Captain's Log Supplemental

Got to bed fairly early, it was only 04:30Q when I logged off; not sure when I fell asleep but at least the sun wasn’t up yet.

Got up for work, and was annoyed that my shoes hadn’t dried out yet! My old “Utilishoes” are to tight period, let along for working in; and my mains have a very short outsole, so the inside got pretty drenched yesterday at work lol. Tried cramming my foot into the shoe with socks on, that went over like hitting a lead wall… So no real choice except to put up wit hit. Yeah, battered foot and wet shoe, not a good mix.

Really what I would like is a good pair of jungle boots. There are three things every soldier deserves for equipment: a good pair boots, a decent weapon, and canteens that don’t leak on the quick march. What better way for a civilian to find a decent set of boots? One reason why jungle boots interest me, by definition they more or less need a good balance between the heat and the soak lol. With so much need for desert boots over seas now’re days, who knows, maybe surplus stores might even be in surplus of jungles… haha. They certainly can’t be any worse then the kinds of shoes I’ve had to deal with over the past 20 years :-/

I was up to around 07:00Q, miserable when you’ve got to be up by 10:00Q :-/ Every night, it’s getting worse… having trouble thinking clearly at night lately in so far as coding goes. Always tossing and turning with thoughts between my ears that have to wait, driving me nuts! To bad life is not like a cartoon, where you can just whack yourself in the head with something big and heavy, and take a nice nap xD.

Work today was probably best described, as “Dead’er then the horse I rode in on”. With how much the toe was trobbing, instead of pacing during my busy…wait portion of things, I sat down… bad idea. Nearly ended up snoring, and when it was time to get up, my foot was so numbed (and sound asleep lol) that I nearly fell flat on my face… getting down 4 flights of stairs was not fun.

I was actually kind of happy though, it was raining. Plus it started getting worse when I had to be outside lollololol. I am kind of a strange person, I like being out in the rain for the most part: everyone I know, just loath’s it. Eventually it got bad enough that I conceeded to using an umbrella, instead of walking around in a T-shirt: horizontal wind and rain is a good time for an umbrella. Really, if I had the proper kit and footware for it, I wouldn’t mind walking in the rain, yeah… mad as a hatter.

Managed to get home and *eventually* tend to my foot. Ma’s shouting at Coco, reminds me of why I don’t take things out on other people… (I prefer to avoid such things, unless its in regard to someone directly causing the problems lol.) To top it all off, Willow ran over my bad toe, going about 15-20mph, sigh.

Today’s work on the servers, also makes me seriously thing that Windows NT is ridicules in a network centric capacity…

Wow…. I politely ask the dog if I should have a spot on my own bed, and Willow looks at me, as if such a thing was a crime!

This calls for going “BEEP”, until she moves lol.

I’ve been thinking of writing an article on some of my tactical experiences for whatever value they may offer, and as such the obvious question would arise: what to write it in?

Anyone who says Microsoft Word or some variant of that light, you can go stand in the corner right now 😛

Most of my documents lately have been done in POD, since I’ve only been writing Plain Old software Documentation over the past couple months. Normally for regular documents, I just use LaTeX. I have also been contemplating learning more about the more ‘black magic where few people care to thread’ parts of LaTeX, really I’d like to dig up a few books on it as well, but hey, whose got that kind of cash? (I wonder if the local library has anything on mathematics worth a fart: typesetting in LaTeX with or without an air on the math side is not there either.) But I also have a soft spot for troff / nroff: I rarely use it, even for manual pages if it can be avoided. Yet I really like troff, even raw troff. It would be a perfect excuse to study the ms macro package and possibly even take the time to learn how to use pic!

The question I posed to myself, was how would I go about handling references in troff? I know it is possible, just couldn’t remember how: so googled for

bibliography system for troff

. That lead me to a paper named ‘Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System.’, written by M. E. Lesk. So far that seems to be quite simple and would get the job done fairly easy.

The only thing I am used to, is working with Bibtex. So the whole refer thing is not too alien to me.

If it wasn’t for technology like TeX/LaTeX, troff/nroff, POD, ReST, Texinfo, or various Docbook/SGML/XML type stuff — I would likely use plain text and [ab]use the C Pre Processor from my C compiler in order to implement simple textual macros xD. There is no ‘perfect’ system in my eyes but POD is my favorite… (Hmm, I really should look at MOD someday!)

Yeah, obviously I am not a fan of word processors: despite having used them heavily for years.

I’ve spent the last half hour or so, trying to keep a straight face lol. Friend tried to pull a prank on me, and I was trying to stall to compute the implications of pranking back, or just exacting a revenge… in various ways. He’s so lucky I don’t have a cruel nature. And if you are reading this, the thoughts I mentioned were only part of the possible retaliations that came to mind 😛

When you can look at something serious, and find about an 8-15% chance they’re not trying to pull your leg, you know it is tempting… to not have a lot of sick fun with it at the pranksters expense. Some how, I think either I know some crazy people, or I’m just to kind hearted lol.

Oy my rhythm is totally screwed up….. maybe now that I’ve got some time off work, maybe things can be rotated back into place, before I finally do pass out from lack of sleep.