I suppose I should be happy that, as idnight approaches, I am getting tired. But there are so many good things I could be doing. But I guess thats why there’s tomorrow.
In other news, I talked for about two hours with Scott (GMS variety), which was cool cause I hadn’t talked to him in a long, long time. Thats all you get for now.
For the first time this week, I woke up before 8:00am – before 7:00am today, even. Hopefully this means I’m getting back on track in that department.
I’ve been having some good email discussions with Theo, who is deployed in the Stryker Brigade in Iraq. I will let you know more bout those later, when traffic isn’t getting worse at a steady pace.
Today, I woke up, and finished writing up a description of the two robots the TRC would be presenting today, went to work, talked to Austin about the TRC presentation, worked a little, ate lunch, talked to Austin again, worked a little more, got a call from the front desk telling me the TRC crew had arrived, picked them up with Larry and Dave, got them set up in the room, spent the next two hours watching and participating in the demo, helped break everything down, worked a little bit more, went home, held a hack session, and finally, played a few games to end the night.
Thew. TRC is life.
I just discovered that HTML tables are about 9 million times cooler than I had previously known.
In other news, I saw the Bourne Supremecy last night with Maneesh, Amy, and Donna, a friend of Amy’s. It was a well done action movie that veered ever futher from the book’s plot.
Political discussions before and after abounded, which was much fun, especially the “living wage” issue. I’m going to miss Maneesh a lot when he leave for New York. We’ll have to hang out a lot before then. As for now, its off to my house to host the TRC for final preperations for their Microvision presentation tomorrow.
Today started out good and proceded to better. The first order of business, after kicking slightly more demon butt in Doom3, was to head out to watch the Blue Angels perform. I was supposed to meet up with Scott and Katy, but they got stuck in traffic even as I cruised across the bridge on my bike. However, they didnt’ miss much. The show was only mediocre, with no spectacular tricks, and no high tricks, despite the absence of cloud cover at the performance area. The best we got was a couple low fly-overs with high power. Also, it was my first time there without GMS Scott in a long time, which was kind of sad. It was, however, very nice to do something physical again, even if it wasn’t frisbee (which I’m sad I missed). I’ll be there on Tuesday though.
After getting home from the somewhat disappointing but still good, as far as things go, Blue Angels show, I, yes, played a little more Doom3, before heading off to Everett’s Memorial Stadium. My employer, Microvision, had their annual company picnic there. Much of the company, plus family, came and ate in the Pepsi Picnic Pavillion food that was actually quite good. There was a pitching game set up, with a radar speed measurer, and I was one of the first to try my hand at it. Among the six balls I threw, I managed to hit 64 mph, but my arm felt pretty bad after that – thanks to no warmup at all. When I returned about an hour later, at 6:00, someone had set the mark at 73 mph. I had another six balls, and managed, barely, to tie the 73 mph mark. My arm was hurting, but not as bad as the first one. I returned again, at 7:00, to find that the new mark was 75 mph. With another six balls, and every ounce of strength I could muster, I tied the mark – and then broke the record, pushing the max to 76 mph. I was happy, considering that the prize was a $100 gift certificate to Target, and that seemed like a swell thing to win. However, I was then informed that the contest actually ended at 6:30 – I had lost by thirty minutes! Oh well, at least I have the knowledge that I could have won, had I paid more attention to the details.
What was originally going to be one 9 inning game turned into two seven inning games due to a rain-out yesterday. The Everett Aquasox (A single-A short season Mariners affiliate) were taking on the Eugene Emeralds. Things looked grim for the Aquasox for most of the first game, until the bottom of the 6th, when the bats came alive. Five runs scored, and the final score was 7-6 or thereabouts. Things got a lot worse for Eugene, though. In the second game, the Sox struck early and often. The 5th and 6th innings were brutal to Eugene’s pitching staff. Think two solo home runs followed by two triples and then a double. Yeah. And then a three run home run. The Aquasox ran away with that game 12-1, which entitled all of the stalwarts souls who stayed on to $10 Gameworks Coupons – yipee. After the game, there was an excellent fireworks display put on by what looked to be a bunch of escaped convicts in their birght orange flame retardent jumpsuits. This was no computer controlled event, the guy down on the field were lighting these things by hand. I have some video of the show, but there were no children that I was cruel to at the time :-).
It was a long day, but it was far more rewarding, an much less expensive (think free), than a similar outing with the Mariners. Not such a bad way to spend a Saturday. Upon getting home, I even got to have a short conversation with a person with whom I very much enjoy chatting. However, the plan doesn’t seem to be going so well, judging by the post times of my last few entries.
Peace.
Well, ok, I’m not great, but I’m incredible in comparison to the last two days. I didn’t feel at the top of my game this morning, and after a short day at work today, I came home with a headache. But then I took an Aleve and rested, and things just keep getting better. Tomorrow I’ll feel confident saying that I beat this cold, and it was a doozie.
After work, Shai and I worked on a function that would monitor an anolog input for a second to determine its zero-point with high precision. Its a work in progress, but I think I just figured out fixed point fractional numbers, so I’m gonna work on it just a little more as my energy winds down for the evening.
Well, it seems that nobody’s well-wishing has done me much good yet, as I remain feeling still quite sick. I don’t seem to be getting any better, but I also seem to notbe getting any worse, either.