Friday, July 29, 2005
Arethusa Falls
I'm sitting on a picnic table at the bottom of the Arethusa Falls hiking trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It's a great trail for a late afternoon climb - we hiked up together, in 60 minutes, to a beautiful waterfall nestled into the south ridge of Crawford Notch. After a 20-minute rest, I took off jogging down the hill. I don't know what it is, but when descending a mountain, I'm driven to jog. I love the quick thinking required to plan my next steps. Also, the upbeat pace, the breathing rhythm, and the deep connection that I form with the trail, make it extremely satisfying.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Check your drive's dirty bit!
1. Open the command prompt in Windows XP (cmd)
2. Type "fsutil dirty query c:" and voila, you get the status of your drive's dirty bit.
Yay!! You can check the dirty bit! (Inside thing for anyone who took ELEC 377).. I know this isn't the same dirty bit that we talked about for paging ;) But it's still fun!
2. Type "fsutil dirty query c:" and voila, you get the status of your drive's dirty bit.
Yay!! You can check the dirty bit! (Inside thing for anyone who took ELEC 377).. I know this isn't the same dirty bit that we talked about for paging ;) But it's still fun!
Monday, July 18, 2005
"Me" time
I'm on holiday this week. While my housemates and co-workers have to drag themselves into the lab this morning, I get to laze around in bed, write a blog post and relax. It's been a while since I've had solo relax time, and it feels great.
When you live with a bunch of guys in a house, much of life becomes defined by their existence... your coexistence. I liken it to family living... As much as I love and adore my family, it's nice to fly off into the distance from time to time, only to come back and appreciate them more upon return. This holiday feels much like that.
For the last 10 weeks, I have spent 90% of my non-work time with Adam, Kendall, and Janek (together, or in miscellaneous recombinations). We have a BLAST in our house! A REAL bachelor pad. Our unique perspectives of life unite in really dynamic and exciting ways. Our crazy arguments about the most insignificant stuff, slaving away in the kitchen creating delicious feasts, playing video games, or just plain ol' musing about the way things are...these fragments of our coexistence characterize large parts of where we all "are" mentally, emotionally, etc..all because so much of our time is "common".
Well, this week, I have flown the coup! I have returned home for the week to spend time with my family, catch up with old friends, and help out at the summer camp where I spent my last 8 summers (I might also manage to squeeze in a trip to North Conway to hike and shop!). Janek has also lifted off (literally) to visit family in Poland for 2 weeks. All of this deviates from our standard existence...it shakes things up a little!
These breaks are great! I will enjoy "me" time, as well as the time that I will spend with people that I care about from this area of the world. I know this week will fly by, and before I know it, I'll be back in Markham, working 9 to 5, chilling 5 to whenever, and rejoining the regularly scheduled program already in progress. Upon recombination of our singularities, new stories and topics for discussion will infuse our social lives with material. Well, time for me to go have more "me" time! Maybe I'll have a nap! :)
When you live with a bunch of guys in a house, much of life becomes defined by their existence... your coexistence. I liken it to family living... As much as I love and adore my family, it's nice to fly off into the distance from time to time, only to come back and appreciate them more upon return. This holiday feels much like that.
For the last 10 weeks, I have spent 90% of my non-work time with Adam, Kendall, and Janek (together, or in miscellaneous recombinations). We have a BLAST in our house! A REAL bachelor pad. Our unique perspectives of life unite in really dynamic and exciting ways. Our crazy arguments about the most insignificant stuff, slaving away in the kitchen creating delicious feasts, playing video games, or just plain ol' musing about the way things are...these fragments of our coexistence characterize large parts of where we all "are" mentally, emotionally, etc..all because so much of our time is "common".
Well, this week, I have flown the coup! I have returned home for the week to spend time with my family, catch up with old friends, and help out at the summer camp where I spent my last 8 summers (I might also manage to squeeze in a trip to North Conway to hike and shop!). Janek has also lifted off (literally) to visit family in Poland for 2 weeks. All of this deviates from our standard existence...it shakes things up a little!
These breaks are great! I will enjoy "me" time, as well as the time that I will spend with people that I care about from this area of the world. I know this week will fly by, and before I know it, I'll be back in Markham, working 9 to 5, chilling 5 to whenever, and rejoining the regularly scheduled program already in progress. Upon recombination of our singularities, new stories and topics for discussion will infuse our social lives with material. Well, time for me to go have more "me" time! Maybe I'll have a nap! :)
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