Today was my last final. My schedule worked out really nicely such that I had one final yesterday and my last one today. That signifies the half way point for the quarter. It’s hard to believe it’s already half over. I haven’t gotten any more progress done on my projects. I did however help a friend from school plan out a custom server that we will be building in the next week. That should be a fun project. Steve is still looking very glum. I fear that he was over watered when I got him. His pot doesn’t have a hole in the bottom and so he might have root issues. I’m not quite sure what to do with him. I’ll have to look around online and see what the procedure is for drying out his roots. I am quite enjoying my progress on my room automation page though thus far. I can safely say it has made me far more lazy and I enjoy it very much :). I’m having a hard time deciding where to go next with this project. The current interface is simple, but is hard to expand being static. As for my RealAge changes in my life I can safely say I definitely am feeling some changes. I thought the first day was going to be all placebo, but today I’m still getting that same boost in energy. I feel more awake all day and I get tired at a normal time. I haven’t felt this normal or regular in a long time. I’m working on my speeding. I found that not speeding when I had to be somewhere in a time crunch made me more stressed. Therefore I have set some ground rules for myself. I will only speed when absolutely necessary, but I will no speed over 80MPH. I don’t use it as a past time anymore. I have dropped down on how aggressive I am, changing into open lanes to speed by a few people is a no no. I can say with absolute certainty that it is helping my gas mileage if nothing else. All the sites that talk about it saving you a few MPG are right on the money. I’m definitely going to make an effort tomorrow morning to get something accomplished in terms of one of my projects. I have to figure out the best interface for the myRoom project. Speaking of which, I setup the Amarok XUL Firefox Remote plugin this weekend. Awesome plugin. It lets you control Amarok on another machine from any machine that has Firefox installed. You can search your music, add things to the playlist, and control the player. The last piece for me is creating a web version of this so that I can do these things from my iPhone and not just from my desktop. This coupled with an IR blaster that will switch on/off my receiver as well as change it’s input to whichever computer I’m playing audio from will be a huge step forward on this project. I came across a likely candidate for my IR blaster, although I fear it is out of my budget at the moment. I’m shooting for Monday to go to the hiring fair at Starbucks. I’ll have to pick up an application tomorrow on my way to school. If I can get hired there I will be able to move forward with that IR blaster. Well that’s all for now.
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