Overworked

April 7th, 2009

I’m tired. So tired. So very tired.

I don’t want to be sick anymore. It just isn’t fun. Over the weekend I transitioned from “recovering from seasonal allergies” to “full blown cold and bright red eyes”.

Work on my side project, from this point on referred to as Tiqr, is continuing. Slowly I might add. The scope of it has drastically increased and the more time I have spent with it, as cool as I think it already is, the more I thought it needed a couple of more things to really make it useful.

In my head I’m aiming for an early September release. Hopefully I’ll be opening it up to some beta testing in early August.

It is definitely something I will use, and I hope that others might find a use for it as well.

I do need to rework my plan a little bit. Just to help order the remaining tasks and build up a timeline.

I have also been thinking about keeping sort of a development diary for the whole project, and making all of the posts public when I finally finish it. In fact I will do that. I’ll have to add that to my list of things to do.

Sometimes work is flat out unbelievable. I miss my old manager(s) who didn’t throw infinite amounts of work at me. I am tasked at probably 150% capacity right now, with rumours that even more work is going to come my way. Enough to put me at 180% or worse. Needless to say, it won’t all get done. It just can’t. I can do 110%, maybe even up to 120%, but not this much.

I don’t want to live at the office.

I Drive A Car The Way Most People Use A Computer

March 27th, 2009

It isn’t often that I read something and a little light bulb goes ding over my head. It did happen today though.

I was a reading a blog entry titled I drive a car the way most people use a computer and pretty much palm-smacked my forehead exclaiming “That’s exactly how I feel!”

Six Word Novels

March 19th, 2009

Have you ever heard of a six word novel? I hadn’t until a couple of days ago.

It turns out that McGill University is trying to bring them back. The story goes that Hemingway was once asked in an interview to write a story in just six words that would tell a complete story. After he wrote, supposedly he referred to it as his greatest work.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
- Hemingway

There was also a challenge to do the same thing that went out to a lot of science fiction and fantasy authors. Since I know that many of you who read this blog are fans of Joss Whedon, here is his effort:

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

I took a few minutes and came up with a few of my own.

End of the Universe. Bring popcorn.

He lifted the cup; a champion.

They wanted peace. They got war.

And last but not least, poking a little fun at the whole thing:

Six words. One too many.

You should post some of your own creations in the comments!