HOme sick...

I'm home sick today. I wanted to go to work since we were going to tour the Network Ops Center at UNF. My head feels like it's going to explode though, so I think rest is better for me.

I'm reading Stephen King's last Dark Tower series book, "The Dark Tower". It amazes me the back & forth swings in his writing style and the emotions he portrays through it. It seems at times like there's two personalities writing the same material.

no PHP_AUTH_USER, well crap!

Just a little programming problem I'm dealing with at work. It involves statefulness in the HTTP server and trying to script it in PHP. Sucks. but fixable.

I was kinda down yesterday afternoon, I needed a little down time and didn't get it. To many people just hanging out around the house. I'm reserving Thursday night as a family night. Just us, hanging out watching TV or whatever. I'm looking forward to it.

I started reading St. Augustine's Confessions last night. I had tried to get into it before and I remember now why I had stopped. He writes (or at least the translation from Latin) in big flowery sentences that are never complete sentences but long series' of rhetorical questions or even statements. It seems very stream-of-concisousness and it loses me at times, but or the most part I am getting it. It is better than my usual brain-candy (Conan, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy books) and I'm enjoying the challenge.

So took a break to do a little work. I haven't done many renderings recently, mainly haven't had the time, between tutoring, guitar, warcraft, and around the house chores, I've had no time. It's kinda sucked. It really sucks when I can't even get to my own desk because of it all. I'm tired of moving crap and eager for it all to be done!

Speaking of moving Helen & I helped Shawn with more moving on Sat. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun at the same time. We were cutting up and just having a good time while lugging tons of furniture (ok not tons, but a good amount) down stairs and into and out of cars trucks and vehicles. It was fun but on Sunday we were both too exhausted to really do anything more. I tried more household re-arranging but I was too low on energy to do much.

Boredom + unmoving cat + scissors = fur fun

I was trying to play games on my computer and one of our five cats would not move off the keyboard. She was sleeping in front of me and rolling around a little, and kept pushing on the keyboard when she did. I was kinda bored with my game and I saw a knot of hair on her chin. Snip, snip, knot taken care of... snip snip, and she started purring. Oh the kitty likes getting snipped! So some more snipping ensued and now we have a slightly patchy cat. No cats were harmed during this, but she's a little bald in a patch.

I've gotten into a reading mood. I can tell b/c I've been actively avoiding the tv room and also video games (a little). My mind is wanting brain food. Sci-Fi should be good, as well as something stimulating. So I plan to hit the local used bookstore for a reading frenzy. My librarian sister(Hi Eve!) gets onto me for not having a library card... oh well ;-) I should get one, but I just haven't yet.

I've been thinking about getting into the Pokemon-craze, but I'm not there yet.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/23

Not there yet...

Me and a friend had a long lunch time talk about the eternal, "What do I want to do when I grow up?" or at least what to do with my life now. I've been getting the urge to change, but to where or what I don't know. A lot of times, my brain runs on over-drive with ideas and possibilities, narrowing that down, holding onto one and finishing it is much more difficult. I am just not sure.