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Oh joy, now only did I get dragged out on a shopping expedition as soon as I got out of bed…. Now it’s probably that my brother will make sure I am dragged out, on a wasting time expeidition.

Why can’t people just let me _C_O_D_E_ and be

It seems to more time I spend around my family, or the more time I spend thinking about my /life/, the more miserable I get.

• I have 5 programs to complete, 1 in C, 1 in C++, 3 in Python, only 2 of which are mostly done. The one in C, unfortinely is a windows app…. And that’s a sentence worse then death in it’s own right.
• I have a ton of homework piled up, which at the moment on the _short term_ amounts to finishing one unit of a 2-year course.
• I have a library to finish testing, 2 modules to rewrite, and a mock up of a website to do.

I’ve had part of my Friday and Saturday wasted, and I will probably have part of my Sunday wasted, and I don’t even want to think about Monday! So of obviously nothing is going to get done before I go back to work on Tuesday. Anyway you slice it, I just keep getting fucked.

laid down around 2300Q, set the TV to th end of Multiplicity, since Gung Ho was going to start after it. I figured, lay down a bit and then get to work on stuff. Next thing I know, I’ve barely got one eye open and Gung Ho is almost over. Next thing I know, it’s over and the time is past 0139.

I need to get my todo list sorted, as to what I’m going to be doing this weekend. Gee, wouldn’t it rock if I didn’t have to plan 3 days in advance or something lol.

Woke up early, ~0730Q for a leak, so I was still fairly awake around 0900Q when things picked up…. A wonderful leaking pipe in the utility room, += fixed after 1100Q, == late for work and *too* late to bother with the days op. So yet another day off work, without wages.

On the up side, I managed to catch ALIENS on Cable. I’m off until Tuesday afternoon, so hopefully…. pardoning any more desasiteres, things can’t get much worse lol.

Oh man, I should shut my mouth while I still can lol.

Off work until Monday, and working until Friday… I really like the weeks when Monday falls on a date that I am not working >_>, but that’s only every other week :.

Plans for the weekend:

Work on Rouges project
Work on fixing that bug in XYZ
Play RvS and SWAT 4
Chat with a few friends, if I’m sane by then <_<
Catch up on my postings.

Interference to goals:

Trying to pass level 8 of tetris…. This is what I get for not playing enough tetris as a boy lol.
Having to write the daemon portion of my note taker
Battle for Wesnoth being in the middle of an interesting campaign, and trying to create one of my own.
Any number of personal projects and homework that never seems to be completed on time.

There are two things that I really need, but not likely to see in a long time… In the mean time, I guess there is working to death lol.

Just two more days of work left this week….

To spend my weekend, …

To be back in the grind come Monday.

*sigh*

todo:

write up OPORD (OPerations ORDer)

post that message I wrote last night in T&T with OPORD attached

annotate the 12PoC for ]SAS] ELs and post in T&T

test ‘side-step’ method for more portably dealing with CMS issues

think about ways of learning more assembly

1. waiting on my mother hand & foot
2. trying to chat with friends
3. walking two dogs
4. trying to port some code into my python library
5. trying to learn a dialect of lisp
6. tending to chores
7. hoping to eventually play swat
8. and wanting to finish that level of wesnoth from the other day

lol

— written using xfire, python, nvi, and chrome.

Hmm, a most unusual day…

I was invited into the meeting in #pcbsd-team today on freenode. Some interesting discussion, but still a bit boring; well, what can I say? I’m still tight lipped about my own operations ^_^. At least though, the developers are trying to improve things, but there are somethings I keep to myself for the time being. And hope they take care of the more serious things. The whole time I was busy with a SSH session to my laptop, working on code haha! But I did pay good attention while I was present. Somewhat of an odd feeling really, because I’ve generally kept a good distance from PC-BSD.

As to other business of the day, I’ve been working on my little ‘nag’ app. The basic premise of the program, is to take notes, keep them, and when necessary, shout at me about them. In the past, I’ve tried applications with sticky notes, which usually take control of my second monitor or a spare virtual desktop. I’ve also tried PIM software, but I find I always end up spending more time in programming the useless thing around my schedule or arguing over portability issues :. The only problem I have with it, is the choice of either file-system, sqlite, or xml based storage for notes and metadata. The SQLite way would be the fastest for me to write code for; but somewhat a sidestep around my love for accessing data through textual interfaces.

Something like:

~/.nag/
      notes/
            1/
              title
              text
              ...

would be the most fun to have to work with as a user of my own program, which I’d be using daily lol. Actually, it kind of reminds me of the Process File System, but procfs’es usually live in memory only. Standardizing myself around Python for most stuff, has really helped me get work done… Now if only my old friend Perl wouldn’t keep starring at me when ever I see the need to process text……..

I’ve also gotten the priority ‘go code’ on one of my projects in [SAS], at least with this… It’s far enough displaced from the old-sludge I have to maintain, that I can actually define it’s behavior correctly, and do it in a sane way the first time around. And make sure that this project, will result in something that *will* stand some test of time, without pissing off the next coder!

Now if I could do something about camping out [SAS] Proving Grounds #3 and playing Battle For Wesnoth every chance I get >_>. But hey, I’ve was stuck in front of a code editor for almost a 4 days straight!!!! Then I had to go back to work 🙁 🙁 :-(, so a lit’ game time ain’t that bad a change of pace hehe.

dreadfully bored, and equally miserable… even as my projects snap into place.

Surfing the web, but nothing else to do: but watch the passing of the time on the clock. Also been thumbing though ~/Documents, I’ve quite a lot of things stored thre, both of my own and vaious things I’ve collected in my travels.

To tired to find something to work on, to awake to sleep, to much more to go, to just do nothing….