Yesterday, what I was hoping to be a Happy Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you), turned out to be a stress filled and sad day.
My fiancee and I have a friend of a long time, whose dad just passed away on Monday. It totally hit both of us as a shock. This dad and granddad was the nicest person. He’s one of those dads of a friend that you really like and love going to see. He has a contagious laugh and heart of gold. He was battling a lot of heart issues in his life, and it ultimately took him in his sleep.
I am happy that he did live long enough to see his youngest daughter have the cutest baby in the world and get married before it was too late. It makes it hard because he was basically a “go to” or second dad to my fiancee. He was always so caring and supportive, losing someone like that in life is hard.
When we were going through our wedding list, there were a few people on there I knew couldn’t go because of health issues, but he was the last person I would have thought to have passed away. Yes he was older (in his 60s), but it always seems to happen to the nicest of people…
I worry about my friend as she is not taking things well at all. She’s getting very quiet and unresponsive. I know my fiancee is extremely worried and doing all she can to be there for her and the family.
I also had to finish one of my classes yesterday night, and with this news on my mind it was a little difficult to focus. I did get 100% on one of my lab assignments that I threw together last minute so that made me happy at least. The project was to simulate a printer queue in C++ that ran 1600 cycles and each cycle had a 62% chance to generate a print job, and each printer had a 6% chance of breaking. We had to make a priority queue for the print jobs that were waiting also. At first it seemed a bit beyond what I felt I could do right now, but once I sat down and thought about it, I was able to get a solid foundation in no time.
The final exam was rough. The teacher normally has tests that are pretty straight forward and easy to understand and run with. These questions were for some reason a lot harder and took a lot of work. Maybe it was because of everything on my mind, but I’m worried I didn’t do too well on the test. I’m not really worried about the class though. I have 820 out of 820 points so far, so if I end up with anything other than an A in the class, it’s because my final was Bantha Fodder.
Today is Cinco De Mayo and my company opened a new facility down the road that had an open house and party. I had Baja Fresh and it was really good. I never went there before but it certainly was worth it. Good thing I happened to line up in the front near the food. The light was so long that by the time I got my food and ate everything, The lne barely moved!
I hung around a few other interns and we joked around a bit about things and talked about school, LOST, and our future plans. We were going to wait for the shuttle to take us back to our facility, but we decided to walk back because it was a nice day out. It was about a half mile to a mile walk.
Now I’m getting ready to take my next final exam: Archetecture and Assembler… Tough class with a teacher that really knows his stuff but doesn’t really teach well… I’m worried this class is going to ruin my chances of graduating with Highest Honors. We’ll see though.
I have spent a lot of extra money in SWG over the last couple years especially for the sake of helping everyone (not to mention the hours upon hours of time spent testing and writing guides and making charts). I’m not asking for sympathy or a pat on the back, just explaining that especially due to the economic conditions, it’s not going to be wise for me to keep more than 1 account.