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Plan for Daniel Neilsen

by Daniel Neilsen · 07/02/2003 (3:58 pm) · 4 comments

Its been a long time since I have posted a .plan so I thought I would stand up and let everyone know whats been happening in the marry land of oz over the last couple of months.

Actually, it hasnt been all that merry in point of fact.

It started out with exam time which, as normal, occured right on my birthday, so I spent my birthday studying economics for an exam. As it turned out I neednt have bothered because I got to the exam room and find out its a bloody open book exam. Luckily I have been caught before and always take all my resources with me just in case.

So my first exam passed fairly well and, whilst studying for my second exam we recieved a phone call. For those that dont know, my 5yo daughter is autistic but the phone call still came as a blow when they said that her ascertainment had come back and she had been rated as with a level 6 disability (as bad as it gets, the scale is from 1 (mild) to 6 (bad)) with severe autism and intellectual disabilities.

Thats a pretty hard thing to come to grips with but I still believe that the ascertainment is wrong (I gotta hope havnt I?)

So now I am left with the fact that my exams are finished and I have 3 unfinished assignments outstanding, clocking away at 10% lost per day so I have pretty much given up hope on them.

Then I get a call from my lecturer saying that he dosnt deduct 105 per day as distance education is hard enough as it is and that my exam was really excellent and when is he going to get my assignments.... crap, time to enter dribble shit mode and knock out 8000 words of utter bullcrap so I have a chance at psassing this subject.

Also in that time somewhere I got a call from a friedn of mine who hosts my web server telling me he has quite his job and will no longer be able to host my server. This means that my tutorial at http://www.liquid.nq.net/tutorial/ will not be available in the near future so if you want it, back it up now. Anyone that would like to host a copy of it please feel free to do so.


Well, thats all the bad stuff I guess.
On the good front I have started a new band and found a really good drummer and bass player to team up with the singer from my last band and myself and after 3 weeks we have 30 songs that are really tight and sound kickass.

I have also started working on a project with 21-6 which is a great experience. Working with a team of talented people makes a nice change from trying to do everything by yourself and I cant wait until we can release some details of the project.

Hmmm I guess thats about it for now. If you read all that then congratulations, but dont you have something better to do with your time?

#1
07/02/2003 (7:20 pm)
Ugh... my time! Right... i need to do something better with it! heh
Glad to know you are having fun with the guys at 21-6 :)
#2
07/03/2003 (12:33 am)
Just wanted to say "Hi".

Hi Daniel :)
#3
07/03/2003 (9:30 am)
Hi Daniel, just wanted to say sorry to hear all those bad things...
but I've solved one of your problems at least I hope... I've mirrored your tutorial site over at tork.zenkel.com
If you want, send me the original html files so that I can use those... I've also updated the PDF version of your tutorial...
cheers,
beffy
#4
07/03/2003 (1:19 pm)
Sorry about the bad news Daniel. Strange how stuff always seems to happen all at once. See you on IRC.