Ghosts

Spent the night chasing ghosts. Silly ghosts that live in PHP... and would play nice with Firefox, but haunted the inhabitants of Internet Explorer'ville endlessly. Probably a good thing, because those inhabitants deserve to be haunted - forever, for all of the grief they have caused me.

But these ghosts needed to be eliminated. Initially, it seemed like a playful ghost, something that could be fixed with a few little changes - Slimer. A couple hours later, it felt like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow man.

Then, like Egon Spengler (i'm not gonna google it. i'm trusting my memory), Nan showed up with some good ideas. We crossed the streams, and hopped into Ecto-One.... and then it was fixed.

Take that ghost.

Its cold tonight. Like 10C cold. Just checked Dashboard. its 7C cold. Last weekend felt like August, now it feels like October. Seems like summer just disappeared. That fleeting feeling will come too soon - no need for it now. Reminded me again, to stop chasing ghosts, and spend more time lying in the grass. Ghosts are afraid of the grass, and the sun, and park benches under trees.

The weather and all of this talk of metaphysical ghosts makes me feel like reading Pirsig again. Maybe I will.

#54962E

Today has been a day of daydreaming. My focus is off, but not entirely. Just like I could tweak the aperture and keep everything sharp if I wanted... but I have chosen not to.

Everything has sort of gone past in a blur. Got a lot accomplished on the DGCC project, but I'm more motivated to stare at the wall.

Went for a walk at lunch, and saw someone lying in the grass. I think they were reading a book. They might have been pretending.

I sat down on a bench, and thought about continual reinvention. If you're not always changing, you're staying the same.

Then I decided to listen to Bright Eyes for the rest of the day. And drink Arizona Green Tea.

Snowshoeing

I am officially a survivor. Made it through week 1 of training without collapsing, dying, or quitting in the process. its always hard to get back into a routine; the drudgery of bad days drudges a little bit more when there is a prescription involved. The 5 mile run on Tuesday night, after a long day of work, might as well have been cough syrup. But, like Buckley's, it tasted bad, but it worked. Felt great to get through it.

Thursday was frozen, and the hills would have been treacherous, so that workout was postponed, leaving a threepeat that will seem pathetic in a few months time. A few hill repeats on Friday night, a 5 mile pace on Saturday and today's 10 miler. I was pleased with today's run though - 85 minutes, in the cold and wet. The snow was bipolar, hardpacked and slippery in some areas, fluffy quicksand in others. Either way, my legs will be sore tomorrow.

Got some good work done tonight on the tri site... hopefully that will continue. I think another union meeting with Mr. K is required later this week, but maybe a change of venue, with better scenery.

The artist formerly known as the meth-lab is now *nearly* complete. Can't really believe it myself. I have a few photos from the night that I first had the crazy idea of re-doing it. Once we finish the floors, I'll snap some after shots.... May be able to move in next weekend!

So everything is going well. Somehow managing to keep all the plates in the air. Need to find some more time for the D80.

Blogging 101

This is not a lesson, a lecture, or frankly anything more or less educational than the typical chattering of fingers across a keyboard.

Just realized that my previous post was number 100 - is that some sort of an anniversary? I think so... 100th blog post, is definitely an aluminum anniversary. So maybe a macbook pro? Hopefully new ones next week, and if things fall in a particular way, then maybe.

Listening to a good mix of coding music tonight. Took so long to get into the necessary frame of mind to get anything accomplished, but once I got the soundtrack dialed, I realized that at this point in the project (link to come when its done), its really just a matter of copying and pasting and a bit of database stuff. Nothing revolutionary. The stylesheet definitely needs a good spring cleaning though, starting to look cluttered.

The soundtrack tonight started with a little Oxide & Neutrino to get my brain into the digital realm. The Execute album really reminds me of those early heady days, when we were the jilted generation - The Prodigy, The Crystal Method, The Chemical Brothers, Fluke and those crazy compilation cds...

Finally landed on Portishead when it was time to wind down and return to an analog state. Nearly through all of Dummy now, then it will be time to sleep.

For fans of good music, hop over to Craig Cardiff's Tour Podcast page. We set it up last night, to prepare for the Canadian tour that kicks off very soon. The idea: a new song performed for every city on the tour - will be uploaded into the podcast feed, so by the end of the tour, fans will have a new live album, delivered via the magic of RSS. very very cool stuff. I am very excited about the prospects of this, there will certainly be some genius moments that come out of a project this ambitious.