i did some good work today. i mostly verified my LUT (LookUp Table) block. it's the most complicated part of my design, arithmetic-wise. at first, it looked pretty bleak, because the data was not matching AT ALL. i mean, it was really divergent, the results i was getting. but i just took a deep breath and went at it. i found a few bugs in my design with the help of a ton of printf()'s in the C-model. and now, 99% of the data matches; i'm thinking the rest of it is because of some side effects of the stream protocol. so yay!
it didn't start out auspiciously, though. V and i went to lunch at chipotle, and i ate one of their huge burritos. after i got back, i totally passed out. at one point, i had my head on my desk, and i felt myself go into a DEEP slumber. i felt this weight on my head, and my body just collapsed onto the desk as i pushed my keyboard out with my arms. it was nuts.
so! _the bachelorette_! (spoilers to come) i went to jimmy and sabrina's last night to watch it. it was great. at first, they made it seem like jillian was totally going to pick kiptyn (yes, i didn't know how to spell those two names yesterday), but she wound up picking ed! he was the guy i was rooting for. kiptyn may have been the hotter guy (with an 8-pack, wow!) and had the cuter name, but ed was way more emotionally available and developed, and that to me was more important. i liked him. yay! i'm going back to their house today at 10pm to watch the _after the final rose_ show. i'm going to love seeing them happy; i hope she doesn't pull a stunt like that last bachelor did.
we had our company quarterly meeting today. it was LONG. however, we posted better-than-expected results, and i think our stock was up like 5% in a down market. not too shabby. still, i'm waiting until it hits $15 before i sell my three ESPP's. i hope it's not too optimistic. i have a lot of shares and money riding on that. if i do hit $15, it'll be about a $30K+ sale. money money money!
i dreamt about k1 again this morning. that's two days straight. i don't know why she keeps popping up in my head when i'm sleeping. and i'm not sure how i feel about this. it seems like my subconscious can't move on or something, and i don't like it. during my dream, i had this long extended moment where i was falling down a big brick-laden passageway, busting through these series of metallic grates. it was pretty scary.
google phrase of the day:
"i'm tired of my foreskin"
now why would someone say that? that's just mean! foreskin is cool! i love mine. i am proud to be uncircumcised, to have a hood around my little head. when i finally have a kid, and if it's a boy, i will read up on the advantages and disadvantages of being uncircumcised. i mean, i've had no problems with it so far, but i've read somewhere that some uncut guys develop a hardening of the foreskin, and they've had to get it cut as an adult, and that is a painful process. i would hate for my kid to go through that. but i think with proper care and hygiene, it shouldn't be a problem, right?
has anyone out there gone to house of prime rib? is it good? how does it compare to alexander's? i'm still trying to convince D to go out to a nice dinner, and this weekend is his last chance before he moves back to LA. he's moved out of his place in milpitas and staying with a friend in SF, so i think HoPR is a better option than him driving down to cupertino to go to alexander's.
one of our managers here just ran a marathon over the weekend. it pretty much killed him. i mean, he had to take yesterday off because he couldn't walk. ugh. apparently, in the middle of the marathon, he cramped up so badly that he had to stop. then, he started walking, and then, slowly, he began to jog lightly. of the thousands that ran the marathon, i heard that he was one of the last 100 or so to finish.
i don't think i could ever run a marathon. i can't even run two miles, i don't think. i've never tried it. i think the most i ever ran was 1.5 miles, and it just made me all tired, legs burning, and red in the face. i mean, i know you say that i can build it up if i just do it regularly, but the thing is, i *did* do it regularly when i was working at GFN, and it just never got better. i ran every weekday with my coworkers, 1.5 miles, and i never got used to it. period. i guess i'm just not built for running.
so what's going on with the large hadron collider in europe? did they turn it on? are they smashing atoms? there was a big hubbub about it because there was a possibility that they might create black holes, but i haven't heard anything news about it at all in the past months. i guess it's safe?
the bowling crowd is slowly disappearing from my life. i haven't seen paul, mikeC, nelson, etc. in the past few weeks. and i'm not feeling like i miss them terribly, either. i guess i'm filling the void with other friends. i mean, paul just had a kid, nelson has a girlfriend now, etc., so everyone's got their own stuff going on in their lives. we're just diverging.
there was some study done where they said that we replace 50% of our friends every 7 years or so. don't quote me on those numbers, but you get the gist. basically, it's about the fact that we kick out old friends and replace them with new ones. i guess i'm doing that right now. it's not like i *want* to, but life circumstances are sort of forcing my hand. but don't get me wrong; i still call up people like nelson and john for meals, it's just that they never answer their damn phones, so it's not my fault, you know?
ok, time to wrap this puppy up. since i had a huge chipotle burrito today, i'm wondering if i should have dinner tonight. i've been gaining weight since yesterday.