometime in the afternoon.
The beach was fairly rainy and overcast for most of our time there, unfortunately. But, we still got in the water, still built some sand castles, still went out for ice cream almost every night, and still hung out on the Henry Richard Inn's porch every day. It was, as always, well worth the trip, and I'm feeling nicely relaxed as a result. It was great having Julia there. You may be reading this. I'm delighted you came!
On our way back up the coast on Thursday, we stopped at the Storm King Art Center nearish Storm King State (National?) Park in New York. Very cool.
Yesterday, Friday the 17th of July, involved two things of a separate nature to those described above:
1. A Dentist Appointment
2. A Guitar Lesson
3. Dinner at Takemura with Julia
The dentist appointment went well. I was told I have excellent oral hygiene. Woohoo.
The guitar lesson also went well, though I was not told I have excellent aural hygiene, unfortunately. I'll just have to infer that on my own. We talked about what I need to do in the next month or two to get ready for being in an ensemble next school year.
Yikes.
Dinner at Takemura was especially delightful (my especially delightful company being responsible for the added "especially" qualifier). I had a Veggie Tofu Dol Sot Bi Bim Bap, which is fun to say. We also each had ourselves a little glass of sake. It rained on us on the way over and back, but not too much.
Today has consisted of several activities. Ready? Cause here they come in list form:
1. A brunch at Cabot's Ice Cream & Restaurant down in Newton. Tasty. Didn't get ice cream.
2. Cleaning up my room(s). I have a lot of paper to be dealt with.
3. Futuretoday: Going to see Inception at 7:00 PM in Framingham with roommate Eric.
Seems like a good deal.
Major events that have occurred in the past week or two:
1. The Boilermaker!
2. Ocean Grove!
Starting in the proposed ordering, which also happens to be chronological: the Boilermaker was a success.
My results:
Totals (11539 Finishers 6418 M / 5121 F)
Div: M25-29
ChipTime: 1:26:12
Overall: 4060
SexPl: 3059
DivPl: 461
AgeGrade: 50% (pretty average)
Splits:
First 5k: 28:57
Second 5k: 27:10
10k: 56:07
Third 5k: 26:08
15k: 1:22:14
This, to me, must mean that "ChipTime" above is including the time between when the race started and I crossed the start line.
We had a pleasant evening at the World Famous (not really) Palatine Motel perhaps half an hour from the race in Palatine, NY. I'd stay there again, given the necessity and the lack of closer options.
After our time in Utica for the race, we drove out to Ithaca to spend Sunday night at Julia's friend Angie's place. Nice town - lovely gorges. Delicious bagels. Steep roads. Cool school. Lots of smart kids around. Angie has a pleasant apartment. Good times. We hung out with a bunch of her friends for the evening, and went to a delightful place called the Glenwood Pines Restaurant, or some such, which served rather delicious burgers and fried sides (Corn bites, broccoli bites, fries, jalapeno poppers, etc.).
Monday morning, we roused ourselves fairly early, as I recall, grabbed a bagel sandwich at Collegetown Bagels down a tad south of Cornell, and then set out for New Jersey. We got there sometime in the afternoon.
The beach was fairly rainy and overcast for most of our time there, unfortunately. But, we still got in the water, still built some sand castles, still went out for ice cream almost every night, and still hung out on the Henry Richard Inn's porch every day. It was, as always, well worth the trip, and I'm feeling nicely relaxed as a result. It was great having Julia there. You may be reading this. I'm delighted you came!
On our way back up the coast on Thursday, we stopped at the Storm King Art Center nearish Storm King State (National?) Park in New York. Very cool.
Yesterday, Friday the 17th of July, involved two things of a separate nature to those described above:
1. A Dentist Appointment
2. A Guitar Lesson
3. Dinner at Takemura with Julia
The dentist appointment went well. I was told I have excellent oral hygiene. Woohoo.
The guitar lesson also went well, though I was not told I have excellent aural hygiene, unfortunately. I'll just have to infer that on my own. We talked about what I need to do in the next month or two to get ready for being in an ensemble next school year.
Yikes.
Dinner at Takemura was especially delightful (my especially delightful company being responsible for the added "especially" qualifier). I had a Veggie Tofu Dol Sot Bi Bim Bap, which is fun to say. We also each had ourselves a little glass of sake. It rained on us on the way over and back, but not too much.
Today has consisted of several activities. Ready? Cause here they come in list form:
1. A brunch at Cabot's Ice Cream & Restaurant down in Newton. Tasty. Didn't get ice cream.
2. Cleaning up my room(s). I have a lot of paper to be dealt with.
3. Futuretoday: Going to see Inception at 7:00 PM in Framingham with roommate Eric.
Seems like a good deal.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thursday's pre-oil-change run.
Went for a run around Fresh Pond this morning. It was a pleasant temperature, if a bit humid, and (unlike yesterday) I didn't feel the need to stop.
On the down side, I misjudged my mileage, and ended up running about 4.5 miles, rather than the 5+ I was hoping for. It's not as far over to Fresh Pond as I thought. Bummer! But that's okay, I was in a bit of a rush this morning, as I needed to take my car into the shop for an oil change and check-up.
Here's the map of the run:
On the down side, I misjudged my mileage, and ended up running about 4.5 miles, rather than the 5+ I was hoping for. It's not as far over to Fresh Pond as I thought. Bummer! But that's okay, I was in a bit of a rush this morning, as I needed to take my car into the shop for an oil change and check-up.
Here's the map of the run:
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Hew-hew-humid morning run.
Woke up at 6:00 AM this morning to go for a run. Almost didn't go because I felt sorta weird - almost like I'd pulled a muscle in my stomach or something. Don't know. But went anyway.
So! It was a humid and uncomfortably warm morning, despite being only 75 degrees, supposedly. I ran down Mass Ave to Harvard Square, went a few bridges up on the river, and came back around to the corner of JFK and Memorial... where I stopped. Temporarily. Ugh. It wasn't that my body was particularly tired, but that my head felt like it was going to melt down. Bummer.
So I walked for about 0.4 miles up Memorial and then started again to run the rest of the way home.
So, that's a total of 5 miles, and approximately 4.6 ran.
Here's the map:
So! It was a humid and uncomfortably warm morning, despite being only 75 degrees, supposedly. I ran down Mass Ave to Harvard Square, went a few bridges up on the river, and came back around to the corner of JFK and Memorial... where I stopped. Temporarily. Ugh. It wasn't that my body was particularly tired, but that my head felt like it was going to melt down. Bummer.
So I walked for about 0.4 miles up Memorial and then started again to run the rest of the way home.
So, that's a total of 5 miles, and approximately 4.6 ran.
Here's the map:
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Campy Camping
Hello world!
So over the weekend, we had a great camping trip up in New Hampshire. It was raining a little bit off and on, but that just meant that the weather was nice and cool for hiking. Great!
I have a bunch of pictures on my phone of the Flume, Artist's Bluff, Polly's Pancake Parlor, and Arethusa Falls. I'm hoping to get them uploaded to Facebook sooner or later.
We stayed at this little campground called, like, "KOA" or something. It was... mediocre, unfortunately. I could have done with a bit (read: a lot) more space between us and our neighbors. I don't like to see other camp sites whilst out in the woods - here, they were like... 20 feet away. Bummer - but that's okay! We still got to go through all the motions. It just wasn't quite as secluded as I might have liked.
We had terrible traffic on the way back into Boston on Sunday. Allie and I must have sat there, crawling along for about an hour on top of your standard travel time. Painful. We ended up getting back to Boston at like... maybe... 8:00 PM? Something like that. It was fairly late. Once we got into Somerville, there was like a fire or something, and we had to take a detour - just to extend things a bit.
But it worked out. I'd do it again. I'd just pick the camp site a little more carefully! The White Mountains are gorgeous. I had no idea. Well worth the trip.
This week has been sorta frustrating, in that my poor laptop kinda died on Monday, in that it had a bunch of corrupted stuff on the hard drive and was taking twenty (20) minutes to boot up, which was wicked painful. While I was backing it up and restoring it and all that over the past few days, I've been using my old work PC. Also painful. I did, however, make a bit of good progress anyway, which was nice. Unfortunately, I think our project is a bit behind at the moment. Mark and I are on it, in our own special ways.
I had a lesson with The Zoffer on Tuesday, which went really well. I feel like I actually know some jazz chords now, and that, given a sheet, I might have a good idea how to play it in a jazzerific way without too much trouble.
It's kinda funny - I figured all that out in an hour prior to the lesson. I swear, if I could just focus like that three days a week, I'd be spectacular in no time. Such a hard thing to do, though. Oof.
On Wednesday, we had a great band practice. I recorded the whole thing. We had a few really awesome jams - I need to get them off my phone and share them with everybody. It is, however, like 2 hours of recording.
Today, Thursday, was my four year review with Mr. Marty. A good talk.
So over the weekend, we had a great camping trip up in New Hampshire. It was raining a little bit off and on, but that just meant that the weather was nice and cool for hiking. Great!
I have a bunch of pictures on my phone of the Flume, Artist's Bluff, Polly's Pancake Parlor, and Arethusa Falls. I'm hoping to get them uploaded to Facebook sooner or later.
We stayed at this little campground called, like, "KOA" or something. It was... mediocre, unfortunately. I could have done with a bit (read: a lot) more space between us and our neighbors. I don't like to see other camp sites whilst out in the woods - here, they were like... 20 feet away. Bummer - but that's okay! We still got to go through all the motions. It just wasn't quite as secluded as I might have liked.
We had terrible traffic on the way back into Boston on Sunday. Allie and I must have sat there, crawling along for about an hour on top of your standard travel time. Painful. We ended up getting back to Boston at like... maybe... 8:00 PM? Something like that. It was fairly late. Once we got into Somerville, there was like a fire or something, and we had to take a detour - just to extend things a bit.
But it worked out. I'd do it again. I'd just pick the camp site a little more carefully! The White Mountains are gorgeous. I had no idea. Well worth the trip.
This week has been sorta frustrating, in that my poor laptop kinda died on Monday, in that it had a bunch of corrupted stuff on the hard drive and was taking twenty (20) minutes to boot up, which was wicked painful. While I was backing it up and restoring it and all that over the past few days, I've been using my old work PC. Also painful. I did, however, make a bit of good progress anyway, which was nice. Unfortunately, I think our project is a bit behind at the moment. Mark and I are on it, in our own special ways.
I had a lesson with The Zoffer on Tuesday, which went really well. I feel like I actually know some jazz chords now, and that, given a sheet, I might have a good idea how to play it in a jazzerific way without too much trouble.
It's kinda funny - I figured all that out in an hour prior to the lesson. I swear, if I could just focus like that three days a week, I'd be spectacular in no time. Such a hard thing to do, though. Oof.
On Wednesday, we had a great band practice. I recorded the whole thing. We had a few really awesome jams - I need to get them off my phone and share them with everybody. It is, however, like 2 hours of recording.
Today, Thursday, was my four year review with Mr. Marty. A good talk.
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