What's On My Mind

Okay so my 28th birthday came and went last month. I am less than two years away from being 30 years old!! Jesus H. Christ!! Birthdays are my time of reflection (not the more common New Year's Eve) and I take stock of where I've been and where I want to be. This year was no exception though the weekend before the 31st I spent in New York with friends and plastered silly. (Pictures and details to come later.)

So far I haven't had much time to sit still and focus on the past and future. I have been too grounded in the present. Here is a short list about whats been on my mind:

1) Painting the computer room: My good friend Carlos is moving in with me at the end of December. Its definitely going to be a great financial and dietary (the bitch puts his FOOT in it each and every time in the kitchen.) We also get along very well. I have to admit I'm a bit nervous about moving someone else in, but I think we can work something out. Its also motivated me to finally finish my home improvements. All thats left after painting the computer room is to install some flooring and redo th2e bathroom. OH, OH, OH!! I paid off my car last month so automatically I'm getting to keep a nice chunk of change each pay period. I'm definitely loving the increased financial security.

2) School: I'm on my second to last grad school class before I have my Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and this class is awesome! Its really brought out the geek in me. My main project is investigating the video compression techniques used on the iPhone (my own personal favorite toy). FYI, the iPhone and iPod touch both use the MPEG4 standard as well as H.264 portion of the MPEG4 standard which is awesome though very slow to encode. I am working on a multi-processing system (with a few PC's that have dropped in my lap recently) that should make encoding long (< 30 minutes) H.264 videos less painful. Mind you this is probably going to be a hobby.

3) Gym: Been noticing a few more changes since hitting the gym harder starting from last years reflection. I definitely have a long way to go before I can stop being friends with Ana. (You know, Miss Rexia!) but the changes are definitely great motivational material.

4) Love: I dont have time for it, but it seems my mind has all the time in the world to think about a certain past situation that recently ended. "Situation" .. I need to stop using that word before I piss off someone else I care about. Looking back, I don't regret my decision. Every fiber of my experience and intuition was screaming for me to remove myself from that... relationship. Even after the fibers were done screaming along with most of my friends, I stayed around to see what would happen next. Maybe a miracle.

In any case, I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss him. Or if I said I didn't have feelings for him. It would be a total fabrication to say that I hadn't felt drawn to him. He had such great qualities and compatibilities with me that I felt it was too good to be true. Unfortunately it was. More on that later.