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July 9, 2006 - In which he finally gets off his ass and types something

Wow. A month gone is a lot, even for me. Sorry. The problem is that I have so many things that I want to write things up about, but then one of three things happens: The issue seems trite, I don't have a strong stance on it, or I get caught up in other things and simply don't get around to it. More often than not, of course, it's the third one, where I'm too busy or lazy to do it. This needs to change; working on it.

But recently I have had a pretty good excuse, in that I've been spending a lot of time at work. We had our product launch a month ago today, and then all kinds of crazy stuff has been happening in the meantime. New development, next-version features, and more -- it's amazing how the period I thought would be the easiest has been among the busiest so far. It's relatively enjoyable, but recently I've run into some incredibly frustrating problems, so the last couple weeks have been up-and-down. Of course, when I take a step back from it, I still have absolutely nothing to complain about. It's still pretty cool.

Not much else has been happening; I've picked up a couple new games and a couple old games, so those have pretty much occupied my time recently. Oh, and today we went hiking, which was pretty awesome (pictures in the POTD soon, of course). Thumbs way way down to Mount Rainier National Park for not allowing dogs, though. We ended up wasting an hour-plus of driving time because we didn't know about the no-dogs rule. Fortunately, we found a neat, relatively easy hike up to a cool waterfall, and we got to take the dogs with us. I hope to start doing more "outdoorsy" stuff soon (gasp!), so maybe this can serve as a good start towards that.

Things around here need improvement. Seriously. My gaming section needs an overhaul, my links page desperately needs to be completely razed and rebuilt, and I definitely need more stuff for the main page. But again, expectations should be low. If I come up with anything interesting, you'll know about it.

July 31, 2006 - Right, this again

So, a brief summary of the last two-plus weeks:

• Work has been insane. As an example, I was there until 2am Thursday, then ten hours again Friday. Oy. Our entire team has basically been doing the software equivalent of fighting fires for a couple weeks now. It's been tense and frustrating, and it's really getting old. Of course, once this passes, we get to work on the stuff that we should have been working on for the last two weeks. Groan again.
• Last weekend, I went with the neighbors up to some little river an hour north of here. It was quite amusing to hang out with people that I would never hang out with otherwise, but hey. I got briefly acquainted with the subculture of Nascar, big trucks, cheap beer, and general redneckery. I must say that I simply don't understand it. But that's okay, they probably don't understand me either. Interesting experience all around.
• Oh, and I got ridiculously sunburned at said river. The last three days have basically sucked whenever I'm sitting, laying down, or walking. For those of you keeping score, that's a high percentage of the time.
• And the heat has finally stopped, which means I no longer have to sleep on the couch. Huzzah.
• This weekend was pretty sweet too, with my first-ever paintball match (which absolutely rules, I highly recommend it) and my first round of golf in over a year. The golf was ... interesting, to say the least. Four solid holes played in a downpour, and about ten played in bright sunshine. I scored two pars and a twelve, and just about everything in-between. I'm exhausted.
• But most importantly, maybe you've heard a little something about the middle east. I really want to type up another You're All Wrong article about it. We shall see.