Howcome there is a link to tomorrow in July 3, 2000 if tomorrow does not exist yet ? Are these questions to ponder, or is this a very smart way for JeffMagnus to link all his daily writeups together ? I love the daily statistics roundup ... except that I never see myself as online user. Perhaps I should think of a way to add daily value to the daily writeup...
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JeffMagnus node count: 3819 (1 new since July 3, 2000) JeffMagnus experience: 6912 (22 more since July 3, 2000) JeffMagnus experience to node ratio: 1.810 XP per node JeffMagnus nodeshare: 0.642% JeffMagnus node of the day: Everything 2 Civil War
I must stop noding so much in the wee AM hours. Particularly on drone days.
I'm starting to come across like Nick Cave on a no smack, no smokes, and bad hair, day. Sharing is fun and all, but....sometimes disclosure becomes an unwanted burden.
Hey, that's not always me. I'll fun up like the next person. Often at purely random intervals, when there's nobody around: I'm a freakin' fully stocked fridge of frivolity and a shiny buspass for happy land. Most things are somehow cyclical...come around, go around, come around again.
But I would never deny the times when the things inside me seem the darkest things the night has to offer. I'm not going to be ashamed of the me that gets paralyzed and unable to do anything but smash my head on a brick of compressed memories. I might from time to time resent the cause, but I'm just going to flow with the symptoms. I hope they're not one in the same. See, I'm doing it again...damn insidious this stuff. My life isn't even fucked up. I think I'll just stick with, accept, allow, alleviate: it doesn't seem to be something that responds to confrontation. New mantra. I'll try to avoid sharing every detail of my tortured little unoppressed suburban comfort soul. Hehehe..I'm feeling better already!
"Shape up son..you wan't something to really cry about?" Hahah...works every time.
Not smoking could be going better. I had somewhat of a cataclysmic relapse on the weekend. Shit..cataclysmic...that's one word that you can't tone down in the next sentence with '..just a little one though'. No, this relapse involved buying a pack and sucking them down with vacuum cleaner efficiency.
Still committed to the concept (if not yet mastering the act) of being a non-smoker though. I'm not ready to give up yet. I've decided not to be ready for that.
This has all been rather vague and nebuluous and extremely untied to any particular day, so: I got up an hour and a half late this morning. Rapidly made myself less cause for alarm, appearance wise. Got amazingly annoyed on the bike path because there was a boatload (literally, they got off a ferry) of schoolkids on the path, milling around aimlessly trying to be whatever adolescents are these days. Felt like a less commanding Moses as I parted the kiddie seas on my yellow cycle of 'you will move, or I will test my shocks on the bumps of your body'. Got over it all rapidly
Going to get a strong black coffee. Will add if anything actually interesting happens. May try to make something happen.
What a weird existence I inhabit, compared to the average. Not that I'd want to be average, but... It's 3:19am local time (BST), and not only am I noding, but I just put down my mobile phone, having been called by a friend on his lunch break.
Before I go to bed I think I'll plan what to do when I get up later today. I don't think I'm going to get to sleep too easily. On top of the things I failed to get done today - that would be the waking period day as opposed to the solar one, both of which fail to overlap particularly much - I'd like to:
Hopefully I'll be more productive later on, or at least more fulfilling. I feel a lack of satisfaction on how today/yesterday has gone, nothing much has really happened, and although I've done some stuff, I feel I could make better use of my time while I've still got so much of it.
Well, it's today in two senses, and tomorrow in two. Today in that I'm writing about the same day that I wrote about before on this node, July 4, 2000, and in that it's on the same 24hr day in UTC. But it's tomorrow in that it's now past midnight BST (British Summer Time is UTC + 1), and also in that I've slept since the above writing. I've decided that it's best to node about the day I'm noding about on it's entry, whether it's technically yesterday, today, or tomorrow, and call the waking period day the day, unless I feel otherwise. Bah, complications of obscure sleeping schedule
Anyway, I forgot totally about the doctor's appointment, being reminded of it only now. Also forgot about PHP mostly, deciding just to try out WML instead. And empire was a foolish idea; I didn't have time to start reading the rules. However would I find time to play it?
OTOH, I did do some stuff on my website, beaneater.org.uk, including using The GIMP to make some poor pictures for it. Still, I consider it better than some websites around - it's not too graphic heavy or anything, and is minimalistic. But I suck at graphic design! I mean, I can and have wibbled enough text for a reasonable website many many times - each website of which has been quite poor, and probably not visited by anybody - but each time I've torn it down to start over, as I've changed too much since I started writing it. I think my last one might last for longer, if only because I've made an effort to make it easy to update, as well as navigate, and am going to keep a broad smattering of stuff there. When I get round to it.
Secondly, from today: July 3, 2000, I managed to do stuff too. I arranged a driving lesson for tomorrow:July 3, 2000, and phoned the DVLA to see how long the latency is for tests. I also managed to get phoned by my employer (ok, a bit passive accomplishment) for these summer months, to go in and see him tommorow. Seems he's finally got round to giving me some work, hopefully at least. Great, some money, and something to do. Something interesting too, as it's programming Perl, working from home. Fun.
Hmm. I think I'll tick off another of yesterday's, reading The Language Instinct, before I go to sleep. Or shall I node? Okay, just one more node can't hurt...
I set up an alternate server, in case the main big Sun machine should decide to blow a processor, as it has already done in a couple of occasions.
Our content director, Miss Fairfinger is busy pasting HTML that came from unknow sources. The new Lesser Kahuna is learning HTML tags. The graphic designer boys look bone-tired. The former Lesser Kahuna, the Big Kahuna and all his courtesans will be there tomorrow, including the three people he actually listens to.
I am tired. Yesterday I suddenly fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon, despite the coffee and the Mexican elections excitment. By the way, Vicente Fox Quesada has won with a large margin, something nobody expected. The ones that less expected it were in the now-ex-ruling party.
My sister should have, by now, completed her high school finals. Now she gets to agonize over which university to go to, which would admittedly be an easier choice if she knew what she wants to study. I do not have a pair of clean pants for tomorrow. I love running the drier at 3AM. More random thoughts ... today the drill demons were working in faraway parts of the building. Probably they will stumble on a power line tomorrow, in the worst possible moment. Today I noded a bit. Progress is slow, but people seem to like what I write. I am getting to know other noders, mostly through their works. I am still recovering about the misunderstanding with dem bones on napalm sticks to kids. We disagreed on parsing, of all things. Anyway, I like the hamster people, ideath, General Wesc, ApoxyButt, mat catastrophe and Deep Thought. I like many more, but right now I am too tired to be fair, and anyway nobody gives a damn about whom I like, right ? And DMan, when he is off drugs, wrote some damn good nodes.
Drill demons are at work again. I expect to be spiked to my swivel chair any moment now. Today I leave early (relatively ... just 1900) so that I can see my SO and watch a movie. I hope we do not fight. What with my demo-mode recently we have been pretty unstable. But I am tired...
I don't feel depressed. I don't feel happy. I don't feel.
Thank you, America, for killing my emotions.
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Ahhh! Independence Day!!
Yes, that's right guys and gals, today three years ago I moved into my own house. Hooray for debt!
Somewhat more seriously, if you are living with your parents right now and you're considering making the break to freedom - Do it. Do it now!
Yes, you too could have money worries, too many chores, food shopping and an obsession with clean bathrooms! On the upside, I went from a neurotic, obsessive paranoid to a confident neurotic, obsessive paranoid.
Very seriously, my confidence blossomed when I moved out. My relationship with my Mum got better and I just felt plain better. I can wholeheartedly recommend it.
Met my father for lunch this week at The Terra Cotta. Always one to spoil his daughter, it was delightful! One of those places where the waiter takes command of the table. Squaring my purse away and re-setting the silverware with precision, the cheapest sandwich on the menu was $17.50. ( I peeked, mine didn't have prices) I has the Chicken Tacos on a bed of black beans. The tea was flavored with apricot which neither one of us cared for. So I asked for and the waiter recommended an expresso with brandy and kalua. It was quite delicious! Daddy always has good taste:)
Dad was telling me about a family reunion some relatives had from the Smith side of the family. That's where his middle name comes from, he's called Smitty by his family. It's from his mother's side of the family. Her motherKitty Bishop died when she was 26 of unknown causes. A family quest has been underway for quite some time to find her grave. Bless my aunt for doing a geneology on our family, it's been facinating. At this reunion they commemorated Kitty's two brother's who fought (one died during the war)in the Civil War. One family had two sons and sent one to the Confederacy and the other to the Union hoping to ensure that the family line would go on no matter what the outcome of the war was. I was intrigued by the idea that they would put allegiance to family ahead of allegiance to country.
Have a Happy and Safe Independence Day!
Don't forget to be kind to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! - Hebrews 13: 2
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Including yourself in the E2 mailing address registry may actually result in receiving mail!
There has been alot of talk about the sending and recieving of postcards and other miscellany from fellow Everythingians for various reasons. I remember when my homie Sarcasmo was offering to send a postcard to whoever requested one from our fine hometown of Chicago, and liked the idea. I didn't feel it appropriate to include myself in his postcard mailings, as I felt it should be reserved for connecting with others whom are far away and whom he didn't see in person on a relatively frequent basis. When I came across the Everything Mailing Address Registry node I eagerly signed up, not actually expecting to be noticed or written to. My write-up was actually voted down at first for reasons I cannot understand. However, low and behold I actually came across a mysterious postcard in my mailbox yesterday from our fellow noder Segnbora-t. As much as getting unexpected mail tends to make one's day, imagine the joy of getting something from a noder you've never met and who lives across the country? It made me glad.
i'm thinking of every time i saw your smile and wished the world would end that perfectly.
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