This Geek

Well, something is definitely happening out there. It’s either Guy Fawkes, all out war, or the locals have found yet another reason to blast our ear drums into supplication with the insufferable bangs and phweeps of the fireworks.

Yeesh. Mind you, these guys don’t need an excuse to let off fireworks. They will do it just because it’s Friday night.

3 hours and 20 minutes until all hell breaks loose. Joy. I just love New Years. At the grand old age of 29, I’m a fuddy duddy who doesn’t give a fuck about celebrating things anymore. About the only things that are worth while are the kids birthdays and christmas, and that only because I love watching my kids opening their presents.

It’s also 2 and a bit months until my birthday. Why do I feel like that with the grand old three-zero approaching, it’s going to be a life changing event that I will never recover from? Fuck, and I will probably get phone calls from people I don’t want to hear from. I must change my damn phone number.

Do people expect that if I don’t phone you, ever, and I make no attempt whatsoever to contact you, and I avoid speaking to you when you do manage to get through, that I will be happy or something if you speak to me?

I just want to be left alone. I have my reasons, and as irrational as they may be to people, they’re my reasons, and I don’t have to (and I won’t) explain myself to anyone.

I am very happily married, and I love my children very much, and through my wife I have an extended family that has been there for me when I needed them, and they are still there for me if I need them. Because of that, and how I have become a part of their family, I don’t need, nor want, anything else.

I have memories that I hate very much, and I want to forget them. As long as I am with my family, they don’t haunt me as much as when I pick up the phone and hear someone I don’t want to hear.

I’m gonna fuck you up.

That was the response I received this morning. Hehe, gotta love it.

Anyway, I tried installing PHPWiki on my development machine today, but it was a complete no go. Probably because I’m using PHP5 at the moment, and it is apparently not supported at present. Yay, thanks for saying so quite prominently ya jerks!

I could switch to PHP4, but I don’t need a wiki that badly. I have other things I should be doing instead… like working on that website project I mentioned a little while back… amongst other things.

Crap.

My friend sent me this self portrait one morning when he woke up. (Don’tcha just love MMS?)

And he’s just gonna LOVE me posting this.

I’ve added ESF feed support to my blog now. If you’re looking for an ESF capable reader, check here. I’ve never used this software, and I’m not endorsing it. I found it in the readme for the plugin. Use it at your own risk.

Hmm. While keeping the spammers away, it seems my mucking around with the comment system has totally stopped ALL comments. Oh well. Can’t please everyone.

I’ve been catching up on my reading while I’ve been off work. It’s been great to finish a book in a day or two instead of spending two weeks grabbing a few paragraphs while I’m on the bog. A friend of mine introduced me to John Connolly. I’ve read all his books, except for his latest, which is sitting on my night stand waiting for me to finish reading Bad Men — Admittedly, I’m taking my time with this one.

Stephen King has always been my hero; I just love the way he writes, but John Connolly has neatly kicked him off the number one spot on my top author’s list. John Connolly is my new hero.

I’ve been busy mucking around with my laptop while I’ve been on vacation. I’ve set up a development environment for Mambo, because I want to use it as the front/backend to a project I’ve had in mind over the last year. I’ve finally pulled my finger out my ass and gotten around to visualising the database I require for the project. I still need to design the application, and I’m procrastinating a bit about that. I know what I want to see, but I still need to get into the nitty gritty of how the application will work. It’s probably gonna take me quite awhile to get it going, as I’m doing everything on my own, and I’m busy reading documentation at the moment, because my programming skills SUCK. I’m going to use canned graphics for now (mambo themes) because I just don’t have the skills to come up with decent graphics, and I’m too cheap to pay for it right now.

Man, reading that, I don’t know what the hell I have skills for. Oh well.

I’m also thinking about setting up a Wiki. Don’t ask me what for, I just feel like mucking around with one. I like the concept. Maybe it’s not such a good idea, as I’m such a slacker when it comes to updating this site.

… The end of the year, that is.

Wow, what happened to it? Did the whole thing just go by when I blinked? I guess I’d better stop blinking then. I need to slow down and smell the roses a bit. There’s just too much happening (in my life) right now.

My son had his 4th birthday in August. My daughter will be 2 on 1 April… I’ll be hitting the big three-oh in March. Fuck, what happened?

My daughter has been randomly bashing my wife’s computer’s keyboard while I type this. I swear, I have seen Windows do things I’ve never seen in my life before.

For, eg, it has now restarted twice, and both times Windows has returned to the Welcome screen with the same info (2 programs running) on my wife’s login. It’s like a hibernation reset or something. Weird. And this time round, she somehow paused the Windows startup, so that it shows you a message that Windows restoration has been paused, continue, or delete restoration data & return to the system menu. Wtf?

Ahh well. Kids. Gotta love em.