Trilobite

It works! I’m so happy I could cry. I just spent five hours writing a program that combines the marvelous technologies of tomcat and pointbase to print five lines of plain text! Now I think it will only take me 100 more hours to finish my assignment. I might need another cup of coffee.

I am going home for Easter this weekend, but there will be no big family gathering. Just me and Christine and Celine. Sunday is Celine’s cousin Jen’s birthday and she is coming to Kingston too so she can spend it with her extended family. I hope I finish this assignment soon so I can enjoy the weekend!

My picture is on the main page of geocaching web site! If you go to www.geocaching.com and hit refresh about a hundred times, you’ll see my smiling face. This is the photo they used.

I found a web site with cartoons inspired by spam subject lines, and I just spent an hour or so laughing at all of them. It’s hard to pick my favourite one, but I really liked this one and this one. Also this one.

In the past couple of days I’ve gotten a bunch of phone calls and emails from relatives and friends who just wanted to see if I was okay. I guess I must seem to have disappeared, or something. Don’t worry. I am fine, just busy. I will try to keep in touch a bit better. The rest of this week is very busy for me, but I’ll make sure to get back to every one this weekend.

A second tentative announcement was just made about the computer science courses being offered during the summer. It looks promising and I think I will most likely be able to take all the courses I need to graduate. Gah. I can’t wait till this whole thing is over!

I have a few pictures to post from last weekend and the one before that. Stay tuned.

Miscellaneous old news: Rheni’s book is now officially for sale in a bookstore near you! Thesia, Sheera, and Fizi are coming to visit for 6 weeks this summer. And, yes, the construction of the house was completed on schedule, way back in November.

In February 116 people from http://forum.origo.hu/forum visited my web site. At first I thought somebody must have posted a link to the beigli recipe, but that page only had 4 hits. I’m baffled.

There was another geocaching event today. I spent the day geocaching with a bunch of other geocachers. They were very keen and thought 7:30am was starting too late! I wasn’t too happy about some of the shortcuts we took, but I was very happy to learn of the path down to the beach at Little Bluff. It was a good day, overall. The most exciting part was walking down a creek on the ice. At dinner time we went to a restaurant and met up with about 20 other geocachers.

Celine and I were in the neighbourhood so we stopped to look at the house I used to live in. It felt a bit weird, but it still looks the same. It’s for sale now.

Celine is coming to Toronto for the weekend. It has been four weeks since we have seen each other, so I am really looking forward to it. Sunday we are both going back home, and I will spend all of reading week in Kingston. It will be really nice to relax. I miss Banjo too.

Dad sent me some money today. Woo hoo! No more chipotles for breakfast!

I’ve got some photos lying around that are three months old, so I guess it must be time for another update ! Thanks for being so patient, every one. There are new entries for October 31, November 28, December 4, and December 28.

Christmas for me was not that great this year. I was very stressed about my poor term at school, and was probably not very much fun to be around. Sorry, everybody. I’m doing better this term and I plan to graduate soon. Depending on the courses UofT offers this summer, I hope to earn my degree by August. Just a few more months to go!

In Montreal we celebrated Peter’s birthday. A couple days later it was Christmas Eve, which was pretty much business as usual. Grandma received a funny bird feeder. (Note the Pokemon wapping paper.)

One day Joan made a pot of goulash and brought out some Hungarian hot pepper paste. I thought it would be like sambal oelek and put two or three big spoonfuls in my bowl. But it turned out to be the saltiest thing I have ever tasted, except for pure salt. Apparently, the proper way to use it is to put one tiny smidgen in the whole pot!

Pittsburgh was a little more relaxing for me and I played a lot of snowboarding on Peter’s Xbox. One night Christine, Mom, and Gina went to see the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre perform The Nutcracker. (Peter and I played a martial arts fighting game on the Xbox that night.) A few days later Gina’s sister Rita came over with her two sons.