Paul's Journal

05/31/2011 23:41 #54391

Work is so boring right now
Category: work

I am so bored with my job right now. I am having to re-write a bunch of existing code instead of working on anything new because a vendor product purchase changed the way we store employee position information.

Just about all of the other web apps depend on my directory service JSON RPC2 API so just about everything needs to be tested again.

Sometimes its fun to revisit old code and refactor but in this case, the code was very optimized and now I am just having to re-write and test a lot, in the end nothing will seem much different, just that my life will be sucked away a little more.

tinypliny - 06/01/11 00:04
But the comments are more insightful than the article itself. :::link:::

tinypliny - 06/01/11 00:01
Funny, I was reading this today morning... :::link:::

And I am realizing just how true it is for everyone I know and mostly for myself. I sometimes that I need to re-examine my decisions and seek some honesty in why I am doing what I have apparently set out to do. Am I even doing what I came to do? The lines are so blurred now that that article makes more sense than ever.

05/30/2011 23:44 #54389

Street Signs In Kenmore
Category: kenmore

(e:terry) and I were in Kenmore the other day when he commented on how large the lettering is on the new road signs there. They are at least twice the size of before. He said he thought it was perhaps due to Kenmore's aging population. I think he might be right.

metalpeter - 06/01/11 17:23
I see they have the federal Mandated Up and Lower case signs ...
I think the big sings are for car traffic since they are higher they should be bigger..... At some point Buffalo went to all capitals and then the law changed saying that signs are more readable if Only the first Letter is a capital. ......

tinypliny - 05/31/11 11:04
I love big signs because I am terribly myopic and somehow never got used to wearing specs.

05/30/2011 23:41 #54388

160 lbs
Category: body

Eating more carbs is helping me put on weight. Clearly it was the food group I was lacking in most. Strangely it is addicting. I used to have a protein shake for break (banana, milk + whey protein.) Now I eat a bowl of cereal with milk and honey. Before I would not be hungry till lunch or dinner. Now I snack incessantly during the day.

I just hope I can stop before I become fat and that I didn't open Pandora box.

paul - 05/31/11 12:26
I never had heartburn again. I think it was from that freakishly sour green apple before bed followed by yoga right after dinnertime the next day.

tinypliny - 05/31/11 10:56
What do you eat throughout the day? I think you should make your breakfast more balanced - for eg. eat those kashi cereal with 13g of protein per serving or add a hardboiled egg to the breakfast. The idea of introducing carbohydrates to your meal was not only to balance out the excessive amounts of proteins you were consuming but also to make sure that you didn't go hungry and/or empty-stomach for an extended period of time - a factor that increases risk for heartburn.

05/30/2011 23:36 #54387

Summer Cold
Category: health

Yuck, at first I thought it was allergies but now I think I have a cold. It started out with inhaling a bug hukibg at ghr forge followed by being massively allergic to all the perfumes at the concert.

In order to treat it I tried the Netti pot. Usually, I am ok with it, but this time I turned my head near the end and I swear the water came out my eye which was unpleasant. On the other hand clean sinuses feel so nice.

I decided to take nyquil. Hopefully I won't go crazy like (e:tinypliny) did in benedryl, lol.

tinypliny - 05/31/11 10:58
I looked up mechanisms of benadryl and claritin. I was going to make a post about it but got distracted...

05/30/2011 15:27 #54386

Stuck at Bennette beach
Category: beach

Not us, but everyone else seems to have though parking on the muddy grass was a good idea. The beach was packed like I never saw it and there were multiple tow trucks pulling people out. We ended up leaving and going to Wendy.

Despite what everyone else says I have never been here. It us missing all if the eye candy from Bennette.

This one girl decided to drive straight into a ditch at like a 45ï¿½ angle. I tried to get a better pic but they were yelling at us.

metalpeter - 06/01/11 17:17
liking the eye candy....

libertad - 06/01/11 14:44
"Take a picture so you can put it on effing Facebook"

paul - 05/31/11 12:26
It looked too disgusting to go in. I am not a big fan of the beaach after rain.

tinypliny - 05/31/11 11:05
yesterday was classic beach weather but was the water warm??