net positive

friday:

still a bit down from the previous day, i wasn't quite jumping out of bed yesterday morning. it was a cold morning, but i was overheating on the metro as is almost normal now.

i began the day with a large, complex change and it all had to be done before it could be tested... what a nice surprise to have it all work out first time!

pg called and we chatted for a few minutes, and then i got busy manually translating what i'd failed to automate during the week.

i did a bit of playing with an android device to see if i could reproduce a bug i'd heard of, and i had no luck but got a bit more comfortable with the os.

i had barely enough time to eat lunch before an hour long status meeting began, a conference call to warm the ears and only kind of relevant for me. i opened up minesweeper and clicked mindlessly for a while, then picked up the android device again and started randomly pressing buttons and reorientating it. i was pleasantly surprised when the bug recurred, and that gave me a lead to follow. i think the guys were a little offended when they discovered i'd only been half-listening, even if they did laugh...

... after the call i did some proper, thorough testing, and figured out what was going on...

... and then the ceo contacted me personally to thank me for finding the problem. i felt kinda good about that.

i spent some time trying to hack a set-top box, cleaned up my website a little more, and decided to call it a week. i bought socks on the way home at joe's, a weird store converted from an old metro / train station playing eerie not-quite-pop music.

i had a track from john 00 flemming in my head, which is weird because i hadn't heard any of his music in months at the very least. that prompted me to select my trance music on my ipod, and lo! the first track on my shuffled playlist was a collaboration with john 00 flemming.

i performed a factory reset on the android phone i've been loaned to see if i'd like it: it's a galaxy 1, and it's beginning to get comfortable. there are loads of advantages, but it has some regrettable quirks too...

swype is really neat, when you realize that it takes care of spaces for you.

i went to my aunt's for a huge,delicious vegan-friendly dinner, then went downtown with yang to drink a pitcher of beer at a rock club that hadn't quite warmed up yet.

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today:

i went to bed late because i was playing with the phone, and woke up early because my bio-illogical clock doesn't know what day it is.

i've done laundry: i was upset because a neighbour dumped my wet washing on another machine when i'd returned just minutes after my cycle was done. i've done ironing, and i think i did a good job even though i suspect that a small mark on one of my shirts might be a burn. i've done shopping, and i've realized that i'm still behaving as if i live in a fast-paced, aggressive society. i need to slow down, and not be so efficient on a saturday.

now for the shopping. snowboard season: here i come.