Mi hermano vuelto recientemente de un viaje a Bolivia y era bastante bueno comprarme un sombrero brillante agradable mientras que ?l estaba all?. Calculo si ?l va a pasar con el apuro de comprarme y de enviar un sombrero, yo puede ser que tambi?n permita que el mundo vea c?mo es maravilloso es su sentido de manera.
I'm still doing sickly. I've been on the prednisone for ten days now and things aren't turning around as fast as I'd like. Still, slow progress is better than nothing. My energy is totally up to snuff and I'm staying awake all day without a nap.
Today was a good day. I finally got around to getting six weeks worth of laundry all washed up and folder. My closet floor had been slowing turning into a mountain of clothes. Now it's nice and clean again and closet is all full of fresh laundry. In my ongoing effort to remove my need to leave the apartment I'm trying out the Albertson's online system. I order online, add five bucks to the cost and then I can swing by and pick it up. I guess I'm paying five dollars to have some Albertson's clerk go around the store and pick up my stuff for me.
Work has been pretty busy. I got a call to head out to Denver for six to eight weeks and vetoed it straight off. I'm in no condition to be traveling right now. They also had a great opportunities for me head over to Kuwait if I wanted. Now there's a place I want to visit right now.
I updated Jagg, the Directory Analyzer, with a couple of feature requests from friends. It's one of the most useful programs that I've written these days for helping manage my drive. I hope all the fans like it.
My web site stats hadn't been updating for a while and I finally discovered why. My hosting vendor, Tripod, has changed the format of the logs. The new format actually provides a lot more information than the old logs did. Now I can see things like what keywords people are searching on to get to my web page. I can also see where they are coming from. You can take a peek at the Chaos Server Statistics if you want to know that "merp" is the primary keyword people use to Google to my site.
I gave up getting myself back into the groove. It wasn't going to happen on its own. So I went back up to Sacramento and saw my good old Dr. Koldinger to give me meds to help stabilize things. I'm still in the initial phases, but hopefully we'll get things under control. I'm looking forward to almost a month worth of vacation in June/July and want to make sure I'm at 100% when it hits. I've been sickly for Clearlake before, and it truly stinks.
I had an old college friend find a contact card I made way back in college and ICQ me tonight. It's cool keeping contact information the same for long periods of time. It allows stuff like that to happen. My ICQ has been the same for many years. My e-mail has been the same for seven years. My address has been the same for three years. My cell phone number has only been the same for a year now, but I'm hoping to hold onto it for a long time.
The working-from-home model is making me a bit crazy. I'm talking out loud to myself at a far more consistent rate that I used to. It's not bad when sitting around home, but I've noticed myself doing it at the grocery store or other places that aren't as kosher. I suppose that eccentricity isn't that bad.
I'm still hit and miss making the whole day without a nap. Not that a nap is really that bad of a thing. I've also been caffiene free for two weeks. I could probably make it through the day without a problem using a little of elixer of coffee. Still, at least the work-from-home model makes those little afternoon naps possible.
This week kicked into higher gear at work. We got one of guys back on the team (we only have five total) and we're all set to open source in the next month or so. People are working hard and working inspired. I'm doing some wacky XML Schema validation stuff and entity resolution.
Tomorrow I'm using up one of my Christmas presents and heading to see Les Miserables at the American Musical Theatre in San Jose. I've never seen the musical (though I did see the movie). I truly enjoy the good musicals. I enjoy them a lot more than I tend to enjoy a good play or good movie, so it's great to go. They are expensive little suckers.
At flicks tomorrow is Citizen Cane. I haven't seen that either, and AFI voted it the greatest American movie ever. I suppose as an arrogant American, I must assume that means it's the greatest movie ever. It'll be a long day for me. I may need a little caffiene for the long day tomorrow.
And FINALLY, my medical insurance came through paying for my wisdom teeth extraction. It only took two months and two phone calls to make things to get fixed.
It's good to be home, but time on the east coast took a bunch out of me. I've been sickly all week. Still, it makes the entire work-from-home program very nice. I can wake up minutes before I have to start work (especially useful on my 5:30am Tuesday and Thursday starts). I can also take a nice little nap in the middle of the afternoon. As much as I hate the travel of my job, I am truly spoiled when I get to work at home.
I got my taxes done this morning with the help of TurboTax online. I was amazed how simple the process was. It just walked me through a long wizard and about an hour or so later it was all submitted electronically. Cool. I even got a few bucks back this year for some reason. It's a cool web application. There aren't many out there that impress me as much as it did for simplicity and functionality. It also warned me that my charitable donations where high enough that it may spark an audit. That's something I can truly be proud of!
I've been talking a lot with one of my good friends who calls me "Schmoo" (or "Schmoozie" when being cute). It's a crazy nickname and I really still don't know where it came from. I was thinking of all the various nicknames that I've been called throughout my life. There are few that have stuck (thankfully), and fewer that I like. I still think my favorite is "Reverend" given to me by my friends in Denver.
On Monday, new RAM for my work laptop should show up at my door. I'm greatly looking forward to it. RAM makes things speedy!
Wil Wheaton recently posed the task to his readers, "Write a letter to yourself at age 12 telling yourself everything you wish you had known at that age." What a great idea to ponder. I'm working on it. Now as soon as they invent the time travel device we can all send our letters back and have happier times in our teenage years. What would you say?