Group Projects, Group Meetings, and Such

Heavy work is underway for the "Mouse Driver" project where we code an mouse driver entirely in assembly. So far this is turning out to be alot of fun, although we are running into some issues deciding on the conventions we are using.

All in all though things can be assumed to be sorted out over the weekend, at which point I expect this project to reach product testing and documentation editing stages.

Here's me and Jenny waiting at the bus stop to go to see the eng musical. It's this anual event engineers hold to relieve stress, and by the look on my face I could use some stress relief. 

Here's me and maddy getting ready to go to the eng musical, who knew engineer's can sort of sing! 

The following below is an account of events from CSGames
(sorry for being so late with the posting)


The time is 5:08am we are at the beginning of our trip to CS Games! Everyone is here, everyone but Emery... Where is Emery?

Oh great a call from Emery the missing member to our group Brian tries to frantically figure out if he can still get some way to go to CSGames with us.

5:42am 

If you've never seen Brian sleep chances are he looks like this... :-) (he's gonna kill me when he sees this) 

After a few hours on the train then bus, we arrived here. Where's here? well the middle of no where seems to descibe it pretty good. Apparently we find out there's been a train de-railment up ahead and they are trying to divert trains to take us but they have to drop us off here temporarily. The time is 9:40am keep track of this number I'll have a quiz later on. 

This is how many people where delayed by our train de-railment. Most weren't happy including us that was seriously questioning if we might actually make it to CSGames at this point.

The time is now 12:55pm. 

This is the point where we just realize that the doors of the train have closed and Bob, Jeff, Alan are still outside... This was a worried moment where we'd might leave without them. 

We're finally back together on another train the time is now 1:48pm for those of you keeping track. For those that remember we arrived at the layover at 9:40am, that's almost 4 hours!

As a form of appeasement they gave everyone on board free chips. Brian seems to be pretty happy, the rest of us just worried and tired. 

Alan: Must study assembly.... :::snore::: 

When we all crowed around like this... You know it's one of those "where are we?" moments :-) 

Ste. Foy Station: To the left we have an arcade, and the right a bar. Strange combination. 

8:50pm we finally arrive on the streets of Ste. Foy Quebec, now to find our hotel... 

We're finally here!... Some are more happy than others. The rest are just tired.

Actually this is the day after we arrived at the hotel we arrived the previous night at around 9:15pm.

QUIZ:
How long did we take to get there?

Answer:
Well considering we started at 5:05am and we got there at 9:15pm we around 16 hours!

So we had a right to be tired.

One things about bars in Quebec... Cheap drinks. 

This is what the competition rooms looked like. In the red SE T-Shirt there's Bob our Super-L3373-7YP3R (Super leet typer). He's getting warmed up in this pic I think. 

Apparently one of the Lan Games used in the competition was "Typing of The Dead". I don't know about you but it boggled my mind, hats off to Bob that gave us the second highest score in the game dispite the french keyboards. 

This would be "Pit stop" for our group where we chilled while we where slotted into events. 

I really wonder why the tickets are worth 1.87 (1/2) dollars.
Yes they have 1/2 a cent as part of the value. 

I don't know what this member of our group was doing... I'm not even gonna try to explain this one.

Only in Quebec will you find a change machine right next to a Cigarette machine and a Chocolate vending machine... Poor little Timmy's gonna have to decide against sweets or smokes. 

On the way back we had a quick stop over in Montreal, here's Brian giving the waitress bags of relishes as part of the tip... (Brian also wrote strange comments on a arrow shaped post it) 

After a long game at CSGames some of us can think of nothing better than to get some shut eye... here's to an excellent next year! 

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