Archive for June, 2009

I can has time management

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Why can’t I manage to make any forward progress on my tasks at work until it’s about 15 minutes until it’s time to leave? Seriously, staying late after pretty much doing nothing for the last few hours of the day is just sort of insulting. Brain, I command you to start working better before 5:15.

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White Borders Indicate Fail

Monday, June 29th, 2009

At work today I was trying to update the homepage flash banners on Guitar Instructor and somehow kept ending up with a white border around the movie. This task is so easy and I’ve done it about a dozen times before yet I left work today absolutely stumped.

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Lazy

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

I was going to do so much today… exercise, finish planting the porch garden, brew a new batch of beer, practice drums, work on my web portfolio, clean the house, get some sun. I only managed to wake up, waste time online, and nap for about 4 hours.

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Green Means Stop

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Annoyed with the slow drivers on my usual route to work I decided to change things up a bit. This resulted in me snaking my way through some one way streets in the shady parts of town until I just found my normal road again and tried to continue on. As soon as I got going again there was an accident up ahead of me so I went right back to zig-zagging through one ways and arrived at work 15 minutes later than I normally do.

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Dr. Tran

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Apparently all of my coworkers love the internet series Dr. Tran which I’ve never even heard of before. It’s sad that I’m even the social outcast amongst nerds, so now I’m spending this beautiful summer evening watching movies about a little Asian cartoon boy who apparently gives out big American dickings and has a Ph.D. in kicking your ass.

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Fat Fail

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Cheeseburger + fries + soda + milkshake + 90 degress + out of shape + run/walk charity event I didn’t know about at the park = WORST RUN EVER

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Code typo

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

A small code typo of mine caused 7,881 errors since the deployment of my company’s redesigned website yesterday. Awesome. In my defense, it was just a small javascript error that did not affect the rest of the page and only happened for IE6 users.

No matter how much I learn and practice coding, typos are always the cause of my problems.

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Hot, no!

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

So after leaving a chicken stock boiling for way too long I decided it would be awesome to give it a stir, drop my spoon in, and then pick the spoon up with my bare hands as if it wasn’t at the bottom of a pot of boiling chicken parts. Typing kind of hurts now but my hand smells delicious.

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First Fail

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Welcome to my new blog, JustOneDayWithoutFailing.com. It’s sure to be the next big site on the internets that nobody cares about. The point of the site is to post daily blurbs about how badly I mess up simple tasks and hopefully it will prove to be a cathartic process that eventually reduces my rate of failure.

My very first failure occurred while setting the blog up today. It sure took me about 15 minutes to figure out that I was still seeing the hosing company’s “Site Coming Soon” placeholder simply because I hadn’t removed that page. I’m not always too bright.

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