Yearly Archives: 2003

Is this an obligation?

Bus Ramblings, School

My Crazylife client just popped up on my comptuer while I was doing homework. I programmed it to do this so I would remember to update, but now I’m updating instead of studying!

um, well…. Saturday I took a 5.5 hour shift and ended up almost killing a blind guy. (Yeah I went all GTA with the bus….. um no). I was trying to tell him when it was clear to cross the street (30th by walmart) when some yutz zooms across grand going about 50 and doesn’t slow down for the blind guy in the middle of the road. I had to yell stop. And I didn’t hear what he said back to me. It was either very sarcastic and mean or a thanks. I’m pessimistic, so I’ll think it was the former and hope he doesn’t ride my bus again.

Yesterday was sunday. Meh. Drive and attempt to do homework. Fun fun. About the same today. Though when I was actually studying for my math quiz tomorrow (on the living room futon with the windows open is actually a nice place to study) my roommate gave me a Star Trek book and I ended up reading it for 2 hours. Oops. So now I’ll try to comprehend this last section of "Orthogonal Transformations and Orthogonal Matricies." Doesn’t sound too hard.

Sick day

Life Musings

Today was definitely a sick-day for me. Actually it started last night, with freezing chills so much that I was shaking for several hours. Then of course I woke up later all sweaty and burning up. Fun fun. Made it to my 8:00 to turn in homework that was probably mostly wrong, but then came back and spent the rest of the day in bed.

…gives a person a lot of time to think. Started thinking that I’d really like that semester- or year-break from school….. just work at CyRide and save up some money. Which then got me thinking about apartments and having my own place.

Then I read a bit in a couple of my books and started feeling a bit better. That and listening to music all day (got the two computers to speak to eachother without any big problems…. that was good too). Though the love songs are beginning to get to me, and I’m not exactly sure of what I’m feeling. It’s exciting and scary all at the same time. I think if I can make it through these next two years, I’ll have a pretty good life.

Note to others:

Life Musings

So I had this strange urge to update my crazylife. And I may or may not continue to do so. Though I think if I do, it will become, perhaps, more journalisitc and reflective (dude, it’s an online journal…. that’s what it’s supposed to be like). So it’s mostly for me, but if people read it for whatever reason they choose…. so be it. I’m not in this to have other people tell me how to live my life, but I certainly won’t ignore comments. Read or ignore as you see fit; it’s my life.

Very bad day

Bus Ramblings, Life Musings

Hmm, I shoul;d’ve posted yesterday. I had the topic line still set as "Today was good." Well… today wasn’t.

Um, bad typos are blamed on the bandaiud on my index finger. Anyway, let’s just talk about the whole day.

Morning. First thing… I realized I forgot I had like $6000 of stuff checked out from ITC, so I had to drag that over there before my exam ’cause I had to be to work right afterwards and then all day. So I got hot and sweaty doing that, and I got to my exam just as it was starting, so I had no chance to review anything. Then…. again since I had no time the night before, I just assumed the green route was coming by at 9:32, since I knew it came by at 9:52. So I left the exam ten minutes early to catch the bus so I wouldn’t be late to work. Well, they’re on 30 minute intervals in the morning…. so my bad. Missed 10 minutes of an exam I needed, and still had to walk to work.

Anyway, first 5 hours of work went mostly well, until I got really behind on a red trip because several genious drivers were turning left in a construction zone where they weren’t supposed to. Took me like 10 minutes to get from Beach to Elwood. Then at City hall, workers had fifth all blocked up; I couildn’t even go straight across on the irght side of the road. SO I was late, and then on top of that the dispatcher who was mobiling trying to help me kept cutting herself off, and then started gettingmad at me because I wasn’t responding. At least I got some sympathy from the other drivers that rode back to base with me ’cause they heard the whole thing.

Um kay. Did a brown extra. Fun. Relaxing actually. After that…. joy…. I had a chance to go get my car. Surprise…. last night’s hail totally shattered my back window. And of course this nice new car that I got last month only had liability. So I was really grumpy about that.

Go back to work. Cover one orange run for another driver who was running late. When I try to ask him what the trip code was (since he had it right in front of him) he said "look on the codes chart." I was like, "the last 4 times I’ve tried to do that my bus was missing it. Just wondered if you could tell me." But he said "well then go back to base and ask someone there." So I did. But ended up complaining to like 3 dispatchers, a supervisor, and a few coworkers. It wouldn’t have been so bad had I not been in such a lousy mood. I was not happy.

But then I did 4 hours of green and relaxed a little. That was good. Went out to Perkins with a friend afterwords. That was good. Duct-taped my back window and sliced my finger in the process. That wasn’t good.

But I just got a phone hug from Russ, so that was really cool. And now I’m going to go to bed becaujse I’m on-call in < 6 hours. Night….

Computer Woes

Computer Stuff

So I had some old games I couldn’t get to play under Windows XP (yes computer geeks, I tried compatibility mode) so I finally just installed Windows 98. Well, smart me. Then I couldn’t get back to Windows XP. Well it’s been a few days, and now I CAN get back to XP… but, um, well when I was running Outlook Express under 98 and checking my email…. I had it keep messages on the server, but delete them when I delted them from my trash. Except, uh, I never emptied my trash. So now I have like 200 spam messages to sort through. Well if you emailed me…. Good luck… hope I don’t miss it!

Fun in the music lab

Computer Stuff, School

So I have all these old tapes that my nieces and I made like 6 or 7 years ago. They were of this made-up radio show. It was fun … really dumb too. But we did a lot, and I figured it was about time to digitize them before they’re dead. So I’m using the nice high-quality lab to transfer these super-low quality cassettes. And subs on the mixer are cool ’cause I can map the tape deck through to the mac, while still listening to music through the big speakers. Woo hoo! Anyway, stupid mac fell asleep and I didn’t know how to wake it up so I lost a half hour of recording. Oh sweet. it’s done. Bye

The good, the bad, and the painful.

Computer Stuff, Life Musings, School

My laptop’s here!!!!!! I am going to get absolutely NO sleep tonight thinking about it. I’m kindof upset that I didn’t stop by and check on its status earlier today ’cause I could have picked it up…. but maybe this means I’ll get some studying done for physics….

Which brings us to the bad. Yeah, I have a physics exam tomorrow night at 8 which is not going to be pretty. I think I understand the general concepts…. but that always tends to blow up for me with physics. Oh well, let you know how I did tomorrow night…. NO! I’ll be playing with my new toy!

The Painful
So I lost a filling today. It hurts when I forget about it…. and it’s really weird to move my tongue around in my mouth and feel a gaping hole…. Anyway. I suppose I should get it fixed soon.

Ah, off to physics now I guess.

Christmas Tree light Surgery Complete!

Leisure

I *had* three strings of christmas lights encircling my room. When DPS came, they took down one of them to get to above-my-wardrobe. I couldn’t ever get the string to work again, so I just balled it up and put it in my closet. The other day though, half of a 2nd string went out… the part that was over my bed! The ambient light went way down in the room. Well this evening I bumped that string and suddently it came back on. Except the lights were rather bright. Extremely bright even. I counted 7 burned out bulbs, but when I counted again, there were 9…. so I figured I needed a transplant before the whole thing died!

I pulled out the string from the closet and just started replacing bulbs. Some would burn out as soon as I put them in the line…. shock I guess from too much current 🙂 But eventually I had them all in. 1 I had to re-replace ’cause it burned out when I was working on others. Anyway, I now have lights around 2/3 of my room so that’s something at least!

That was a long entry just about lights. I was going to complain about physics and life in general…. Perhaps another time.