If you’re anything like me, when you can’t get a certain piece of code to work the way you want it to work, you will threaten your computer with a knife in a miniature pumpkin to show it who is boss.
Archive for December, 2007
Frustration.
Friday, December 21st, 2007Freelancing For Free
Friday, December 21st, 2007I’m a little excited to get to work from home over my break – because although you generally want to take a “vacation,” I have a lot to do when my time suddenly frees up. Namely, that of finally putting in more work on my pro bono projects. What is that, anyways – A “va-ca-tion”? Is that like vacating? Getting out and going somewhere? What’s that like?
You know, on a lot of free nights I find myself picking up work to do and I forget sometimes that I am a workaholic…
This reminds me, I have to put up my portfolio sometime soon and do a quick brush over my work to make sure it’s W3C compliant. Because I let people touch my code. I’m a dirty, dirty, dev. (Oh shit, I just checked some of them and I DO have a lot of work ahead of me.)
In any case, my idea of a vacation is cleaning up a lot more of my web development projects. And I wonder why I lack a social life?
Oh, well. At least I have shows coming up for two of the bands I’m in right now, and that’ll get me out of the house.
Cold Season
Saturday, December 15th, 2007As I am a resident of southern California, most other people from more meteorologically variable parts of the world can very well scoff at me if I complain about the weather being cold here. 45˚ F / 7.2˚ C is actually not shockingly cold to other people who live in, say, Sweden.
That’s not what I’m going to be talking about. When I say “cold season” I am talking about the season which renders a lot of people susceptible to catching a cold.
I hate it. I always get sick at least once during this season, no matter how hard I try to watch out.
Meh.
So this means I took some sick days off of work, at both my day job (from Thurs-Fri) and from work at the bar (Sat) because ordinarily, I’d screw up or sincerely stifle getting better by going out and doing something while convincing myself I am not that sick… I already made that mistake by attending the company Christmas party on Thursday and I have set myself back another day (so, hypothesis debunked: the alcohol in a glass of whiskey does not kill bacteria).
Anyway, the point is to get well as soon as possible so I’m not going to remove myself from my apartment until I have all of my batteries charged at 100%. As I am in quarantine, it has been prudent of my roommate that he’s barely been here this weekend. Good move, intentional or not, I hope whatever I’ve caught isn’t airborne and that he doesn’t get sick.
Being sick is lame and I have quickly remembered that it is also pretty boring. At least SNL is airing the Chris Farley episodes and not some lamer re-run during the writer’s strike.
I would rather be at work, because at least I might be making money.
However, I’d rather be well than to have money and feel no better. So, quarantine it is.
*cough*
Rockin' Out
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Fuck yea, dude.
Desperate Measures
Monday, December 10th, 2007(2:34:38 PM) nico: I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM SO BADLY
(2:36:22 PM) Fred: LOL
(2:36:32 PM) Fred: You do have a trashcan beside your desk
(2:36:58 PM) nico: EW
(2:37:12 PM) Fred: Desperate times call for desperate measures
(2:37:13 PM) Fred: And hey
(2:37:16 PM) Fred: We’re all friends
(2:37:23 PM) Fred: Ain’t no one going to judge you here
(2:37:25 PM) nico: desperate times call for desperate trash cans
(2:38:34 PM) nico: i was gonna say “dude i’m not gonna poop in the trash can” but then everyone would know i need to
(2:38:43 PM) Fred: Good point
(2:39:04 PM) Fred: Well, if you still need to, I’ll create a distraction
(2:39:09 PM) Fred: Like poop in my trash can
(2:39:21 PM) nico: cleaning lady would kick our asses
(2:39:29 PM) nico: and get poop on her shoes
Rejoice In Life's Stupid Little Things
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Logitech continues to impress me with this little number.
I’ve only been using this mouse for less than a week and it’s the best one I’ve used in the office thus far. Decent fire rate, smooth movement, and fine control for some intense Photoshop work — and horizontal scrolling!? WTF who thought of that!?
I’m excited about using this mouse. I am excited to get to work because then I get to use this mouse. I realize it’s kinda dumb to be this psyched over a friggin’ mouse but now that I think about it, a lot of my waking hours are spent using a mouse and keyboard, so this is actually a part of my life.
Welcome to my life, LX3. Where have you been all this time?
And did I really just blog about a mouse? Really?
