I can cook! - Friday

I got up, went into Uni and revised for an exam later that day, sat said exam and think I've done decently, actually, I think I did better than I should have, the stuff that came up was much easier than I was lead to believe in the hours preceding the test and I have little doubt that Prayer once again worked. I went to Tesco and bought some stuff I would need later. I went home, browsed the net a little and then cooked some Palmiers. I didn't roll the pastry quite thin enough so they were a little dry. However, they tasted very nice and it should all work out for the Prayer Lunch on Wednesday. My exam timetable is as follows 26th at 1400 - Pretty rubbish Professional Practice, one hour long 31st at 0900 - Smart Software Systems, an hour and a half long 2nd at 1400 - Delightful Digital Electronics, an hour and a half long 8th at 0900 - Positively Programming in Java, we've had mixed reports, one says an hour long, one says three... 9th at 1615 - Lots of Logic with Formal Computing, two hours long

Not as bad as anticipated - Thursday

Morning was spent working on the Digital lab. We managed to get 50% on both sections of it, which considering the state of our project is quite impressive. In the afternoon I had a lab on Data Coms, I got 70% on that and went home where I played quite a bit of Warcraft with Gareth to relax.

Eugh, it's over at last (well, almost) - Wednesday

Tuesday had a good reason for not getting a blog. I got up and got to my 0900 lecture nice and on time. Ionnais went through a practice test, by "went through" showed the question and didn't help us. In theory this is a great idea as it gives the class a chance to discuss the questions. Of course, theory isn't aware that only 10 people at most were interested in answering questions. I of course gave my say on all of them and learnt something for it. Bad news now, on my way home I somehow missed TWO phone calls, one from HP. I emailed them and they said they'd reschedule it to Wednesday 1800. The rest of the day was spent watching a little American Dad and completing B201 coursework. By the end of the day I was knackered and had a horrible headache. Surprising as it may seem, I awoke today very refreshed with nothing left of the headache from yesterday. There was no Java lecture so I had an extra hour of a lie in (I have a feeling I've not had as much sleep as I should have). I went into Uni, handed in my coursework and then spent a couple of hours working on the Digital project. Chris has been really unwell recently which hasn't helped him in his plan of "do most of the work in the last week". On the plus side I managed to get the C side working and we have done a lot of the work already. He and I are going in two hours early tomorrow to get a headstart seeing as it's being assessed tomorrow. I think we'll be okay. Prayer Lunch was good, next week I'm bringing some food and intend to make Parm - ee - ays, I've got a rough idea of how to make them (it's amazing how fast Java pushes cooking out of my mind). I relaxed this evening then had the phone interview with HP. I don't think I did amazingly well but I did not fluff up in a big way either. We prayed about it at the Prayer Lunch so I know that whatever happens is God's will and I'm not going to worry about it.

Not a vast amount to report - Monday

I got up, went to the Java lab, failed to fix the networking problem. Went home and sadly put off some more coursework (the Java thing is irritating because I've done LOADS recently and mostly stuff that other people won't have, yet something most people will have I can't get to work, it's very frustrating). However, it's not all bad. Tomorrow, shortly after my Java lecture I'll be having a phone interview with HP, they called me today in the middle of the computing lab which was of course not a problem as Ionnais didn't actually turn up (I was not impressed). This evening I helped Steve with the sound as per usual, went to the pub and then went home.

Oopsie - Sunday

Yeah, I went to bed rather late Saturday, but it's for a REALLY good reason. I got up on Saturday as usual, did WoA, since it is a special turn it only took me a couple of hours and was much better than usual. To make it better yet, Huw came over and we discussed a load of cool ideas for WoA. After Huw left, the Java was missing the following features. Stalemate Castling Networking Not TOO much of a problem, it'll get a pass mark for sure, heck, from what I've heard most people are not doing checkmate itself (we're not required to, it is very hard to do). I got stuck on the Networking thing and so went over to Steve's house and until 0200 we puzzled our way through it and gave up in frustration. He had done a Chess game two years ago and his help was very useful. Sunday morning dawns bright and early, I collected Becca then Siän and no, I can't tell you what the service was about because I was helping the Discoverers group. It's the 5 - 11 year old group that go out during the service. It was really nice to be able to help out and rewarding too. After the service I walked home and worked on Java a lot. I played a little Warcraft but for the most part did Java. I went to the Hackers house for afternoon tea and it was VERY nice, no vegetable score (maybe that's why it was so nice!). This evening's service I felt tired, sleepy and I think I came close to fainting a few times because it was very hot in there. As such I don't think I got the full impact of the message, about making sure you're rooted in Christ with some stuff about persecution in other countries. Why would you persecute a Christian simply because they are one? Surely by doing that you are acknowledging that there is something different about them? I walked Sarah, India and Becca home, though Sarah gave Becca a lift once we got to Sarah's house and India lives just round the corner from me. The chess game now looks somewhat better and impliments everything bar networking, but that's because of a bug of some sort and I have provided code that proves that everything bar a very small bit works, I should be able to scavenge most of the marks from it for that. I've also added a debug mode to show what the program is thinking. There's only one thing left to do (well two really) for Java. First make sure it works on the Uni computers, talking to Gareth it should, he had to change something windows specific so I should be okay. The second thing is to add some stuff to my log-book, it's a little too spartan for my liking.