What's Your day been like?

[Kadagar_AV]

So, I woke up with this travel rep after possibly having drilled a third hole.

After she went out I listened to Pachelbel, Mozart, Beethoven...

Then I went out on the slopes to ski with one of the guys you see featured on the ski films (when he chills I maximize).

As a prelude to the afterski I had a Go game with a Japanese 2' dan. Former guest of mine. *on the internet of course*

He of COURSE kicked my arse but I learnt so much.

Then the afterski... And it gets a bit blurry...

I remember one of USA's best (freeride) skiers was here, and I told him to **** off just because, you know... USA...

Luckily he agreed and bought me the rest of the night.

It's now 05:00 AM. What was your day like? Live a little, send me a PM if you want a really good vacation in Austria. Just pay the travel and lift card, rest I can sort (I am veggie but quite a good chef) :)

This offer of course only go out to the people who has given me something over the years (don't hesitate if your brought a smile to my lips at any point).

Oh, and I am only free to post this because this (other) travel rep who did me dry just went.

[Hooahguy]

Woke up at 1pm.

Ate a nice breakfast of a banana and some iced tea.

Went to the gym, ran two miles and a nice upper body workout.

Went home, took a shower.

Played Skyrim for a few hours.

Lounged around for another few hours.

Did some homework.

Read a few more chapters of Mr. Kipling's Army.

Now Im here.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Mine was definitely worse: tried to debug problems with the EBII build in what looked a Windows 8 environment. Didn't have Windows 8 on hand, so grabbed an image and installed that on a VM.

First thing: try to log in to MSDNAA, realise I no longer know my password to the SSO. My browser, Opera, should do, though. ...
... But my browser isn't telling me. It's synced with other browsers, so might find this password online in my Opera Link account.
... Of course not, that would be too easy.
... Realise that eduroam is linked to SSO, realise it's going to be the same password.
Thank the gods for plasma-network manager. I've found my password through the simple expedient of reviewing the wireless security settings for my eduroam network connection profile, and ticking the checkbox "show passwords".
So back to my Windows 7 VM. Log in to MSNDAA. Download some download manager program which MSDNAA insists on. Download the file for the donwload manager to download Windows 8. Sigh.
Start the download of Windows 8.
Download manager claims I don't have enough disk space. The download is roughly 3GB. I have slightly over 4GB free after junking some windows error reports, old updates and other files Windows likes to keep around for no apparent reason. Download manager still claims I don't have enough disk space. Download manager won't be persuaded otherwise, cannot set it to download to my E partition which is on the host and has a good 100GB or so free.
Sigh. Quit VM, fiddle with settings to expand the VM disk to 30GB.
Boot Windows 7 VM, expand C partition, restart download manager. 20 minutes or so later Windows 8 is downloaded, a disk image created, and moved to the E partition.
Create a new VM, this one for Windows 8.
Installing, booting up etc. went fine. Installing guest additions not terribly difficult either.
The tile overview thing likes to interpret mouse movement as an excuse to launch random stuff. More often than not that means I'm staring at a blank screen with some 2d pictogram on a backdrop of a single solid colour. Somehow Windows 8 manages to choke on rendering just that. Charming.
After some time I figure out the basics and now I can ignore most of the new "The-Interface-Formerly-Known-As-Metro" stuff, so I can get on to debug the issue for which all I need is a shell, a copy of Java 7. That means I need to download something. Which means I need a functioning browser.
Getting myself a proper browser proves tricky. Internet Explorer has regressed from a usable if unexciting and slightly awkward browser in Windows 7 to a MySpace era Frankenstein monster. Or maybe that's just the effect of the default "MSN for Windows 8" home page. Bing is still stupid, though.
But now, Internet Explorer is focusing my hate like few things can by performing the extraordinary feat of managing to soft-lock up the entire VM through the simple expedient of trying to type anything in the browser.
In fact, using Internet Explorer UI is out of the question. Anything I can try is met with soft-locking up the VM, even closing tabs. The CPU is pegged at 99%, and the OS helpfully suggests that Internet Explorer stopped working.
Armed with my new found Windows 8 knowledge, I invoke the Windows+R shortcut. This brings up the Run command. Typing in the exact download URL for Opera (http://www.opera.com/browser/download) and "running" it, results in Internet Explorer starting at that page. The Run command seems to be the preferred way to launch anything in Windows 8, given how slow the entire UI is.
It's still cruel and unusual punishment but at least we're close to salvation. Click that download link. Wait ages. Finally have Internet Explorer download (and run) the installer package.
Install Opera, pin it to the taskbar and run that one. Manna, from heaven. It's ridiculously fast or rather Internet Explorer is inexcusably slow. And it doesn't lock up the VM, and it uses less memory. Did I mention it actually is a proper browser?

The frequent lockups and other ridiculously slow UI updates result in me finding out two things: the "TIFKAM" and the "desktop" interfaces are both always on. And they appear to be both always rendered. So the live tile nonsense eats up performance even if you are working on the desktop (exclusively). To shutdown, you Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice. But not via the keyboard. You need to use the VM function to inject that directly. Also, the Charms bar which is apparently supposed to be triggered by the top left corner is not often triggered by the top left corner. After deleting nearly all the tiles and making the VM present a bunch of admin tools as tiles, it seems the charms no longer want to play ball. That is most of them report they don't have anything useful to say, and the search one is Bing which means it is retarded by default in addition to being extremely slow to report any results. (Btw, don't remember how I managed to get the admin tools to sprawl all over the tiles, but I am not complaining as launching any of those tools is a bit fiddly if you need to rely on the Run box). TIFKAM input boxes don't understand the concept of "backspace", that seems to jump back to some entirely unrelated UI control.

Needless to say adding a network printer was a piece of cake. The last time I tried the steps seemed to be navigate to the settings "app" through TIFKAM, try to add a device, click the link which refers to the Windows help (think that was something about not seeing the device you were supposedly looking for), click the link from the help topic which refers to "Advanced" and "printer" in one sentence. That pops up the old Windows 7 "add a printer" wizard thingy, you know the one in which the trick is to say that it didn't find what you were look for and manually supply the details.

For the record: the VM has one core from a 3rd-gen i5 machine, an virtualised ethernet card, 4GB RAM, 25GB disk which on the host happens to be part of a 25GB Samsung 830 SSD, and a virtualised graphics card with both 2d and 3d acceleration and 256GB of dedicated video memory. The Windows 7 VM which runs rather better has a similar config, minus 2d and 3d acceleration and uses a 30GB disk now (used to be 25GB as well).

[a completely inoffensive name]

Been having a problem with sleeping in too late on the weekend so I tied the string to lift my shades up to my phone.
As expected, phone alarm goes off and I instinctively grab my phone to hit snooze, pulling the string way too hard. Shades come off and fall on my bed, hitting my head.
The bright light blinds my virgin eyes as I fall off the bed, crawling on the ground towards my phone which is still ringing with the loudness of the craziest of block parties.
Next I walk to the kitchen to grab some lunch I open the fridge and realize that the green stuff in the back has grown since I last saw it. Make a note to myself to buy cleaning supplies sooner rather than later.
Notice my korean neighbor (we share a kitchen) cooking kimchi again. It always stinks the kitchen and comes into my room and I hate it. But since he only stocks jars of kimchi (about five in the fridge right now) and big containers of whey protein powder (he hits the gym a lot) I don't complain because it is more room for my boxes of ramen.
Open the drawers and decide to have my usual of unsweetened generic brand cheerios and a half rotten banana.
Sit down and catch up on my favorite youtube channels. One day I dream of teaching people with an educational youtube channel.
Began eating at noon, start to waste some time on the internet. Look at clock, 7:30 pm. Better eat again.
Gf's worried I don't do enough for my health. Decide to cook myself a home cooked meal, nothin boxed.
Start cooking some brown rice. Got diced tomatoes and some spices mixed in so there is some flavor. Decide to add a little cheese and see if I can get dat sticky consistency and put it in a tortilla or something.
Grab my 2lb block of cheese(which is already down to 1lb after a week). Cut about 1/4 of an inch off of it.
Oh god, the heat is on too high, the cheese will burn in the pot.
Return to my cheese and absent minded-ly threw in the large piece of cheese, not the part I cut off.
Watch as my rice and tomatoes start swimming in a pool of cheese. Cheese was expensive so I eat it anyway. Could only drink half of it. Put rest in fridge, hopefully will taste like spiced cheese when it solidifies.
Still haven't taken a shower. reminds me of what my gf said. decide to do some working out. I don't want to go to the local gym at my complex. Too many bros (also my korean neighbor might be there) and the air smells like sweat. I try to limit my interactions with other people.
Decide to go on youtube and look for a workout video. Don't want to put too much effort though. Decide on a 10 minute video from Victoria's Secret.
Take off my shirt and shorts. Only in my xbox underwear (laundry day is tomorrow for me) Put a towel on the floor below me. I don't want my sweat to get into the carpet or my clothes otherwise my room will smell.
Start doing my exercises. Realize that the walls are too thin. People outside will probably hear what I am doing. Put on spotify. First song that comes up is terrible. The Scientist by Coldplay. Totally can't into my groove. The stench of kimchi start rolling into my room, really pungent.
In the End by Linkin Park plays next. Really embarrassing, but whatever, I can make it work. Can't stop now. Gotta do it for her. Don't want to die yet.
Really get into the set. Way too tired for what should be a simple 10 min warmup, but that's what happens when you sit all day every day. Start feeling that burn and I noticeably start becoming more sluggish with the exercises.
10 minute exercise ends right as Linkin Park finishes up and I fall on the floor, rolling on the towel because I can't stand the feeling of sweat and the stench of kimchi is so strong my heavy breathing starts turning into coughing.
After about two minutes I head to the kitchen to get some water and guzzle it.
Walk back into my room and realize the blinds have still been lying on the bed this entire time, everyone in the dorm complex that has walked by could look right in.
My reaction when I realized it.




Overall, today has been a solid 6/10. Could have been worse.

[Fragony]

So far, bus didn't show up so 1 hour of quality-time with -4 degrees celcius. On top of that, shoes with wooden soles + snow + gravity = fail. Managed to score pea-soup and smoked sausage but forgot the worcestershire-sause.

[Greyblades]

Woke up a 3 30 pm after repeatedly waking up and falling back to sleep again due to nothing to get up for.

5/10 for a Sunday.