I've been home for about 2 weeks and I have not done anything over break. It's nice to have nothing to do, but I feel like such a bum just sitting around all the time. I have agreed to paint the front of my parents' house, so I've done that for 2 days. Other than that I've read books and watched movies. I've read the Harry Potter series. I finally broke down and bought the books and I read them all within the first 2 weeks of being home. I've also started reading the Hobbit and hope to read some of the Lord of The Rings books. I've caught up on DVD that have come out. Michelle has free rentals to Hollywood Video so we've been albe to rent movies that we normally wouldn't. One example is Rollerball. I watched this one by myself and I thought it was a horrible movie. It made me think about why the actors and actresses agreed to be in it. I was going to rent the New Guy tonight but I managed to lose the coupon only a mere 10 minutes after receiving it from Michelle. I'm that good.
I got my wisdom teeth out and had a cleaning the first couple days I was back home. The dentist was all good. The wisdom teeth I was a little worried about because I've never had any type of surgery. They had me change in a room and then took me into the OR. Had me lay down on the table under all the lights, that's what freaked me out. I don't know why, all I can figure is that it finally hit me that it was gonna happen in a matter of minutes. The nurses were nice and gave me an IV and told me that the doctor was gonna be in shortly to give me the medicine to put me to sleep. While waiting for the doctor one of the nurses handed another a magazine and they started talking about an article that had the best cosmetic surgeons in the Twin Cities. They started complaining that this clinic was not on the list. How comforting is that just as you are going to have surgery?? I didn't think it was. The doctor came in and shot all the stuff in my IV. I didn't like that cause I could feel the IV moving in my arm each time he touched it. The next thing I remember a nurse asking me to try to stand up. I was in a wheel chair getting into Michelle's car. I dont' remember ever changing back into my clothes. I was eating chicken nuggets by 3 that afternoon. The only problem I had the first couple days was that my jaw was stiff and ache. Now the stitched on one side of my mouth hurt because I broke a stitch or something. I was yawning and I heard a pop in my mouth. Other than the slight pain every now and then I'm back to normal. It's just gross having to rinse out the empty sockets after I eat.
Life: August 2002 Archives
I forgot to say that the applet doesn't do anything yet. I'm going to need to look around and see what I can do to lockdown the page, becuase what I'm doing with the page is connection to the MySQL server and I don't want to be making any big security problems for my bro. I doubt that anyone looks at the page or even would snoop around, but I don't want to take a chance. So basically I got the layout is all I did tonight. If you could look at the source code you would be impressed by the improvement from the app to the applet. I commented all nice and even all the whitespace is all lined up. Enough now I gotta catch a bus.
That's all I can say. Check out the reason why. I don't know how compatible it is with many peoples setup but the only trouble I ran into is that you need to have the most current Jave runtime 1.4.0. I'm sure there is a way to get it to compile and work with earlier versions but I'm lazy. This isn't compatible with the Netscape 4.79 as I found out and it doesn't work under Microsofts runtime environment. I'm not sure why. I think another probelm is that I can't have 2 instanced of it running on the same machine. I think that my be due to my lack of knowledge about applets, but I'll figure out that one.
I listened to/watched Unbreakable as I was programming. It is a really good movie. I understand why some may not like it. I admit that the movie itself is real slow. Ok, very slow. Almost not moving. But I like the process and the changes that occurs in Bruce Willis's character. The contrast of is character is great. At the beginning, he thinks he just an ordanary person, but he lacks any sort of human emotion. No connection with anyone. When he finally accepts that he is not a normal person, this is when he becomes human. He cares, and loves about his family. Any movie that give me the goosebumps has to be good. The part is when he slides the newspaper over to his kid and nods. That has to be the greatest scene of the movie.
