September 9: Hiatus
Hello all! Please forgive me for the unexpected break from blogging that I took. On Tuesday I couldn't bring myself to do yet another blog that consisted of "I didn't do much today other than code, now here is what I ate". I didn't blog on Wednesday either because I figured that Thursday would be an at-home day and thus wouldn't warrant its own blog either, and then I stayed up too late doing other things on Thursday to get the blog out and still go to bed at a remotely reasonable time. Therefore, I will now try to catch up on the past four days, which will probably be pretty easy, as nothing happened on two of them and I've forgotten what I ate already haha.
On Tuesday I coded at work, and it went alright. I got my test up and running so it could go throughout the weekend and spit out results for me today. There was handiball at lunch, and I recall being bad again, so let's not dwell on that haha. Now that I'm talking about Tuesday, I think I now remember that breakfast was natto and dinner was udon and gyoza with a shredded vegetable tempura nest. Both were pretty good, and the udon was absolutely huge. I recall having trouble finishing it all. O_O I bought my breakfast for the next day at the Yokosan along with another bag of grapefruits, as I've been absolutely demolishing them. :D I ended up playing quite a bit of Touhou UFO (same genre as Mushihime, but for the PC) on Tuesday night before going to bed. I got significantly farther than I ever have and became stuck on the idea of actually passing the 5th stage. >_< Several hours and countless continues later, I went to bed. I like her theme song (it's got some delightfully cheesy obvious synth, etc. but you have to remember that ONE GUY makes the ENTIRE GAME from start to finish), but Nazrin can get caught in a goddamn mouse trap for all I care now! D:< Your lasers? Take them and go!
On Wednesday I slept in (yaaay~) and then went to Akiba for the day (yaaay~). I started the day off doing some shopping for Jiuna, which I was only partially successful at. I seem to either forget important details or make new (false) ones up as I go along, which is rather problematic when trying to find a single comic in a 7-floor store that carries probably tens of thousands of similar looking items. >_< Oh well, 2/3 isn't bad when you forget about the fact that the one I didn't get was the only one Jiuna actually needed. D:
After failing, I ate at Tenya. The waitresses there now know my order, which means I should probably change things up, but the all-star set is just too good... >_< Oh well, at least it means I get my food quickly, as they probably start making it as soon as they see me come in ahahaha. I then moved over to CLUB SEGA 2 where I played a hundred billion rounds of ESP Galuda. I set a personal record for stage progression by actually beating that stupid psychopath little girl with the attack-trained flowers. I also finally figured out how to activate the game's score building method; silly me, why didn't I think to HOLD DOWN the gender-change button (I am completely serious) before? ;D With my danmaku-brain warmed up, I moved over to HEY! to get humbled by Mushihime. I think I am going to continue starting off with ESP Galuda, as I made it to stage 4 quite a few times in quick succession, which is not normally something I can do, and I also got a score almost in the 50-55 million range, which is what I recall my best from the easier 2P side being. Progress! Exciting! After having my Mushihime performance taper off I just kinda wandered around playing this and that, in HEY! and CLUB SEGA 2, before eating buta-kim-don (it was quite good, and quite a bit like Donburi-Ya, perhaps unsurprisingly) at Chez Streep. After eating it was 8:30, so I decided not to tempt myself and left Akiba for home before I could get myself absorbed and stranded haha.
Yesterday was an incredibly uneventful day. I did my usual Thursday routine of chatting with Mom and Jiuna, playing StarCraft with Kevin and doing chores so I don't have to during the week. I ate at the "Chinese" restaurant again, after I got some recommendations from Kusano-san for something in the direction down the main drag I haven't explored much. I left to go there, and there was an absolutely horrible smell blowing in from that direction, so I turned around and decided it was time for "Chinese" food! I completely forgot about my plan to try out the something-or-other-Wagaya place that may or may not be a restaurant, but it wasn't far enough from the smell anyways. "Chinese" restaurant was sufficiently far, although I have noticed that their food is... not something you write home about (despite me doing exactly that at the moment haha). It's not super bad or anything, it just never has as much flavour as you would expect from looking at it lol. >_< I will probably keep eating there, as it is fast, cheap and nearby. Kusano-san admitted that there's not really much to eat in Hayashi. He only mentioned two places, and one he said was "so-so". >_<
Today I got up and ate dorm breakfast of salty mushrooms, salty fish, and saltier-than-usual miso soup. It was all relatively tasty on its own, but it was just a bit hard to get it all down (quickly, as I was running a little behind) first thing in the morning, and I did not feel very good for most of the day. D:
At work there was a problem with the building's power supply (however it comes in), and so almost the entire day was spent in the dark, with the air conditioning off. Oh how lovely. I really would like all of my sleep-deprived "Monday"s to be dark and warm! D:< In terms of actual work, today I looked at the full results of my accuracy tests, which were unfortunately bad enough to be not right, and good enough to be completely unhelpful in determining where the problem lay. D:< I pretty much spent all of today looking for potential problems and solutions (with a break in the early afternoon to learn a bit of LaTeX). It's kind of hard to debug when what you're troubleshooting requires 15+ minutes to run before giving you any useful information at all. By the end of the day, I found what I believe to be the hidden symptom that is causing the visible symptoms (bad accuracy), but the actual cause of everything is still escaping me. I have one thing that I can try first thing tomorrow morning, but I will be rather disappointed if it works, honestly, because it is not something I believe *should* change anything. If it does, it means the method of inference I'm working with is much more sensitive than I would want/expect it to be. However, I'm going to try it, because it's the only difference apparent to me between the model I have that works and the model I have that doesn't. >_< At 3:30 or thereabouts, I had a bit of a "Lost in Translation" moment haha. The lights came back on, and people cheered a little bit (probably more for the AC, which came back on as well), when the PA guy came on and started talking, and didn't stop for about 5 minutes. I turned to Kawanaka-san, who sits next to me, and asked him what the guy was saying.
"He said the lights came back on."
...
"Alright... Anything else? He was talking for a while..."
"Um... Also he said the air conditioning is back on."
Right. With zero new information gained, I decided to go back to my work. >_< I ended up leaving quite late today, almost at 7, because Kabutoya-san forgot to kick me out and I have developed something of a grudge against my model and was thus hating it for not working as quietly as possible so that he wouldn't notice me haha. Eventually he went to leave and found me still there and kicked me out haha. Damnit! Now I have to go back to it tomorrow morning... Oh well, I probably wouldn't have finished even if left to my own devices, as my brain was starting to power down.
I walked home and ate dorm supper of mapo-eggplant and some kind of harusame, potato and pork mixture with rice and miso soup. It was all pretty good, and very welcome at almost 8pm. D: I retired to my room to eat a frozen grapefruit and blog. There may or may not have been some StarCraft-watching in there too. <_< >_>
Anyways, I am now caught up again, and I will be off to bed, in case tomorrow there is another power failure and thus have to work again in soporific conditions. Night!
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