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Oy… so sleepy, I can’t tell the difference between ssh and scp… At least, things are almost done, even if I have to go back to work tomorrow lol.

*head hits keyboard, begins to snore loudly, and dreams of lines of code dancing overhead*

Well, still absolutely nothing done…

Ended up with a heated discussion with a friend on IRC, about WINE. I’ve also come to the conclusion, that not learning Swing years ago was a good choice lol. If I ever made a regular practice of programming in Java, I’d probably make use of SWT, but for the task in question it had to be either AWT or Swing; I have a book with lots of AWT stuff somewhere, but after 12 years, I’m sure the API’s changed a bit haha. Spent the rest of my night in what would be best described as a “kinky” chat else wheres lol, but still… didn’t manage to get anything done!

The problem is, I can’t get nothing done during the day –> family
I can’t get nothing done until everyone is asleep –> family
And assuming I haven’t been run ragged,
passed out from lack of sleep, or
just to fscking tired to work –> family.

If my family would stop torturing me, maybe I could get crap done?

I really need to get out of here…..

After laughing myself silly over an XBox link a friend sent me, I’ve been surfing around consumerist.com. What a gold mine, and some good laughs too xD.

Added a few links to my ma.gnolia, now I just need to stop chuckling at some of the articles I read lol. The one about posting fliers outside the car dealer was a good one -> so much sweeter then normal resolution methods :-D. This reminds me, I really need to work on my whole regular resources / news feeds; Hmm…. [to be continued]

Dang it… almost 0830Z, and I need to be up early tomorrow!!! (Eh, today actually… lol). I think I’ve spent more time waiting on the freaking documentation @ java.sun.com to load, then writing code! It’s faster to just download the docs off cds-esd.sun.com at ~1MB/sec. Heck, it’s taking longer to unzip then it did to download lol -> that’s kinda sad.

Although, arguably if I had just used C++ for this, I could have been done by now and spend the remaining time on libraries. About 15minutes with Python, and the whole thing would be done, and no compile/linking to care about on Windows >_>. Well, at least there is still no need to pack binaries for each platform… that’s one plus.

But a huge negative, to have to finish the program tomorrow after work lol.

I was dreaming that I stuck my head out the door, and the sky was turning black as ink; bolted the door, and five minutes later: stuck my head out, and it was the proverbial sunny day out, only the screen door blew away and was lodged somewhere lol

Not to long after, I get woken up with the word “Tornado” in the air! So here I am, barrowing down the hallway in the dark, one eye open, looking for the dog, with warning sounds going off (radio/tv) and bells ringing in my spider sense -> wait, thunderstorm warning, tornado warning, flood watch, and it’s after 0800 local; ok, I’m going back to bed lol

By the time work-prep was to start, it was raining so hard, looked out the door, and couldn’t even see much of the other side of the complex :. Normally, it’s a clear view aside from a few obstructions. And Coco goes ballistic whenever it thunders, no convincing her to stay on the covers in a blanket. Main reason I’m on the laptop atm, want to get the battery chargedf back up, just in case. Guess I can finish that Perl script now…

Power went out at 0705Z, almost 0800 now; no sign of repair.

Only got about 45min left of battery power, so the rest of my perl script will
have to wait until tomorrow – man, I’m so glad I keep my laptop full of
programmer docs xD. Coco is scared, because she can’t see where she’s going
lol; Willow doesn’t care, there’s still food left in the dish 8=)

Now if I could just get Ma to not leave a flibin’ candle lit on her table…
Anything knocks that over, or the dog tries to put her noise on it, when Ma
get’s up… FFS, am I the only one in this family that actually _T_H_I_N_K_S_
before I do something?

Spidey01, 2008-12-10 T07:58:01 UTC

Hahaha, I power down, put the laptop away, take a leak, and lay down to get
some shuteye. Start to pray, and 2 minutes later, everything comes on lol.

Just in time to have to reset all the clocks, instead of sleep!

2008-12-10 T08:12:13 UTC

Something must’ve been jilting out of the trash bag, because after I hefted it into the dumpster, my hand was bleeding. Around where the thumb meets the palm, and just in a perfect slot to bleed more then such a small wound deserves. I finished my chores, with a bandaid and tape on my finger; bandaid to curtail blood flow, tape to keep the bandaid from falling off lol.

At least it should be ready to come off in a few. When willow saw it, she had to come over and sniff my hand, “Yeah willow, I hurt my hand, you don’t have to lick it, thanks”

lol

devise better methods of organizing data
properly triage my todos (oy)
cook up a few shake & bake scripts to round it out
Stick to getting crap done, on time (or punch out peoples teeth, trying? <_<)

Oh man, some days I love using a Unix like OS >_>

When it takes 3 hours to typeset a memo, you know you either have one huge memo, or have been sent Away-From-Keyboard A LOT.

The highlights of the day >_>

Driving my mother nuts:

Demanding proof by math, that if I do something consistently the same way every week, and you consistently complain about how it comes out; prove that doing it in the first place, is not a waste of my time.

Mother: Check the tub in the guests bedroom
Me: I never saw a bedroom with a tub in the middle of it.
Mother: You know what I mean.
Me: Yeah, but I also understand English.

-> that really pissed her off lol.

Probable revenge? I’ll probably get to spend my Saturday lugging boxes of Christmas decorations around.

Other topics:

I eventually managed to get some lunch today… I dunno why, but I haven’t been eating frequently lately; where frequently is my usual 2 meals a day, and occasional snack. So hungry, I counted the (18) hours, since my last meal lol. Managed to escape for a bit… food, film, and fun.

That left me, sufficiently exhausted, but much more relaxed… Hit the web, then SWAT; joined Medic & Ambu for some rounds, then back to surfing. Lately, I’ve been in-haling more and more of L^aT_eX documentation. I have a project coming up in the near future, that’ll be requiring it, so (y).

I’ve been trying to re-valuate various modules of my usual operating environment, but it seems that like Vi, T_eX is just to hard to displace :. It’s just proven to be the best fit, although it lacks troff’s terseness :-(. The evaluations of course: nroff/troff+macro packages, Texinfo, L^aT_eX, DocBook, and of course HTML/CSS

Needless to say, I do not use word processors for writing documents, and avoid using them like the plague.

Just spent a fair amount of time, downloading TexLive 2008 on Vectra; kicking myself in the process, for not putting my .screenrc under CVS! My systems have TexLive 2007 installed, but despite ~3 months passing, I never got around to fetching 2008 lol. I’ll need to get it setup on my machines sometime this weekend; and probably fetch a few packages off CTAN.

I do periodically review the software and technology I use, and for what purposes I use it. It really helps in maintaining my systems (and installing them ^_^), and just getting things done. I enjoy both efficiency and comfort, which is probably why my laptops also my most used work-station…. and contains all of the software systems I use for various tasks.

I wish that dang keyboard would arrive soon.