Well, I think this time I messed up my whole time planning. The last two weeks were learning-free time and I started way too late to continue learning again. Now it’s the case that today evening we’re having a little Russian-test and I haven’t even touched a fourth of the stuff we had to do until today. Also on upcoming saturday we’ll have an end-term exam in "Documentation- and Work-techniques" and all I did for it until now is printing out a course-summary of a colleague. Damit…
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Skype issues
In the last few days, my Skype-contacts and I have experienced several connectivity issues. Messages not being delivered or being delayed for hours (some say even days). A quick look around on the Skype homepage revealed no further insight. Altough I saw, that Skype recently reached 12 million concurrent users online, maybe they have some slight problems on the backend side…
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Maths exam done
Last Friday we fought our long-feared battle against the math exam papers. Immediately after I’ve finished the work and left the class I felt extremely disappointed because the test was so easy and hardly covered a fourth of the stuff we had to learn (I guess). The different pieces were plain easy and solveable almost with the formula-sheet alone.
For what reason did I spend almost every free hour in the last few weeks learning maths with my colleagues? And had the feeling that I was not even good enough at all the stuff to reach a positive mark?
Dammit. I’m happy that the current semester is the last one where we have to bear this teacher and mathematics at all.
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Stressing week
As some of the people around me may have noticed, the last week was composed of work and events which lifted my stress level to previously unknown heights.
In a short summary and with no particular order:
- talked with a tiler about the tiling of my bathroom and toilet
- the first lessons in Russian were held and it’s even more difficult than I thought, particularly the handwriting
- got lots of homework, but I didn’t manage to work on it…
- come-back-together with my sweetheart, altough we aren’t living together again
- dozends of hours learning maths for the upcoming exam in two days
- increasingly frustrating because the papers the teacher provided are full of errors and are missing the exact calculations
- preparing a move-out from home to take year or two on my own because of various reasons
- looking through various offered appartments, negotiations with landlords
- fight with parents, especially the female part, over this
- decided to cancel the move-out for now (but still an option for me personally)
- trying to fit all of the above into a 24h/7d week, quite a bit of struggling to do so
Whew… Currently I have the feeling that I’m really running near the edge of my capabilities. Not crossing the line yet but not far from there either…
Ah, yes, and the cam is still not here but at Fuji support as the seller let me know.
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Cam update
There are some news on my recently acquired camera obscura, which was failing instanly. After some misunderstandings in our communication the seller offered to take it back, repair it on his own cost and send it to me again. Initially I had some headaces with this suggestion, as then the seller would have both, the camera and my money, and I would have nothing for some time. Eventually after some discussion I agreed and sent the whole package back to him. Last Saturday I got the message that the package was received and that it will be taken to service this Monday. Today I was notified that the Fuji support needs to order some parts from elsewhere (well, if the lens is failing and the F31 is a discontinued model which is already rare on all markets, it’s not that hard to guess, which part has to be ordered from far away) and that the seller expects the camera to return by the end of this week.
So far it seems, everything is going well, better than I expected.
If the schedule holds, which I do not expect because of the rareness of F31 parts, the cam should arrive in my hands by around mid next week.
Furthermore, if the cam prooves to be working and produce the images I expect the seller will be happy with a quite positive feedback.
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Cam disappointment…
Well, I had some time to play with my cam now and the results are… disappointment… After about one day, the display showed "Focus error" and the lens did not slide back into the cam after turning it off.
Of course, the seller on eBay insists, that it was working when he sent it to me.
Now I hope that the Fuji Support can help me somehow, even if it costs some more. Unless it keeps within the 100EUR range, it’s still in the price range where it’s available elsewhere on eBay.
Dammit…
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Extraterrestrial search shutdown
After many years of being a brave supporter of SETI@home and in the more recent time BOINC I’ve decided now to stop accepting new workpackages on all of my instances and let the current ones finish. After that I’ll uninstall all my instances of BOINC.
I’m a bit sorry for that but I’ve decided to do so because my instances were running on my work-computers and in the recent time the drawbacks like memory- and cpu-usage as well as the increased fan-noise because of cpu-heat began to overweight what I counted as my personal contribution to scientific research. Instead I count this removal now as another contribution to environment-awarenes by reducing the wear on my equipment and minimizing the power-consumption.
Farewell Seti, it has been a long journey since about 1998 when we met…
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Welcome my new toy…
My recently acquired F31fd arrived today. I’m already super curious on what pictures I’ll be able to shoot and will try it out thoroughly. We’ll see, how it will work out…
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Memories…
Some memories are fated to fade, some are fated to stay for a lifetime. As one can not choose which memories will be which type, the only thing left to me is to hope that those from last weekend are the latter ones…
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Waiting for the cam…
Last Sunday the time was right. Stumbling over a cheap offer, I quickly arranged the acquisition of my favorite Point&Shoot digital camera, the Fujifilm F31fd. I had to act quickly because when I saw the offering, it was quite cheap and possible to instant-buy, so it was to expect that this auction wouldn’t last very long. I want to thank the girlfriend of my bro’ for assisting me with the eBay-handling of the whole transactions.
The rapid decision was done by the calculation, that if the unexpected event happens and the F100fd has better image quality and features than the pre-reviews currently available suggest, I still can sell the cam on eBay again and with a high chance will get back more money than I had to pay for it. The wonders of market economics, buy low sell high 🙂
I guess that it will arrive somewhere around the beginning of next week, sadly I missed carnival with some quite nice opportunities for great shots.