Yep. I finally got my first tast of the new Pepsi Blue. I have to say that I like it. It reminds me of a melted blue Icee. You know the slushie type things that you buy at malls and Target food courts. I have been looking for this stuff since others in my family said that they have had it for awhile, but here in Madison I hadn't seen it. I stopped by the store after class today to pick up milk, bagels, and jell-o. Can you tell I'm a college student?? So I made my way down the pop aisle just to see if they had any 2 liters of it. Nope, no luck. I then checked the 20 oz bottles and they had a whole bunch of them. Unfortunately, Pepsi isn't like Coke in the way they price their new products. When Vanilla Coke came out I could get two 20oz for $1 but the Blue was the regular $1.09. That bummed me out, but I bought 2 so I could share with Michelle. As always Michelle didn't like it so I got both bottles. I think it has to grow on her. She did the same thing with Vanilla Coke. She wasn't too keen on it, but now she likes the stuff. This isn't good though becuase I trying to stop drinking caffinated drinks because I'm convinced they are messing with my sleeping. It may also be the fact that I work until midnight and have to get up at 7:30 a.m. the next morning.
I spent my entire shift last night programming. I was making an app that lets me use a form to enter stuff into my bro's MySQL server. I got it running very roughly. But I got the keen idea that I should make an applet out of it so I can access it from any computer. So I've worked on that today since I got here, when I really should be reading for my classes. A week from Thursday is the last day of classes so I have exams I need to study for. So that's what I'm gonna do for awhile tonight.
July 2002 Archives
I'm trying my best to be productive at work tonight, but it isn't working. I know the DVD Garage is badly out of date, but I can't seem to log in to the server. I can log with telnet, but that's it. I don't want to go through hand coding each command. I'm lazy.
My teacher guy for my socail psych class ended up changing that 15 point assignment to one that is worth 6 points. He said that some people came and asked him some questions and he realized that it might be a long assignment. He asked the class to fill out a questionnaire about the assignment. He said that half the class said to keep the assignment and the other half said no. For some reason, he decided to go with the one that thought the assingment was too much work. The assignment didn't seem hard it just would have taken alot of time to get everything else together. He also handed out an extra credit assignment that I think is unique. He is looking for songs that relate to topics that we've covered in the class. There is a possible 7 points of extra credit. Based on his grading this could bump me up to a B if I continue the quality of work that I'm doing. That's good I guess.
I got the RaveMP from Michelle the other day. I had her find the CD so I could install the software, but the software wouldn't install on NT. So I ended up looking all over the place for something that would work. I remembered that the RaveMp was actually made by MPMan and was just repackaged as the RaveMP by another company. This MPMan website did have software that works with 2000 and XP. The only downside is that the software takes a real long time to load. I think that the software connects to the player and that takes forever since it is a parallel. The whole reason I wanted to see if this player worked was so I could listen to the Caviar songs. I wanted to listen to them when I went to class on Thursday, but I didn't want to burn a CD with only 7 songs on it. The Rave has 64 megs so I was albe to load up the 7 songs and still have 15 megs left. Cool. huh. I think so. Well, I think I'm off to find something to do on my computer.
I hate studying. I know I brought the need for cramming on myself. But I still do not like doing it. I have reading parts of a book. Both classes this summer have had readings that are either only part of a chapter or reading chapters out of order. I can't stand reading books like this. There is always the reference the the chapters/pages that you were assigned to read and I get all spazzed out cause I think I'm missing something because I don't know what they are referring to. I don't know why I expect to study while I'm at work. I have some problem that prevents me from focusing while I'm at work. I don't know what it is, but I never can. I can't wait until this week is over. I'm going to sleep alot and clean my old apartment room. One of the walls got real dirty and I don't know why. It must have been my blankets or something but I'll clean that and I should be out of my apartment for good. I still have to drop off the rent check for the last half month.
I got an email from a Caviar mailing list that I don't remember signing up for, but there were 8 songs posted as b-sides. I don't know what they were b-sides to but check it out if you like Caviar. One song has me hooked called Dwarf Girls. I don't know why but it makes me laugh.
I waste a lot of time in my day. I came across this today sitting in front of a computer at the lab. I'm such a loser that I hang out here even when I'm not working. I have class until 10:15 and my next class doesn't start until 11:45. That gives me an hour and a half to fill. I'll eat at the union, but that only takes 15 minutes at the most. When you eat alone you eat fast. I think this may be because you don't talk and talking slows down consumption. Back to the topic at hand. I don't have enough time in the days that I work. I have class until 1 and then I go home and leave at 3:30 for work. Looking at the time, there seems to be much time that I have, but in reality when I spend time on the bus, making a dinner for work, and all, there is not enough time in the day. I guess I could be productive and study for my test that I have tomorrow, but if I do that now I wouldn't have anything to do tonight when I work 4 to Midnight. The shifts are long and boring so I would rather put things off so I have something to do.
I finished up my skin last night. I added a Visualization box. The only thing that I'm contemplating now is a Shuffle/Reshuffle button. I don't think that really matters though so I might just leave it off.
Ahh. Another slow night at work. I've been semi productive tonight. I've done a bit of reading for my Personality test that I have on Thursday. I'll focus a bit more tomorrow night. Igot a B on my Social psych test that I took last week and found out that I'm just barely below a B. I need 83% for a B and I'm sitting at 82.44% and he doesn't round up. I've been doing the homeworks and missing a point here and there so I should be able to get a B in the class, but that all depends on how well I do on the final exam. It seems the homeworks are getting to be worth more points. At the beginning of the semister he said that there were going to be 10 homeworks worth a total of 60 points. But now there have been 3 homeworks worth 6 points, one for 10 points, and the one he handed out today is worth 16 points. I'm assuming he want's to make sure that the total for homework is 60 and he realized that there are only a few weeks left in the summer session.
I've done some tweaking of my skin over the weekend and past day. I've made it real cool in the fact that the playlist and eq window move around. It's hard to explain, but I'll try. You have a window for your play controls. Then you have a window for the playlist and another window for the EQ. If you close the playlist the EQ window will move so it is directly under the play controls. But the cool thing is if you turn the playlist back on it will show up below the EQ. Sounds confusing but I think it's cool. I spent around 2 hours working on it. I think I could have finished it sooner, but I was watching the Waterboy at the time. I think I'm done with it, but I might do some more little tweaks with it tonight. For some reason I want to get a Shuffle function going. I don't use it but I think there should be one. I'm also beginning to think that I need to make a Visualization window. This is one of the things that drive me nuts. I think the Visualizations are waste, maybe this is because my laptop can't handle them. My unhappiness with my laptop is another story. I can't stand it. It seems that just recently it's started bugging me that I can't play any games on it. The thing only has 8 mb shared video memory and I can't adjust it. Some laptops you can adjust the video memory, but I can't on mine. Looking back this was a bit of a quick purchase. I new what I wanted in a laptop and I snatched up the first one with the options. It does have a larger harddrive than most models in the price range. I'm looking forward to getting a job and maybe a new computer OR a gamecube.
I forgot to write and say that the skin I was working on is posted. The skin needs Media Jukebox installed. It's posted on their site also and I tried linking it but it doesn't work. To find the skin you go to Accessories toward the top of the page and select skins. Once that page loads you click on Mini-me skins. Mine should be the first one there. It's called Simpleton. I already have a couple comments for it. I'm such a dork. One person wanted the buttons further apart and another wanted more colors. I might put the finishing touches for a EQ disply and visualization before I start messing with the colors.
My boss finally left, but now I'm doing this stuff so I'm not that bored anymore.
I'm at work. I'm bored. Don't have anything to do tonight. I was going to do some reading for my psych class but I forgot to pick up my book from my apartment. So now I'm going to keep myself entertained for a number of hours. I found some annoying game on Yahoo! called Toki Toki Boom. It's a dumb game, but I played it for 45 mins. Now I'm just bored. My boss is still here so I can't really play any other games. I'm just bored. Maybe I'll think of something else to do.
I have yet to be able to handle bad news. I've never had much of this type of thing happening to me. I don't know if the not knowing of what it going on, or the reaction of others around me. People tell you that things are uncertain but they try to make you feel better by saying things. But their actions do not match with what they are saying. I think that is what bothers me more. I'm supposed to assume the best case senario, but the person deliverying the news appears to taking things in a different manner. It just puts life in perspective. Something you consider a constant in your life might not always be there. I've already had to handle this in one situation, but it's only the second time now.
Wow. It's been awhile since I've made an entry here. I was actually going through wtihdrawl. I kept getting these urges to write, but I couldn't get on here. My brother got a house and moved so that's why it has been so long. He didn't set his computer stuff up until last week sometime. I noticed that the journal stuff wasn't working so I've spent a little time here and there to try to fix it, but tonight I sat down trying to figure out how to get this working again. My bro said he upgraded his linux box so there were someissues there. Tongiht between emails and IMs we finally got everything all figured out and I'm back here entering journal entries. I know I was misse. Now that I'm typing I can't think of what I felt that I needed to write. I thinking it was the fact that I am writing that helps.
The move happens this upcoming weekend. I 'm heading to the new apartment. I have almost all my stuff packed up from the old apartment and I'm ready to move to an apartment with air. Packing up my stuff was unbearable cause no air and fans don't do much except blow hot air on you. It's going to be hella hot in the next couple days. I think I may be getting used the the heat though. Yesterday it got up to the mid 80's and I survived withouth any airconditioning. I went back to the new apartment between work and the air was on so it was nice and cool.
I've been picking up shifts at work so I'll have a nice little boost of money. I don't know if the timing was as good because I have a social psych exam on Thursday. I keep telling myself that I get more done at work than I would if I was at home. I don't let myself do anything until I get my reading done. Tonight was an exception cause I read and worked to get this going since there were about 10 minutes between each email I sent my brother.
I've found a new project that I've been working on. I've been working on a skin for Media Jukebox. I think this is the best jukebox software out there. It made by a smaller company that is based in Minneapolis. The only tech support they have is a support forum, but it's nice to see the one of the heads of the company posting responses. I'll post the skin once I get it finished. I spend last night getting the skin to display the playlist. I still need to add scroll bars to the playlist and add a toggle for the EQ, I don't think that will take as long since I know how to get windows to hide and show. Doing the skin has also increased my knowledge of photoshop. I've been using Elements which is a lamed out version of Photoshop. I think it's easier to handle since there are less options. The only thing that drives me nuts is that every shape I draw has anti-aliasing on. In the real Photoshop that can be turned off. I just use the magic wand to fix that though.
Well nothing else to say.
