19. August, 2003 - dog days
- August has never been one of my favorite months. Even though, as Steph points out, my birthday’s in August, so are The Dog Days of Summer, plus mid-August is when my seasonal allergies kick into full-gear. So not only am I sweaty and miserable, I’m usually stuffy and miserable, too. This year is maybe a little better, as there’s generic claritin I can take, and it’s actually working pretty well so far this year, but generally from about mid-August until the first hard frost, I’m stuck in dog-days mode. To offset the improvement on the allergy front this year, I’m working on a project that I have no enthusiasm left for at all. It’s a steaming pile of dung that happens to function pretty well, but working on it always takes longer than expected, isn’t very satisfying, and we’re already about three months late. Add to that complete failure on the
finding someone who isn’t insane who might want to date me
front (hopefully that’s not an empty set, but I’m starting to suspect it is), and it’s another August I won’t remember especially fondly. Anyway, I threatened lighter posting during last week’s Saints home stand. Once I’ve cleared a bit of the backlog, I may carry through on that later this week. No plans for sure yet, but there’s a very good chance I’m just going to take a few days off sometime soon, rather than keep stealing hours from work piecemeal and feeling bad about it.
- Turly’s finished writing up his walk on the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage in Spain. It sounds like a nice trip, and he’s got some fun descriptions of things along the way. [turly]
- Turly says:
Go to google and enter miles per hour in furlongs per fortnight or any mathematical or conversion expression you care to think of.
Cool! [turly]
- A Few Tips for Writing Useful Libraries in PHP. Twenty seems like more than a few, but what the heck. [holy schmoly]
- Here’s the story of a guy’s quest to buy a Linux license from SCO, since they’re saying he needs one. [holy schmoly]
- Some UND folks went all the way to Kansas City to have A tail of a time, learning how to tailgate. I’m not quite sure why they didn’t just come to St. Paul.
- DHTML Lemmings doesn’t quite work in Safari. I think I’ll have to report that as a bug. [holy schmoly]
- The Random Personal Picture Finder (tm) hunts down pictures on the web using the default filenames used by various digital cameras. No telling what you’re going to get at all, really. And that’s half the fun. [jwz]
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Last updated on Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:34:08.