Craving Apple Fritters and Milk

We've submitted the final candiate of the game, here at work - just last night in fact - so this should mark the end of overtime, for a few weeks at least. I guess it depends on what the guys up north find during their evaluation of the build we gave them.

I got some good work done on the web site last night. I really don't know why I go home and work some more after working all day, but I do it. I guess I know that if I don't work on the site every day, it will never get finished.

I got the story selection page reorganized after browsing the web for ideas on layout. Everything on the web is so damn tiny. All the buttons, icons, and text is mini mini. I fear for the day when my eyes go bad and I can no longer enjoy the internet.

Got a bad headache last night about midnight, and it took about an hour and a half for the advil to kick in. Cindy was a sweetie and took a walk with me around the apartment complex. It was cooler outside, but still very humid.

I'm considering an air conditioner. You can get them for about $130 nowadays. We're usually pretty good to go with the weather, a nice breeze is usually blowing. But there is about a month every year that is pretty uncomfortable. I'd say that $130 is worth being comfortable for that month... Plus, what if this is just a hot year? And we suffer for months before breaking down and buying an AC.

Grumpy Du!

Du: New Speak - Origin: Brat1
Short form of "Dude", corrupted to mean any person, especially one with whom we are sympathetic.

Uses:
Lil Scampery Du = A small and cute child.
Lil Old Du = An elderly person
Good Du = A productive or well behaved person
Excellent Du = A hard worker or especially thoughtful person
Bad Du = Naughty or lazy person

So yeah, I was a grumpy du this morning. The day has definitely improved. I have a new stash of fruit in the fridge, and I had some tasty lunch. I don't know what to expect for tonight - overtime I mean...

I think we're about to get a new build, so the evening depends on how the build turns out I suppose. I went home around 7:30 last night, so I could work late tonight without hating life too much. Especially since it's hot out and work has AC.

Sore, Sunburned, Surly.

Tuesday as Monday - my whole week is going to be off kilter now. Holiday weeks are always kind of odd. People stagger in from whatever wild weekend they had, sore, sunburnt and surly. Brian came in but went home within about 30 minutes - sick with a cold.

It was nice having a day off for a change. It's been really hot the last few days, so it was difficult to relax at home. Cindy had most of yesterday off and we went out for lunch, and spent time in a bunch of different air conditioned retail outlets.

I got some work done on the web site - I'm reworking it into its new "Fiction Interactive" format, which will take a bit of massaging on each page. I need to change the references from 'case' to 'story' and update the logo on every page.

I'm grumpy today, and I don't know why. Maybe just tired. I avoided caffeine cause I know it makes me edgy... I ate a good breakfast, and had some fruit... I am craving bad foods, deep fried and with lotsa gravy. I will be good, and eat the food I brought with me. Something batter dipped and salty sounds yummy though...

Here I am on Sunday

Where am I? Come on, you can guess... Work! That's right. Supposedly it's just for a few hours, but we'll see what happens. The tiniest issue could blow up into a big mushroom-cloud of doom.

Cindy works this evening, I think she's just going in for a few hours to close the store and do some paperwork.

I have a headache. It's hot in here cause the air conditioning computer won't respond. I want to go home. Oh well, at least I am making overtime pay.

Thickly and Sticky

It's a still, humid day today. It was hot at 7am. I was glad to come to work where I could enjoy air conditioning. I was given a new PC on which to test the game, because my old one was producing really long load times, and a bunch of A and B issues. I think Eugune worked some dark magic on these new components, just to get these bugs closed.

I went to Fed Ex during lunch and shipped back the violin that arrived in error. Hopefully in a week or two I'll get my money back from Sam Ash. $200 is nothing to sneeze at. After Fed Ex, I went to the grocery store and got a bunch of fruit, more cereal, some draino, you know the usual.

Speaking of the violin, I need to get Cindy some lessons before we forget about it and we realize it's been a year since she got it, and never touched it. She was playing with it the other day, but you really need lessons to get rolling. Maybe some day I'll get a dulcimer. Hey, if Cindy, Liz and I ever learn to play, we could be a band. A Violin, Guitar, and Dulcimer would sound pretty good together.

I was hoping for a laptop for my birthday this year (was gonna split it wi Cindy), but it doesn't look like it's in the cards. We've been trying to pay off the dentist (Just a few more months) and the truck needs a bunch of work - new tires, air conditioner switch, and it's been running rough lately. Maybe it's just old, but I'll have to see what Frank (Our Mechanic Extraordinaire) can do with it.

I'd like to get new furniture, too. The stuff we have in the living room really needs to be trashed. Ah well, never enough cash to do everything.