General

I have a temporary fix for my images… This weekend I’ll have to do something better…

Waah! My image hosting service (RoadRunner) has suddenly been denied access through my firewall at work!!! Now none of my images show up… (Of course, anyone reading this who doesn’t work here should have no problems at all.)

Programming Marathon
Between work and my master’s project, I have not stopped looking at a computer monitor for three weeks now. Last night I couldn’t take it anymore, so I picked up Lord of the Rings again. I read until I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore, and I only have 75 pages left. If I could’ve just stayed up a little longer… Tonight I’ll allow another evening off from my project to finish the book, but then it’s back to non-stop coding until May.

How can it possibly be Monday already? I spent almost the entire weekend working on my master’s project. As a result, I have absolutely no desire to be looking at a computer screen today, but unfortunately, that’s my job. :P At least I got a lot done. I’m planning on doing a demo for my advisor tomorrow, so I wanted to have it as polished as possible by then. There’s still a lot of work to do, but what’s there is really starting to look great!

In between bouts of frantic coding, we played a couple of games of Iron Dragon. It’s this really fun railroad game where you draw with crayons on a laminated board and go from city to city picking up and dropping off stuff. I lost both times, but it was still fun. Crayons are definitely a great break from the keyboard! Maybe I should buy a box for the office so I can color for a bit when I get tired of staring at the monitor…

TGIF!
Today is Denis’ birthday! We’re going out to a Japanese restaurant later for something I can’t spell. It sounds like “shabu-shabu”, but I’m sure that’s wrong – it really looks silly! Anyway, he had it in Japan, and has been dying to get it again ever since, so we found a place that actually serves it. We’ll see if it’s authentic or not.

I’m just so glad it’s Friday. I have been in a miserably crabby mood all week and I’m really happy that it’s almost over! Hopefully I’ll get lots more done on my master’s project this weekend, and be in a better mood on Monday. Well, Tuesday, since Monday is just not a good day to count on being in a good mood (especially with an 8am meeting!)

Missing!
I have totally lost a fleece vest. This morning as I was getting dressed I realized that I haven’t seen it in at least 2 months. I searched the entire house, top-to-bottom, to find it this morning. I even had Denis look in the trunks of the cars. Unless it ended up in the crawl-space attic, it’s gone. I can only hope I left it at someone’s house and they’ll read this and figure out that I left my vest there! It’s orange and brown and green, kind of a muted plaid. And it’s fleecy. With a hood. :( And it’s probably lost and lonely and wondering why it took me so long to figure out it was missing…

Cookiepalooza
I won best tasting cookie with my Chocolate Intrigues yesterday! Which is really cool. Except, I’ve gotten a number of snide comments from some people because last year I also won the chili cookoff. It was a blind vote both times, and I guess I really can’t help the fact that people like what I make. It kind of makes me not want to enter the next contest, because I don’t like to feel like I’ve done something wrong when I haven’t. It didn’t help that I was tied with someone else and the tie-breaking vote picked my cookies. I guess I’m just in a frumpy mood today. I think I’ll go home and walk it off with Molly…

Somebody found my blog with the search “final fantasy 8″ +”wallpaper” +”spaceship”… Are they really looking for wallpaper of the spaceship in final fantasy 8? Is there actually a spaceship in final fantasy 8? (And who would put up wallpaper of final fantasy 8, anyway?)

Watery Revelations
I think I should be paid for the time I spend in the shower. After all, my best ideas and solutions to problems occur to me there. Somewhere between rinsing the shampoo out of my hair and working in the conditioner this morning, I figured out how to solve something at work. Now I just have to find time between meetings to implement it. :P It’s definitely Monday!

You Can’t Always Get What You Want
…well at least according to the Rolling Stones. But the fortune in my fortune cookie asks you to suppose you can…

So what exactly does this mean? Where do you place the emphasis? If you read it “Suppose you can get what you want…” it means something different that “Suppose you can get what you want…”. And let’s not even get into the “…in bed” thing. Any ideas?