sweating it out

i'm stressed - it's mostly because of the lack of (real) work, but also due to the fact that chc staying with me is becoming a "thing". there were a couple of items on my morning agenda; instead, i found myself struggling to make her damn business cards - i'd promised to help before, and was under the impression that she'd managed by herself...

which means that she hasn't done anything much this week. and the less she does, the more stressed i get because i want her to get out, and i don't want her to stay in her currently pitiful situation.

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chc came in in the middle of the night monday, mumbling something about food poisoning. i went back to sleep, and woke up a couple of hours later dreaming about the sludge in the the yarkon (river? stream?).

i had The Talk with chc when she woke up - it wasn't pleasant. i explained that it was time for her to find a new place to live... i felt terrible about it for most of the rest of the day.

first thing i saw as i came to work? the portuguese drug disaster. can we all learn from this, please? i think my plan may have been overkill :P

i discovered that as far as the university is concerned i won't be considered an actual student for another month or so - oh, well.

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there's a little controversy surrounding my statements regarding going nuclear:
highlander: or use this clean free ubundant energy - LIFE project
me: that sounds too good to be true; i hope that's not another "maybe"!
but instead of saying "or" use it, let's say "and" - it's not such a stretch to implement nuclear power on a global scale right now, whereas LIFE has yet to become practical...

it's better to go with a probable imperfect solution than a maybe-possible perfect one: nuclear now!
scrapper: gentlemen, nuclear power has a lot of financial interest behind it. people want you to think that nuclear power is awesome and great and will solve your problems.
but it wont. fifty years from now, there won't be enough room on the planet for enough powerplants (i've seen that calculation in some lecture). the problem with solar power is, although it's the cleanest non-heat producing solution, it will bring zero money to the tycoons. so nobody's selling it.
why would we need to a create a new star in a lab?
we already have a star.
me: nuclear power has a lot of self-interested fat-cats stopping it from being a possible solution.

and this looks like what you were talking about.

there's a lot of problematic non-evidence in that, but that's not the deal. did you read the closing paragraph from the thorium article?

that's what it's about. if we could get solar power and other renewables going faster than nuclear, then that would be great too :)

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the meat i had for lunch turned out to be rather explosive in the microwave... i cleaned for my supper :P

i finally began playing with flex - for real - and the first thing i did was discover a problem with RadioButtonGroups. i'm good :/

i got home to find chc vegging. i rotated my wheels, then sped off (on foot) to visit my piercer. she's well pleased with the results of the teflon helix bar, and even more so with my tongue. we spent about fifteen minutes chatting on a bench (she was surprised to discover that i'm not as square as i appear :P) before i returned home to wolf down a pre-blade sandwich while reading some more chaucer, then shower before the pre-blade nap.

the route rocked last night, and it was a fun and social evening. everything was fantastic until we got to jaffa, because i had to split before the group hit the incredible promenade. i wasn't happy about that at all.

i learned a very important lesson in getting to work in the middle of the night: it's always a good idea to rollerblade. i was most of the way across the train's connecting bridge (about 100m from the office) when i was forced to turn back because they'd locked down the exit.

so i had to walk all the way around; this took twenty minutes, and it was through a large, empty parking lot. in any event i was sweaty by the time i walked in... so there was no justification for walking :(

the girl who i sat with on thursday night was in a pissy mood, and my enthusiasm wasn't helping. it took a few minutes for things to settle down. other than that, the morning was great fun and i got a ride back to my area. around 4.30am, totally tuned in to soundgarden - superunknown; i went to bed and woke up about six hours later.

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megan's foxy nerd-cred - with lembas

on nerd-joke devolution: see the comments