Monthly Archives: May 2003

My friend Etherblade wrote me a poem to try to cheer me up (despite me telling him not to)

I’m very lucky to have such good friends.

Well, I just quit my job (such as it was). Still no replacement job, but $1000 total over the course of 9 months just can’t be considered ‘being paid’ in any real sense of the words. That was the major reason, but I also didn’t agree with the direction my career was going- it was getting too far from the technical stuff/coding/etc.

Will code for food/rent

Well, if what I have just been told means what I think it means than I am going to be making a very fruitless drive tomorrow and wasting a significant amount of my time.

*sigh*

Oh well. This coupled with other recent things seems to form a pattern, wherein I am not worth the time of day, or even things so simple as a “Bye.”

Mood: unwanted -> apathetic

That’s right, I finally got my car back (only 5 weeks later) w007!

Oh, BTW- I saw The Matrix: Reloaded Wednesday night. It is worth seeing for most of the action scenes, but be prepared for some boring parts (and some supposedly serious {yet redundant} parts that are, for the most part, just stupid). The Zion scenes reminded me immensely of a Star Trek movie, and while this isn’t necessarily a bad thing- it just doesn’t fit. The movie tries to delve into issues of free will and something kinda like Quantum Theory, but it’s like cramming 20 minutes of exposition into 5 minutes of screen time (!work). In short, it’s a very silly movie that does not stand on it’s own at all, but it has its fun moments so overall is worth watching. (X2 was better)

You may notice that my blog archives have become much more readable. Yeah, I added some features to PSG…. and no, I have no diff to submit as a patch. I basically just included another file to the blog.php file, along with another line or two of code to handle the additional ‘op’. Yeah, I know this is a suboptimal way to do this, but I wanted to make sure that I would have an easy time upgrading PSG in the future without having to try to find the specific bits of code I changed. I am also well aware that this code isn’t the most elegant thing in existence, but hey- it gets the job done.

Anyway, yeah. PSG is an open source project, so my modifications are available to any who want them- I may even submit somthing like it to the PSG developers if I ever get it into a form they would want it in (relatively trivial, but the fun part is done now so I lack motivation).

So, these modifications make it much easier to read through the archives (compare). Unfortunately this caused me to read through a large portion of them. Geez, I never knew I wrote so much (about so little), heh. And I complain a lot (see? ;)

I’m gonna go try to chill out a bit now. Or maybe go to sleep. Either is good.

Bobby and I just went to Blockbuster (Bleargh) to rent The Virgin Suicides. Apparently they now have a maximum IQ requirement to work as a manager there. Let me give you an example- I’ll call him Adam, because that was his name.

So, I asked Adam “Do you have the VIrgin Suicides?” First Adam looked at me like I was growing a second head, than after having me repeat the question he turned and pushed some buttons on the keyboard (probably just ‘s’ repeatedly) and replied that no they did not. Meanwhile, Bobby had done the intelligent thing and ignored Adam entirely, and found the movie on his own.

Moral: There is a direct correlation between the resemblance of management to a troglodyte, and the chances of the customer being right. Support Planned Parenthood.

I don’t get paid enough for this shit.

Would you be flattered of offended if you saw that in someone’s blog they said they would like to “burger-movie-backseat” you?

Mood: jovial

Well, I just called the mechanic, and they are only missing one more piece to my car- the bumper. I was told it should be done by the end of next week. Yaaaay!

Of course, that is still just slightly too late for some things, but I suppose it’s better than nothing. Afterall, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Well, my lack of car is becoming detrimental to my general quality of life. In addition, the sheer amount of time that this has been going on is becoming ridiculous (the mechanic can’t find the parts he needs).

Not being able to improve my work situation is bad enough- my dependence on sucky mass transit and generous friends (and the general lack of freedom that this causes) doesn’t help matters any. *sigh* I suppose there’s nothing for me to do except go to sleep and hope things get better/try to think of viable alternative solutions.

Mood: lonely (/me is dying, needs hug badly)
Music: Vast – Touched