Random
Since I have a shiny new weblog, I might as well put something of value (how much value depends on the reader).
Life has been pretty boring lately. All I seem to do is work, sleep, and sit at my computer doing very little other than chatting on IRC and listening to music. Every now and then I’ll go out and do something, but not often enough. I bought a Gamecube last month, but don’t play it very often - I have to go downstairs to play, and I usually just don’t feel like doing that. I need to get a small TV to put in my room, then I’ll play those games more often. I haven’t really done any coding lately, even with various projects in my head and on paper. The motivation just isn’t there. I have dozens of unread books, but I’m starting to read less again. For a while, I was reading for at least an hour every day before I went to bed, but haven’t done much of that in the last month. My local web server needs to have its design cleaned up and turned into a template, but it’s still sitting there as it is. My spam graphing stuff needs some really simple things set up, for automatic generation of mails delivered/rejected. But I’ve been lazy with that, too.
I still enjoy my job, but it’s been getting more and more frustrating all the time. The Assistant Manager does a lot of stuff that really shouldn’t be done, and ends up making more work for us than is really necessary. Luckily, I get left alone for the most part. And our Support Manager has a clue, and is pretty good. Probably because she used to work with us until she got that job. But the fact that we just don’t have enough people working nights is exhausting. We end up doing much more work than we should have to. Not enough people, not enough time. Shit ends up being done half-assed, and there isn’t much we can do about it. Because they don’t seem to be too interested in hiring more fucking people on nights. I know it’s not a popular shift, but I’m sure there are people out there that would love to get hired.
I’ve been single for a while now, and essentially single for even longer. It’s not great, but it could have been worse. Working nights and weekends doesn’t help for meeting people, either (but supposedly in the next couple of months, the scheduling at work is going to change so that everybody has occasional/regular/something weekends off). I haven’t even been doing very much with my friends for a month or two. But I don’t mind that so much - I was never one for excessive partying, at least in the last 5 or 6 years.
I’m not totally frustrated with things, though. Living at home is good for me, since I get along well with my family. It’s a lot cheaper - I can’t really afford to live on my own at this point due to student loans. But I have enough left over to spend on myself. I should probably be saving money, but I don’t see much point in doing that right now. Maybe later. Or not… I was never good at saving money. I finally have a digital camera to play with, a Kodak EasyShare CX4230. But the battery life on the rechargables I have is almost non-existant. I need to get proper batteries for it. And it’s too damn cold still to go outside and take pictures. And I have fish now, after thinking about it for months. It’s relaxing to just watch them swim around. I can’t wait to add more fish to the aquarium.
I’m sure that this post makes things sound worse than they really are. And why didn’t I post this to my LiveJournal? Not sure… but I guess my friends don’t need to have an entry like this forced upon their friends page. I think I agree with teferi’s view on LJ vs. weblogs - LJ is more for day to day crap, and a weblog is for more “meaningful” things. What attracted me to LJ in the first place was the community aspect of it. And it still does. Before that, I never really had any interest in having any sort of weblog at all. But now I do. Things sure can change in just a few years.