Well, I've been "struggling" with my final project for what will hopefully be my last class . . . at Tech. More might follow but I'll get to that later. The difficulty with the project, which involves some coding with MATLAB. I've done all of the paper/writing work there is to be done for the entire project (due Fri). There are two coding sections, each requires a bit of paperwork to get into a MATLAB friendly format. I've tried this one problem since last friday and I can't get anything to work out so that I could code it. I would take something that looked really ugly and was a poor solution at this point because at least it would be something. On the brighter side, I tackled the paperwork and coding for the other coding section over the past 48 hours. I sat down at 9:30 am to code the section and was done, with a fully working program by 11:30. There was some debugging to do, but it was nitpicking more than anything else.
Because of that great performance I have taken the day off from school work. Actually the fact that I have finished all of the project except for that one section, which I emailed the professor about yesterday and am awaiting a response, is the real reason that I was o.k. with taking the day off.
The day wasn't completely off. I went and bought Jason's Christmas present today, and I got another call about a job. Things have been turning around with this job thing. I had that first interview (and my only one, really) last tursday or friday, can't remember. The job is in Newnan (~45 min south), and only is offering 13.00 and hour for 30 hours a week (with the obligitory chance of being full time later on). The work is making drafting drawing of other companies casters so that this company can make them and sell them to the government. It's all AutoCAD and not too exciting. I might take the job, but they will have to up the salary to 14 an hour.
Well, in the past two days I have gotten calls for other jobs. One, which is the low totem pole right now, is a "field engineer" for a flooring manufacturer. Bascially it is a sales engineer in training job that would have me travelling all over the southeast. The lone benefit, it is salary and will pay better than anything part time. Today I got work of a job with Seimen's (tee hee). They are looking for someone to do AutoCAD and IDEAS for their Alpharetta plant. It is also part time (obligitory can be full time later on), however they already told me that it is worth 20 an hour, but only 20 hours a week. Big improvement over 13. In fact, I make more money, and have two and a half days left over to get another job. Third on the docket is a potential teaching position (the reason that there might be more classes in the forseeable future) at Harrison High School in Marietta. The benefits, I like teaching (personal interaction), it is a salary job with good hours and summers off (road trip), and it can help me get more into coaching which is what I want to be doing with my life more and more. That job isn't going too well. I'm not really certified, but that can be gotten around. I know someone who knows people, but my attempts to get in touch with the Principal (as instructed by my friend who knows people) have failed. Even if I could potentially get the position, getting certified, or even a provisional certification might be another feat unto itself. The final item on the list is ofcourse the position back in colorado. Doesn't pay well. Has good people, but so does Atlanta. Really the only bonus is that it removes me from Georgia, which I feel needs to happen at some point in my life, even if I come back. Oh, and then there is the fact that it is what I would love to be doing with my life. I've been in touch with the people there, but it's government work and the gov moves slow. The position will be available because the person is leaving for Lake Placid, but they don't even know if the position will continue. They might lose it. Hopefully these "do we really need that position" talks will yield a "yes, we need a full time position" response and then I think I will take it. I can still work on becoming a certified teacher (they have programs in colorado) and I'll be doing what I want to do. Whew!
So here's the list in order of desire (most to least):
Colorado
High School
Siemens
Newnan
Flooring
There's more possibilities out there. Honestly, half of the people that have called me I don't even remember applying to. C'est la vie.
This is a long post, but then again I think of myself as the Tycho of this Penny Arcade and he makes the long post. Hopefully they will return to being more about video games, let's start now:
Games on the docket: Mario Kart Double Dash, Rouge Squadron 3: Rebel Strike, and XIII
Mario Kart is nearing 100%. I'm down to having to unlock and beat the ghost from Dino's course and then that part is done. Mikex0r is working on getting first in every race in the Gran Prix mode. I'm fairly certain that I could do it if I tried. The tough one will be the . . . jeez, so there went about 2 hours of my life playing Double Dash online. That is by far the coolest thing about the game. Sites are popping up about the game and things are working reasonably well. Soon a large network will be established, just like the Dreamcast . . . and we saw how that story ended. Maybe this will be different. Maybe Mario has enough hutzpah to overcome the juggernaut that is Sony and Microsoft. Regardless I'm in for the long run like I've been since the TG16.
Quick synopsis before I go back to games.
Rouge Squadron, not really that great. Factor 5 needs to realize that they have a great space sim and only use that. The platform shit that they bring into the new games is absolutely terrible, as is the walker systems. Keep it to the ?-wings and Landspeeders and life would be fine.
XIII is fucking awesome. I'm going to try to finish it right now. I'll tell you about it later.
M
Because of that great performance I have taken the day off from school work. Actually the fact that I have finished all of the project except for that one section, which I emailed the professor about yesterday and am awaiting a response, is the real reason that I was o.k. with taking the day off.
The day wasn't completely off. I went and bought Jason's Christmas present today, and I got another call about a job. Things have been turning around with this job thing. I had that first interview (and my only one, really) last tursday or friday, can't remember. The job is in Newnan (~45 min south), and only is offering 13.00 and hour for 30 hours a week (with the obligitory chance of being full time later on). The work is making drafting drawing of other companies casters so that this company can make them and sell them to the government. It's all AutoCAD and not too exciting. I might take the job, but they will have to up the salary to 14 an hour.
Well, in the past two days I have gotten calls for other jobs. One, which is the low totem pole right now, is a "field engineer" for a flooring manufacturer. Bascially it is a sales engineer in training job that would have me travelling all over the southeast. The lone benefit, it is salary and will pay better than anything part time. Today I got work of a job with Seimen's (tee hee). They are looking for someone to do AutoCAD and IDEAS for their Alpharetta plant. It is also part time (obligitory can be full time later on), however they already told me that it is worth 20 an hour, but only 20 hours a week. Big improvement over 13. In fact, I make more money, and have two and a half days left over to get another job. Third on the docket is a potential teaching position (the reason that there might be more classes in the forseeable future) at Harrison High School in Marietta. The benefits, I like teaching (personal interaction), it is a salary job with good hours and summers off (road trip), and it can help me get more into coaching which is what I want to be doing with my life more and more. That job isn't going too well. I'm not really certified, but that can be gotten around. I know someone who knows people, but my attempts to get in touch with the Principal (as instructed by my friend who knows people) have failed. Even if I could potentially get the position, getting certified, or even a provisional certification might be another feat unto itself. The final item on the list is ofcourse the position back in colorado. Doesn't pay well. Has good people, but so does Atlanta. Really the only bonus is that it removes me from Georgia, which I feel needs to happen at some point in my life, even if I come back. Oh, and then there is the fact that it is what I would love to be doing with my life. I've been in touch with the people there, but it's government work and the gov moves slow. The position will be available because the person is leaving for Lake Placid, but they don't even know if the position will continue. They might lose it. Hopefully these "do we really need that position" talks will yield a "yes, we need a full time position" response and then I think I will take it. I can still work on becoming a certified teacher (they have programs in colorado) and I'll be doing what I want to do. Whew!
So here's the list in order of desire (most to least):
Colorado
High School
Siemens
Newnan
Flooring
There's more possibilities out there. Honestly, half of the people that have called me I don't even remember applying to. C'est la vie.
This is a long post, but then again I think of myself as the Tycho of this Penny Arcade and he makes the long post. Hopefully they will return to being more about video games, let's start now:
Games on the docket: Mario Kart Double Dash, Rouge Squadron 3: Rebel Strike, and XIII
Mario Kart is nearing 100%. I'm down to having to unlock and beat the ghost from Dino's course and then that part is done. Mikex0r is working on getting first in every race in the Gran Prix mode. I'm fairly certain that I could do it if I tried. The tough one will be the . . . jeez, so there went about 2 hours of my life playing Double Dash online. That is by far the coolest thing about the game. Sites are popping up about the game and things are working reasonably well. Soon a large network will be established, just like the Dreamcast . . . and we saw how that story ended. Maybe this will be different. Maybe Mario has enough hutzpah to overcome the juggernaut that is Sony and Microsoft. Regardless I'm in for the long run like I've been since the TG16.
Quick synopsis before I go back to games.
Rouge Squadron, not really that great. Factor 5 needs to realize that they have a great space sim and only use that. The platform shit that they bring into the new games is absolutely terrible, as is the walker systems. Keep it to the ?-wings and Landspeeders and life would be fine.
XIII is fucking awesome. I'm going to try to finish it right now. I'll tell you about it later.
M
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