We’re finally done with this project! At least with the initial push. But now we know what we’re doing, and I think that in the future we won’t have to give the client so much material at once.
Now I will spend the rest of the day playing Flash games. Excuse me. *hums* hmm-hm-hmm *click, click* Oh, I’ll put in my headphones so I don’t disturb anyone. *shoop* (me putting on my headphones) *click, click*
Well, I randomly decided to take a short nap at 4 am that turned into three hours, and thus I didn’t get as much done as I could have, but oh well. We wouldn’t have finished everything anyway, it turns out. Fortunately the client is flexible, so we have the weekend to finish things up. Goody. I’ve been procrastinating on it, but after I finish this entry I’ll get started. I can’t wait till next week is over. The whole week will be spent completing the next part of this project, and then we’ll be done with it for a while. They’ll want more material in the future, but it won’t be so much in such a short time (as far as I know). After next week, I have nothing planned. After the past month or two of madness, I hope this means I’ll be bored.
I am appalled that my body is adjusting to this new schedule. I’m not supposed to be tired at 11:30 at night. I feel like it’s 2 in the morning (my normal bedtime). I have hours of work left to do! Well, I will not succumb. I have plenty of Wild Cherry Pepsi to keep me going, plus my iron will (stop laughing!) that is determined to get this project done on time.
At long last I have updated my website. I meant to do this a month ago, but I kept getting distracted by life.
The main changes are that I’ve reorganized and I’ve added a bunch of links. For the reorganization I got rid of the Miscellaneous page and moved its contents to other places. Science went into Computers, People into the blog, and Life Maintenance got its own page.
The links in this first round of link posting are places on the web that I call home. They’re either places that I visit often or places I plan to explore in the future or places I used to visit a lot that are still important to me or places that represent things that are significant to me even though I don’t usually visit the sites themselves.
I’ve also made some minor changes to a few of the introductions, specifically the site, weblog, philosophy, aesthetics, and computers intros. I’m considering the life maintenance intro new, even though it’s partly recycled from the miscellaneous intro.
And I made some minor formatting changes here and there and declared the site version 1.1.
Also, I’ve decided to associate my TWeb blog with my TWeb activity rather than with my other blogs, so I won’t be reporting my updates to that blog here.
I rebelled against my new schedule and stayed up late to finish this update. And you know what? It was worth it!
I am so tired. Even typing is taking effort. I haven’t gotten enough sleep lately–a combination of going to bed a little too late and getting up on time for the past week or so. But that’s okay. It’s better than going to bed way too late and getting up way too late. It means I’m halfway to my goal.
But what really killed me was the last two hours of work today. I was SO STRESSED. I think that’s the most overwhelmed I’ve ever felt at work. I felt like I was about to explode. It was a case of having too much to do in too little time. And then the office got kind of loud in a Friday afternoon sort of way, and I just couldn’t handle it. So in lieu of going ballistic and taking off people’s heads, I frantically grabbed all my stuff and rushed out the door. The quiet outside was heavenly. The ride home was slightly harrowing, since it was rush hour and a few other people seemed to be in a similar mood, but once I got home all I felt was fatigue.
I have the impression that some people go through this every day. Unless their business is saving lives, it seems to me they should seriously rethink their line of work and maybe their approach to life in general. But maybe I’m just saying that because I’m a Nine and don’t like unpleasant emotions.
On the bright side, I did get to watch Enterprise tonight, and you know what? I actually liked it! It’s the first time since the premiere that I’ve been able to simply enjoy an episode without feeling uneasy about the acting or some other problem. I actually found myself thinking it was too bad there are only a few episodes left.
Well, I still have an hour of work left to do today, so I will drag my way through it. I came up with a strategy on the way home for how to approach this project, so I should be okay. Plus I’ve calmed down since 5.
I bought some clothes online a couple of hours ago. It’s something I’ve desperately needed to do for months, and I’m sure everyone at work will be relieved that they won’t have to see me walking around with shirts that are fraying at the edges and pants with a hole in the back pocket. No one’s said anything, but they’d have to be blind not to notice. Yes, I’m that kind of person. I don’t care about stupid practical things like clothes, so I put off dealing with them until it becomes a dire necessity. But as part of my new program of ordering my life, I have dealt with them.
I thought buying clothes online would be easier than buying them from a store, since I wouldn’t have to wander around futilely looking through messed up piles of dress pants for something my size. And it probably would have been easier if I had lots of money for clothes. But instead I spent two or three hours hunting through the random assortment of rejects that end up on discount shopping sites. It was educational, though. I learned some new words like twill and chino, and I found out the difference between fiber and fabric, which seems obvious now that I know, but I always thought of polyester and cotton as fabrics. I ended up ordering my pants from Blair and my shirts from Sears, both on sale. I had never even heard of Blair, but they seem to be a major retailer.
So now I don’t have to think about that anymore, at least until next year. That sure has been weighing on my mind. It’s such a relief, in fact, that it’s completely cleared my mind. I can’t think of what I have next on my list of boring practical things to do. Not that I’m motivated to try.
I just started my TWeb blog today because Kaz told me to. But you have to be a member to read it! Ha ha! Oh, and if you do become a member, tell them trialvironite sent you.
When I was planning my site, I told myself I would blog more often because I’d feel like I had an official, settled place to do it. So I guess I should blog! Oh, plus I told Kaz that yesterday that I would.
I am going to try again to train myself to go to bed at a more normal hour for a human being. For some reason that’s always been hard for me. Two in the morning feels like a more natural bedtime. But unfortunately the world doesn’t run on my schedule, so I suppose I must conform. Stupid world! Today will seem empty because I had to go to bed before I really got to do anything. Laundry doesn’t count (at least I’m folding them this week!). I did watch some Star Trek: TNG, though.
Here’s my Xanga entry and my Diaryland entry for today. Kaz told me to blog in all three places.
Well, I’ve taken the plunge. I just switched completely over to Firefox from Netscape. I was already using Firefox at work, but I was still holding out at home. I have a tendency to hang on to things until they wear out. Netscape was still working with all the websites I wanted to visit, and my computer could run it just fine, and it still looked nice and modern, so why change? I felt almost wasteful about replacing it. But a few days ago I found out that my favorite web browser has been marginalized for several years without my knowledge. Apparently nobody uses Netscape. And I thought the browser wars were still going on! Boy, I’m out of touch.
So now the up and coming thing is Mozilla Firefox. Why does it appeal to me when Netscape works fine, despite being unpopular? Well, Netscape seems to be dying off. AOL owns it, and they’re keeping it going, but they seem to be piggybacking off of Firefox (which makes sense, since Firefox grew out of Netscape to begin with), and their browser development department is apparently minimally staffed. Firefox, on the other hand, is open source and is supported by a thriving community. Open source to me means frequent updates and lots of fun add-ons. And since Firefox retains the aspect of Netscape that kept me devoted (the way it managed bookmarks) and already includes a few extra features I like, I decided the time had come for a change. I was planning to take it nice and slow, but right off the bat Firefox asked me if I wanted to import my bookmarks and settings from Netscape, and once it did that, I could literally pick up in my web browsing where I left off with Netscape.
Incidentally, for me, it goes without saying that I would not switch to Internet Explorer. I’ve never liked it for various reasons. First it was because it looked ugly and stored each “favorite” as an individual file, which seemed very unwieldy to me, especially since my bookmarks reached the thousands (I’m sort of a pack rat, but I like to think of myself as a web librarian). It was so much nicer to have all the bookmarks together in one HTML document that I could easily view in a web browser. Later I avoided IE because it was so notoriously insecure. If you use IE regularly, you may notice that your computer is bogged down by enormous amounts of pop-ups and spyware. These are allowed onto your computer by IE, I’m told. I do not have that problem, since I’ve been using Netscape all this time. In fact, I only use IE for three reasons: 1) on rare occasions (rarer now that in the past), a web page won’t render properly in Netscape because it has been designed for IE; 2) certain other programs require IE (though I don’t actually have to use it in those cases–the other programs run it in the background); and 3) it’s needed for Windows updates.
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Anyway, now I’m on Firefox. I think I’ll wait a couple of days before uninstalling Netscape, just in case, or maybe I’ll do it when I do my spring cleaning on the computer. I have a lot of bookmarks to sort and extra programs to uninstall. It’s amazing how fast the gigabytes fill up!
As a side note, today I also switched to Trillian from the AIM client. Now I can be logged in to all kinds of things at once.
