Dwarfsoft [GPA]

Well, I have finally finished up all my exams, now I have to sit and wait until the 13th of July in order to receive my results. Now I have to get on with fixing up my house. The driveway has a trench dug through it, and has had for the last few weeks, but I am at a loss for time to get out and finish it. It has been raining every day that I have had off, and I have been beset by other issues.

When I first had time to continue the trench and it started raining, there was an issue with a cracked tile on the roof, so I was forced to try and fix that as best as I could in the interim to stop the rain pouring in. I have also been working on replacing all the locks, doorknobs and dead-bolts in the house to secure everything up, and replace old and worn out ones. The back-door door-knob was the first to go, as it kept “pulling out” and required a fair bit of coaxing to get back into place. My brother-in-law came over during my exam week with 3 exams to cut down some trees that are now declared pests. He has since been attempting to mulch the branches so we can take the unneeded stuff to the tip.

The fact that it is raining so much has not bothered me overly, as we are in a drought and the extra rain is going to be well appreciated by the masses. It is merely annoying that I can get almost nothing done that needs to be done considering how cold, dark and wet it is outside all of the time.

I fixed the sensor light out the front of the house by doing some rewiring back to the switch. This turned out to be a loose connection in the switch itself, which has now been remedied. The kitchen lights are still in their disfunctional state, and it appears that I need to run a fresh batch of wire from the switch to the lights.

I have bought a 4 way 75 Ω Coax Splitter for TV Arials. I intend to run the Coax to each of the bedrooms and to the laundry. Currenly there is a 2 way splitter above the corridor, which I am going to replace with the 4 ay splitter. I am then going to run two lots of 15 meter Cable (probably only 10 meters, but 15 to be safe). One will go to the ‘blue room’ in the middle of the corridor, the other will run to the two way splitter which will be above the master-bedroom/laundry area. From here I will run between 2 and 5 meters of cable down to the laundry and into the bedroom. I am also planning on doubling up the coax to the laundry/study area so I can plug in the FM and TV receiver in the computer and get better signal.

Amongst all this, I will also have to find time to start looking at next semesters uni work. I have a fair bit on in the following semester, including a Business Computing Project to manage, Enterprise System Development using Java, Web development using ASP.Net, and System Planning and Management. Three third year subjects are going to really push my time.

I have also received a job query from a friend of mine about a job doing C#/ASP.Net development for a small company in Toowoomba. This is an interesting prospect, and I will see whether I can afford to go over to that side. The do ask for an “Experienced” C#/ASP.Net developer, and currently my “experience” centers around C++, VB.Net and ASP as relevant languages. I am sure the minimal experience I have had with C#, and my current C++ and VB.Net will tie together to help me develop in C#. That is yet another chapter.

If all the above isn’t enough, it is my Birthday on Tuesday. Currently my wife is on some mission to provide a surprise or something, and as such I am going to be stuck at work until 6pm, even if I am only watching movies while I wait for her. I am not allowed to go home, and apparently I am not going to be at home for the entire weekend, which is kind of difficult for me with so much work being required at the house. I can only hope that my mood improves somewhat, as I have been in a quite foul one for some time now.

Cheers, Chris.