| Insomnia + On + On |
[Apr. 5th, 2005|02:25 am] |
Well, I'm starting to get back into my "normal" sleep schedule, where I'll sleep for anywhere from 2 to 6 hours twice each day. I got thrown off some time after Winter Break, now I'm getting back on track.
I actually feel more vitalized when I'm on a schedule like this, and I feel like I become a more productive individual. Since I'm sleeping twice a day, I never go for a really long stretch without getting any sleep, so I rarely feel sleep deprived.
In other news, I'm so ready for college. Since there is an overwhelming probability that I will be attending Santa Barbara next year, I think I'm probably going to learn how to surf. I'm also looking into potential job opportunities down there, although I doubt if I'll be able to find any before I actually move in.
Jim and I are talking again about setting out on a business venture. If we actually end up doing so it will probably be something I can do from Santa Barbara, so that might end up being my source of income. Of course, chances are this won't get past the conceptual stage anyways, so it's not really significant.
Our "secret" powderpuff cheerleading practices are supposto start on Wednsday, which is something I'm pretty excited about. There shold be at least four of us attending these early practices, and our numbers should increase significantly once the official ones begin. I want to talk to Andy soon, so he can start choreographing our routine.
I've also become a lot more involved with Wikipedia lately. I initially started writing in order to provide another avenue for people to learn about the San Jose Grand Prix, but I've been getting involved in other aspects as well, including copyediting and fighting vandalism.
I also ran a single session of a campaign set in one of my homebrew settings ("Grand World" or "Tilliskan" depending on what I feel like calling it at the time). I did it with the nighttime group, and I think it went over well enough. I'm currently working on writing a session summary and building an experience spreadsheet. I really want to continue this campaign for at least a few more sessions. The group is primarily an experiment, so I can start fleshing out the feel of the world, but I would love to run it on an ongoing basis if there is enough interest. Especially since I declared a delay for the after school game, which is to be set in the same world. We won't begin that one until after AP testing is over, because most of my players are studious little children, and will be spending most of their free time preparing themselves for those two weeks.
Zolton's performance has been degrading more and more noticably over the last month...I now see it's definately necessary to reinstall Windows, and the sooner the better. I've also ressurected Fernando, who is now running WindowsXP and is quite stable. I plan on using him for the few hours/days that it will take to rebuild Zolton, depending on how thourough I end up being.
I am also starting to look around for a server to use in order to setup my subversion home directory for when I go to college. The plan is to leave a computer here, in Pleasanton, with a whole lot of hard disk space, running subversion. All my files will be kept in a repository on this server. When at school in Santa Barbara, or when I'm anywhere else for that matter I will be able to connect with any computer, download what files I need, work on them, and upload them. I will never lose any data due to the revision control features of subversion. On my main workstations (which I anticipate being Zolton and the soon-to-be-acquired new laptop) I will always have a version of the repository stored, so updating will be a matter of a simple binary difference, and will require very little bandwidth. Now its just a matter of finding a suitable machine, outfitting it with large reliable hard disks and installing a stable linux system on top. And of course organizing my files into a sufficient configuration to be uploaded. That will be the least fun part.
I'm also finally getting to work on Ken's computer, which I promised I would do for him in December. I actually really screwed up, not only in taking so long to start fixing it, but I think during the move I also threw away one of the side panels for the machine, so I might have to give it back to him with its guts exposed. Good thing I'm getting out of this town soon; can avoid most of the bad word-of-mouth this will get me.
I've actually been making some interesting and beneficial business deals lately, and am currently a lot less broke than I was a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully my prosperity will continue into the future, so I will be able to afford things like prom tickets, tux rentals, and, most importantly of all, food. |
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