Fist envy

This morning on the train I showed the Russell the "Fist Girl" commercial that legalmoose linked to.

After showing it to him, I asked, "isn't that disgusting?" He replied, "it sure is!"

Then he added, "I can't even do that!" :-)

Skipping sleep

As I left Robyn after work on Tuesday, I was feeling pretty good. I had written some good code that day and I was pretty proud of myself. But by the time I got home, my mood had shifted. I felt a little detached and depressed for some reason.

I dragged myself to square dancing, expecting it to make me feel better like it usually does, but my feeling of detachment persisted. I pasted a smile on my face, but it fell off whenever my attention wandered. I can dance plus or advanced while practically asleep, so my dancing didn't suffer.

This feeling of depression persisted into Wednesday morning, but I realized that I felt enormously better when we broke for lunch. Once again, I put out some good code, and I spent the morning bouncing in my seat listening to music by Tortured Soul, which Doug M. turned me on to. In fact, I felt great again. :-)

Wednesday evening was our monthly PHP developer's group meeting, where Conrad did a presentation on the use of CVS. I've always wanted to learn how to use it, and now I know enough to be dangerous. I was trying out things as he ran his demo, creating projects, checking in my current files, committing changes, rolling them back. I had a great time.

Because I was so interested in the presentation, I didn't skip out early to catch the 8:30 train, which was my goal, so I had to hang around for the 10:40, meaning I didn't get home until nearly midnight. When I did get home, I found Russell there, watching television. I chased him out and crawled into bed.

This morning, I had a horrible time getting out of bed, but now that I'm at work, I'm feeling better again.

Tonight, I have a date with Bob S., so I'll probably be getting home again on the 10:40 train which means another night of not enough sleep. I don't have anything planned on Saturday, and I think I'll leave it that way. I need my sleep!

I'm a little slow

I'm taking a break, reviewing the video from the MacWorld keynote. I just watched Steve Jobs demo four-party video conferencing in the next version of iChat. I've seen it before, and it's pretty cool.

For the first time, however, I realized that this means that folks can indulge in video conferencing circle-jerks. :-)

It's so cute!

I love the box for the new Mac mini. Steve hoisted one up on stage during the keynote. It's like a little handbag!