It Stawts....

No that wasn't a typo, just pretend like you can hear me saying it in a retarded accent. :)

Got in a good workout today, bout an hour of racquetball followed by some good sets in the pool, my arms have gotten in shape to the point I can't really feel the pain anymore, but my lungs are way behind. Found out this summer my blood pressure is a little high (well, a lot), largely due to me not being in shape. Hoping to see some pretty decent reduction in that over the next couple of weeks as I get back into the scheme of things.

Had my first two classes today, got two lectures clumped at 10 and 11am on Monday Wednesday and Friday, and two clumped at 2 and 3:30pm no Tuesday Thursday along with the randomly timed sections. Anyway, the two today were quite boring, as I assume they'll all be, since I'm having to repeat them all. The 11am CS 40 class is really horrible though, the guy says "uh" or "um" at least every third word, just a terrible experience for someone who is a speech judge once a year for the Academic Decathlon competition. I swear it causes twinges or spasms whenever he does it. To make things worse I usually skip breakfast, so I'll be waiting with bated breath for lunch during that class, hope it gets more interesting. Forgot to mention, he also uses the microphone even though the classroom is tiny, so every um is blasted into everyone's ears from all sides. Oi vey...

Now that I think about it I have no idea what oi vey means. French? Spanish? I speak a decent amount of spanish, but that was quite some time ago. No idea anymore. Anyway.

Seems like anyway is the most common word in my posts as of late. Go figure, I like tangents. Just sucks when you forget what you started with and have to scroll up.

Taught some more people the different styles of Poker we play today, probably going to start gambling for money within the next one or two sessions. Five bucks to get in, worst comes to worst you lose your Lincoln. Probably illegal actually, but gotta spice up life a bit. Gonna probably head to Vegas when I hit 21, just to wander around and see the shows and the casinos that were built since I was last there for the most part. Maybe dump in a couple quarters to random machines, who knows. :) Last year we road tripped to San Francisco in the spring, Vegas sounds good this time around.

Now to an interesting note, an e-mail I recieved today... here's an excerpt:

"You're receiving this message because your network usage has been excessive lately; to be more precise, you alone have been using
almost 10% of the *entire* bandwidth available for ResNet traffic headed for the Internet."

And the crowd says, "Doh." Guess I've been letting more people at my movies than I should, had to cap everyone to 15k/s today, the nice thing being that since it was only the uplaoding that was the problem I'm still able to download the movies I want or whatever else at full speed. What do I care if everyone else has to take ten times longer to download the stuff I already have eh? ;) Snagged the final of the first three episodes of Band of Brothers tonight, pretty impressive since that one just aired last night.

Went to visit my racquetball partner's house where he's living with his girlfriend and a mutual friend of ours.. She had her boyfriend down from the Bay Area as well, so that was the usual fifth wheel concept. The jury's still out on how that'll make me feel on a regular basis. Tried to fix her computer, failed, got the ethernet card installed but they're trying to set up a hub and work a cable modem through all three people while only paying for one, still some bugs to work out.

Alas I must sleep, no class til 2pm but pretty sure someone will be knocking on my door for help with A. their computer B. their programming class C. their social life (yeah right) long before that...