12/30/13

Again, sorry for the neglect. Just been busy. Today was good. Saw my grandparents and helped them take down their tree. I saw some old friends and that was fun. We watched Recess take's the 5th grade on Netflix and played worst case scenario junior. I showed off my OUYA and that was fun. We exchanged gifts. We took our family photo for our ornament. Later.

12/22/13

Today was pretty good. I was going to go to my grandparents but the road was to icy. Instead, I unpacked some more of the stuff we put in storage during the bed bugs. Turns out, my labeling sucks. In a bag labeled "desk" I found a bunch of stuff that never went in a desk, like my computer accessories bag. Oi. I did see my other grandparents. After seeing them, my family went to Logans Roadhouse. I ordered a steak, medium-well. When I cut into it, it was medium rare. My brother was all "oh that's good eatin,' let me have it, you can have my salmon." I think he forgot I don't like fish. I sent it back and it came back a little more well done than medium well. I don't care; I actually like my steak more on the well done side. It was good. I rented Strange Brew and watched it with my brother who's going to school in Canada. He says he knows people who are just like them. lol. Later

12/17/13

Today was kind of eventful. I did some babysitting for one of my neighbors. Her daughter was getting over an illness and she needed someone to watch her for a couple hours. We watched Gravity Falls and Doug. I thought about "what would be appropriate but tolerable? Gravity Falls." Turns out she loves it and it's the only thing she watches on Disney Channel. Cool. Then when there were no more episodes of Gravity Falls, we watched Doug. Turns out she watches it occasionally with her normal baby sitter. Faith in the next generation restored. Anyways, that went from about 9:30 to 12:30. After that I shipped a couple of Christmas packages. I then wrote some things for my job hunt. Then I watched Breaking Bad. Good series. I also became a motion maker on Dailymotion. Yay. Later.

12/16/13

Sorry about neglecting this blog. I didn't do to much today. I got some large bills exchanged for smaller bills for gifts and I exchanged rolls of change for cash. I also cleaned off my parents computers. I put malwarebytes and microsoft security essentials on their desktop. After running the malwarebytes scan, 564 detected objects, at least 300 of which were Trojans. I don't know. I spent 2 days last summer cleaning off bloatware, but I guess I missed getting all the viruses. Wow. Later.

12/8/13

Today I spent all day studying. I hate finals.

12/1/13

Sorry I've been neglecting you. I've just been to busy. I'll be able to start up after finals. I worked on a lot of work. Later.

11/22/13...and the night before

OK, before I talk about the great things that happened today, I need to tell you a little story about last night.

So I've been really stressed with this entrepreneurial project, mainly because 1 professor just wouldn't green light the idea, and it was all for quite stupidly specific things. One being "well you can't lift a tire with cardboard." "So what's the coefficient of friction that you need in order to get the tire to slide?" And other overly specific things. All the other groups didn't have to give super specifics when they were trying to greenlight their idea. Oh, and this wasn't at the time of actually building the thing, it was when we were just trying to get the idea approved. Oh, and now we have 2 weeks to build a working prototype, and we can't start construction until we get the idea approved.

So I'm in the shower, knowing that tomorrow (today) was the last day we could get it approved. I'm stressing, knowing that my group and I need to get a final plan of attack, and we had to do it before class started. Then I remembered, I was meeting with my marketing group to work on our marketing project before that class. I lean over, rest my head against the shower wall, and...well...here's how I can describe it.

For about 2 minutes, all the thoughts in my head, all the thinking, all the worries, all the stress, just stopped. All I was aware of was the sound of the water running over me, and even then I wasn't fully aware of that until maybe 1 minute in. Then when I realize where I was and what I was doing, I finished showering and stepped out to dry off. As I look into the mirror, I became very fascinated by the facial expressions I could do. I was fascinated by the way my muscles altered my appearance. I stood there, playing with my reflection for probably 10 minutes, involving my hand and the towel after maybe 3-4 minutes. I was out of it. Then when I got out of the bathroom, I was fascinated by all the stuff in my room. I walked over to the pringles can, being cautious because I wasn't sure what it was capable of. Then when I noticed that the lid made a certain noise, I played around with it and eventually played "Under the Sea" on it. I did some other things until I decided it was bed time, but I was like a caveman discovering the world.

I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the best way to describe it was "my brain had a blue screen of death and it rebooted in safe mode. Really. Normally, I have like 3-5 "programs" running in my head at once, all competing for "resources." In safe mode, everything was quiet. My thoughts were completely silent. There was no filter for the sensory input, and it was interesting. I also couldn't talk. I don't know if I just didn't want to, or temporarily forgot how.

Well I went to bed, and when I woke up, things felt nice, like no stress. I tried "running" "entrepreneurial.exe" but it just wouldn't "run." Wow. Crazy. I was able to really do well with my group with our marketing project.

Then I get to the engineering campus, and I still can't get "entrepreneurial.exe" to "run." I tell my group members, "guys, this class finally bested me. Here's what happened last night, and I can't get 'entrepreneurial.exe' to run." Being engineers, they understood my jargon. They were able to present the idea well, well enough to get approved. Though that might have been the professors meeting before hand and saying "look, they aren't going to create the next great product, just let them continue so they can learn the rest of the process." Either way, approved.

Now for my really good news. Part of the project requires us to figure out the measurements needed for our lever. After a semester of reading, writing, and trying to prove our idea, I finally get to use math. I was so happy. I missed math.

I went to the pokemon league for the first time in weeks. It felt good to play again, even if I essentially did nothing but lose. I admit that I'm the worst trainer in our league. I don't care. I have fun and I still get badges. Later.