I don't feel that I do that much, or have that interesting of a life. But somehow I always seem to fill the days and have things left over that still need to get done. Anyway... here's some stuff that I've been up to and dealing with lately.
My iPod is sick. It freezes on me and skips songs that I know have been ripped correctly. The skipping and freezing now happens so often that it is unusable. Grumble. I went to the Apple iPod support site (which isn't as helpful as one would hope) and got some information. I tried resetting the thing, which helped last night. But alas, this morning it was freezing and skipping again. I reset it again on the train and got the folder icon with the little exclamation point, again. Looks like I need to "restore" it, which essentially means reformatting the little hard drive and then reloading all my songs back onto it. Grrr.
Yesterday was the Giant's opening game. I've already decided that the baseball season is too long. It's not that I have anything against the game, or its fans (especially since I never have to watch another game EVER). It's that the whole neighborhood gets overrun with cars, the parking lots jack up their already high prices (the $8 lot was charging $45. FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS!), and the coffee shops and whatnot are filled with folks who don't know the system and just stand in the doorways. Gah. Hopefully night games won't be as disruptive.
The brakes on my car are squeaking again. Well, maybe it's more of a squeal. They don't make noise everytime I touch the break petal, but almost. I finally dropped the car off at the repair shop this morning, before taking BART. I'm going to miss that garage. They are so nice there and they do good work. I hope I can find another place that I trust as much in Berkeley.
The schedule at work as picked up a bit. This is good, as I felt that I was just kind of floating, slowly making my way to the deadlines. So it feels good to have more pressure at my back, having concrete goals to shoot for. But I also have that feeling of being behind the pack and needing to run uphill to catch up. Which is strange because I'm not behind on anything. And only I am putting that pressure on myself. But it's an almost physical feeling of something breathing down my neck, the need to be on my toes at all times, and to keep working. Hrm. I need to work on that. To keep it under control. There's no point in burning the midnight oil except when needed. And really, it isn't that bad. I certainly have felt more stressed at jobs before. It's more I'm recognizing the beginnings of those feelings and want to nip it in the bud (and see how many cliches I can get into one post).
I picked up the keys to the new apartment on Sunday. Yay! E and I measured all the rooms and I also had measured my furniture before hand, so we worked on what I can put where. It looks like my kitchen table is indeed too big for the kitchen. And I'm not quite sure where to put the TV shelf. But other than that most tihngs should fit okay.
I just ordered more RAM for my PowerBook, so I'll be up to 1.25 GB of memory. I did this so I can run VirtualPC on my Mac. This means I'll be able to run Visio when needed as well as our new thesaurus contruction software (I just got us a copy of MultiTes). We'll see how it goes. I remember how painful VirtualPC was back on OS 8. But it sounds like as long as I'm not running Photoshop on it I'll be okay.
Okay... enough time spent posting. Back to the moly mines.
