2009-05-17

Progression! Progression…

Filed under: Education,Family,Technology — Tags: , , , , — D. Moonfire @ 20:35
Weight Loss (2.6 of 14.7 kg)
College Petitions (1 of 5)
Commission (589 of 10k words)

Doesn’t quite sound as good as “tradition”, one of my favorite songs, but I had a very productive weekend so far. One of the main things is that I finally cut over the new theme to Moonfire Games. The theme is growing on me, though I don’t have the extra flair stuff, I do have all but one thing up and running. I still need to migrate the online Map of Creation but that is going to take a bit more than a few hours to get that running. Apparently, it broke badly in the last year and no one told me until recently.

I’m also changing my formula for petitions. I haven’t sent out any, but if I count the answered questions and the ones I’m looking for supporting documentation, I’m much further than 20% done. So, I just came up with one point for answering the question, one point for evidence, and one point to submit to come up with the new formula. Sadly, at nearly 70%, I really, really need to get off my ass and finish them. I’m going to send one out tomorrow, at least that is the plan.

Mowed the lawn… sort of. It’s a free lawn mower, so you can’t expect much. If I keep up with it, I’ll be able to do it on two charges, but right now it should take me a few more days to finish up. The charge on the mower only lasts about a half hour with the tall grass and an hour and some with the short grass. Obviously, it will inspire me to actually keep up with the lawn work.

Gave up on getting subtitles to work with the movies. Just too hard at this point, but I do have a nice copy of While You Were Sleeping for Fluffy sitting on the MythTV box. I’ll rip a few more movies, like Princess Bride and Juno.

Except for a walk, which I haven’t done in three days due to being sick, I’m pretty much just going to blow the rest of the day on Fluffy, writing, and maybe programming.

2009-03-20

It nets out to neutral

Filed under: Education,Family,Games,Programming,Writing — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — D. Moonfire @ 01:30

Today has been a relatively good and somewhat frustrating day at the same time. A bit long and wandering though, both the good, the eh, and idle thoughts.

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2009-03-10

Surprise! No sleep.

Filed under: Education,Family,Writing — Tags: , , — D. Moonfire @ 12:26

Fluffy has a job interview later today. Last night, while we were talking, she mentioned that she might come last night instead of today, mainly so she doesn’t have to rush around.

Somehow, I thought she would be coming, so I ended up staying up later than I normally do (23:00 three nights in a row, bad Dylan) and had trouble sleeping. I managed to drift off around 00:30 or so.

Near 03:30, Fluffy came through my door. I suspect she hung around for a few hours, trying to make a decision, then finally decided to head on over. I could never do that, midnight driving isn’t for me.

I’m always happy she is here. We didn’t really talk at all, mainly because I had work in a few hours, but it woke me up enough that I didn’t get back to sleep until 05:00 or so.

It’s going to be a tired day.

I managed to finish the second draft of my commission last night. I’m not exactly happy with it, but for this commissioner, I’m never happy with the story but they are. I sent it out, with the usual offer to expand on it. Hopefully they’ll enjoy it.

Knowing I have to move in four weeks is pushing me to finish all those little things that I’ve been stalling on. I still have a few more hundred DVD’s to enter, a dozen books to finish reviewing, and petitions to blow through. I finished sorting through my LEGO blocks last night; I need to not buy any new toys until after the move.

It is change.

Not fond of it, but it is what it is, so I’m going to do it.

2009-02-12

How do I waste the time?

Filed under: Games,Graphics,Technology — Tags: , , , , — D. Moonfire @ 13:34

Ended up working late last night on a customer issue. Fortunately, I’m not inclined to ignore the phone in the last three minutes of my work day in the off chance I’ll spend an hour and a half trying to fix things. However, it is highly annoying when I can’t figure out the problem. I’m suppose to be this impressive programmer, damn it.

After a quick trip to the grocery store for healthy food, I brought home the results of my unhealthy (Subway club sandwhich) lunch because I forgot to do groceries the day before. It isn’t that Subway isn’t bad, it is the pawn shop next to it that isn’t (financially) healthy. 3010 DVD’s for $30. “I got me some BAD movies!” including Ultraviolet, an absolutely terrible movie with some neat colors I like.

Since I didn’t get home late, I didn’t try to write. Instead, I just did little things. Like figure out how to get my VPN working from Linux, including a remote desktop to my work machine. Now, I don’t have to use Windows again except for World of Goo and Crayon Physics Deluxe. And the second those turn Linux-friendly, I’ll be ecstatic.

Then I spent an hour moving Glorious Saber to its new home. Not pretty right now, but it uses ComicPress in a shared environment (update one place, update them all) which means it has all those features I spent a week writing before. And, sadly, probably more secure, faster, and better developed.

Going through the strips, I still enjoy read it and looking at how my own graphical style is getting slightly mature. And getting depressed that its been over a year. And almost two years since my Exalted in-character journal has been updated. I always worry about the abstract nature of the Glorious Saber. I get complaints about the lack of arms and legs, but I like it. I also like Absurd comic and the Oblongs probably for the same reason. Though, both of those go with limited mobility where I go with not rendering arms and legs.

And, in the constant need to go to sleep on time, I managed to take almost three hours to get to bed. Apparently, in the middle of my shower, I decided I really wanted to get text-to-speech working on my computer.

…

Why?

What is wrong with me?

So, my computer can do some pretty talking. And I sort of added the programs to do some musical backgrounds. And was reminded that I really, really want an IPA dictionary to correct some of that really bad speaking. And that I liked Running Bomb but it needed help. And a tone of other things.

Guess what, apparently I’m exhausted.

Go figure.