Today is my first day of feeling mostly fine since last Monday. Wednesday through Sunday I was totally out of it, and yesterday I was at least able to work but it wasn't great.

Impact: three days of just about 0 billable work, which doesn't help the bottom line much. NaNoWriMo also totally fell by the wayside, and after a week of not having the energy to write, I've decided it's a lost cause. I still find the idea interesting, and will do my best to continue working on it, but the idea of operating within the constraints of the official November contest is no longer feasible.

Before falling ill I'd gotten back into the habit of regular exercise. Goodness knows I need it.

I think I own too much music. Or maybe I just have too much of a fascination with lyrics. It's weird that I can pull out one that's this accurate:

"Early November we got back the plague."

I need more songs to run to. This list is starting to get a bit repetitive... any suggestions appreciated:

Anamanaguchi - Power Supply
Basshunter - We are the Waccos
Basshunter - DotA (Club Mix)
Bloc Party - The Prayer
Blue Man Group - Rods and Cones
The Chemical Brothers - In Dust We Trust
The Chemical Brothers - Believe
Collective Soul - Heavy
The Crystal Method & Filter - (Can't You) Trip Like I Do
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right
Gorillaz - M1 A1
Incubus - Privilege
Interpol - Slow Hands
Ladyhawke - My Delirium
Lismore - Blood Bank
Metric - Combat Baby
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
Modest Mouse - Float On
The Notwist - One With the Freaks
Nullsleep - Ballistic Picnic
Our Lady Peace - One Man Army

<-- at this point YouTube went down on me, which makes it difficult to link to the remaining songs... will update later if I feel like it -->

Our Lady Peace - Neon Crossing
Pinback - AFK
Pomplamoose - All the Single Ladies
The Presidents of the United States of America - Munky River
The Prodigy - Run With the Wolves
Rammstein - Haifisch
Rammstein - Feuer Frei
Rammstein - Los
Rammstein - Engel
Random - Beautiful Brutality
Random - Hux Flux Deluxe
Santogold - You'll Find a Way
Say Hi To Your Mom - A Hit in Sweden
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Weezer - Troublemaker

Erin's joined up on livejournal as chevalierbear. So if you get a friend request from her, that's why

I've started keeping a "personal diary." Theoretically that means I keep most of my embarrassing/personal writings to myself rather than broadcasting them when I get the urge. We'll see how that goes.

I haven't written to it in the past week or so, as I was off helping Will and Kristi get married. Which was awesome. Weekend highlights:

- Bachelor party was a LAN party. Apparently some family members had difficulty believing this. "No, that's what they told you they were doing... but I know better." No, really, we just wanted to play some games.

- A wedding that was actually enjoyable. With few exceptions, weddings have always been more about labor than love, to me. This one wasn't, and I got to play a supportive role which made it even better.

- 3.5 hour drive back to Atlanta after the wedding. The wedding ended at about 9:30PM or so. This isn't really a highlight, so much, as it is an admission that I'm an idiot for not getting the hotel for an extra night, and an acknowledgment of the miracle it took to get us home without incident.


I've got a Mac now (long, work-related story), and I've been piddling around with GarageBand. I might actually try to record something at some point, although I don't know what I'd do with it.

• 01:39 Am I Wrong? bit.ly/69b5A
• 08:14 "So... what to do? I loathe Twitter, but like the people that use it (and won't leave)." bit.ly/gYoC3
• 10:40 I'm still not going to Tech after 5! Continuing my streak. Get excited.
• 11:20 Woah, @af4hl (my dad) is on twitter now. Will wonders never cease.
• 15:13 Watching the uzbl folks talk about coding in C has me glad I'm using AS3, despite its faults.
• 20:35 RE: It's looking like I can't. The problem I have with this is the implication that 'first-to-market' when it comes to s… disq.us/4kv

• 19:26 Does anyone know how feed aggregators differentiate read posts and unread posts in a feed?

• 08:40 AS3 doesn't allow multiple constructors? What kind of Java clone is this?!
• 10:23 Dealing with XML in AS3 is *poop.* #standup
• 10:41 Git-svn can't commit back to the SVN repo when you've got a dirty git index. That makes it somewhat more annoying and less useful.
• 13:09 I was not there, on the church stairs ♫ blip.fm/~6jem7

• 17:02 Installing Uzbl on Ubuntu-based Distros tinyurl.com/olqmgr
• 17:03 Installing Uzbl on Ubuntu-based Distros bit.ly/DGdMi

• 02:03 I want to live in Effington ♫ blip.fm/~6dzb7
• 02:45 New Desktop - snaptweet.com/e5a32

• 23:38 If you know no more of Guaraldi than "Linus and Lucy," you're not doing yourself a favor. ♫ blip.fm/~6b5gu
• 18:53 That's Numberwang!