The Quiet Before the Storm

This last month has been rather busy, I've had three midterms, and spring break, over the last few weeks. Break was a quiet time where I had a chance to relax a bit. I played a bit of WoW (not as much as you would expect), went to an orchestra concert, went camera shopping (didn't get anything), and worked on some research/paper writing. Since returning I've been slowly getting back into the swing of things.

Despite the release of Bethesada Softworks' new game Oblivion, the death of my PC motherboard's chipset fan has kept me on track. I won't be receiving my "new" (refurbished...) board until next Monday so I'm still pretty safe. The lack of my desktop has also curtailed my WoW playing to "scheduled" times (laptop != good gaming). This is a good thing as it's now project time at school. This semester I'm developing a secure network poker game, implementing a few real-time networking scheduling algorithms, and examining the effects of using DRAM without refresh cycles as caches in multi-processor systems.

I think I'm going to have my hands full the rest of the semester. Despite all this I've had a pretty quiet day so far. I went to meet with a Professor only to realize he was out of town (oops), and I followed that up with a meeting with a project partner. After my meeting I headed home, ate some lunch, and made up a large pot of chili for tonight (Yummm). I'm probably going to have left over chili for the rest of the week, but this is a good thing as chili only gets better with age.