Sunday, January 24, 2010
"Niece"
I have no idea what I should really make this entry about since I did relatively little since my last entry. Pretty much all day today I played with my Niece who is a very mature 2 1/2 years old. I say mature because she seems so smart for 2 1/2 and when I show pictures to people and ask them to guess her age the response is usually "between 4 and 6".
Anyway to say she is quite a character would be to put it mildly. Observing her just makes me wish she had one or more other two year olds to play with at any given moment. She seems some how frustrated by the old people she is currently surrounded by. My sister is six months pregnant though so I guess she'll have a play mate soon enough. Still some how seems a shame for the poor kid right now.
I could once again write about my adventures with "the DOM" but there isn't all that much yet to report. I do learn at least a little more with each passing day so at least I feel like I'm making some degree of progress.
I did actually do some amount with the PHP book today, namely going through some of the code in the SQL chapters, creating the theoretical database and adding some records. Luckily the book I am using has an official web site with all the code I can copy/paste for setting up all the records in the tables. I think one reason the PHP thing has turned into something of a chore is that I could easily spend four or five hours just on one chapter entering in the code, experimenting and taking notes on the chapter in Word. And who has that kind of time? Well I do have that kind of time technically that doesn't mean my interests don't occasionally shift this direction and that though. So that's like four hours a day at least. Not much else I can get done if I spend that kind of time on the one thing. Obviously I need to get up earlier.
I won't talk too much about jobs because that always depresses me other than to say I have accomplished some of those things I have had every opportunity to do in the last seven months or so but some how haven't. Like getting rid of a ginormous 19" CRT that must have weighed roughly 45 pounds and also getting rid of a worthless early-1990s era laptop that had a fried BIOS and I should never have purchased to begin with. Actually I knew that when I bought it but I will bought it anyway. Obviously that was an incredibly stupid decision. I even pointed out to the guy the BIOS was fried and it wasn't ever going to boot again. Then I stupidly bought it anyway. So yes, I'm glad to be rid of it. And the monitor. It allowed me to move some of my crap in to the closet where the CRT had been sitting. So as I had mentioned before if there were any mental sub-conscious blocks about working because I had those minor little things left to do while not working I seem to be slowly clearing them away a little at a time.
Okay I can only think of the two more things left to go on about, which may or may not be related. Firstly the weather has been rather horrible. Always cold and rainy and mainly miserable. Us poor California people aren't necessarily accustomed to this sort of thing. And secondly I should really vow to do some exercises and stretches, even if there some slight amount, ever day. I mean even if I can only do one or two push-ups and about the same for sit-ups (not that I'm admitting as much) if I do that every day I'll eventually get stronger and better at it. Right? That's the theory anyway. Also, maybe I should just tough it out and go on that five mile run/walk despite the rain and wind and miserable cold. Maybe.
I think this will be all for tonight.
¶ 9:04 PM 
