Caught In The Whirlwind
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An Update On Happenings
Mar 5th 2010
Just an update-y sort of post today.
First off, school. The latest project in my Digital Imaging course was to recolor a black and white photograph and make it look like it was always color. I went over to my grandmother’s to look at some of our old family photos and she showed me the wedding picture of my great great great grandparents (maybe another great on there…not sure exactly). It was definitely old, but it was in really good shape, so I ended up doing that. Finished it this week in class, although I think it could have turned out better if I had more time to tweak it (only got two class periods to work on it and he doesn’t want us working on stuff outside of class). Turned out all right though. I’ll post it up here when I get my flash drive back.
Along those same lines, I decided it’s probably going to be a little bit before I manage to take some of the more theory oriented design courses, so I’ve got myself a textbook on design theory that I’m starting to get into. Not quite as good as taking a course, but the book is good and I’m learning a lot of interesting stuff (well, interesting to me anyway).
Moving away from learning and school stuff, I’ll be meeting up with my sister Saturday afternoon to hang out a bit and watch the Syracuse game. Looking forward to it, after the realization that we only really see each other on holidays anymore.
It's Friday! Yay?
Mar 21st 2008
Well, it's Friday, and that's gotta count for something right?
I've been feeling kinda blah lately (not physically blah. Mentally blah). There's a lot of stuff going on at work and school which is weighing on me a bit right now, so I'm not feeling terribly peppy at the moment. Well, actually with work it's the lack of things going on that's the problem. I've been stuck on this one issue for a while now. One of our customers is having a problem I can't reproduce no matter how hard I try, even if I duplicate their setup exactly. I'm not sure what's wrong, how to fix it or how to even work around it because of the restrictions in place with their particular setup. And they're starting to get a little impatient. I also can't really ask anyone else because I'm the only person who deals with this sort of stuff here.
So I'm stuck. Which is really frustrating for me because I should know the answer and I should be able to fix it, but I can't. This doesn't really help my issue that I discussed earlier about feeling like this isn't what I'm really supposed to be doing. I feel like I'm in over my head or something, I guess would be the best way to describe it.
School is being a pain too because I'm still behind a bit on my project but I'm going to spend more time this weekend to get it going again. I find it really hard to get home from work and jump right into working on another thing I really don't want to do. And my frustration with all of this has caused me to deviate a bit from my weight loss plan, which is totally my fault and I'm jumping back on as of today, but I haven't done any exercise this week at all because I haven't felt that I had the energy.
Oh well…onwards to happier news. Syracuse won their game last night in the NIT Tournament which means they get to play one more home game on Tuesday before they head out to Madison Square Garden (if they win anyway). I'm going to this one alone because my dad has a doctors appointment thingy and I had assumed since the only other people I'd consider asking (Wassy and Jay) don't like sports that they wouldn't be interested. As it turns out I was wrong on that last count after I bought my ticket because Wassy said she would have gone with me. Bah! Noted for the next time this comes up.
This weekend isn't looking terribly fun for me though. I need to spend a lot of time working on my project for school to prevent myself from becoming pushed farther behind. I basically have 4 weeks to finish up the whole deal now and I want to get back on top of things before they totally spiral out of control. I'll be very glad when all of this is over.
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The Tournament of Many Corporate Sponsorships
Mar 19th 2008
Last night I went out to the NIT Men's Basketball game at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. I think out of every sport, I enjoy watching college basketball the most. And having Syracuse University basically right next door helps out a lot with that because it means I can actually go to games every so often.
And I probably shouldn't even be admitting this, but I kinda like it better when Syracuse doesn't get to the NCAA Tournament. Because that means they're probably going to be in the NIT and they're also probably going to be playing at least 1 game and possibly 2 at the carrier dome. And the season ticket holders who are usually rich old guys, not the real fans don't get their seats reserved for NIT games, which means even though the crowd is smaller (usually), it's much more lively. I say usually because I was there last year when 26,000 screaming fans attended and shattered the NIT single game attendence record which was probably the most amazing game I've ever attended because of the crowd.
So we went out to the game last night against Robert Morris, we being myself and my parents. It started off pretty rocky…well, actually it ended pretty rocky too. Syracuse played pretty sloppily for most of the game, missing a lot of their shots in the first half and almost all of their free throws in the second. Or what seemed like almost all, because looking at the box score I see they were shooting 53%.
One thing I should also mention is the fact that nobody had any idea
how the rows were labeled in the section we were sitting in. We had a
little trouble to begin with and we ended up pointing a bunch of people
to the right rows by the end of the game. Oh, and the people behind us
were having an awful hard time trying to figure out where the opposing
team was from. I kinda felt sorry for RMU's cheerleaders too, because they were happy and waving and trying to get the crowd to cheer…and didn't seem to realize that they were in Syracuse. Tough crowd.
Anyway, it was a fun time, but I'm not going to be able to make the second game because it's tomorrow and I have class. Bah. Bad scheduling on their part.
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Basketball and…Mermaids?
Jan 20th 2008
Yesterday I went out to Syracuse with my parents to watch the Syracuse vs Villanova basketball game at the Carrier Dome. It was kinda ugly and while Syracuse managed to hang in there for a while, they ended up losing it in the second half when they got into some foul trouble and had to play without a couple of their best guys out there. Our seats were a bit weird though. We ended up sitting in the last row of the first level and underneath an underhang where the second level is, so it looked like we were watching the game in a little room with a really big widescreen TV. I guess they were a gift from UPS to my dad because his company is a pretty good UPS customer, so I really can't complain. After the game we went out to Tully's to eat and then we headed back home.
When I got there, my friend Wassy had another surprise to spring on me. I knew she had been cooking up something because she kept IMing me with random "mwahahah!"s and dropping cryptic hints. But she couldn't wait any longer and revealed her plot to me last night. More artwork, whee!
Apparently she thought my fish might enjoy a pin-up girl and I think this will be a fine distraction in their attempts at world domination (they're planning something…). I think this is some of her best detail work yet and you really need to see the full size version to appreciate all the little touches that she put into it.
QotD: Hoop Dreams
Mar 24th 2007
Who's going to be in the Final Four?
Certainly not the teams I picked to be in the Final Four, that's for certain.
I had Wisconsin, UCLA, North Carolina and Ohio State. Wisconsin got knocked out and with my luck, the other three are going to get knocked out as well.
Things are not going well in bracketsville this year…not well at all.
QotD: Don’t Worry, It’ll Heal
Jan 16th 2007
How many bones have you broken? Yours or someone else’s?
I’ve never broken any bones, mine or anybody else’s for that matter. The worst I’ve ever had was a jammed finger which was a basketball related injury in High School after going to the gym during lunch to play, well…basketball.
I went up for the ball, and it bounced off the tip of my finger. Very painful…but it got me out of gym class for a week or so.
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