Not quite…

Okie, so after large amounts of poking to actually post something … here is what’s currently happening in the land of me.

Our bedroom, after much work, is starting to look like a bedroom again.  It is decorated (mostly) and stuff has been moved out of much of the rest of the house (mostly).  Sadly stuff is now boxed awaiting sorting before being brought back in.
How much of an improvment that is …. is open to debate.

I’m sure photo’s will be forthcoming once things are looking respectable (we currently have no cupboard doors).

I’ve not been too useful recently due to random unwell, decorating, more unwell, and a minor mental breakdown.
Depression sucks.  Personality fragmentation is worse.
Attempting to reassemble a personality with duck tape is quackers.
I will refrain from further confusing you with tales of my messed up mind.

What else…

Work?  Well I suppose I’ll get further nagged if I start talking about the side projects that have been taking up my attention.
I have discovered that the core difficulty in writing good control panel software is that the things you generally do with control panel software are not, in themselves, things that are pleasant to think about.

That said, I’m starting to make progress with Make it funky.

I also note wonderful things happening in the world of audacious … spidy-sense says this new interface is gonna be awesome.  For that, I’m willing to put up with partially broken stuff for now :p

Hurm, it’s light outside.  I suppose I should consider making another trip in to the outdoors again shortly … see what’s happenning in the rest of the world.

Well, it’s been a while … I might have to try and get some real posts out soon :/

Anyway, here’s a picture to say sorry.

So yesturday was the first weigh in since starting…. 3 3/4lb gone, not bad hey.

I decided to increase my walk yesturday, got a bit lost on the new route, what with taking roads I have never been down before, but today I did the new route as it will be for the next couple of weeks or so. The route took me 25 mins today, thats an increase in time of nearly 15 mins from the last route, so I have probably nearly double the distance. If I don’t loss at least another 3lb by saturday I will be mightly miffed :p

No other news, still making arrows on Runescape so no real effort has been put into any of my projects, must remember to poke daniel about the Wii and his phone monday, I would like to play on the wii, but it’s not connected because it probably wants sending back to have the graphic problem fixed. I should also remind him that his brother wants some pics of his car done, those are probably wanted sooner rather than later… And should probably try and attack the tidying up stuff…. but probably not until I have finished these arrows…. I need a to do list.. :jeltz

So… some updates…

Get fit - check

Eat healthy - check (for the most part)

Get job - erm pass…

Projects - check(ish) I have done some work on my website, I have begun to move the stuff on my RPG project from the cove to my website, while doing so I am also refine some stuff…. I should probably give that a proper name *ponder* I have a couple of new ideas for projects, that I will pick up in a week or too (after I have finished my major runescape task *rolls-eyes*… which incedently is coming on well) I will make a few birthday cards in the next week or so, and a new baby, might make some generic ones and see about taking pics of them (to at least see what they would look like if I was to sell them, maybe see if some people will give some feed back on them.

Runescape - 225k shafts, 225k feathers… nearly 15k iron bars. Soon to be 225k iron arrows.

Habits - So far doing well on the forming good habits front, as I said the walks and the fruit and salad are doing well

Progress continues… (esp for the benefit of Cew :P)

• Harmony:
  • Session manager now should have basic functionality working nicely, just awaiting some feedback on further upgrades.
  • The Security control panel is working, although a couple of it’s features aren’t fully wired in yet.
  • The Time control panel is also working nicely. The core now has timezones and smart date handling.
  • The bbcode system has had a major rework, providing greater flexibility and resilience … not to mention it should be faster.
  • The foundations of the new quicklink is in place and being used by the Time control panel.
  • Hopefully more updates on the control panel will be following soon.
• The dynamic images code has also seen some updates…
  • In it’s first steps from prototype to service, the whole setup has now moved to it’s own subdomain.
  • The runescape comparator now displays your progress through the level and indicates which skills have had recent xp gains
• After much consideration, I’ve decided the theme on Make it Funky needs further tweaking… some details about it have been annoying me.

That seems to be all I can think of for now heh.

Yesturday Nazzy’s day got one of these bio-analysis scales (they were half price) So we all went on them to get analysed.

I’m far heavier than I thought I was, My body fat is too high, my water levels are too low… My muscle count is fine though.

So the diet starts and the exercise starts (diet I will do my best until monday when we go shopping, then it is stock up on fruit and salad) (first power walk around the block was today, only ten minutes, but I can build on that, do the walk for a couple of weeks, then extend the length, and maybe come summer, I can start to jog, or even run it)

Writing…. well this is post 2 of the year, so it’s a start…. I did get an idea for a new story…. so at some point I will sit down and bash out the ideas, see if I can make it into a proper story (hopefully a new idea will motivate me to keep on top of it, rather that going over ideas that for one reason or another haven’t been explored properly, maybe when I make writing a habit, I will go back and explore my old ideas)

Job front…. well no change, but I at the very least will aim to spend some time helping Nazzy

On a side note…. to try and get healthier, Me and Nazzy have decided to try some multi vitamins…. they are vile tasting the packet says take with food…. The tablet is rather large, so I chewed it… big mistake, tomorrow I will try to swollow.

I’m gonna make a kinda new year resolution. I’m going to try and be more commited and more controlled.

Probably doesn’t make sense to most people…

This last year has fealt more like I was in a rowing boat with no oars, I’ve pretty much just gone with the flow of things, not really accomplished much and gone nowhere.

So this year I want to change…. Change is hard and sucks, but I want to try, I don’t want to just go with the flow any more.

First task. More blogging…. On a friends Blog, I read a post where she was joining this post every day thing…. Interesting challange…. doubt I could manage that, but I want to try to post at least once a week… some weeks may suck but

Second task: Write more!! Stories that is, I have lots of “ideas” but no real progress in any of my writing, so I want to try and start some of my stories (maybe already exisitng ones, or new ideas)

Third task: Get life sorted out!!! Huge tasks, small steps first…. Put more effort into getting a job…. or generally earning income (ebaying maybe *ponder*)…. straighten out living space (it’s only two rooms!!! will tidy and keep tidy…. or die trying)… failing that… get place of own (council?) more space = less stress (I hope)…. Diet and exercise…. I’m sick of being like I am…. I want to get into shape…. I keep trying, but something always gets in the way… so real try this year (proper effort may have to wait a few days until we get home, but I’m at the least gonna try and not stuff my face so much.)

Hmm Think that is all on the planning front for now.

First off, hello to Planet Atheme, enjoy my random nonsense

All I can say is wow.

First off, the most noticeable effect.
I’m one of these people that likes my sleep. Fibromyalgia can cause a sleep rhythm disruption, such that if I don’t get 10-12 hours sleep, I wake up feeling really knackered. More often than not, I sleep longer … and since I go to bed rather late, it’s not uncommon for me to go to bed after 4am, get up late in the afternoon, and over the course of a few days let my sleep pattern invert.

So imagine my suprise when the first day after starting the new dose, I get up when the alarm goes off feeling perfectly awake. No going back to sleep, no ridiculously long sleeping.
Next day … get up -before- the alarm goes off. And the next day.
3 days on these tablets, and I’ve woken up sensibly each day. Infact, last night was around 8 hours sleep.
I am, of course, totally knackered due to being totally unaccustomed to relatively little sleep, but I’m sure that will pass over time.

Well that’s good.

It’s a little early to be sure, but my mood seems much less “miserable”, and I do seem to have more energy (even with being tired). Other subtle effects … I’ll have to get back to you on that heh.

Quit: Absolute boredem can destroy entire family gatherings. Here is just killer l33tness. More nobodys organise parties. QUEEN RULES. Salute time utterly, valiantly, wasted. Xerox your zebra!!!!So let’s break that down.

• Absolute boredem can destroy entire family gatherings.

Anyone that’s ever been to a family event will know that a sure way to kill the event is to have everyone utterly bored.
Not just slightly bored, that can be recovered by a few quick engaging conversations, but totally bored out of their skulls.

• Here is just killer l33tness.

Well this quit message is rather cool, isn’t it

• More nobodys organise parties.

This can be taken two ways. Firstly it is a suggestion that more nobodies should organise parties.
Secondly it is a statistical observation that this is already true.

• QUEEN RULES.

Gotta love Queen.

• Salute time utterly, valiantly, wasted.

Again, this can be taken two ways.  Firstly it’s a suggestion that we should honor the act of killing time in highly efficent ways and enjoyable ways.

Secondly it’s an admission that I spent far too much time writing this quit message

• Xerox your zebra!!!!

A little zen for you.

Perhaps it means we should try to preserve zebras?
Perhaps it’s a suggestion for a more entertaining christmas party?
Maybe it’s a just doesn’t mean anything?

Possibly, just possibly, there aren’t nearly enough words begining with X and Z

But no matter what, it sounds so cool

So why this collection of statements? Because I decided to create a set of sensible sentances such that their first letters spelt the alphabet.

Yes, I really was that bored.

… wouldn’t it be nice if people actually commented

Another few months go by, guess I really should try to post more often.

First off, I should just mention that we’ve upgraded to WP 2.3.1, hopefully I’ve fully adjusted our theme to their changes. Do let me know if you spot something I’ve missed.

Not sure where to begin with what I’ve been up to …
I’ve started working on refactoring what is to be Project Harmony …
Livepage is approaching a nice feature set, though it still needs work … anyone interested in helping would be gratefully received.
Not sure what else to list :/

Hmm, lets see about doing more posting here heh.

Beta version of my website is coming along nicely, the software which I am using seems to work nicely, Test site is located here if you want to see

Nanowrimo 2007 started friday. I’m a bit behind target, but with over 3000 words from two days worth of working, I’m quietly confident I can still finish on target… having said that I only lasted a few days last year, so I wont hold my breath just yet.

Not much else to say at the moment, spent a couple of the last few weeks helping Daniel’s brother and his family move to a their new house. Have done a bit of work on moving and backing upi photos to Daniel’s ‘new’ harddrive, when that is done I can save some of the more recent pictures, that are sat on memory cards, and begin to upload them to the gallary, once that is done or is in the doing stage, then we can see about picking “Picture of the week”, which in turn might help promote more use of this blog… maybe I should start adding posts on the the stresses of the run up to christmas *ponder* maybe, we will have to see.

Other than that, we are still broke, still stressed, still depressed yadda yadda yadda. Daniel is making some head way with the forum code, what he had done looks good, though I’m not the best at giving feedback *shrug*