Oh, NO! Make him STOP!
Teddy Ruxpin is Baaaaaaaaack!
Yikes…
I’m still behind on my blogging and surfing activities, due to a resumption of intense coding and research activities as I work on two of our commercial websites. This type of work results in long nights (went to bed at 4:30 AM on Tuesday, with the concomitant skewing of my daytime work hours the rest of the day) and the multi-hour downtime my body forces upon me after 10+ straight hours glued to my PC. I’m back to sporting an unfashionable black wrist wrap to let my right wrist’s tenosynovitis ease up slightly, though the only cure is taking short, frequent and regular breaks… which of course, I’m notoriously bad at doing. 
Projects are coming along well, although the nature of this work is a double-edged sword: the work inspires creativity — numerous new ideas that I’d just love to drop everything and pursue passionately to completion — so remaining focused on the “slow and steady wins the race” mindset is a challenge.
I hit a momentary brick wall on one coding issue yesterday — the annoying, humbling kind of wall where I had to email the lead developer of the commercial application I’ve heavily hacked to suit my needs. So I’m in a bit of limbo there, since the alternatives are wholly unappealing — nuking a database (again) and all my custom code (again) and starting from scratch (again), line-by-line reacquiring all my code changes when I may actually have uncovered and honest-to-goodness bug. I hope! Anyway, I took that as the “Great GEEK god” cluing me in that it’s time for one of those much-maligned breaks I deny myself in the midst of projects: I spent the evening with my Mom and brother. Visits with family are always wonderful, and I’ve been doing that a lot lately since my Dad’s been out-of-town for the past two weeks due to an exciting new job.
Today, I packed up my laptop and reading materials and headed to my parents house early (before noon) to camp out, visit the family’s cats, and hang out until my mom comes home this afternoon after having picked my father up from the airport.
More later!
