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.