School

School started yesterday, and was for the most part uneventful. I was slightly ticked off when I realized that Math 334 which I had signed up for, had a pre requisite of Math 343. Really intuitave, right. The lower numbered courses are the one needed before the higher ones? Not here at BYU. Anyway, I was able to make the change in record time, and only missed ten minutes of the class I was actually supposed to be at.

There's going to be a lot of homework, though, and I may not get too many entries in here. Although, I do work till 5:30pm now on Tue's, and that seems to give me a little free time here and there, so you never know. As an update to the previous work entry, I was able to write part of a parser that fixed the subscript problem. It was enough to save me hours of work, but it certainly won't jump through hoops for me unless I through them through. Still, it's a heck of a lot better than handcoding 150+ questions in html.

I'm also still working on getting navigation up, but it's not a high priority right now. I'll probably get a gallery of Ryuki's pictures thus far done first, and that should give me a little incentive to link into it. 人生ってこんなもんか？

Day off?

Well, I guess technically it is now Sunday, but I intended to write this on Sat., my day off. Only thing is, there being only one car between me and Mako, and because I have to use it during the week, all the things that Mako need to do happen on Saturday. This will be changing next week once school starts and I don't work everyday, but it was a long day. Throw a new infant into the mix, and you realize why my free time for Sat. doesn't start until Sun. morning.

I was thinking today of how I had lost about 8-10 lbs since Ryuki was born. I don't think it has anything to do with the stress and what not, though I could easily be wrong, but I think it all resides on Mako's cooking. There is nothing, and I mean nothing like genuine Japanese cooking. Even when I try to make the same dish with the same recipe and ingredients, it still doesn't taste as good as when Mako makes it. This is why I lost weight, because Mako couldn't cook, and I don't go back for seconds on my own cooking.

It reminds me of two years ago when we first met. I was about 170, could bench press a max of 200, was working out three times a week, and was pretty much in the best shape of my life. My one weakness was that I had never really had a girlfriend, much less a girlfriend who could cook. So, after the first month from when I met Mako, we started seeing each other every day and that was the beginning of the end.

I knew I should be working out, but ask yourself which you prefer; 2 hours sweating with heavy weights and nothing but a nice shower to look forward to, or a day with a pretty Japanese girl and endless possibilities. Not too hard a decision if you ask me.

I don't mind that I got fat, but when I passes the 100 kilo mark (about 220 lbs for you non-metric types), I got a little concerned. I'll have to start doing something soon, because Mako has started cooking again.

Pig talk for the day is that I've finished all the graphics I'm going to change for a while, but I still need to implement in a navigation menu to link to static pages that don't exist yet, but it feels a lot easier to get things done with Blogger, so it could be sooner than I think.

Baby Schedule

There is no way to maintain a schedule when you have an infant. I just woke up from hours of sleep with Ryuki and Mako. We had just planned to rest for a couple of minutes and then give him a bath, but he didn't complain or make much noise, so of course we just slept until he did, not realizing how long that was going to be. So here it is midnight and we are all rested up. School starts next week, and I have to have some kind of schedule in place, then again, I suppose I could always do homework in the middle of the night.

I have some pretty intense courses this semester. Electrical Engineering 313, an advanced analog electronics design course is probably going to be the hardest but the funnest as well. Elementary Differential equations and Discrete Mathmatics in Computer Science just don't sound as exciting, but you never know.

Work Woes

This is my second to last day of full time work before school starts up again next Mon. Naturally I would be hit with the biggest project I've ever seen since coming here.

I have to code up this Chemistry course that is just reeking with special characters. For the most part this isn't so bad, but ocassionaly we have to use programs that were created here that are anything but easy to use. My main problem right now is getting a super- and sub-script numerals (ie ClO₅). It's really easy with html, but the genius who created this stupid program we have to deal with didn't bother to even consider that such a possiblity might exist some day. Anyway I guess I may just have to code up a different way to do the same thing this program was built for. So much for relaxing before school.

On a more piggish note, I've finished most of the template updates, as should be obvious. I'm still working on some inner pages like the comments etc, and I also need to add a navigation bar for my static pages, but overall I think it looks good.

Starting Blogger

Well, I've been trying to come up with a nice way to display my entries and all, but it was rather daunting to do it myself. So, I looked into blogger and realized it was fairly customizable for my needs, so I'm going to update everything into this format and then update the template and everything as I go. I will have my pink pigs soon!!!

Hello Ryuki

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Not three days after I last updated the site we had an OB exam scheduled. Mako wasn't feeling anything in particular, so we thought we still had plenty of time before Ryuki came. But no! She was already dilated 6 cm when we went in. The midwife and Dr, who coincidentally is my dad, decided that we should go to the hospital as soon as possible. We were rather surprised, but made a mad dash home to pick up the essentials then went to the hospital.
We checked in around 4:00pm, Mako started pushing about midnight, and Adam Ryuki Parker was born on Aug. 6 at 1:36am. He weighed 6 lbs 13 oz. and was 17.75 inches with a lot of hair.

Things seemed to go smooth after that, but then Ryuki started choking on something or stopped breathing or something, anyway they whisked him off to the nursery telling us it would probably just be 10-20 min. 20 min became an hour and then 2, and we started to get worried. We went looking for him in the nursery where we were told that he had been upgraded to the level 2 nursery. When we finally got to where he was, he was hooked up to various systems and such to monitor his heart rate, oxygen level etc. It was a tense time to say the least, but everything was fine, and he was able to be with us the following morning. And go home with us that night.

I realize this is getting long, so I'll just mention that the following week we had to go back to the hospital because Ryuki had a billirueben level of 25. ( I was told that 18 is high enough for hospitalization ) They had to hook him up to an IV and then put him under these lights for about 24 hours. He slept through most of it, and seemed to take it rather well, but Mako had a really hard time and wasn't able to sleep much.

Anyway, one week later we are generally recuperated and I am back at work. Our sleeping schedules and what not are way out of whack, but that's to be expected. As an ending note, here are some picture of Ryuki with his hair nicely spiked. This was before he went into the hospital, so you may notice he looks a little yellow.

Nothing and Nowhere

Well, here we are again, I still have nothing to put on this site, and not really sure when I will. I'm thinking about some nice pink pigs to accent everything, but I'm not sure how that would fly. I also want to put up some kind of navigation, because there will eventually be a ton of content on here ranging in topic on anything from cooking to programming. Also, there will probably be a nice big splash page when my son Ryuki is born. But that will all happen when I have time. Too many things to learn now. I would really like to try something with PHP and MySQL like a forum. I am playing with, maybe even throwing in some XML and XSL into the mix, but like I said, too many things to learn. We'll see how things go.