Worus

I’ve been really bad about writing.

Anime Iowa has come and gone. A good time was had by all. I know I definately needed the break. They did a good job with the convention this year. My two complaints are that the hotel was so vertical and that the volunteer department didn’t seem so organized this year. Of course, this year the volunteer department had two new co-heads and, from what I heard, one of them was a bit flakey. After my initial discussion with the department, I decided that I wasn’t terribly interested in volunteering. The recharge qualifications were a bit too stringent for my liking. All in all I had a good convention, though. There were a few things that I really wanted to do that I did not get to do, which is sad, but it was still good. Jessica is now begging me to take her to Anime Nebraskon.

Work is much less busy than before the convention. I still have things to do, but I only work eight hours a day now and I’m not going on Saturday afternoons to do miscellaneous tasks. My project will go live any day now. I’m excited becaues that will mean that I can get us through our first job, write some billing reports and move on to something new. I’m ready to work on something fresh. New things are always exciting and make me really productive, but if I work on something to long I tend to lose interest, and my productivity goes down.

I got Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerebrus last night. The game is pretty fun. I’m not really a first-person shooter gamer, but I’m getting okay at it. It turns out that the game only lasts ten to fifteen hours, so I should have that finished pretty quickly. Then I have got to finish Wild ARMSL Alter Code F so that I can play Xenosaga Episode III before Final Fantasy XII comes out on Halloween! Somehow, I don’t think I can get it all done. So many games, so little time!

I’m mostly packed for Anime Iowa. I bought pocky and soda tonight at Wal-Mart. I am super-stoked. I certainly need the time off of work. It’s been a rough summer at work, and this week has been no exception.

We are getting closer and closer to rolling out my summer project and I’m starting to get scared. I just wish that I had been given the information that I needed about two weeks ago. I’ve now gone through three different file formats for this project and production is happening soon! I wrote an absolutely enormous query today to do checking for packing scanned items into boxes. There were JOINs of JOINs UNION-ed to other JOINs of JOINs. I’m scared to look at the execution plan. However, this query works really well.