Down With The Sickness…Again

Yeah. It sucks. I had some major sinus issues during my stay in Gatlinburg. I started not to feel well Saturday night with a headache. I figured it was having to read all day. When it didn’t go away on Sunday and it was confined to one side of my head, I figured it was a sinus problem. So I scored some drugs and it went away.

Then on Monday I didn’t have any problems and I didn’t take any medicine. Of course, that’s when it started to get cold and rainy. I also didn’t have any problems on Tuesday either. But when I woke up yesterday, I could tell something was wrong again. You know, the whole “head feeling like a ton of bricks” thing. By the time I got home from work, I had a fever with chills and a sore throat.

Needless to say I’m back on the meds and at work today. I’ve got a ton to do and I can’t really afford to miss any more days this week.

In other news, I’m finding my classes very interesting. In my Computer Organization class, I’m learning how you take a high level programming language like C++ or Java and convert it into an assembly language. Then i can covert the assembly language into binary and/or hexadecimal, something that the hardware directly understands. For example, take the following C++ statement that adds the value of variables b and c and stores the result into variable a:

a = b + c;

In assembly, that statement would look like this:

add $s1, $s2, $s3

Where $s2 and $s3 are register (memory) locations for variables b and c and $s1 is the location of variable a. Then the assembly language is converted into binary:

000000 10010 10011 10001 00000 100000

Which is directly understood by the processor and motherboard inside your computer.

Well, I find it interesting.

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