SQL is Killing Me

And quite honestly I don’t feel terribly obliged to explain why.

Suffice to say that one query shows me information. And another shows me information contradictory to the first. And I have no idea why. And everyone is busy.

Looks like I may have an anomaly or sorts.

And now the DB is down. Hope that wasn’t my fault.

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Spent a great hour or so on the porch in the sun working. Rigged up a card table as a shade for my laptop. Really ought to get that deck chair and table set from Target.

Three Years

Yesterday my software company became three years old.

Last Wednesday marked the third year we have been in this home in the mountains.

And the dogs are both basically three.

Time to think about where the next three years are going to go–where I will be looking back from then. 2006.

Tough to head down this kind of path when you have no doubt it will be three years better than it is now. Even when things have sucked in my life; single, poor, directionless, etc. My life has always been good. Better than most. Its hard to truly be worried or even thoughtful when you love your life as much as I do.

Ah well…

“And we’re back…”

So I guess I should have bookmarked the login for this site.

In any case, it is now bookmarked and I will be able to more frequently return to this page for semi-regular-like updating of my blog.

How do you other people do this everyday?

Class Starts

I seem to be able to pull off a weekly update of this page. Hope none of you not reading this mind too much. This is going to be a busy week so I doubt I will be back for more till the weekend.

Got drunk Friday and Saturday night. Wasn’t so hard a hangover on the first day – mostly liquor. But waking up Sunday was a bit tougher since we had wine, sake, scotch, beer, and food. Getting old.

Sunday was taken up with a long Mass and a trip to the cathedral. I had never been there and it was quite an experience. Need to get down there and take a few more pictures during the morning hours. Good lighting.

This week I start my novel writing class on Tuesday. This should be interesting. Though no one has said otherwise, I am pre-suspicious that a fantasy novel isn’t the kind of thing they are looking for, so I will have to come up with something more mainstream. I have already started down that path so it shouldn’t be too hard. Just need to remember to get those hours in.

80 Inches?

Almost sounds like a bad porn movie–maybe a good one. I guess that depends on your tastes.

But its actually the aggressive possibility of total snow acummulation for my area before the end of Wednesday. Let you know tomorrow.

I have already swept 5, 10, and now 5+ more inches of snow of the porch. I did the driveway partway as well. My thinking is that I can easily shovel 12 inches twice rather than 24 inches once. Not sure that thinking holds much power in the face of 80 inches.

I am learning the downside to being able to work from home. Sure you don’t have to drive all the way into work, but you also don’t have to drive all the way into work to work. On top of that, I have a lovely battery back up/surge protector. The 7 blink outs today have not been a problem either.

Ah well….

The second installment of my Tuesday writing class is snowed out. Not sure if I am supposed to send out my submission via email or wait till next week. I sent email to the instructor, but haven’t heard back yet. I may just send it out and not sweat it.

I am quite excited about the story now. I came up with a way to avoid the problem I was having with how to procede. I wish I didn’t have to use the word avoid, but its the truth. The thing just wasn’t going anywhere the way I had it in my head.

This new direction will be fun too. Suddenly I have an excuse for some of the other stuff I have written. Feels very full-circley.

If I could just get this work monkey off my back I feel like I could dive right in.

Soon, soon.