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I rolled into work this morning a few minutes later than I had planned. Oh well.

The guy that was supposed to let me in was running late in any case. I got bored and went around to the warehouse to see if I could get into the front offices.

Yup. Through the loading dock, Read more…

(Plz forgive the typos. I’m too fucking tired to fix’em.)

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At home in the modern world

…or so the goes the tag line.

I have started buying home mags of late. Why am I starting to feel a nesting instinct? I’ve lived so many places: Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Alaska, Iowa, and now Oregon. I have had a couple houses. I can’t say the I actually liked either one of them. Now, I am at a point where I want to get all of my shit together and start living more honestly. I want a home of my own. A place for myself and my stuff. I want a place where friends appear uninvited but always welcome.

I guess that’s never really going to happen. LOL. I’m never fucking home as it is! I always feel a certain wanderlust. I love to travel. I love being on a bike with nowhere to go and time to burn.

But lately, I’ve been buying copies of dwell… Read more…

Today wasn’t exactly a good day. I spent all of my day fighting with C++ code. I learned that I actually loathe C++. It just sucks. Everything is so hard to do . Especially when I am trying to do anything useful in C++.Net! I couldn’t find any documentation for that fu%#ing language! I needed to do a fairly simple thing, basically rewrite the Perl script that I wrote yesterday. But I couldn’t figure out how to do it. In Perl, I can reference the command-line in three different ways. I could only find one way to do it in C++ and that method didn’t return the results I needed. Read more…

I finished Roadshow. It was good. I like Peart’s writing style. Reading his stuff usually makes me crave the road. This book was no different. His travels though Europe definitely piqued my curiosity. Someday…

Done.

I’m tired, but awake. Today was long. Read more…

You and I
long to live like the wind upon the water.
If we close our eyes, we’ll maybe realize
there’s more to life than what we have known.
And I can’t believe I’ve spent so long
living lies I know were wrong inside,
I’ve just begun to see the light.
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I rode.

It rained.

I was a bit slow getting out of town. Eventually, I rolled up Lovejoy and into Forest Park. Thompson to Skyline and the hassles of city travel faded into curves. The bike was performing flawlessly. I, on the other hand, was still struggling with the mental residue of the last crash. It was still clouding my thoughts.

I try to approach riding as a mental exercise of sorts. You have to look ahead, to find the line you want to be on. You can’t look at the edges or the pot holes or the scenery. Pick a line, commit and flow. Today, that was a struggle. Skyline was OK for the most part, Read more…

50% chance.

I’m saddling up regardless for a run to the coast on the FJR. Time to reconnect with that machine and myself.

Code is progressing. I no longer care about work. I have something better on the horizon. I must define my own reality. I can use my strengths to do that. Right now, I need to clear my head, face another demon and code my ass off.

So, I am leaving this moment for another, in search of… the sun. And if rain might fall? I only need to remember that water is required for life.

Fuck. I don’t know.

I am another wonderful day at work. The problems with data replication consumed my entire morning. The bulk of that time I had my boss standing over my shoulder, giving me “advice.” Along the way, he realized he didn’t remember enough to do anything different than I had done. It was one of those peat and repeat events. I did as much as I could with my limited knowledge and experience. In the end, I had to pass it over to the technical lead. On one hand, it was damaging to my ego. On another, I really didn’t care about that. My frustration was not solving the problem. I hadn’t actually been trained on how to do the replication and I was dealing with the production system. Our replication takes days to catch up if things get out of sync. So the last thing I wanted to do was fuck the system. After over three more hours of non-progress, I handed it off and left for lunch. I was just too fried to care or contribute by that point in my day. The tech lead figured out the problem in just a few minutes. I had created an invalid index along the way. That screwed everything up, ergo no replication. When I came back from lunch, everything was running. Read more…

It’s been one of ‘those’ days… Nothing has gone seriously wrong, but nothing has really gone right. I couldn’t sleep last night, which is normal when I come home and take a nap. Being awake at 02 is not very helpful. I overslept a bit and I felt terrible all morning. I thought I was going to lose my raisin bagel for hours… That feeling never was far from my thoughts allllllllll day long. Read more…

More rain today. I was honestly too tired to ride in any case. It was just one of those ‘dragging’ kind of days. The alarm went off and my first thought was “It’s 05:30 to my body. Why the fuck am I awake?” Still, I got out of bed and began my day. It wasn’t a bad day, just not exactly a good day or even a day when I felt connected. I was numb.

On the upside, I did learn a lot about C# Generics and Delegates today. I think I have finally figured out how to leverage generics in my latest project.

At 17:00, I came home from work and laid down for a minutes. Two hours later, I woke up when my phone rang. I didn’t actually hear it, but when I got up I realized it had rung just before I returned to the land of the living. I left my phone out here, plugged into my PC, instead of next to the bed where it usually resides.

Now, it’s almost midnight and I’m not really tired nor completely awake. I guess I will go back to bed and read some more. I had planned on coding most of the evening. That didn’t happen. Oh well. Mondays are usually rough days for me. My sleep schedule gets off over the weekend. When I have an opportunity to sleep in, I do. Daylight saving only made it harder to resurrect today.

Alas tomorrow will bring new opportunities. Hopefully, it won’t be raining in the morning. I want to pull on my Cobra II and ride. Leather and rain don’t exactly mix.

I had a very hard time waking up this morning. My mind was in some kind of heavy fog. Maybe it was my allergies. Maybe it was the daylight saving shift. Maybe it was my 02 lights out. I had been reading Roadshow…

Up, showered, dressed and rolling. I was headed down to my Mom’s to install a new railing. She fell last week, when the dogs tripped her up . I surveyed the situation, went to Lowe’s for parts, and off to the races. $300 later, I had installed a stable, 2 post railing for the 2 step drop. The posts had to be bolted directly to the patio. That was a big part of the total cost, a hammer drill.

When I got back home, I immediately saddled up on the YZF. Read more…

And so it begins…

Ben Spies wins the Superbike season opener and Steve Rapp wins the 2007 Daytona 200.

The MotoGP season opener is tomorrow. If think it is ariing at 15:30 PDT. I need to take care of a few things for my Mom, so I will be hitting hte DVR for this one.

I watched the racing this morning while typing out boring code. I am working a rather large project. It is going to be very complicated and take months to complete, but… The code I worked on today was the base objects for the entire assembly. I have to create all of the known object types, define each object’s default behaviours and properties, write the constructors (usually three), and code up all of the accessor methods. Boring… I think I wrote about a 1000 lines of nothing today. This code is the lowest level for this project. If I miss a major concept at this point the rest of the project will be a death march. The code of refactoring code is at least 3 times the cost of doing it right the first time. While I’m writing this stuff, I’m thinking about the database design and implementation. It is interesting. Tiring and boring. But interesting at least in the abstract.

<shrug>

What can I say I like to code…

I bought a few books and magazines tonight. First, I picked up a couple mags at Borders: Cycle World and a 2007 Buyers Guide. Then at Powells on Hawthorne, I scored Roadshow by Neal Peart, This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin, and The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel by Dale Coyner. I picked up another on entiteld The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog. I loaned it out and I can’t remember the author. The Peart book was already sucked me in. I read the prologue and I was hooked.

Time to head to bed…