Chimeric Dream

Washington: Day 2

Posted: Saturday, August 2. 2008 at 10:18

I woke up yesterday having slept pretty well. It felt good to get a full night's sleep after the long day of travel I had on Thursday. After getting up and ready, Dad and I walked to the bus stop to head into his office. Kris (my dad's boss) wanted to talk to me about working for KUE Digital, which is the company I have been doing some contract work for.

Washington: Day 1

Posted: Friday, August 1. 2008 at 11:30

Yesterday was a loooooong day. I woke up at about 5:40am and showered and got ready to go to the airport. I got there at around 7:20am, and my flight left at 8:35, so I went through security and did the whole "hurry up and wait" thing. Five hours of cattle-car airlines and two packed planes later, I arrived at the Seattle airport. Now, Seattle is two hours behind Kansas, so even though it felt to me like mid-afternoon, it was barely noon here.

Vacation: Day 6

Posted: Monday, July 7. 2008 at 18:40

I am typing this from the airport, because I am sure that tonight when I get home, I will be interested in little else other than sleep. Today was a good day overall, but the last day of a vacation is always a little depressing. You realize that the next day you will be right back where you started, chipping away at the daily grind stone that is your life. Ah well... c'est la vie.

Vacation: Day 5

Posted: Sunday, July 6. 2008 at 21:59

Today I spent several hours just walking around downtown Estes Park. I have done this before, but never so extensively. I spent about four hours strolling along and walking into nearly every store. There were a few surprises (seriously, who needs a Nebraska Huskers store in Colorado?!), and quite a few interesting places that I probably would have passed by if I wasn't actively looking for such things.

Vacation: Day 4

Posted: Saturday, July 5. 2008 at 21:59

I was much more awake last night when I talked to Becca. She refreshed my memory of some of the stuff I didn't remember from the night before. All I have to say is, "Whoops." Next time, I'll try to keep the filter in check just a little more.

Vacation: Day 3

Posted: Friday, July 4. 2008 at 21:59

I talked to Becca last night, and I remember only bits and pieces of our conversation. Apparently I can be very entertaining when I am half asleep. It would seem that my brain-mouth filter turns itself off, so anything I am thinking comes right out without being censored. I will have to figure out a way to coerce Becca into telling me everything I was saying.

Vacation: Day 2

Posted: Thursday, July 3. 2008 at 21:59

Well, I didn't sleep too well last night, but I think that was mainly due to the fact that I am really not used to sleeping in a twin bed. Ah well, I am sure that I will sleep well tonight.

Vacation: Day 1

Posted: Thursday, July 3. 2008 at 07:20

I am posting this the next morning, because I was far too exhausted last night to do so. The first day of my Colorado trip went extremely well. It was, however, an obscenely long day overall.

The KC Swing Scene

Posted: Friday, June 20. 2008 at 08:38

What follows is meant to serve as a response, though not necessarily a rebuttal, to this Facebook note. Feel free to read that before continuing. You don't necessarily have to know all of the people involved, and my rantings and ravings thoughts on the situation are independent enough that you don't have to read that note if you don't feel like it.

What a week...

Posted: Thursday, June 12. 2008 at 15:51

Man, this has been a strange week so far. Let's work backwards, shall we? Today, we got our salary increase letters. Mine wasn't quite what I was hoping for (and what I had been led to expect), but it was still decent — no complaints here.

Going back to school!

Posted: Sunday, June 8. 2008 at 09:17

I am going back to school! After spending some time as a student, messing around, then having to drop out, I will finally be back at school this fall. I will be taking a pre-calc class to get back into the swing of things, and I think it will be interesting.

Moving woes

Posted: Tuesday, May 27. 2008 at 14:35

For those who don't know about my moving situation, it goes a little like this:

Last fall, I talked to the management at my complex about moving into a bigger apartment. We set everything up so that when a few of my friends moved out of their apartment this fall, and all was kosher. Then, about three months ago, management changed at the complex, and everything was thrown into a big bag of #*$!. At the same time, Tyler, one of my friends currently living in the apartment that I will be getting, mentioned to me that they may be moving out at the end of April instead of July. We worked everything out with the complex, and just needed to finish the final paperwork when one of Tyler's roommates backed out, saying he didn't have time to move then. We talked about pushing the whole process back a month to the end of May, but Tyler and his roommates dragged their feet too long. So it began to look like I would move in August like originally planned.

Summer time!

Posted: Sunday, May 25. 2008 at 13:49

You know it's summer time when you hear the familiar sound of the ice cream truck driving down the street. It just brings back all kinds of good memories of childhood and that feeling you got running down the middle of the street, cars whizzing by, clutching a dollar bill in your hand just to get a taste of an overpriced bomb pop.

Of course, that didn't stop me from chasing the ice cream truck down just now. The fact that I have popsicles and ice cream in my freezer is irrelevant.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Posted: Friday, May 23. 2008 at 11:58

After installing my new blog, I started working on converting my whole site over to PHP. Halfway through that process, I decided to go with Object Oriented Programming. Simply put, OOP helps separate different aspects of code into manageable chunks, called objects (or classes). I just want to say that nobody - and I mean nobody - should make such massive change in the middle of a project. I had pretty much converted my entire "Family & Friends" photo gallery over to PHP when I decided to do this. So now I get to rewrite it *again*.

The good news is that once I have done this, it will be easier for me to update my site overall. Style/layout changes will be simpler and more straightforward, and (in theory), my code will be neater and more manageable. I suppose I just have to survive the initial transition.

New Blog Software

Posted: Monday, April 14. 2008 at 06:21

Well, I have finished installing a new blog software to my site. Unfortunately, the one I was writing just kept turning into more and more work. I went with an open-source PHP solution called Serendipity. So far I am quite happy with the results. It was fairly simple to integrate with my layout and offers more features than I will probably ever need from my blog. So yeah, good stuff.