Weekend
Posted by Ryan on July 29th, 2007.
Wow, it seems like it’s been a while since I last updated, but it’s only been 5 days or so…guess it’s because I’ve been busy…
Wednesday I was working at my dad’s office doing filing work…apparently it only took me ~2.5 hours to organize, sort, and file what had to have been over 2000 pieces of paper. Although it isn’t work I’d like to be doing, it stills pay…too bad there isn’t any IT work for me to do there.
So last Thursday was when the final Information Systems Management assignment was due. Worth 80 points, that one assignment was worth just under 14% of our grade. I got all 80 points for the assignment, and ended up with a solid B for the class. So I finished up the summer session with a 2.0 GPA, but I wish it was better. I know that I could have done better if I had actually put some effort into physics. I’ll just have to put the extra effort into the next few semesters and hope I can get my GPA up.
Friday was “stay home and work on every project that has to be done before school” day. I currently have three projects that I need to get done before school starts, and if I can get to it, try to bring new life into a site I started last year but had to kill when I didn’t have much time. Most of the projects I will be able to work on during my vacation (ah, the joys of having a WAMP and IRC server running on my laptop. Two of the projects are web design-ish (a new design for one plus pages that need to be written or revised, and a completely new site that I just need to edit the theme a little and write some of the pages and make sure everything is ok before sitting down with the friends that I’m running it with), and the other project is porting an IRC Operator script from mIRC to IceChat
One of the things that had been slowing down the redesign was the 404 error page. I wanted to have a better one that I currently have, but I didn’t want to spend time on making it since there was a plugin that would do the same thing, and why bother waste time duplicating it. But it wasn’t working for some reason…which I figured out today. I guess the plugin doesn’t work when the site is in a password protected directory. Yes, I do have a test bed online even though I don’t need to…it helps to make sure that everything running fine on my computer also runs fine once it is published, but because I don’t want Google (or any search engine, for that matter) to index the labs it’s behind a password.
Saturday during the day was spent in New York City. My dad, brother, sister and I went to see the New York Mets play the Washington Nationals. The game seemed to go by quickly, with the Mets winning 3-1. There was another game that night against the Nationals, but that game the Mets lost. That loss was quickly avenged Sunday with the Mets winning 5-0 when the game was called in the 5th inning.
Saturday night was a friend’s graduation party, which although the people there were mostly younger than me, was still a good time. Later that night (as in much later, 1AM), I started looking at graduate programs in Computer Science, Computer Security, Computer Forensics, etc. One of the first places I looked was Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the places I applied to for undergrad and was accepted, but did not attend. Their website said it was possible to go through the program in 1 year, which seemed really quick to me.
Sunday was another sit at home and get work done day. It was productive, but at the same time it seems like I didn’t really get much done.
Well, that was my weekend. Work in 7 hours is going to come too quickly.