Luke Oliver

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155: Return on Investment

Last day of classes for the quarter! Today was super easy. I only had two classes (because 306 was cancelled this week), and they were both nothingburgers. My grades in both of today's classes are known good quantities (good enough, at least), so I'm not worried

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154: Last on call shift!

Tonight is my last shift for the quarter! It's been very chill so far, so hopefully it stays that way.

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153: Yikes. Again. I've used that as a title like nine times.

So Yikes. It's 12:40 AM. I was going to go to sleep at like 11. I got on my xbox to play some Destiny around 10:15, because the big RA meeting where we all pick shifts for next quarter had just ended (it went pretty alright)

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152: Hopefully not a monster day tomorrow

I'm starting this one at the ripe young time of 11:30, which is lovely. Today was fine; I did well on the Italian quiz, did my 368 lab final between that and 335, went to 335, and then sped up to the RA event and helped with

151: Another Monster day tomorrow

I'm writing this one at 12:43 (notice a pattern?) because Cody and I stayed up way too late playing Destiny, which was honestly very fun. The new expansion comes out tomorrow, so we spent most of the time getting him caught up in the story, and with

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150: Free! (and 150 posts!)

The title of this one is in reference to the fact that I just shaved! I am writing this at 12:30 AM on December 1st, even though this is technically the post for November 30th (and I will be retro-dating this post). I was going to take a before-after

149: Saturday?

Today has been strange, because it is a Saturday, but it's felt like a Sunday the whole time. I had to actively convince myself that I didn't have to wake up early tomorrow (which I don't!). Today was very chill. I went to the

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148: GAMES

Great Success. Today my family and I went to Solvang, which is a little danish-settled town ~60 miles south of SLO, and it was really cute. I took my camera, but I haven't processed the photos yet. There are a few that'll be pretty good though,

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147: Actual new photos!

Happy Thanksgiving! Today was great. I woke up early 😦, but it was alright. I had half a monster, skated over to the hotel (took ~30 mins, something like 5 miles), and then ate the free hotel breakfast with my Mom and grandparents, which was not bad. We lit some time

146: Fam in town

The asterisk in the photo description is because my dad drove me down at the beginning of this year, and was here at the end of last year, and winter break last year, and the beginning of last year, but the rest of my family hasn't been here

145: We are so back

The parts for my electric skateboard came in today, and it took me a couple hours to get it all set up, and then another couple hours for me to wait for the sealant to dry (I sealed the new ESC in the box with silicone, and waited for it

144: Locked in with Cody

Today was great. I woke up at like 12, showered, and then had to mess with my smart home system a little bit, because I updated it last night, and one of the parts of the voice command pipeline doesn't work anymore. I don't know exactly

143: Not a Soul

Today was strange, again. I did another solid heaping of nothing, got out of bed at like 12:30, and am writing this one up at 12:45AM. I didn't end up going to the store, because the basement of VGs was open (that's Vista Grande,

142: Ghost Town

Today has been very strange. My instinct is to say that I didn't really get anything done, but I spent a solid 3 hours working on my carbon deck (sanding is done!), and then another 3 or 4 working on wind power design stuff. I'm setting

141: Feels just like a Saturday

Y'know what I did today? Nothing. My two classes were effectively moved online (as videos for me to watch later), and the third class, which is a waste of my time under normal conditions, did not have the pull to get me out of bed. I slept, which

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140: Very poorly optimized

Today was weird: I had Italian, which was great, and then I had a whole bunch of time to kill, because my 12-3 lab was cancelled (today is the "lab final", more on that in a minute), so I was just waiting until my 3-6. I spent most

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139: Weird Bollocks

I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I'm a huge fan of audiobooks, especially for transit and listening in the background of purely manual tasks (housecleaning, for example). I hadn't listened to one in a good while, but I learned that

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138: Best Song Around!

I don't remember if I mentioned it, but my EE368 class (that's "Discrete-Time Signals and Systems") had a competition last week to see who could make the best song out of just MATLAB (that's a math-focused coding software), and our entry was

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137: Maybe too much good sleep

I managed to deactivate my scheduled alarm, so I woke up this morning and knew instinctively that it was the wrong time. I woke up at like 8:10 (which is exactly when Italian starts) and decided to call it a loss and just go back to sleep for another

136: Lots of good sleep

I got up today at like 1:30, which was lovely. I've been running a consistent sleep deficit for a while, so the 11 hours I got last night hopefully worked to chip away at that as I go into this week. I am, as always, writing this

135: An Engineering Meeting

The title today is in reference to a couple things. Today was the Wind Power PDR, or Preliminary Design Review, which was great, and we go a lot of great feedback from it. It was a little exhausting, but I honestly think I've gotten really good at this

134: Massive Flavor Win

This one I'm going to be very quick with, because I've had a great day, but I need to be up in like 7 hours to present at our Preliminary Design Review for wind power, which is tomorrow at 9 AM! (that's 8.5

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133: Fingerprint reader is back in action!

My minimal phone has had a faulty fingerprint sensor since like May (I got the phone in April), so I've just gotten used to putting in the pin every time, but I'm pretty looped into the online community of early adopters for it, and the reports

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132: Y i k e s

I don't know if my time management skills are truly down the drain, or if it's just that I have so many more things going on in my life than I have in the past, so my lack of time management is now much more obvious

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131: Mansplaining Final Boss

It was a holiday today, which is awesome, but not as productive as I wanted it to be. I got up at like 12:30, which was really nice, because I actually got something like 8 hours of sleep for once.