30 June 2008

Better progress

Today I'm thankful for ...

... making more progress on a very annoying project. A simple system has turned into an ugly hairy mess of programming. :( But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel---and I'm sure it's not a muzzle flash.

29 June 2008

Air

Today I'm thankful for ...

... being able to breathe easily. I was feeling really sick last Thursday with all the smoke particles in the air. The neighborhood I live in typically gets a lot of fog and the air is fairly heavy especially in the morning. Last Thursday the air was so thick and disgusting I was lightheaded just walking to my car.

Today was the first day in recent memory I felt I could breathe.

28 June 2008

Flexibility

Today I'm thankful for ...

... B being flexible. We swapped plans around so we could stay at my place last night. That way we'd be able to take the train down to the SF Pride parade route. That was cool of him.

27 June 2008

Progress

Today I'm thankful for ...

... a good bit of progress in the past few days on a project at work. Besides firefighting certain issues I am making really good progress with a games system! It's fun!

26 June 2008

Just swingin' by...

Today I'm thankful for ...

... N having written me e-mail the night before. She was in town for a mini trade show so we got dinner afterwards!

25 June 2008

Um, er, what was that...

Today I'm thankful for ...

... not falling asleep during a talk I went to. I thought it was going to be something more enlightened but it turned out to be more of a list of reasons why school is a good thing for you.

09 June 2008

That's good hash

Today I'm thankful for ...

... md5 being installed on Macs. I couldn't remember how to get the MD5 checksum/hash of a file so I just typed "md5" on the command line and voilà it worked!

> md5 Adium_1.2.5.dmg
MD5 (Adium_1.2.5.dmg) = 308b1fc45bb441b44fde48c8a0485e79
>

Easy breezy...

05 June 2008

Foodies

Today I'm thankful for ...

... friends that like to try new places. A friend from out-of-town decided we should try out Farina. He's a major foodie---and that's an understatement---and I think tonight's meal met his expectations. He even spoke with the chef for a while. Me, I just go along for the ride.

04 June 2008

Smooth sailing

Today I'm thankful for ...

... being in good health. I had my annual check-in with the doctor and we went over my numbers. He noticed high blood pressure, which doesn't surprise me in the least. I've been under a tremendous amount of pressure recently and I've been eating salty foods. But other than that everything else seems to check out neat and square.

03 June 2008

Play that funky music, Pt. 2

Today I'm thankful for ...

... getting access to a preview of Doc Pop's latest album: Me Geek Pretty One Day. Check it out!

http://www.drownradio.com/mgpod

02 June 2008

Play that funky music

Today I'm thankful for ...

... being around people who are super-creative and just awesome artists. One gave me some links to a music competition he organized and it's really interesting with the results: $12 and 12 hours to produce a full CD of at least 6 songs of at least 3 mins each. Whoa!

01 June 2008

Mental hug

Today I'm thankful for ...

... him. His wonderful dorky, quirky self.