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Yesterday | Dizzy->Day_Logs() | Tomorrow
08:30 BST
I just walked the two miles into work for the first time in a month. My stepfather has now left the company down the road from mine; he can no longer drive me to work. It was a lovely morning: a few clouds in the sky and quite warm.
Please Stop Annoying Me bloke has been avoiding me... I wonder if my node's vibes got through to him?
09:30 BST
The plant I brought into work with me 1 week ago is wilting. The compost is moist, but not waterlogged and the plant is in the correct position. I am perhaps attaching too much of myself onto this plant. Somehow I feel that if it dies, then I have failed. Literally, I will have failed to care for it, but I feel the failure to be something larger, something that should define me. It may just be that I am depressed because it is so quiet around here.
19:00 BST
Well, I finally plucked up the courage...
I had a quick impromptu meeting with my General Manager. I told him that I wasn't happy in my support only role; I want to do more creative, coding type work. He told me that I had been "sold" to him on the strength of my support skills. Sold? Am I just a thing to be bartered between souless corporate automatons? I replied that I hadn't been consulted about my career, and that I wanted to remain on track to become a UI designer. I was a good little corporate bunny and assured him that I wouldn't leave before the September trade show in Amsterdam.
It's amazing how quickly my Project Leader started being nicer to me. He asked me what he could do to lighten my workload - I replied that he could do my testing for me. He winced, but agreed!
ClearCase is dying! Hoo-bloody-Ray! After realising that we would have to spend 18 thousand pounds to get the full functionality of this Rational Software product, the powers that be suddenly became more open to other ideas! Watch this space for CVS and the debian bug tracking system! The fact that other sections have been using CVS for years also goes in my favour.
I was importing some documents onto my system when our product manager spotted my X-Men trailer quicktime file. I waited for the worst to happen, but he asked if he could watch it! It seems that there are X-men fans everywhere. Now if the film could hurry up and open here in the UK, I'll be happy.
Heh, do I ever suck: Today, I proudly declare that, yes, I'm wearing unmatched socks!
The next two weeks will be spent waiting, expecting the worst, hoping for the best. Great things are afoot. Expect a follow-up on this one.
Today's Soundtrack: Angie by Tori Amos.
As for today? Got woken up early. *grr*. Someone with a hoover right outside my room.
I'll also be going into town. Apparently I have a letter in 2600, so I shall be trying to track down said publication. And I'll be meeting up with Rach at some point to get a copy of the T in the Park highlights vid.
Exciting, no?
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First day at a new job. New staff give me (us) a short tutorial of Prince2 methodology ...
So, what's exciting today?
Well, it started a few days ago, really. My wife's had some digestive problems which have meant she's off her food. She's taking the opportunity to lose weight. She's now lost enough she feels she can exercise.
A few days ago we ordered some new gym equipment. Today, the "Adjustable Tummy Trimmer" arrived. A basic padded bench for ab exercises. It's a lot easier than doing sits on the floor and more flexible, too.
It's "foldable". Two wing nuts secure the legs. In theory. The front leg is just okay. However, the back leg's machining leaves something to be desired. We think the leg's slightly too long. As the thing is a previous return, we're going to hack the leg back a milimetre or so to see if that sorts it.
(In detail, the bolt that the rear wing nut secures passes through holes drilled in plates attached to the rear leg and also through the base support. The holes themselves are fine, but the alignment when the leg is open is off fractionally.)
So, this is my first exercise day log. I did one sit. Uff. (It's uphill, unlike the floor.) I didn't think I was that unfit. Oh well. Plenty of room for progress.
yesterday | tomorrow
Finally back on normal, human, time. Well...sort of. I went to bed at 2:30, and I slept at about 3:30. Which is definatly Good because I've had some trouble sleeping lately. I think I figured out why that is... I opened my bedroom door when I went to bed, I hadn't done that in the past week or so, causing me to not sleep. It was horrible.
Anyway, I woke up at about 14:00, and I made some coffee. Probably the best coffee I have ever made so far. Just luck, I guess. My mother woke up about an hour after I did (she works nightshifts), and we talked a bit. I convinced her she should get my cigarettes for me, because I didn't feel like getting them. She came back with twice the amount I had "ordered". Yay! Now I can smoke happily for at least 4 more days.
I missed Lingo, I only saw the finals. They lost.
I went upstairs to do some nerding. I vaguely recalled the contents of the exrc node, and I decided I'd make that myself. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but now I am almost the Grand Wizard of vi (if you believe that, I'll shoot you). Now I have an ^X alias for noding. Whoopy.
After dinner (microwave spaghetti, well..at least it'll help me read in the dark), I took some pictures of my room. The grand plan is to make some sort of `tour' around my room, using HTML. But that's another story...
I saw a film, I think it was called "Vernon and Nadine". It was funny. And now, I'm writing my second day log ever. Buh-bye.
The fitness evaluation went well, and I now have a personal trainer that I am going to see once a week. I'm excited. It's a good time to make changes in my life. He is guaranteeing visible results in 6 weeks as long as I do what he says. I will try.
I sent some postcards out this morning to people on the Everything Mailing Address Registry. I can't remember right now who I sent them to, and besides... if I mention it here, it will ruin the surprise. More randomness will be sent to the registry as time goes on. I have a big box of junk from Archie McPhee I need to get rid of. Perhaps its time to start mailing things out. I made some collages last night on postcards that I sent out. I also have normal cards I should send too. I feel the urge to simplify in some ways, and getting rid of some of my extra paper bulk that lurks in boxes in my closets is a Good Thing.
I like Saige. She gave me a big compliment today in a /msg and mentioned in her home node that she likes my writing. I am so flattered. It totally made my day. I've found that E2 is what is keeping me from going nuts while I sit here at work day after day waiting for something to happen. Compliments like this just tickle me pink and make me grin for the rest of the day.
I do not know what I am going to do tonight. I am in the mood to shop, and that is bad. I can not afford to shop at the moment. I must concentrate hard on not shopping and avoid stopping at Barnes and Noble on my way home from work. I already have a ton of books to read at home in a pile - the "To Read" pile, and I do not need more. I have summer books in the pile. Lots of trashy 70's novels that I found at Goodwill, a couple of sci-fi books, and a history book.
I should work on the new website tonight. My domain registration is sure to be finished by the weekend (I hope) and I want to work on it. I don't want to build links into my HTML to a domain name that isn't there yet. I need to make some image maps to see if I can do it.
I must work hard to avoid going to CompUSA and buying any new games. I want to get Icewind Dale and Diablo 2, but I must resist until I finish Baldur's Gate like I should have done months ago. I also need to finish The Sims. I already finished Dungeon Keeper 2, but I have new maps to play with. I need to start Planescape Torment again too.
So, I do not know what I will do when I go home. Maybe I will log in and create some nodes? :)
Nodes That I Wrote Today That Sing Songs of Yesterday: fill in the details for me I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
CD's I've Listened To Today: Muslimgauze -Jaal Ab Dullah Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill No Means No - 0+2=1 Delerium - Karma Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts
Stays crunchy, even in milk!
Hmm. Today was generally really sucky, but with some redeeming features. The overall impression was of a large degree of suckiness.
Well, on an optimistic note, the good things. I managed to book a driving test on a date I can manage, hopefully, to be a good enough driver by. I managed to get a typhoid inoculation today, and found out that I don't need to get a Hepatitis A injection, as the one I've already had - when I went to Vietnam - is still valid for my India trip.
Also, I met a few people at two different times who I hadn't seen for a while. Which was nice.
After quite a nice, relaxing, lie in bed this morning (1), I suddenly realised that I'd got a doctors appointment (well, a nurses appointment actually) for that typhoid. In half an hour. Which was only barely enough time to get up, shower, wash and dry my long hair, rush down to the pharmacy, and pick up my prescribed typhoid stuff, and rush up to the doctor's surgery to get it administered. I made it with about 0 seconds on the clock; I only waited for around a minute in the waiting room.
A while after that, and some only partially successful organisation later, time to go to work. So I set off on my bicycle to the petrol station. And promptly the chain came off, and jammed so hard I couldn't un-jam it with my hands, or the meager tools I had with me. Only, not so promptly that I could just go back to the house and pick up something to fix it with. Oh no.
Anyway, so I phoned my work, saying "I'll be late!", and then my mum to ask her to give me a lift back home. To add insult to injury, by the time she arrived, I'd fixed the bike, although my hands were black with grease. But I was still late for work, so I cycled home, dropped off the bike, and she gave me a lift to work. To top it all off, that's the second time that bike has stopped me getting to work promptly and on time. I'm going to try and get somebody to fix it properly tomorrow.
And at work... Work was shit. Sorry, but there's no other word for it. I felt weak and tired for some reason (I'd had plenty sleep, BTW), possibly due to the typhoid injection, but I think that only caused the sore arm. I seriously didn't feel like being there, or in fact doing anything other than possibly lying flat out on the floor, optionally preceded by shooting a customer or three several times in the head. Disclaimer: I'm not a gun nut, or much of a psychopath, but sometimes customers can be really annoying. And I can feel... a little violent. Especially when feeling so badly, on a swelteringly hot sunny day, stuck in a little oven-like room with one huge glass window. I settled for dropping my pleases and thankyous all over the place. If the customer wasn't a nice person, or rubbed me up the wrong way, then I was slightly gruff.
Generally, though. Today I seriously felt like life was rather pointless, and very sucky, and that I hated everybody and everything. But not Everything: writing this here on e2 has made me feel a lot better, although it has exposed to me some depressing thoughts, I think. I like this place.
(1) Although I was woken around 06:00 by my PC being still on, whirring - I need to get a cupboard-based computer if I want it to play music for me to go to sleep to, like a long-running compilation of mp3's, because I just cannot stay asleep all night with a PC on.
My original plans for today included washing my Pinto (I still love that car, damnit!) and getting proftpd running. The car's clean now, but proftpd don't wanna run. And I can't find a plaintext log that tells me why. Now to try to delete it, besides the fact that it doesn't seem to do a good job of keeping all it's stuff in one place...
Still looking for networking info. Would appreciate any help.
The three-CD Slackware set (Install, Contrib, Source) is burnt, and a boot disk is made. Since I've dug myself into a nice rut with Red Hat on this box, I'll try Slack on a different box... if I ever get hold of one.
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