Mondays again.

People started asking me whether I am doing weed. I thought about that today. It's as if I am on weed, but without the weed. I seem to have gotten so lazy recently. I've skipped a few assignments, stopped really paying attention.Yeah. I will fix that. Eventually.

So today was a weird day. Angie got pissed at me for no apparent reason. Oh well. We'll work it out, I'm sure. Though I am pissed.

Anyway, in actually interesting news, I have taken up the DDR pad again. In fact, I bought all necessary materials, and will begin construction sometime this week (probably the weekend). I am happy to report that the grand total for my project was less than $20 dollars! I am quite proud considering that other peoples' pads are over $100. That is the cost of authenticity I guess.

My dad pointed out that having switches in the pad is a really bad idea. So, he suggested a capacitance button. Yay! No moving parts. So, we'll see how that works out.

I also renewed my interest in lockpicking. For those that are interested as well, I suggest this wikipedia article as well as this online store. However, be aware of the legal consequences of possesion of lockpicks. Check your state/federal laws reguarding this. For example, in Arizona,this falls on Chapter 13 section 15-05:

13-1505. Possession of burglary tools; master key; manipulation key; classification
A. A person commits possession of burglary tools by:
1. Possessing any explosive, tool, instrument or other article adapted or commonly used for committing any form of burglary as defined in sections 13-1506, 13-1507 and 13-1508 and intending to use or permit the use of such an item in the commission of a burglary.
2. Buying, selling, transferring, possessing or using a motor vehicle manipulation key or master key.
B. Subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section does not apply to a person who either:
1. Uses a master key in the course of the person's lawful business or occupation, including licensed vehicle dealers and manufacturers, key manufacturers who are engaged in the business of designing, making, altering, duplicating or repairing locks or keys, locksmiths, loan institutions that finance vehicles and law enforcement.
2. Transfers, possesses or uses no more than one manipulation key, unless the manipulation key is transferred, possessed or used with the intent to commit any theft or felony.
C. Possession of burglary tools is a class 6 felony.

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So be careful. Don't do anything stupid.

Let's see. Also, I've also become interested in DJ'ing. For this, I've found an interesting tool called BpmDJ and this book. Yay!

Also, I've been notified that our Engineering Club will be doing FIRST and there are some pretty awesome mentors involved. AKA Kick-ASS! I wanted to do this last year, so I'm pretty excited. They're going to need C coders, and I guess I'm the only one that is even close :).

Also, I'm going to need to make us a website. I already agreed to make a website for our NHS club. I was interested in RoR so it was all RoR-like. Except then exams happened. And it ground to a halt. To this day (a month or so since) it is in the SVN repository somewhere. Oh well. I guess I should just give them the HTML sources and that's it. I should probably do the same for Engineering Club.

Well, yeah. That's about it. Thanks for reading (someone?) :).