Diary

OK, after three days in a row when absolutely no one has even taken a look at my blog, I have to do something, even though I didn't intend to. I am overcrowded with various homeworks, labworks and all the other shit I have to do or else I will get my head cheerfully chopped off my shoulders and I was thinking of taking a little break from blogging, but I can't bear to look at the stats of my blog tumbling down.

First and foremost, yay for me and for my new band. I can already tell that the band is the most awesomestest band I have ever been a part of even if I have yet to play with them in a rehersal. The dudes are very fun to be with, very friendly, very approachable and outright great. I don't know how all the music playing, rehersing and creating stuff will go, but I am sure it will be great as well. At least they seem to be quite good musicians from what I've heard.

This kind of brings up problem that arises every time when I join a band - what should I do with the material of my old, already dissolved band? I have weighed various options for a long time, but haven't found a solution. On one hand, the material is great, the music is awesome, the lyrics are meaningful and it would be a pity if all of it simply disappeared. On the other hand, it is very, VERY difficult to get my previous band mates together for a reunion and recording the damn thing for real and for good. I want to do it badly, but they are simply unenthusiastic about it. This gives me another choice though - claiming the rights for all the songs and give them all to my new band, leaving the old bandmates credited for their input in small letters in the CD sleeve. Of course, I can be nice and only claim the songs where I had the most input (that would leave six songs out of twelve)... I simply don't know.

Of course, sooner or later we will have new material with the new band and maybe it won't be a problem at all, because I will forget the old band, but I think it's more likely I will still want to publish the songs... And I'm actually hoping for surprise reunion next year or the year after that.

And now I go fuck with labworks again.

RIGHT NOW: Fucking with labworks, d'uh.

Technically, the title isn't right. As of now, the cat is in vet's receiving lethal dose of drugs. Anyway, I won't see her anymore, so it counts. Breast cancer - a terrible disease, no matter if you're human or animal - has taken its toll.

When we got this cat, I was nine. And I hated that critter for a while, but by the time we moved to Kaunas, our relationship was a lot better. Anyway, for those not counting - she was around for a bit more than half of my life, so you can imagine how weird it is to be without a cat again. A little furry creature making a terrible mess out of your room, a bit bigger furry creature, flying down from ceiling with the lamp... A friend to greet you after a terrible day in school, university, work,  wherever, to get your mind off your problems and calm you down. A little incarnation of evil, pissing into your shoe, because you wronged her somehow. A little incarnation of good, always cheerful and wishing to play.

She will be missed.

RIGHT NOW: Listening to "Wish you were here" album of "Pink Floyd". Because it fits my mood right now.

Fuck fuck fuck and fuckity fuck, it seems I spent last night thinking so much about the stuff I was going to blog about that I totally forgot to write anything in the blog! Very clever of me, especially when I don't remember most of the planned stuff right now anyway. OK, so let's try to remember everything...

First and foremost of all, I got an invitation to join a band. It is about a year since the last time I played in a band, so it came both as a pleasant surprise and a huge headache since most of my hardware wasn't used for that period of time and my skills aren't as mad as they used to be, and they weren't too mad even then. Anyway, I believe I will be able to cope with it... barely. I have three programs to write in the upcoming week - one in Java, one in C++ and one in Python - and they must be finished until Friday. There are no other variants - either they are finished by them or I am dead. Of course, the wonderful part about it is that I have started doing none of them yet.

This brings me to another great thing - the meeting of Lithuanian Formula One fans. OK, I can clearly see some of the people who know me a tad better than average confused. Yes, you remember it right - I absolutely hate Formule One as it is now. Doesn't matter really - I'm there to party and to promote some other racing series as well. However, this also means that I will most probably be absolutely unable to work on the three programs. This leaves me precisely four days and four nights for everything...

And I'll be damned if I don't make it.

RIGHT NOW: I have just spent three (four?) hours playing snooker online with my friend. That was quite fun actually, however, we're both terrible players and have lots and lots of things to improve. Well, if we play it as much as we played today, it might take quite a short time... and I will have even less time for the programs. Argh...

Oh, and yay for my new haircut. People say I look like a human being at last... What a nice way to put it, isn't it? Anyway, I kind of like it.

Hurray for me, as I finished my concurrent programming homework, yay! Actually, it would have been a very easy one, but professor decided to make everything quadruply difficult by imposing limit on the lengths of arrays. Not just any limit, but eight elements. Eight elements for a bloody application which works with 40 chunks of data! OK, I know, most of you don't understand a shit and saying that I had to setup nine semaphores instead of one will not impress you. Let's just say that it's like making absolutely random things work in an orderly fashion - bloody hopeless and brain hurting.

Today during a lecture of complex analysis (I'm the only one mad enough to have picked that subject) professor made me a cup of coffee while I was busy solving a problem. To say that I was pleasantly amazed would be a serious understatement. Even knowing that I don't like coffee all that much. Now that is what higher education in Lithuania is lacking a lot - interaction between students and professors on more levels than just lectures and studies. I am really impressed.

And I'm starting to think that it's getting a bit too obvious that I really enjoy spending my time with one of my coursemates and try to go somewhere with her a bit too often... Ah well, like I care. Like my chances to score anything bigger aren't infinitesimal anyway, so I think I'll let the people think what they want to think.

RIGHT NOW: Thinking, whether I should put links to the stuff I am talking about. Maybe I can rely on my readers' abilities to Google themselves? Hmmm... Anyway, right now I am listening to Pink Floyd - The Wall album, easily one of my favourite musical creations of the previous century.

I know, you can't understand, why I need another blog, when I don't update the old one frequently enough.

Heck, I don't know either. I just thought it would bring more order into everything I do online if I separated my ought-to-be private ideas from the "pile of cool things I dig up in the internet" that the previous blog degenerated into.

I like new layout.

Yes, that's it. No more reasons. If you thought I'd write a long explanation, I'm sorry to disappoint you. If you believe I will update this blog everyday just because it's called "diary". Well... Maybe. If I find enough courage to talk about some things in my life. Don't count on it too much though.

RIGHT NOW: Listening to the discography of Alizee. She has released the first single from her new album. That was a bit of hiatus, I am glad she's back.