not coping with sober free time very well...

still wondering what the traditional method of ingestion is for chyawanprash, and wishing I had some...

trying to decide if today is a good day to try and write content...

seeing if I can magically manifest nicotine out of thin air...

all four cups on my desk have an active purpose! water glass, koolaid glass, juice glass, coffee cup!

working out the deployment javascript for campaign ads in my Marketing module...

downloading site backups...

giving up my game-time so that a certain little boy can have his...

kudos to Kiernan for suggesting we walk the dogs before dinner!

fending off the household's avid Spore player while beef tips cook in the crockpot and I get back to work on module dev...

getting ready to test last minute air fares against two week notice air fares, seeing if their cheaper...

watching Big Trouble In Little China! "You see, that's how it always begins... very small." ~Egg Shen

cleaning up unused module files from the installation of Xaraya on CrowdSiteCheck.com

waiting for ramen to finish boiling instead of going out for pho because a little boy doesn't want to leave the house...

finally getting around to setting up a site for CrowdSiteCheck.com, a domain I've owned for almost two years already...

hacking myself back into my own site as an admin after getting locked out by my own auth modules...

wondering if putting the "I" back into documentation is the solution I'm looking for to unlock my creativity again...

searching for some motivation and trying not to wonder what part of the house will be an issue next...

considering a switch back to soy milk, since lactaid with cereal doesn't seem to make my stomach very happy...

going crazy hungry from the smell of BBQ in the kitchen; it's my reprieve from a harsh day dealing with Murphy's Law...

water pressure is back and Wendy is off to class, so looks like it's time to babysit now...

turning the boost down on my EQ so it stops sounding tinny out of my laptop speakers...

after dealing with the propane and the water and drafting that last (extremely long) proposal, I need a break...

and "oh, yeah, we've got some valves shut off in your area for maintenance" is just supposed to make it okay now?!?

the gas is back on and now the water goes out? wtf? I hate this house...

wondering how many Flash game designers simply missed their calling creating homework as Elementary School teachers...

trying to find a propane company that will deliver in the snow...

the day after another stint in the ER is not a good time to deal with the propane running out...

can't close some of my Firefox tabs until I finish writing the Marketing module to put information from them in...

defined greatcoat on Ivory-Tower: a heavy military overcoat

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quoted Fernando Pessoa: In every corner of my soul exists an altar to a different god.

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Posted the following quote by Fernando Pessoa on Ivory-Tower: In every corner of my soul exists an altar to a different god.

searching for motivation...

just reached Pandora's monthly listening limit...

would like to see an HR Giger mod for Spore...

found my happy place with some peanut butter and honey filled snickerdoodles with a big ole glass of brown-cow!

uploading the alpha release of my new Marketing module, courtesy of DynamicData and my devCRUDmaker...

pulling my Marketing module out of planning and into alpha stage, riding the (mostly) productive streak I've been on...

etymology of the word "execute": you execute the sentence not the prisoner. If you "execute" the prisoner, you release him...

amazed that the world's most popular MMO can so consistently deliver disappointment...

just finished (re)canceling my WoW subscription, since they actually do NOT allow character transfers...

hell is under construction again; time to consider relocation in search of sanity...

got both auth modules working on a second site via liberal use of error_reporting(0)...

must have hallucinated both auth modules working yesterday, since re-deployment in both cases has been a fail...

just finished up a page to trend out my emotional patterns: http://ping.fm/86lEY

seven different definitions of the word "execute" and only one of them has negative connotations!

wondering if the jackhammer is going to restart this morning and force me to abandon the office for the day again...

Almond Joy's supposed to have "nuts", plural, not just one "nut"; I mean, I know these mini's are small, but c'mon...

taking sudden interest in the huge bag of chocolate on my desk...

can't make a module both of class Authentication and of class Registration, cuz it's a string field...

and where would the "module" property be located? why, in the "modules" module, of course!

sure blew the curve on Facebook's estimated 1-6 week integration cycle for single signon using their API...

trying to decide which site to implement single sign-on options for first...

trying to explain to a 5yo boy that his mommie isn't going to save him from having to take a bath tonight...

Facebook API Lessons Learned #1: FBML goes on your canvas page, not your website...

just noticing that Ping.fm doesn't add the "said" prefix when I include a URL...

just finished treating the Facebook API like it was Marla Singer. Let's try this again, shall we? http://ping.fm/aJVBl

preparing to rejoin the thronging hordes of developers anxiously trying to make Facebook single-signon work correctly...

just lost the last hour or three to unregistered Geo-IP ranges, and untold wasted time prior on similar issues...

the motorized jackhammer just started up again RIGHT behind the house...

just realized that I was still relying on cookies to maintain the Facebook session, so it's only good for an hour...

dealing with a 5yo shoulder-surfer with a new-found penchant for clipping his own nails...

shutting down the laptop so that the Dell tech can work on it...

try out either the Facebook or Twitter Single Sign-On links now featured on my demo site! http://ping.fm/AXCEL

pretty sure I just nailed the authFacebook module; waiting for confirmation from the peanut gallery...

got a preliminary version of authFacebook working finally...

just got the word that a Dell technician will be by between 3 and 6 to replace parts on my laptop...

trying to decide whether or not to get started on an AuthFacebook module tonight...

boxing up the AuthTwitter module to get QA'd over at CrispCreations; one day turnaround! BOOYAKASHAAAA!!!!!

not with a bang but with a whimper, the server is back up; look out third party authentication API's, here I come!

thinking it would be really cool if my bank would catch up some time today...

wading back through my debugging echo-storm to discover: Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurlparameters! WTF?!?

if I'd spelled the filename right, it might have been included correctly!

starting to wonder if the bank realizes it's no longer a holiday...

trying to figure out if I can get Twitter authentication to work on Xaraya without adding extra tables...

they can take their federal holy days and stick em...

chopping cruft the hard way: Firefox crashed and didn't recover my tabs for me...

no energy; should I nap? play games? read a book? socialize? just can't seem to move...

getting suspicious that TimeWarner may be throttling YouTube traffic, specifically...

working up the motivation to dive back into the RemoteControl module code and complete the features I was working on last...

practicing Xiaoyu's Sunset Fan move on the back porch to help test out it's viability in a real fight...

okay, required task order: Mission Statement module onto myPurposeLab.com, then myThemeLab module/theme set to same for further dev...

quoted Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I'd never want another.

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Posted the following quote by Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now on Ivory-Tower: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I'd never want another.

trying to fight inertia and get geared up motivationally...

defined Nostratic on Ivory-Tower: Nostratic is a proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. The hypothetical ancestral language of the Nostratic family is called Proto-Nostratic, following standard linguistic practice. Proto-Nostratic would necessarily have been spoken at an earlier time than the language families descended from it, which would place it toward the end of the Paleolithic period. Nostratic is sometimes called a macrofamily or a superfamily, but these are not scientific terms: they simply denote a language family that groups two or more other language families and is not (or not yet) generally accepted by those linguists who have concerned themselves with the question.

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Added the definition for Nostratic to Ivory-Tower: Nostratic is a proposed language family that includes many of the indigenous language families of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. The hypothetical ancestral language of the Nostratic family is called Proto-Nostratic, following standard linguistic practice. Proto-Nostratic would necessarily have been spoken at an earlier time than the language families descended from it, which would place it toward the end of the Paleolithic period. Nostratic is sometimes called a macrofamily or a superfamily, but these are not scientific terms: they simply denote a language family that groups two or more other language families and is not (or not yet) generally accepted by those linguists who have concerned themselves with the question.

defined Otherkin on Ivory-Tower: Otherkin are a primarily Internet-based subculture of people who identify in some way as non-human. Otherkin often believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor.

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Added the definition for Otherkin to Ivory-Tower: Otherkin are a primarily Internet-based subculture of people who identify in some way as non-human. Otherkin often believe themselves to be mythological or legendary creatures, explaining their beliefs through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor.

putting the last few touches on Karo's auto-moderation feature for Ruminations.com

I feel like an evil mastermind, having successfully figured out how to delete dreams... MWUAHAHAHHAHAHaaahahahaa!!!

if I had left the house at ANY point in time today, I BET the propane guy would have showed up at EXACTLY that moment...

if the propane guy was THAT concerned about there being too many cars in the driveway, maybe he should arive during daylight!

still waiting on propane... and motivation...

playing "wait for the propane guy", knowing he'll show up either when I step out or after dark...

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Added the definition for syncretism to Ivory-Tower: the combination of different forms of belief or practice.

defined syncretism on Ivory-Tower: the combination of different forms of belief or practice.

defined intonation on Ivory-Tower: In linguistics, intonation is variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish words. (Compare tone.) Intonation and stress are two main elements of linguistic prosody.

didn't realize until three paragraphs in that I was reading a webpage about a game, not about reality; Freudian slip...

nothing says "I love you" like Jujyfruits and peanutbutter cookie dough...

defined Dreadnought on Ivory-Tower: The dreadnought was the predominant type of 20th-century battleship. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's Dreadnought had such an impact when launched in 1906 that battleships built after her were referred to as 'dreadnoughts', and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. Her design had two revolutionary features: an 'all-big-gun' armament scheme and steam turbine propulsion. The arrival of the dreadnoughts renewed the naval arms race, principally between Britain and Germany but reflected worldwide, as the new class of warships became a crucial symbol of national power.

defined Battlecruiser on Ivory-Tower: Battlecruisers shared the very large main armament of battleships, and were generally as large and costly as battleships of the same generation. They traded off armour or firepower for higher speed, which was made possible by their powerful engines and slender hulls. The earliest battlecruisers carried significantly less armour than the equivalent battleship, meaning they were not intended to stand up against the guns they themselves carried. Thus ships of this type could inflict much more punishment than they could endure.

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Added the definition for Battlecruiser to Ivory-Tower: Battlecruisers shared the very large main armament of battleships, and were generally as large and costly as battleships of the same generation. They traded off armour or firepower for higher speed, which was made possible by their powerful engines and slender hulls. The earliest battlecruisers carried significantly less armour than the equivalent battleship, meaning they were not intended to stand up against the guns they themselves carried. Thus ships of this type could inflict much more punishment than they could endure.

done jacking with server timezones, Selenium, Annihilator, the lot of it...

back writing Selenium tests for Annihilator again...

checking out jump style videos on YouTube...

ducking out of my cameo in the support chatroom after discovering Xaraya's XML parser location on my own...

refactoring mid-stream by moving repeated code to it's own function to save myself time writing calls to the 43Things API...

capable of neither sleep nor rational thought with that goddamned jackhammer running less than 100 feet away...

defined Vastu Shastra on Ivory-Tower: A traditional Hindu system of design based on directional alignments. It is primarily applied in Hindu architecture, especially for Hindu temples. The Sanskrit word vastu means "any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article", and also "goods, wealth, property". The vrddhi, vastu takes the meaning of "the site or foundation of a house, site, ground, building or dwelling-place, habitation, homestead, house". The underlying root is vas "to dwell, live, stay, abide". The term shastra may loosely be translated as "science, doctrine, teaching".

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Added the definition for Vastu Shastra to Ivory-Tower: A traditional Hindu system of design based on directional alignments. It is primarily applied in Hindu architecture, especially for Hindu temples. The Sanskrit word vastu means "any really existing or abiding substance or essence, thing, object, article", and also "goods, wealth, property". The vrddhi, vastu takes the meaning of "the site or foundation of a house, site, ground, building or dwelling-place, habitation, homestead, house". The underlying root is vas "to dwell, live, stay, abide". The term shastra may loosely be translated as "science, doctrine, teaching".

defined Kundalini on Ivory-Tower: In Indian yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'.

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Added the definition for Kundalini to Ivory-Tower: In Indian yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'.

wondering at all the buzz on Slashdot about Verizon blocking 4chan for Droids, since mine pulls it up just fine...

just made the breakthru I've been waiting for with the 43Things API, and can now post authenticated requests!

watching the wireless bandwidth disappear as Epoch starts crowding up for the day...

setting up my office at Epoch for the day...

teh jackhammer is back again; relocating to Epoch, in town...

didn't think it would be this hard to find some Duran Duran to listen to, between Last.fm and YouTube, but okay...

finally free to be productive, having finished my newest fiction, and ready bust out a can of dev-real-hard...

just finished reading Freedom(tm) by David Saurez, and I'm completely blown away by how cool that book was!

catching up on Fringe with Wendy-bear...

I think it's time that women in the Progressive commercials had some early career BSDM videos surface...

going to work on Karo's pagination feature while I wait for Jennine to call...

just got in a stack of seven new books! <3 Amazon!

knocking out a quick feature enhancement for Karo's Ruminations website while I continue to wait for Global Agenda to download...

finally got my Steam account straightened out (48hrs?!?) and now just waiting for Global Agenda to finish downloading...

done being the rap-king of the bathtub for today; time to scavenge breakfast...

not even surprised that Blizzard has their high call volume message playing 5 minutes into their workday...

trying to figure out how to entertain myself since Steam borked my login, thus preventing me from playing Global Agenda yet...