An Exercise In Futility

So i was coming home from Tim Horton’s a few minutes ago, and as i approached the intersection i suddenly noticed that at the speed i was travelling (slightly below the limit) the guy who was deciding to make a left turn across my lane of traffic was going to get T-boned. By me. In slow motion i saw him begin to move, and calmly applied the brakes with as much pressure as possible, meanwhile tooting the horn in anger. When i was almost at a stop, the retard had come to a standstill and was not yet blocking my lane, so i began to remove my foot from the brake and keep moving, but he somehow figured that i was going to allow him to continue his dangerous and fault-plaqued driving manouvre, so he continued his left-turn-arc, now into my lane, and i was forced to stop. He also stopped again. Make up your mind, IDIOT! The light promptly turned amber, and i waited for him to go about his pea-size-minded way, and then continued my journey home. When i arrived home, i opened my snack pack of 20 timbits, to discover 50 instead, and there was much rejoicing.

With one update per week i’m doing well, i suppose: At this moment, what is your favorite…

1. …song?
   RHCP - By The Way
2. …food?
   Burritos
3. …tv show?
   Rough Science
4. …scent?
   Coffee
5. …quote?
   Haste makes Waste

Kevin’s website had a friday-five almost worth filling out:

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
   no signature
2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven’t graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be?
   I was voted “most likely to get electrocuted”
3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read?
   Variations on a theme: Linux, unix4u, unix, perl, etc..
4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say?
   Name + occasion. quite bland
5. What would you like your epitaph to be?
   Discovered the Grand Unified Theory

So on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of January, I worked my butt off. Even though our main office was officially “closed” for the holidays (and thus, so was mine), I had a deadline to meet and no software with which to meet it. Each day ran about 18-20 hours, with short breaks to eat, pee, and a long one where i stomped in the snow and threw some snowballs. It was an odd experience, since while I somehow knew that i was guaranteed to make the deadline, i knew i would have to slog it the entire way. When i was done, at 3am on Monday morning, my whole digestive system, including my nether region, hurt, probably due to lack of real food (hmm, bawls, Dr Pepper, and cheetos-type-products?), though i attributed it to my having pulled one big horseshoe out my ass. Monday (install day) was not without problems, though most of them were not mine, so it was ‘business as usual’. By the end of the day everything worked as designed, and i had a 12 hour slumber of ridiculousness where i got to say hi to all sorts of long forgotten folk who i could care less about. The end result is that i apparently got shoved out of my rut, over into some sort of groove, and this week has gone very well in the work department! Who needs a New Year’s Resolution to institute change, when you can have a life-threatening deadline instead?!

I recently received a reminded that it had been a year since i visited the linux counter. Hence i must remind anyone who visits this page and also uses linux (that better be most of them!) to go and visit The linux counter project to update or create their registration!! I forgot that tonight was 2600 meeting night. Ooops. It is mostly due to the fact that i have a software project that isn’t yet complete, but should/could have been done weeks ago. Honestly, i am getting tired of a career as a programmer; i am beginning to loathe the computer. I need a change of some sort, soon, before i go batty! Perhaps I just need to get an office away from the house or something? I found a source for Bawls soda in Nanaimo: 7-Eleven. I must say that after drinking a couple, its original appeal is lost on me, and it is not particularly refreshing or exciting anymore. Time for a nice hot cup of Earl Grey tea!