greetings! i'm so fucking glad it's friday. it's been a busy workweek for me. the first two days were spent debugging this dumb block that i didn't know anything about, and then i spent the next few days working on some modifications on this new algorithm that the architect handed down. luckily, though, it passed today with no extra changes on my end. bug-free code on the first try! *flex* yes, i am the man, haha.
so i had another night of insomnia last night. yeah, that's two nights in a row. i got up at like 4:30am to take my xanax to knock myself out. so it's either stress or the heat, i've decided. it's been really hot in the bay area the last two days, and since my bedroom is on the second floor, it gets quite toasty in there when i go to bed. it sucks. the next place i live in better have central AC. either that, or i'm going to have to buy one of those portable air conditioning units. how much do those things cost?
so my boss comes back next monday. i hope he can offline some of my tasks, so i can concentrate on the ECO from hell. right now, i've been looking at it a few minutes at a time. to tell you the truth, i'm scared to do it, so i've been putting it off. yes, i've become a wussy engineer. the last time i was scared to do a work task, i had to "commit to the moment," so i went out to the north face, bought a $300 sleeping bag, and spent the night at the office. i will never forget that day/night. the place ran out of coke, so crashed at 4am. that piece of code was the hardest thing i've ever had to do as a chip designer, and it took months to verify it. i think this ECO will be the second hardest thing ever, and i have to finish it by next friday. yes, next week will be a very tough week.
so D has now joined our lunch posse. so now we have four people. the problem is that the other three all drive coupes, and i'm the only one with a 4-door car. that means that i will be the one most likely to drive us all to lunch these days, unless i want to squeeze into the backseat in their cars. ah, young people and their 2-doors. today, we tried the new guang-dong place in cupertino village. i got the "three delight" dumplings, and they were only so-so. i think i would have liked it had they had hot sauce. instead, i just had a little bit of soy sauce, so the dumplings were sort of bland. southland's taste better, and they're cheaper, too.
so the NBA season is over. man, the cavs got swept, poor things. i gotta hand it to the spurs, they played really well, and they definitely deserved to win. i'm happy for michael finley, but the rest of them have won too much. looking forward to next season, i just hope the mavs don't have to face the warriors again in the playoffs, that's all. but yeah, now there's no interesting sports to watch; it's a wasteland of baseball from here on out until football starts up again.
so i was watching the results show of _so you think you can dance_, and lauren didn't look so hot. it's her hair. it's amazing what a hairstyle can do for your looks. the wrong one can make you extra-fugly, and the right one can make you look extra spicy. i feel bad for the two that got voted off, though; they're contemporary dancers that didn't get a chance to show off what they could do. they got stuck with doing an argentine tango in their first dance, and they got subsequently voted off because of it. i bet if they had gotten to do a number choreographed by mia michaels, they would have stayed on the show. that's too bad.
i can't seem to wear a bandana right. (yes, i know, this is random.) i've tried before, but i think my forehead is at a weird angle or something. i always thought it was a cool look, and i own like three bandanas, but every time i put one on, it just looks really odd on my head. maybe i need someone to show me how to tie it right or something.
hehe. i just noticed that almost every paragraph in this entry started off with "so." and i'm trying to remember if that's how i talk in real life when i introduce new subjects. *shrug* ok, anyways, i'm off to have my 5pm smoke. have a great weekend everyone!