Cleaning out the junk....

I've been doing the Flylady program for a few days just to see if it helps, after tigerchild pointed its existence out in one of her journal entries.

My apartment's still a mess, since I quite firmly agree with the notes there that if I try to add too many habits at once, none of them will stick! But it's slowly getting better. And it's inspiring me to WANT to clean little things, at least.

And I just cleaned my email somewhat. The In Nomine list I haven't read in forever because I've been scared of the volume? I saved the most recent screen, and deleted the rest. All of them.

Ahem. 19 meg of cleared emails later.... (No, I'm not joking. My computer was temporarily VERY unresponsive as it chowed through that file, cleaning it out!)

Yeeesh.

I find this amusing....

...considering I work as a computer programmer and spend a good chunk of my free time online. Guess I'm just a weirdo, not a geek. ;)

I AM 22% GEEK.

I wanna be a geek. But I'm not. Why would I even want to be one. Do I think it's fun? I should try writting an online test application at 1 am in my underwear.

Take the GEEK Test at Fuali.com!

Grocery Shopping

Yay, groceries. Yay, food!

Yay having a stovetop clean enough that things that have to bake in the oven don't sound like way too much work (first, clean the stove so nothing catches on fire or melts, then....) and can be bought without figuring they'll fossilize.

Yay, rain. It's absolutely pouring out there. It's gorgeous.

Now. Sort the laundry, start the laundry, start the food, trash out. Probably take about 5-10 minutes each...that's not a lot of time.

Scott's installing Windows XP. I hope it works well, as repeated OS installs are usually seriously tedious.

A warm house.

And not from the heater. The first loads of laundry are done, the rest will be in a little bit. I cooked lunch, and left the oven open to the house after I turned it off (might's well take advantage). (The turkey was good, but not incredible. I won't buy it again, probably; but I'm not sorry I did this time, so it's all good.) The dishwasher is running.

Scott's installed Windows XP on his computer, and now headed off to play game at D's house.

It's all good. It's warm and comfy and cozy in here, and I just might take a bubble bath in the middle of the day, no less.

After, thank you, the laundry is done. LOL. "I'm sorry, ma'am, that you couldn't get the dryers when you needed them. I was just taking a bubble bath."

Yayyyy, doing stuff!

Got the fuzzball out, on the grid, in public. Scened with a couple people. More people who've met her, petted her, hung around her. More rp. I had fun.

We've got some darn good players, on this site. Lots of fun.

And I wrote a +map command (actually, +map/full or +map1 through +map4, if you don't want to get spammed).

I feel USEFUL.

And don't think that +map command didn't take forever. The command itself, the code, is easy.

Laying out the entire Ashes grid in an ASCII map, suitable for sending through mux code (ie, lots of calls to the space function), wtih the appropriate ANSI for each room, took a while. *grins*

There was another round of comments on the fae-chan about not having one tonight. I'd done a very basic ASCII map, WITHOUT trying to add bells or whistles, split it for easy display, or put in mux code, a while back. Of course, it was missing a couple rooms. ACK. So first, I grafted the new rooms on. Chopped it up, added street-labels (which it had been missing). ANSI colors. The space() function where needed. Then mesh it back together, beating out most of the inconsistences, for the +map/full version (the numbered ones actually overlap a little, so you can get your bearings easier).

It's not perfect. It's not exceptionally pretty, or a stunning piece of code. But it works, and I think it's helpful and sufficient.

That's not bad, really. That's not bad at all.

By the way, Windows XP....

Windows XP is actually annoying me by being cute and nice. And despite reports that it's yanking people toward Microsoft sites...it didn't do that to me when I was playing around with it. Here I was, all prepared to hate it.

Scott gave me an account to play with. It will let me install all the software I want.

I think this would also work for my laptop, but I must talk to the guy who approved it first...see what he wants. I don't wanna install the DevStudio on Scott's machine to test it, the thing is temperamental, but...we'll see. We'll see.

The new interface isn't as different as it looks at first. Hype, not substance. No big shock there.

I don't love it. It's no huge new leap over what we've had, as far as the immediately obvious. It's no huge fall back.

I'm sort of neutral about what I've heard about it, too. It's got good, it's got bad. Better stability. Slightly better security. Not yet all the drivers you'd like, not as frinedly to some programs, too Microsoft-bundled.

My company's going to have to work with it eventually anyway.

Why not?