Raven's Journal

I'm at work, and somewhat bored.  It's not that I don't have anything to do, it's just that it's sort of dull. 

I had 2+ cups of coffee and I fear I will fall asleep this afternoon at my desk.

I suspect the fact I kept waking up (and somehow not remembering that I did) is not helping.

I'm working on fixing some minor problems in an existing PHP application.

This is the actual function name I found in one of the include files.

function get_busy($sect_id)

All I have to say is thank the Goddess for comments.  I would have had no idea what this did without the comments.

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/100135.aspx

According to Mlive.com, Meijer will offer some antibodics (~70% of the most commonly prescribed ones) for free regardless of your economic situation.

It's kind of messed up that some companies (Walmart, Kmart, Walmart) are stepping up and offering drugs at low cost or giving free drugs to people.

Here's a headline...

"Rice in Japan in bid to calm nervous Japanese"

I know what the writer meant but still...

I talked to a FreeBSD user from Holland who may be interested in helping MBSD in the future. 

He seems knowledge and loves cats (he has 9!).  He liked the idea of a BSD being named after a cat.

I did a bit of research.  If we booked the hotel and flight together, we could go to Germany for a week around $970 per person.  I estimate we'd need an addition $800 for food and expenses on top of that.

 

Do not kill the client.  I  know it's hard but try not to today.

I am sort of looking forward to this upcoming weekend.  The weekend after that will be the trip to Mackinaw Island and Andrea's wedding so I am expecting that to be a fun but busy weekend.

Work is going.  It's not bad, but it's not super happy fun time right now.  I suspect some time will have to be put into work this weekend but I am trying to miminize that to one day and not the whole freaking day.

I've been busy lately.  I barely have time to sit down and think.

http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2006/08/016.html

There's so much I want to write but I will have to wait until later.

Ok - work could be worse.  Not one of my favorite days so far...  I almost forgot how much the little mini meetings stress me out.  I'm not horribly stressed out, it's more that I'm not a big fan of the interruption it causes.  It seems like 95% of the time, I'm in the middle of a somewhat big, complicated programming task.

Luke and I bought a cheap network card from the "newest" computer store in Flint - Avalon Systems. LOL

I just wish I could go home and take a nap.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14268284/

Umm... here's my 2 cents.

Probably both companies use local water and the water supply is the problem or some other local ingredient.  It sounds like the Indian states are blaming an environmental problem on Coke and Pepsi. 

Now Coke and Pepsi should test their drinks.  If there's a problem with the water (or any other local ingredient), then they should charge more to import the ingredient. 

But you know, it could be a water problem and hell the problem could have been corrected years ago (importing water, or whatever) and the governments wouldn't do shit about it. 

Air's back on.  And none too soon!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/08/10/dvd.burning.ap/index.html

I hope this works out. I'd love to burn my videos from iTunes.

The air is being worked on in my office building and I am driving Luke's car today!  Damn it's hot outside.

Just one other person here so far.  The other two developers are at a meeting.