In other news, I ship out on the 18th for football… Life is about to get real interesting. Hopefully I can keep up with everything that is going on, both online and offline.

To begin things, my senior year is finally winding down. My last day of school is this Friday (the 15th). It’s also a half day because of Prom. Track season is winding down with Districts on the 14th. If I have a good day, I may make state in both discus and shotput. It’ll be a great experience, but a little hectic… state track takes place over two days (22nd and 23rd). Among those days, I have Honors Day (where they recognize honors for the whole school) on the 22nd and Graduation on the 23rd.

In other news, I have officially matriculated to MIT. I had been fairly certain I would for quite a while, but after I visited MIT during Campus Preview Weekend (CPW… the C might have been College, can’t remember), I had decided that it was the right fit for me. I loved the campus, the atmosphere, and, of course,  my fellow pre-frosh. I’m definitely looking forward to that this fall. I’ll be heading out a bit before most of the other freshmen so I can play football. I’m contemplating doing track there as well. I figure I can give it a try my freshman year when everything is either Pass-No Record or A,B,C-No Record as far as grades go. We’ll see how that goes when I get there though. I might not be good enough or I might be amazing. You never know.

Anyways, that’s just kinda a brief update on my life. I’ll hopefully start blogging more soon… hopefully. >.< I do hope to write briefly about my experience with the Omaha World Herald’s All-Academic Program. That was an interesting experience that I’d like to share.

So, what’s been going on these past 6 months? School, school, school, and football. That pretty much sums it up. Between getting up for school at 6:30 in the morning, then not getting home until 7 to 7:30 afterwards, I was completely beat this year. Not to mention I had maxed out the amount of classes I’m taking. That never helps. But it all paid off. I earned second team all-district defense recognition and honorable mention all-Omaha (city I live in) defense. So, working that much paid off.

As far as my “internet life” goes, I’ve decided to get a little project up and finally going. Clear Sight RPG is finally back in the works. For those interested, more info can be found here on it. I hope to get it released or at least in beta by the end of winter/Christmas break… will I be able to? Hell if I know. But I truly hope so.

Another project I’ve been working on is a complete recode of SZ’s coding, for all three skins. So far, I’ve got v0 and v1 done, and am in the works with v2. I’ve cut out more then 12kb of total file size for v0 and v1. My next step is to try a suggestion of Dreggie’s that would result in loading all the scripting before loading any of the board by placing the codes to load in the global header. I figure it’s worth a try since it appears to work at another site he tried it at. Another thing I’m going to do is set a no-expire header so that users don’t have to re-download the coding all the time. (I may also do a 14 day or so one for images.) This would increase loading time again, and the coding can be told to redownload by appending a different number to the end of the string. Possibly the file version or something.

Well, that’s all for this entry. Hopefully I’ll keep using my blog and get you guys another entry out sometime in the near future. Oh, and new poll for you guys. =P