Shady Clearing

Mm.  Today was such a pain in the butt at work.  I was really about to strangle Martha.  I mean, I love her to death because she’s such a sweet old lady, but I’d rather not think about whether or not she could have been any more grating today than she was.  Thankfully she left at 2 and my last couple hours at work were peaceful.

Had some pizza for dinner tonight while wasting some time transcribing some of the Natural Twenties strips into searchable format, while thinking about how to redesign the admin backend for Aeon RO to make it more like a real web application instead of a bunch of quick-and-dirty tools glued together with snot.

Don’t get me wrong; the tools are very useful even in their current states, I just think they could benefit from being put together in a more cohesive way.  That on top of some code restructuring to make them more efficient by creating shared classes and such that can be reused throughout the various tools instead of having seperate incarnations of each version of their function sets.  It’ll take a while, but I think it’ll be worth it.

All that said, I’m going to do some more work on that last point, and will write more later.  Ta~

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Music: Echonomix by Infected Mushroom

Right, so I decided to sit an watch the first presidential debate of the election tonight, and I must say that it was one of the most amusing things I’ve seen in a while.

I’m not really interested in dissecting it or going in-depth about it, because I don’t really enjoy political debates among my peers.  They’re exhausting and to me feel about as useful as a debate about religion; which usually isn’t a good thing.

What I will say, however, is that though I don’t think either one of them was really prepared for it, I feel that Barack did a better job of rolling with the punches that Jim Lehrer was throwing at the two candidates.  Over all, despite the few things that seem a bit wonky in Obama’s policy outlines, I believe that he has a better head on his shoulders and a stronger plan geared more toward helping our country in a timely fashion.  I can’t say that McCain didn’t have his moments where he didn’t sound silly though — he did have a few good ideas.

Beyond all that, there was also the matter of work today.  Worked from 10am to 7pm.  It was rather boring and slow for a friday, at least until around 5 o’clock.  The most interesting thing that happened though was the look that Lynna got on her face when she finally realized that I’m gay.  That only lasted a moment though before everything went back to normal and nobody cared. *snrk*

Other than that, I had to take an early lunch on the presumption that my mom was going to work today, but unfortunately on more than one account, she didn’t go.  Unfortunate that she misses out on the wages for the day, but likewise unfortunate the reason why: apparently, her brother Larry died today.  Nobody seems to know the specifics of it, but what we do know is that he is no longer alive, and it’s unlikely that many, if any, of the family will be attending the funeral since Larry was the only one living in Indianapolis, with mom being the closest relative 4 hours away.

Just one thought for the night, aside from all that above.  I’m really trying to figure out why I seem to have lost most of my interest in going out and doing things.  I used to be all about going out and just doing whatever with friends, but it seems that anymore I’m more inclined to just stay home bored as opposed to going out and feeling somewhat bored and spending money to be that way.  There’s gotta be a good reason why it’s so hard to feel like I’m having fun, or to even feel like I’m capable of having fun.  Actually, I’m rather sure that it’s got plenty to do with me just feeling like I’m a boring person overall, and therefore feel like the act of going out to have fun would be lost on me before even giving it a chance, but I’ve generally always felt that I’m a relatively boring person.  *shrugs*  Oh well, I’m sure I’ll figure it out in time.

Ta for now~

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Music: Fairytale by Sara Bareilles

I said I was going to try to post something everyday, which obviously isn’t working out too well just yet, but I’m working on that.

It doesn’t help that there really hasn’t been anything to post about lately.  I was off the past three days (wed, thurs, fri) and didn’t do anything, worked today and it was boring…just all around blah.  The only thing somewhat interesting is the coding I’ve been doing for AeonRO.  And even then, all that amounts to is some smallish stuff.

*shrugs*  Oh well.  More later.

Indeed. I slept until 4pm, got up, and proceeded to play Lunia all day. Yeah, that’s really interesting.

I suppose it’s no big deal though…I mean, it WAS my day off, and it was in the middle of the week when no one is really doing anything anyhow. Although Harold didn’t call me back like he was supposed to, he did ask if I’d like to come along Saturday evening with him and some friends to just do whatever. I think I will all things considered…I really need to get out of the house more anyway.

One thing I’m dead set on doing this autumn is going to Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest. It’s just so pretty during that time of the year when the leaves are changing colors and I really enjoy a good adventure in the forest. I think I might do it sometime in October, since it’ll be cooler and even prettier.

As for my targets for improved learning in web design and coding, I think I’m going to start playing around with AJAX. It’s looking to be a fairly simple to learn bit of functionality, and I think it’ll be able to make some sites I work on faster and more user-friendly. But, knowing how I am, it’s only about a 50/50 chance that I’ll actually go after the knowledge of how it works within the next month. Only time will tell, I suppose.

I think that’s about it for today. Nothing to really stimulate the thinker, but at least it’s something. Ta~