I fail at trying to blog even remotely often. Sometimes I get a few posts in within a fairly short amount of time, sometimes it takes nine months before anything pushes me to write.
I've long since wanted to turn this blog into something more technical oriented, but I think I'm going to abandon that desire, and instead use my other domain, dukn.net, that has long been unused, and abused for random stuff, I'll be posting some stuff there soon, though soon could be weeks from now.
In the last few days I have discovered that I am beyond burnt out. I've pushed myself for a little over three years working and schooling full time, all while maintaining a house and trying to keep up on technology and work on side projects. My mind has stayed too busy and frayed in order to do any of those things anywhere near as effectively as I would like or am capable of. As a result, I think I'm ready to take some time off, and I don't think I'll return to DigiPen next year, in favor of recuperation and to spend some time figuring out what exactly it is that I want to do.
Whoops. It's nearly October, and I haven't posted anything here since May. So, quick recap. Year three at DigiPen completed in April, I failed my first certification attempt at FITS (though just barely), and summer happened. Summer was fairly uneventful, aside from progressing with Tragic Little Aerospace stuff. In August, a press release went to Rocketry Planet without our knowledge and we've been kept busy since. PAX was a blast, comes and goes so quickly.
I keep telling myself, and you, my readers, that I am going to post more, and expand on so many ideas. I keep failing at this. I'll skip making such a meaningless promise tonight.
I suppose this post is a little late, given the first day of the new year is over half over already. Oh well, I didn't get to bed until after 5am, woke up a little before noon, and the words are finally coming to me.
So, 2009. You provided some good memories, some loss, and has really just been a roller coaster of thrills. Or something. It was a good year for gaming. School has been rough, both semesters of the year. Lets hope 2010 is better.
But we all know about all that, why rehash it? On to the new news!
As mentioned in the last post, I signed up for the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange. I got green coffee beans as a result. Today, I made my first attempt at roasting them. I have documented the process photographically on flickr. Go look!
I have not ground the beans up yet, and brewed them, as my crappy blade grinder has vanished. This actually happened a long time ago, and I have no idea where it is. Time for a new burr grinder anyways!
It is just passed midnight on Friday morning. Fall semester has ended, and aside from one group paper to get in by 6pm today, I'm done until January. Well, sort of. I still have a bunch of stuff to get done over this break for next semester, but I at least have a little bit of breathing room.
Come one! Come all! Let us look back at the plans and failures of the last few months.
What is happening to our society? It seems every year, the collective intelligence and morality drops, as indifference rises. We are regularly hearing of people being wrongly targeted by our law enforcement officers using tasers, often to a lethal force. There are many that fight against this; they fight for justice and privacy and the rights outlined in our beloved Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. But it can only go so far. There are only so many people willing to vocally fight.
I'm avoiding doing real work that needs to get done. Its been a while since I've posted, and people start to bug me when my blog goes silent for too long.
I've added a twitter feed, which you can see to the right. I'll probably start using it with more gusto eventually, right now, I'm not sure what purpose its going to take.
