Navdeep Shergill (A Geek at heart)

What I did on Saturday

April 16th, 2006

Its Sunday morning now and I am sitting next to the window looking at the nice rain outside. Mrs is making the tea and I can already smell it. Smells pretty darn good. This is one of my 2 daily cups of tea, the other one will happen this evening around 4-5pm. So I was just thinking about the blog and the direction it is going. For being ‘Navdeep’s blog’; it does not really contain any personal information about Navdeep at all. So I wanted to change that. Lets talk about what I did on Saturday (yesterday).

I got up around 9am, and the first thing I did was curse myself for getting up that late. I always try to get up early on weekends and then take a nap later on in the afternoon. I have realized that the later I wake up, the faster the weekend goes by. Pretty amazing revelation eh? Anyways: had my cup of tea, read the local newspaper (Sacramento bee) and watched some TV. It was about 11am now and I decided to do some work.

I had some work that was lagging behind. Without going into too much details; it had to do with dynamically loading Dll (shared libraries) and template classes in C++. I struggled with that for an couple of hours (11am-1pm) and decided to take a break. While having lunch, I decided to turn on the TV. This is where it gets embarrassing; I tuned it to MTV. No, thats not the embarrassing part. I watched 2 episodes of Super Sweet Sixteen . Its basically a show that follows around rich, spoiled kids who are turning 16 and ‘chronicles’ their life as they plan their turning 16 party. That show is addictive. Its not so much that I love the show, its the hatred I have for the people in the show. These kids are just so sheltered that its not even funny. For them, spending $200k of their parents money on this party is not a big deal at all. ugh!

Anyways, enough of that. I was back to doing some more work at 3pm. Did that until I basically gave myself an headache. This just wasn’t working. Then I took a nap from 4:30-6pm. It was so weird. Every time I would close my eyes; all I would see was C++ code. I don’t know how to explain it; but its like I could see the code before my eyes. It has happened in the past, but lets not dwell on that. I had a nice nap. Woke up refreshed and ready to tackle this work problem. Worked for about 2 hours and I had it 90% working. What is 90% working you may ask? Well, all the code is there and it looks right. The only problem is that I was having some problems exporting DLLs under Visual Studio so I decided to wait until Monday and talk to an expert at work.

I had some dinner then and decided to unwind a frustrating day with a movie. Thats a whole another post in itself. Anyways; lets see how many visitors I lose due to this post.

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