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Web Log for February, 2003
Feb 3 - Monday ~ Feb 5 - Wednesday
Feb 9 - Sunday ~ Feb 11 - Tuesday ~ Feb 12 - Wednesday
Feb 16 - Sunday ~ Feb 17 - Monday ~ Feb 18 - Tuesday ~ Feb 19 - Wednesday ~ Feb 20 - Thursday ~ Feb 21 - Friday
Feb 24 - Monday
Monday, February 24, 2003
I'm sick. I woke up at about 5am this morning and hurt all over. You know how it feels when you have a fever -- your skin hurts, you're cold and hot at the same time. I couldn't hold still, but it hurt to move. I finally got up and took my temperature at 6:30. Sure enough: 99.1. Advil has helped a little, but I still feel like crud. *sigh*
On top of feeling rotten, I'm also excessively cranky. It's probably just as well that I live by myself, cuz I'd probably drive someone else nuts at this point. Oh well.
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Friday, February 21, 2003
So....tired....Must....sleep....
Last night's maintenance went until midnight, and I couldn't get to sleep until 2. Then they sent me an alert on my Nextel at 7 to complain about a DNS problem... *sigh*
On an unrelated note, it looks like Decipher has put out (or is about to put out) the next expansion for the LOTR TCG. "Battle for Helm's Deep". Time to expand the collection horizons...
To jump off on another tangent, I get to baby-sit tomorrow again. Yes, that means more pictures... I also had to let Tom take pictures of me for the Unix Team picture page, because they decided we should post it internally. [grr] Fortunately, he took the picture with my camera, so I get to choose which one (if any) gets posted...
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Thursday, February 20, 2003
Two whole days of a working ISP! Who would have thought??
I spent four hours (straight) in meetings today, so I'm a little bit brain-dead. I didn't really do anything at work. In fact, 2 of the 4 hours of meetings I spent poking the bubbles that formed on the bottom of my cup of Sprite. By the end of that meeting, it was pretty flat. Of course, I like flat pop. so that's not a bad thing. Unfortunately, it also had a little bit of mayonaise in it, so it didn't taste the best at that point...
On the brighter side, though, our Fujitsu support people are actually willing to help us figure out how to make a bootable Solaris 2.6 CD, which is a lot more than the Sun people would even think about, so I might actually get somewhere on that issue!
Anyhow, Matt, Art and Jeremy are coming over to play D&D tonight, so I should probably start thinking about how I intend to handle them. I'm thinking I'm going to avoid combat this game, unless they really stick their collective foot in it. I think I'm going to send them on a Final Fantasy side quest -- off to meet Cid and find an airship or something. We'll see.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Boo-yah! I have Internet access again! As a matter of fact, I hear that my apartment complex may be getting cable internet access in the near future. Yee-ha!
Other than FINALLY getting the computer issues squared away, the day has been pretty uneventful. Tim turned 40, which is always exciting, I guess. I spent a lot of time helping Tom fix our monitoring tool (Big Brother, to be exact), working with DBA's to set up access for my Perl scripts, and just generally being a nuisance.
I get to baby-sit again this weekend! Amy's got to work for a while on Saturday, and Rich is going to be out of town, so, by this time next week, I'll have another dozen pictures posted. Those poor kids aren't going to recognize me without a camera pretty soon...
I still haven't been getting much sleep, but I'm not feeling too horrible as a result. I just haven't been very active lately. It's all the snow and cold, I think. But I did get a lot of picture pages done last night, so all this sitting around isn't an entire waste.
Well, time to set up yet another e-mail address to go with my new Internet Service Provider. *sigh* I hope there aren't too many places I need to change it...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Well, so far this evening, I've spent nearly and hour on the phone with my ISP, trying to get my dial-up connection working. At least the guys I reached this evening are a lot nicer than the guy I got this morning. Of course, that would make more of a difference if they were actually succeeding in getting my connection fixed...
I spent most of the day Perl-coding again. I'm finally getting my tables pushed through Dev, Test, SIT and into production. That means my work is finally going to be meaningful, or something. It also (unfortunately) means that I owe a DA and a couple DBAs a favor, which is notoriously bad.
I finished The Pilgrim's Regress yesterday. Quite an odd book. Lots of good stuff in it, but just bizarre. After that, I started reading The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams for light reading. That was a bad idea. Douglas Adams isn't necessarily deep, but neither is he light. He has this tendancy to try to tie the brains of his readers into knots. Anyhow, the moral of the story is that I don't own anything that's "light" reading.
Well, after over and hour of fighting with this thing, I still can't get connected. *sigh* They're saying I should bring it in for them to look at tomorrow, but I'm very paranoid about letting people other than me fuss with my computer. It's kind of like letting someone clean your bedroom for you. Well, more specifically, it's like being single, living alone and having someone come and clean your bedroom for you.
OOOooo, I just got a different error message. Not that it would make a difference, I don't think.
On a thoroughly unrelated note, the high-point of my day was that I discovered my "Bacon Number". It's 3. A girl (Kate Reindeers) who went to Junior High with me (and also was a member of my church for a while) had a part in While You Were Sleeping, which has someone in it that was also in a movie with Kevin Bacon. This makes Kate's Bacon Number 2, and mine 3. And, thereby, all my friends are 4's. Don't you feel special! :)
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Monday, February 17, 2003
Too tired to be awake ... Too tired to sleep ... ISP is being flaky, so I can't dial up. *sigh*
Wrote Perl code for 6 hours today. Came home and read and stared at the ceiling for a while. I feel like doing stuff, and I feel like sleeping, but I can't do either.
I'm thirsty.
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Sunday, February 16, 2003
What a weekend. I can't really explain it. I've got 3 chronic illnesses and stress up the wazoo at work, but I feel pretty good right now. If things deteriorate, I don't think I'll really care much. It's an oddly-disconnected-yet-thoroughly-present-not-worrying-though-somewhat-concerned sort of feeling. That doesn't really capture it, though...
I started writing a story over the weekend. I'm about 9 pages into it, and I don't think it's even half-way done. I'll post it, if I ever manage to finish it. In the meanwhile, I'm also reading The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis. It's somewhat disturbing in places, but it's got some real good stuff in it. I've got to get cracking on my book-reviews before I forget all about the dozen books I've read in the past 2 weeks for it. *sigh* So much content, so little time.
On an unrelated note, I watched Daredevil over the weekend. It was okay -- lots of action, lots of funny stuff, and Jennifer Garner gets to kick butt -- but it was pretty dark and depressing, too. But it got me to thinking: what would I do with my life if I got struck blind? I'd probably go back to school for a psychology (or social work) degree and get into counceling or something. I doubt there'd be much computer-related stuff I could do, other than being a guinea pig for verbal/audio AI and the like. Of course, I'd be more than happy to volunteer for that kind of job... But, then, that'd be something interesting to me even with my sight.
All in all, though, I like being able to see.
Mom and I baby-sat the twins again this evening. Trenton is walking a lot now (he isn't even 10 months yet!), and they're both bigger and more adorable than ever. I can't believe that a couple of little kids can make me melt. I never would have believed it a few years ago. Oh well. Times change; people change.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Still code buzzing, although I managed to find something else to do today, too. I'm trying to make a Solaris 2.6 bootable CD. I'm using a regular (server-version) CD, dd-ing or cpio-ing everything to my desktop harddrive ("Legolas"), editing slice 1, mkisofs-ing slice 1, and cat-ing everything into an image. Unfortunately, my first two attempts turned into coasters. I'll have to keep trying.
On a related note, I'm in a foul mood.
Adding to this foul mood is the fact that the VERY BAD site "posternow.com" STILL has not gotten my shipment to me (it's been over a month since I ordered, and almost a month since I paid!). I'm very close to writing some very nasty e-mails to someone.
In contrast, I placed an order with Decipher yesterday, and it's already been shipped! Go them!
Hmmmm... What else to ramble about... Nothing's hitting me as exciting enough to talk about, so I guess I'll just end here.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Two straight days of living off code buzz. I can't see straight anymore. Perl is great, but it really numbs the brain after 3 or 4 hours of non-stop creativity.
Things have just been bizarre lately. It seems like everything is changing, but no one would be able to tell without being inside my head. Inside, everything is different. And I can't even describe it. It's like ... I don't know things are too noisy one second and the next second there's dead silence and nothing on my mind at all. I'm not depressed, I don't think. Just ... quiet.
I've started reading through the Bible. I might post a page with things that stick out as I'm reading; sort of a journal, to keep myself moving.
Meanwhile, I'm having an IBS moment, so I guess I will post again tomorrow...
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Sunday, February 9, 2003
She has the same eyes: wet with pools of liquid heaven, and bright, bright blue. Her words are the same, too: full of hope even through pain and despair. It is joy to find him so unexpectedly. Painful joy, but joy nonetheless. He is not gone; he is not even dead. And I have hope...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Finally, work is starting to settle down. I got myself into some MAJOR code buzz today. I found that I get into the same mental state when I write Perl code as I do when I'm writing stories. It almost puts me to sleep. Maybe I'll have to do that when I'm trying to get to sleep.
I ran to the mall this evening and got a Yoga video. I went through both sessions on it, just to see what they were like. Some of the moves take a lot more strength than I thought they would! But it's a little easier learning it when someone is talking you through it than when you're trying to read it off a piece of paper while trying to tie your body in knots. I'm going to have to try to do this as many times a week as possible -- if I learn some of the moves well enough, I can do them over the weekends without the video. *kid in candy shop*
Anyway, I'm running my game again tomorrow. It's been WAAAAAY too long since I've updated the game site. I should at least write outlines before I forget what everyone did.
I'm so glad it's already Wednesday...
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Monday, February 3, 2003
The weekend was too short. I couldn't sleep Friday because I knew I had to get up and do maintenance in the night. Then I went to a morning appointment with Deb on Saturday. Then I went home and crashed for most of the afternoon and evening. I went to the "late" service on Sunday morning (I took pictures to e-mail to Pastor Andy, who's on sabatical for a few months), then had lunch with my Mom, then went to Amy's (got a couple pictures there, too, although those little guys move around too quickly to get many good pictures of them), then drove back to my apartment (it's about an hour drive). I don't really FEEL like I had a weekend. But, as Mom said this morning, the coming weekend is "only 5 days away now." I'm not sure if that's really comforting...
In other news, I've read The Great Divorce, Out of the Silent Planet, and half of Perelandra over the past week. I should be able to update the book review portion of my page in the near future. I'm having a hard time, though, because I want to put the best quotes on the pages, but I have a tendancy to find the whole book to be one big long "best quote". I guess it's okay to have that problem, though.
Anyhow, I also did some research on Yoga last night. My mom and I were talking about stress management, and it struck me that Yoga seemed a good way to stretch and relax. I found a really cool site that allows you to search for Yoga postures that relate to specific body parts or medical conditions (click the "Poses page" link in the
"Discover our Pose-Finder" section), and I downloaded a bunch of poses. They're harder than they look, but they feel really good! I tried Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Lord of the Fishes Pose), Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose), and Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose -- this one is difficult, but it's my favorite!). There's many more I'd like to try, but it's going to take me a while to get through them all. It also would be helpful to have a partner (or mirrors on all sides) to help me know if I'm doing it right. I might set up my camera to do a delayed picture to see how it comes out.
On a thoroughly unrelated note, Sun UE4500 servers have slow CD-ROMs...
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