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So, this day I was up an hour before my alarm?

Long blog time? No. Afraid not.

I've got an annoying little problem at work, so I'm playing around with Java applets, trying to get a test program to do what it should.. and
it.
just.
won't.

ARrrr!

Back to it.
And then back to work.

The road I hit is the one to work. Every (work) day it's two hours of my life, one there, one back. A little less if I'm lucky, a little more if I'm not. More often than not, I'm lucky. Fortunately, I have my inner monologue and the radio.

I have a perfectly good alarm, but it doesn't get used much lately. But I only...
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I finished A Midsummer Night's Dream this morning... I think I shall do Much Ado About Nothing next.

I want to discover that I have miscounted my days and that I still have Sunday. But that's not going to happen. So I better start doing all the things I need to do before I hit the road today...

Lately, I'm not quite rational...

In truth my days are numbered such
They don't allow for counting much.
The eth day's before the pith-
I can just imagine where lies the ith...
But at quarter 'til square root of two
I always stop, and think of you.


Edit:

I was sitting here this morning, and a chorus came to...
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New glasses, finally.

Also finally, I watched Watchmen this weekend. My first blu-ray movie. It had some good points, but mostly it fell flat for me. I enjoyed the background historical parts more than the main action of the movie.

But then, what you have to bear in mind is that I'm a geezer. This is old news to me. I read it brand new,...
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And the day is getting late
And the next looks not so great
And the time to sleep is now
And you're left to wonder how-

The time you had is gone and spent
And left no notice where it went.

Edit:

Sleep did not come easily, or at all last night. Finally, there was one moment where I had forgotten who and what I...
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At first it's quite slowly that we advance
Bearing our armor, shield, and lance
On a charger that does prance
For glory, God, and France!
Nothing left to chance.
Then we realize-
We've no
pants.

I think in my own little way, I'm completely at odds with the universe. And a little more, every day.


I'm fine with that.

So, we have an essentially four person team at work.

One is leaving for another job. Another has been "temporarily" assigned to another team. And I'm the one with the least experience both at the company and with Java, left on the most complex web-based system at the company, when "we" are about to see a spike in the workload.

Maybe some day I'll wake...
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"Outlier"

Up before the sunlight
Though down long after dark,
Preparing for a morning's drive-
Arrive, breathe deep, and park.
It's an average morning,
Of an average day, no doubt-
But when all the points are in
There's still one that's left out.