Tired

Worked 9:45 to 12:00 (took an hour off in the afternoon to deal with contracts for my apartment). Just getting home now. On the bright side, I think I pretty much got the stuff working that I wanted to.

Devin

The more you look...

Worked 9:45 to 1:00. The more I look, the more problems I find. I think things are under better control now though.

SLEEP.

Work work work

Was at work from 9:45 to 10:30 today. Got a bunch done and some serious cleanup on the C++ code, but behind schedule a bit so will have to play catch-up tomorrow.

Had a busy weekend:

Paid my taxes
Worked ten hours at the office
Painted my kitchen
Replaced the video card in my MythTV, thereby fixing the color problems I was having.
Bought an apartment

Now I'm sure many of you are wondering why the hell I would paint my kitchen when I am buying an apartment. Good question. The whole apartment buying idea is something that literally transpired in the last six days from the time Vikki gave sent me the listing to my getting the offer accepted. Two weeks ago I had done all the prep/sanding/spackeling of the kitchen, so I had pretty much passed the point of no return already. Regardless of the fact that I won't be staying here much longer, at least I will be able to enjoy not having a kitchen that is what I can best describe as Sherbert green.

Regarding the apartment, I have received a couple of requests for what/where it is, etc. It's a loft studio apartment at 35th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan. It is on the 7th floor and has a picture window that looks up at the Empire State building. It has 12 foot ceilings and approximately 625 square feet. Kitchen and bathroom are both serviceable but nothing fancy. The building has a rooftop patio with tables. Will post some pictures when I get them.

Holy crap

Holy Crap. I'm buying an apartment in midtown Manhattan (35th and 5th). Application was completed and sent in this morning and my offer was accepted this afternoon.

Holy crap.

Exhausted but can't sleep

I'm absolutely exhausted. I've also been laying in bed wide awake for the last three or four hours. The anxiety over what is going on at work combined with the apartment situation (I'm making an offer tomorrow), and my mind just can't relax and go to sleep. I had the same problem last night too and only got a couple of hours sleep, which just makes it worse tonight.

Very annoying.

Looks like I'm going to have to work through the weekend too if I'm going to get this stuff working in time.

The hardware for my MythTV development rig showed up today. At this rate I won't get around to playing with it until who knows when, but at least it's here.

What a bitch

Still at work. Think I figured out the problem that was preventing cluster operations from working properly (something that held up a number of people most of the day).

I hate to blame it on "state management", but what a pain. I have done a bunch of work to clean up the code, but am suffering from a classic case where cleaning up the code exposes other problems. It's like the episode of "Flip this House" I was watching this weekend where a simple floor repair resulted in them discovering that all the floor joists were falling apart from terminate damage.

Will hopefully get out of here in the next few minutes. Just need to cleanup the regression rig.

Oh yeah, and I think I found an apartment I am going to buy in Manhattan.

Merry X-mas

Had a nice three day weekend for Christmas:

The good:

• The opportunity to spend time with friends and family.
  
• Cool stuff from friends and family.
  
• Being on-call for work but not having any actual calls.
  

The bad:

• Having to shop in midtown on foot, and drag around a stupid company issued laptop everywhere I went on top of all the gifts I was buying.
  
• Having to take home two huge bags of gifts from New Jersey in the pouring rain on foot, one bag with two broken handles and one bag with one broken handle. Oh yeah, and also having to drag along the company issued laptop.
  

That shoulder bag with the laptop starts to feel VERY heavy after dragging it for ten or twelve blocks combined with various gifts.