Damn, I slept poorly last night. Not real keen on why, but I did wake up at 6:30 and was actually on time to work. I think coffee will get me through the morning. I finished all my laundry which is nice — I have clothes to wear today, and I wouldn’t have them if I wouldn’t have done laundry. Typing that was annoying.

Man, what is up with the wind? It’s blowing really hard all over … I dislike wind. I dislike wind more than I dislike snow, and even more than I dislike it being blazingly hot. I think I’ll learn all about wind today.

I have no plans for tonight. It’s friday night, and I have nothing to do. [sigh] If you have plans and would like to include me, please call me. or aim me. or e-mail me. please? i don’t want to end up at the perk all night reading my book 😉

I don’t know what’s going, but there is some hella big crisis in utah; my dad has been on the phone since I got home [about 3 hours ago] … I would have updated, but I couldn’t — please forgive me, dear followers. Todays Topics are varied in both direction and length. Crack open a cold one and enjoy.

This morning I had perhaps the best shit of my entire life. ‘Nuff said.

I didn’t show up to work until 10:40. Oddly, my boss [jef] asked my why I was ‘late’ … I replied ‘for my wage, I’m right on time.’ … I don’t think he took that too well. Hrmm … the really screwed up part is that I know they won’t fire me, and I know they know this. Makes me wonder exactly how I’m seen around there. Oh well.

A ‘scumbag’ originally referred to a used condom. [old quote]

Revelation x 2: I have this personality flaw, and I need to resolve it. I have the extremely bad habit of judging what is best for others and acting to further that resolution — i.e. jumping in on other people’s business ‘for their own good’ … Seriously, this has got to stop. People, if I jump in your business, tell me to back the fuck off. if that doesn’t work, resort to physical measures. I’m not joking — it’s really bad of me. I talk about how I hate how uncle sam can spend my money better than I can, and then I turn around and act like I can run people’s lives better than they can. That is not only backwards, but it’s also very, very wrong. Give me a hand in not doing ‘what’s best for you.’

That’s all for now. Maybe a little more, if I find some interesting things … after the laundry is done.

The revelation that I am a complete and utter computer guy hit me today. I am not really happy about this, but it’s how it is … I go over to Capin-Crouse today because their router is not working … at all. They had dangling phone lines and a router. That’s it. I spent almost 4 hours making & running cable, setting up their connection, taking off sprint broadband, setting up their DNS, setting up their proxy blah blah blah. Just a lot … the head network Admin there is “A+ Certified” … he had absolutely no idea what I was doing … he just kind of stood around waiting for me to ask him to do something. This realization that I am approaching hardcoreness scares me.

I also realized that I did not build archving into my news script, which makes it tough to do archives; everything is stored in a database, and not in actual HTML. I’ll have to think that one through.

I haven’t slept yet … I have been awake for the past … how ever many hours … coding my very own News Posting Script … it makes things *super* easy on me to administer, as it’s all in one tidy database, and it also has support for comments! really rockin, I’m telling you. It will be a while before I get it to look right, but it is really cool. It’s 400k of pure rand0m programming =)

Take a look and post some comments … www.hpi.net/rand0m/poster/default.asp … I am off for 45 minutes while I sleep.

Well, I went to the party for SCIP, and it got trashed pretty bad. When I left at 8:15, it was losing by 12%, with 96% of the precincts counted. I’m fairly certain it lost, which is kind of sad, but hey, no skin off my back. The party was nice, though; I met the mayor, a bunch of city council people … it was pretty cool to hobnob with all the movers and the shakers of our community here.

That’s about it today of things I want to post about … maybe a little more later tonight, if I feel up to it.

The whole Springs City Improvements Program party is tonight. They plan on having poll results by 7:00 — which is when the party starts. I am invited to come, as I am the web developer for scip.net, the project’s website. I don’t know if I will attend; it seems rather posh, what with the whole city’s government there … also, no one I know will be there, which sucks.

Today has been another one of those days … I had my share of free time, which i gladly spent outside in the extremely nice weather, but there was a lot of grindstone work. Things have smoothed out quite a bit here — we don’t recieve hundreds of phone calls a day anymore, maybe 20. It is nice … i’m going to go waste some time before the party, or go home.

You know, I really hate taxes. I mean, I abhore them. Here is a little bit of the idiocy:

1998-1999
Made : $3,728.30
Refund: $538.75
14.45% Back

1999-2000
Made : $11,143.75
Refund: $395.95
3.5% Back

Seriously, what the fuck is going on. I make almost 4 times the amount last year, and I get *less* money back!? wtf. My mom says “it’s called ‘bracket creep’ — it really sucks.” Apparently, my amazing [cough] earnings bounced me into the next bracket up: this is known as the “We’re going to screw you hardcore … thrice!” Man, this really sucks monkey balls. DIE UNCLE SAM, DIE!!!

Have you ever talked to someone who seemed agitated / annoyed / unnerved, and they called you goofy, offered no explanation, and then said goodbye? I just did. Rather unsettling, if you ask me. Seriously, what is a ‘goofy’ guy like me supposed to think about things like that? Am I retard goofy? Stupid goofy? Funny goofy? Goofy for what reason? Jeez, throw me a bone here.

I realized even more fully today that I go to church not for myself, but to please my mother. That, however, is kind of good, though; going to church guarantees me a place to sleep. That’s nice, but church sucks ass.