Another week of pseudo-employement

Date: 2002-10-11 22:23:05

I worked more for the ever-popular Buildmeasite this week than I have on any previous week, if only because that way I could distract myself from doing any of the obnoxious jobsearch tasks my parents seem to think I should do. I completely ignored all such tasks this week, which I occasionally think might be a bad thing. But then my assertions from a previous entry pop up, and since I don't want to lapse into State Two, because I don't want to get angry, I repress any attempt to think about it and continue my blissful existence in State One.

Is this a bad thing? Possibly. But for the moment, I'm content to devote all of my time to Buildmeasite. (Which seems to be getting asymptotically closer to first-stage completion; after that, then things start to get interesting when we start thinking about replacing all of the Cobalt's fun-filled and action-packed little integration stuff.)

I'm kind of annoyed that I don't spend more time recording my life. I haven't written a journal entry in three weeks. It still remains to be seen whether Bitscape or I will complete our documentation of the wedding first; if I had to bet, I'd place my money on him.

On the bright side, my Worst Sci-Fi productions are coming along. I need to record and merge a director's commentary track for the sequel for its release tomorrow night, and the trilogy conclusion needs a bit of work too, but everything seems to be coming right along. My plan is to have a rough cut of wsf0 by Sunday night, which will probably mean that I'll do little but editing that day. Which sounds fine to me.

Today was Gem's twenty-fourth birthday. A bunch of people called to wish her a happy birthday, which was almost amusing, since she doesn't really like answering the phone. She amused herself by sleeping in today and working on her computers instead of doing any sort of useful school work. She root-canaled Titania, reinstalling both Windows 98 (which was getting a little obnoxious) and Linux (which refused to boot after I swapped in Ziyal's old motherboard; no matter what I tried, nothing seemed to fix it; she installed Debian 3.0r0 "Woody" with only minimal help from me).

In case anyone nearby is bored, we'll probably be watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tomorrow night. I'm curious what all the fuss is about. Let me know if you're also bored enough to try it out.

I'm not even sure what I really want right now. I want to move out of my parents' basement, and I want to change the world. I like what I'm doing for Buildmeasite -- I'm solving interesting problems using a language I love using and writing a whole bunch of neat code in the process. (At the beginning, I was a little dubious that my neat hacks would actually be useful, but now I'm quite convinced they are.) I guess I'm afraid of two things: (1) I might actually get a job that will require me to choose between it (real money, pseudo-stability, etc) and Buildmeasite (which would leave Scott horribly screwed); and (2) I might get a job somewhere other than Boulder, where I know nobody besides the woman who will tag along with me. (Things could be worse.) (I guess that'd put me in the same situation as Kiesa right now.)

Just in case anyone cares, Willy's webpage now contains neat little rotating quotes at the bottom. Maybe I should convince him to post his journal excerpts from my wedding, thereby winning the prize of the first person to fully document the event.