12 08 2003
Ok, so what am I supposed to write about?
Despite having mentally drawn up a new interface for my site (and yes, it does include a comments section), I haven’t felt entirely creative lately. Projects have ground to a virtual halt at work. However, since everyone else is working on something major, we’re not allowed to leave early when our brains start to melt down from lack of use.
Two major projects have just started up, and a third will re-start shortly. Hopefully these projects will grant me the hysterical activity I need in order to get up in the morning. Until then, the Tim Hortons just outside my building has re-opened following renovations - it’s coffee break time again!
Murdoch hit a bit of a brick wall last night. I put all the parts together, except for the internal speaker. I forgot to connect it before fitting the motherboard into its spot. I figured that it would have to come apart again, so who cares? Right now I wanted to see if it would just go together and power up… well, I hit the power button, and besides almost blowing up an LED (NOTE: don’t connect an LED tail directly to a CPU fan connector) the system ran for about 30-60 seconds and then turned off.
Bad sign, especially since nothing showed up on the monitor at any time, and I didn’t have an internal speaker to get the BIOS error code. So now I have to rip Murdoch apart again, and see if I can just get him to boot without the case. With everything packed in so tightly, the risk of short circuits is very high. At one point before turning it on I had the metal from the hard drives bridging connections on the back of the video card… bad thing.
Face it, today’s entry is boring because I’m not terribly inspired at the moment.
What I would like is about a month to sleep. Not because I’m tired, or lazy, or anything like that. There’s just too much uninteresting stuff going on right now. My apartment is filled with stuff. It’s not garbage, but it all once served a purpose, but is useless or unimportant now. I think my life is like that too… my To Do list hasn’t changed in weeks, and the Summer’s ending in another month.
When Seiko, Dean and Robert move back from Japan, I’ll need a vacuum and microwave oven. I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but right now I’m writing what I think is poignant information… up until the time that it transfers my fingers in to the keyboard. At that time, it’s outside my mind and leads itself to be far less important.
I need a coffee.
Then back to work.
This formatting sucks… I really need to fix this site.
