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Finally…. I got some sleep.

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Skipped the computer totally, set the TV to something good (Aliens hehe), and succeeded in mission plan…. be snoring before 0100R. Woke up around 0900, then went back to bed until 1300 since it was a day off work hahahaha.

Now I feel like running a marathon…

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Sleep, rest, peace… do I even know the meaning of these words anymore?

falling down tired

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2009-02-10 T07:17:20 UTC

Oh man, so freaking tired. I think I fell asleep like ten minutes into the presidents talk, woke up sometime later and drifted off to bed. Was to tired to get on the computer, was nothing on TV; so I put on my favorite western, El Dorado. Been drifting in and out of consciousness, seeing most of the movie and dreaming of hacking on old computers the rest of the time (lol). Finally got up about half way into the movie.

I’m still to dang tired to do much of anything, just writing this off battery power atm. I’d really like to work through some of my readinf, but I’m to fscking tired to retain it. Been to exhausted most of the day to focus on anything more complex then regular expressions, and even then to far gone to get that right (oy). After El Dorado is over, I ought to go to sleep, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go to sleep after all this dozing.

Really, what would be good, is to curl up with a nice novel… only problem, I’ve read most of my collection of fiction, 2 or 3 times each; my memory is also pretty good. I think I’ll see if there is any milk and cereal left, havce a quick gnosh and try and lay down. I’m really happy that I don’t have to be at work tomorrow, until about 1200 – but likewise wish I could just sleep. I really need a good nights sleep, but I never seem to get it.

I’m so darn tired.

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Been a long night

Whilist updating my laptops software, I finally finished and found a number of irksome errors about gdkpixbuf and loading XPMs. Couldn’t turn up any useful information, so I asked around in #gnome; ended up recompiling gtk20 against the installed libraries. All in all, portupgrade is nice FWIW, but really it’s not one of my favorites. I usually get my best results doing things by hand, maybe I should give portmaster a go. Since I also had to recompile Pidgin to fix it, I decided on a whim to try compiling GFire (which I have not tried in a _long_ time). Much to my surprise and enjoyment, it went well — now I can connect to XFire off my laptop. Much nicer then redirecting people to use my other IM-details, lol. Also started work on a FreeBSD port for it, mostly just an issue of figuring out the PLIST files and testing out the port files.

Compiling things from source is the only assurable way of getting good results when updating software, a lot of people (that wouldn’t know a library from a linker) don’t get it; for the rest of us, it’s called think before you smash. With my modest hardware, I usually use pre-compiled binary packages whenever possible, but they are not always suitable. One of the things I like about source-based Operating Systems — you can actually fix shit when it blows up.

Oh crap, GDM, GKrellm, GVim, Emacs, and Pidgin are not working well after upgrade. Recompile the offending thing(s) that popped their cork…. and it magically works perfectly >_>. No horrors, no fighting, just flick the switch and take nap lol.

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Hooah, reorganizing ${HOME} on Dixie is almost done… so I can spend time backing it up later, lol. (I like to do a full backup of my home directory every 6~12 months.). I shifted through most of ~/code last night, ~/Pictures a few weeks ago, and ~/Documents tonight. (~/Music and ~/Videos are just a lost cause, lol). I’ve also been tucking various (on going) projects into ~/Projects/file_or_dir, which used to be in ~/file_or_dir or ~/code/Language/{src,lib,modules,doc,makefiles}/file_or_dir. Eventually though, I’ll have to shuffle through the cruft in ~/misc but it’s almost empty now.

One nice thing, when I’ve a document or site to read that is to big for one sitting, I usually create a .lastpage or .progress file somewhere, named after the doc file or a .lnk file with a URL / notes. With this reorganization stuff, I’ve been transitioning to an index file per (appropriate) directory, lastpage.idx. Which is actually a lot more handy, since I can more readily query the information with other unix programs (cut, grep, awk, perl, et. al.). Then again, I also need to consolidate my ~/notes, ~/stuff/open-loops, and I don’t even want to think about organizing my home directory on Vectra…

Finally managed to git rid of an ever worsting beard last night, a change for the better… I was starting to look a little to much like a relic from the Civil War, only I don’t happen to own a gray coat nor a blue one either for that matter ^_^. Although most of those around me, think that I look good with a mustache and goatee, I think I look like an asshole; whether it’s a mustache, goatee, or full beard lol. Whenever I dream, I usually am beardless, maybe my minds self-image has more time to spend with a razor blade then I actually get in the real world :o. Now I just need to work a haircut into my grossly overcrowded schedule :. With the amount of time that I *actually get to myself*, I almost never take the time to shave, unless it becomes necessary, or I can’t stand looking at it every morning! Yet, I really hate it when I get to the point of walking around in a beard…

With some luck, I can get a little pleasure this weekend: catching up on my ever expanding reading list, and throw in a bit of coding on my current projects for good measure… hehe. I know what I really need, but I also know the probability involved, is on par with winning the lottery without a ticket. That is about how much rest I’m allowed around here…. even the dog [usually] gets better treatment then I in this family :.

What I really _need_, is a /long vacation/ from nearly-everything, to everything in my life right now. Leave everything behind, take a term of R&R without anyone along to badger me, and chuck the computer out the window while I’m at it (although knowing me, I’d jump after it — most of my data is in there until the next backup lol). *Sigh*, a man can dream.

Speaking of dreams, I think I would have to search my live journal to even recall when the last time I had a decent nights sleep was, lol. Hmm, think it’s a quarter to 0600R, best grab a quick gnosh and see about gettin’ some shut eye before the sun come sup. For better or worse, being up until 3,4,5,6, or even 7 o’clock in the morning is not uncommon for me, and I’ve largely been going to bed *much* later then 0200 for over a decade… but hey, at least when I’m not working, instead of rolling out of bed for the first piss of the dat, at 0915 – I can sleep in until 1130~1300 🙂

If anyone even lets me sleep…..

A stroke of luck?

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http://davidjohnmead.com/?p=85

Hmm, I don’t know if I’ve got a recent copy of flocks files on my laptop, but there is still last years system backup, so that might be a good thing. Should also be easy enough to write a quicky to convert the data to entries in my own kit.

Digging into the code — code monkey’s go go go !!!

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Well, since I’ve reached the point where I need to start organizing ${HOME} again (joy), and thoughts of ma.gnolia returning, shows no sign of vitality atm… I appear to have no other choice (that I’ll actually make :-P).

I am writing my own bookmarks system…

There was a project I was interested in awhile back (Nano probably knows what I mean), which required it; so that’s about 30% of the base design saved. The orignal project, called for itt o be part of a C++ program, but no time for fiddling (and I especially hate compiling under Win32); time to roll out Perl — and get it done. I’ve had it, time to code it lol. The original idea, was a pair of CLI & GUI wrappers around a library interface in C++, that provided plugable backends to sort out the real work; file system, database, ma.gnolia, mozilla bookmarks, etc. I guess ma.gnolia is out of the picture, and I never cared much for mozillas bookmarks format anyway ^_^. So that eases the initial work load quite a lot hehe.