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Month: December 2005

  • Probably best not to get too used to this.

    I should probably be thankful that my workdays aren’t always this quiet. Otherwise the powers that be might decide that they don’t need an on-staff computer geek. That’s not to say my day’s been totally dead, mind you. The morning was moderately entertaining, but this afternoon has been as quiet as it can get around here.

    I’ve taken the opportunity to crank out the third of this week’s Mai Otome recaps on the anime site, though, so it’s not like I haven’t put my time to good use. (Okay, I suppose one could argue that point, but I certainly feel good about accomplishing this little goal. I was way, way behind on recaps.) I also renewed this domain registration (and one other), which is inarguably a good idea!

    A certain special someone arrives tomorrow morning for a three day weekend, so basically I’m just waiting for today to end as quickly as possible. Take care, one and all.

  • Databases are annoying. Flatfiles are worse.

    I’ve spent most of the day dealing with out-and-out frustration. I’m experimenting with some website code for a project I have in mind, and while the bulk of the work turned out not to be too difficult (with some very good help), there’s one part of it that’s driving me bonkers.

    I’m trying to get a few hundred small text files turned into entries in an existing database. Nevermind why, just understand that this has turned out to be non-trivial for a non-programmer type such as myself.

    Ah well. You can’t win ‘em all, can you?

  • Only an idiot on days ending in ‘Y’…

    All discussions about plans for New Year’s Eve have taken place through a bizarre filter in my mind. It took every reference to “Saturday” and turned it into “Sunday,” because obviously it’s Sunday that we’ll all be staying up the whole night to party, watch balls drop and that sort of silliness.

    Right?

    Yeah. I figured it out when I got about two blocks from home tonight. Apparently I need to walk around more, ‘cause I do most of my best thinking on my feet. I’m not kidding, there. To those of you I’ve conversed with on this topic recently: Just take all of my idiotic blather about “Sunday” and translate it to “Saturday” and we’ll all be good, mmkay? Thanks.

  • Winter Cleaning

    This week, our hardy engineering-and-eye-tee staff is concentrating on cleaning up this dump place. I’ve moved a half dozen old rackmount chassis into the “go to Freegeek” pile. I’ve stored a couple boxes’ worth of connector cables (audio, USB, Firewire) into drawers. I even got rid of that broken-down old chair that’s been taking up valuable space in my server room since the first building expansion project. (Wow. Let’s not even think about how long ago that was.)

    Heck, there’s almost even some room in my office to move around a bit. Will wonders never cease?

    I’ll get some more cleaning done on Thursday… after my day off… Heh.

  • A day without shoes on.

    I gave myself a belated Christmas present today. I slept in ‘til about 10:30, I relaxed a lot, I rested, I goofed off, and I made a deliberate point of not leaving the house at any point. I figure if I get another good night’s sleep in, I may even be a tolerable human being tomorrow.

    Anything’s possible, right?

  • Dumb, But With Clean Laundry

    Well, I had to do something stupid, didn’t I?

    I started my laundry rather late, having filled my basket during daylight hours but spacing out on actually putting clothes into the wash until, oh, close to 10pm. I just hauled the clean, dry clothing out of the dryer and… noticed with considerable chagrin the number of fortune cookie slips in the lint trap.

    Yep. I washed my wallet. My license is slightly warped, now. My bus pass is almost completely shot to hell. (And how glad am I now that I didn’t buy January’s pass while I was passing by Safeway this morning!) The money? Oh, it’s designed to take a bath or two, so no worries there. I can only hope that my bank card wasn’t adversely affected, let alone my Social Security card. The wallet itself is a goner, though. Dammit. I liked that wallet. I’ve never washed one before, so why did I start now?

    Merry Christmas, everybody. May your holiday start out better than mine…

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