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Finally got proactive and went to the gym yesterday. Mary Beth was up in Nashville for some legislation stuff. I also sat around and watched a few episodes of Rick and Morty (finally getting to the second season). I set my dreamwidth account and tried to import this lj over but it failed. So I'm still posting here again! Maybe I did something wrong? We'll see when I try again.

If you don't see any more posts from me, I've moved to: http://ateolf.dreamwidth.org/

Not a whole lot right now. Ran some errands last night. Worked today. Hard to focus. Distractions. A little bit of a headache. Didn't make much progress. Anyway, back to the whatever it is it's back to.

Did some coding work yesterday and pretty much finished my webhook stuff much sooner than I was kinda expecting. Met my parents and nephews for an early easter dinner thingie at Soul Fish yesterday. Tidied my code up at work this morning and had a code review in the afternoon. It went pretty well. Have some things to change but overall not horrible. Mary Beth made these West African cookies that I brought to work. They're apparently almost the same thing as a certain Indian pastry, a bunch of my Indian coworkers were remarking on it. Okay, that's about it for now.

Got Jacques to give me a ride to pick up my car so that's done and I have a car now and we were able to do fun things like finally go to the grocery store! Later in the evening was Condomonium. Mary Beth accompanied me and we walked over to Playhouse. It was pretty cool. Looked at some of the costumes/dresses (none were quite like the Van Gogh's "Starry Nights" via condoms dress they have on display up at Choices from a previous year, but there was still good stuff). There was a cabaret down in the basement. Some burlesque, some drag, some comedy, some music. The first thing we saw was burlesque to Grimes's "Genesis" (there was some Rammstein burlesque later that was a little lacking). This one drag we saw later was really good. Cole (am I spelling her name right?) who we used to work with back at relay was really funny (seen her once before at another Choices benefit a year or so ago...enjoyed her material then too). Lisa was mcing and was funny in her little bits. Okay, upstairs for the fashion show. Lizz Winstead was the host (she's one of the creators of the Daily Show) along with D'Lo (in costume as his Sri Lankan mother). First there was an auction of a few things. Dinner with Steve Cohen was first and his presence was enjoyable as usual (all things given, at least we have an awesome congressman). Then it was the condom-laden fashion show. Ooh and someone brought a bulldog on stage, which I know can be a cheap move...but it was a bulldog on stage and it was awesome. There was more cabaret downstairs for a little bit, but it was about time for my volunteer shift. I'd signed up for clean-up as that's the one no one else had signed up for at the time. When I got there (after trying to find what was going on, I guess it's the end of the event and things are a little looser) there was one other volunteer for that shift. First to pick up cups and stuff. I took it upon myself to clean the auditorium and I'll just say that people are animals. I mean, we know this, but I'll say it again. Can't say I've never been guilty of leaving a cup behind at my seats at an event. But it needs reiterating, people are animals. Then moving Choics's stuff into the room by the back door and finally into a car. Then we walked home and I passed out. There you go.

Walked over to Playhouse on the Square for some volunteer orientation for Condomonium (Choices's big fundraiser event). Good thing it happens to be so close! My car is ready now. I've got someone coming to pick me up in less than an hour. Finally. Wasn't quite as cheap as I was hoping but it's not expensive either. Anyway, having a car again will be a good thing. That's about it for now.

Pretty alright day at work today. Not a lot of people there. I was pretty productive. Realized a thing I was doing for the webhooks was too extra so I had to back it out. Then I was working on the one last thing I needed to do. Testing and all that. My car still isn't ready. They want to charge the battery or something so they're doing that tonight and will fix it in the morning, I hope. It'd really better not take longer than that (especially considering how long it's already been to even start). Anyway. Got out of work early today because of the non-holiday. Woo. And I'm trying to post and the damn internet's down. Nice. Looks like the ol' unplug-the-router trick actually worked!

Got a ride to work from Zach this morning. Got some Ching's wings for lunch. Stephen was there but he was at another table so I'm not all too sure what's up with his new job. Felt pretty productive today. Made some progress in improving my webhooks stuff. But I keep doing new stuff and each time I got really really stuck on something for a good while. Then it turned up in every case to be with the wrong string somewhere (though once it was actually the class name misspelled and the string representing it was "right"). Anyway, that's that. My car still isn't ready. The guy didn't come today, at least not yet. He needed a part to be picked up and Kanan is going to do that for me. Should be tomorrow...hopefully!!! Got a ride home from Zach again. That's where we're at now!

Well, today was fuckin' something. I'm leaving work and get in my car and it just will not start. No sound, nothing, so I'm wondering how deep this problem goes. I got in touch with Zach and he was able to come around and help me try to jump it. We tried and it wouldn't take. As we were giving up Kanan came by and he works on cars as a hobby so he had a battery tester and we were able to better diagnose the problem. I may need a new battery too, it is pretty old, but the main problem is the starter. He has a friend who works on cars who he's going to get to come up and check it out in the parking lot. So hopefully that will resolve itself alright. I got a ride home from Zach (he lives just about around the corner anyway). Mary Beth's window is still out, the people called her today and they can't get to it til Monday. Yikes. Hopefully I'll get my car working soon. Til then I guess it's a matter of getting more rides. A minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but that's where it's at now. Also in sad news, Bored Lord apparently just moved to California so he can't play the festival anymore. Sad. I wasn't aware of him before, but I really dug his stuff after checking it out and he's probably the biggest name we had on the lineup. Ah ah well. We'll make it on our own gumption, I say!

Didn't get much sleep last night so I was pretty tired today, but I was pretty productive at work. The webhooks thing I've been working on (the universal code for all apis to use) has passed its first rough draft and is actually working. Needs some cleanup, I think, and it may need a little more functionality but we'll see. Came home from work to find Mary Beth's car has one of the back windows busted. Yikes. On a more pleasant note, I came home to some things in the mail: Forbidden Planet dvd (to be played during the Memphis Concrète festival!) and a couple cds: The Hafler Trio: Fuck, Grauzone: Die Sunrise Tapes. Anyway, we went over to Sarah's for seder. It was my second seder ever (the other being years ago at Hanover's parents' place). It was nice fun and some good food. We did a humanist script. Fun day to be thinking about passover given Forty-Five and Co.'s antics today of all days. Anyway, came back home to tape up Mary Beth's window but someone should be coming by to fix it tomorrow. Well I guess that's it for now.

Not a whole lot. Mild design work yesterday. Back to work today. My scrummaster thought I've been mad at her. I don't really know why and I feel bad. I guess I've just reverted back to my standard awkward behavior and I should make some kind of gesture to make up, but what? In other thoughts, is dreamwidth my best option? We'll see if I can actually make a jump after oh shit reall? 17 years? Is this almost adulthood?