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Saturday, February 14, 2004
Cead Mile Failte!
Oh yes. It's Valentine's Day. Fuck it. I hate Valentine's day, on principle. Today has been pretty good so far...woke up...played pool, on the way back, some insane person was beeping at me in a car, and I was trying to figure out who the heck it was. It was Meg! And then Henry showed up as well. We proceeded back to the campus center to play pool [Henry is damned good...], and then we got some munchies and sat down and talked. Today definitely hasn't sucked up to now, and if my luck continues, today may continue to be a great day! I was extremely happy to be able to see and hang out with them today.
Ok, I haven't blogged because my roommate messed with my computer settings and it took me two days to get him to fess up and fix it.
It was sort of obvious it was him because he was the only one in the apartment who could do it, and he only banned four websites: www.wpi.edu, www.blogger.com, www.msn.com, and www.google.com. Anyways, he showed me how it was done, and damn, that is one cool trick that I'm going to have to remember. I am now pop-up free because I blocked the ad.doubleclick.com server, thanks to this prank. I was extremely pissed for a while, because you have to trust people you live with, and he lied and said it was just some virus, and he had nothing to do with it. But I learned something: put a password on my administrator account [which he was able to get around], and to always blame him for all my computer problems.
The very next day, I was knocked out of the 64-man pool tournament. That day was a very bad pool day for me. I am not saying I should have won--had I been playing my very best, I'm pretty sure he'd have still won, he was an absolutely AMAZING player. He beat me, 2-0. And then crushed me at 9-ball. I just couldn't hit the shots worth beans that day.
So life sucks. I've continued to just be angry and aggressive all the time now.
Got a 75% on my thermodynamics midterm, but only due to my own stupidity. The system we were analyzing was using AIR, not WATER. I misread the material that was flowing through the control volume. So I got a 6/10 on the first problem because of that mistake. The second problem I earned a 9/10 on, and the point that was taken off was because I had added too much information and cluttered up my answer.
Next day, a quiz was given, and made stupid mistake on it. Probably will get a 6/10. I can't believe I made that mistake.
These past few days I just can't seem to catch a break. I feel like I'm being routed in all my efforts, and there is no point in continuing because I can't win. Screw that. I'm in this for the duration, win or lose. One thing to do: fight onwards and carry forward.
Oh, and I need to bribe someone to sow my scally cap back together: the brim has come loose, so it looks a little weird.
Played a big poker game last night. Everyone started out with $5.00. I went out early on, borrowed $2.50 and, in a single hand, took Russ in really badly. Jack-high straight on the flop, with the fourth street not helping anyone, and fifth card was crap. Took him in by meekly saying "check" when it was my turn to bet. He thought it meant I didn't have anything, so he bet extremely aggressively ($1.00). "Call, raise you $0.50." "Call, raise you $1.75", "Call, raise you $1.50", for the first round of betting. On the last round, he said "Call, raise you $4.00", and I matched, and we showed, and he was pissed.
Since we weren't playing for real money, I didn't cash out...then lost everything on a single hand because I thought I had a straight, but I had overlooked the middle card, and so lost the hand. Whatever, shit happens. Didn't lose real money. But I was frustrated with my own stupidity and went upstairs before he could taunt me about it [I was pretty mad]. Then we were off to the billiards tables, and I just relaxed.
Going out to dinner with my family today [they know I have nothing better to do on St. Valentine's Day...I mean, what would I do tonight? I don't have a date, and I'd probably finish off my roommate's vodka, and just sit around]. Then I've got to take notes for history. The deadline is coming up...fast...
And now I'm off to play Rainbow Six: Urban Operations.
Au revoir. Sante!
Oh yes. It's Valentine's Day. Fuck it. I hate Valentine's day, on principle. Today has been pretty good so far...woke up...played pool, on the way back, some insane person was beeping at me in a car, and I was trying to figure out who the heck it was. It was Meg! And then Henry showed up as well. We proceeded back to the campus center to play pool [Henry is damned good...], and then we got some munchies and sat down and talked. Today definitely hasn't sucked up to now, and if my luck continues, today may continue to be a great day! I was extremely happy to be able to see and hang out with them today.
Ok, I haven't blogged because my roommate messed with my computer settings and it took me two days to get him to fess up and fix it.
It was sort of obvious it was him because he was the only one in the apartment who could do it, and he only banned four websites: www.wpi.edu, www.blogger.com, www.msn.com, and www.google.com. Anyways, he showed me how it was done, and damn, that is one cool trick that I'm going to have to remember. I am now pop-up free because I blocked the ad.doubleclick.com server, thanks to this prank. I was extremely pissed for a while, because you have to trust people you live with, and he lied and said it was just some virus, and he had nothing to do with it. But I learned something: put a password on my administrator account [which he was able to get around], and to always blame him for all my computer problems.
The very next day, I was knocked out of the 64-man pool tournament. That day was a very bad pool day for me. I am not saying I should have won--had I been playing my very best, I'm pretty sure he'd have still won, he was an absolutely AMAZING player. He beat me, 2-0. And then crushed me at 9-ball. I just couldn't hit the shots worth beans that day.
So life sucks. I've continued to just be angry and aggressive all the time now.
Got a 75% on my thermodynamics midterm, but only due to my own stupidity. The system we were analyzing was using AIR, not WATER. I misread the material that was flowing through the control volume. So I got a 6/10 on the first problem because of that mistake. The second problem I earned a 9/10 on, and the point that was taken off was because I had added too much information and cluttered up my answer.
Next day, a quiz was given, and made stupid mistake on it. Probably will get a 6/10. I can't believe I made that mistake.
These past few days I just can't seem to catch a break. I feel like I'm being routed in all my efforts, and there is no point in continuing because I can't win. Screw that. I'm in this for the duration, win or lose. One thing to do: fight onwards and carry forward.
Oh, and I need to bribe someone to sow my scally cap back together: the brim has come loose, so it looks a little weird.
Played a big poker game last night. Everyone started out with $5.00. I went out early on, borrowed $2.50 and, in a single hand, took Russ in really badly. Jack-high straight on the flop, with the fourth street not helping anyone, and fifth card was crap. Took him in by meekly saying "check" when it was my turn to bet. He thought it meant I didn't have anything, so he bet extremely aggressively ($1.00). "Call, raise you $0.50." "Call, raise you $1.75", "Call, raise you $1.50", for the first round of betting. On the last round, he said "Call, raise you $4.00", and I matched, and we showed, and he was pissed.
Since we weren't playing for real money, I didn't cash out...then lost everything on a single hand because I thought I had a straight, but I had overlooked the middle card, and so lost the hand. Whatever, shit happens. Didn't lose real money. But I was frustrated with my own stupidity and went upstairs before he could taunt me about it [I was pretty mad]. Then we were off to the billiards tables, and I just relaxed.
Going out to dinner with my family today [they know I have nothing better to do on St. Valentine's Day...I mean, what would I do tonight? I don't have a date, and I'd probably finish off my roommate's vodka, and just sit around]. Then I've got to take notes for history. The deadline is coming up...fast...
And now I'm off to play Rainbow Six: Urban Operations.
Au revoir. Sante!
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