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Friday, July 03, 2009
"I'm out"
I've decided I'm going to post to this a lot more often. I realize I say that nearly every post any more but this time there's really no excuse. I can't believe I haven't posted since February.
I finished out the project at the hospital in March. If I'm lucky I will never have to through something like that again. For two weeks straight I worked twelve hour shifts two or three of those days were overnight (7pm to 7am). Me and 12 hours over night apparently don't go together. It took me a few days before I finally put tin foil up over the windows. By then I was only getting a few hours of sleep a night (or day). I really really wasn't doing too good. Then I finally got switched to day shift. Which was much better of course. I was still miserable from all the sleep I had missed.
On the bright side I did rather enjoy really did enjoy the amount of money 70+ hours a week provides.
After the project I got renewed at the same hospital. I stayed and worked there for a couple weeks cleaning up post-project. The older guy had left, gone back home to southern California. After handling tickets for a few weeks I was then sent to another hospital, this one a bit further away then the one I was at for the project.
I obviously wasn't enjoying myself too much but I thought I was at least getting the job done. Apparently the people in charge didn't agree. At the end of may they decided to not extend my contract. What few contractors there were left were getting renewed a month at a time up until then. Between mid-March and late May anyway.
So I have now been unemployed for one month. By some coincidence June 1st was a Monday so I have actually been unemployed for a month. Unfortunately I haven't accomplished nearly what I thought I would given the opportunity to not be stuck at work.
It was a remarkably mild June where I am: the temps hovered between 70 and 80 when it's normally reach the high 90s and 100s. I tried to exercise as much as I could, by which I mean walk a couple miles every day or every other day. What I should have really been doing is some kind of calisthenics. Stretches and push-ups and whatever. It usually doesn't take all that long for me to get a new job, some how I thought this would be similar. Obviously a silly notion.
I was originally going to buy a "gaming laptop" for several thousand dollars. I have also been thinking about building myself a new desktop.
My actual desktop has been sitting near my desk for months now ever since it had apparently ceased to function. It started blue screen for no apparent reason and then it wouldn't accept any keyboard input no matter what I did to it. So it's just been collecting dust.
I switched over to my rapidly aging laptop in that time. I still had my Windows Home Server to remote desktop into anyway. Between the laptop and the WHS I managed to get everything I need to get done done. I just wasn't able to play any games really. That was the only thing to be hung up on.
I decided to upgrade the capacity of my WHS: to go from 500Gigsx4 to 500gigsX2 and 1TBX2. I also ordered a new backplane for my desktop similar to the one already in my WHS. I just had to run my hard drive utility on the two 1TB drives before using them though unfortunately. I say unfortunately because each drive took more than 100 hours to finish. The utility is called SpinRite. A great utility for verifying new drives and fixing bad ones but waiting 100 hours for it to finish is just horrible.
I wasn't doing both drives at once either. It took almost two weeks for both drives to finish on the spinrite. But now they are both finished, and my desktop is back up and running. To put it mildly I have a lot of storage now.
I now have the RC1 of Windows 7 running on my main laptop, my netbook (an AcerOne) and my main desktop. The desktop would be on the x64 version. Sure there's still some glitches here and there but I still like it. Even if I am still trying to get accustomed to it.
RC1 runs remarkably well on the netbook actually. The netbook has 1Gig of memory, which doesn't hurt. I think I need to learn a little more about how to optimize the performance a little more.
I had backed up my installation of Steam from way-back-when (by which I mean last January/February) so it was easy to get that back up and going with all my games. A few of them still had to finish downloading but over-all it was a remarkably fast way to back up and running with steam and a large potion of my games. Now all I need is Oblivion and/or Fallout 3 install back on it.
Some how I had expected I would be working on my virtual machine various projects during this time but haven't really worked on it at all. Before losing my job I had developed this rather extensive batch file for automating making new VMs and I was planning on porting this to windows script host. I even bought a VBScript book. Alas I haven't even worked on the batch file nor the planned port. I think I have booted up the VM once or twice but nothing really extensive or obsessive like usual.
I'm sure I could write more but I'll save that later or tomorrow.
¶ 11:09 AM 0 Comments
I've decided I'm going to post to this a lot more often. I realize I say that nearly every post any more but this time there's really no excuse. I can't believe I haven't posted since February.
I finished out the project at the hospital in March. If I'm lucky I will never have to through something like that again. For two weeks straight I worked twelve hour shifts two or three of those days were overnight (7pm to 7am). Me and 12 hours over night apparently don't go together. It took me a few days before I finally put tin foil up over the windows. By then I was only getting a few hours of sleep a night (or day). I really really wasn't doing too good. Then I finally got switched to day shift. Which was much better of course. I was still miserable from all the sleep I had missed.
On the bright side I did rather enjoy really did enjoy the amount of money 70+ hours a week provides.
After the project I got renewed at the same hospital. I stayed and worked there for a couple weeks cleaning up post-project. The older guy had left, gone back home to southern California. After handling tickets for a few weeks I was then sent to another hospital, this one a bit further away then the one I was at for the project.
I obviously wasn't enjoying myself too much but I thought I was at least getting the job done. Apparently the people in charge didn't agree. At the end of may they decided to not extend my contract. What few contractors there were left were getting renewed a month at a time up until then. Between mid-March and late May anyway.
So I have now been unemployed for one month. By some coincidence June 1st was a Monday so I have actually been unemployed for a month. Unfortunately I haven't accomplished nearly what I thought I would given the opportunity to not be stuck at work.
It was a remarkably mild June where I am: the temps hovered between 70 and 80 when it's normally reach the high 90s and 100s. I tried to exercise as much as I could, by which I mean walk a couple miles every day or every other day. What I should have really been doing is some kind of calisthenics. Stretches and push-ups and whatever. It usually doesn't take all that long for me to get a new job, some how I thought this would be similar. Obviously a silly notion.
I was originally going to buy a "gaming laptop" for several thousand dollars. I have also been thinking about building myself a new desktop.
My actual desktop has been sitting near my desk for months now ever since it had apparently ceased to function. It started blue screen for no apparent reason and then it wouldn't accept any keyboard input no matter what I did to it. So it's just been collecting dust.
I switched over to my rapidly aging laptop in that time. I still had my Windows Home Server to remote desktop into anyway. Between the laptop and the WHS I managed to get everything I need to get done done. I just wasn't able to play any games really. That was the only thing to be hung up on.
I decided to upgrade the capacity of my WHS: to go from 500Gigsx4 to 500gigsX2 and 1TBX2. I also ordered a new backplane for my desktop similar to the one already in my WHS. I just had to run my hard drive utility on the two 1TB drives before using them though unfortunately. I say unfortunately because each drive took more than 100 hours to finish. The utility is called SpinRite. A great utility for verifying new drives and fixing bad ones but waiting 100 hours for it to finish is just horrible.
I wasn't doing both drives at once either. It took almost two weeks for both drives to finish on the spinrite. But now they are both finished, and my desktop is back up and running. To put it mildly I have a lot of storage now.
I now have the RC1 of Windows 7 running on my main laptop, my netbook (an AcerOne) and my main desktop. The desktop would be on the x64 version. Sure there's still some glitches here and there but I still like it. Even if I am still trying to get accustomed to it.
RC1 runs remarkably well on the netbook actually. The netbook has 1Gig of memory, which doesn't hurt. I think I need to learn a little more about how to optimize the performance a little more.
I had backed up my installation of Steam from way-back-when (by which I mean last January/February) so it was easy to get that back up and going with all my games. A few of them still had to finish downloading but over-all it was a remarkably fast way to back up and running with steam and a large potion of my games. Now all I need is Oblivion and/or Fallout 3 install back on it.
Some how I had expected I would be working on my virtual machine various projects during this time but haven't really worked on it at all. Before losing my job I had developed this rather extensive batch file for automating making new VMs and I was planning on porting this to windows script host. I even bought a VBScript book. Alas I haven't even worked on the batch file nor the planned port. I think I have booted up the VM once or twice but nothing really extensive or obsessive like usual.
I'm sure I could write more but I'll save that later or tomorrow.
Monday, February 02, 2009
"Sleep"
For the record I'd rather be sleeping. But I can't sleep. I've been planning to go back to writing for a long time anyway so here I am doing so albeit possibly against my will. Like I said: sleep. Rather be.
I'm starting to accept despite all intentions I'm not going to ever get back to writing regularly, am I? Well I have different plans this time. It's never turned out very well before. Writing-wise I mean. Whatever.
Ok so you know that least post from way back in October? Well that was way back. In October. Which seems redundant reading it again. But not that much has happened really. Still the same job. Hospital. Computers. Not sure there's a tunnel never mind a light for it to end in.
Except I did finally get transferred to a new hospital. This one quite close to where I live. Fifteen minutes actually. Yes, that one I mentioned in that last post. The one I never thought I would be near or had passed on an opportunity to be at. Something like that. I'm now there.
I was transferred for "two weeks" right before Christmas time. Maybe that was my trial period or something I don't know. Then in an email to my "project manager" I had said something about not only not complaining about switching hospitals but being a fan of such a switch. Next thing I know my two weeks goes to "you're there for the duration". Well, that was easy.
I would have tried to prepare more had I known that was going to be how it went. I mean I would have said like "bye" or whatever that last day. I just thought it was for the two weeks so I didn't bother.
Well the new hospital is alright. About as opposite as the first hospital as two places could be really. The first one was like go-go-go every second, all steressed-out. The new one is way smaller and has less going on. Mondays for instance my co-worker doesn't show up until 2:30 so I had nothing to do. Which was fine by me.
Well that was just for the first month. Now I actually do have stuff to do. Lucky me! It's all ill-defined and I can't tell if I'm doing it right but I am doing stuff. So there's that.
I was working with an older guy whose been doing this kind of work for "a while" as it were. He's got that attitude I've encountered many times before. That whole "I'm retiring in five years so who gives a flying !#$%" that soon-to-be-retired types seem to exhibit. Which isn't to say he doesn't get the job done. He does get job done. He just seems to have no fear and not give a !#$% if you know what I mean.
I don't know if I'll still be there after the hosptial's current project ends. I'd like to be causiously optomistic here but I've been rejected and heart broken so many times I really can't allow myself to get my hopes up too far. Part of me thinks I'd join the peace core for a year if I don't get this job permanent. Ah, me...in a foreign culture for a year. Not sure I'd survive that first week. I really feel like I should do something else with my life while I can. I'm kind of shriveling on the vine. Or something.
If I get the job I guess I'll go with that for a couple years. See what happens. At least until I can't join the peace core anyway. Why would I want to join the peace core anyway? I don't know.
Outside of work? I keep working on my various windows-related projects. I finally am running server 2003 as a workstation right now. There's been a few...challenges along the way. Finding a good freeware anti-virus for instance. Not so easy on a server system. And web sites detecting the OS and not loading content. Easily defeated (Firefox add-on called "user agent switcher") but still kind of an obstacle. I do like it though. I like it a lot.
I have now created an "unattended" folder which among other folders contains a "projects" folder containing folders for various OSes. Just XP MCE 2005 at the moment actually. But several projects of it. All projects are auto-synced to the "template" folder. This makes managing things a little easier. Just change whatever in the template and sync it with sync toy and all projects are updated. Very nice.
I did learn you can't "slipstream" SP3 into MCE. So, you know...take note. SP3...MCE...bad on the slipstreaming.
So I installed it as normal, looked at the updates for SP2 and slipstreamed what I could. Then installed SP3 and took note of those updates. After two weeks of screwing with it I was able to auto-mate the whole thing: install SP2 updates that couldn't be slipstreamed, install some MCE-related stuff, install all my apps, install Sp3 and finally install the SP3 updates. All without having to touch a thing. Took me forever. But I did it.
I've since decided I'm going to write out what I know (not here, some where else) and move on to some other project or interest for a while. Maybe reading/writing/programming? I don't know. Maybe I'll learn WordPress. Some MySQL type stuff. Maybe I'll try out some Vista stuff or server 2008. The number of things I could focus on is mind bottling. Or boggling.
Or I could start playing Fallout 3. That thing I bought last november that I still haven't really started. I'm just not that excited for some reason. I may as well go back into oblivion and start loading up a bunch of mods. That could be a fun couple of months right there. Then there's the mods for some older games like Freelancer. That could be fun. See? Bottling.
Well I'm barely going to be able to stand tomorrow whether I go to bed now or not. But I guess I'll give it another try. That whole sleep thing. Lets hope!
¶ 10:56 PM 0 Comments
For the record I'd rather be sleeping. But I can't sleep. I've been planning to go back to writing for a long time anyway so here I am doing so albeit possibly against my will. Like I said: sleep. Rather be.
I'm starting to accept despite all intentions I'm not going to ever get back to writing regularly, am I? Well I have different plans this time. It's never turned out very well before. Writing-wise I mean. Whatever.
Ok so you know that least post from way back in October? Well that was way back. In October. Which seems redundant reading it again. But not that much has happened really. Still the same job. Hospital. Computers. Not sure there's a tunnel never mind a light for it to end in.
Except I did finally get transferred to a new hospital. This one quite close to where I live. Fifteen minutes actually. Yes, that one I mentioned in that last post. The one I never thought I would be near or had passed on an opportunity to be at. Something like that. I'm now there.
I was transferred for "two weeks" right before Christmas time. Maybe that was my trial period or something I don't know. Then in an email to my "project manager" I had said something about not only not complaining about switching hospitals but being a fan of such a switch. Next thing I know my two weeks goes to "you're there for the duration". Well, that was easy.
I would have tried to prepare more had I known that was going to be how it went. I mean I would have said like "bye" or whatever that last day. I just thought it was for the two weeks so I didn't bother.
Well the new hospital is alright. About as opposite as the first hospital as two places could be really. The first one was like go-go-go every second, all steressed-out. The new one is way smaller and has less going on. Mondays for instance my co-worker doesn't show up until 2:30 so I had nothing to do. Which was fine by me.
Well that was just for the first month. Now I actually do have stuff to do. Lucky me! It's all ill-defined and I can't tell if I'm doing it right but I am doing stuff. So there's that.
I was working with an older guy whose been doing this kind of work for "a while" as it were. He's got that attitude I've encountered many times before. That whole "I'm retiring in five years so who gives a flying !#$%" that soon-to-be-retired types seem to exhibit. Which isn't to say he doesn't get the job done. He does get job done. He just seems to have no fear and not give a !#$% if you know what I mean.
I don't know if I'll still be there after the hosptial's current project ends. I'd like to be causiously optomistic here but I've been rejected and heart broken so many times I really can't allow myself to get my hopes up too far. Part of me thinks I'd join the peace core for a year if I don't get this job permanent. Ah, me...in a foreign culture for a year. Not sure I'd survive that first week. I really feel like I should do something else with my life while I can. I'm kind of shriveling on the vine. Or something.
If I get the job I guess I'll go with that for a couple years. See what happens. At least until I can't join the peace core anyway. Why would I want to join the peace core anyway? I don't know.
Outside of work? I keep working on my various windows-related projects. I finally am running server 2003 as a workstation right now. There's been a few...challenges along the way. Finding a good freeware anti-virus for instance. Not so easy on a server system. And web sites detecting the OS and not loading content. Easily defeated (Firefox add-on called "user agent switcher") but still kind of an obstacle. I do like it though. I like it a lot.
I have now created an "unattended" folder which among other folders contains a "projects" folder containing folders for various OSes. Just XP MCE 2005 at the moment actually. But several projects of it. All projects are auto-synced to the "template" folder. This makes managing things a little easier. Just change whatever in the template and sync it with sync toy and all projects are updated. Very nice.
I did learn you can't "slipstream" SP3 into MCE. So, you know...take note. SP3...MCE...bad on the slipstreaming.
So I installed it as normal, looked at the updates for SP2 and slipstreamed what I could. Then installed SP3 and took note of those updates. After two weeks of screwing with it I was able to auto-mate the whole thing: install SP2 updates that couldn't be slipstreamed, install some MCE-related stuff, install all my apps, install Sp3 and finally install the SP3 updates. All without having to touch a thing. Took me forever. But I did it.
I've since decided I'm going to write out what I know (not here, some where else) and move on to some other project or interest for a while. Maybe reading/writing/programming? I don't know. Maybe I'll learn WordPress. Some MySQL type stuff. Maybe I'll try out some Vista stuff or server 2008. The number of things I could focus on is mind bottling. Or boggling.
Or I could start playing Fallout 3. That thing I bought last november that I still haven't really started. I'm just not that excited for some reason. I may as well go back into oblivion and start loading up a bunch of mods. That could be a fun couple of months right there. Then there's the mods for some older games like Freelancer. That could be fun. See? Bottling.
Well I'm barely going to be able to stand tomorrow whether I go to bed now or not. But I guess I'll give it another try. That whole sleep thing. Lets hope!
Monday, October 06, 2008
"Hospital"
My job at Intel has ended. It ended a week early actually. Had I known they'd do that I probably would have left it earlier myself. Fine, whatever. I didn't make nearly the friends and contacts I would have liked at that job.
During the last weeks there I got a call from a recruiter for a new job in Sacramento. I didn't know it would go any where but I knew my contract expiration was coming up so I went with it. As it turned out that new job was going to start a week after the Intel one ended, a nice little week long vacation. Horray.
I did the phone interview first. While I was at Intel no less. I was going to try and do it at my computer in the lab but it turned it was too noisy what with all the PCs running. So I went outside and down the hall and sat down against a wall to give the interview.
I didn't do any mental prep in which I wrote out some success/failure memories of previous jobs or even laid down, closed my eyes and tried to visualize some stories. I've done that before. But not this time. As a result I didn't have examples at the ready and it took me a while to answer a lot of the questions.
This I took personally on myself, cursing myself for being unprepared. I did answer almost all the questions eventually and some of them I even answered correctly. Still as per the apparently high standards I've set for myself I thought I did rather poorly.
There were two people interviewing me, asking questions and presumably taking notes on how I answered.
As I said I thought I did rather poorly in this interview. I guess the two people interviewing me were impressed though because I got asked back to do an in-person interview.
This too had two people involved, one was from the phone interviewing, the second a different person.
While the phone interview was much more technical this in-person interview was much more psychological. More of test of ethics and practical kind of stuff.
This one I also thought I did rather poorly. In fact I was fairly certain I was bombing it. Then I kind of found my second breath and provided this whole for instance from my SBC job.
On the way out of the interview one of the two guys asked if I played World of Warcraft. I didn't (and don't) really and I tried to explain as much. Course usually if you're never going to see someone again you don't ask them about their favorite PC games. Right?
Still I was pessimistic to the recruiter. Trying to lower expectations. Then He called me back and said that wanted me and were very impressed with my abilities.
The pay rate is way, WAY lower that I would have liked. In fact I should have said "this much an hour minimum or I walk" is what I should have done. But no, I didn't do that.
Of course this whole premise was based on the possibility I could work at a location minutes from my house.
Oh yes, the position is at a major hospital in Sacramento. Actually it's a whole chain with lots of locations in the region. One of which is minutes from my house. I was assigned a hospital in down town Sacramento. In other words the exact place I DIDN"T want to be commuting to.
The first few weeks were rather rough. It always seems to take me four or five weeks to get my bearings and kind of see how it all works at a new job.
I already had to work one day in which I arrived at around 7am (get a good parking spot) started work at 8am and didn't actually leave the hospital until 4am THE NEXT DAY. I put pretty much all that time on my time card too. That'll learn em.
They use a series of web pages and links called Mirimba to install applicaitons. All the apps are on different pages and I found this inconvenient. So, I thought, I'll just copy the URLs of these links and stick them alll on one single HTML file. Then access that file from various PCs and there ya go. I guess this was really impressive to my manager.
I then also wrote some rather simple batch files for things like deleting the same shortcuts from the all users desktop and running various Mirimba links. I mean these are dead simple one command per line type batch files. I linked via my HTML file and I had an even more useful tool. This also apparently impressed my manager. That was just in the first two weeks.
In fact a lead I had been working with for the first couple weeks was going to back to his original hospital and requested I be the one that came with him. Which I didn't know at the time. His hospital was even further away from my house ya see. I requested I stay and a co-worker not opposed to the idea of switching go instead. A request that was granted.
Ok in the long run this was probably better, though there were times when I really hated said decision. The one co-worker I had left and I would call said ex-co-worker from time to time and he would say he was really bored from nothing to do. Hey, that could have been me, I thought. On the other hand I did learn an awful lot from my decidedly non-board experience at my hospital.
So thought brings us up to about last week. Last monday a new guy started at the job. A new guy who can do a crazy-ass amount of programming, in Delphi no less. In fact he graduated high school two years early and has had probably as many or more jobs than I have. And a photographic memory. He did "penetration tests" for a company for instance. Wow. Also, he's 19.
I haven't decided if that's something to be depressed about or not. I think just from being a live 11 years longer I have a bit more real-life experience than him. I think he's actually more knowledgable on almost everything than I am.
He wrote a program in Delphi for instance that scans the whole corporate network and takes down information like the printers installed and assosciated information, whether a particular application is installed, and whether some particular shortcuts are present on the desktop. Of course he had a lot more time to play with and develop this idea. Still very impressive.
In fact, defying all logic, I am actually giving up my chance to request I be moved to the hospital 10 minutes from my house specifically so I can keep working with and learning from him.
That's all I have for now. I'll continue this hopefully tomorrow. ¶ 7:36 PM 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
"Smurfs"
It appears it has been an extremely long time since I have posted anything. At least to this blog. And to say a lot of stuff has happened would be putting it mildly and probably obvious since it's been like eight months or whatever.
At that place I work, or should I say "still work"(tm), there are "green badges" and there are "blue badges". This place that I work at has kind of a reputation for creating a sub-culture or "caste system" between the badge levels. The greens are the "temps" or "contractors" whilst the blues, or Smurfs if you will, are permanent and have access to things like the gym, the basketball courts, the volleyball courts and get paid even on excursions to fun places out side of work.
There's probably disadvantages to being a Smurf. I think they're salaried for instances so they have to work all hours, from home, whatever.
I haven't really run into the rumored caste system while I have been at this place that I work. Maybe a little recently. That may be imaginary though.
For instance I'm sitting in a lab trying to monitor machines that are offline and bring them into an "online" state appropriate. So when an issue has come up that is being investigated by engineers et. al. you'd think the local Smurf would do something really crazy like let me (the guy looking at the machines 40 hours a week) know about it and how to react if I encounter it. Just a thought. Obviously I'm only a green so what do I know. I'm not a Smurf. Not that I'm bitter.
My last day at this place that I work is something like August 5th. I haven't really made that much effort to look into becoming a Smurf. It appears I don't have access to the part of the internal web site that lists internal Smurf jobs. Or I'm looking in the wrong place. Of course, I'm not that sure I actually WANT to be a Smurf all that badly.
¶ 8:59 PM 0 Comments
It appears it has been an extremely long time since I have posted anything. At least to this blog. And to say a lot of stuff has happened would be putting it mildly and probably obvious since it's been like eight months or whatever.
At that place I work, or should I say "still work"(tm), there are "green badges" and there are "blue badges". This place that I work at has kind of a reputation for creating a sub-culture or "caste system" between the badge levels. The greens are the "temps" or "contractors" whilst the blues, or Smurfs if you will, are permanent and have access to things like the gym, the basketball courts, the volleyball courts and get paid even on excursions to fun places out side of work.
There's probably disadvantages to being a Smurf. I think they're salaried for instances so they have to work all hours, from home, whatever.
I haven't really run into the rumored caste system while I have been at this place that I work. Maybe a little recently. That may be imaginary though.
For instance I'm sitting in a lab trying to monitor machines that are offline and bring them into an "online" state appropriate. So when an issue has come up that is being investigated by engineers et. al. you'd think the local Smurf would do something really crazy like let me (the guy looking at the machines 40 hours a week) know about it and how to react if I encounter it. Just a thought. Obviously I'm only a green so what do I know. I'm not a Smurf. Not that I'm bitter.
My last day at this place that I work is something like August 5th. I haven't really made that much effort to look into becoming a Smurf. It appears I don't have access to the part of the internal web site that lists internal Smurf jobs. Or I'm looking in the wrong place. Of course, I'm not that sure I actually WANT to be a Smurf all that badly.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"Angel's Over"
¶ 8:48 PM 0 Comments
Today is the day before I start "NaNoWriMo", the National Novel Writing Month. I'm not nearly as enthused as I have been in past years. But then I'm not terribly enthused generally lately.
Not enthused about about new game releases. Not enthused about movies. Just generally not terribly enthused about stuff. For some reason. I don't know.
One thing I learned I don't think I want to try and watch to full TV series in parallel like I just finished doing. Ya, that's right, I finished watching both Buffy and Angel. In the case of Angel I finished it just last weekend.
Angel certainly taught me a lot about plot doctoring and throwing in everything possible to come up with some crazy sub-plot that may or may not make sense.
And Buffy's last season was actually not that bad. I mean the second half it really seemed like they were making a whole lot of grand speeches. The same grand speeches over and over again as a matter of fact.
I find it most kind of depressing I'm so thoroughly out of the making entries in the blog habit. Maybe writing the novel in November will get me back into it. I'm hoping so anyway. I'd also like to keep writing different stories as well. I don't know if I will or not. I mean when I'm done with the novel on the 30th, I want to some how motivate myself to keep writing either the same story or a different one. Like maybe just keep writing and writing and writing the same story will no particular end in site. Or just stop when I get to 50,000 words. Either way.
I'd like to write a lot more I guess is the basic point I may be trying to make.
I'd like to write a lot more but I really really need to go to bed.
Not enthused about about new game releases. Not enthused about movies. Just generally not terribly enthused about stuff. For some reason. I don't know.
One thing I learned I don't think I want to try and watch to full TV series in parallel like I just finished doing. Ya, that's right, I finished watching both Buffy and Angel. In the case of Angel I finished it just last weekend.
Angel certainly taught me a lot about plot doctoring and throwing in everything possible to come up with some crazy sub-plot that may or may not make sense.
And Buffy's last season was actually not that bad. I mean the second half it really seemed like they were making a whole lot of grand speeches. The same grand speeches over and over again as a matter of fact.
I find it most kind of depressing I'm so thoroughly out of the making entries in the blog habit. Maybe writing the novel in November will get me back into it. I'm hoping so anyway. I'd also like to keep writing different stories as well. I don't know if I will or not. I mean when I'm done with the novel on the 30th, I want to some how motivate myself to keep writing either the same story or a different one. Like maybe just keep writing and writing and writing the same story will no particular end in site. Or just stop when I get to 50,000 words. Either way.
I'd like to write a lot more I guess is the basic point I may be trying to make.
I'd like to write a lot more but I really really need to go to bed.
