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Wishy-washy excuse to the Network has been sent, backing out of that (informal) commitment as expected. Boy, do I feel lame. But the alas-alas offered in that letter is true: I really can't keep to any kind of deadline outside of ICCB-work and stay sane, not even for a "little" project. Sure, I'll continue to keep who-knows-how-many projects simmering on the stove, but henceforth I must remember to to consider each and every one with an official deadline of RSN, and no sooner.

Worked Sunday on MIGS. Some of this time spent on compiling and installing a Jabber server on my Mac, giving me a completely self-contained, portable MIGS development environment, so that's pretty nice. The game server is up to a point where it can perform a rude imitation of the guessing game, with one (automated) player. Lots and lots of work to do before I'll consider it ready for proof-of-concept (I'll want it to play at least two different, trivial games smoothly with two players each, and work with player win/loss records, something I haven't even begun to implement), but results so far are encouraging.

Feeling kind of directionless at work right now. The sudden project is winding down, I think, and it's been so long since I've worked on HTSMan I'm not sure how best to attack it. Boss just returned from a week out, and I'm starving for some management, to be quite honest. I think I'm supposed to be worried about HTSMan, because it really should be usable my September. September is a thing six weeks away. So yeah: yipe.