Back at work on Monday. Jen and I did a real nice dinner for her birthday on Friday night; we worked out what was going on with us and really came together for a good weekend. Saturday I cleaned the house and straightened up everything so that Kate and Dan could come into town and have dinner; we took them to Henninger’s and had a real good time. Sunday we drove in the Lockard bus up to Longwood Gardens to meet Rob and his girlfriend, and her whole family; Jen and I had to keep our shit together to survive going into the giant sucking maw of the Pennsylvania Clemson booster family. Both her parents had matching Explorers with Clemson tiger paw stickers on the fenders. Can I vomit here and now? Would you mind?
Today is a bit brighter, even though I’m tired; I’m two days away from being paid, and I can’t wait to be able to pay bills and not get behind, or take money out of the savings account. I looked at the Visa bill this morning- ouch. It’s going to be a while before I do any silly frivolous spending, I guess. I want to get that paid back down and start saving some cash reserves back up, and quick. No computer for me, and probably no Scout unless I find a sweetheart deal somewhere close that I can’t pass up.
OK, this is messed up. If this was one of my daughters, I’d flip out in a major Mike Brady sort of way. Yikes.
Very hard to concentrate on work today. I’m running through all the things I want to do in my head and it seems overwhelming. I really want to start working in Perl again, and I haven’t even started looking at the stuff I need to yet. I’d really like to get this log online as a perl script and pull all of this stuff out of a text file as a script as well; the page format would be an HTML file the script would read, a flow in the template info, and then do a foreach loop through the text file until it reached the end of the content and then write the footer information.
12:29 am – I found a new typeface to use online- Tahoma, which i just set this whole page in, from one of the sites mentioned in the Salon article above. Very nice. We dig.