Holy Cow!


Talk about under predicting! The newspaper said the record high for SLO was 99 in 1965. However, weather.com shows a record high for October to be 109 in 1980 and an overall high as 112 in September of 1971. Makes me wonder who's right and who's wrong. But still...97 at the end of October? (and for that matter, a report of 109 in October? *shakes head* Wow.)

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good:
1. I got my Vector Analysis test back today. 47 out of 50 baby! The three points off was from the I-obviously-don't-learn-from-my-mistakes-very-well-because-this-is-the-same-question-as-our-first-quiz question.
2. Saw Truc tonight and caught up with her a bit while she gave me a ride home. It was good to see her again.
3. Got my flu shot
4. Placed the food order for the Math Club student/faculty social
5. I had written to the Mustang Daily thanking them for putting a crossword in there now. I didn't expect it to get run because it wasn't controversial or dissing someone or in response to the sex columnist. I just wrote it to say that I wanted them to keep the crossword. So imagine my surprise when I glanced through a Mustang Daily while waiting for Hartig to show up late and saw my letter in there.
6. Didn't get Linear Algebra test back.

The Bad:
1. I was so groggy today, it was not fun.
2. Linear Algebra homework is frustrating (nothing new there though I suppose). At least April got the same answer as me so maybe the book has a typo.
3. We didn't get our Linear Algebra test back.

The Ugly:
1. My Combinatorics test. That was awful. I confused so many things with each other. Only 8 problems on the test. One was to compute P^* and P₂. I switched the formulas for the two. I should have gone with my instincts on P^* and finished it the way he showed us in class but the formula was sticking out in my mind. Just that it was the wrong formula. Another question I thought the T numbers were for identical balls so I was like "I can't use it" and was trying to reason my way through getting a different answer. Afterwards I looked it up and found that T numbers are for distinct objects. Which is just great since I used a T number for an identical ball problem. So, if you're keeping track, that's 3 out of 8 questions that I *know* I fucked up. And that was with the extra time. And next time I'm taking it over at the DRC, just a lot more convient than moving at the end of the period to the professor's office because going over there ended up making 15 minutes later for work than I told Jim I would be late. Then again I wasn't expecting to take that much time. *sigh*
Side note: Meghan and I were discussing after test philosophies. I look up the answers right afterward and therefore I'll be very happy when I get partial credit on the ones I completely botched (aka pity points). Whereas she won't look them up until after the test. That amused her.

You know what I found out today? That I can aim when hitting a softball.

Today at softball practice, Randy was pitching and I was hitting a few and they were all heading over towards first/second base/right field. Then he asked if I could pull it a little. I was like, "What? Hit it the other way?" He said yeah. So I shifted a little bit and then BOOM! The ball went over towards third/left field. That made me very happy. Especially since if I can force myself to hit it a little bit more that way, it will give me more time to run to first. We'll see how well it goes tomorrow for our first game. Although, according to the scheduling website we're not playing against anyone. Hmmm....

Quote of the Day
So today at work I was browsing through the Math course offerings for next quarter. One of which was Intro into Analysis I. Under that was the workshop for the class displayed as "Anal I Workshop." I originally did not see this until Andrew pointed it out to me. Not exactly the conversation, but the gist of it:

[Andrew] That's just horrible.
[Me] What?
[Andrew] That last one.
[Me] *looks* Oh. Heehee, yeah.
[Bridget] What?
[Me] The analysis workshop has too long of a name so it was shortened to "Anal I Workshop"
[everyone giggles]
[Andrew] That class is probably a pain in the ass
[Me and Bridget] *laugh*

"You don't have to do anything" my ass! ;-)
So because my name was the first Randy could think of when choosing an Assistant Manager for the Math Department intramural softball team, the DisIntegrators, I got the job. I found this out yesterday. I was also told that I wouldn't have to do anything.

And then tonight:
Ahsgrad00 (10:18:30 PM): are you busy monday at 7?
JustNImg (10:18:52 PM): no, but I have a meeting at 8
Ahsgrad00 (10:19:35 PM): there is a mandatory managers meeting for softball at 7 and i can't make it
Ahsgrad00 (10:19:43 PM): would you mind going?
...
Ahsgrad00 (10:24:52 PM): would you be able to give people rides to practices?

So much for not having to do anything ;-). *Makes note to drive to school on Monday and to leave early because of that fact* Ah, the things I do for having fun. Even if we are going to have our asses kicked to Pluto by playing in Division I.

*idly wonders if she can put this on her resume now that she's actually doing stuff ;-)*

Petaluma
I spent the past 2 days with Meghan's family in Petaluma. I had a lot of fun while I was there.

First I took a bus up there and had a two hour lay over in San Fransico. I walked around the Financial District for a bit, taking a couple of pictures. Meghan picked me up from the bus stop in Petaluma and gave me a quick tour of the historical side of the town. Then we went to her ranch.

It was so beautiful up there. Wow. Just so open and pure, it was nice. She lives in this lovely, original 1930's house. Meghan got her brother Zack to remind her how to drive the four wheeler and then she took me on a tour of the actual ranch. There was just so much there! 75 acres is what she said and later when we were driving to a restuarant, her dad said they used to own a lot more, like 150 acres. Huge! Meghan also showed me some of her favorite spots on the ranch. For dinner, her family took me to Washu House (I probably butchered the name) to get a "local feel." It's the oldest roadside tavern or something to that effect in the state. It was a bar and a resturant. The bar was fun because back in the day people pinned money to the ceiling with a picture or business card in case they needed some more money for a drink. I had chicken a basket, pretty good chicken. Meghan, her mom and her dad all got rib eye steak while her brother got some shrimp thing. We watched some Buffy over the course of Wednesday and Thursday. We went to bed kinda early on Wednesday.

Thursday, Zack made pancake batter and Meghan made scrambled eggs. Then Meghan took me to Armstrong woods. Huge ass trees! I think the last time I saw trees that big was when I was in Yosemite in 8th grade. And they were pretty much all redwoods. Meghan was able to answer my few questions being a forestry major and having been trained to be a docent in the forest and all. We spend nearly an hour and a half walking around in there. I loved the serenity of it. Then we went to this town who's name I can't remember except that it started with an H and ended in a berg upon Meghan's mom's suggestion. We walked around there for about an hour but we weren't impressed. Lots of expensive art stuff. We watched some more Buffy and talked until her mom came home with some really good pizza. Then we read in her living room for a bit then her mom joined us and they watched Survior. I read through it thus keeping my "reality" tv virginity. After Meghan's mom went upstairs we watched some more Buffy but I beghan to drift off so went upstairs to go to sleep. I ended up staying up for another hour and a half reading. I finished my book.

Today Meghan packed up all her stuff in her car and her dad's truck. Then she took a couple of pictures of me with the pretty shell I bleached the day before with her ranch in the background. At first there were no sheep but then they were outside so Meghan took another picture and then the sheep went back inside. Then we came back to SLO. Meghan's a good driver, she was always staying within 5mph of the speed limit. Drove me, a speed demon, nuts though. But anyway, helped her unload and stuff and then actually cleaned up my own room. By rearranged some things I actually picked up about half a drawer's worth of space and some extra space in my small drawers on my desk.

I was just starting to fall asleep when I was awoken by some banging and I thought it was someone at my door so I woke up with a start. It took me a few moments to realize that it was my new neighbor Kelly putting in some nails. It gave me such a fright.

WOW, day 2 (aka "AHHHHHHH!")
Well set up today went a lot faster and a lot more smoothly today. Probably because we actually knew what were doing today. That smoothness was ruined by the fact that the Cal Poly servers were down due to maintaince until like noon (we opened at 9). So we couldn't do any account activations and told people to come back at like 11 which was when we though they would be back up. So it was wireless forms, more wireless forms and, uh, wireless forms. Matt and I tried to process the 25 forms we couldn't get to yesterday (but Matt managed to process 50 of them yesterday, go him!), but PH was also down so we couldn't look up the students and the Remedy search wasn't very good. Over the course of the day, we did manage to process 23 forms.

Around 12:30 or so we ran out of our coverage maps so I went to make copies since Jim was out getting us food (*such* a good boss). I went to the UU but everything was closed. I went to Tenaya and made 30 copies there. When I got back, Jim was back and we were kinda closing for lunch. I say kinda because the wireless side closed but since accounts was back up, they kept going while the rest of ate and then we relieved them so they could eat and then we opened up again. I took over accounts for a while. I was doing extreme multi-tasking while Andrew was eating and Terri was out. I was helping two people set up their accounts and also making our handouts. Then Terri discovered that the Password Manager wasn't working properly so we had to stop doing accounts again. So then we had to explain to everyone what to do on their own time.

We took so many wireless forms today, oh...my...gosh. Easily a hundred of them. Maybe two. So in between calls, guess what I'll be doing tomorrow? More wireless forms! Yay! [/sarcasm] My throat is a little sore from all the talking I was doing. Especially when I was talking about the accounts. These past two days is not something I want to experience again anytime soon.

I can't believe that some people thought that we would LESS busy today. I was telling Terri that I believed we were going to be more busy today and I was right. Not everyone moved in yesterday and not everyone we told yesterday that they needed their laptops came back yesterday. And most of the people early in the day we told needed their laptops came back today because they wouldn't be able to do it until next week because of WOW.


Completely changing subjects...

On my way home I noticed that there were suddenly a lot of cars around the apartment complex and I noticed people moving in and decided that now would be a good time to go around introducing myself. I met quite a few people: Amy, Jill, Rob, Jeff, Mary, Kelly, Chris, Matt and Gene. Just 18 more people to meet. Well 19 if you count my roommate, Julie. Yay me for actually meeting some of my neighbors this year!

On a some what related note, one person's laptop I was pulling information from had a note in it saying "Don't forget to converse with real people!" Thought that was kinda interesting.

WOW, day 1
I was on campus at 8am today. Why? Because the freshmen were moving in and WOW was starting. Therefore we had a booth out for them to activate their accounts and sign up for wireless access.

We were setting up from 8am to about 9:20 or so (we were suppose to be done by 9, but eh). The first couple of hours were pretty slow. A few people here and there, some wanting to activate their account, the rest wanting to sign up for wireless access. Although we didn't actually sign those people up because they didn't have thier laptops with them. So for about the first 3 hours, we were telling everyone to bring their laptops down. So then from about 1 to 5 that's exactly what everyone did. Plus more people asking and then more laptops. We had some crazy lines at some points. We had a guy from IAS, Derek, who had a clipboard filling out wireless forms in the line. One good thing though was that because of our two banners, people segregated themselves into "Activate your account" lines and "wireless access" lines. That did help with the wireless forms because people choosing passwords took a while (damn rules). Also, we had chairs on the other side of the table for the account activaters cause, well, they spend a lot of time. It worked out pretty well. In the end, we had Dan, Terri and Jim doing account activations, and Me, Derek and Taylor doing wireless forms (and activation if need be) while Matt entered the wireless forms into Remedy when he could. I'd say that he got about half of them. We'll probably have even more tomorrow. There will be more people moving in (I moved in on Sunday 2 years ago), plus we turned away some people around 5 and I know there were some people who did not come back to register their laptop.

I will say that some of the questions were answered once I wrote "e-mail" abouve "accounts" in our "Activate your accounts here!" banner and when I wrote "free" above "wireless" on our "Sign-up your laptop for wireless access" banner. It never crossed any of our minds that people would think they would need to pay for the wireless access on campus. We were not expecting so many wireless. Jim had me make 50 copies of a map of our wireless coverage yesterday. We had to send him to make more. A bit later, we sent him to make more copies of the form because the 75 I made yesterday wouldn't be enough. The nice thing about (almost) all of our handouts is that we can over produce because they are things we use all year long (I say almost because one handout got reproduced wrong and had our WOW time on there so we can't use that after this weekend).

Think I'll head to bed soon. You know, so I can get my 5-6 hours in before I wake up at 3am ;-P.

Three days until Petaluma! :-D

6 nights and counting
So, yeah, last night marked the 6th night in a row where I've woken up around 3am. The first one had a purpose but the other 5 don't. I don't like it. Usually I sleep very heavily and don't wake until my alarm goes off. Or at least around 7am as my body has now been conditioned. But 3am just doesn't make sense. I'm starting to get concerned.