Ugh, I love spring for the pretty flowers. But man do I hate the flowers for their pollen. We even had a hard rain last night and today I’m still sneezing up a storm. I had to move the box of tissues from the living room-dinning room-kitchen area to my desk so I wouldn’t be getting up every five minutes. This year seems to have been especially bad. Last year I don’t remember having this many problems, but then again last year we were also in a drought and we actually have had more rain than normal for this year. A quick look at the Weather.com’s pollen count for our area and I see that tree is considered very high today and getting higher for the next three days. Grass is minimal and weed is not active. Well suffice to say that when I had my last allergy test they said my tree allergy was borderline; I’d say that’s changed in the last few years. I guess I’ll be dosing up on extra anti-histamines on top of my currently prescribed ones among my other allergy medicines. So that might explain if you ask me a question in the next few days and it takes me a few minutes to respond- I’ll have to pull myself out of my fog first.
Archive for April, 2008
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April 27th, 2008Editing files
April 17th, 2008So for school I’m working on this project in which I’m building a virtual receptor to use programs to dock my potential drugs to. In making the model I have to find a template, align my receptor sequence then build the model. But I don’t just build one, because my receptor is not the same as the template I had to build some variation into my model; I have to make what is known as loop models. In my case, I made 3 initial models and 10 loop models of each. So I have 30 unique models to work with. Within each model I have 5 interfaces that my potential drugs can interact with; which means I have 150 unique interfaces in which I have to work with. In order to dock my potential drugs I then have to set up a separate file for each one for each interface. So for the last week I’ve been setting up all of those hundreds of files. To top it off, once I have all of those set up, I have to write a script for each interface so it will automate some of the next steps, like docking each potential drug individually. Well, with this script I’ve had to tweak it probably 4 times already in the last two days. Then when I uploaded it all to let it run I got an error message. That error made me go back and have to tweak an earlier file that the script has to pull from. So needless to say, I’m tired of editing and re-editing the same damn 150 files (or their variations).
New Project
April 8th, 2008Oops, been a little while since anyone has written anything. We have been pretty busy with wedding stuff. Well that an playing WoW and going out with friends. No excuses though.
I’m stating a new project at home. Going to write a program to keep track of our vehicles. Installed Options, mileage, MPG, maintance, after market parts, and probably much more will be stored by this program. I have a begun thinking about it. I know it will be written in C# with a SQL database attached to it. I’m thinking of using SQLExpress since it is free and I can tie it into the install program. » Read more: New Project
