Mood: Bit tired, but OK.
Music: Rapture, Blondie.
Game: World of Warcraft, COD2, Dungeons and Dragons Online (Khyber Server), Oblivion
Book: Learning PHP 5, Sklar/O'Reilly
Weather: 55, clear.
Jobs applied to today: 0.
OK...now that I've recovered more or less from my birthday funk, here's what's been going on:
My birthday was pretty uneventful. I got some calls from some friends in NY, which, while really nice, just kinda made me miss going out to dinner on my birthday with all my friends. I wish I had been going to Hop Kee with everyone and generally laughing and whatever.
Don't get me wrong...it was really really nice to have dinner with Chelsea for my birthday. It's just weird to still have no friends after 4 months of living in Seattle. I can't say as it's overly surprising...I mean, I don't exactly go out and do things. Eh, whatever. My birthday was nice and relaxing.
On Wednesday, I DID get a call from that place that said I wasn't right for that job. Another recruiter from there called and said she thinks I'd been good in a couple of other places there. She's going to put me in touch with some people for phone interviews...so that's good. I'm cautiously happy about it. I'd like to work there.
My mom got me a Logitech G15 keyboard...which, while I'm still getting used to it, rocks hugely. It has a backlit LCD display on it that shows me my music player, has a Ventrilo control panel, and all sorts of other statusy things. In addition, the keyboard is backlit, has a lockout for the Windows key to keep me from accidentally hitting it while playing FPSs...it's just way too cool.
In programming news, while I was trying to research some solutions for the bugs I had in the programming I was doing, I discovered that the developer of the codebase actually had continued to work on it. So, while it fixed all sorts of bugs, it didn't fix others...others that I'd fixed before. So, I updated the codebase, and went back to fix all the things I had already fixed. And there's a whole bunch more things that need fixing. We've entered a beta phase, and I hope to have an initial release done by next week. I guess we'll see.
I played the beta of Tomb Raider:Legend on the 360...I could definitely go for a new Tomb Raider game. The demo was fun and tasty...left me wanting more. Which is the point of having a demo in the first place. I also tried the demo of BF2:Modern Combat. Laggy, but potentially fun.
Now, back to coding.
Posted by Glenn at April 6, 2006 06:44 PM