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Been kind of messed up lately. My sleep schedule's been absolute shit for no real reason. I got up at 2 in the afternoon today, after going to bed at 3. That's atrocious in like three different ways. (If you say "Not the least of which is your sleeping in reverse-time" I will punch you in the nose. Look, I just didn't want to write "3 a.m.", because that sounded too precise, OK? And now you're making me type in all this extra crap instead. I hate you.) Now saddled with a splitting headache like I always get on days when I sleep too much.

Jesus, this sleep thing is really getting chronic. Maybe I should see a therapist or something except oops I don't have medical coverage anymore son of a bitch.

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I don't feel I'm hardcore enough about the business but that's just cuz I haven't done much with the tech for a couple of days. I have a concrete project to do: a tutorial that will make use of our now-released client application. I have generated some neato ideas for it that I need to discuss with my colleagues, as soon as my head clears up a bit, and I position myself so that I'm actually awake at the same time they are.

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The Manchester half-day trip was pleasant; I enjoyed driving on the highway for the first time in a while, and on an unfamiliar highway too (that is, something besides the 93/95 stretch between Somerville and Waterville). My first interstate use of Zipcar, too.

The iBook is still in the cardboard box my parents packed it in; Ricky wrote "WHITEY IN RECIDANCE" on it. Mom said it's supposed to be "residence". This is weird because Rick writes me often and is a fairly good speller, so I dunno if this was some private joke of his or not. (One of the manifestations of his illness is a frequent obsession with words, making up ways to take apart and reconstruct them, imagining finding endless hidden truths in the process that are entirely divorced from their meaning or real etymology.)

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I feel obliged to note that Volity continues to chug away even as I've spent the days since the Javolin release doing little more than clawing at the walls, with occasional breaks to write another ingenious post like this one. This is largely zarf's doing, with a bunch of other people supporting; I've been following the mailing list through my mental haze, and nodding with groggy approval.

A little nervous that Z mentioned Javolin it on his own website, which has a lot of readers, and I've already seen the effects of this. But this is a good thing, right? And I have the power to one-up him via my O'Reilly Network blog, assuming they haven't kicked me off for lack of use. Erf, I should really check, someday. I have things to post there that aren't even Volity-related, if you can believe it.

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I just semi-napped for a couple of hours. Got close enough to sleep to have a dream that daerr asked to be let off the project. Which you'd know is kind of silly, if you know what I know. Unless I don't know what someone else knows I don't know...

Wide awake and still headachey, eatin Excederins like they was candy, num num. If still awake come start of business, will saddle up and go lookin' for a copy of Meteos for the DS. mrmorse, who is more or less my sole source of fresh video game news, tells me that people are ga-ga for it. A little earlier I was watching TV while poking resignedly at Wario Ware: Touched (slaving my way through dozens of too-easy microgames towards the final unlock) when I realized that hells yeah I'd love a bona fide puzzle game.

The DS is, to my eye, the perfect system for fiddly-toy games like this, especially with its fast sleep/wake ability. Whenever the distraction ya-yas start nibbling at you, you can flip the DS open, immediately pound buttons for 34 and a half seconds, and then snap it shut again to return to your work (or, just as often in my case, pop up one level in the distraction-stack, ha ha).

Perversely, thinking fondly of the DS in these terms makes me want to see Volity on it even more. I look forward to the day when the DS hacker community succeeds in implementing TCP/IP on the sucker, and then I can start dropping suggestions that someone oughtta implement Jabber and SVG on it, and of course Volity will be big*big news among game hackers by then, so...

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Today's random WP discovery: there actually is a Black Watch plaid.