Week 9

Ok so week 9 is just about to finish up and what have i done this week. Not much really when it comes down to it.

Ok so last friday after my previous blog i went out to a 21st for a mate ive known since primary school (lets call him Andy), the 21st was dinner in richmond (actually really nice place and the measl were very good) and then back to his place (cause his parents were away) to chill and hang out. So we all met at Andy's place before heading in, but due to lack of planning we were like "oh shit how do we get to the station". We worked that one out by getting a mates dad to drive one car load to the station, another of the guys getting dropped off by his sister got her to take a car load and one of the other guys was driving all the way in so he took a car load. Anyway a few of us took some travellers and we were off.
Once the train got to the station we were all about to get on but some ticket inspectors had just escorted some really drunk guy off the platform, and then decided to come and get 2 of our group for drinking on the platform, one of the 2 was me and it sucks cause now i need to wait for a fine that may or may not come, i just wish i knew if it was oming or not (im pretty certain ill be getting a fine though).
Anyway i put that behind me and ended up haveing a really good meal a couple of drinks then we all headed back to Andys place. At dinner we had another of the group turn up from a prior commitment and she took one car load back to Andys, so that left Andy Chad Woodsy and myself (all of us have been mates since primary school, we went off to different high schools and now Uni's and we still see each other every other week, oh yeah and the 4 of us went to schoolies together as well) to catch the train back and then taxi it to Andys, Kyle tagged along and picke up her car along the way to go home for sleep (she had been to the dawn service so she was a little tired).
Instead of catching a taxi Wos had recently finished work and so he gave us a lift back to Andys and so that saved us a cab fare which is always good. Well the rest of the night consisted of drinking (i think i ended up suppling for most people due to Woodsy, i fixed his dads pc a few weeks back and i think Woodsy talked him into getting me some beer which arrived that friday night, so i was more then willing to share it cause i dont drink too much on my own anyway), and sitting around talking for most of the night. In the end i shared a taxi home with Steve and Karen, mainly because im lazy, it was wet and they were heading that way anyway.

Saturday i went to karate which is harder then you think after a big night and little sleep but i stuggled through it and once i got home i ended up feelng heaps better (i was mainly tired, but i had gotten all of my balance back) i was "reminded" (i say reminded because i never get told whats happening by my family till its on) that our family was going out for the arvo and evening for mums birthday which was on sunday (but due to my sister working sunday arvo we did it on saturday) we went to dinner at the Lobster Cave and before that we went and visted some family. All this ment that i couldn't go round to Rowans and finish off our Systems Integration that we had to resubmit. So this was quiet annoying, although once i got home i found the work id done on friday and emailed rowan the points i was going to be using to complete my answers to my 2 questions for the resubmission work, then i needed some sleep so it was off to bed.

On sunday evening, after spending most of the day going here and there and everywhere me and dad got my sister a usb drive because she broke her first one, then the one i loaned her (my old one) which she anihilated (now i know what the inside of a usb drive looks like, quiet unimpressive), so we were trying to get her one much like mine so it might hold up to her use, (we ended up getting one similar to mine but plastic instead of metal cased (same design etc)), i got a lot of work done on my questons for Systems Integration with only a very small amount to finish off on monday before IE Studio.

Monday was meant to be an earlier start then it was but it wasn’t, although once I did meet up with rowan before IE studio, I finished off my questions and got him to go through them, which was useful cause he saw a couple of things I had forgotten to put in so I fixed that up and were had then finished Systems Integration. The IE studio went well, well they all do it’s a good way to keep up and Jake and POD always have something funny so that helps make things go quick. After IE and a short walk to submit Systems Integration we all went off to our clients for a client meeting. The client meeting went well to a point, we had our mock-ups to show them (great work Dze and Rowan), then our clients had ideas of how they wanted it which were different to ours and don’t seem the easiest to implement, but we will work out how to either overcome this or we will find a work around.

On Tuesday I went to my class that makes me miss out on the morning meeting which was quite a bad thing for the week I think, mainly because I got Portal working on my laptop (its now gone from the laptop so I don’t get distracted by it anymore), the other reason is because I missed out on a fair bit of drama concerning our groups use of the K1.06 meeting room. I was filled in on the details but because I wasn’t there I won’t comment on it other then to say “power trip”. So after I was filled in on the details we went off to the IE seminar (after a bite of lunch) which involved flying minties and a lot of information on data bases, and Dze winning blog of the week (about time too his blogs have all been really good).
At the afternoon team meeting we all started on work that had to be done, Ben Dze and Rowan were working on use cases that had to be done for the FRS, Cladi and I were working on parts of the FRS. All in all I slacked of badly, I was meant to be helping Cladi but once she was typing up what we had worked out I would hit up portal for what I told my self would be for just a minute, which usually went for 10, unless Cladi asked me something which wasn’t fair to her. So yeah no more games on my laptop or ill get distracted too much, and I really have to much work to do anyway.

Thursday I had planned to get up early and go to uni to do my use cases that I have been assigned, but that wasn’t to be and I got to uni at normal time and wasted some time before class. The lecture had was different enough to be interesting because that’s the last one that is examinable and there was a virtual guest lecturer so that was different. The laboratory after this was ok we were working on pivot tables in groups and this went well even though most of the steps were incorrect for office 2007. Oh yeah and we got the answers to the questions wrong, because of decimal points, but in the end we found our problems. Thursday night at the Nott was ok but cold and few people were there, although the Bundy Chicks were there again so Simon ended up with 2 hats (I relieved him of one) a shirt and a photo, he was annoyed cause he’s only ever gotten large shirts and needs a medium.

Friday was quite boring and I got a reasonable start on my use cases before I started this blog, but I haven’t finished them quite yet. I’ve finished this blog on Sunday but I will start next weeks blog with this weekend, all I can say about Saturday night though is EPIC, and if you want to know why you can tune into my next blog.