New room

I'm more or less moved into my new room, and I've found a good arrangement for all my furniture despite the room being so small. It's not so bad, in fact. Even with a queen-sized bed it's not cramped. I don't have to climb over anything, it's comfortable. Hopefully the limited space will require me to keep things cleaner, and throw a lot of junk out. If I didn't have so many books it wouldn't be so bad, but I'm not going to get rid of any books. Books are good. I'm going to have to convince myself that cardboard is not, in fact, as useful as I would like to think, and stop collecting it. I suppose "waste not want not" applies to space too.

One thing I like about having a bunch of tapestries is that no matter where I live, I can cover empty wall space with them and the room instantly feels like home, since the walls look familiar. Maybe I'll just make a poncho out of them and forget the whole "living indoors" thing. Maybe not.

The other morning I woke up and thought "I should have no problem with space at all. I just got a 200 gigabyte hard drive" then realized that "nooooo, I'm crazy."

Giddy

Not normally a word I use to describe myself, but what the hell. Today, I told a girl that I still liked her. We went to school together in the 9th grade, went to homecoming together, and even went on a date (both of our firsts, turns out) before she moved to Washington, near Seattle. I haven't seen her since, but recently she got in touch with me. She still lives in Washington, and doesn't know where she'll be working once she gets a job, but that's not the point. The point is that for once, it felt natural talking to a member of the opposite sex about "feelings". Her reaction didn't hurt either.

i've got nothing

I haven't been posting very much lately. I blame apathy, or my current dull state of affairs, or some third thing. But in my defense, I haven't been up to much lately. I'd post on recent happenings that I find interesting, like congresses wise decision to shoot down dubyas (un?)constitutional ammendment that discriminates against homosexual couples, or Stephen Hawkings recent statement about information loss in black holes or the lack thereof, but chances are you probably already know these things, or aren't interested. With that disclamer out of the way, here's some shit you don't care about:

I got a 200GB hard drive, which is actually more like 184GB since the nice people at western digital have decided that 1000 = 1024. 1000MB is not 1GB, 1000KB is not 1MB, and 1000B is not 1KB. Powers of two, people, get with the program. Still, it's a huge amount of storage space, which will soon be filled with genetic algorithms and neural network diagrams, and 32GB of music.

I heard from Katie today, whom I haven't talked to since freshmen year in high school. It's nice to hear from people you thought had disapeared forever, unless they're jerks, then it's just anoying. I'm assuming she got my screenname from my blog profile, so blogspot proves to have uses other than providing an outlet for my oh so dull and poorly constructed sentences. That put me in an unusually good mood.

Freecell is an addictive game. I'm not one for computer games, but every now and then one comes along that grabs my attention, like that crappy Deimos Rising game that came with my mac, or SSX Tricky. Is it bad that I'm thinking about designing a genetic algorithym to play the game?

Clusterfuck is one step closer to completion. Only aleph-null steps to go. I now know how modules will work. Granted no code exists for this part yet, but with clusterfuck the going trend seems to be a few weeks of thought followed by 2 or 3 lines of amazingly powerfull code. This should really go in codemill but it can wait until the code is in place.

We've found people to live in our house. Leslie and her (I'm assuming) boyfriend are moving into my room, which is big, and I'm moving into Bens old room, which is small. I'm a little upset that I'm losing my room, but I had it for a year so I can't complain, plus we're gaining two housemates and people are good. I hope all my furniture fits in the smaller room.

That's it, people. Maybe I'll have some interesting stories by the end of the summer, maybe not. Depends on whether or not I care to write about things that happen when most of the people who would care were probably there anyway.

WVU

Went to visit Kevin at WVU with Tim, Parker, and Kyle this weekend. Good times. Got drunk at a mall then saw spiderman, got a free beer at a bar, pool (table, not water), various "tobacco accessories" stores, stole Kevins car twice. but yeah... uh... the drive back hungover wasn't great, not horrible, just not great, and I like driving.

Got back and went to a BBQ at Wills, played a few games, more fun.

Now I'm driving my sisters car because mine is getting it's oil changed, and she's in France. I definitely take better care of my car than she does hers, inside and out. I found this surprising.