iSzabo

Everything seems to be on the up-and-up if I look at an overview of my life - but man things are freaking busy. I don't have much to say other than that. It's nice to have a lot of fun stuff going on these days; but a major drawback is that I don't quite have enough time to do everything I want to do. What's more is that from time to time I waste time that I don't have (but I think that's fair from time to time).

I'd really like to get a fix for glibc out that I've been working at for a while before someone else does (the bug's reported so at this point it's a race to the solution) - if not for various school projects and other things to waste my time on (TF2, mostly).

I think the main thing that I like from all that I've said is that if my most major worry is that I don't get to play as many video games as I want to, or put out as many fixes as I want to then things are more than pretty okay. Furthermore - the projects are fairly interesting, so I'm by no means wasting my time when I'm doing them.

I have an uneasy feeling about today. I have just awoken from an 18 hour sleep, after a 24 hour scavenger hunt. We won the hunt (kick ass), but that didn't seem to make up for it: Something just doesn't feel right.
I'm not sure what it is, but my gut feelings are rarely wrong, so this has me preemptively disappointed I suppose.

This evening has been very productive! I successfully cloned a Windows 98 machine that I had lying around so that it now runs in VM (and replaced the OS with Debian Linux). Also I managed to get compiz working via AIGLX with direct rendering despite having a Radeon (which wasn't possible up until a little while ago as of new drivers).

Overall I'm quite pleased and I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'm putting a new project together right now, and I think it's going to be Wine development.

I wish I could describe my day in an interesting way, but the more detail I go into the more I realize that it wasn't anything other than an ordinary day with one exception: it was dark and raining. I think I'm a touch affected by the weather because today I couldn't seem to just be content: I felt like something was missing only for today, so I decided to change my life.

'Change my life' is probably insinuates too much for what I meant by it (a fellow I met thought I was searching for religion on a Friday night); what I mean is more 'do something this evening'. I wish I could say I did something epic (that's why I decided to call it changing my life, since if you aim high you'll get further) but I really didn't get too much out of it. What did happen though is that in wandering my neighborhood I met some people that were, for reasons unknown to me, wandering outside. One of the band noticed me and stated:
"You're carrying a pizza."
To which I replied, "Would you like some?" and offered a piece.
She then asked "What's your name?"
"Szabo" I simply stated; she thanked me and I was on my way.

I again met some others with which I shared the pizza, and by a coin flip ended up making a left at a fork that I had arrived at. I continued my brief stroll and concluded I would now return home and begin travels on the Internet (which is somewhat less interesting than wandering, since you can't peruse the internet without knowing exactly where you want your data to end up) but I once again ran into the same group.

This time I briefly talked to all of them. It was at this time that I explained that I was looking to "change my life tonight". It seems that all of them at first (understandably) misinterpreted my intentions as changing my future or setting new life goals. I explained what I meant and my intention to have some experience this evening and that at that time they were it (since I had never met them before), after a brief chat and more pizza we parted and I returned home.

Now I'm still looking for something else, but at least I have a story to show for the evening.

I've recently been watching a fair bit of Gundam Wing: I'd hardcore! I originally started watching when a friend told me about a kickass episode of Gundam Seed, and I (being brilliant and not looking it up on Wikipedia first) started watching Gundam Wing. I really got into it about 10 episodes in because the story was riveting (though some of the stuff that happens seems a little excessive, it's still kickass).

I'm a little sick at the moment, actually, and as I result I am starting to feel quite tired. Which is good since I'm back to work tomorrow and need some good sleep.

With that said (and given the lack of flow in this entry), I'm going to bed.