This past week has been rather insane. Between the engagement and its associated activities plus getting ready for the AAAI poker competition at work, I'm tearing my hair out trying to keep myself organized and focused on one thing at a time so I can actually accomplish something.

Why am I blogging now? Well I'm waiting for a test to run so I've got a minute or two to tell you about the last few days. This past weekend was insanely busy. On Saturday Diane's Mom, Diane and I went on a tree tour around the university campus. The above photo is one of many I took that day. Several will probably hit my flickr stream over the next couple weeks. It was an interesting tour -- most interesting perhaps is that despite all the time on campus I've spent, I haven't really noticed some of the cool trees that are peacefully growing on campus!

Saturday evening was a surprise birthday for my supervisor, Jonathan Schaeffer. He turned 50 last weekend, so his wife organized a big surprise party which went off really well! So that was pretty fun.

On Sunday, Diane and I had both our families over for steak dinner to celebrate our engagement. Unfortunately, my place isn't all that well equipped to handle a large amount of people so we had people eating on TV trays. Oh wells, people seemed to enjoy our food and it looks like everybody is happy with our engagement which is nice.

Yesterday was my convocation, so I missed the poker meeting that day to spend a couple hours waiting for my chance to cross the stage and shake people's hands. After convocation we wandered campus taking a few photos (including the one above) and then my family took us out for dinner as a combined congratulations dinner for graduating and the engagement. It was a super big meal Chinese banquet style with both crab and lobster and lots of other good food. We even got some presents. I kinda like presents! My Uncle got us a couple bottles of wine.

So yes, it has been a pretty insane few days. I managed to get some work done late last night which helped me find a bug in my code this morning. Hopefully I can continue to be productive over the next few days!

Heraldk