Posted by Joel
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:22:16 GMT
Last weekend Paul's dad Jim came to down. We all met up in Russian Hill along with his cousin David and I got solidly drunk for the first time in a while. The night was really a blast and we had some great discussions.
This week I worked a lot and was pretty stressed out trying to meet a deadline. There was some tension for a while but things seem OK now. LuckyO continues to grow and I'm happy with this new feature I made.
Besides that nothing much has happened. I told Marc I would move in with him in Sunnyvale in three weeks, so it looks like I'm giving up on the city life. I love it but it's just too far away from my job, and the only reason I decided to stay here originally was because I thought I had friends here.
I've largely given up on my self-improvement quest again due to the stress of last week and filled my idle time with WoW to actually relax and have fun. You know, most of the genuinely cool people I've met in my life are people I only know from online. You can't be nearly as discriminating when it comes to people who happen to be in your proximity, and meeting them is so much harder.
I did a lot of research on how I would vote. This will be my first time voting. I'm voting for the Democratic senators, representative, and governor, I'm voting yes on the Prop 89 campaign finance reform bill, and voting no on all of the spending props except the strictly regulated education spending one (not the property values one). This is because I know how much the California schools suck but I also know how badly they spend money generally attributed to education here. I believe in private schooling but I'm also a pragmatist.
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Posted by Joel
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:55:45 GMT
There were supposed to be some shows this week. Tuesday was Califone, but I didn't go because I was tired and wanted to do some work. Wednesday was Sufjan, but I'm all Sufjan-ed out, and wasn't all that impressed with his last show, so again I didn't go. Thursday was Vitalic but I guess it was cancelled which is a real bummer because I wanted to see them.
So I'm giving another shot at the whole self-improvement thing, since over the last couple of months I've fallen into a slump. I've been working on getting eight hours of sleep, which in practice is about seven or seven and a half, but whatever. I paid off some parking tickets. I have a list of things that hopefully I will do this weekend.
Parking has been easy this week, I got insta-spots every time, partially because I've maintained discipline about leaving work on time. I found a new area which has good parking but only two days during the week.
I neglected to mention last week that I saw Marc in Sunnyvale. He's got lots of amenities and comforts, but it reminded me again why I don't want to be down there. For now things seem ok.
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Posted by Joel
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:25:00 GMT
This week I had two exciting misadventures. In one, I thought my car was towed, and went to the auto return, and waited around for a while until realizing I had parked one block away. In the second, I spaced out and overshot the exit to get to work, getting all the way to San Jose, and had to wait in the terrible northbound 280 traffic, adding considerable time and frustration to my commute.
Things were not all bad, though. Thursday I saw Billy Bragg with Jeremy at the Great American. It was a great show, the man has a lot of charisma and is very captivating.
There are jets flying overhead today due to this jet racing thing I just found out about and probably missed. There's also the Bluegrass Festival which is going on today and tomorrow but I missed today because I got up too late. I don't feel too bad about missing Billy Bragg's performance since I just saw him, though.
Work has been reasonably productive, with the main feature I'm working on taking a touch longer than I expected, but a lot of that is due to the little things which tend to pop up every day; so really we did clean up a lot of smaller problems on the site this week.
I haven't played WoW all week but last night I played all of my characters and had a good time on each. Will and I played our horde characters first. We're in our early 30s which means we're in Stranglethorn Vale, the most notoriously PvP-focused zone in the game, and we just wipe the floor with all sorts of alliance questing there without mercy.
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