Awake Again.

So, I'm awake and its early morning. Maybe that means I'll get some work done. We'll see. In the meantime I'm on my second pint mug of coffee and feeling a little -- you know, the problem with the word 'disoriented' is that it implies there's some sort of orientation that you should have, so instead I'll go with -- spinny. And that was BEFORE I started with the coffee. Maybe after the second pint I'll be able to have two adjacent thoughts that are actual sequitors.

No surprise.

I was telling taxlady just the other day that Disney's new disposable DVD's were gonna flop. I mean, you have to be REALLY disconnected from the average consumer to think that these things had a snowball's chance in hell of selling. Well, it looks like Disney has given up on the idea (or at least this form of it). Apparantly during the marketing test (running since last September) not a single Disposable DVD was sold. Although, it appears that few were shoplifted.

Sleepeeze

Well, I'm starting to feel sleepy, and I just may turn in early. Yaknow, 's funny that when I wake up early, I want to go to bed early, and when I get up late, I want to stay up late.

I know, you're thinking "Well DUH!", but seriously, the relationship ISN'T LINEAR. I got up at 5:00 and I now want to go to bed at 6:00 pm. Thats only a 13 hour day. If I had gotten up at 1:00 pm, I wouldn't want to sleep until 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning, making for a 15 or 16 hour day. When I sleep in until 6:00 pm, its usually not until 1:00 or 2:00 the next afternoon that I want to sleep, making for a 19 or 20 hour day, and all thats assuming a base 8 hours the 'night' before.

Anyway, as for what I did today, I'm not sure if I should be pleased with myself or not. I went through a bunch of job ads and sent out a few copies of my resume to likely prospects, so we'll see if anything comes of that. I wrote to someone at McGill about a possible venture into the field of laser digitization of Vinyl and got back a short but enthusiastic reply. They said they would write me further during the weekend when they had some spare time. So, we'll also see if anything comes of THAT. Finally I actually got around to writing some FastCGI perl code for the website, but so far even the "Hello World" version of the program fails to run. I spent some time debugging it, but my brain is too tired to concentrate now, so I'm calling it a day.

Considering that the only item that I had really PLANNED to get to was the FastCGI stuff, and I only wrote a few lines, and it doesn't work, I'm not too happy with myself. On the other hand, I managed to send some e-mail and my resume to a bunch of people I don't even know. (Something I find rather difficult -- a lingering artifact of my old shyness problem), so I'm not inclined to be too hard on myself either.

Anyway, I'll probably get some more done tomorrow before heading off to denizsarikaya's BDay (or is that Bidet?) Party.

Meanwhile I think I'll get myself a last big mug of Tea, and curl up in bed with today's paper before I go to sleep. Night all!

Oopsy!

Just before heading to bed I checked one more thing, and discovered that the whole damn webserver had stopped responding, not just the virtual site I was working on. Since I didn't want to go to sleep with things in THAT condition I just spent a while reconstructing a known-working .conf file from this morning and telling the server to use THAT. That seems to have done the trick, so NOW I will go hit my own personal snooze button.