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Tired ….

Been working on a program for [SAS], was rather hoping to get it finished tonight but, time after work != cooperative. It’s only 0457 Zulu but my brains fragged, can’t concentrate on the code anymore.

Hopefully tomorrow, I can get it finished, it shouldn’t be that hard should it?

I only…

Need to finish testing the parser

Write the network interface

Write the display code.

or something like that. With luck, I’ll be off work so I’ll get to sleep in hopefully. I’m used to nodding off around local 0200-0700 and getting up around local 0930-0945 to get dressed (quickly!) for work. So, I like it when I have a chance to sleep a bit more lol.

Today was fairly good at work but it’s still one of two most strainous jobs of my week. And my family sure as fuck doesn’t help, hmm… Maybe if there was anyone in this rats nest that actually understood a lick of this, they might be less inclined to piss me off while I’m workin’ on something.

*sigh*

For much of the day, I’ve felt like shouting “If you don’t let me code today, I will go insane and I will take you with me!” but I know that would just be childish :.

A sledge hammer would work much more effectively ^_^

I’m bushed …

My sisters finally moved out, so most of the day was spent helping her. Although I did get ome break time with Dixie to work on a little Qt’coding. After the end of that, I got stuck helping ma re arrange stuff here (oy). Including having to take apart a bed, move a sewing machine, etc.

Had a couple rounds of SWAT4: TSS on PG#3 with Chester before dinner, and a good nap after that! Sitting here watching Tango & Cash,

Hmm, all in all quite a fun day.

Us guys went out, knocked over a Gandolfo’s Delicatessen for a couple nathan’s coney island dog (bad sadly without sauce :-(). I’m not exactly a big fan of hot dogs but when it involves Nathan’s famous dogs — I’m up for it >_>.

Three of us wandered around town for a couple hours before Uncle Pat and Aunt Ruth went off to Mass. Me and my brother sat outside, him smoking and I pacing while we talked lol. I wish he wouldn’t smoke but, better sugars then cigarettes I guess :. Afterward he played a bit of BF2 on my PC, he’s a good sniper but heck… Tactically and technique wise, I think if he ever took one of our tryouts in [SAS], he’d probably score below the no retake mark lol.

Once everyone got here, we went out to Red Lobster for diner. In my case, riding with my bro and listing to Nickelback on the way. To be honest, I think I am the _only_ one in this family that doesn’t blast music +S. It’s good music but, I kinda would like to avoid hearing damage >_>

Just like our mother, he blasts it loud as it will go… Me, if someone walks through the hallway I turn it down or mute it when I’ve got music going lol.

Just got home a couple of hours ago, my mothers GOD parents came down to celebrate my Birthday during their travels.

Another all you can eat night 😉

I probably shouldn’t have had a huge lunch, but I enjoy the food anyway lol.

Looks like tomorrow it will probably be me, my brother, and ma’s GOD father out bowling and then the entire family out for dinner later on. I can’t bowl worth a Russian modem but. Who knows, might be fun.

Since Ma hasn’t been included much in the plans as far a her original plans, she’s a bit pissy. I hate to say it about my seniors but I’d describe it as childish behavior :. Either way, tomorrow promises to be a full day…

I really need a vacation

Been very tired lately… Either workin’ a lot or idle as can be for not being able to get work done, pisses me off :

No one was hungry after this afternoons huge lunch, so there was no official supper. I ended up with a can of cream of mushroom and leftovers lol. Contrary to popular believe around here at times, I actually do know how to make condensed soup ^_^.

With the amount of flibin’ salt in those things, I think it would be worth while to do it by hand and skip the can :|, just more costly!

Two things I really need.. Doubt either of them are likely in the immediate future but work also has to get done…

Well, it’s more of a chewing gum solution then a perfect fix… But I think I’ve got a small app to deal with the TG#3 problem. As soon as it is deployed it’ll kick start her whenever she goes offline.

At least, assuming that it follows a single common assumption but the game server should. At least one of the development teams that worked on SWAT4/SWAT4:TSS seem to have had some background in C++ for better or worse.

I don’t expect any problems though, it’s not like it’s a Ubi product haha. Oh man, Raven Shield is some crazy shit. I don’t know if it’s just an Unreal 2.x thing, the people Ubi get to write this stuff, or the rushed development but that’s one game I’d say has “ghosts in the machine”. It’s like, you could install the same game, into identical systems, do the same exact things to them. And then watch both system develop their own unique quirks and anomalies.

It’s like, no two installs of RvS are the same (especially servers) even through it’s the same bloody program!

The little funkieness yesterday that we had with the Rvs servers, ain’t even supposed to be possible rofl. But like most Windows crap, restart it and it’ll fix most problems until the next thing pops up :

DOS drools, NT sucks, but UNIX rules forever,

A light bulb moment as I wake up:

create new tables within a private namespace

use old tables to populate them with data

use new tables in reworking the mighty page

when complete, port other scripts to new db tables

when that is done, delete old tables, rename new tables ubto the production name space.

And the have a root beer 😉

Been working on rewriting the mighty page… (ugh)

Personally, I think the entire website would be a hell of a lot faster if we reorganized the entire private database into some thing more consistent, stripped out some of the (abused) use of <table> tags, and moved more presentation issues into per-unit style sheets… But thanks to our original designer(s), whoever he/she/they may be coupled with my family, that would take months instead of hours to do without breaking everything.

Although I’ve always felt database normalization eventually just “goes to far” when done well, I’m beginning to think it is a pretty dang good idea just for the sake of flexibility.

The big problem is when you have code in use, that’s so old no body remembers who the heck wrote it, and whoever wrote it assumed they were the GOD of a database that would never change it’s structure in the slightest, less the entire thing need fixing in every sub system.

And I’m the one without the college education here? WTF.

Working on the mighty page is a bit prickly since, we’ve got disorganized data to suck in, organize into some thing we can actually use, iteratively display the data, and sadly I’m not interested in leaving code behind that’ll break if the next guy so much as sneezes at it loool.

Well, at lest all of the _big_ problems were fixed two weeks ago…

Trapped in hell

Another day, home from the long toils of the field

Only to be beaten down, pounded into dust

Yet another season gone, never to return

Spent all for the sake of my torment

At the pleasure of those who should care

That a tiny bit of me passes away into nothingness

Day by day, never to return.

Another day, wasted and trashed before me

Spent all on the monsters whims.

Never again to grace the sky,

That free spirit, flying so high.

Soaring on the airs of its discoveries

To face that same fate….

To be dragged, drowned, stomped into the ground

All for the tormentors pleasure — and my souls destruction.

It’s just another day in hell,

Trapped in that pit so deep, without an escape.

Watching my existence being ripped away,

Thrown into the flames, forever more

To burn in agony.

Oh why, oh why didn’t I flee this place while I had the chance.

Woot woot !!!

*does the happy crazy coder dance*

This thing freaking works !!!!

Oh man, this opens up sooooo many possibilities, xD

I wish I had time to take a picture of the ear to ear, shitting eatingest, tha Grinch style grin on my face >_>

Hooah !