Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sem 2 Week 3

Ok so week 3 of semester has been a very good week, for starters ive had 2 cars for the durations (mum and dad went away, my older sister has her own car and my younger sister has no P’s yet so they were both mine, not that I drove mums she left the petrol tank so it was basically empty) so getting around was really easy and I probably did a few more trips places then I needed to (something else to do when im bored at home and should be working). Although driving dad’s car around has its cons, my younger sister is always demanding a ride here, a pick up there and always making me either wait or be late to something. or the worst thing yet getting up at 6:20 on a Saturday after going to bed at 3. Anyway that’s over now cause the parents are back home so it’s back to the normal swing of things.

IE work this week and the next few will consist of testing the system as modules come online and helping Cladi and Danny with the user manual, because they helped me heaps with the testing plan. This is going to be a big document but at least I under stand the documents a lot more then I do the coding, which I give huge kudos to Dee and Rowan because they both understand it. This week was very slack in my amount of work done because I didn’t do much at all during the week except Monday where I helped Cladi find templates to base our user documentation. So we found a few and worked out what sort of layouts we need and which sections we will be using or not using. Tuesday we had our client meeting which went well because we have some of the client’s big requirements working already (user access rights) although they always have some things that need small changes and I hope these don’t affect the coders too much.

Wednesday saw me at Clayton making bad attempts at effiel coding although apparently I got furthest along in the tutorial and there’s only a little bit left for me to complete by next week and this ha my confidence in effiel getting up there so hopefully I can keep it up and do well for once in a programming language (and not fail it 2wice). For once in quite a while I had nothing on for a Wednesday night so I started watching episodes of Dexter I had “acquired”. Now id been watching Dexter on 10 when I remembered and I liked it but having all the eps in the first season took up a lot of time to watch late this week and even included me acquiring and watching the second season as well (finished that this evening), and ive got to say do yourself a favour and watch it it’s a great series and it just keeps getting better through out each season.

Thursday saw HCI and for some reason im just finding that im acting like a 3-4 yr old in that class I dunno why but the subject just doesn’t seem serious to me so I find it very difficult to concentrate or be serious in it. Although I guess this could also be due to the fact that im looking forward to the night because Thursdays are pub nights and its great to get out and catch up with people when I can.

Friday was not very productive at all, I got my sister to work and chilled with a mate then I think I binged on Dexter till way too late, that little voice that says “come on one more ep won’t kill you” really messes with my sleep patterns. Saturday morning well I only really saw about 20 mins of that and that consisted of taking my sister to work at o-dark-hundred and then it was back to sleep and up in the afternoon. This meant I missed karate again, but ive been missing a lot of classes lately. It’s disappointing because it is a good sport and if I go back ill be well behind many others I know, but if there are as many little kids as normal I won’t be back for a fair while. I find the kids just make it too hard to advance very far when to them its just day-care and I never get to do anything advanced because we have to stick with basics as a class, I dunno I think I need a new sport or find some very different classes.

Saturday afternoon saw the big road trip out to Werribee for Luke’s 21st birthday, and it was a great night even more so because I was drinking and Pokey is great fun drunk. Although I think it was me that got the worst group ghosting of the night, meh I got a couple of good ones in. Im sure there’s a lot of photographic evidence of me doing something stupid at some point but it was a great night so no regrets. I think I pulled up best on Sunday out of the group of us that road tripped it out there, and I know I haven’t had a nap yet I even had to head to the airport shortly after I got home.

Well that’s the week that was no one knows yet who won blog of the week, and I still have my tax to do but oh well on with week 4.

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