Friday, January 30 2004, 9:07 PM

Wow... work has sucked the past few days... it's been really busy the past few days, and it's been stressing me out pretty good. Yesterday I was the only person there until like 11:30 or so, which is definitely a pain in my ass... everybody seemed to have a legitimate reason for not being there, but shit. Other than that, it's just been really busy... lots of calls, lots of stupid live chats, lots of help desk tickets. It always seems like the combination of the three always seems to prevent any kind of consistent work. Every time I get started with something, the phone rings or a live chat appears and I get totally interrupted. It never fails. Oh well.

I also got the MySQL Gaim plugin all upgraded last night too, finally. It took an hour or two to dig through the very small amount of perl interface documentation that the Gaim developers provide and some source code for the perl interface. Once I got the interface made, converting the old code to the new interface was pretty easy. Just a lot of copying in pasting. It works pretty sweet, just like the old one. I'll probably post the interface sometime in the future... It took me a while to figure it out, so hopefully it'll help someone else.

After my programming victory, I went out with Joe and Shauna to Arts in Lansing. Joe got pretty tanked, and so did I. It was a pretty fun time, minus this morning's hangover. It was a good time. Pics in the Gallery.

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Sunday, September 28 2003, 7:47 PM

Well, this past week was a lot more eventful than the last. I looked for apartments this week with one of the Joes from work, and we have a couple candidates. One of them was a place I used to live while I went to MSU - Dovers Crossing. Seems like a good deal, but if we miss out on a deal, it may get to be too expensive. There are a couple other places that we checked out, but in my mind, the townhouse at DC is the best out of the pack so far. We're going to keep looking, to see what we see though.

I've also been busy with some little software projects for home and work... I've been in the process of developing a monitoring system for the servers at work. In its current form it works, but I think in order for it to be efficient and as flexible as it could be, it'll have to be re-written in perl. Shouldn't be a huge deal, since most of the stuff isn't terribly complicated. I've also been working on a couple non-work related projects. I've been working on a plugin for gaim (my preferred linux chat client) that logs all conversation and buddy list activity to MySQL. I'm kind of anal about keeping logs, so it'll help out once it's done. I've also been working on a website for my circle of friends. It's pretty much a place where we can post news and photos, and a forum to chat in. Getting everything working right there took a little while, but it looks good for now.

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Tuesday, September 09 2003, 3:22 AM

Yah, it's 3:22am, and I'm at work. It's my week to work midnights, as it will be once every two months for the forseeable future. It's really not that bad. It's quite calm for the most part... very few phone calls or help desk tickets, so I can just catch up on work or just zone out... I've brought in my guitar the past couple nights to give me something to do while nothing else is going on, so that's cool. Just been doodling around with that.

Otherwise, not much is going on. I got my crashing problem on the new Gentoo install licked... I just had to change the boot display from AGP to PCI in the BIOS and it solved whatever hardware issue existed that caused the computer to lock up. Score. And I've got my MySQL logger plugin for Gaim working pretty well. Another couple features and it'll be done. There are a few other windows to linux conversions/imports I have to do still, but that will probably wait until I'm back on a normal time schedule.

Oh yah, before I forget, Amanda is awesome!

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