timezone surprise

shit it's late. summary post!

surprise! i got to work and had to begin on a new, as-of-yet undefined fantasy feature. my boss may complain about my over-engineering as much as he likes, the new feature became functional reality before lunchtime.

last week's lunch partner (scr) informed me of a good cheap lunch when we met, and i tried it out today. aside from an embarrassing incident, it's a great meal, cheap at the price and provides an excuse to eat alone in the office with my kindle.

afternoon: icon / game planning, over-engineering required to do stupidly simply things in an unnecessarily complex css / javascript ecosystem (it takes special code to instruct the document to respond to a click *anywhere* in the browser window without messing up the initial call. for those who understand: displaying a div and then being able to click anywhere to hide it again is complicated), playing with virtual machines, apparently solving the crisis of having my supermarket card tagged by the ministry of defense, and just missing the two buses i needed to get to the other office.

at least the frequency increases at those hours.

my co-worker has not yet learned to consider the future. in particular, he asked why i was wasting time documenting something that needs to be done only after the current priority number one is taken care of. i had to explain to him that it's something that's easy to forget about when working on another project, to which he responded by rolling his eyes.

*sigh*

our biggest problem during testing so far? the code i've re-written is functional, the old code isn't, and we keep running into issues that simply aren't :P

i scrambled back to meet with pg for two minutes to pick up my referral that i'd left at home, and for some reason found myself wondering about marriage.

i read wired news* on the bus to the gastroenterologist, who explained that i don't really have to worry too much about h. pylori and that if i want to delay treatment nothing will happen. i walked out with a lightened step.

* kickstarting satellites!
medical sales are not okay (discussed in the union)

home - good run - okay stretch and pitiful exercises - excellent dinner - online must-do's (webmaster and poetry stuff, mainly) - walking the dog - almost buying thudnerstone before realizing i might find it much cheaper at icon next week - fixing the translation of a previous commander's resume - ohshitit'sbedtime.