I picked an ear infection last week. It it rather hard on Friday night. I tried to hide it but I am sure I was kind of bitchy to everyone around me. All I can hear out of my left ear is a constant ringing.
Work has been in overdrive, which is probably why my body stopped cooperating. I don’t have the drive to work more than 9 hour days with the occasional 11 hour day thrown into the mix. Occasional being the operative word. I worked 11 today and 11 yesterday. I expect the rest of the week, except Friday will be 11 hour or longer days unless I get the first prototype working from end-to-end. The deadline is approacing very, very fast and this has to work. So I work… Read more…
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I walked through my drum room yesterday. The ‘drum room’ was where I setup my kit(2) in the house I am vacating. So. I’m walking through, making sure nothing is still in the hidden in the closet. As I walk through, I see part of a Metallica posted that I have framed years ago. It was from Garage Inc. There’s Lars sneering at me, under grease and a backwards baseball cap. I shook my head and turned away.
When are these guys going to get a clue? The Napster Affair wasn’t enough to remind Lars where he came from? What about his million dollar art sale shown in Some Kind of Monster?
Maybe Mustaine had it right, "Where’s my like Danish friend?"
I pulled over 50 hours this week, not including today. I could/should be working right now, but I am waiting for tickets to go on sale in a few minutes.
The trip to Bend was canceled.
I didn’t sleep Thursday night. I couldn’t stop my brain. I’d wake up, roll over, consider a new solution, and lay there for a while running though all of the dependencies to implement it. Somewhere along the chain, I’d fall back asleep only to wake up and do it all over again in about 15 to 30 minutes. I was awake before my alarm Friday morning.
Friday, I forgot to eat. I had my oatmeal, while staring at my display then I don’t know what happened to the time. I got up at 5 to go home. Only then did I realize I had forgotten to eat lunch. I went home, tried to sleep, and was eventually prodded into eating after 21:00.
As I have said before, it is hard to stop thinking when I have been hyper-focused on a solution.
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Note to self: Raspberry Fruit & Grain Cereal Bars == gross
My MP3 player was dead this morning. I didn’t have NPR or music during my morning commute. I was basically lost in my own thoughts, which really isn’t a great place for me to be when riding through rush hour traffic. I can spend hours just thinking about ‘stuff.’ I guess that is why I do what I do. I could have gotten an masters in Philosophy, but I ended up writing software. It is an exercise in self-disciple, curiosity, and hard-headedness. I sit in front of a keyboard, typing (just like I am right now) for hours and hours and hours. There are days when I really would rather be somewhere else. Riding. Swimming. Lifting weights. Working with my hands. Getting laid. Sleeping. But here I sit… typing, solving problems, thinking about ‘stuff.’
Anyway…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. I’ve been spending a lot of time alone. Even when I’m around other people I’m buried deep in my own thoughts. Here are the top 10 contemplative thoughts of late. Read more…
Reader Geek Tattos on Wired.com. There has been talk in the household about getting new tattos. The Queensryche Triryche is the current topic, but I have been thinking about something more geeky. Pi? A barcode? Something in binary? An object model? Something anthro-ish?
Emigrate’s Resolution is thumping through my headphones. I can always tell when I am trying to get ‘in the mood’ to code because the volume climbs until I can’t hear anything else including my uber-loud keystrokes.
I do
I do
I can see resolution
I
I do
I can see
Strange to lose the show
Take it fast n slow
Back to debugging Nhibernate config files.
<insert evil laugh>
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