Jeff

dead week

So its dead week. That means stuffs going down and coming to an end. I have finals in all four of my classes. Spread randomly across next week. I have to deal with the grades coming out this week and finding out my fate in the classes I am taking. I have a report still to do tomorrow and then I begin with my first psych course. sigh I am going to spend some time this week and next going through all my drives and reorganizing and renaming all the files, something I have desperately needed to do for a year or two. Then I can go through the program files and try to clear space up. Then I can hopefully put Windows on this small computer I have and hook it up to the TV, so I can play computer video on the TV, along with trying to play ROMs on it and such. That will probably be done after break however. I also need to find some time to sit down and wrap up Duck Hunt, then I will probably post pictures of it and also record a video for the professor in that course demonstrating my project. I also have been working through ideas for a redesign of this site. I drew one idea up that looked good in photoshop, but recreating it in HTML and CSS has brought up sub-par results. I will probably be adding entries from Hawaii, but that depends on my access to the internet and if I can keep this server running over break. I may end up dragging it home with me to keep it going, we shall see…

I should probably get back to work on my report. I will probably be adding a lot more entries this coming week as I procrastinate.

late_night_coding

So I have pretty much wrapped up the C++ Breakout. It runs flawlessly for now. C++ really is a fantastic language compared to Java. It runs smoothly, isn’t spazzy or jumpy, doesn’t stall. I also have Duck Hunt ready for networking. I hope to get that part from my partner by sometime today so that I can start testing getting the different modes to all work together. I will hopefully post either the compiled code or the source for people who want to mess with the games. I need to sit down and run through these few easy labs still. It all looks very easy for me now, since I really get these two languages real well.

We gave up trying to finish the dual core last night. It just is impossible to get it done in time. We were tracking signals for two hours to fix one bug, which then uncovered another, so two hours later, fixed and bam another bug. So we decided to cut our losses and try to get as many points as we could. It looks like most of the class is doing the same. Now I need to wrap up these programming assignments and labs to polish off this stuff. And the final effort will be on a Psych paper and an ECE report during dead week. Then finals week and finally HAWAII. I need to stop thinking about that, I think I’ve been doing a good job and have gotten very far in my work this week. Even though I have to admit that it didn’t take as long as I thought, mostly because the languages have become very easy for me. Now time to get Breakout ready for my partner. He is really lucking out, I have basically done everything for him, he just gets to add some small joke of a feature and he gets credit. I should just be an ass and finish it myself and take credit.

home tomorrow

So I shall be going home tomorrow (more like later today). I am not sure if I will be sleeping tonight or how long it may be. But I am looking forward to getting home and seeing my family and home. This will be among the last days I will be sleeping in that house when it is my home. This May I should be moving out and becoming gasp an adult. sigh I am sadly not prepared mentally for it just yet. I still want to enjoy parts of life a little more. I am not sure I feel completely ready to make that step for super responsibility. I am sure I will be come May, but knowing that my life is going to make that transition to being an adult is tough, because I can never go back. I may not want to, but being apprehensive is natural I guess. Oh well, I plan on raiding my parent’s music collection when I get home. I’ve fallen into more of a classic but great rock stage. I am currently listening to some Elvis Costello, and will probably go through and pick some more bands to put into my circulation… I haven’t really expanded my music collection much these past two years… I really need to try and stretch my legs again, I’m getting old and sticking to the same old stuff and not being young and musically adventurous any more :3. Well, I should get back to coding, I have to try and get a big chunk of coding done tonight and tomorrow so that my next two weeks isn’t complete and utter hell, just a milder, lighter, low-calorie form of hell.