There was a car accident outside of my apartment today, but everyone was okay. No, wiat, that's not my story. See, I've gotten so lazy with poor coredump that I'm not even telling my own stories anymore. Just trying to fill the space with something, anything. Oh, for the love of..
It's always hard to think of a good opening.
What news? I'm still sick and it's pissing me off. This isn't usual for me, normally I get sick, and then get better. This time I'm not getting better, just shifting symptoms. Perhaps I should go to the doctor. Get them to x-ray my finger too. Yes, so, sick. Again, the details of the past 5 days seem too mundane to repeat. On Thursday we played volleyball, and I played like a blind woodsman. It was as if I'd never seen a volleyball before. I'm looking forward to our clinic, and maybe some more practice. It becomes a drag after a while to lose all the time. The winning is not where all the fun comes from, but it sure helps to keep your spirits up.
The problem with the digital camera is the diligence it takes to keep your photos organized. I had read pundits (wags too) decry digital photography as still too complex due to this fact, but never understood what the big deal was until I got one for myself. The main issue is that when you're keeping your photographs only in digital form, you have to be careful how and where you store them. They have to have filenames that make sense and keep them organized or it's just one big heaving steaming mess. Hundreds and hundreds of files with names like 101-0112_IMG.JPG filling up endless folders with names like "dave's house - october". It quickly becomes unmanageable. So you have to always be on top of it. You need a good naming convention and a good folder system. And of course, if you want to put your photos on the web or email them, you have to convert them to a smaller size and lower resolution. So then you have two copies of at least all of your shared photos. It's a morass.
I'm not sure how it would be better. The renaming and conversion is the real pain in the ass. If we could avoid that, we'd be in pretty good shape. I've written some scripts that make it a lot eaier, but I still have to type in hundreds of filenames and think of a descriptive way to name them. Maybe I should get some voice recognition software. Ha.
Okay, end rant.
--time passes--
--a lot of time--
For the last 3 hours or so, I've been doing just what I described above. Renaming files, trying to get them organized. And whenever I do that, I of course think of refinements I can make to the renaming script to make things easier and end up coding for hours. At this point, though, I suspect I may have taken a turn back towards ridiculously complex. At a minimum, I've developed a system that I'm fairly sure would be impossible to explain to anyone. Certainly no one would want to hear about it.
Ah, one more thing. Years ago when I quit smoking, I made a little javascript thingie that kept track of how long it had been since I'd smoked. It was a nice motivational tool, keeping a precise tally made it hard to fuck up, and I've talked it up to several of my firends who've tried to quit in the past couple of years. Rich wanted me to make him one, a taskulater-minder--ater. It was far too nasty to fix up and change the javascript, so last week I rewrote it in perl and made it more flexible and available for anyone to use. I haven't gotten around to polishing up the look of it, or adding any explanation, but it works. Check it out, it's The Quitter.
First 24 hours of sleep-catching-up-opportunity-week officially wasted. 7 to go.
