Wow, lots of time with no posts. Friday and the weekend went well. Friday was a typical day at work, with no big problems for once (at least not big enough that I remember them offhand). After work I went to see X2 with Dave, Brie, Ryan, JoeBuck, and Travis at the cheapseats. The sound sucked, the film was scratched and missing frames in places, the projector was jittery around reel changes, the image overscanned (or whatever the film equivalent for that term is) about 3ft on one side, and there was a big blotch of white shiny spots on the screen, but it was fun anyways and only $2 too. Afterwards we went over to Dave's place for a bonfire. Dave, Brie, Ryan and I talked for a long time, and then Brie and Ryan ditched and Dave and I talked for another long time. That conversation was lots of geeky/techie stuff... Then Saturday I taught myself Qt and was playing around with graphics overlaid with text, and pulling data out of a database to determine what to display on screen and stuff. It was fun, although I discovered the annoying way that none of the GUI parts are thread-safe at all. Luckily they provide a nice mutex I could use to get around that. It doesn't really make sense to not be able to manipulate graphics independently if you're not writing to the screen, and those should have no reason to try to talk to X, but oh well... I also spent way too much time on avsforum and ebay, and that continued for most of the day Sunday as well. I now remember why trying to buy things on ebay on the weekend is a bad idea. No new toys yet, but watching a few auctions that close later... Tonight one of my cousins who I normally see relatively often but hadn't seen all year called since he was driving and gonna be going through the cities in couple hours and figured he could stop. Went to Davanni's and caught up a lot - that's always great fun. Although since I also went to Chipotle for lunch, I feel like I've eaten enough for a few days now... I almost got motivated enough to go get lumber for my screen, so maybe tomorrow. Seems I mention that I may go around here and everyone wants some sort of board for this or that. Maybe I can get my sister to come along and help carry stuff as a condition for picking it up. Too much time on avsforum has be thinking though, which is scary... Like how cool would it be to have a 18x24ft screen in the backyard and watch some movies on it? :) Might have a movie night later this week (the indoor kind), but that depends on whether Paul gets his mind off the powerbook and schedules it. :) Seems he has told at least one person though, and interest is building...