Morning Comes Early.

I don't know if I'm catching up on sleep, or what. I've been collapsing into bed around 7:00 pm lately and sleeping fitfully until about 5:00 am. That's 10 hours sleep, so I should be waking up more refreshed than I am. I should also not be waking up a dozen times in the night. Dunno quite what is going on with my sleep patterns.

Happy Birthday azrhey

Title says it all. Just want to let azrhey know that we all wish her a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Bad Business Ideas.

You will note that I do not only have good business ideas, I also have some spectacularly bad ones. In that vein, I should report two ideas I had during the NYE party and aftermath:

• 3D Twister -- Think "a spinner and coloured monkey bars"
• Scene clothes for your pet -- Sure, your cat already owns a studded collar, but how about a black-leather corset for your hampster?

Be thankful that most of my lesser bad ideas are left to die in obscurity.

Contract Negotiations?

It looks like a small contract programming job may have just fallen into my lap, but I'm unsure of how to proceed. The last contract job I did was 15 years ago, and I wasn't great at the negotiations then.

The client seems to be a small time seller of HVAC monitoring software who wants a few modifications made to his C/C++ source. The work seems simple enough but the prelimnary sketch of the work I've seen if quite vague on details, and I know nothing about the internal shape of the software nor how extensive the changes will have to be to support the new functionality.

The client has essentially sent me a random collection of pieces of documentation and a vague to-do list and said "Read this over and we can talk." Well, I've done the first part, but I'm unsure as how to do the next. Suggestions, here, by email, or by phone, are welcome.

Thieves Steal Woman's Brain Control.

According to the BBC the poor woman can no longer turn off her brain so she can sleep...

Da Plan Boss, Da Plan!

Lessee, a Man, a Plan, a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum.... Oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a plan. In the meantime, I'll sleep.

Night all!