An orange in an apple orchard
Ah, I’m in a rather happy mood. I got to spend some time playing SWAT 4 and my laptops updates are finally done. Dinner was a mess of beans with ham fresh from the crock pot, and bread out the oven; can’t ask for more? To top it all off, You Can’t Take It With You was on tonight, which is one of my very favourite films.
Plus, I should be getting some code time tonight 😀
I need to begin planning things for the coming weekend, so far the highlights:
helping with some of the routine work on the website, that’s been waiting for a weekend off lol.
Study several web frame works, as an issue of both business and pleasure.
Begin a deeper evaluation of CMake; which would likely make life easier.
and most importantly…. play lots of RvS and S4 !
http://clubjuggler.livejournal.com/138364.html
Ironic that the best introduction to CMake is a LiveJournal entry, hehehehe!
When we got home from work, Willow cried when I said “No” to the idea of going out for a walk, and has been sitting at my feet ever since…. I finally got up and she chased me down. Just write sucker across my face, I had to take her for a walk :-/.
*sigh*
It’s been about 4 hours since I went to bed, I’m really not sure how long I slept for, was tossing and turning quite a lot. Sun doesn’t seem to be up yet, but soon. Can’t fully remember what I was dreaming, but I would say “Turbulent” would likely apply.
No idea how I’m going to get back to sleep again, before it’s time to wake up for work… and I usually get woken up a few times before hand on Wednesdays!
As soon as CLN finishes compiling, I’m off to bed. Tomorrows work (oi), and I need to start planning my schedule for what things I need to work on over the weekend…
For some reason, no matter what I feel like, I am virtually working all the time… lol.
I’m tired, very tired. There’s an Italian word that I would use to describe how I feel, but I don’t know how its spelled, and expressing it in English is a little bit tricky. The concept though, extreme exhaustion. Being woken out of a sound sleep didn’t help things very much either!
Spent some of the day playing SWAT 4, but not really in a stable frame of mind.
Ahh crud, “Urgo” in Stargate SG-1 has me creaving pecan pie…. lol. Unfortunantely the only available thing is butter pecan ice cream, alas it’ll have to hit the spot.
Also have been working on updating my laptop, the funky issues with some ports configure scripts failing to locate libltdl were resolved by installing guile and libgphoto2 from packages. Ha, this episode is cracking me up. C++ bindings to the usual GNU libraries are compiling atm. Normally I try to update things every month or so, but lately I haven’t been using my laptop much, so obviously I ain’t been able to update anything.
Used some of the compile time, to play RvS eariler. I expected that I would be pretty rusty, since I haven’t played RvS in maybe 3 or 4 months, if not longer. Yet it seems that all the SWAT 4 action has gotten me even more effective at RvS, hehehe. Maybe I might pop in more often over the coming weeks? Hmm, tempting!
Why am I feeling scatterbrained?
I’m just totally wiped out right now. I’ve been going since Friday with few breaks beyond food/chores, and now it’s Tuesday!
The more I try to figure out how to get free of this place, the more spanners people throw in the works. Virtually all calculations with Operation Redeemer are looking at +1 year, with the potentiality to get much worse, courtesy of family.
I’ve done just about everything to get the operating environment I want, short of resigning from the few games I still play – life would rock if I could setup Xen and have full 3D hardware access in a Win32 guest lol. The more time I spend with Windows, the more and more need I feel surrounded by bogus software. On unix machines, I’ve never had such want for _decent_ software!
I’ve also spent most of the day/night working on a small project, which reminds me of why I utterly hate Content Management Systems—they usually get in my way. If it wasn’t for the CMS specific issues chopping up, I’d probably be done by now. Debugging further isn’t something i have strength for right now, it’s been 5 languages and 8 to 10 hours of work today. Most of it’s also been spent editing via a slow SSH session, using a mixture of vi and vim.
With how many years it’s been since I’ve had a decent vacation, I’m starting to wonder what the last time was that I had *any vacation at all*
It’s getting to be that time, that time frame where I know I need to be getting to sleep… yet, I don’t feel like sleeping. I’m also to tired to do much of anything else :-/. I don’t have to be up early for work tomorrow, unlike today’ish; but I instead have to work most of the day!
What I really need is a vacation. Time away from it all, with not a care in the world…. but then again, I would probably still be miserable lol.
I’m so sick of watching time pass by.
After more then 8 billion bytes of compressed data has been transfered, I now have *all* of my personal files under one hard disk; and am hoping it doesn’t HCF before I’m done with this lol.
Depressingly, this and a few things in my room, really is the sum of my existence here, isn’t it? *sigh* maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Everything is archived in the cold storage partition, once it is copied over to an NTFS partition (as FAT32 is havoc on unix file permissions), I’ll begin sorting, colating, and cleansing data. Very annoyingly hulu.com is not functioning correctly at the moment, so I’ve a bit of a battle for something to watch as well!
Once I’ve got all the data setup, it’ll be time to setup information distribution between each box… that’s gonna be tomorrow I am sure, considering the time of night.
I’m feeling one of those moods best marked as, “some people train cockroaches, I write things” in nature.
I think if I don’t find something to do right now, pretty soon I’m going to go stircrazy1. I’m really not in the mood for games, I know it too well… I reckon the best thing atm is continue to kick my operating environment into a higher order of work flow.
Lately a lot of things have been passing through my mind, until the marbles resemble scrambled eggs better then brain cells; and as much as I enjoy thinking, sometimes one can overthink. I’m all thunk out at this point, I can’t take anymore. As such, I really need something to focus on right now…. which is problematic with being driven crackers in this place at every twist and turn :-/.
Since I’ve been spending a lot more time on my desktop lately then my laptop (I miss the late nights with my darling Dixie :'(, but SAL1600 compiles faster). This again puts me in the old boat – sharing data between systems; as well as having to deal with shuffling between tools. After 3 weeks of using Windows XP for development tasks, I’ve learned a few new curse words and how to use the childish cmd.exe for automata needs.
Basically the problem at hand is thus:
The biggest problem of them all, is Windows XPs user interface really kicks a huge freaking battle-ship sized hole in my ideal work flow…. lol. Alas, at least I can always build up tools as I go. GOD bless Perl, Python, and the rest ;). In the end, I hope to likely be using rxvt/rxvt+tpsh or console2+tpsh for my main user environment; rather then console2+cmd.exe and rxvt+screen+zsh.
1 In reading further on this issue, I can’t help but wonder if the way life has been, has influenced why I so often take pleasure in being out in rainy weather lol.