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Life

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Why is life so amazing? :)

I did more work today on CMU Adventures. I added a messaging system so you can send messages to other players, and will soon extend it to include a public message board system where you can alternately post messages that anyone can read. Any help debugging that would be appreciated. Also, magic has generally been rebalanced as to be less abusive… let’s see how that works out.

Last night was happiness, spending time with awesome people and having random conversations. I think the more time passes, the more I’m loving just spending time with and being around friends. This is a good thing.
Also, spending time with >friend is also always a good thing. ^_^

Also, I got my official job offer today in the mail, and accepted it. I start work on May 28th, so I’ll be back here in Pittsburgh a bit before then. I’ll be working as a developer with General Dynamics. Sounds kinda awesome… my first real developer position. Kinda scared though.

Also, I promised Rolf I wouldn’t post pictures until people lost interest, but there was a Kesden/Rolf newspaper fight in teh clustar yesterday and I have pictures, so you should ask me if you want to see them.

Wheee, yay for Super Smash Brothers with huge turnip things :D

Tonight is 8’s ITG party of awesome and win. Yay for life!

Whee

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Finished the Internships expansion for Student Wars yesterday. The tenative card list for the final expansion, Loose Ends, is also posted. I hope to have those finished, and to have Student Wars v2 started, by the end of next semester. Whether that’ll happen or not is anyone’s guess.

Also, as a note to myself, I need to work on graphical cards for the STD TCG, and also to make more cards for the Cluster card game.

Last night was a good day in KoL. I managed to get to level 11 in 2 adventures (I just needed 2 clover adventures + stat script) and beat the sorceress with no problems (had over 150 HP left; her first form only dealt 15 damage the entire time). Then I power levelled to level 15 in about 110 adventures while simultaneously building my NPZR (keep in mind a lot of those adventures were spent at the shore getting the toaster), then farmed for clockwork keys for my remaining 160 adventures. Then I ascended as an AT and got to level 4. So yeah, it would have been a sub-1000 turn run if I hadn’t wanted to level to 15 to perm pulverize. With just the levelling, its around a 1000 turn run. The only thing that made the turncount so high was my farming.

Yesterday Kat and I went to see Victor and Leon’s puppies. Oh god, they’re so cute!
Er… Oh god, there so cute! Their cuter than you’re puppies, and they have the affect of making you go “awwwww”. Your weak for puppies, you know you are.
That was painful >_<


In other news, my new memory card makes my camera say there are 1.2K available pictures… but the battery is on its way out (already :-\ although given how much I use it I guess it’s not a big deal) so I only get enough power for a couple hundred (on a full charge, although it’s stopped charging correctly, so that doesn’t mean anything).
Wheee!

Life is amazing and awesome and makes me happy.

T(i/hy)me Cube?

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I’m sure everyone reading this has read (or at least heard of) Time Cube.
Well, this site (Thyme Cube) popped up today. I know absolutely nothing about it. Nothing at all. Especially not about where it came from.
*whistles*

Also, happy vertically-challenged-labor-force-and-horizontally-challenged-overmind-relaxation day to everyone.

Also, WTF AHHH the season finale for Supernatural season 1 is a cliffhanger (kinda)! I stil think they could have done a better job with it though. They should have cut to black and then done credits instead of cutting to black and then coming back for about 20 seconds to pan over the primary cast, unconcious, before going to credits. I think that takes a lot away from the impact (no pun intended) of the scene. I dunno. I must say though, nothing else in the entire season was able to spook me as much as that scene…. talk talk yadda yadda BAM. I think I literally jumped. Awesome awesome… I love it when TV can do that.

The world of KoL is going decently, I guess. Doing a SC run to get pulverize, which should be awesomely awesome. Whee. I’ll probably follow with a HCT AT run to get phat loot. I don’t know.

I should go photographing again. I’m starting to feel camera withdrawl and it always makes me unhappy.

Finals #3 and #4 done

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My last two finals went much better than my first two. Algo this morning actually wasn’t all that terrible. I especially liked the FFT problem, and I’m fairly confident about most of my answers. Numerical methods was a bit more difficult than I was expecting (no proofs this time though!), but still quite doable. I feel like an idiot for adding 2 -1 + 1 and getting 0, and having to ask her if there was a problem with the question because my answer wasn’t making sense and I couldn’t find anything wrong with my work.

I like this picture… props to John for choosing a good location.

Relatedly, my final crit for color photo on Wednesday went really well. I’m really proud of some of the images… I’ll post the best of it in art eventually.

Yesterday in KoL, I beat the sorceress and farmed the hell out of the Crimbo areas. It’s amazing how I was able to start the day with 45 adventures, then free the king and get access to my food and drink again, and earn another ~200 adventures off of chow meins and crimbo booze. Yar.

I suppose I should finish packing and sleep soon.

Geekery

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It’s 3:30 AM and I have a (final) crit at 8:30 tomorrow. I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago. Meh.

I’m kicking myself mentally because I just majorly screwed up this KoL run (which I was trying to make a speed run so I could go farm crimbo). I spent around 60 turns at the pirate’s cove thinking I needed the dictionary, and getting frustrated that it wouldn’t drop. Then I realized that I had the Mt. McLargeHuge quest and *not* the chasm quest, and I was very sad for wasting 60 hco turns. Then, I got tons of RNG screwage. I spent around 40 turns trying to get the outfit for the mines. I got 4 pants and 3 helmets (as item drops) before finally getting the weapon. The ore I needed was the last one I came across. Then spent around 80 turns at the goatlet with +60% item drops. Encountered something like 12 dairy goats. Got exactly 2 cheese drops. Then I got the leaflet and got the bowling trophy instead of the stat code that I could have used to slightly lessen my screwups in this run.
So much for having time to farm crimbo after hc :-\ If I’m not done with this run by next weekend, I am dropping hc and oxy and farming the hell out of crimbotown anyway.
Bah.

Made tenative rules and cards for a Cluster card game today (instead of doing graphics homework).


I’ll finish it after this week is over. It seems fun enough (and a lot simpler than my other card games).
Bah, I’m screwing up my grades so much by doing this. I’m not going to get graphics done and grargh why am I so stupid?

Also, I can’t help but feel like I majorly screwed up with respect to my relationship. I don’t even know why, because it’s not like I did anything, much less anything *wrong*. I’m just feeling incredibly lonely and such… and I feel like I’m being too whiny and whingy about it and everything. I need to stop being so full of myself.
I guess it’s also the feeling that I’m not doing enough… that I need to be a better boyfriend.
Bah.

I screwed up peoples’ LJ friends pages yesterday after upgrading WordPress (because it apparently extended the feed back 15 days instead of 7, causing old entries to all be republished to the syndicated account).
Bah.

Also, I still haven’t found time to buy Christmas presents for anyone. This is a very bad thing. I’m a horrible friend.
Bah.

So let’s see… in the past 48 hours I feel like I’ve screwed up classwork, KoL, relationship foo, LJ foo, friendship foo, and my sleep schedule.
…
God I feel like I’m screwing up everything in my life.
I should be asleep right now.

Edit: Great… I woke up this morning, looked at the clock, and was like “SHIT IT’S 8:35!” Meh. Managed to make it to class by 8:45, so I wasn’t too late…
Yay for more screwups.