Can you believe it? A real honest to goodness blog post. I’m exhausted. I just have a lot to do. And to be honest, life has become something I totally didn’t expect, but should have. I mean that more metaphysically, but it’s true physically as well.
Today I swear my alarm didn’t go off. In fact I have two alarms set, and neither of them went off. Now it’s possible, but highly unlikely, that they both went off and I slept through them. I’ve slept with the alarm on before (it’s NPR) but I always remember a few things or at least waking up briefly. Today, I remembered nothing. But I haven’t touched the clock since it worked yesterday. I can look right at it and see both alarms active. So I’m faced with two possibilities, one of which has to be true. I slept through two hours of talk radio only to wake up 45 minutes later with no recollection of it. Or, my clock radio that worked fine yesterday did not work today despite all indications to the contrary. I guess if it doesn’t go off tomorrow I’ll have a better idea of what happened today.
For some reason today I have energy. I got up and started doing laundry (that reminds me, I have to do some laundry). Then I did a bunch of stuff, including making Kody breakfast. I did some other stuff, and I don’t remember what that was either. Oh, I think I wrote a blog post.
Then I went to Starbucks to work. The place was packed full of laptops today. More packed than I’ve ever seen it. Everybody working.
Then I got home and cooked some taco meat while at the same time cutting the fat off some chicken and dividing it into 4oz portions for freezing. Then I made some rice and cooked up a portion of the chicken. I was at the same time cleaning up after myself and cleaning the kitchen. I had to sit down because I was getting a bit sore from all the mild back bending from cutting and cooking.
After the lovely and light barbecue chicken and rice, I ate Cocoa Puffs. This was a mistake. I really didn’t need them and it was the wrong time. I’ll try again tomorrow morning. I only have them to reminisce. I need Bugs Bunny on the TV to do it right, and Crest and Kool-Aid commercials.
I did some admin work for a customer and posted a couple more blog posts. I read some RSS feeds also.
This is my life now. I’m on all day long. If I sit down to relax and watch TV the laptop’s always sitting right there ready to be used, and always gets used. I just watched Lost. That’s my me time. Oh, also taking Kody on walks, that’s a great get away break. But today was rainy and he didn’t want to be outside. Now I’m writing this post.
I can’t even imagine what it would be like not to have a task list anymore. Even if I don’t have a specific task enqueued (which I always do) I come up with one immediately. I also have a constant backlog of triage-able tasks some of which never get done.
My life used to be simple. And you know what? It was boring. I like the fact that I’m so busy now I can’t even tell you what I’ve done sometimes. Although the alarm thing sort of scares me.
There it is. A blog post.
Oh, and this morning I realized I could use the computer science concept of mark and sweep garbage collection to help me with a synchronization task for a client where records may potentially be deleted through omission. I realized if I didn’t know about mark and sweep garbage collection, I don’t know if I’d come up with the right way to deal with this.