This weekend was pretty intense compared to the last one. Saturday was kind of a blur starting with helping my girlfriend's mother get her Java project working for her operating systems class. Yes, Java in an operating systems class. I did my work in C the first time I took the class, which was with a terrible group assignment and my parents' divorce going full blast, and did part of the second one in Java because my partner didn't know enough C to be adventurous enough to write our pseudo file system in C. Well, anyway, her project was to write a thread pool. Yes, just a thread pool. What the hell does THAT teach that can't be summarized in a few bullet points on a lecture slide? I like Java, but it's really not appropriate to use for an operating systems class except at the end of the class and you want to illustrate OS concepts in higher level modern languages.
Two things coincided this weekend. First, my grandmother's 76th birthday and the anniversary of my relationship with Rachel. We've technically been together for about a year and a half now, but didn't make it official until a year ago tonight. Things seem to be moving strongly now in the inevitable direction which is what both of us want very much at this point.
Tomorrow is going to be a day full of misery, pain and suffering. I have to call about a mild gas leak at my apartment, call my insurance about an accident that happened on Friday and make a doctor's appointment. Then, I have to go to a presentation that I have the sneaky suspicion will put me and many others in "interesting times" tomorrow. Things may be heating up big time with this one, and I'm glad that my involvement is only that of a code monkey on loan, not actually brought in all the way.
So... tomorrow's forecast is a 25% chance of light blogging with high chance of migraines followed by periodic mass murder in Halo 2.
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