31 / 8 / 2008 -- Posit Positive

Greetings.

More than ever, I'm feeling optimistic. Not just about Project Omega, but about life in general. For the past few weeks, I've been back at college. It's a good time overall, lots of hard classes and work and stuff like that, but also spending a good deal of time with close friends.

In particular, I've been spending a lot of time with a very good friend of mine. He's a year ahead of me, but I don't think it's just the wisdom inherent in "age" (and I use the term loosely) that garners so much of my respect for him.

I think that he's not afraid to speak his mind, and I feel that quality in particular intrigues me about the human race as a whole. Here we are, too wrapped up in our own daily lives to really take notice of anyone else, until we take a minute to step back and breathe again. More often than not, we find nothing of interest on the "outside", and soon retreat back to our own little universe, to proceed mechanically on our way once again.

But every once in awhile, we find a little something that keeps us outside for just an extra moment longer, and soon we adjust ourselves more or less permanently to that extra time.

It's my hope that someday we can achieve a state in which we spend a slim minority "inside". That may seem pretty far out there, especially since I regard myself as quite heavily "inside", but really, that just makes me work all the harder for it.

Okay, that's enough philosophical stuff for now.

Week X of Project Omega has come and gone, and with it comes a fairly substantial listing of system requirements for the Project itself. While I don't think it's anywhere near complete (and honestly, at this early stage, nothing could ever be), it does offer a good start on some not-so-specific goals I've had in mind for awhile now. If nothing else, I am highly interested in how much these will change as the Project goes on.

(As a quick side note, I'll be referring to Project Omega as simply "the Project" (capital P) if grammar suits it. Not so much laziness as emphasis that this is a very significant goal.)

...sorry, no clever wrap-up this time.

Mr. Bond, signing off.