Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I am not in shape!

I hate netflix!!!!  I don't really but I just got a movie in tonight called, Super Size Me.  This was a documentary about fast food and its health issues.  A guy embarks on a experiment on himself to eat 3 meals a day of nothing but McDonalds menu and get no exercise and limit his walking to 5000 steps a day.  I want go into it a whole lot but needless to say I decided to take a look at what I eat on a daily basis now using Google Docs and spreadsheets.  today, Tuesday alone I had 5 cokes, only two .5 liters of bottled water.  2 cups of coffee and the food was bad too.  I decided my intake of cokes was way to high, if I replace cokes with water I would be much better off.  I am allowing one cup of coffee, my goal no fast food except once a week but smaller portions when I do go, kiddie coke, single cheeseburger, no fries, and a kiddie parfait.  I am going to work really hard this next semester and hopefully it will stick because I really want to loose some weight and get back to a healthy BMI again.

Damn you McDonalds!

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Stress Relief

OK, so the past week of school as been hell. Basically it was the week before finals, all assignments were due and projects had to be turned in. I finished everything, my group term project, my lab report, my group term paper, and several other assignments I would rather forget about. I turned in everything but my lab project. All of my data stored on my 6 GB thumb drive. The night I go to print off my lab report 60 pages of A work, my thumb drive quits. Needless to say I lost everything, I tried every trick that I know to extract data off such as using dd, ddrescue, and ddrhelp on the drive in Linux, nothing. I then crack open the drive to reveal a Compact Flash connector with a micro drive (i.e moving parts). I plugged the drive directly into a Compact Flash reader to see if it would work, nothing. This confirmed for me that all was lost.

I talked to my professor, I worked out an arrangement that I thought and he thought was fair. After the stress of this week I am not ready for finals.

Oh but on a happier note I got a job for after I graduate!!