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Here is my new theory. I need to see the world. I have grown up in this San Diego enviroment my whole life, I know nothing else. I've been to Mexico, Utah, Northern California, and Long Island. I have not seen enough. If for nothing else, I'm going to make enough money to see the world. I'm going to china this summer, but that is far from enough. Before I move out of my parents house and start a life of my own I _need_ to see some stuff. Here is my list of places I want to go:

china, taiwan, japan, austrelia, new york city, canada, rest of mexico, sweden, england, swizerland, germany, france, bosten, alaska, italy

OK? So I'm going to do that. I'm going to visit them all. In the near future.

In other news today. Kalani took me out to dinner. (yawn getting tired.. time to shorten this up) she bought me dinner at the olive garden, took me to a movie ["Play it to the Bone"] and gave me a card that says she will buy me a sesson pass to magic mountain (theme park)....

Woohoo. Its my birthday. I'm 19 years old today. Neet-o huh?

Not much going on. Lets see:

• Kalani situation is steady
• Classes are looking good. However my chinese class is going to be hard. I need to practice.
• Just got back from kung-fu after not going for a month. My instructer was nice, we changed my private lessons to a week day. Maybe I can start getting back into it now.
• Gnap has no progress still. Dang it. I want to finish it but I don't feel like working on it anymore. Its becoming boring... I think That this is the fate of most projects...
• I _finaly_ got gnome installed from cvs... My problem was that i was trying to compile gdk-pixbuf with gtk+ HEAD.. stupid me. I haven't tried out gnome-libs HEAD.. *shrug*.. gnome-core HEAD looks a lot better..
• i can't figure out what a gegl is. can someone explane?

thats about it.

School is fun. I'm very excited about my classes. I have Philosophy, Chinese, Physics, and Math. Wow, its going to be lots of fun this semester.

Still no work on gnap. I really suck.

This morning I woke up, took a shower, then looking in the mirror. My rat's nest of hair was going off in every direction. The brush looked especialy evil this morning. So I just went to school with messed up hair. On the way back on an impulse I stoped at the haircut store and got it shaved. Yey. I also took a shower, and did massive self-cleaning thing to celebrate no more hair. I feel very clean and good right now.

Last night I went to see a movie with kalani. The movie is called "Magnolia". This movie is the absolute wierdest movie I have ever seen. I really have no idea what the movie was about. I've been looking for a web site to explane it, but that doesn't seem to exist. Shit. I think I'm going to have to go again just to figure out this movie..

Oh yeah, and I discovered This guy... This guy must been a genious or something. He is freaking eleet.. But he is also totaly wierd... :/ People who break sterotypes are cool.

Dang it, I haven't been keeping up to date with this thing. :(

Ok. Gnap's frontend is done, and supposedly the backend is done, so all I have to do is hook them together. Should be easy right? No, its a pain in the butt. Infact its so lame, that I haven't been working on it for 3 days or so. I'll finish it eventualy. Here is a screenshot of the frontend.

In personal life, me and kalani have hooked up as of last sunday. We went to see a few movies and just hung out in general. I spent the night with her (not what your thinking) on sunday at verity's house. so that seems to be going pretty good. We are schedualed for a date tonight after my classes. I think the movie is called "Next Friday", it looks pretty good.

School started today, I have only had my physics class so far. Its going to be lots of fun. However the teacher looks like a woman, infact I thought it was a woman until it uttered some words in a deep masculan voice. -_- ... Anyway, we got in lab groups. Me, Ken (my friend) , Mona, and some other dood. Mona is in me and kens' math class, so its all going to work out really well. I'll have a large study group to work with.

Peace.

Yes! I got a video card, a good one too (because I couldn't stand console anymore, i just had to go buy the first one i saw).. Its a Voodoo3.. Now i can play quake and stuff, not really sure how to set that up, but maybe i'll try to do it some day :)

It was a good week for gnap, I got alot done. Starting to work on the gui now. I think I am on track to have a release out by the time I go back to school (about one week).

During this week i became completely nocturnal. It was fun. However, I don't like the fact that everyone keeps calling me at noon and waking me up.

Kalani called me two days in a row now. On thursday we chatted for a good couple hours (shudder.. phones suck) and on friday she asked me out (!). I of course said yes. She is busy today, but tomarow we'll chat and find out a good time for a date or something. Hrm. New dates make me uncomfterable. *sigh*

Ok back to hacking.

Still no video card to work with. Got a trident 1mb, i've been in console all week. Arg! Haven't been getting much done. I feel unproductive.

Making a GnomeDruid widget type thing for gnap. Client and Session classes compile (no idea if they work). Should support login, register, log off, search/results. Going to hold off on the download stuff until I get some GUI working because I'm getting rather bored with hacking the same old code. However, I need Xwindows for GUI hacking, for which i need a video card. Its 3am. In 6 hours I will wake up and go in search for one yet again. I'm at the end of my ropes here, I'll buy anything.

Its year 2000. I feel like I'm in the future or something. Where is my flying car?

On the software front, I'm having a damn hard time figuring out signals and GtkObjects. God damn it, I just want to know this stuff so I don't have to keep rereading havoc's book.

Oh boy, days and days of nothing to do, I absolutly love it. There can't be anything more refeshing then waking up and knowing there is absolutly nothing to do that day :). In my doing nothingness I seemingly have slipped back into my natural nocturnal sleeping schedual. Go to bed at 6am, wake up in the afternoon. Problem with being nocturnal is that the sun wakes up up during the day, my room has a window facing east, the sun just glares in in the morning. I had to hang some towels around my window to allow me to sleep, ordered some new "dark blinds" that will allow me to sleep during the day, I guess they have some sort of tin foil on them?
Working hard on the gnap rewrite, learning a lot about how gtk works, all that object stuff. The one thing I don't get though is why GtkObjects are not in glib? It seems projects like evolution could benifit from having the object system not depened on the GUI (because camel uses GtkObject). I really want to get a code base for gnap going so I not just dealing with pieces, as of yet I have not even touched any graphic stuff, its all been developing the network classes.
I'm about two days into coding this thing (I have decided to drop c++) and its really taking shape. Maybe in a week or so I will have a first version.
Yesterday my video card broke. I was trying to reconfigure X with XF86Setup (because I got a new trackball pointer thingy) and when I went to the "try" or whatever my monitor just went into powersaving mode. Rebooted, tried a bunch of stuff, couldn't get it to come back. It was a nice card too g200. So I have been stuck in console for the past 35 hours or so. Must get new card.
I have been invited to a new years party by that chick from the snowboarding trip (kolani). Apparently its a sleep over........ However my one of my friends will also be attending with his girlfriend. Interesting. Problem is that I promissed my step-mom that I would drive drunk people home from some party... :( I will not be able to spend the night at Kolani's house, I'll have to leave after the new years. CRAP.
Ok. Its 5am, I should go to sleep.

oh man.. im stuffed. so much food :P~~

i scored on presents this year, got some really cool sweat shirts.. Now i can go out on a date in something other then tshirts :)

no one is online to help me with my code ! dang it

it is _early_ christmas morning. spent the day looking at c++ code and attending parties at relative's houses.

in my quest to learn c++ i am rewriting gnap in it :)
i must be a complete idiot.. oh well. its lots of fun. however i'm having lots of trouble learning this crap... it is so frustrating to not have code flow from me... I feel so limited.
i've mostly been working on the protocol classes. my friend has been doing some code review for me, hopefully he can look over this stuff i've done today and tell me what im doing wrong :)
On another c++ note, i ordered a new book today called c++ standard library... it was recommened by the same friend.

After tomarow, im going to become a complete noctunral person for the first time in my life.

this advogato needs a spell check :)