Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Oooh. I want Joel’s office. I love the diagonal walls. I had a great time with my parents last night, watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The film was much more enjoyable than I expected it to be; it was a great reunion with the characters, and a darned good story. Emma Watson (Hermione) did a surpassingly excellent job, too; her emotion when explaining the term “Mudblood” was incredibly subtle. And Kenneth […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Dang. I’d really like to get ahead on this journal. My regular blogs are sparse on new text today, so I don’t have much to write about there. I have a few other things in the works, but haven’t had a chance to upload them yet. I’m doing surprisingly well, considering it’s a Tuesday. We had a relaxing Monday Group last night, just three of us talking about creative power. […]
Monday, September 22, 2003
Light, I’m tired. I need to start cordoning off my weekends. I was on my feet practically all weekend, and that’s just plain not healthy. It keeps me from decompressing after the work-week, so that I’m a zombie the next week. Like I am today. The first night of AWANA went well. It’s amazing how good I feel when in AWANA; I just know what I’m doing and can really lead and help […]
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Ahhh.. I spent a good hour this morning snapping photos in the crawling mist, and this is the result. Lovely. I finally regained my power at 5:00 a.m. this morning, after a day and a half without power. No fun.
Friday, September 19, 2003
Isabel has raged through, uprooting trees and spraying brush all over the roads in her fury. As I drove into work this morning, I noticed that a surprising amount of the area has power — about every other traffic light was working normally. Though it was odd to pass through one dead light, then through a working one, then through another dead one. And yes, I did go […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Brennen was kind enough to point out that I actually got something done. It made me think about getting things done. It’s amazing, really, how rarely I do get things done. I think about it. I imagine myself having done it. And if I let it sit there for long enough, the novelty wears off and then I never actually do it. So nobody else can […]
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
No, I haven’t completely forgotten this journal. I was sick yesterday, so didn’t have an opportunity to get to a net-connected computer and post anything. I re-watched Akira with a friend on Saturday. I’d forgotten how visually stunning that film is, even today. It’s a shame the story is, frnakly, so thin. The film doesn’t really go anywhere. A couple characters spout an occasional aphorism about meddling in God’s domain, but […]
Friday, September 12, 2003
The little wiki is feature-complete, thanks to some coding last night and this morning. It completely works, and I have a test suite that (kinda) proves it. Woohoo! I’m still not as rigorous with test-driven development as I’d like. A lot of browser-specific features I left out of my test suite, but now that I think about it, I could have tested it using wget. Oh well. I’m learning. The swordfish […]
Thursday, September 11, 2003
My apologies; this is the week of suckage. My sleep patterns are completely whacked; I’ve worked a total of 16 hours in the past three days because my body’s been forcing me into ten- and eleven-hour sleep marathons. A few items of note: I’ve written a small wiki. I haven’t uploaded it anywhere yet, but it’s shocking how easy this sort of thing is with Perl. I did it primarly because […]
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
As part of my efforts to get better sleep, I stumbled across Ward’s Wiki‘s Sleeping Well Tips (which would make a great name for a band). I’m trying them out. The advice to avoid food for three hours before bed hasn’t seemed to help thus far, though the suggestion to avoid reading in bed jives with my experiences. Reading tends to excite my mind rather than relax it. Last Wednesday night, I followed the advice […]