GW's Party
After the Engineering Ambassador Retreat, Joe/Mike/James and I all went to the bowling alley and played a few games. I did incredibly bad, but I blame it on the cosmic effects and the fact that I was on a lane to the right of the ball return.
Greg had called me earlier that afternoon to invite me to go to his place for a party, and while I was at the bowling alley Amanda asked if I was going to go, and I said only if she was going. She picked me up later at around 10, and we cruised over to the party. It was a pretty nice house, and they had plenty to drink, but NOT a lot of people, which was nice. It never got really crowded so it was pretty relaxed. Amanda and I felt like the oldest people there that night. We played Fuck the Dealer, and I ended up being the dealer at the very end who got fucked... rather, I fucked myself after forgetting that a "10" is higher than a "9"... and said it was lower. Then there was the Beer Pong tournament, and I drank most of Amanda's share of cups (we were on a team together). By that time I was getting pretty faded, and Amanda's b/f Evan showed up and eventually gave us a ride home that night. We hung out for the rest of that night after the Beer Pong and just had some more to drink and watched the conclusion of the tournament (won by Greg and Stephanie).
Good time with the McPhee's crew... I gotta hang out with Greg more, I mean we live so close to each other.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
10 more weeks...
... until this quarter is over. Yeah, yeah, I'm counting down already. The first one was easy... actually I take that back, NO, it wasn't. Here it is anyways:
Classes:
EE 308 seems to be okay. Dr. Corcoran is a very nice guy, and the way he lectures is easy to follow and we haven't done anything too complex yet. The first special problem was EASY, and they're graded by ourselves... I should be getting 100% on all of them, especially once I get some old ones to look at. We've already had a quiz, of which I'm pretty sure I screwed up more than I should have. Anyways, the class should be okay, especially with no homework, or midterms. Just special problems, and quizzes (which is good because it makes me stay on top of things).
Lab for this class: Brian is my partner, and this lab hopefully we'll be able to cruise through. With the help of Mike's old prelabs/labs, it's just a matter of getting the circuits to work (which hopefully we'll be able to figure out) and making it through Corcoran's demos and quizzes that I think he's going to give.
CPE 229 with Bryan is going to be a tough one where I will need to put in extra effort. Although so far, everything seems to be review, of which I actually sorta remember. We haven't done too much yet with the VHDL or anything new in lecture yet. We shall see...
Lab for this class: I have a sophomore EE as my lab partner, and he seems to be a good choice. He managed to remember many things about the lab and how to run everything, so I lucked out. Hopefully what I'll be able to contribute, are the lab codes. Yup, the majority/grunt work will be from me. How? Because I have Huy's old 229 stuff... of which might be old. So let's pray that the labs that he had matches up with the ones that we'll be doing... (crosses fingers). I'll find out soon if they match.
EE 328 seems to be okay as well, as long as I manage to stay on top of it. Professor DePiro is a really funny guy... hmm, I wonder what homework I'm supposed to have done. They're supposed to be collected weekly, and I need to find an old source of homework for that as well from someone. The class as a whole doesn't seem incredibly hard (so far) and we'll have to give it some more time. The only thing that sucks about it is that it's at 4-5 in the afternoon, and it sucks the most on Fridays.
Lab for this class: My partner is Saied, and Nahvi is the teacher. This lab hopefully won't be bad, with the prelabs that I'm hoping to get from Mike, as well as turning in the lab write-ups in class so I won't have to worry about it after the 3 hours that we spend in there.
Philosphy 320 (Asian Philosophy) will be pretty cool I think. Dr. Lynch is hilarious, and provides these outlines that we can follow. The reading is... well, it's the reading. Seems like there is a lot, and there are questions we're supposed to answer at the end of each week's assigned readings. Hopefully they're pretty straight forward... I'm behind already, as I only bought the expensive ($70 and $50) books just last Thursday.
On top of all of this, the main reasons why I'm so far damn behind in some of these classes is because of fucking Engineering Ambassadorship. I mean, I want to do it and the Retreat that we went to Friday night and Saturday morning/afternoon was fun... but it just took up way too much time. As of right now, I have the 368 prelab to do, the software to install and get working for 269, whatever homework/reading I should be doing for 328, all of my catching up to do for 229 and practicing those problems, and all of the readings for the philosophy class. I should've accomplished a lot of that on Saturday and today, but obviously nothing got done on Saturday, and I did some stuff today (including finding those sources of old things) but I did a lot of chores around the house today. I guess it's time to buckle down, and get things done eh?
... until this quarter is over. Yeah, yeah, I'm counting down already. The first one was easy... actually I take that back, NO, it wasn't. Here it is anyways:
Classes:
EE 308 seems to be okay. Dr. Corcoran is a very nice guy, and the way he lectures is easy to follow and we haven't done anything too complex yet. The first special problem was EASY, and they're graded by ourselves... I should be getting 100% on all of them, especially once I get some old ones to look at. We've already had a quiz, of which I'm pretty sure I screwed up more than I should have. Anyways, the class should be okay, especially with no homework, or midterms. Just special problems, and quizzes (which is good because it makes me stay on top of things).
Lab for this class: Brian is my partner, and this lab hopefully we'll be able to cruise through. With the help of Mike's old prelabs/labs, it's just a matter of getting the circuits to work (which hopefully we'll be able to figure out) and making it through Corcoran's demos and quizzes that I think he's going to give.
CPE 229 with Bryan is going to be a tough one where I will need to put in extra effort. Although so far, everything seems to be review, of which I actually sorta remember. We haven't done too much yet with the VHDL or anything new in lecture yet. We shall see...
Lab for this class: I have a sophomore EE as my lab partner, and he seems to be a good choice. He managed to remember many things about the lab and how to run everything, so I lucked out. Hopefully what I'll be able to contribute, are the lab codes. Yup, the majority/grunt work will be from me. How? Because I have Huy's old 229 stuff... of which might be old. So let's pray that the labs that he had matches up with the ones that we'll be doing... (crosses fingers). I'll find out soon if they match.
EE 328 seems to be okay as well, as long as I manage to stay on top of it. Professor DePiro is a really funny guy... hmm, I wonder what homework I'm supposed to have done. They're supposed to be collected weekly, and I need to find an old source of homework for that as well from someone. The class as a whole doesn't seem incredibly hard (so far) and we'll have to give it some more time. The only thing that sucks about it is that it's at 4-5 in the afternoon, and it sucks the most on Fridays.
Lab for this class: My partner is Saied, and Nahvi is the teacher. This lab hopefully won't be bad, with the prelabs that I'm hoping to get from Mike, as well as turning in the lab write-ups in class so I won't have to worry about it after the 3 hours that we spend in there.
Philosphy 320 (Asian Philosophy) will be pretty cool I think. Dr. Lynch is hilarious, and provides these outlines that we can follow. The reading is... well, it's the reading. Seems like there is a lot, and there are questions we're supposed to answer at the end of each week's assigned readings. Hopefully they're pretty straight forward... I'm behind already, as I only bought the expensive ($70 and $50) books just last Thursday.
On top of all of this, the main reasons why I'm so far damn behind in some of these classes is because of fucking Engineering Ambassadorship. I mean, I want to do it and the Retreat that we went to Friday night and Saturday morning/afternoon was fun... but it just took up way too much time. As of right now, I have the 368 prelab to do, the software to install and get working for 269, whatever homework/reading I should be doing for 328, all of my catching up to do for 229 and practicing those problems, and all of the readings for the philosophy class. I should've accomplished a lot of that on Saturday and today, but obviously nothing got done on Saturday, and I did some stuff today (including finding those sources of old things) but I did a lot of chores around the house today. I guess it's time to buckle down, and get things done eh?
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Freedom... GONE
Yup, it's the last day of summer. Starting tomorrow, I'll be burdened by the obligations of education. With things in the back of my head like the upcoming lab, the unfinished homework assignment, the midterms next Wednesday that I still have to study for, and the 5 chapters I have to catch up in reading. All of those things completely suck, and it will be one of the absolute hardest quarters I have yet to endure here at Cal Poly. 2 EE classes, 1 CPE class.... all 3 of them with labs. Yup, 3 labs, imma kill myself. Plus I enrolled in Asian Philosophy, which I hope will be fun and it's a good teacher, so let's just not waste my #1 registeration that I had this quarter. More updates to come later this week regarding how these classes will turn out.
So the summer's over, and I basically didn't do anything. The first 5 weeks involved SOME studying and reading for Anthropology, and when that was over, I lost the very little self-discipline that I had to begin with to study this summer, and Psychology class become a daydream class as I watched the minute hand on the clock tick every day and it finally ended. I got okay grades in both (B+ for Anthropology and B for Psychology).
Then there was work... definetly much easier than working at Leslie's, less standing, less angry customers, less of everything except relaxing. Less hours too, with most shifts being less than 6 hours each day, and I worked 5 days a week (if that at all). Didn't save much money at all this summer, basically because 1.) I'm not living at home, and 2.) the pay wasn't as good and I didn't work much hours at all. Oh well, at least it was relaxing.
Last but not least my 3rd most frequently performed activity this summer was play games. SoF2 went great, until 1/2 way through August anyways. Then the game died, and blah blah blah... long story. I'm now playing a game called Gunz: The Dual, and there's always the good ol' DoTA that I've been trying to get better at.
Overall, it was a very relaxing summer, filled with days of absolutely nothing and not even seeing the light of day (or stepping out of the house) until the duty of walking Apollo forced me off my ass and out the door. I've eaten like a pig, probably gained a good 5-10 pounds (we'll find out soon, when I visit the gym), and extremely unhealthy. I need to shape up, if not eating better/less, then I will tradeoff by going to the gym and working it off. Racketball, lifting, and running will hopefully be the plan, inbetween my heavy school load.
(Sigh).... I love it when I make these promises that I already know I won't/can't keep.
Yup, it's the last day of summer. Starting tomorrow, I'll be burdened by the obligations of education. With things in the back of my head like the upcoming lab, the unfinished homework assignment, the midterms next Wednesday that I still have to study for, and the 5 chapters I have to catch up in reading. All of those things completely suck, and it will be one of the absolute hardest quarters I have yet to endure here at Cal Poly. 2 EE classes, 1 CPE class.... all 3 of them with labs. Yup, 3 labs, imma kill myself. Plus I enrolled in Asian Philosophy, which I hope will be fun and it's a good teacher, so let's just not waste my #1 registeration that I had this quarter. More updates to come later this week regarding how these classes will turn out.
So the summer's over, and I basically didn't do anything. The first 5 weeks involved SOME studying and reading for Anthropology, and when that was over, I lost the very little self-discipline that I had to begin with to study this summer, and Psychology class become a daydream class as I watched the minute hand on the clock tick every day and it finally ended. I got okay grades in both (B+ for Anthropology and B for Psychology).
Then there was work... definetly much easier than working at Leslie's, less standing, less angry customers, less of everything except relaxing. Less hours too, with most shifts being less than 6 hours each day, and I worked 5 days a week (if that at all). Didn't save much money at all this summer, basically because 1.) I'm not living at home, and 2.) the pay wasn't as good and I didn't work much hours at all. Oh well, at least it was relaxing.
Last but not least my 3rd most frequently performed activity this summer was play games. SoF2 went great, until 1/2 way through August anyways. Then the game died, and blah blah blah... long story. I'm now playing a game called Gunz: The Dual, and there's always the good ol' DoTA that I've been trying to get better at.
Overall, it was a very relaxing summer, filled with days of absolutely nothing and not even seeing the light of day (or stepping out of the house) until the duty of walking Apollo forced me off my ass and out the door. I've eaten like a pig, probably gained a good 5-10 pounds (we'll find out soon, when I visit the gym), and extremely unhealthy. I need to shape up, if not eating better/less, then I will tradeoff by going to the gym and working it off. Racketball, lifting, and running will hopefully be the plan, inbetween my heavy school load.
(Sigh).... I love it when I make these promises that I already know I won't/can't keep.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
What a Vacation!!!
It wasn't exactly a vacation by definition, but it was the most fun I've had this entire summer yet. This is going to be a long post, but it was such a good time and full of good memories.
Saturday
... morning I packed up and hit the road at 10 in the morning. Once I got directions from Aaon, I discovered a much quicker way to get to CSUMB from Salinas when traveling Northbound. Apollo and I arrived around 12:30, and Aaron, Lisa, and I drove to the pier and had lunch at this restaurant at the end of the pier. It was an okay lunch, but the fried calimari was really good. We ran around the bay for a bit before calling Bryan and having him meet us back at Aaron/Lisa's place. Aaron and Lisa has a little female mini-doxen puppy too, her name's Alba. She is quite the tiny thing, making Apollo look like such a big boy around her. We hung out and played a bunch of drinking games, took a break and rested, before we headed out downtown to the bars to beat the crowd in time to get back home to finish up the night. We went to a bar, which was really cool because there was a huge semi-outdoor area in the back with a large fire-pit, where we hung out and got drinks. I had myself a Tokyo Tea , a pint glas of MGD (which was on tap), followed by a nice shot of Jack Daniels complimentary of Bryan. We simply can't forget the horrific image burned into our head of that old woman getting down with her bad self on the dance floor... all alone. Uh. We then proceeded to visit Albertsons where I bought my hosts a bottle of Skyy Vodka and a couple of 2-liters of Coke. As we visited Albertsons, Lisa placed a call for 4 pizzas (our dinner) from Dominos which was going to meet us back at their house. We arrived home, promptly in time for our pizza and a bunch of Aaron/Lisa's friends to show up where they proceeded to drink, smoke, eat (they ate the rest of my 1/2 of pizza), and finally left. My pizza was eaten due to the fact that I was pretty tired and just decided to pass out on the "Squish". To top off the night, Bryan drove himself home after puking next to the front door.
Sunday
We all struggled out of bed finally around noon, and went out to Chili's for lunch. It was a mediocre meal, and afterwards I went and checked out Bryan's place, the suites on campus. It was pretty crowded and not too much room, but not a bad place nonetheless for what he pays. We all went back to Aaron/Lisa's where we watched Kung Fu Hustle, which turned out to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. I'm going to buy it eventually... it was that good. Bryan, Aaron, and I then proceeded to visit the commensary on campus (due to the fact that CSUMB used to be a military base and still houses a lot of military personelle) where we bought stuff to barbeque with. Bryan went home, Lisa worked on a group project, and Aaron and I made dinner. After the girls left, Aaron and Lisa taught me how to play a new game called Demons, and we turned in for the night.
Monday
Aaron had work this morning, so Lisa and I stayed home and watched Jerry Springer and Maury on TV until the afternoon (which wasn't that far considering how I finally slept in for once... voluntarily, unlike the drunken sleep due to alcohol). Bryan came over and Aaron brought home some Starbucks for us. We then proceeded to go out and play a game called Disc Golf.
They actually had a course built on CSUMB, all 18 holes, with these weird looking metal nets that were the "holes" if using an analogy similar to golf. We played the front 9, and it was pretty damn fun... Bryan had his own set of "Driver" and "Putter", and Aaron and I used a borrowed set (Aaron took the driver, I took the putter).
So before we even got started, we lost one of Bryan's "putters" onto the fucking roof of one of the buildings. It took us about 1/2 an hour, but we finally managed to create a crazy rod composed to 2 really long pieces of tree branches and a piece of PVC pipe, while standing on a tree stump, finally retrieved it.
We then made a trip to the Liquor store, where we bought some alcohol and some scratchers, then to Albertsons where we picked up stuff to barbeque for dinner, and MORE alcohol. We finally make it home in time to barbeque and listen to Lisa's study-group work on their presentation, but we entertained ourselves by playing Rummy and drinking Jager shots. Bryan eventually left, and everyone went to bed.
Tuesday
Everyone had school today, but Aaron and Lisa both decided to skip a couple. Aaron woke up early to do homework, and I just slept in and hung out/watched TV until the afternoon where I took another nap and played with the dogs. After Aaron and Bryan got done with class, we went off to play even more Disc Golf, bringing along some beers this time.
We drank some as we went along, and we even hung out in the "Beer Hall" for a while. Aaron kicked our butts, with Bryan being +5 and me being +10 if I recalled correctly. I used the putter for about all 18 holes, because I had no distance anyways and always hooked it.
When we first started playing Aaron got his disc stuck in the tree, of which we managed to get down by chucking rocks at it. However, Bryan lost the same putter he got stuck the day before, on the 18th hole to a tree... and it stayed there. For dinner, us 3 guys went out to a sushi place which turned out incredibly good, and finally came home to play some more Rummy as we awaited the arrival of Lisa home from school, before I finally said and made my goodbyes with Apollo after this fun filled weekend.
Things to Note:
It wasn't exactly a vacation by definition, but it was the most fun I've had this entire summer yet. This is going to be a long post, but it was such a good time and full of good memories.
Saturday
... morning I packed up and hit the road at 10 in the morning. Once I got directions from Aaon, I discovered a much quicker way to get to CSUMB from Salinas when traveling Northbound. Apollo and I arrived around 12:30, and Aaron, Lisa, and I drove to the pier and had lunch at this restaurant at the end of the pier. It was an okay lunch, but the fried calimari was really good. We ran around the bay for a bit before calling Bryan and having him meet us back at Aaron/Lisa's place. Aaron and Lisa has a little female mini-doxen puppy too, her name's Alba. She is quite the tiny thing, making Apollo look like such a big boy around her. We hung out and played a bunch of drinking games, took a break and rested, before we headed out downtown to the bars to beat the crowd in time to get back home to finish up the night. We went to a bar, which was really cool because there was a huge semi-outdoor area in the back with a large fire-pit, where we hung out and got drinks. I had myself a Tokyo Tea , a pint glas of MGD (which was on tap), followed by a nice shot of Jack Daniels complimentary of Bryan. We simply can't forget the horrific image burned into our head of that old woman getting down with her bad self on the dance floor... all alone. Uh. We then proceeded to visit Albertsons where I bought my hosts a bottle of Skyy Vodka and a couple of 2-liters of Coke. As we visited Albertsons, Lisa placed a call for 4 pizzas (our dinner) from Dominos which was going to meet us back at their house. We arrived home, promptly in time for our pizza and a bunch of Aaron/Lisa's friends to show up where they proceeded to drink, smoke, eat (they ate the rest of my 1/2 of pizza), and finally left. My pizza was eaten due to the fact that I was pretty tired and just decided to pass out on the "Squish". To top off the night, Bryan drove himself home after puking next to the front door.Sunday
We all struggled out of bed finally around noon, and went out to Chili's for lunch. It was a mediocre meal, and afterwards I went and checked out Bryan's place, the suites on campus. It was pretty crowded and not too much room, but not a bad place nonetheless for what he pays. We all went back to Aaron/Lisa's where we watched Kung Fu Hustle, which turned out to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. I'm going to buy it eventually... it was that good. Bryan, Aaron, and I then proceeded to visit the commensary on campus (due to the fact that CSUMB used to be a military base and still houses a lot of military personelle) where we bought stuff to barbeque with. Bryan went home, Lisa worked on a group project, and Aaron and I made dinner. After the girls left, Aaron and Lisa taught me how to play a new game called Demons, and we turned in for the night.Monday
Aaron had work this morning, so Lisa and I stayed home and watched Jerry Springer and Maury on TV until the afternoon (which wasn't that far considering how I finally slept in for once... voluntarily, unlike the drunken sleep due to alcohol). Bryan came over and Aaron brought home some Starbucks for us. We then proceeded to go out and play a game called Disc Golf. 
They actually had a course built on CSUMB, all 18 holes, with these weird looking metal nets that were the "holes" if using an analogy similar to golf. We played the front 9, and it was pretty damn fun... Bryan had his own set of "Driver" and "Putter", and Aaron and I used a borrowed set (Aaron took the driver, I took the putter).
So before we even got started, we lost one of Bryan's "putters" onto the fucking roof of one of the buildings. It took us about 1/2 an hour, but we finally managed to create a crazy rod composed to 2 really long pieces of tree branches and a piece of PVC pipe, while standing on a tree stump, finally retrieved it. We then made a trip to the Liquor store, where we bought some alcohol and some scratchers, then to Albertsons where we picked up stuff to barbeque for dinner, and MORE alcohol. We finally make it home in time to barbeque and listen to Lisa's study-group work on their presentation, but we entertained ourselves by playing Rummy and drinking Jager shots. Bryan eventually left, and everyone went to bed.Tuesday
Everyone had school today, but Aaron and Lisa both decided to skip a couple. Aaron woke up early to do homework, and I just slept in and hung out/watched TV until the afternoon where I took another nap and played with the dogs. After Aaron and Bryan got done with class, we went off to play even more Disc Golf, bringing along some beers this time.
We drank some as we went along, and we even hung out in the "Beer Hall" for a while. Aaron kicked our butts, with Bryan being +5 and me being +10 if I recalled correctly. I used the putter for about all 18 holes, because I had no distance anyways and always hooked it.
When we first started playing Aaron got his disc stuck in the tree, of which we managed to get down by chucking rocks at it. However, Bryan lost the same putter he got stuck the day before, on the 18th hole to a tree... and it stayed there. For dinner, us 3 guys went out to a sushi place which turned out incredibly good, and finally came home to play some more Rummy as we awaited the arrival of Lisa home from school, before I finally said and made my goodbyes with Apollo after this fun filled weekend.Things to Note:
- Why must things always come back to my mom?
- Once a fairy, ALWAYS a fairy.
- Bryan, you want to pick up your pieces of pepperoni with a microwave-able plate so you can eat them again?
- Aaron, don't stick the chopsticks straight up in your noodles like that.
- Fucking 3's.
- Get rid of Pocket Rockets.
- Don't step in Alba's deuce.
- Aaron, stop watering your lawn.
- Haley, I just want to arrrghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
- Apollo, with his natural born skills to sniff out and find weed.
Thank you guys, for being such gracious hosts to myself and Apollo and for such a great weekend.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Time to get away...
The summer's winding down... and I don't have much time left before the pain and suffering starts all over again. It's that same feeling you get every Sunday afternoon at around 4:30 PM, when the sun starts to set and you realize that the next day is going to be filled with school/work or other obligations. But that is life, and we must live it a day at a time. I will use what time I have left to get away, make something of my summer.
Tomorrow morning Apollo and I will embark on a short trip up North to visit Aaron/Lisa and Bryan at CSU Monteray Bay. It should be fun, and I'll definetly take some pictures to remember the trip by. Hopefully Apollo will be a good boy on this trip and that my car doesn't mess up for some reason or another on me.
So until I get back... probably Monday sometime, have a good weekend...
The summer's winding down... and I don't have much time left before the pain and suffering starts all over again. It's that same feeling you get every Sunday afternoon at around 4:30 PM, when the sun starts to set and you realize that the next day is going to be filled with school/work or other obligations. But that is life, and we must live it a day at a time. I will use what time I have left to get away, make something of my summer.
Tomorrow morning Apollo and I will embark on a short trip up North to visit Aaron/Lisa and Bryan at CSU Monteray Bay. It should be fun, and I'll definetly take some pictures to remember the trip by. Hopefully Apollo will be a good boy on this trip and that my car doesn't mess up for some reason or another on me.
So until I get back... probably Monday sometime, have a good weekend...
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