Paul Huff (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} phuff) wrote,@ 2008-04-07 22:43:00 |
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Car accidents, again.
Got hit from behind today, while driving home from taking Melissa to school. Kinda sad. The guy fed a fake name and no license to the cops so he got arrested when they figured out he was lying to them and he had a bench warrant out for his arrest. I felt bad because when I rear ended somebody the other people didn't want to call the cops (maybe they had bench warrants out, too?) and so I didn't get a ticket.
I finally fixed a bug that I've been working on in some library code we're trying to use after like a week of banging my head against a wall. It was like the absolute most annoying problem of all. The rest of my team at work has been writing code on top of the bug I've been working on, assuming it'll get fixed, and I think it finally has gotten fixed, which is nice. It was crypto code (more in the near future, hopefully, on the nature of the code), though incredibly lightweight, but being php and all, it's kind of a pain with the ol' arbitrary precision integers. Anyway, it's nice to have that done and over with. The rest of today has kind of been a decompress day, with the accident providing a bit of stress in the morning, and the bug fix finally getting pushed out to the team around 4:00pm my time.
The semester is about to end. It's kind of going out with... a fizzle. My class has gotten really easy over the last couple of weeks, probably because the professor is trying to keep up with his grading and doesn't think he can read our rough drafts before we finish, though it's entirely possible he can, since I'm pretty sure several people in the class gave him crap drafts.
I'm really starting to feel engaged at work again, which is a nice feeling. I feel like we're finally making some real progress, and we're doing decent, fun stuff. So it's nice. Really nice. I have to travel a ton in the next few months for work, which is less than nice, but at least it'll feel like productive time while travelling, unlike the last trip which I took for work, which was nearly a complete waste of time and money.
I've been finishing off Angel, though I've got one season left, and I have to say... In some ways it's really cheesy, but in other ways I really like it. I think it's kind of nice to have a "show to watch" as it were, but watching shows that have already completed their runs is both good and bad, since you can watch the whole thing without having to wait for "next week's episode" but then when the show is over, you're done. There's nothing left. No anticipation about whether or not there's going to be another season. No nothing. It's kind of a let-down.
Okay, that's the end of this entirely too-long update/ramble. I bid you good night.
Got hit from behind today, while driving home from taking Melissa to school. Kinda sad. The guy fed a fake name and no license to the cops so he got arrested when they figured out he was lying to them and he had a bench warrant out for his arrest. I felt bad because when I rear ended somebody the other people didn't want to call the cops (maybe they had bench warrants out, too?) and so I didn't get a ticket.
I finally fixed a bug that I've been working on in some library code we're trying to use after like a week of banging my head against a wall. It was like the absolute most annoying problem of all. The rest of my team at work has been writing code on top of the bug I've been working on, assuming it'll get fixed, and I think it finally has gotten fixed, which is nice. It was crypto code (more in the near future, hopefully, on the nature of the code), though incredibly lightweight, but being php and all, it's kind of a pain with the ol' arbitrary precision integers. Anyway, it's nice to have that done and over with. The rest of today has kind of been a decompress day, with the accident providing a bit of stress in the morning, and the bug fix finally getting pushed out to the team around 4:00pm my time.
The semester is about to end. It's kind of going out with... a fizzle. My class has gotten really easy over the last couple of weeks, probably because the professor is trying to keep up with his grading and doesn't think he can read our rough drafts before we finish, though it's entirely possible he can, since I'm pretty sure several people in the class gave him crap drafts.
I'm really starting to feel engaged at work again, which is a nice feeling. I feel like we're finally making some real progress, and we're doing decent, fun stuff. So it's nice. Really nice. I have to travel a ton in the next few months for work, which is less than nice, but at least it'll feel like productive time while travelling, unlike the last trip which I took for work, which was nearly a complete waste of time and money.
I've been finishing off Angel, though I've got one season left, and I have to say... In some ways it's really cheesy, but in other ways I really like it. I think it's kind of nice to have a "show to watch" as it were, but watching shows that have already completed their runs is both good and bad, since you can watch the whole thing without having to wait for "next week's episode" but then when the show is over, you're done. There's nothing left. No anticipation about whether or not there's going to be another season. No nothing. It's kind of a let-down.
Okay, that's the end of this entirely too-long update/ramble. I bid you good night.
