Category: daily tedium

Do you know what’s great? Taking late Sunday afternoon naps! I couldn’t keep my eyes open around 5:30 last night so I ran upstairs and slept until 7. It was great!! I should do it every day…

Bad mood rising… Oh yeah. I don’t know why. I woke up in a great mood, with Max making his little Max noises in his bed, Jen in the shower and me waking up at a leisurely pace. Why hurry when the shower’s occupied and Max may get tired of playing in his room at any moment?

Now that I’m at work, it’s a whole different story. Wow, I’m not happy today. I want to walk out and not come back for a long long time. I want to tell people what I really think of them and not apologize later. Yep, I’m in a bad mood, and I’m gonna go buy some ice cream to try to snap out of it. I sure hope they have those Mississippi Mud sandwiches, or I may just tell the store ladies what I think of them too (there really isn’t anything bad to say about the store ladies. They’re swell).

I’m one scruffy man… It’s been almost two months since I had a haircut, and I still have the leftovers from my Adventure in Hair-Dye. This Saturday, the two-tone mane goes away even if I have to do it myself. I can only stand so much gel on my head.

How’s that for banal? I’m trying, but it’s really hard not to go off about the state of things.

And by the way, you know if I post a lot during the day it means either I have nothing to do, or don’t want to do what I’m supposed to be doing… just an FYI for the interested parties.

There really isn’t anything to say today. I’d hate to not provide my loyal reader(s) with something to pass the time with, so why don’t you go rent a movie, go check a book out from your local library (like The Code Book or To the Bright and Shining Sun)? Yeah, that sounds like fun. Wish I could join you, but I have to work.

So, I got my annual review this morning at work, and I must say, I’m very happy. I’ve worked for some pretty good managers in my career (yeah, I’m 26 and I have a ‘career’), but my current one is the best yet. He gets it. He knows what it’s like to write code, and knows when someone does it well. You can’t BS him, and that’s cool. You don’t see people on the team who slack or try to get away with writing crap code getting recognized, and I love it.

Oh, so you want to know what I did yesterday on my second sanity day? Oh, it was exciting! I cleaned the rust stains off the stairs leading up to the house. I used CLR, which if you’ve never seen it, is amazing stuff. It bubbles like hydrogen peroxide and takes that rust right off. And if you call now… oh, wait. Then, on top of that, I painted the railings on the stairs a nice flat black enamel. It all went well, and wore me out. I think I need to start working out or something.

I think that’s it for today – no big thoughts, just back at work working – now for more money than before! Woo-hoo!

I lost my favorite project manager today. He’s not dead, and he was kind of pulling for it, but damned if it doesn’t feel like he’s dead. I feel like having a funeral for him. “Poor Jim, he was taken too soon.”

And best yet, we have a big meeting @ 5, so I can’t even leave early.

Bastards.

Today could not suck more. Sorry, but it had to be said.

If I didn’t feel like working yesterday, I really don’t want to do anything today. I think maybe I’m coming down with something. I can’t seem to get rid of this headache, and I slept for 10 hours last night and I’m still tired!

I would love to get some work done today, but I can’t. I keep starting things and then putting them down. I’ve written a couple hundred lines of code that is just shell for something that will actually do something. I started something in PhotoShop, and it’s just sitting there, half-started. I have a new page in my text editor sitting there waiting for me to bring it to life.

Well, it ain’t gonna happen today, folks. If something NEEDS to get done, it will. Unfortunately, I have nothing that HAS to get done today. I have a lot of stuff staring me in the face that I can’t start on yet, but nothing I can do RIGHT now except clean-up and documentation. Clean-up and documentation suck, so they never get done.

Maybe I’ll start something else…