Entries tagged with procrastination

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Solving work

It's been a little over a year since I signed my first truly independent work contract. I continue to feel like I've solved "work". I don't think I'll ever need to go job-hunting again. Unlike every other job I've had since graduating college, I'm not bored after a year of it, and I don't foresee that ever changing.

(Of course, in a real sense I am in fact looking for work all the time, now. But there ends up being a world of difference between attracting customers and seeking employers, as far as their respective outcomes go. It has everything to do with who controls you.)

Part of me just wants to embrace this evolved sense of work completely, invest some spare cycles into the next potential leap forward (Project X), and just let go of everything else for now. But I don't wanna, so instead I just procrastinate, by putting more time into Appleseed or X. Well, that could be a lot worse.

And X is going fine, thanks for asking. I am a little bummed that both my career and my biggest sub-project both deal with computer programming right now; though the projects are quite different the overall context is kind of monotonous. X is finite, though; the software itself has well-defined goals, and then it will go through a pass/fail submission process, which I hope to hit in around ten more weeks. If it fails, it fails, and if it passes, everything will change. But let's deal with that when we come to it.

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Things I keep putting off

Because their need is only evident in crises:

* Create antispam roadblock for Volity bug report page
* Move the Volity sever to a provider that doesn't suck
* Obtain drivers license
* Obtain electric razor

Posting this coz of the last one. Instead of being at a party, I am sitting here going through countless yards of tissue until the bleeding stops. First time in weeks. Grrr.

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Two smiles

When I need distraction I sometimes ego-google (ego-ogle?) for "volity". We're winning enough mentions outside of the Known Volity Cloud to make this worthwhile now. I just saw someone with a name I didn't recognize casually plug Volity (in the same breath as VASSAL and Zillions of Games) in rec.games.design. Yay.

Shoot, I can't find it now. On my friendsfriends page this morning there was a flyer for a revue of various MC-style musicians somewhere, and the list of non-headlining performers was wonderful, particularly "MC MCMC" and "MC XYZ". It was like a fake ad from Mad Magazine or something, and they were just cracking some corny jokes to fill space. But they're apparently actual artists! RESPECT.

Oh, a third smile that local conversation just reminded me of: Austin the Volity Hacker debuted the alpha of his Hearts game yesterday, and it's great! It needs a lot of work still but it's more done than not, and several of us had fun playing against each other and his bots. This is the thing that's been giving my Perl libraries a real workout - most of the Volity work being done by others uses Zarf's Python libs instead - so I have two big reasons to love this. I can't wait to see it finished!

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Considering the website done for now, after spending the afternoon rassling with unexpected (snort) MSIE stupidity; the browser apparently freaks out and spews nonsensical error messages (Server not found what) if you perform a server-side redirect from one URL scheme to another. People most often see this when they try to redirect from an http to an https URL, but I hit it when trying to throw people at URLs using our own volity scheme, which launches Gamut and sends you some spot in the Volityverse.

From what I can figure out via Google, this has been a known bug for years, and Microsoft's simply not ever felt like fixing it. Nice. Well, I caulked up the gaps with JavaScript and shall think upon it no more. (One side effect of my Volity work is that I am far more comfortable using JS as a what-ails-ya tool than I was a year ago, even though I've been dinking around on the Web for a decade now.)

Swag for Origins came today. From cafepress we got two sizes of buttons; a few big "Ask Me About" buttons for ourselves and a lot of little logo-and-url buttons for you. They all look pretty cool.

From Zazzle we got our T-shirts, and.... eh. The white rocket/moon shirts that I have seen on

dictator555 and

daerr look great, but the printing process that Zazzle uses with their dark shirts isn't all that good, really. The images look somewhat translucent, with the white parts of the designs coming out especially muddy. On top of that, there's a thin ghostly halo around the designs; it could be antialiasing artifacts that I didn't catch, but they're only on one side so I dunno. The shirts will serve, but is disappointing, especially since the light shirts were so good. I may just remove the dark-shirt designs from the Zazzle store.

I have managed to make it all the way to Origins Week without getting my driver's license renewed. I feel stupid about it, but not surprised; it's exactly the sort of thing I put off indefinitely because it is stupid and boring and unimportant. Until it is, suddenly. I don't know what happens when you present an expired license as photo ID at an airport. I guess I will find out, eh?

I have already used this dead one recently to buy beer and pick up a package so I don't know. (It's so old it's still from Maine!) I may go to the RMV on Monday or Tuesday if there's time. There may not be time. But even if I do, I will only get a cheesy temp license that day, so I likely won't bother anyway.

Best idea, based on Googling: see what Delta's policy about this is, and call and talk to someone about it if necessary. And show up with a folderful of alt docs. (I have no passport either.) And unfortunately we'll need to leave earlier in case none of that works and they make me go through extra security. Sorry, Andys...

I will soon make my monthly funds transfer from savings to checking, and this will leave me with a savings account of $0. Yes! I am literally on my last month of personal fuel. Because of all the layers of thick cottony abstract thinking that lay between my mental mind and the serrated edge of reality, I am totally not worried about this. OK, I am also not worried because I have a cunning plan. Or anyway I hope to come up with one this weekend.

If things get hairy I can go for another month or three by kicking open the IRA CDs I bought before I wised up and invested in a stock index instead, but let's try to not go there.

It kinda stinks that I won't be able to buy anything at Origins, though.

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Let's procrastinate, robots!

I love the Massive Attack album 100th Window and didn't know until just now that its vocals were provided by Sinead O'Connor. How about that. It's too bad I was a stupid little kid during the height of her popularity or else maybe I'd know something about her other than huh huh she's bald derp derp derp. Also tears pope.

I bought the earlier Mezzanine yesterday and do not love it nearly so much, even though it has "Teardrop" on it, which is one of my favorite songs by anyone ever. Maybe it will grow on me, but 100th Window I can listen to over and over practically.

Should go to CD Spins and hoover up any Massive Attacks they have. Maybe when they open. Which is in another [looks at clock] oh shit

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I had a strange sort of sex dream last night, in that it had no sex in it, but rather focused on navigating the emotional aftermath many days after I had a fling with someone. Basically, I was just having a conversation with the person at some neutral location. We were ironing things out. It was so convincing that when I woke up my first thought was "Ah, so I just dreamed about this conversation that I will inevitably need to have in real life soon." Awake, I felt bad that I was putting things off, and worried about what I'd actually do. As full-on waking context finally asserted itself, I experienced both relief and disappointment. The end.

(As I reread this I can name things in my life that I'm putting off and which may be causing trouble to others, though they have nothing to do with sex. (Or Volity.) It'd be vaguely hilarious if those were the anxieties that got recast into that context, by my subconscious.)