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So, apparently I’ve been pretty busy because I would swear I wrote my last post only a week or so ago. Seeing as that’s not the case I now realize how incredably busy I have been. The countdown to graduation continues. I learned that I did just fine on my C++ project and am about to start ramping up for the next. This week I have the first of 3 midterms for the quarter. Luckily they all landed on separate days so I don’t have to pull any insane studying nights, but I do have a fair bit of studying to do. For all the projects I have been working on for my classes I have not been paying much attention to the base material. All my project grades are turning out great, but the midterms count for everything so I will have some work to do. The first is for Compilers & Interpreters on Thursday, followed by Algorithms on Friday, and finally Computer Architecture on next Tuesday.

I have been working much more over the last week, and loving it, but at the same time I have to pinch myself not to fall into that routine since school is not quite over. What can I say I love what I do, and when faced with school or working I love working. I settled on working for IMARC over Arbitech in the last couple of days. I decided that based on the type of work I’d be doing for IMARC that it would end up being a better fit for me at this time. Arbitech was very kind and has actually offered me a consulting job for a project they need some work done on. I think that will be great and I will definitely learn a fair deal more in completing that. As for IMARC I have written some pretty awesome processing and parsing scripts recently for taking client files and doing all the necessary pre-processing that employees are currently doing. I’m hoping to have these done in the next week or so following midterms. I’m hoping they will have as big an impact as I think they will.

On a smaller note my birthday came and went exactly a week ago. It was a wonderful day, all my old friends contacted me through Facebook including my cousins. I had a lovely dinner followed with some amazing music at the performing arts center. This year promises to be quite eventful. All seems to be going according to plan which means I should be moved out and in a condo in roughly six months. I’ve also started looking at possibly getting a new car around the same time. I’m not entirely settled on what I will get, but have commenced drooling on everything I come across.

Several new projects have come to light, and I will hopefully be starting on them in the coming months. I have not forgotten my home automation projects, but will definitely not have much time to work on them in the next month or so. A new distraction that is starting to consume more and more of my time is my Kindle once again. I had taken a few weeks off, but I’m way back into the reading groove. I have over a dozen books ready to be sampled on my Kindle and am looking forward to completing the Farseer line of books by Robin Hobb. Well, got some homework to finish and some more reading to to. More to come.