Ok, so this blog has turned into being only about my commutes to and from work, but I’ll be damned if they’re not full of inordinate amounts of fail. After my bike fell apart last week I pieced it back together and ended the week well. I thought I’d finally have a problem-free week but on Monday I discovered a flat tire. I aired it up and it seemed ok until it was flat again this morning. I guess I have a slow leak somewhere so I’m using the backup bike for the rest of the week. 4 weeks of bike commuting, 3 weeks of massive fail so far.
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Same Old Story
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Please Work
Saturday, January 9th, 2010You should have seen me trying to install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my computer this week. 4 hours of my life I’ll never get back. So, so shameful.
Cold
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I attempted to put the plastic wrap window insulation on some particularly drafty windows in the house today and majorily failed. Out of a thee pack I actually got one sheet of plastic up. The first one was mangled by scissors that were too dull, I managed to get the second one up, and then I ran out of tape before the third could be finished. It only took 2 hours.
Noooooooo!
Monday, November 30th, 2009I just left my hat on a city bus while transporting WAY too many groceries for one person to carry. I get so attached to my hats yet I lose them nearly every year. At least this hat lasted two whole winters.
Again and Again
Thursday, November 12th, 2009If at first you do succeed, try again anyway. And again, and then again. If what you’ve done has already been approved, do it again anyway. And then again, of course. By the end of the week, you should have performed the same task 20 different ways, ending up exactly where you started. Go home for the weekend and repeat it all next week.
Sheesh
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009I’m no good at this blog thing.
Stick a Fork in it, It’s Hopeless
Monday, July 20th, 2009I spent 2 frustrating hours last night trying to get the burger gallery posted below to appear as a lightbox style gallery and somehow ran into tons of problems. Today I tried again and it worked within 30 seconds. WTF? I unfortunately had to mess with the code a bit to get the page to validate, so now the gallery isn’t as flexible as it once was, and somehow there’s a javascript error on page load but it all works anyway? I’m just going to call this done after 4 mostly wasted hours.
An Addiction
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Look, this is me not spending my evening on the computer. Look at me doing truly productive things and not sitting online wasting time. Look at me have a life.
Lazy
Saturday, June 27th, 2009I 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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