Unkept Promises

It seems that I always promise myself that I will keep up with my blog but I never do. And it's not simply that I have nothing to write about. I have several "notes", of stuff that could use some attention in the future. But I never seem to have time. Or else, when I do have time, I seem to forget about it. I never did edit the post about cool sites, though I will get around to that some day. I also have a post written out on scrap paper waiting to be typed up. It was because I had no access to my blog at the time. A lot of interesting things have happened this year. I got a new cell phone, along with one of those fab 5 plans. The most annoying part was trying to get things activated since none of it seemed to have been set up properly. I also had to spend many long hours arguing with my the company providing my DSL service, first to convince them there was something wrong, then to convince them not to keep sending it back to the central office, and then to actually get someone to come fix it. But it's fixed now. It's also been a new experience living on my own and cooking for myself since this is the first time I have ever lived truly on my own. But now I must go study for a test tommorow so I'll blog more later.

Blog about blogs

This post will eventaulyl be replaced with an in depth look at my favourite blogs. Or maybe just an in depth look into Gen's blog, and a list of all my favourite blogs. Or maybe just an in depth look at Gen's blog :D. This stub is a reminder to me to expand it so I don't forget what I wanted to blog about

Domain name

On some random note, I now own the domain name dacasbah.com. So you can now email me at dany{at}dacasbah{dot}com.

Long Time No Speak

I don't think I have updated this blog since the first week of university, and now final exams for first semester are rapidly approaching. I have made it through the good times and the bad, good times being things like getting 98 % on a midterm exam, the bad things, those such as nearly failing an assignment or missing the bus to come back after visiting Mr. Rocko.

I have found university not all that bad, although a bit stressful at times. I do miss my home lots, and the things, like sleeping in my own bed where I control how much the window is open and when, to taking long hot baths. Nothing like that hear, only cramped shower stolls and the other day we even had 0 hot water. TM nearly froze taking her shower!

There seems that there is always lots to here, yet often not so much to do. There are lots of events and such going on and of course there are always assignments due or exams to study for, but it seems like whenever I am trying to relax there is nothing for me to do.

I have noticed some weird problems with the bandwith lately. I run through 100 mb quickly when before I barely used any and my bandwith is never full. I hope there is some time soon where no one is online so that it can fill back up. We keep going negative which is not cool because it could cause my port to be shut off. Anyways this has taken long enough.

Long Time

So, it's been a long time since I last posted on here. This summer I have prepared for university, visited Boston, and flown across the country for my cousins wedding. Today I had an interesting experience since I got my brand toshiba laptop. Yes, I got a toshiba even though Mr. Rocko told me repeatadly not to get one. My brother has never had any problem with his so I suppose it should be all right. To tell you the truth, it's a very different experience since I have been a Mac user all my life. And Vista is nothing like I have ever used before. The hardest thing by far to get used to though is typind on a laptop. I keep touching the touchpad by mistake so the cursor keeps jumping everywhere. Oh well, I'm sure I will get used to it soon.

Computers Are Useful

I've never really realised how useful computers can be until now. When I heard a fellow classmate complain about testing his program. I added a super secret simulation mode to my program so I can let the computer run all my tests for me. Sort of like they do in the reall world. I guess he wasn't smart enough to think about something like that, taking the time to play through an entire game just to test if he fixed his error. Me I just press a few buttons and the Computer instantly plays a 30 turn game for me. Instant results. All I have to do is go back through the boards and make sure there are no illegal moves and that all the proper changes have been made. Perfection is great aint it.

Yay no work

So apparently I don't have to work tonight after all. Origionally we thought they were setting up in the Calf but B-rocker said today they were setting up movie night in a class room. I finally have a friday night of to myself. And since today is a day 1 and I have spare last period, I'll actually get to go home early today. On top of that I had a canceled class. Today is officially the best friday I have had in a while. The only think that could possibly make it better would be finding out that Mr. Rocko got accepted at the radio and television program at Ryerson. Awesome

Ubuntu

It's really weird because currently I am writing this from my home computer with Ubuntu booted from a CD. It's called a live CD so that you can run Ubuntu without installing it. I might consider creating a CD of an older version so that I can save my state on my USB key. It's weird though because I could open files on my hard drive but I can't write to my hard drive. I am trying Lynix and it feels surreal since I booted it on my home machine. Hopefully I will still be able to boot Mac OS X normally after this since my mom doesn't know I was using Lynix.

Nerve Wracking Test

So I had a math test today. Most of the knowledge questions were really easy and easily finished. Some of the application questions were a little bit more challenge. I think I got most of them right although I may have messed up somewhere when solving one of my matrices. The tips was hard as hell though. I really hope I did well because I need to keep my mark up for the course since it's a required course for my university program and certain people think I should keep my admissions average above 85 % in order to keep the entrance scholarship I was offered. It bugs me that I had any trouble at all with the test since this is the easiest unit. I always seem to have problems with the matrices since I seem to miss the little details a lot. And the worst part was I had to write into lunch so that I missed most of my lunch period. And I have computer science next not spare. Not like I have much time to relax during spare anyways. Mr. Rocko and I always seem to have work to do during spare. We spend so much of our time doing tech work and not enough time relaxing or more importantly, for us university bound student's, doing homework. It sucks.

Better Days

So life has gotten better in terms of the Little Shop of Horrors and the Director. The director was a lot nicer at the last rehearsal. She left me on my own without calling out the cues and she was really pleased with how well I did the cues. I guess that is weight off her shoulders to know that her lighting director is competent. There was an incident with Jane today. She was telling her friends about how we keep chocolate in the office. She didn't realize I was standing behind her at the time. And then she went into the office to check if there was any candy in the stash. There was some but I didn't even let her check. Mr. Rocko gave her a talking to and she gave some serious attitude. We had the day off from rehearsal today and I only had to go to one class because Math was cancelled and during computer science we were setting up for an assembly. As well Mr. Rocko changed the teams name to the Nerd Squad. Don't ask me why. Anyways I finally figured out how to finish my program so I feel a lot better now. Anyways the stress is off although I didn't finish my homework for Math Class. Oh well. Life is finally starting to look up. Except that I have to spend all of Saturday at school.

Finally some rest

So the Director gave us Wednesday. Thursday and Friday off last week. We had Wednesday and Thursday off because the actors were just working on their songs and we had friday off because there was no rehearsal friday. I was actually home early for once. I also got my midterm report card on friday and my average so far for this semester is almost 88 %/ But there was a problem with my computer science mark because it was higher than it should have been. Anyways its good that I am keeping my marks up because I need 85 % to keep my scholarship for university. While it was nice to have a couple days off, there was a downside. I had to go into school saturday morning because we were trying out the new equalizer. It sounded great but it was nothing to loose sleep over. Speaking of loosing sleep, I have a Biology test on Tuesday. I've studied hard for my test but tests always make me nervous. I have to do well to make up for the 60 % I got on my last quiz. I got so low because I was working on other stuff and had no time to study for the quiz. Another thing about Friday, no one went into the office for once. Someone went into the office three times last week during third period. We know because they stole chair's from the office. We suspect it was Jane because she was pissed off about quitting the team and everything else. Anyways I really don't know what I am going to do now because I am so board. There is nothing to do around here.

Yay Finally A Day Off

Finally we have a day off from the Little Shop of Horrors and our evil director. Today she came in complaining about how I "Wasn't following the cues." It's kind of hard to follow cues when she changes the cues on the fly every single rehearsal. Tonight we are only needed for pictures and then we can leave. My first afternoon off in almost three weeks. More on Jane as well. Apparently she did not enjoy being on the AV team all this time. Bullshit. If she had a problem she should have said so.

Rabid Aquatic goats

So I wrote a math contest today. In preparation for the contest I was looking through old contests. One of the questions had to do with survivors on an island building a driftwood shelter for their goat. Now my question to my good pal Mr. Rocko upon reading this was "Why the heck do they have a goat in the first question. Sadly Mr. Rocko was no help, only telling me to "figure it out mathematically." Now today I was writing the contest and there was a question about a couple of islands surrounded by water filled with... rabid aquatic goats. What is with them and goat? Well this afternoon I was telling Mr. Rocko how in order to be 100 % prepared for the contest you would have to study every single thing to do with math. His comment was "Ya, everything about Math and everything about goats." Anyways this was just a brief interruption from "The Little Shop of Horrors," or as a classmate called it "Little Shop of Whores." In her defense she thought that Mr. Rocko actually said Whores. We had another rehearsal tonight and while we managed to avoid Death Wishes, we found out that one of our speakers was blown. On top of that Mr. Rocko and I had to leave before the end of rehearsal since the Director never told us it was a full run through today. I had to leave the Pig on the lighting board. It should have been pretty easy, a simple fade to blackout and fade up in one scene, a blackout at the end. Apparently not. We were standing by our lockers when we saw the lights blacked out and the Director, apparently forgetting I had to leave, calling up to me about the lighting, particularly about something that was done wrong. The Pig can't even handle the simplest tasks. But on the bright side, having him screw up immediately makes me look all the better to the Director. On the bad side, we have to go in on Saturday to play around with the sound and we have a full technical rehearsal the Saturday after. Not much time left for myself anymore.

The Teen Years

The teen years can be some of the most troulbling years. Luckily for me those years are almost over. Midterm report cards come out next week for the final semester of my final year of high school. I don't have much to worry about. I'm getting ok grades and I was accepted into the Computer Science program at the University I wanted to go through. But now I have to worry about getting high enough marks to make an 85% admission average in order to retain my scholorship. Normally that wouldn't be to hard except that I am having trouble with Geometry and Discrete, only a 77%, and that is one of the required courses for my program.
I am also doing lighting as part of the Technical crew for the school play. So far it has been nothing but a disaster. The sound is never good enough, the mics keep cutting out, the light's aren't bright enough, and we are still short two spotlights. Every single day the director complains about something. Mostly because Jane never pays attention and has to be told what to do every single second. Yesterday she had to ask me if she should throw out the garbage that was on the table. And then there is Mat who is consitently unrealiable. I talked to Mat earlier today and he said that he may or may not be able to attend the rehearsal today after school. My friend, Mr. Rocko, is the Technical Director and he is just about ready to either murder the director or just walk. Doing either would leave him in a lot of trouble with somebody. Apparently not only does the director complain about the technical stuff to our faces, but she also complains about the technical stuff behind our backs to other teachers. Mr. Rocko is just about ready to have a melt down.