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.