Wow I'm busy.
I'd like to state for the record that I am still alive. I am now 24 years old, which seems a little steep to me. I appear to be in my mid-twenties, which I shall not call "getting old" nor make any disparaging remarks about in general, lest I be thwapped on the head.
I went to StL for Thanksgiving, spending lunch with my parents, aunt, grandmother, and Kat. Then for dinner headed off to Kat's sister Heidi's place. Dinner there was once again entertaining, and we played spinner for a while afterwards. It's a variation on dominoes that's interesting because it adds some amount of offensive and defensive strategy to the game.
The next day after a little bit of shopping, and dinner with her parents at Watercolors, we headed back to Rolla. A note on Watercolors Cafe (Lindburgh just south of Monsanto). The service is excellent. I've been there twice, and the servers have been awesome on both occasions, far above and beyond expectations. The food is good, and reasonably priced for what you get. The food is extremely well prepared and thought out, but they still only give you one fork, and the napkins are paper. That's the kind of thing that I appreciate.
In any case, upon reentry into Rolla's hellshield (that which protects us from tornados, not one of which has hit Rolla for at least 50 years), I dropped off Kat and got to work. I worked all of yesterday, and all of today as well. I'm pretty much looking at a solid week of grinding on stuff.
First off, there's the BioInformatics presentation tomorrow. Due to work done thus far, it is finished.
Tuesday the homework for CS412 is due. I've got a start on it, but it's going to need another 3-4 hours worth of group work probably.
The OSHA guys are also coming by Tuesday for a look at the VEnOM lab, and what their money is buying them, so I need to get my demo up and working by then.
Wednesday some code needs to be done for Software Engineering. I've got my share of the coding done I believe, but that's always subject to change.
Thursday the Java semester project is due. It shouldn't be too hard, but with the time crunch, it's bad enough. At least the newest set of requirements won't have me writing a particle engine to make the thing work.
Also Thursday I have my XML final test. It looks to not be too bad provided I do enough review.
After that week from hell, it's time to put my time into finishing my XML semester project, the BioInformatics paper that goes with the presentation, I'm sure that there's more Software Engineering work to be done. I'll also still have tests left in Software Engineering and Java to do well on. This week however, should be the nastiest one to get through.
As it stands, the Bio presentation is done. I've done my chunk of coding for Software Engineering. My VEnOM demo is up and running, just not how I'd like it to. I've started on some of the work for XML hmwk4. I've not done crap yet to start on the Java project, nor studied for the XML test.
I've got some work done on the XML semester project, but it needs to be done quick, so that the others in my group have some data to work on. I have no idea what else will be required in the Software Engineering class either codewise or examwise. Thankfully there's usually a study guide for the Java tests, so that generally isn't too tough.
And that's where I'm sitting scholastically right now. I haven't had time to go hunting, either small game or muzzleloading deer. I don't know if I'm going to get the time until muzzleloader season is over. Which is too bad, because I like the flavor, but I just don't have the time. On the plus side, I didn't buy a deer tag, not knowing if I'd use it, so that's money not wasted.
I should be getting paid on Tuesday, which is my one bright spot on that day otherwise full of pain. At that point I should also find out how much I'm getting paid.
In any case, I think I've gotten just about everything done that I'm going to tonight. So I'm going to pass out now, and get up early so that I can go work on XML hmwk 4 with Craig at 10.
I went to StL for Thanksgiving, spending lunch with my parents, aunt, grandmother, and Kat. Then for dinner headed off to Kat's sister Heidi's place. Dinner there was once again entertaining, and we played spinner for a while afterwards. It's a variation on dominoes that's interesting because it adds some amount of offensive and defensive strategy to the game.
The next day after a little bit of shopping, and dinner with her parents at Watercolors, we headed back to Rolla. A note on Watercolors Cafe (Lindburgh just south of Monsanto). The service is excellent. I've been there twice, and the servers have been awesome on both occasions, far above and beyond expectations. The food is good, and reasonably priced for what you get. The food is extremely well prepared and thought out, but they still only give you one fork, and the napkins are paper. That's the kind of thing that I appreciate.
In any case, upon reentry into Rolla's hellshield (that which protects us from tornados, not one of which has hit Rolla for at least 50 years), I dropped off Kat and got to work. I worked all of yesterday, and all of today as well. I'm pretty much looking at a solid week of grinding on stuff.
First off, there's the BioInformatics presentation tomorrow. Due to work done thus far, it is finished.
Tuesday the homework for CS412 is due. I've got a start on it, but it's going to need another 3-4 hours worth of group work probably.
The OSHA guys are also coming by Tuesday for a look at the VEnOM lab, and what their money is buying them, so I need to get my demo up and working by then.
Wednesday some code needs to be done for Software Engineering. I've got my share of the coding done I believe, but that's always subject to change.
Thursday the Java semester project is due. It shouldn't be too hard, but with the time crunch, it's bad enough. At least the newest set of requirements won't have me writing a particle engine to make the thing work.
Also Thursday I have my XML final test. It looks to not be too bad provided I do enough review.
After that week from hell, it's time to put my time into finishing my XML semester project, the BioInformatics paper that goes with the presentation, I'm sure that there's more Software Engineering work to be done. I'll also still have tests left in Software Engineering and Java to do well on. This week however, should be the nastiest one to get through.
As it stands, the Bio presentation is done. I've done my chunk of coding for Software Engineering. My VEnOM demo is up and running, just not how I'd like it to. I've started on some of the work for XML hmwk4. I've not done crap yet to start on the Java project, nor studied for the XML test.
I've got some work done on the XML semester project, but it needs to be done quick, so that the others in my group have some data to work on. I have no idea what else will be required in the Software Engineering class either codewise or examwise. Thankfully there's usually a study guide for the Java tests, so that generally isn't too tough.
And that's where I'm sitting scholastically right now. I haven't had time to go hunting, either small game or muzzleloading deer. I don't know if I'm going to get the time until muzzleloader season is over. Which is too bad, because I like the flavor, but I just don't have the time. On the plus side, I didn't buy a deer tag, not knowing if I'd use it, so that's money not wasted.
I should be getting paid on Tuesday, which is my one bright spot on that day otherwise full of pain. At that point I should also find out how much I'm getting paid.
In any case, I think I've gotten just about everything done that I'm going to tonight. So I'm going to pass out now, and get up early so that I can go work on XML hmwk 4 with Craig at 10.