specs, shanghai, studies and solaris

i lost my last pair of specs today! i didnt really lose em...just misplaced em. i know where they are but i know that when i get there they wont be there. the only difference losing specs makes to me is that i feel less brainy when i look at myself in the mirror! maybe i can draw 2 ovals connected by a line on the eye level of all the mirrors in my apartment! anyway, i updated my long term to do list. i wanna go to Shanghai sometime. if i end up being what i wanna be....then one day not far from today...i'll be invited to an electrical engineer's convention in china....an all expense paid trip! i've always been in love with the far east! i must have been an oriental in my last life.
and until then i just gotta study hard and graduate with a good GPA. i submitted my project report 10 minutes before deadline yesterday. i would like to take a swing at the idiots who created solaris though! the files i saved on the sparc's in the university lab had some major protocol errors when i tried to remotely access the unix server from home. isnt it redundant to have so many operating systems which all basically do the same thing? isnt engineering about inventing new stuff which is compatible with the old stuff?? seriously, thanks but no thanks! convenience is one thing....but the last thing i need when i am just a few inches from the edge is a 'file not recognized' display message! oh well....all's well that ends well. (well...not really....but retrospect is a strong arguement!)
there are some important thoughts i want to sort that out.....but they can wait till i have i my dinner! so here are the famous last words.....i'll be back!