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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.

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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.

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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.