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Woohoo! This is that perl birthday script I wrote a few months back… this was it’s first real test %)! And it works… I assumed it would, but pretty much forgot about it until I woke up this morning and saw that it had properly done it’s job. YAY!
Last night turned out to be really nice. Usually evenings with family suck… I mean sure they are possible to tolerate, but it’s rare that I actually can say I enjoyed myself. I didn’t really know anyone but Myk, his mother, and his mother’s boyfriend… but I wasn’t too shy, and I was able to talk to people like a normal person, and I think I made a good impression. It didn’t even bother me too much that I had to admit to being unemployed several times *shrugs*
So yesterday I got a call from the guy I made the seawinds realty website for. Apparently he “doesn’t have the time” for it right now, and asked me if I could take it down for a few months so he doesnt need to pay for it while. Now I am horribly disappointed by this, but since we never had an actual contract, and I never really set up any official rules as to any of this, I can’t tell him no, so I agreed. Oh well, I’ll know better next time I do a business deal, must have all rules outlined FIRST!
Now there is this girl on one of the lists I’m on… and it’s really sad and frustrating the way she acts. See, she came into an irc channel where I hang out and starts causing a scene… first she was trying to help someone, and they said “thanks anyway I can handle it later, I’m in a bit of a hurry” and she freaks out and is like “is my answer not valid? Why did you ask for help if you didnt want it?” (she DIDNT ask for help on the actual problem..) … and goes on like this for like 15 minutes until finally people just started ignoring her. This sort of thing has happened several times, in irc, on the list, and apparently in places I haven’t seen. Just recently she felt she was being discriminated against because she thinks that she was “not considered for ops in the channel because of past issues” Come on now… this is a group of very mature people, and she starts out complaining she doesnt have ops? It was certainly the LAST sort of argument I expected to see in that channel. Anyway, I guess she’s about 19… and has had this attitude about taking things so personally for YEARS. It’s actually kinda sad… I mean someone says something and it comes out wrong, they apoligize and move on right? Well she just wont let things go… her life must be miserable! Can you imagine taking everything so personally? Maybe she’ll grow out of it…
Speaking of lists… I was thinking about when to have the Philly Chix meetings, and I was like “oh right… how will I get to these?!” They will be in the city, so I could probably take the train in north wales, then take a trolly in the city. Of course Myk was like “hell no!” hehehehe… So he said he could probably drive me down for the meetings (and my friend Nita too if she wants to come). He was like “I can just wait outside, oh I know, I’ll be your bouncer!” hehe! I feel really bad about making him wait outside %( but I can’t drive into the city by myself (I’m not on the insurance, and I’m too freaking scared!)… and all lameness surrounding a key organizer not attending a meeting aside, I really want to go to the meetings!
Hmm… today I will probably read a lot. Don’t really have any plans to go out, which is ok… I want a boring old relaxing day %) Myk was working on getting oracle installed on clockbot (the computer, not clockbot.net). And he said he’d give me an oracle user account, YAY!!! So I will start to learn how to use o
racle %) Not that it is a whole lot different than the databases I am used to dealing with, but it’ll be cool to have experience with something a bit bigger and more widely used in corporations %)
Now I am probably going to go crawl back into bed because Myk is there and it is so snuggly and warm *wanders off*