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?

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 !!!

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.

just rotflmao kind of fun

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

Hmm, I think I’ve only ever typed ‘rm *’ or ‘rm -rf *’ in the wrong directory once in my life… but that was a project directory from ages ago, lol.

Cars been in the shop, for the 2nd time in as many weeks… and due back in on Monday for further kickin’ around. Oddly, Ma has little concern for how much bother she causes me, but feels guilty for borrowing money :. By her own count, sh ecurrently owes me about $155; I don’t keep close counts. There in, I suppose lies the difference; most of my family loves money, but couldn’t be arsed to save a penny, if it was raining gold. Me on the other hand, like my maternal grandfather, don’t really give a flying flub lol. Ca$h has it’s uses for barter, beyond that it’s as valuable as toliet paper in my book… Because, you can use money to get food, but money doesn’t taste as good as food — ok, I think with my stomach a lot xD.

Ma’s best friend had to pick us up, which is good I guess. Got to meet her new puppy Lakitia, and one of the cats taking a nap in my lap lol. At least, I’ve gotten a lot of reading done for the day, but no coding yet. I aslo had a bit of a pumch click into mind about a personal project I’ve been working on of late; figured out the basic structure last night. But, trying to think about the problme I found myself thinking, “I’ll be missing pointer arthimetic soon”, today it hit me; stop thinking like a regular expression engine for complex fun with strings, and remember perl has the best fscking regular expression engine ever made, built right in xD

Wouldn’t it be wonderfull… if I could actually get work done during the day, and not have to be some damn badgered that it takes hours to do what should be done in minutes? And I was hoping to be able to shave tonight, without losing nearly an hours worth of work :

WTF was I thinking? *SIGH* my mother enjoys driving me fucking nuts with pestering and patronizing me about getting up in the morning / staying up all night. BUT FOR FUCK SAKE!!!! She is the one incrementing my fucking work load by hours at a fucking time!!! I really wish there was a way, to make people see things “as they are”, without either having to break their neck or emotionally-cut them in the process, because I’m not fond of either method lol.

Joy, the slave gets called for more interuptions…. (Bitch)

Wouldn’t it be wonderfull… if I could actually get work done during the day, and not have to be some damn badgered that it takes hours to do what should be done in minutes? And I was hoping to be able to shave tonight, without losing nearly an hours worth of work :

WTF was I thinking? *SIGH* my mother enjoys driving me fucking nuts with pestering and patronizing me about getting up in the morning / staying up all night. BUT FOR FUCK SAKE!!!! She is the one incrementing my fucking work load by hours at a fucking time!!! I really wish there was a way, to make people see things “as they are”, without either having to break their neck or emotionally-cut them in the process, because I’m not fond of either method lol.

Joy, the slave gets called for more interuptions…. (Bitch)

Sometimes I wonder…. if there is actually a human being left alive, that knows their ass from a hole in the ground… when it comes to creating robust software.

Dogs take everything!

This morning, Ma woke me up laughing…. Willow had managed to steal my entire quilt, and rapped herself up in it: leaving me with just the top sheet lol. So I patted the dog on her head, and asked if I could have some of the covers <_<.

Willow looked at me, like I had corn cobs coming out of my ears! SO I stole the cover back, and went back to sleep chuckling >_>.

Mrs S. was right, if you want the best spot in the house, ya gotta move the dog!