my leg, arms, and wrists are aching

Ugh, frickin' wrestling. My wrists have been totally ruined since halfway through the season last year (I swear I'll have arthritis in my wrists by the time I'm 20), I hyper-extended a tendon in my leg on Monday while standing up, and for some reason this morning driving to school my arms were aching. Of course, I've also had a minor headache on and off all week, and my neck has been super tense for years now. Computers. I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft again recently, since the new expansion came out a few weeks ago. I'm slowly being sucked back into the hole that is WoW, oh wait nevermind I'm already there. But, on a subject more relate-able to Independent study, I no longer have homework to for physics in the morning! Of course, I have my calculus take home final to be worrying about, but I can work on that in calculus so its no biggy. Oh man, I'm trying to remember how to code in Processing again. Maybe I should install it on my laptop. I already have it on my desktop from last year, but haven't really used it since Advanced Computer Programming. What are we doing for our final? If you haven't decided yet, I vote for having a rock paper scissors competition

gobble gobble

Thanksgiving! I had a delightful time during my thanksgiving break, from eating turkey to taking naps in the middle of the day. I managed to play through almost the entirety of Grand Theft Auto 5, and I gotta say, that game is amazing. I never played it on old-gen consoles so when it came to PS4 I had to get it. Other than that though, I was entirely the opposite of productive. I didn't get any work done on my project, nor any homework for that matter. But isn't that the point of thanksgiving, to spend time with your family and not worry about your actual obligations? Yeah, yeah lets go with that definition. Anyway, we have about 3 weeks left in school before the end of the semester, so I should probably end this blog post in some redeeming fashion.

Physics and coding

Well, my time in Independent Study has been a fun one spending a lot of time doing homework, getting my lips stuck on frozen popsicles, and playing Super Smash Bros. I'm only in this class for this first semester, because sadly next semester I have to take Delta to get my speech credit. Of course I'll still visit most every day, but it just wont be the same. HOWEVER, keeping with the goal of the course I should find some way to incorporate the physics I've learned (or pretended to learn) into some sort of program that demonstrates that I at least sort of know how to code. Oh! I have a great idea! I can use Processing to create a free body diagram creator (as in, have a block on an incline plane and have it analyze the forces acting on the free body). Its a simple project but will require me to refresh myself on quite a few subjects from implementing trig to getting user input, so I suppose that's what I'll do in the last 2 weeks of class.

Energy and P-P-P-P-POWER!

Oooooooh man, physics time. Every time is physics time. Then again, every time is Zombo time, if you believe. You can do anything on Zombo com. Oops, I got a bit lost in the mesmerizing website. Darnit. In my physics C class we've gone through quite a few units in the past couple weeks, starting with energy and going into centripetal motion, work, and now POWER! It's been fun, but I'm not really looking forward to the next test. Oh boy though, Modern Physics has been exciting! Just kidding, we're learning general relativity and I learned that last year in Astronomy. Oh well, at least it gives me more material to make inside jokes during Physics C with my fellow Modern friends. Speaking of gender ratios though, there are literally only two girls in the Modern Physics class... out of a class of 30. It's a bit better in Physics C, with maybe 4-5 girls out of 30. Oh well. A lot of people are in both classes, which is cool. Oh yea! We aren't actually doing general relativity in Modern Physics, because tensor analysis is really difficult math and not even Mr. Stormberg understands/can teach it. Soooo we've been deriving a lot of our equations using classical mechanics, which gives us some pretty wrong answers when dealing with black holes.
Wait, this is a blog post for independent study? Oh thats right, it is! Well, I'm going to find some way to integrate what I've been learning into code, but i'm taking my time to do that. Also, I should make that "about me" presentation soon. When do you want those to be made? I figured I'd go first or be one of the first, but that means I have to make my presentation, first.

9/25 and the week of torture

Oh boy, what progress have I made this week? NONE! Thanks to the absurdity that is the Austin Independent School District, I got three days of in-school-suspension because I had my ecig in my car. It was IN MY CAR, and though I'm not 18 I didn't even have nicotine juice in it or in my possession! So, thanks to this BS system, I got to sit in a cubicle and do nothing but sleep on my hoodie and catch up on homework/reading. I'd try and make this blog post longer, but I'd just be complaining more about my disciplinary action and no one needs to here me rant about that. Maybe I'll actually get to work today/this coming week, but who knows.

"It's the quenchiest"

PROGRESS...has been slow. Yesterday (9/11) I failed to get focused on my work, thanks to not only the late start but also Mr. Risingers nice speech about the memorial of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I'm still having issues with inputting two key presses at once, and Im not sure what to do. I turned each key into a boolean within a list, but even when I properly instantiate the list and everything, I get an error on the first time I call a 'key' boolean. It's silly. I'll probably try to make a project with a more concise goal soon, and also one that doesn't need a second persons input/take in two key presses at once. Yayy learning how to code again. OOOOOh I could try out C++ with the XNA framework again!... Oh boy I'm getting alot of ideas

First blog post! And already makin' gainz

As of these words, class is halfway over. In that amount of time, I have already managed to polish my Engineering Design homework and scare John Chan away from me, because apparently I'm too distracting ("Success!"). I'm trying to plan out what to start working on first in this game I'm making in Processing, and also what I want the final product to look like. For the sake of simplicity I'm planning on making a two player competitive game instead of an RPG, because that requires me to refresh myself on more simple concepts of java first, and tackle those later in the semester. I'm having to look back at the Processing reference library a lot, but the information I learned Sophomore year is slowly coming back to me. *UPDATE* just realized it'll be difficult to take in two key press prompts at the same time and make two separate objects move with just If-statements. I am utterly lost in confusion. I say that, but I'm not actually. It's only the second week, but my work is hitting walls.