Did It Again

So it occurred to me that I've done it again. I've let this blog lapse into obscurity with no new posts. You gotta make sure you have new posts or Google won't index it. I considered for a long time how I would keep this one alive. Obviously any life has enough stuff go on that one could not only fill a few paragraphs a day, but volumes and volumes of books with what happens. We just don't assign enough significance to it. I know what I want to do here, but I'm not sure I have the wherewithall to pull it off. Yet, I think it's the only way to do it without feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of documenting my days.

Here's the plan: I'll keep notepad open all day long and record what happens throughout the day, and once the day is done, I'll record it in here. I would be willing to wager that some days will be drier than others, but that's how life is sometimes, isn't it? Some days are interesting, and some are boring. I will try, however, to stick to high points and not just a timeline of the little things. After all, you, as a reader, won't be interested in what I'm wearing every day, would you? At least, I wouldn't think so. My clothing choices as a geek are actually really uninteresting. Khaki pants and a polo shirt sums up 66% of the year. Jeans and a polo shirt sums up another 20-25%. There you have it.

Hence, most of my future posts will be dated for the end of any given day. For today, I'll touch on a few high points for yesterday.

My job is changing for a big one. A guy who has been at my workplace for eleven years took a job somewhere else (we wish him the best), and given how fast I learn stuff, the powers that be tapped me to replace what he does. It occurs to me that this would have been a good decision to make within a day of him giving notice, so I could sit with him for his last two weeks. There are other people who collectively know what he knew, so I'll pick it up little by little, but getting it from him would have been better. Oh, well. Hindsight and all that. The job is  partly programming, which I do enjoy, and a bigger part just supporting a different product with my company, which is ok. The programming language is still BASIC, which I started on when I was seven, though the "version" they use here is Visual Basic, which has a few extra parts to it that old school BASIC (or even Turbo BASIC from high school) didn't have. Should be interesting though.

Other than that, yesterday consisted of meeting with my parents and siblings at Ron's Hamburgers for dinner. We meet with them every week and have done so since before the Queen and I were married. It became a weekly tradition, and has worked out very well since it allows us all time to catch up and they can see how the princesses are all growing up. The place varies from week to week and even the days have shifted around here and there, but we almost always get together once a week. I typically order the sausage cheeseburger (plain and dry, yeah hold your comments) and some chili cheese fries. Very good, as usual.

In the evening, I worked on my Saw project, which I'll go into in more detail on a different post. I basically converted one of the MPG's I made of part of the chronological cut into an iPod compatible file so I could view it on my iPod.

Following that, I sat down with the Queen and watched the musical, Company, that I got from Netflix. Yes, I watched a stage musical on DVD. I've always loved musicals, and even wrote a couple once upon a time. It's a medium I'd like to get back into writing someday when life allows more time at the keyboard. Company was really, really good. The staging was beyond clever. I never even conceived of a show where the actors were also the orchestra. Seriously. The actors/singers played various instruments on stage eliminating the need for a pit orchestra. It made me smile a lot especially when they were switching instruments. I swear, each person up there played at least 2 to 3 instruments, and not always from the same family. Several string players switched to saxophone, for example. The oboe player also played tuba. Since not every person was in every scene, it made each person that much more essential and on stage for the whole show instead of disappearing into the green room except for cast numbers. So I thought it was really cool.

The only weirdness I have was last night at around 2am. I woke up and thought I heard voices. The voices were female and muffled, like they were coming from behind the walls. Whether they were from outside the house or the princesses woke up in the middle of the night, I couldn't say, since I couldn't understand what they were saying. The computer was compiling another MPEG2 of another part of my Saw Project, so the processor fan was going full speed, drowning out a lot of the voices anyway. When I got up this morning, the house was more than intact, so it's not as if someone was where they shouldn't have been, though I discovered the reason the Queen was crowding me in bed was because Ladybug joined us during the night. I'm sure I'll hear about what was up with that tomorrow.

I do recall something about her wanting to sleep with us before we went to bed, but I don't remember what the reason was behind that. Oh well. Maybe I'll be reminded today...

Let the day commence!