Worus

I forgot that I had to work tonight, so I was twenty-five minutes late. I have to work three nights this week, which is not normal for me. As a result, the first time I will get to spend non-late hours at home will be Saturday. The last time I spent evening hours at home was Thursday and the last time I spent any non-late hours at home was Friday. Next week I only work one night, though. That will be awesome.

I spent some time reading up in the Wordpress Codex on how to write a WordPress 1.5 theme. I know that WordPress 2.0 is due out soon, but I figure that it’s time that I at least start working towards learning all of this. If the last major release’s documentation is any indication of how the next release will be, there won’t be a lot of go off of for WordPress 2.0’s differences for a while. I’ll probably write my WordPress 1.5 theme and wait until the Codex is sufficiently updated before I install the next version. The documentation that’s out there for the current version is excellent.

Sometimes I forget about the whole presentation layer of my journal, because I don’t read anyone’s journal using my web browser anymore. I exclusively read my journals and blogs in my news reader. The only time that I ever hop over to someone’s web site is to leave a comment. Consequently, I find myself leaving more comments than I used to because I’m using the news reader. I’m not really sure where that comes from.

I would say that I’ve at least started paying more attention to the web side of this whole journal thing in the last year than I was paying. I didn’t even used to use my web browser to update my journal. I used to use my own .NET application and update from my desktop. Since I’ve stopped development on that, I’ve drifted back to the web administration. For a while, the only time I logged into WordPress was to approve comments and delete blogging spam.

I’m having issues validating dates at work using JavaScript. I’m not really sure what to do, because the default calendar control that comes with Joomla!, the content management system that we’re using for this project, outputs MySQL dates, which doesn’t make a lot of sense to end users. As long as they stick with the control, all will be fine. However, that’s not always the case. As a matter of fact, the receiving page can take dates written in plain English and convert them to the MySQL dates that I will eventually need for the database. Unfortuantely, the receiving page can also parse invalid dates. They come out as one second before the UNIX Epoch; that is, December 31, 1969 23:59. What to do?

I only have two more discs on my To Rip pile and I will have most of the CDs that I’ve bought in the last year on my computer. I still haven’t had a chance to make minidiscs, but that requires me to be a bit more “around” than ripping discs does. Plus, I need that minidisc player at work!

I was a bit upset last week, because after saying, I don’t want to push work off into you, but, at the same time, I don’t want to take work away from you, I heard, Well, I have this project that’s kind of been pushed off from Julian to me.

Excuse me? I went as far as to say, I will do all of the work on this, but, since I didn’t write the accounting system to this software, I need to know what changes are the best to make so that revenue is reported correctly. I was told by him that he didn’t have enough work as was and that he wanted to do the work. I said that would be fine, but that if something came up, just to let me know and I would do all of the work. Now, I’m coming off as lazy.

What have I been doing all of this time? Work for another guy that he didn’t have time for. I’ve highly enjoyed it, but let’s not go pointing fingers at who’s working on what. I had free time, so I volunteered to do the work. One person had nothing going on, so he took it from me. In the mean time, I had been asked to put another project on my to-do list, so I started that.

The new project has been much cooler, anyway.

The holiday was good. I had a nice time at my parents’ house. Jessica and I watched Fushigi Yuugi Eikoden, so I have now seen that. I can’t seem to remember any of the crazy family antics that we had, but we did have some. It’s fun to be involved in those.

Zach and Mandar came over tonight. We got Panchero’s and watched a couple of episodes of stuff from DVDs. I also ripped a couple more CDs onto my computer so that I can put them on minidisc for work and the car.

I’ve been so busy lately that I’m hoping after this week life will kind of start to calm down again. I shouldnt’ have lots of family functions to go to, shopping to do, or other random errands to perform. I need to get back into my gaming, because I now have to complete Wild ARMS: Alter Code F, which I’m totally stoked about. Wild ARMS is awesome.