Clean-shaven

I've shaved with a manual razor for the first time in about a year and a half. Feels really weird. I'm, like, super smooth. I'm gonna have to say though, I'm a sexy son of a bitch.

Well, I'm the treasurer for the UW Euchre Club starting September 2006. I think Quinn will take me under his wing in the summer though. I'm gonna have to say, he's done an amazing job, expecially with the website that has been recently revealed.

I didn't do too well at euchre tonight. I think 2 wins and five losses, but since it was the last meeting, scores weren't recorded. Out of about 18 people, I placed 12. Right behind Sonja, actually. I blame the scoring method, and my terrible euchre playing.

Well, I've only one day of lectures left. I got both my assignments done, one due very much to Mat's extraordinary help. Now it's just a matter of studying for exams.

Let's see, what's on the agenda this week? Tomorrow night, I think I'll be watching a movie at Sonja's. Thursday is free for the moment. Friday, Andrew and I will be playing games at Sonja's (or my house, undecided yet). I guess beyond that, I have no major plans. Just going to relax and enjoy a few days off before getting back to studying.

I want to help out at SLC.com, I really do, but I just don't know anything about events happening on campus. Most of the info I find is from the site to begin with. I think the site is a really good thing though; it's helped inform me of countless events on and around campus.

Ah yes. Last Saturday, I went to go see V for Vendetta with Sonja, her friend Laura, and Aaron, Laura's boyfriend. It was a really good movie. I had to bite my tongue and suspend my disbelief at some points, but overall a good use of my money. Afterwards we played some card games, and it was Sonja's night to lose. She lost at just about everything we played, so I made sure to rub it in (she usually beats me at EVERYTHING!).

Sonja, Sonja, Sonja. I seem to blather on about her. My apologies.

Listening to... bigDUMBface - Blood Red Head on Fire
Link of the moment... Behold: the UWEC website!

Bit by the jealousy bug

Little bit of "jealous Kevin" coming out tonight...overall nothing to be too concerned about.

Finished my assignment. I think I might have actually overestimated it. I certainly could have done better, but I put forth a good effort.

I went bowling last night with Sonja, John, and Julie. I wasn't doing too well the first game, but Sonja absolutely destroyed us all with 166 points (5 pin). The second game, I did a little better. I got off the same rather impressive shot twice: I cleared all the pins but the one of the very left, and was able to pick up the spare by putting a spin on the ball. It looked really awesome...the ball would start heading towards the right gutter, then came back and hit the left pin dead on. In the very last frame I got two strikes, and my third shot was REALLY close to being another strike.

After that we went to John's house to play Outburst and eat ice cream. The game was ok, but I think us strategy gamers were a bit set off by it. Everyone seemed to like Sonja, and she didn't have any complaints about my friends either.

The euchre tournament went on tonight, but I was unable to compete. Some of us there were only there to balance things out so that there were full tables. I guess the important thing is that I got to play euchre. It went on a lot later than anyone expected. We were hoping to wrap it at midnight, but it went til about 2.

For that matter, it's far too late and I think I'm gonna sleep like a mo'fo tonight.

Listening to... NOFX - Kids of the K Hole
Link of the moment... BLEASCHMNN

Ketchup and Mayo win the Euchre

Well, I'm glad I dragged Mat to the euchre tournament tonight, cause we won! We played six games; three for seeding and three for the single elimination brackets. There were eight teams altogether, which is a REALLY good turnout for the club, and worked out really well numbers-wise.

Our first game was against Quinn and Molly. We got euchred on the first hand, but it was a really good game. They beat us 10-9, no big hands to speak of. Next, we played against Sonja (*heart*) and Cathy. My memory fails me, but I remember the winning hand. I was third seat, and Cathy served herself up a King of hearts. I held both the red jacks, with something like 9c, 10c, and Js. I figured it was better for me to pass since I had a better hand for euchering. Cathy picked it up, which made me very happy. I think the first trick was a clubs trick, which Sonja (to my right) won. She led Qd. I realized it was probably in my better interest to not waste my bowers unnecessarily, so I threw off my 9c, which also gave me a psychological edge in that they thought I had no trump. Cathy played the Ace smugly, and Mat trumped with Qh, at which point I threw down my bowers and laughed maniacally. That gave us the euchre for the win, I think 10-8.

We had to wait a while for some games to finish, so we played a few hands of Hearts. I made my usual "heart-breaker" joke; it was received with mixed reviews.

Next we played against Shu and Owen, who really aren't that strong of players in my opinion. One of my first hands was a lone hand which I made, and a few hands later I had the top four with an offsuit 9 (which they unfortunately led). The game wasn't too remarkable. It got to 7-7, and I got another lone hand with the top three, an ace, and a king. I took all five tricks for the win, and a number 4 seeding.


The first game that mattered was against two non-regular members. I decided to turn up the heat by making an aggressive call, but got set for it. They called a hand and made it, then called another and got 5 tricks to put us at 5-0. At this point, I figure the tournament was all but over for us. Luckily, I got a lone hand to make it 5-4. Some stuff happened, and I found us behind at 9-6. I got dealt the bottom three and the right in hearts, along with a nine of clubs. I decided it was little risk in playing alone. I lead the right and saw a king out of one's hand, and black out of the others. As I played out the rest, I watched for clubs, and indeed I saw plenty fall. On my last trump, I saw the ace of clubs come out, and I was happy to see that everyone kept a high spade. 8 out of the 10 points from this game were in alone hands. I feel like the other team outplayed us, but the cards were destined to land in our favour that round.

The next round, we found ourselves against Shu and Owen again, who found a bit of luck. My partner, Mat, was able to win an alone hand to get us up the ranks quickly. The score was 9-5 when Shu called spades. I held the right, but was four suited. Mat was able to trump the first trick, and his ace won another trick. Instead of laying down the right bower, I saved it in my hand until the very last trick, when the other team was certain the right was buried. I laid it down and laughed maniacally again.

I was hoping to see Sonja and Cathy in the final, but they had a very bad string of luck against Nguyen and Matt. Apparently Nguyen had kept calling hands which he was very weak in, but his partner had very good cards for it (once he ordered the ace up to Sonja when his partner had both bowers). The match against them wasn't too difficult. We were able to set them and make a few hands with all five tricks for a pretty well earned victory.

The prize? The two grungiest decks of cards the club had in its possession. A prize well earned, indeed.

(Sorry for the excruciating detail for those of you not interested in Euchre, but I know one guy who'd like to hear about the details I can remember.)

Listening to... Metallica - Bleeding Me
Link of the moment... Bowling date on Thursday, movie date on Saturday

Teeheehee

Well, this weekend was debatably good or bad. I got next to no work done whatsoever, but in the grand scheme of things, I'd say Friday night balanced it out.

I was chatting with Sonja on Friday. She said that her roommate Cathy wanted to go see Failure to Launch with her and Jason, Cathy's boyfriend (the three of them live together). Sonja said she'd rather watch something other than a romantic comedy, so I made the suggestion that she shoo the other two off, and I could bring my movie collection to her now empty apartment, and perhaps she could be a second wheel instead of a third. She seemed to like my suggestion.

So, without going into much more detail, Sonja and I are 'seeing each other', but I don't think she's comfortable with boyfriend/girlfriend terminology yet, especially since we know that come April 21, neither of us wants to continue long-distance. Come September, however....well, now I'm getting ahead of myself. I can't say anything about September yet.

Unfortunately, my week is looking pretty busy. I just hope I can stick to the quasi-schedule I've made for myself. Tonight, I've got to get some assignments out of the way, get some grocery shopping done, and watch 24 with the friends. Tomorrow night is the euchre tournament, which should last most of all night. Wednesday, I need to finish a major assignment for CS330. Thursday night, I'll hopefully get to relax and spend some time with Sonja, and the Friday night there is another Euchre tournament for the warrior weekend.

Listening to... Porcupine Tree - Feel So Low
Link of the moment... My SLC.com post

That time of the month again

Yes folks...it's that time of the month again. I do of course mean that it's the time of the month when I fall in love with some new girl. I am very much convinced it happens nearly on a monthly basis. This time, I think it might be different: I am confident enough to ask this one out on a date.

Well, I shouldn't say too much. After all, my blog is easily found on google, and I don't want to be one of those people who uses their blog as a personal diary. Of course...that doesn't leave much for me to talk about, does it?

I had a great time last night at Sonja/Cathy's (the euchre girls) house. I brought Andrew and we played Catan, Ticket to Ride, Rook, and Euchre. Unfortunately between the first three games, evreyone won a game but me. TtR was really close...Cathy won only because she had the longest route (beat me by 2 points). It was a fun night, even if I feel a little guilty about not doing my Real Analysis assignment. My prof said today that the exam will be based mostly on the assignments, so perhaps I should figure out how to do all the questions without looking at the solutions first. On the other hand, I could just learn the questions from the solutions themselves and stop giving a rat's ass about Calculus which I'll never have to understand again (and this time I mean it).

Well, I've got a few pros and cons at the moment. John and Andrew are both gone for the weekend, and I'm rather behind in some courses (suprisingly, the ones in which I skipped assignments). I also have a large (15%) assignment due Thursday for a course. On the plus side for the day, I wrote a midterm, and I'm confident I got perfect (or close). And of course my chances may be looking good with my lady friend, so that's got me cautiously excited. What I'm hoping is that I'll get caught up on my work since John and Andrew are gone, giving me a feeling of accomplishment.

I'm trying to think of something worth posting on studentlifecentre.com. The webmaster is trying to get everyone who recently signed up for an account to post something since he's leaving soon and is keeping an eye open for a replacement. All I need is a scoop...

Listening to... Iron Maiden - Lightning Strikes Twice
Link of the moment... The so called SLC.com

Comment filtering

I've added a security measure to the commenting, since I'm sick of getting spam in my comments. I figure it shouldn't affect you in any way since no one leave any god damned comments anyways. (I keed, I keed).

Happy Pi day! (pi ~= 3.14, today is 3/14). If there's one thing I hate more than angsty emo kids, it's people that take pride in being geeky (about half of the UWaterloo math faculty). I celebrate Pi day reluctantly.

Listening to... Anonymus - Invisible Man (Winamp radio)
Link of the moment... Everyone loves Magical Trevor

But I *am* smiling

Fun week. Had some assignments due, didn't start or finish one of them. I figured it just wasn't worth the four hours of frustrations that I would have had to put into the assignment to get noe measly percent. So long as I spend some time trying to understand the solutions when they are posted, I don't think it will affect me too much for the final exam.

Last night I went out for dinner at a fancy steakhouse with John and his parents and Julie's family. I suppose I was a bit out of place, but I can consider myself an honourary Stilla when need be. After that we went to Julie's house. I spent more time of my evening than I was planning to; I was with them from 6 til past midnight.

I've had this weird fascination with Euchre lately. I think I played so much this week that I got it all out of my system. All I know is that I'm paying a lot more aggressively. I'm willing to call trump on much weaker hands, and I realize that most of the time I'm able to win on the weaker hands.

I think I'm giving up on my board games club idea. I'm afraid it'll turn out like my school newspaper: better in my head than in reality. What I do plan on doing, however, is taking one of the more prestigious executive positions in the euchre club. They're all going to be up for grabs, for the most part. I think I'd like either president or VP Communications (which should hopefully be taking over the website which is currently a work in progress).

Only ~two weeks of class left, but they're going to be hectic ones. The assignments are coming in very steadily now, and I have a midterm on Friday, not to mention a 15% assignment to start. I don't suppose I'm nearly as worried as I should be, but I consider that a good thing.

Disgaea is a very addicting game. It prides itself in its ability to let gamers spend countless time leveling up characters and items. I've been spending plenty of time doing both, but I'm still nowhere near the extremes that other people have made it.

Well, I've got to make pancakes to bring to a brunch next door, and then I'm going to the mall.

Listening to... Bruce Dickinson - Faith
Link of the moment... Not very funny. It has it's moments, but it's not racy enough.

Emo emo emo, blah blah blah.

Well, today has been uneventful so far. Lunch, laundry, grocery shopping, then supper. Tonight I'm going to a drag show on campus though. I don't know what's happening after that, but I hope it's something as opposed to nothing.

Last night we went to an English pub, the Fox and Fiddle. Lots of Julie's (John's girlfriend) friends were there. I brought Steffi and two of her friends with me as well, because she invited me to watch a movie earlier in the day that I couldn't go to. I wonder about that girl sometimes...inviting me spontaneously to watch a movie might mean something, but then again it may mean nothing. Well, I had some good conversation anyways.

Well I think I'll put off Civ 4 for a while (yes, I think I'll get Civ 4 after all). I started playing Disgaea, and it's got my interest, so once I sicken myself of this game, I'll see if Civ 4 has dropped in price at all.

Thursday was a sort of eventful night. I got Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers from Mathsoc. I also got some Domino's pizza. If you haven't tried before, get a thin crust pizza with BBQ sauce instead of regular sauce and chicken. It's a good combo, especially with other pizzas. We ate the pizza and watched an episode of Firefly (The Train Job). John didn't hate it, and Julie actually liked it. After that we tried playing Carcassonne, and I realy didn't like it that much. It's not a good game for impatient people, since people tend to take a lot of time to consider where to put the tile they just drew.

I think what I'll do is go to the sporting store (to clear up a clerical error they made involving my skate rentals), and then go to Rogers Video and finally use up the gift certificate I have. I think I'll rent Dragon Quest 8 and perhaps another yet-undecided PS2 game to burn them and add them to my collection. Of course, by the time I actually get around to playing all my burned games, they'll be far outdated. Still, it makes me feel like I'm "sticking it to the man", and I doubt I'll use my gift card otherwise.

I guess I need to update my resume as well. There's a part time job fair in the SLC Monday, and I should start activiely looking at prospects for the summer.

Listening to... Snapcase - Aperture
Link of the moment... Nifty Euchre blog (as per the previous comments section)

Is a games club redundant?

I keep second guessing my club. I was talking to some people at Euchre last night about it, I guess. My biggest concern is that the Mathsoc games night already exists. They have a leg up in the fact that they are currently operating, and have a games base already. However, it's mostly only for math students, and they don't advertise well at ALL. Sonya and I started talking about board games last night; aparently she wants to get some sort of games night happening as well. Hopefully we can get together sometime to play.

I'm still debating Civ 3 vs. Civ 4:
Civ 4
+built in multiplayer support
+great graphics
+regarded as the best game in the series
-expensive ($50)
-high system requirements

Civ 3
+cheap ($10)
+can run on most computers (so I can get John and Andrew hooked)
-would have to buy expansion for multiplayer

Paying an extra $40 just bothers me, but I also hate the feeling of having something mediocre when there's something better out there. I just spent nearly $50 on GBA games, and I have no idea how much I'll play and enjoy Civ.

I got back my PM336 midterm, and got 43/45! That was a very pleasant suprise. I got Linear Opt back, and I only got 70 as opposed to the 80 I was expecting. Still waiting for Number Theory to come back.

I just had supper, but I'm fuckin hungry already. I really wanna try getting the Dominos 5-5-5 deal. I can already taste the thin crust pepperoni pizza...yum. Of course, I'm not going to buy 3 medium pizzas myself...I've gotta con another three or four people into it.

Listening to... System of a Down - Suggestions
Link of the moment... Hopefully I can win season 1 of this on eBay.