K. Close III

Thursday, October 7th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 13 Comments

Well, I must be seriously tumbling into this NaNiWriMo thing. I made icons, so I must be serious at some level if I’m making icons for something.

   

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 5 Comments

I’ve got two people presuring me to do NaNoWriMo now. Its starting to really build in my head and more than likely I’m going to do it. I just want to give it a bit more thought before I acutally apply. 50,000 words is a lot to pump out in 30 days. In fact, it’s approximately 1,666 words a day. To keep ahead of the curve, I’d probably have to do 2,000 words a day average so that I could go brain dead on certain days.

It’s a grand coincidence that I dreamt of an intricate plot cross section the other day, and that could be expanded into a 50,000 word “story,” but at the same time, what if it’s an award winning idea and I waste it on literary masturbation. I guess I could always continue to develop and edit after November, but at the same time… Bah, who am I kidding. If I don’t force myself to write, it’s not going to be an award winning anything. I will continue to ponder the possibility and I’ll let you all know if I decide to do it next week. I’m gonna need all your support, encouragement, and constant hounding to do this, but I think I can.

At the very least, I can write 50,000 words of crap.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments

As I was commenting on my journal elsewhere (in a comment no less), I’ve been remarkably productive today, which lead me to feel that I deserved a donut. Two in fact.

To be honest, I’m still being productive and am taking a short break in my productivity to write this inane text just so you monkeys will know the level of my productivity. I loaded up the web site this morning and started work on a new News Ticker. We had discussed the inclusion of such a thing months ago in pre-production, but it was never implemented. Tired of having a “placeholder” there, I went searching around for such a thing to actually be useful. I found a fairly simple and minute news ticker that serves the purpose about as well as anything could and now am filling it with new for it to tick.

Yesterday, I spent the better part of the morning either working on Mac Laptops or completely reorganizing the desk space that effectively extends my desk space. We live in a cramped office and I am an animal of mass collection, so when I need to work on the afore mentioned laptops or any other number of extra devices, I need a space to put them. I have an El Cheapo desk that sits next-to my regular desk that works as a return that really doesn’t turn at all. But it’s where I hold all the temporary projects so as to not get in the way of my permenant projects. Anyway, I had determined that my space was too small yesterday and decided to clean up, de-clutter and expand. I”m feeling a lot more productive and maybe that’s why I got off my ass so early and started working on this news ticker thing.

Anyway, my scanner, which also found a new home, has scanned the image I need for the current event I’m about to post on the news ticker, so I should get back to being productive. After lunch I’ll maybe talk about some other stuff, or maybe even practice writing. Who knows.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 3 Comments

damn I need to do an update… but right now it’s donut time… I’ll try to write something when I get back.

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 6 Comments

Why do I keep longing to upgrade my phone?

Hooray, it’s Friday!

Friday, October 1st, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 9 Comments

It’s the weekend tomorrow and I have no plans or ideas on what I’m going to do with it. Probably waste it like every weekend. Its supposed to rain so more than likely I’ll hermit in the house and read, watch TV and play City of Heroes. Maybe I can get enough people online to do that damn mission I can’t seem to finish with Kher-Minu. Though, I have to be honest, I most want to be able to do it with corwin75, but since he should be busy by Saturday (I hope, if all goes well), I doubt that he’ll be on. I’ll just have to keep my eye out for blu3warri0r.

Anyhoo, I had to work late again last night so I didn’t make it to the rec center but I WILL go today. Though it’s supposed to rain this evening so I may not go to Critical Mass afterwards like I had planned. I like riding and all, but riding in the rain sucks. I left my bike here yesterday specifically so I could go to Critical Mass a see how I feel meeting 30 new people, but if it’s gonna rain, I’ll have to wait until next month, even if it would imply that I could meet less than 30 people today because most would be chased off by the rain. Fuck it.

Damn I love my Nomad. It’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made, and even with all the newer, cooler models out there, I still love mine. It’s got over 10,000 songs on it and still has almost 14GBs of free space. I can use it as an MP3 server and access it from anywhere over the internet (and you can too if I trust you enough to give you the access link and password – can’t hurt to ask, right?). I can carry it with me and if I can get the replacement car stereo I want, I’ll be able to listen to it in my car as well. It has a great battery life (like 8-12 hours of constant play time) and, well, it’s just damn cool. I mean there are a couple of things that would be nice if they worked better, but I’ve never regretted buying it. Screw Ipod, I’m a hermit with a Nomad!

This week’s been kinda wierd I guess. Steve is gone as of Thursday for Paternity leave and Kiki is now working full time for us (well, full time = Tues/Thurs 8 hours). The lab has been pretty good and what hasn’t worked lately, I’ve been fortunate in being able to fix to some degree. I’ve felt more productive and accomplished in there than I have in a while. I finally found the solution to an application not running from even before the semester started and found a workable work-around to a recurring, but not consistent printing problem.

I just discovered some cooler features in Mozilla and as soon as I updated to FireFox, they went away. Fortunately, I found a source that tole me how to re-enable it, though I’m not sure it works because I haven’t seen it happen since I upgraded. We’ll see I guess. I won’t miss the feature, but it sure was nice.

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