Today looks like it's going to be a down day for me. I have been having pain along the right side of my left wrist radiating down my forearm, and over the last few days has gotten progressively worse. Last night it had spread to the area around the knuckle of my pinkie finger and as of this morning the entire back of my hand hurts with the ( Read more... )

Grrr. It's not been a good start to the day.

I was using an algorithms app this weekend as it's one of the many subjects related to programming that I need to brush up on. The first one discussed was Bubble Sort. I had seen it before, and decided it would be good practice to write a bit of java that does it.

Well, I have no problems with the ( Read more... )

Ugh. The First of September, already!


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Here's what the eternal optimist in me hoped to accomplish today:


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Feeling a bit tired and lazy today. I'm not sure why, as I woke up ten minutes before the alarm this morning and at the time was fine with it. I guess lazy really isn't the right term: more like restless. I don't mind doing language tutorials, but I'm being more easily distracted than usual. At least I can hunker down and get this entry ( Read more... )

I have always loved the feeling of Friday nights. The weekend is just beginning, and even if you have no plans - even if you KNOW you don't want to go anywhere! - there is still that undercurrent of frisson that anything could happen. Usually at some point on Friday night I think that I'll stay up really late doing something I normally don't get ( Read more... )

I am SO tired. Sooo tired. And achy. I feel like I've been hit by a truck or coming down with the flu (or some hellacious combination of the two!), yet there isn't a logical reason for it ( Read more... )

( More bits of information I'm attempting to keep from spilling out of my brain. )

One of hardest things for me to accomplish in this bid for control of the galaxy computer language mastery has been structuring my time. I have not held a full-time job since Panda was born (2003), but that doesn't mean I've had vast amounts of unused time lying around. On the contrary, it has often seemed like my days are shorter than they used ( Read more... )