Wow I had no idea this blog was still kicking, well I think I feel like cleaning it up and posting some new posts, well we will see how long this will last but meh.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sem 2 Week 12 & Summary
So the last week of (proper) classes has now come to an end. With deadlines fast approaching it was quite a busy week, but my procrastinating didn’t help and so I think ill be behind for software eng, and to tell the truth almost all of this week I have wasted away when I should have been doing work. Oh well on to the week that was and then a bit of reflection on the semester as a whole at the end.
Monday
Monday was not a very good day for me I kept myself up too late, did almost no work and skipped my Software eng lecture. Not very smart with the last assignment due in at the end of the week. Also meant I did very little testing and this will put me behind in the schedule.
Tuesday
Tuesday started much like Monday dragging myself out of bed after way too few hours of sleep, so for the rest of the day I was dog tired and found it hard to concentrate on anything. The only work I got accomplished today was the presentation that I had to do in the evening, and distracting others I was working around, so nothing good here either.
Wednesday
Third day in a row of 5ish hours sleep and I was feeling it, but I got up and went to what had recently been a team meeting for Software eng, each Wednesday the hour before class, but I was the only one from the team there FOR THE ENTIRE HOUR. I understand not coming in but at least let me know for crying out loud. I was struggling to stay awake all morning yet I got nothing to say my team mate was going to be late. The other thing is with the assignments we had previously submitted (stages) we still had no feedback on the coding aspect and so don’t know how we were going, this is very disappointing because we had to submit documenting stages in between and the same thing happened, feed back comes too late to help with the next stage. I mean if students have deadlines surely the marking of work has a deadline as well, especially when further assignments rely on these marks to shape future submissions. Due to my previous 2 days of procrastination, my PM gave me a deadline for Monday to show progress with testing, which if I had actually worked instead of procrastinating im sure id be nearly done with. Eventually I got home and was just so tired I slept for 2 hrs and this helped to a degree, once I went to bed for the night, I ended up with a good nights sleep and putting my sleeping patterns back to where they should have been.
Thursday
Well I was at uni early today to work on my HCI assignment so that I had it out of the way and could concentrate on Software eng. Although that went out the window when Software eng got an extension through to Monday, I did something I really shouldn’t have and I relaxed. This meant all I did for the rest of the day was finish off HCI as far as I could and went to the pub, I should have gone to bed instead.
Friday
I went into uni early to print out and submit my teams HCI report. This got done pretty quickly and once we get the presentation out of the way ill be quite happy for a while. Once this was accomplished I went home with intentions to do work on software eng, but with the weather where it was woods called up and I skipped out on software eng and went down the peninsula for the afternoon. It was a really good afternoon and very relaxing, followed up by a joint 21st which was really good.
Saturday
Saturday would have consisted of me working on software eng but I still had not gotten any feedback from the last coding submission we had made so I decided to stick with my plan from a few weeks ago and keep Saturdays free to relax and rest. I had a 21st to attend that night but I decided to drive because I had plenty of work to do on Sunday. The 21st was a really good night.
Sunday
Well in the early afternoon I went for a drive to help Dze out in getting a hard drive caddy for his laptops hard drive, all because his laptops graphics card decided to give up on him on Saturday. Once I got back home I set up my laptop with every intention of working on testing all afternoon but for some reason I couldn’t and cant seem to work at home, whether it’s the noise or the questions (“What’s that” “What are you working on”) I haven’t gotten anywhere near what I wanted to get done today done. Although once it gets dark and the rest of the family sets themselves in front of the TV’s I have gotten a fair bit done. Well once I finish this blog it is back to testing until I need to head of to bed, cause I have an early start for a client meeting.
The Semester That Was IE
Well the semester started with me needing to get a test plan completed. Cladi was a great help in the formatting and wording of this document, and the decoding of my ideas into English. I like to think that while this was being done that I stepped up and did do a fair bit more work then normal. Then after the test plan was in it was time for Cladi and Danny to get the User Manuals done, and because I was waiting for the system to be more functional before I tested it, I helped out as much as I could. Im pretty sure that my work rate dropped a little here but I did try and get everything I was asked done pretty quickly. Occasionally I found a good rhythm and found myself knocking out a lot of good work very quickly but unfortunately these occasions were few and far between. I helped Ben on the training manual until I needed to start work on the test plan we would be submitting, but by this point I had a process going and got Danny to take over this for me. Then I have come to the Test Report, which took a lot longer to get finished then I thought it would (need to manage my time heaps better), and now with the start to testing I find im working on my own to a degree. This is ok and I guess if I were quicker off the mark with it I would have almost finished already, but some crucial functionality to the use of the system (validation of fields) is not quite done so this is making things interesting.
Ben has been the best example that I should have been following, he always has so much work to do but he never complains, and is always getting it done. Although he has defiantly been stressed a few times and I don’t think I help out there, with my procrastinating during class time generally being quite distracting.
Cladi has been really good as well, she dish’s out the work with the user manuals, while doing quite a large portion of it herself, and helps out with any other docs cause she is just brilliant at looking at a word document and knowing exactly what it needs to be in line with the standards & governance, and I just generally have no idea how to format.
Dze has been a machine with his programming and I find it amazing how well he works on this because he spends so many hours each week coding, and I doubt I could code for even a tenth of the time he has on a weekly basis (or else my software eng assignment would be in by now). So anything I can do to help him out I do as soon as I can.
Danny has worked hard through all tasks assigned to him and from all ive seen has worked quite hard.
Rowan I have noticed has fallen a bit behind with the validation for the site so this is making it hard to test, and will require retesting once it’s complete.
Myself I have defiantly slacked off the past few weeks. I finished the framework for the testing report later then I wanted to, and have not gotten as much of the testing done, when I wanted to have finished the first round by now. I think once I have Monday out of my way (software eng) I should be able to have the first round of testing complete by Tuesday mornings meeting, unless the validation is up and running which will make things quite interesting. Before the end of Wednesday I will also need to get some usability testing done and when I saw how long that can be with HCI, I think ill be pushing it to get all done and written up by Thursday. I have slacked of and let my workload build and so I now have to step up and work hard to get it all done in time.
Monday
Monday was not a very good day for me I kept myself up too late, did almost no work and skipped my Software eng lecture. Not very smart with the last assignment due in at the end of the week. Also meant I did very little testing and this will put me behind in the schedule.
Tuesday
Tuesday started much like Monday dragging myself out of bed after way too few hours of sleep, so for the rest of the day I was dog tired and found it hard to concentrate on anything. The only work I got accomplished today was the presentation that I had to do in the evening, and distracting others I was working around, so nothing good here either.
Wednesday
Third day in a row of 5ish hours sleep and I was feeling it, but I got up and went to what had recently been a team meeting for Software eng, each Wednesday the hour before class, but I was the only one from the team there FOR THE ENTIRE HOUR. I understand not coming in but at least let me know for crying out loud. I was struggling to stay awake all morning yet I got nothing to say my team mate was going to be late. The other thing is with the assignments we had previously submitted (stages) we still had no feedback on the coding aspect and so don’t know how we were going, this is very disappointing because we had to submit documenting stages in between and the same thing happened, feed back comes too late to help with the next stage. I mean if students have deadlines surely the marking of work has a deadline as well, especially when further assignments rely on these marks to shape future submissions. Due to my previous 2 days of procrastination, my PM gave me a deadline for Monday to show progress with testing, which if I had actually worked instead of procrastinating im sure id be nearly done with. Eventually I got home and was just so tired I slept for 2 hrs and this helped to a degree, once I went to bed for the night, I ended up with a good nights sleep and putting my sleeping patterns back to where they should have been.
Thursday
Well I was at uni early today to work on my HCI assignment so that I had it out of the way and could concentrate on Software eng. Although that went out the window when Software eng got an extension through to Monday, I did something I really shouldn’t have and I relaxed. This meant all I did for the rest of the day was finish off HCI as far as I could and went to the pub, I should have gone to bed instead.
Friday
I went into uni early to print out and submit my teams HCI report. This got done pretty quickly and once we get the presentation out of the way ill be quite happy for a while. Once this was accomplished I went home with intentions to do work on software eng, but with the weather where it was woods called up and I skipped out on software eng and went down the peninsula for the afternoon. It was a really good afternoon and very relaxing, followed up by a joint 21st which was really good.
Saturday
Saturday would have consisted of me working on software eng but I still had not gotten any feedback from the last coding submission we had made so I decided to stick with my plan from a few weeks ago and keep Saturdays free to relax and rest. I had a 21st to attend that night but I decided to drive because I had plenty of work to do on Sunday. The 21st was a really good night.
Sunday
Well in the early afternoon I went for a drive to help Dze out in getting a hard drive caddy for his laptops hard drive, all because his laptops graphics card decided to give up on him on Saturday. Once I got back home I set up my laptop with every intention of working on testing all afternoon but for some reason I couldn’t and cant seem to work at home, whether it’s the noise or the questions (“What’s that” “What are you working on”) I haven’t gotten anywhere near what I wanted to get done today done. Although once it gets dark and the rest of the family sets themselves in front of the TV’s I have gotten a fair bit done. Well once I finish this blog it is back to testing until I need to head of to bed, cause I have an early start for a client meeting.
The Semester That Was IE
Well the semester started with me needing to get a test plan completed. Cladi was a great help in the formatting and wording of this document, and the decoding of my ideas into English. I like to think that while this was being done that I stepped up and did do a fair bit more work then normal. Then after the test plan was in it was time for Cladi and Danny to get the User Manuals done, and because I was waiting for the system to be more functional before I tested it, I helped out as much as I could. Im pretty sure that my work rate dropped a little here but I did try and get everything I was asked done pretty quickly. Occasionally I found a good rhythm and found myself knocking out a lot of good work very quickly but unfortunately these occasions were few and far between. I helped Ben on the training manual until I needed to start work on the test plan we would be submitting, but by this point I had a process going and got Danny to take over this for me. Then I have come to the Test Report, which took a lot longer to get finished then I thought it would (need to manage my time heaps better), and now with the start to testing I find im working on my own to a degree. This is ok and I guess if I were quicker off the mark with it I would have almost finished already, but some crucial functionality to the use of the system (validation of fields) is not quite done so this is making things interesting.
Ben has been the best example that I should have been following, he always has so much work to do but he never complains, and is always getting it done. Although he has defiantly been stressed a few times and I don’t think I help out there, with my procrastinating during class time generally being quite distracting.
Cladi has been really good as well, she dish’s out the work with the user manuals, while doing quite a large portion of it herself, and helps out with any other docs cause she is just brilliant at looking at a word document and knowing exactly what it needs to be in line with the standards & governance, and I just generally have no idea how to format.
Dze has been a machine with his programming and I find it amazing how well he works on this because he spends so many hours each week coding, and I doubt I could code for even a tenth of the time he has on a weekly basis (or else my software eng assignment would be in by now). So anything I can do to help him out I do as soon as I can.
Danny has worked hard through all tasks assigned to him and from all ive seen has worked quite hard.
Rowan I have noticed has fallen a bit behind with the validation for the site so this is making it hard to test, and will require retesting once it’s complete.
Myself I have defiantly slacked off the past few weeks. I finished the framework for the testing report later then I wanted to, and have not gotten as much of the testing done, when I wanted to have finished the first round by now. I think once I have Monday out of my way (software eng) I should be able to have the first round of testing complete by Tuesday mornings meeting, unless the validation is up and running which will make things quite interesting. Before the end of Wednesday I will also need to get some usability testing done and when I saw how long that can be with HCI, I think ill be pushing it to get all done and written up by Thursday. I have slacked of and let my workload build and so I now have to step up and work hard to get it all done in time.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sem 2 Week Break
So the long awaited week off to relax and get set for the end of semester crunch. Well it wasn’t really a week off because with all the work due in soon there wasn’t time, so instead I got a few days off I normally wouldn’t have had, but then its not like I used those days the best I could.
Monday
Well Monday was one of those days I had off, I slept in a little and then did pretty much nothing all day, yes it was relaxing but no where near enough, mainly because I never seem to be able to go to bed and sleep at anything resembling a reasonable hour.
Tuesday
Tuesday was much like Monday up later then normal, not much done, but unlike Monday I got an email from work so I did a little of that and planned to do the rest on Wednesday, just like me to procrastinate.
Wednesday
So for once I was up at normal time and off to uni, with the plan to do a little work work and then software engineering work. Well I did work work for quite a bit longer then I thought, due to using svn for keeping our code right up to date I couldn’t do a whole heap while my team mate was working on it, so I rescheduled doing my coding till Friday (and I knew I wouldn’t do it anyway). While I was out mum had decided to re arrange my room so instead of being an organised mess the way I like it all my stuff was on y bed so I finally cleaned my room and got the use of dads car back. It was funny the way I got it back though I said I was going out to drink with the boys (was walking so I could drink) and dad asked if I wanted to take the car. Anyway it was a good night just chilling with a few of the local boys at the park, with plenty of beer going round, but then some underage’s also had the same idea as us. Now they obviously couldn’t plan a night of drinking properly and so they had run out of booze and all the local bottleos had closed. So what did the ringleader decide, how bout trying to intimidate 4 guys to get a beer, well nothing happened except his mates were smart enough to drag him away and they left for a while (out of the 4 of us, 2 wanted to take the guy out, and the other 2 would jump in out of mateship regardless). Eventually they came back and joined our group, and within a minute or 2 the ringleader decided to grab an empty (he thought it was full idiot) and run off, although after a bit we did give out a couple of beers. All in all it was a good chilled night with a little excitement thrown in.
Thursday
Well after the previous night it was a very early start because I was getting a lift with dad into the city to go in to work for a little organising a few things. In the end because nothing had really been organised for me or woods to do there was nothing for me to do so all I did was put in last weeks timesheet and check in with my boss. So after such an early start it was off to uni to meet up with Ben and Cladi to do our HCI assignment. We got quite a fair bit done before Cladi had to go to work so she dropped Ben and myself at Ben’s and then we were off to get footage for the website we were making to later review. After this Ben and me went back to his via Chadstone and chilled at his for quite a while playing X box. Eventually I left and got a lift home then checked for work emails, when I saw there weren’t any I turned around and went to the Nott. It was a good night with 2 mates 21sts (one before midnight the other after), and the next day I found out I left at the right time cause shortly after I left there was a bit of a punch on and the cops turned up.
Friday
Well I got up early to go to the optometrist, because I was due for a check up and earlier in the week I had had to fix up my glasses so I figured I may as well find out how much my eyes had changed and if I could get contacts or not. In the end my eyes haven’t changed much at all, so no need for new glasses, and my eyes can get contacts but they wont be standard contacts, so I need to decide if I can pursue these (weather mum and dad will pay for them). Then it was off to get my hair cut back a lot shorter for summer. After that it was a while chilling at home before going off to Marcels 21st. It was a good night and I enjoyed myself, some seriously bad stories came out that I wish I hadn’t heard. Anyway it was a good night.
Saturday
Well I got up about 2:30 3 in the afternoon so most of the day was already gone and it was time to get myself organised for the 2 21sts I had tonight. I somehow talked my older sister into driving me and went to the one closest to home first for a little bit then it was off to Bens 21st. It was a really good night and I enjoyed myself, but all too soon my lift was back to take me home via the first 21st if it was still kicking. It wasn’t kicking for long so I was home pretty quickly.
Sunday
Well after another epic sleep in (well not really I was up quite late surfing the net and watching a DVD and TV shows, after getting home from the 21sts), I did very little for the day except get 2 new pages done for HCI and further put off my Software Eng work. I need to stop procrastinating, starting tomorrow.
All in all it was a pretty good week even though I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of work done I thought I would.
Monday
Well Monday was one of those days I had off, I slept in a little and then did pretty much nothing all day, yes it was relaxing but no where near enough, mainly because I never seem to be able to go to bed and sleep at anything resembling a reasonable hour.
Tuesday
Tuesday was much like Monday up later then normal, not much done, but unlike Monday I got an email from work so I did a little of that and planned to do the rest on Wednesday, just like me to procrastinate.
Wednesday
So for once I was up at normal time and off to uni, with the plan to do a little work work and then software engineering work. Well I did work work for quite a bit longer then I thought, due to using svn for keeping our code right up to date I couldn’t do a whole heap while my team mate was working on it, so I rescheduled doing my coding till Friday (and I knew I wouldn’t do it anyway). While I was out mum had decided to re arrange my room so instead of being an organised mess the way I like it all my stuff was on y bed so I finally cleaned my room and got the use of dads car back. It was funny the way I got it back though I said I was going out to drink with the boys (was walking so I could drink) and dad asked if I wanted to take the car. Anyway it was a good night just chilling with a few of the local boys at the park, with plenty of beer going round, but then some underage’s also had the same idea as us. Now they obviously couldn’t plan a night of drinking properly and so they had run out of booze and all the local bottleos had closed. So what did the ringleader decide, how bout trying to intimidate 4 guys to get a beer, well nothing happened except his mates were smart enough to drag him away and they left for a while (out of the 4 of us, 2 wanted to take the guy out, and the other 2 would jump in out of mateship regardless). Eventually they came back and joined our group, and within a minute or 2 the ringleader decided to grab an empty (he thought it was full idiot) and run off, although after a bit we did give out a couple of beers. All in all it was a good chilled night with a little excitement thrown in.
Thursday
Well after the previous night it was a very early start because I was getting a lift with dad into the city to go in to work for a little organising a few things. In the end because nothing had really been organised for me or woods to do there was nothing for me to do so all I did was put in last weeks timesheet and check in with my boss. So after such an early start it was off to uni to meet up with Ben and Cladi to do our HCI assignment. We got quite a fair bit done before Cladi had to go to work so she dropped Ben and myself at Ben’s and then we were off to get footage for the website we were making to later review. After this Ben and me went back to his via Chadstone and chilled at his for quite a while playing X box. Eventually I left and got a lift home then checked for work emails, when I saw there weren’t any I turned around and went to the Nott. It was a good night with 2 mates 21sts (one before midnight the other after), and the next day I found out I left at the right time cause shortly after I left there was a bit of a punch on and the cops turned up.
Friday
Well I got up early to go to the optometrist, because I was due for a check up and earlier in the week I had had to fix up my glasses so I figured I may as well find out how much my eyes had changed and if I could get contacts or not. In the end my eyes haven’t changed much at all, so no need for new glasses, and my eyes can get contacts but they wont be standard contacts, so I need to decide if I can pursue these (weather mum and dad will pay for them). Then it was off to get my hair cut back a lot shorter for summer. After that it was a while chilling at home before going off to Marcels 21st. It was a good night and I enjoyed myself, some seriously bad stories came out that I wish I hadn’t heard. Anyway it was a good night.
Saturday
Well I got up about 2:30 3 in the afternoon so most of the day was already gone and it was time to get myself organised for the 2 21sts I had tonight. I somehow talked my older sister into driving me and went to the one closest to home first for a little bit then it was off to Bens 21st. It was a really good night and I enjoyed myself, but all too soon my lift was back to take me home via the first 21st if it was still kicking. It wasn’t kicking for long so I was home pretty quickly.
Sunday
Well after another epic sleep in (well not really I was up quite late surfing the net and watching a DVD and TV shows, after getting home from the 21sts), I did very little for the day except get 2 new pages done for HCI and further put off my Software Eng work. I need to stop procrastinating, starting tomorrow.
All in all it was a pretty good week even though I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of work done I thought I would.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sem 2 Week 11
Week 11 a slightly less busy week then others but in the lead up to a week off with no deadlines that happens.
Monday
Ok well a pretty normal Monday, team meeting and group meeting. I got some work done during the team meeting but not as much as id like (still lots to do). Very little work got done by me once we moved from the meeting room. Once I left for my Clayton class I just didn’t see the point (the lecture is worthless, well all the ones ive been to have been), so I waited and just went home.
Tuesday
Well it was off to work before uni, which was ok. Had my building safety briefing and met the mobile content editor who I will be working with quite a bit from now on, hopefully this should set me and Woods up to do this work from home/uni. Made it to uni for lectures (well I attended one skipped the other) the IE lecture about the expo was very interesting and lots to try and work out. I skipped my other lecture for the day and instead watched wall-e. It’s quite a good movie. Went to class and watched 2 presentations then it was off home a lot earlier then normal for that class.
Wednesday
Wednesday was software eng at Clayton and before class I met up with my team mate and we set up a lot of work to be done in the week off. It wasn’t that bad of a class and I got a little work done, until I got a call from the Police. Basically it was to organise a time for me to come in and give a statement about the night I called the police for a girl that had been robed. No biggy really, some people blew this out of proportion. So I spent the rest of the class planning which bus I would need to take and when to leave uni, and then I went to the Police station gave my statement and got a lift home (unfortunately there was no siren use).
Thursday
Thursday started with 3 hr at work with almost nothing to do and no internet. This was soooooo boring so I did a whole heap of IE work, im quite surprised at how much I had gotten done. I also hadn’t been paid so I talked to my boss and he rang the pay department and if im not paid in next weeks cycle there will be problems, so I guess ill just have to budget a little till then. Then it was off to uni for a pretty standard afternoon, of HCI Tutorial, wasting time, and sitting through HCI lecture. The lecture was soooo annoying, im in IT I have a laptop and I haven’t written any notes since I got the laptop it just doesn’t happen, why write when I can type, but the lecturer had the great idea to ban laptops because so many people find his class boring and don’t turn up, and then of those that do (me for example) spend some time scanning the lecture slides from online then quietly surf the net. Probably not the best thing to do but meh its how I feign interest in that lecture.
Friday
Well Friday was to say the least relaxing. Did very little all day then went to a mates place and drank for a while. It was a really good night, I met his neighbours (at like 1-2am), I opened and finished a bottle of good ole Jack Daniels and then a short walk home with a little rearranging of construction signs along the way.
Saturday
The best way to start a Saturday is with a call from the previous nights drinking buddy with them feeling like absolute shit, when your feeling like you’ve just had the best nights sleep in weeks without any hint of a hangover, and that’s what I woke up too (don’t mix your drinks kiddies, or you'll be the one with the hangover it seems). So with it being grand final day, with 2 grand final parties to try and get too, a 21st that night we worked out what we would do for the day. With more of an interest on catching up with people we decided to hit up both parties for a while and headed off. In the end after a detour to my mates brothers for his birthday between both parties we saw very little of the match but made it to the second party in time for presentations and the spa. Before too long though it was time to go home and get ready for the 21st. The theme of which was something starting with E, and I went Eighties. Anyway it was a really good party and meant another late one but then getting a taxi was hell, especially with it being grand final day and the house we were at being blacklisted (ie no taxis to that address), so in the end my younger sister woke my older sister up and so I got a ride home and didn’t have to walk all the way home.
Sunday
So it seems it’s been another day of doing nothing while awake, but apparently when im asleep I can find my set of keys to my parent’s cars and produce them for dad when he can’t find his key to mums car, all without waking up. I had no idea about this till later I saw said keys on the stairs instead of where I keep my keys and that’s when I got told what happened. I went and helped a friend with her laptop but it seems its hard drive is dead (well that’s what the BSOD was saying) so I think she’s going to have to wait for her dad to get back from overseas to do much with it. Then I procrastinated and am finally doing my blog at 3 in the morning because the internet can be very interesting when you’re not in the mood to do a blog.
Things to do this week
Monday
Ok well a pretty normal Monday, team meeting and group meeting. I got some work done during the team meeting but not as much as id like (still lots to do). Very little work got done by me once we moved from the meeting room. Once I left for my Clayton class I just didn’t see the point (the lecture is worthless, well all the ones ive been to have been), so I waited and just went home.
Tuesday
Well it was off to work before uni, which was ok. Had my building safety briefing and met the mobile content editor who I will be working with quite a bit from now on, hopefully this should set me and Woods up to do this work from home/uni. Made it to uni for lectures (well I attended one skipped the other) the IE lecture about the expo was very interesting and lots to try and work out. I skipped my other lecture for the day and instead watched wall-e. It’s quite a good movie. Went to class and watched 2 presentations then it was off home a lot earlier then normal for that class.
Wednesday
Wednesday was software eng at Clayton and before class I met up with my team mate and we set up a lot of work to be done in the week off. It wasn’t that bad of a class and I got a little work done, until I got a call from the Police. Basically it was to organise a time for me to come in and give a statement about the night I called the police for a girl that had been robed. No biggy really, some people blew this out of proportion. So I spent the rest of the class planning which bus I would need to take and when to leave uni, and then I went to the Police station gave my statement and got a lift home (unfortunately there was no siren use).
Thursday
Thursday started with 3 hr at work with almost nothing to do and no internet. This was soooooo boring so I did a whole heap of IE work, im quite surprised at how much I had gotten done. I also hadn’t been paid so I talked to my boss and he rang the pay department and if im not paid in next weeks cycle there will be problems, so I guess ill just have to budget a little till then. Then it was off to uni for a pretty standard afternoon, of HCI Tutorial, wasting time, and sitting through HCI lecture. The lecture was soooo annoying, im in IT I have a laptop and I haven’t written any notes since I got the laptop it just doesn’t happen, why write when I can type, but the lecturer had the great idea to ban laptops because so many people find his class boring and don’t turn up, and then of those that do (me for example) spend some time scanning the lecture slides from online then quietly surf the net. Probably not the best thing to do but meh its how I feign interest in that lecture.
Friday
Well Friday was to say the least relaxing. Did very little all day then went to a mates place and drank for a while. It was a really good night, I met his neighbours (at like 1-2am), I opened and finished a bottle of good ole Jack Daniels and then a short walk home with a little rearranging of construction signs along the way.
Saturday
The best way to start a Saturday is with a call from the previous nights drinking buddy with them feeling like absolute shit, when your feeling like you’ve just had the best nights sleep in weeks without any hint of a hangover, and that’s what I woke up too (don’t mix your drinks kiddies, or you'll be the one with the hangover it seems). So with it being grand final day, with 2 grand final parties to try and get too, a 21st that night we worked out what we would do for the day. With more of an interest on catching up with people we decided to hit up both parties for a while and headed off. In the end after a detour to my mates brothers for his birthday between both parties we saw very little of the match but made it to the second party in time for presentations and the spa. Before too long though it was time to go home and get ready for the 21st. The theme of which was something starting with E, and I went Eighties. Anyway it was a really good party and meant another late one but then getting a taxi was hell, especially with it being grand final day and the house we were at being blacklisted (ie no taxis to that address), so in the end my younger sister woke my older sister up and so I got a ride home and didn’t have to walk all the way home.
Sunday
So it seems it’s been another day of doing nothing while awake, but apparently when im asleep I can find my set of keys to my parent’s cars and produce them for dad when he can’t find his key to mums car, all without waking up. I had no idea about this till later I saw said keys on the stairs instead of where I keep my keys and that’s when I got told what happened. I went and helped a friend with her laptop but it seems its hard drive is dead (well that’s what the BSOD was saying) so I think she’s going to have to wait for her dad to get back from overseas to do much with it. Then I procrastinated and am finally doing my blog at 3 in the morning because the internet can be very interesting when you’re not in the mood to do a blog.
Things to do this week
- Tax
- IE Work
- Software Eng Work
- HCI Assignment
- Get Paid
- Party (three 21sts in 2 nights)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sem 2 Week 10
So week 10 and a busy week it’s been, two deadlines down 3 to go and still exams are coming up. Although hopefully there will be some relief with only 1 week until the week break from classes, but not from work to be done.
Monday
Nothing terribly unusual happened today it was a usual team meeting and trying to get something done followed by a group meeting with some interesting information from other people. But then in the afternoon I made my lecture for Software eng although my team mate didn’t so that means no actual work got done.
Tuesday
So this week I had to go into work to get a move on with the new Flicks site that was going up later in the week, but as usual Rodeo (people making the site) hadn’t put it into the CMS quite yet so it was just a lazy day converting work I was sure Woods was meant to be doing over the weekend. I made it to uni in time for the lecture and then wasted my time before I went to my Intro to Security class. This was terribly boring once more but my team mate for this subject and me sorted out what we were each covering for the assignment and so then we could start on this, although I didn’t start till Sunday.
Wednesday
Well Wednesday has never really been an enjoyable day and today was no exception in the morning, it was software eng and with a lot of documents due Friday I knew it would be busy. Due to needing to work with another team we basically got nothing done except set up what needed to be done and then we were waiting for their email. I wasn’t needed at work today because for once Woods was pulling his weight and the CMS for Flicks still wasn’t up. So it was off home, and with the weather being as nice as it was and me having had little more then 6 hrs sleep most night I decided to take the afternoon off and chill. Well think woods had the same idea cause about 3 in the arvo he called up said he’s on his way and it was off to his with a few of the boys for beers and a chill in the sun. It ended up as a really good arvo/night and was quite relaxing. I had planned to get some work done in the evening but that fell through badly.
Thursday
It had been decided the night before by me that I needed to ski class and go to work to meet with a bloke from Sydney who basically controls weather or not I will have a job, and thankfully the contract with the other company is valid till January so im pretty certain I have a job till then. Before this there was a fair bit of waiting because we got most of the work done earlier then normal, due to me because Woods was writing an article for that days paper, but once we were both finished we went to the press conference but it was ending so we missed out there. Eventually I got to uni but it was too late to go to my lecture so I got a very late lunch and tried to get some work done for the 2 deadlines I had coming up, Friday and Monday.
Friday
Well today I had a lot of documenting to do but decided to do it from home via msn with my team mate, and in the end we got everything done quite well compared to the first stage and in a little earlier so it was a little less stressful then normal. Now we just have to start on the final stage of coding which will be very hard.
Saturday
I have decided that Saturday is my day off and im not doing any work on Saturday, I needed the break just doing nothing but I find it’s still not enough, but deadlines don’t care so I knew Sunday would be a big day of working hard. I did go to the footy and watch Harvey’s last game and the Saints get knocked out of the finals. It’s disappointing, but I knew going in that there was very little chance of winning but with a lot of hope. Although I did make the big screen in one of the crowd shots so that was funny.
Sunday
Well Sunday was a bad day, it was off to a slow start and so I knew that meant a late night would be coming up. I got my team mates work quite late so that was quite annoying but once I had it I fitted it into the document I had created finished mine off (mostly all of it) and was happy with it by 1:30 so I got some sleep, and I would have to submit it once I got to uni on Monday.
All in all a pretty busy week for the most part, I ended up starting my tax on Saturday and so I am nearly finished that and hope too early this week so I get some more cash, because work is also due to pay me this Wednesday or else I will go onto contractor rates and earn even more. Although I have decided that im not going to waste my money on gadgets or a new laptop I want, im going to save it and see if I can get my own set of wheels sometime after exams or before the end of the year at least, well that’s the plan anyway. Hopefully my tax refund can be my spending money once that comes through. Well just this week to get through and then a week without classes hooray finally.
Monday
Nothing terribly unusual happened today it was a usual team meeting and trying to get something done followed by a group meeting with some interesting information from other people. But then in the afternoon I made my lecture for Software eng although my team mate didn’t so that means no actual work got done.
Tuesday
So this week I had to go into work to get a move on with the new Flicks site that was going up later in the week, but as usual Rodeo (people making the site) hadn’t put it into the CMS quite yet so it was just a lazy day converting work I was sure Woods was meant to be doing over the weekend. I made it to uni in time for the lecture and then wasted my time before I went to my Intro to Security class. This was terribly boring once more but my team mate for this subject and me sorted out what we were each covering for the assignment and so then we could start on this, although I didn’t start till Sunday.
Wednesday
Well Wednesday has never really been an enjoyable day and today was no exception in the morning, it was software eng and with a lot of documents due Friday I knew it would be busy. Due to needing to work with another team we basically got nothing done except set up what needed to be done and then we were waiting for their email. I wasn’t needed at work today because for once Woods was pulling his weight and the CMS for Flicks still wasn’t up. So it was off home, and with the weather being as nice as it was and me having had little more then 6 hrs sleep most night I decided to take the afternoon off and chill. Well think woods had the same idea cause about 3 in the arvo he called up said he’s on his way and it was off to his with a few of the boys for beers and a chill in the sun. It ended up as a really good arvo/night and was quite relaxing. I had planned to get some work done in the evening but that fell through badly.
Thursday
It had been decided the night before by me that I needed to ski class and go to work to meet with a bloke from Sydney who basically controls weather or not I will have a job, and thankfully the contract with the other company is valid till January so im pretty certain I have a job till then. Before this there was a fair bit of waiting because we got most of the work done earlier then normal, due to me because Woods was writing an article for that days paper, but once we were both finished we went to the press conference but it was ending so we missed out there. Eventually I got to uni but it was too late to go to my lecture so I got a very late lunch and tried to get some work done for the 2 deadlines I had coming up, Friday and Monday.
Friday
Well today I had a lot of documenting to do but decided to do it from home via msn with my team mate, and in the end we got everything done quite well compared to the first stage and in a little earlier so it was a little less stressful then normal. Now we just have to start on the final stage of coding which will be very hard.
Saturday
I have decided that Saturday is my day off and im not doing any work on Saturday, I needed the break just doing nothing but I find it’s still not enough, but deadlines don’t care so I knew Sunday would be a big day of working hard. I did go to the footy and watch Harvey’s last game and the Saints get knocked out of the finals. It’s disappointing, but I knew going in that there was very little chance of winning but with a lot of hope. Although I did make the big screen in one of the crowd shots so that was funny.
Sunday
Well Sunday was a bad day, it was off to a slow start and so I knew that meant a late night would be coming up. I got my team mates work quite late so that was quite annoying but once I had it I fitted it into the document I had created finished mine off (mostly all of it) and was happy with it by 1:30 so I got some sleep, and I would have to submit it once I got to uni on Monday.
All in all a pretty busy week for the most part, I ended up starting my tax on Saturday and so I am nearly finished that and hope too early this week so I get some more cash, because work is also due to pay me this Wednesday or else I will go onto contractor rates and earn even more. Although I have decided that im not going to waste my money on gadgets or a new laptop I want, im going to save it and see if I can get my own set of wheels sometime after exams or before the end of the year at least, well that’s the plan anyway. Hopefully my tax refund can be my spending money once that comes through. Well just this week to get through and then a week without classes hooray finally.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sem 2 Week 9
Well week 9 and deadlines are fast approaching and im doing nowhere near as much work as I need to. Ahh well so onto the week that was.
Monday
Well the usual team meeting started the day off and a reshuffle of tasks means im now working for Benji on screens for the training manual and testing where I can. So basically im doing all the steps of the training manual and capturing a screen shot of each step, and any errors I will get dye to look at before I do my proper testing. The rest of the day was pretty un-eventful though so all in all not too bad a day.
Tuesday
Ok well this was quite an interesting day with the winner of blog of the week being discussed and then the real reason for the award going the way it did. Which is to say that because the winner complained enough, they won blog of the week, not necessarily because it was the best blog. This is really annoying because it has taken me a long time to write even decent blogs let alone good ones, and when I did a really good blog for once others would also do better themselves, and so I missed out. I can take not winning because my blog isn’t the best, because it’s a competition, but to win through complaining, well that’s just downright unfair upsetting and not cool, it also makes it very hard for me to continue to put the effort in, thinking that is the best way to win the weekly award, when it makes no sense vs complaining loudly and often.
Now because of this how do we know any of the past results were not due to political reasons or someone complaining instead of just the best blog? Well the best blog is always going to be a subjective measurement, but I just thought that the judges would judge on each blogs merit not all the other noise that is made. Surely one weeks result can’t be allowed to affect the next, I mean come on its “Blog of the WEEK” not blog that had the most complaining behind it, or the most skilful manipulation of the judges. If the system is not kept fair for the rest of this year the blog of the week should be scrapped and blogging made into a hurdle requirement just to avoid this drama next time.
Well after all of that it was off to other classes and a start on more group assignments was made. So I know what needs to be done and can eventually start on it (probably next Tuesday just before class knowing me)
Wednesday
Well it was off to Clayton well before class to get some work done on software engineering, but with plenty of time to the next deadline (1 week) we were pretty slack. It seemed most of the other teams were also being slack because very few attended the class and I left quite early to head into work. Work is going really well and im quite enjoying it, which always helps. It was a short afternoon because most of the content was not yet available. A night of relaxation at “house night” that had a nicer level of attendance then the past few weeks it was a good way to end the night.
Thursday
Well this day started off interestingly with my ride to work calling me saying that he is sick, so it was a scramble to get to work but I got there only a little later then I expected. Much work got done and before long I was off to uni, went to class and then sat through one of the smallest lectures ive been too but I know I need to go or there’s no hope of me passing the unit.
In the evening it was off for some buzz and sing star at Cladis, which I think I helped the other teams more then mine but hey that happens. Then it was off to the Nott to try catch up with woods to work out how to get to work. Well id missed him and his phone had run out of power a few hours ago so there was a few of us looking to talk to him but I got on to another mate he was helping so I finally organised the next mornings trip to work. So another busy day for me once again.
Friday
Well this was a bad start to the day with me missing the alarm and finally waking up about 10 mins before I was due to leave. Well I postponed my ride coming to get me and got ready in record speed, and then it was away to work. It was a pretty slow day but enough work got done and everyone was out of the office around 2ish, and so it was off home. With a bit of time to relax so I rested up cause I have not been getting enough sleep during the week, too many early starts and late nights. Then eventually it was time to go out so off I went into the city via bens place and we made it in just before 9 and so we made it in for free. It was a really good night and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
As someone that likes driving and is used to it I drove few mates home. This meant I took a much different way home and in the end stopped me from getting home for about an extra hour. What happened after I dropped the last few people home was that I got flagged down by someone that had just been robbed. The girl who flagged me down told me she had been robbed so I pulled over and called the cops, I spoke to the operator initially and then she did and then back to me. I was warned to look for shock so I got her to sit in the car and gave the best description of where we were I could. Then it was hazard lights on and time to wait for the police, which ended up taking around 20 mins. Once the police arrived it was time to tell all I knew which was basically nothing, because I had missed the actual incident. Once I had passed on my details and all I had seen, I was told I could go and that I may be called, so I left. One of the things the officer had mentioned is that the night was quite a busy one manly due to the full moon because normally the shift was quiet. The worst part of this for me was that it occurred extremely close to where I used to do youth group in high school and this is an area I knew fairly well, so it was a bit of a shock to me as well, for this to happen in this area.
Saturday
Well this was one heck of a wasted day, with all the work I had planned to do this weekend and none of it done I have to say this day was wasted. I was up late I lazed abut home and my use of my parents cars has pretty much been removed (pending me cleaning up my room, but there’s bugger all chance of that with all the work I need to get done). Anyway the night was ahead of me and with the Saints playing for the prelim spot it was a good night ahead of me, and even better because we beat the Pies, an are moving on to the hawks next week who we did beat towards the end of the year. So GO SAINTS.
Sunday
Well today hasn’t been a total loss I got a lot of procrastination done early and that made work the only option as the night moved on. Still I didn’t get anywhere near as much done as id wanted too, but that’s what happens when you get forced to move to a table with a view of foxtel and there’s docos on the rise of Vegas via the mob. Quite interesting actually but slows down work to a grinding halt, and I can safely say that Underbelly makes writing my blog almost impossible. Anyway that’s over and so is this week of blogging basically.
The Week to Come
Well onto the things I know are coming up, lots of study time will need to be found by me to get all my work done and meet my deadlines, I know ive got a fair bit due Friday for software eng and then Monday for intro to security has a big assignment due. Then there’s all the other work ill still need to do, and my work with the mX will surely ramp up in the second half of the week with a new mSite going live on Thursday, though im pretty sure I get paid either this Wednesday or next (im hoping its this Wednesday). I still need to organise myself a pyramid rock ticket in the next day or 2 and get my tax in but where ill have time for that I don’t know.
Monday
Well the usual team meeting started the day off and a reshuffle of tasks means im now working for Benji on screens for the training manual and testing where I can. So basically im doing all the steps of the training manual and capturing a screen shot of each step, and any errors I will get dye to look at before I do my proper testing. The rest of the day was pretty un-eventful though so all in all not too bad a day.
Tuesday
Ok well this was quite an interesting day with the winner of blog of the week being discussed and then the real reason for the award going the way it did. Which is to say that because the winner complained enough, they won blog of the week, not necessarily because it was the best blog. This is really annoying because it has taken me a long time to write even decent blogs let alone good ones, and when I did a really good blog for once others would also do better themselves, and so I missed out. I can take not winning because my blog isn’t the best, because it’s a competition, but to win through complaining, well that’s just downright unfair upsetting and not cool, it also makes it very hard for me to continue to put the effort in, thinking that is the best way to win the weekly award, when it makes no sense vs complaining loudly and often.
Now because of this how do we know any of the past results were not due to political reasons or someone complaining instead of just the best blog? Well the best blog is always going to be a subjective measurement, but I just thought that the judges would judge on each blogs merit not all the other noise that is made. Surely one weeks result can’t be allowed to affect the next, I mean come on its “Blog of the WEEK” not blog that had the most complaining behind it, or the most skilful manipulation of the judges. If the system is not kept fair for the rest of this year the blog of the week should be scrapped and blogging made into a hurdle requirement just to avoid this drama next time.
Well after all of that it was off to other classes and a start on more group assignments was made. So I know what needs to be done and can eventually start on it (probably next Tuesday just before class knowing me)
Wednesday
Well it was off to Clayton well before class to get some work done on software engineering, but with plenty of time to the next deadline (1 week) we were pretty slack. It seemed most of the other teams were also being slack because very few attended the class and I left quite early to head into work. Work is going really well and im quite enjoying it, which always helps. It was a short afternoon because most of the content was not yet available. A night of relaxation at “house night” that had a nicer level of attendance then the past few weeks it was a good way to end the night.
Thursday
Well this day started off interestingly with my ride to work calling me saying that he is sick, so it was a scramble to get to work but I got there only a little later then I expected. Much work got done and before long I was off to uni, went to class and then sat through one of the smallest lectures ive been too but I know I need to go or there’s no hope of me passing the unit.
In the evening it was off for some buzz and sing star at Cladis, which I think I helped the other teams more then mine but hey that happens. Then it was off to the Nott to try catch up with woods to work out how to get to work. Well id missed him and his phone had run out of power a few hours ago so there was a few of us looking to talk to him but I got on to another mate he was helping so I finally organised the next mornings trip to work. So another busy day for me once again.
Friday
Well this was a bad start to the day with me missing the alarm and finally waking up about 10 mins before I was due to leave. Well I postponed my ride coming to get me and got ready in record speed, and then it was away to work. It was a pretty slow day but enough work got done and everyone was out of the office around 2ish, and so it was off home. With a bit of time to relax so I rested up cause I have not been getting enough sleep during the week, too many early starts and late nights. Then eventually it was time to go out so off I went into the city via bens place and we made it in just before 9 and so we made it in for free. It was a really good night and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
As someone that likes driving and is used to it I drove few mates home. This meant I took a much different way home and in the end stopped me from getting home for about an extra hour. What happened after I dropped the last few people home was that I got flagged down by someone that had just been robbed. The girl who flagged me down told me she had been robbed so I pulled over and called the cops, I spoke to the operator initially and then she did and then back to me. I was warned to look for shock so I got her to sit in the car and gave the best description of where we were I could. Then it was hazard lights on and time to wait for the police, which ended up taking around 20 mins. Once the police arrived it was time to tell all I knew which was basically nothing, because I had missed the actual incident. Once I had passed on my details and all I had seen, I was told I could go and that I may be called, so I left. One of the things the officer had mentioned is that the night was quite a busy one manly due to the full moon because normally the shift was quiet. The worst part of this for me was that it occurred extremely close to where I used to do youth group in high school and this is an area I knew fairly well, so it was a bit of a shock to me as well, for this to happen in this area.
Saturday
Well this was one heck of a wasted day, with all the work I had planned to do this weekend and none of it done I have to say this day was wasted. I was up late I lazed abut home and my use of my parents cars has pretty much been removed (pending me cleaning up my room, but there’s bugger all chance of that with all the work I need to get done). Anyway the night was ahead of me and with the Saints playing for the prelim spot it was a good night ahead of me, and even better because we beat the Pies, an are moving on to the hawks next week who we did beat towards the end of the year. So GO SAINTS.
Sunday
Well today hasn’t been a total loss I got a lot of procrastination done early and that made work the only option as the night moved on. Still I didn’t get anywhere near as much done as id wanted too, but that’s what happens when you get forced to move to a table with a view of foxtel and there’s docos on the rise of Vegas via the mob. Quite interesting actually but slows down work to a grinding halt, and I can safely say that Underbelly makes writing my blog almost impossible. Anyway that’s over and so is this week of blogging basically.
The Week to Come
Well onto the things I know are coming up, lots of study time will need to be found by me to get all my work done and meet my deadlines, I know ive got a fair bit due Friday for software eng and then Monday for intro to security has a big assignment due. Then there’s all the other work ill still need to do, and my work with the mX will surely ramp up in the second half of the week with a new mSite going live on Thursday, though im pretty sure I get paid either this Wednesday or next (im hoping its this Wednesday). I still need to organise myself a pyramid rock ticket in the next day or 2 and get my tax in but where ill have time for that I don’t know.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sem 2 Week 8
Ahh so week 8 is here, but where is mid semester break. Ben said it best in his blog that by now we have had a weeks rest, well no one has and I for one am missing it terribly. I just need the time to catch up on some of the many things that I have been slacking off on lately. I am really hanging out for that week of sleep ins. Anyway onto my week that was.
Monday was a pretty good day I was at uni at a normal time for the morning group meeting. I didn’t get much work done but I did give trying to talk to the server guy a go (damn meetings) because that would make it heaps easier for testing and documenting, by having the site on the uni servers instead of only on Dze’s laptop. During the group meeting Cladz Jake and myself went to Jakes house to pick up supplies for some Birthday celebrations that had occurred over the weekend, this made the class very filling (lunch, lollies and cake, how will we beat that this week). At the end of the meeting I went to see the server guy then once that failed miserably I decided to skip my afternoon lecture at Clayton and go into work. This went well and in the end im happy I went in, much work was done then, because woods wanted me to come along to an industry thingy (mobile Mondays or something like that) we hung round at transport bar for drinks and dinner. Well in any case this was turning into quite a good night, many beers were drunk, drunken footballers were greeted (and filmed, and with 2 of our drinking buddies working at newspapers the video was in high demand), more beers were drunk and then it was time to head off to mobile Mondays for a couple of hours. Mobile Mondays is basically people drinking and networking with other people in similar industry’s, and all the people I met were pretty cool to talk to. Anyway eventually that bar closed so me and woods decided to head home because we were going back into work the following morning.
Tuesday was a very hard day because I was damn tired. I was up exceptionally early to get into the city to go to work. Anyway eventually I made it in to uni and got the footage from the previous nights greetings (me shaking fevs hand). Then there was another 4 hours of uni still to do. Although the break we had between my first class and the second allowed Ben Cladz and myself to get in touch with the server guy and that means we now have our site working on the uni servers. The afternoon/evening class was ok and I found out I passed the previous week’s unit test. Then it was planning for the group assignment (damn research assignments.) which hopefully shouldn’t be too hard to do in the end. And with an abnormally early night that was the end of Tuesday.
Wednesday I started early due to another group assignment with stage 1 being due this Friday. We got no where near enough done, but we are now starting stage 2 much earlier. I was quite happy that when I checking with woods to find out if it was worth heading into work and he was just about done so I had no need, it was home time and that meant more freaking programming. In the evening I had a brainstorming session with woods (so basically it turns out we (well mainly woods, im happy with the little work I do) are trying to push new stuff into our work, but aint allowed to say anything more). Then it was off to bens for house night (sans house) and to chill. Was a good way to relax midweek.
Thursday was an early start but instead of the extreme early a ride with dad involves I caught the train with woods. We got most of the work done before I had to head to uni with only a few things needing to be checked by rodeo (the system guys that can change the non-standard stuff), and so once I got to class I spent about half of class time finishing it off. The rest of the day went fine, and I even found time to drop into the pub for an hr and a bit.
Friday was my worst day of the week doing Eiffel programming all day with my partner via msn (I was too lazy to go to Clayton). Well we got most of it done but to nowhere near a good standard, but at least we have stage 2 to hopefully make up for this. Friday night it was time to chill with the boys and we ended up at Eddies with beers wii and then the movie In Bruges (shortly after we started it was time to get food, damn hungry jacks being shut so that meant pizza). Anyway a few beers were drunk (I only had like maybe one, thank you full license) and then it was home at something resembling a reasonable hour.
Saturday was an ok day slept in really well, and then in the arvo it was off to the movies (the older sister had freeish gold class upgrades) to see Tropic Thunder in gold class. DAMN gold class is good, so roomy and comfortable, and best of all no carrying your own drinks and popcorn in. Saturday night was Carla and Claudia’s 21st, which was a really good night. The photos are up on facebook so no more needs to be said about this, the pictures tell the story.
Sunday was fathers day and I think dad is pretty happy with what I got for him (and if my sisters give me money, they can say they helped), even though he had very little time to play with it because once he got home from golf it was time to get ready for the footy. Well the saints were playing for a week off, but well we didn’t get the week off. We were soundly beaten all round but at least we are still in the finals, there’s hope yet.
Well this is the latest ive posted one of these blogs but last night I just couldn’t really think any of this, I just chilled with a DVD I had picked up cheap on Saturday and then some sleep but that always ends up being too few hours of sleep and not enough of the TV shows ive been dl’ing. Well here’s to this week and hopefully a better and more productive one then last week.
Monday was a pretty good day I was at uni at a normal time for the morning group meeting. I didn’t get much work done but I did give trying to talk to the server guy a go (damn meetings) because that would make it heaps easier for testing and documenting, by having the site on the uni servers instead of only on Dze’s laptop. During the group meeting Cladz Jake and myself went to Jakes house to pick up supplies for some Birthday celebrations that had occurred over the weekend, this made the class very filling (lunch, lollies and cake, how will we beat that this week). At the end of the meeting I went to see the server guy then once that failed miserably I decided to skip my afternoon lecture at Clayton and go into work. This went well and in the end im happy I went in, much work was done then, because woods wanted me to come along to an industry thingy (mobile Mondays or something like that) we hung round at transport bar for drinks and dinner. Well in any case this was turning into quite a good night, many beers were drunk, drunken footballers were greeted (and filmed, and with 2 of our drinking buddies working at newspapers the video was in high demand), more beers were drunk and then it was time to head off to mobile Mondays for a couple of hours. Mobile Mondays is basically people drinking and networking with other people in similar industry’s, and all the people I met were pretty cool to talk to. Anyway eventually that bar closed so me and woods decided to head home because we were going back into work the following morning.
Tuesday was a very hard day because I was damn tired. I was up exceptionally early to get into the city to go to work. Anyway eventually I made it in to uni and got the footage from the previous nights greetings (me shaking fevs hand). Then there was another 4 hours of uni still to do. Although the break we had between my first class and the second allowed Ben Cladz and myself to get in touch with the server guy and that means we now have our site working on the uni servers. The afternoon/evening class was ok and I found out I passed the previous week’s unit test. Then it was planning for the group assignment (damn research assignments.) which hopefully shouldn’t be too hard to do in the end. And with an abnormally early night that was the end of Tuesday.
Wednesday I started early due to another group assignment with stage 1 being due this Friday. We got no where near enough done, but we are now starting stage 2 much earlier. I was quite happy that when I checking with woods to find out if it was worth heading into work and he was just about done so I had no need, it was home time and that meant more freaking programming. In the evening I had a brainstorming session with woods (so basically it turns out we (well mainly woods, im happy with the little work I do) are trying to push new stuff into our work, but aint allowed to say anything more). Then it was off to bens for house night (sans house) and to chill. Was a good way to relax midweek.
Thursday was an early start but instead of the extreme early a ride with dad involves I caught the train with woods. We got most of the work done before I had to head to uni with only a few things needing to be checked by rodeo (the system guys that can change the non-standard stuff), and so once I got to class I spent about half of class time finishing it off. The rest of the day went fine, and I even found time to drop into the pub for an hr and a bit.
Friday was my worst day of the week doing Eiffel programming all day with my partner via msn (I was too lazy to go to Clayton). Well we got most of it done but to nowhere near a good standard, but at least we have stage 2 to hopefully make up for this. Friday night it was time to chill with the boys and we ended up at Eddies with beers wii and then the movie In Bruges (shortly after we started it was time to get food, damn hungry jacks being shut so that meant pizza). Anyway a few beers were drunk (I only had like maybe one, thank you full license) and then it was home at something resembling a reasonable hour.
Saturday was an ok day slept in really well, and then in the arvo it was off to the movies (the older sister had freeish gold class upgrades) to see Tropic Thunder in gold class. DAMN gold class is good, so roomy and comfortable, and best of all no carrying your own drinks and popcorn in. Saturday night was Carla and Claudia’s 21st, which was a really good night. The photos are up on facebook so no more needs to be said about this, the pictures tell the story.
Sunday was fathers day and I think dad is pretty happy with what I got for him (and if my sisters give me money, they can say they helped), even though he had very little time to play with it because once he got home from golf it was time to get ready for the footy. Well the saints were playing for a week off, but well we didn’t get the week off. We were soundly beaten all round but at least we are still in the finals, there’s hope yet.
Well this is the latest ive posted one of these blogs but last night I just couldn’t really think any of this, I just chilled with a DVD I had picked up cheap on Saturday and then some sleep but that always ends up being too few hours of sleep and not enough of the TV shows ive been dl’ing. Well here’s to this week and hopefully a better and more productive one then last week.
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