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A Static Page  Stolen from melodica. I walked in Kobe, or I would have had one more. Current mood: monday. 1. Spend more time with family. 2. Get up earlier and get to work earlier. 3. Leave earlier!!! 4. Be more productive at work. 5. Spend more time with friends. Current mood: ???. (This is from two weeks ago, the morning of Nov 7... details are a bit fuzzier now, so I'm going off my abbreviated notes that I took planning to make a post out of it then) My mom's having me drive [a rarity] and for some reason, we're on our way "back" to a family friend's place in Salinas. I apparently take a different exit than my mom wants me to take (backseat driving). But all of a sudden, we're on this really steep, rocky terrain [no road, imagine those steep hills they show trucks going up in television commercials... but in a minivan]. Following a sign that points to ... India. Then, we arrive, and there's some structure with a pool underneath it. Somehow I'm now saving people, defending them from these other people with sharp pointy spears [sorry, don't remember exactly how now] Then I'm swimming with some of the people, and one girl takes me through a portal at the bottom. [of course it's an attractive, pretty girl -- this is a dream]. There is a man, on the other side, who explains everything. Somehow, I know this all already. [reminded me a bit of Quantum Leap] I go back through the whirlpool. I rescue people. I spear fight with some guy. I fly through the air following some midget into another small portal. I fight off two lovely deadly twin ladies that shoot lightning at us. I free them partially from a spell that holds them. They break down, crying. One confesses to liking blue bubble gum. I solve a set-like puzzle to escape. I'm sneaking us all out through an office building, one of my old bosses is there. I stop to look through the yellow pages, to find a Walgreens in Alameda at 3am to meet some druggist who will save them. All in a good night's work. I wake up. Hi, I'm Derek and I'm messed up in the head. Current music: The beeping of the alarm clock summoning me from my dreams. Stumbled across this banner ad on sfgate.  Someone's got my 350 hours of sex! Granted though, someone's also got most of my 420 hours too, but still... that ain't right! Current mood:  amused.Current music: The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me (dad has oldies on). Why is it my thoughts are clearest and most eloquent when I'm walking alone in the dark... but are almost all forgotten by the time I can get to write them down.... Current mood:  pensive.Current music: Bob Dylan - Mr. Bojangles. http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=vwl9 It is apparently real too. http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrus http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/resea http://www.google.com/search?q=i%2Fo+br Current mood: Friday. Current music: *checks winamp* rumania - under the skin?. Bound for China Sunday morning. Be gone for a only a couple of weeks. Doing so much stuff this week it's been kinda crazy, between work, other work, and trying to get some finances and other misc stuff taken care of... going to try to get my Thinkpad repaired while I'm gone... that thing should be called a Crackpad... so damn nice and useful and indispensible that I can't let it go. Current mood:  crazy.
Click here. Take the quiz. Post your results. ( See neverupdated's results. ) Current mood: Monday. Current music: Bond - Fuego. Stepped off light rail... check watch... 1:05am... wow... tired... *yawn* Look, a kitty, *meow* "Hi kitty"... oh hey, it's not running away, that's odd. *petpet* wow, it's friendly... hm, no collar... wonder if it's from around here *pet pet* [kitty rubs up against my leg, my hand, my laptop bag] wonder if it's a stray... hmm, maybe I shouldn't be touching it... what if it has a disease... what if it has rabies. but it's really really friendly for a stray... most strays run off... *pet pet* it looks like it just wants some TLC. wonder if I should take it to the animal shelter... cute kitty.. oh, but what if it's someone's... maybe I should hold onto it for a couple days and post signs... ooh, wait.. I don't have anywhere to keep a cat... definitely an outdoors cat... could put it outside in the backyard... ooh, neighbor's dogs won't be happy about that... and neither will the kitty. Could put it in the garage... ooh, but have to leave the door open so it can go to the bathroom... *pet pet* I wonder whose cat it is? Wonder if I should take it home for the night... come back and put up signs tomorrow... wish people had better collars... this one seems way too friendly to be a stray... I hope it wasn't just abandoned by its owner... then what would I do, I can't keep it... oh, it's so cute... *pet pet* I don't want to leave it out here... at least it's not cold, but parking lot isn't such a good place for it... maybe I can put it through the gate of the housing complex... no, that wouldn't be right . Someone else will probably adopt it. *pet pet* Shoot, what are you supposed to do? Hmm, late, can't call anyone to ask... humane society is overcrowded, they probably have way more than they can handle... hmm, do I know anyone who wants a cat? Too bad Drew and Melissa have one already... can't think of anyone else who could take it... could I take it? Don't think I can give it the attention it deserves... barely adequately take care of myself as is... and I'm allergic! Shoot, dilemna, dilemna... Man, wish I could just adopt it... yet another cat that knows exactly who's allergic... sigh. *pet pet* hmm, 1:15... I've been here for 10 minutes already? crap, should get home... before it gets harder to walk away... oh it's distracted in the dirt, now's a good time to leave... uhoh... wait... is it following me? *sneaks peek* yes... it is... uhoh, now what am I going to do? What if it follows me to my car and won't leave? don't look back, don't look back. Oh good, it stopped at the last row... I hope it's not too discouraged. Get in car... oh, it's still there... shoot, I'm going to have to drive by it on my way out... oh no... don't know if I can face it.. guilt... setting in... okay, sit... think some more. Litter box in the garage... small bed... hm, that can't be healthy... we have two cars in the garage... okay, back deck? side yard? food dish? might be doable for a couple days, what to do, what to do... I'm not just going to drive off, am I? am I? 1:30. Wish I lived by myself... had my own place... make the logistics a lot simpler... what's this thinking... I should be able to take care of it, I should be able to do my part to make a difference. I should take it home, can't say "other people" will do right by it... I have to do something.... resolved. look sideways... it's not there anywhere, where it was sitting. where did it go? Get out of car. walk around, look around, where did it go? walk back to the station, looking, looking, looking. it's not here... where did it go? is it gone? did it wander off? is it just resting underneath one of these cars? no... walk back to the tracks, no kitty... call out softly, "here kitty"... silence. no movement, nothing. Walk slowly back to car, still no kitty. Sigh. Drive slowly home. I feel like that was a test. And I failed. It shouldn't have taken me so long to decide. Current mood: I shouldn't have walked away. 4:38p Today is the 7th day in a row I've been at work. I expect that it'll be at least 10 before I get a break. The company I Spent yesterday at the datacenter with the CTO. We unracked a dozen servers, half of each redundant pair of load balancers, and hauled it back to the office. We also took off-site backups of our two database servers with two external firewire drives, two powerbooks, and two crossover gigabit ethernet cables. (How's that for an Apple commercial? How we Repurposed a lot of the hardware and consolidated a lot to reprovision machines. On the plus side, our office will have a 45Mbit pipe (*drool*... I already grabbed some linux/bsd iso's at 4.3MB/s, heh)... didn't leave until midnight... and back in the office again at 11:30 this morning. It's a bit easier today, I don't have to deal with racking up the equipment here -- waiting on them to get the database server up so we can test the app servers against them. Probably going to be another long night. ==== 9:17p Spent the last 30 minutes learning about some of the options of linux software raid... those that affect performance. I've gone ahead and just taken the defaults. On the plus side, those copies we did last night to the powerbooks external drives, I've voided the warranty on the enclosures to stick the drives in the machine directly... 35MB/s instead of 7. less than 2 hours instead of 8+ ==== 11:21p Working on so many things I've taken notes so I don't forget to check up on the progress of things. 12 hours so far... not getting out of here any time. Current mood:  tired.Current music: Sarah Brightman - First of May. |
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