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This week has been so totally different from my previous weeks. For the first time in nearly 4 months, I haven't had anything significent (work/school) to get up for. It's been wonderful just to relax now. I've been so lax that I haven't updated my LiveJournal even, so I will give a synopsis of events yet again.

Friday, April 26

Got in in the morning, and met with one of the people that I showed the FakeSpace software to. She had a program that she had written for her thesis years ago, in C, that rendered to a movie, since it was a lot of math. It took me a little while, but I ported over her program to our FakeSpace system, updating some of the code along the way, and then make it fast enough to run real time, with 3D :-). She was sufficently impressed that she has offered me a job starting in mid-May. This job will be doing what I want, coding C++ graphics stuff 24 hours a week. Since this last job ended this Friday, a new one starting in two weeks is really good. However, it is only for 4 weeks, as after that she is going away to Rotterdam for a month. At which point my previous boss wants to hire me back more! :-) On my way home in the evening, I stopped at Fly Computers with Patrick, intended to buy some speakers, but they didn't have the ones I wanted. Instead, on my way out to dinner later in the evening, I bought some Yamaha speakers and a 5 port ethernet hub second hand from Patrick. The speakers work well.

Saturday, April 27

Marissa came to my house, with her computer. She was going to get the bus to be here around 10am, but instead, her father gave her a ride, and I was woken at 9am with her arriving. Too Early! I moved hard drives around in her computer, got USB in place, and installed Linux along with Windows. We went cycling in the afternoon, and had lots of fun ;-P. In the evening, she went to take a nap, and I cooked dinner (Sphagetti Bolganse) and desert (Tipsy/Brandy Tart) both from scratch. After dinner, I set up my computer with my speakers and the monitor facing the bed in my computer room, and I watched Hackers with Marissa. It's a great movie. After that, it was getting late, so I finally told my parents that I sleep in the same bed with Marissa, which I had never done here at home before, and then went to bed with her. It's nice having somebody to cuddle with in bed.

Sunday, April 28

Woke up nice and late with Marissa. Had lunch, worked on her computer some more. Played Jedi Knight 2 with Marissa in the afternoon. I had a headache after that, so I lay down for a nap (with Marissa) around 4pm. I woke up at 9pm, instead of the 7pm that I had intended to. Had pizza for dinner, which my brother had cooked, and then my father gave her a ride home.

Monday, April 29

Woke up 8am, had a shower, fixed Tai's computers, dashed out to Surrey to meet with Mick and Norm for a business meeting about our new company that we are trying to start. Nothing much else happened.

Tuesday, April 30

Slept most of the day, played Jedi Knight 2 some. Went out in the evening to take Marissa to dinner. We ate at Urban Monk again, since the food was so good the last time I was there. Marissa had the Marinara tofu that Yvonne had previously, and I have Soyloin Steak. The steak tasted great, but there is a lot of work to be done on the texture side still. After that, we walked over to Cows on Robson for icecream. Then walked Marissa to the QE theatre for the Opera, which I couldn't see this time, as no tickets could be arranged for me. Next season i'll see about having my own tickets.

Wednesday, May 1

Went out Surrey way again, this time to go to Marissa's high school, North Surrey Secondary. While on transit, I noticed that Surrey would fit a description from star wars very well. It's a hive of scum and villiany, just like Mos Eisley. Her high school was ok, but the architecture is not as nice as Burnaby North. It is too repetitive and dull, almost depressing.

Thursday, May 2

I went to my father's work, intended to fix monitors and power supplies. The monitors are in such a state that they are not worth fixing, and should just be tossed. I've found a batch of suitable monitors that work to replace them with. Great for server monitors that only support 640x480. Went out for lunch with my father, his secretary and one of the south african co-workers, to the pub that they normally go for lunch. Had a decent Teriyaki chicken burger. It's a nice place there. On my way home, I picked up a 20gb drive and some RAM from Jon.

Friday, May 3

Woke up nice and late again. Played Jedi Knight 2 some. Worked on hardware. Jon's 20gb drive doesn't work. I'll try to see about fixing it some time, not now. The hard drive on my brother's computer failed, so I'm busying installing windows on a backup system for him to use. He has a project due monday, that was assigned 3 weeks ago, and he hasn't started on it yet.