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So flib’n tired….

Ma is pissed off because the A/C isn’t running a lot, so she can’t sleep, for crying out loud how did she ever stand Florida for 30 years?

The less Ma sleeps, the less work _I_ get done, which is bad because that is more time she spends trying to piss me off. I think it’s fair to say at this point, the more time I spend around my family — the more misserable they make me… Productivity isn’t even possible around them.

I wish I knew some thing about electrical wiring and manipulating A/C units the ‘hard’ way, maybe if I did, I could try to hot wire the bloody thing into running for her or fry myself in the process: which would solve the problem too LOL.

Oh what joy it would be… To actually be able to have a /productive/ day and get some sleep at night too, sheesh… I can’t remember the last time I could get a decent nights sleep, maybe the early 1990s or late 1980s? For some one born in ’88 that sucks lol.

*Sighs* with luck I can at least have time to deal with my mail tonight, it would be kind of nice if I could get some work done tonight, as opposed to having to go to work in the morning, be driven batty, and kept from doing any thing worth doing until after dark… As f’ing usual in this rats nest, I always got stiffed on time to do things but dragged into hop’n, skip’n, and jump’n about to do every thing else but what I’ve got to get done.

Hmm, forced to get up early before work.

Interrupted while trying to get ‘work’ done before having to go to work

Shouted at it’s time to go once I finally get to sit down in peace >_>

What a way to start a work day, I love my family!!!

I’ve almost finished Learning Perl with about 10 pages left, honestly it makes me itch to find a copy of the Alpaca book just to find out more lol.

It’s rare that I read about any given language beyond it’s documentation or tutorials but I’ve rather enjoyed this O’Riley, it’s understandable why the company has a good reputation (y). I even noticed a module in the appendix that might be handy for implementing a program I’ve always wanted but have never found one before.

Perl is a very fun language to put to work, I don’t think I’d want to do any thing lengthy in Perl (~1000s of lines) but for getting stuff done it’s quite handy. It also comes with a ****load of documentation hehe, not to mention I like the POD (Plain Old Documentation) style for doing things.

It is kind of amazing, I posted a review of PC-BSD 1.2 and people occasionally still post comments on it lol. I think I’ll do some thing similiar when PC-BSD v2.0 is released, will be a good chance to take a look deeper into KDE4.

Hit over the Library today and checked out the Lama book (Learning Perl), I figure I’ve been using Perl for a lot of odds and ends lately. And I may as well inhale the book a bit since I’m usually finding myself skimming manual pages, perldoc’ing, and STFW’ing for any thing I don’t remember. Hmm, I think Perl was my second programming language but I never went to deep into it back then.

Also pulled a few on PHP, dunno if I’ll have time to read them and I *hate* PHP even through it is a language I’ve had to employ on more then one occasion. I was also lucky enough to find a copy of the Art Of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4. That will make for a bit of an interesting read. If I had the cash, I think I’d love to get all of the volumes that have been published. Considering that Donald Knuth is like 70 years old and the first volume was published ~1968, I don’t see how he can possibly live long enough to finish TAOCP when there are at least 2 or 3 more volumes left… but I’d love to read’em some day!

Never really been a big one for computer related books, I’m more of a Science Fiction kind of guy. But hey, I could live at the library xD.

Oy..

I’ve spent most of the week with an almost constent headache, barely been on the computer the past few days and even then mostly AFK. Managed to get some training in today and some work on the SOP rewrites as well but it’s still a very tiring week.

I’m looking forward to the time off coming up so I can catch up with stuff, about all I have gotten done this week so far is talking to Noer and Rasa lol.

Some how it makes perfect sense…

While every one is sound asleep, even the dogs…

I’m spending my time with the music blasting and digging into code on my laptop and being quite happy during the duration.

Until Ma is off the couch, then I’m already miserable 8=)

At least I’ve managed to finish most of the work I was trying to do on Neo Ports Manager. Just committed changes to how it handles port build options, I’m still not happy with it from a design stand point… But it should be suitable for being activated in NPMs Beta Release whenever that occurs.

Actually getting any thing else done in the next four or five hours is questionable.

note to self, send our new webcoder some instructions and concept mock-ups on the new ‘project’ I have in mind for the website hehehe.

I’ll never understand it…

If I try to do any thing while others are awake here it causes my productivity to shrink and headache to grow exponentially.

Is this some kind of universal law I’ve never heard of? Or is it just my family likes to bitch when I don’t get stuff done but loves to drive me freaking crazy whenever I *try* to get stuff done? Lol…

I so need to get out of here… Marching in the thunderstorm would probably be more peaceful :

Last night I logged off around 0430Q to go to sleep.

I sat on the bed to tell Willow there were two problems, one she was in my spot, sleeping right near the pillows. And Two she was sleeping under my pillow!

When I went to lift the pillow off her, I realized she wasn’t underneath it she was sleeping in my pillow !!!

I turned on the overhead and snapped a picture before taking back my new pillows lol. I should get a sign like one of our clients has, “If you want the best spot in the house, just move the dog”.

Willow needs to have that one haha

People still arguing over the ruddy pictures…I’m like the only non-fighting one in the Family… I wish I could just be free of this place.

What is it they said? Nero fiddled while Rome burned?

In the mean time I’ve been tinkering about, learning a little bit about XMMS skining by picking apart the skins I have installed. I’m not sure if XMMS skins are compatible with WinAmp but I know classic WinAmp skins are generally compatible with XMMS. So I could probably Google a winamp skinning guide if I wanted to but why bother, it’s fairly straight forward for XMMS afai can see. I don’t often use WinAmp on the WinMachine but XMMS I’ve been using on my laptop a lot along with MPlayer. Took a screen shot of the default xmms skin (which I love) and made a template for the main.bmp out of it. Been working on doing green text, gold keys (that go green when pushed), including an [SAS] Insignia, etc. Dunno if I will ever finish (or use) it but it is good to get my mind off things for awhile…

The internet connection has been total crud lately, every thing is working slow as a snail in the middle of a blizzard 8=). Download speeds varying between 20 and 150kb/sec, web pages are loading like it’s connected at 28.8K instead of the 3M we pay for. I love Bellsouth… wish they would go suck an egg, and choke on it.

I wonder if I’ll ever get out of here alive, wonder if I’ll ever find what I seek. There was once a narrow window for happiness but that is long since extinct. Who knows what the future will bring, doom or salvation… At least it might be an improvement.