Cinco de Mayo

This is a combined wednesday and thursday post.

I saw a guy using a magnifying glass to view his ipod. Times are surely strange.

I took an exam for my stupid aeronatucs class and I am not feeling to good about it. like maybe 80% ish.

I FINALLY got the robot working like its supposed to. No thanks to my teammates. I love them to death because of their positive attitudes but they can be so difficult at times. I wrote the code for the robot and the C++ computer program. The problem occurs when the robot actually works too fast and reads the bus relay as its changing. The change occurs like dominos and the robot IMMEDIATELY sees the first domino fall and says "OK #1!!! GOT IT!!!!" and runs off to pin #1 instead of waiting for the whole message. One of my teammates insisted that we RECODE the entire thing so it goes like this:

pc: are you ready robot?
robot: I am ready.
pc: Here is a message
robot: I have your message. thank you
pc: no problem
robot: I am performing the act
pc: I'll wait
robot: I'm done with the act
pc: good to hear
robot: I'm ready for a new message now.
pc: ok here is the next message

and so on and so forth. Which works for people but this is a robot it should be as simple as:

robot: I AM READY GIEF MESSAGE
pc: HERE GO!
robot: I HAVE MESSAGE/ PERFORMING/ AND AS SOON AS I AM DONE TALKING GIVER ME MORE MESSAGE
pc: HERE GO!

repeat until done. And it works very very well and efficient. Its all the computer needs really. Adding all that other communication takes alot of time and is prone to errors.

But dont get me wrong, I am much happier that it is working flawlessly that frusterated at my team. I don't care as long as it all gets done.

Burn!

I burned the bajeezus out of my finger today. An area the size of a dime. It will probably scar.

In the morning I woke up to a text saying: "Where are you? I hope you will be here for out presentation in an hour." Yea nobody knew but we had to present today. I got a hold of Irma and she drove me there as I completed some speaking points in the car. I got there 15 minutes before we had to present and it went fantastic. You never would've guessed that I winged the whole thing.

I was talking to my former friend Kelly last night. I use the word former because she dropped off the face of the world when she dated her now ex. We talked about how now that she doesnt have such a repressive force preventing her from beings friends (which was pretty rediculous in the first place, but hey girls are rediculous) that maybe we might be able to rekindle that friendship. Ill have to introduce her to Annie when I get home. Speaking of Annie, she leaves in 5 days and will be here a week from now!! I can't wait!

The more things change, the more the stay the same

So first off. I BOUGHT NEW SKATES!!! I was too impatient to use those funny things called "legs" so I bought another set of skates. Hopefully I wont lose these on the bus too.

I was told several things about a variety of people, and without naming names and violating their privacy, I will tell you that sometimes people rarely change. Some people are the kind of people that you aren't surprised by their latest exploits because they are that kind of person. And these exploits I speak of are not good exploits like climbing a mountain or running a marathon. More like still engaging in petty he said she said or following the wrong kind of crowds, etc. Im not saying people do not have the capacity for change, I'm just saying they they generally don't have the motivation or foresight to do so.

In other news, I have massive amounts of homework as the semester is coming closer to a close. It's getting cold now. It drops below 50 at night and we dont use a heater for the house (just room heaters) so if you need to pee your feet freeze.

Overworked and Underpaid

Ok well I'm paid rather well. BUT school likes to lump everything together all at the last moment. It is really troublesome.

Yesterday I worked on the pass at work. Relaying food and all that Jazz. It was pretty simple, it does have a bit of a learning curve, getting use to dealing directly with the chef and the servers. it was massively dead though. The weather became absolutely miserable so nobody wants to come out to eat.

I wish I had my xbox since Super Street Fighter 4 came out, but I guess I will have to wait until I get home when everyone is already really good at the game.

I am getting really tired of riding the bus for up to 4 hours a day. Can you imagine just sitting there waiting for the bus, then sitting on the bus waiting to get to the next bus, sitting waiting for that bus, sitting and waiting on the bus to finally get to where I need to go. I feel like I am losing it. The only reason I am still putting up with it is because I am saving massive amounts of money on food and rent. That money is going to Annie and my upcoming trip and also my safety net when I get back home and don't have a job.

Speaking of jobs, I'm not just sitting around on my butt. I have sent in 2 or 3 resumes while sitting on my butt.

Drinks and Drunks

On the bus on friday there was a large butch woman who was crazy drunk. She was falling over herself and she flagged down the bus and barreled in and faceplanted onto the floor. After slurring her destination to the bus driver she proceeds to fumble to the first few seats and sits between an indian woman and a guy. She then proceeds to pull out a lesbian handbook or guide of some sort and then fall asleep onto the indian woman. 10 minutes in, she jolts awake and starts screaming to the bus driver that she missed her stop. He assures her that her stop is coming up and that she needs to take a seat before she hurts herself. She announces she will stand, then she falls asleep standing up. I took a picture of her, but I got off before she did.

I went out on saturday night because it was some people from work's farewell party. I'm not gonna lie. I was bored out of my mind. I though alot of people from work were going to be there. There wasn't. There were 10 people there I didn't know any of them. I stuck around till about 11 then I gave in and went home.

I hate bars in sydney, I miss bars back home. I miss full sized billards tables and dart board and other fun things to do.

FAIL (oh and coffee)

Ok

OH... KAY

I just got home from work. I left my freeline skates on the bus. The seat I was sitting next to. Right there. I am so so so SO pissed at myself. First I lose my brand new wallet and credit card and drivers liscense. Now I lose my (might as well be) one-of-a-kind skates. I just feel like giving up on trying.

So also I worked in the bar and they tought me coffee today. I would go more into how awesome it was to stretch the milk and fluff it up to put into the different coffees and how I have a long way to go before I can do the cool designs. But I won't cause I'm in such a bad mood.

Grapes: the crack rock of australia

Australian grapes are so dang good. I have to be careful how much I eat because I sometimes overeat them and lose my appetite for food im SUPPOSED to be eating. It's probably because the vineyards are so close, not to mention how renowned australian wine is. But yeah, I throw em back like I'm trying to overdose on sleeping pills. They are THAT good.

In other news, I can't seem to find my wallet. I know its in the house (or I think I know) but I just can't find it...

tomorrow is a dumb meeting at work, some guy talks to us about the brand image.

Sometimes when I am on the bus, I really want to slap people for wearing clothes they shouldn't be wearing. Every once in a while (or more often than that) a person wears clothes that are just wrong. Today this woman weighed probably close to 200 walked around in 4 size to small clothes. Her pants were Superlowride style and her shirt was short enough you could see stomach and butt fat hanging off both ends. She was also maybe late 40s. That just is NOT appropriate.

Hmmm what else what else. Annie will be here in less than 3 weeks!!! I can't wait. There is a million things we have planned to do (half I have already paid for). There will be many pictures at that time.

I guess thats it.