holy shit. i've been debugging this chip-level simulation (the local testbench workred) ALL AFTERNOON. for some insane reason, it was failing in this really weird way, and it took me a few hours to figure out why it wasn't working. it turned to be a stupid, stupid problem. it was because on the new 64-bit machines, uninitialized variables were set to non-zero numbers, whereas in our old 32-bit machines, there were all set to zero. so the chip was setting this 8-bit/10-bit flag to 1, and thinking that our incoming data was 10-bit, and thus fucking up this 8-bit test. ARGH. while debugging, i kept on thinking, "WTF?!" it took me such a long time to figure this shit out. i hope it works now; it's running as i type this.
i think i deserve some tartini after this; i'm meeting up with jennie at 7pm for some frozen yogurt.
i had dream today where i was an olympic diver, except that the platform wasn't the usual 10 or 3 meters high. it was actually like 100 floors up, like on the empire state building or something. so instead of doing like 3 turns in the pike position, i did many many dozen. i'm afraid of heights, but for some reason, i was fine in this dream.
i think the basketball folks think i suck or something. when i score, they clap. they don't do it for anybody else. i feel like a mentally retarded kid or something, earning some charity when i do something good on the floor. *eyeroll* they clapped the hardest today when i stole the ball and raced down the floor for a fast break finger roll. hrmph.
yes, our office has showers. and i don't know if that guy was masturbating in the shower. oh, and ann, i like both dusita's equally as much. i haven't noticed a difference between the two; they're both damn good thai food, my favorite thai restaurant, in fact. the only thing i can fault dusita with is the fact that they don't have jun pad poo.
where do snails go during the day? i noticed during my nightcap smokes that they come out near the plants outside my porch. (i like to spit on them and watch them shrivel up.) but i don't see any when the sun's out. *ponder* same thing with raccoons. i've spotted a few during the wee hours of the morning. be careful! they have rabies!
last night, i fell asleep in the living room. it literally *hurt* to get up, i was to tired and sleepy. have you ever been in that state before? i could have skipped my nightcap smoke, my shower, brushing my teeth, my wednesday night shave, etc., but i pushed through it, and by the end, i woke up a little bit. i bet if i had skipped all that and went straight to bed, i could have fallen asleep within two minutes. but i would have felt dirty and uneasy (read: OCD) the next morning. but boy, was i tired. it was quite a feeling.
update: the test is passing. big fucking *whew*
that japanese branch coworker is funny. he keeps telling me i have good style (i'm wearing another t-shirt today with chinese characters on it) and taking pictures of me with his camera phone.
as much as i bitch about my work, i actually enjoy fighting fires. that's the cool thing about engineering: solving problems and thinking about stuff. granted, it would have been cooler if the solutions weren't stupid shit like uninitialized variables on different platforms, but still, i like figuring stuff out. it makes me feel like i accomplish stuff in my life.
ok, i gotta cut this short and get ready to go. i've been running late for all my meeting with jennie, and this time, damnit, i'm going to be early!