I'm very useless at work. I've sorta slowed down on this project of mine and really only work on it 10% of the time I'm there. I feel bad, but i have a hard time focusing on it because it's the most drone work I've ever known. Instead, I've been working on all my various websites in making them better. I even started up my fraternity chapter's website.
I've been trying to get them all to visit a certain page to register themselves into the database, but it is hard to get them all to do it. Either they don't check their email over the summer or they're very lazy. But those are just theories anyway. I also feel like they do what I probably would do. They read the email, they say "ok, i'll do it now" and they click the link and maybe they start filling it out and get to a point where say they don't remember a value to a certain question and they stop. Or maybe they never start filling it out. And then they say "I'll do it later." And then forget about it. I wish I could send out daily reminders but I know they'd only hate me more for it.
I've been doing my best to keep with the running. Overall it has proved of little effect to my physical shape. But I think as I run more (not only in frequency but distance) it'll pick up. I'm also working on eating better.
It is hard to believe it is August already. It seems like last summer this month was so dreaded because everyone left but us quarter kids. Now it just seems like it came so fast and I realize that so many are taking off in a week or two. I guess I haven't noticed because I've done a lot less hanging out then I expect I would. Last summer it was all the time, but this summer it's work then sleep. I only go out on the weekends really.
I had trouble sleeping this week. That's another thing. I get these jolts of energy around midnight and had been staying up till 1 or 2. Mostly 2. I even did a 4AM'er. It was horrible. And consequently for the first time in my life I think I was oversleeping my alarm clock. I'm not quite sure yet on the details, because the clock might be broken. And I've basically two theories. One, I'm just that tired. Two, it only started happening after I went to Indianapolis, left the alarm on, and my sister's boyfriend stayed in my room (ew). So maybe it went off, and in his trying to turn it off he broke it. Thing is that I know the alarm works, I don't know that the snooze works anymore.
So Thursday night Marc, Paul, my brother Jimmmy, and I played Halo till 1AM. Then I went straight to bed worried about oversleeping. 9:07 I woke up. I try to get to work by 8:30. It was the WEIRDEST thing ever. Just like every morning before where I'd just wake up at 7:30, 7:40, 7:50 (yes, it kept getting later) I never remembered the alarm going off. This time ... 9:07. It was horrible, I got to work by 10:00 and thankfully it was thus a short day, but I just can't explain it yet ... I only have theories. hmpf.
Anyway, that's that.
yea, dude, non nerds like us suck for web signup stuff like that - I tried to get my company at school (you can think of it as a frat sorta - about 40 in my year) to sign up for a message board and even though everyone thought it was a great idea, i only got like 10 people to do it. at first it was myself, 2 roomates, and one other guy just talking online - it was pathetic. anyways, yea, people will not sign up readily, you can be sure of it.
oh, and it's not even just august, it's already the second week of august. wtf.
Craziness all around. I'm up to 22 people plus myselef. I keep finding excuses to remind people on the list serve like "oh, I forgot to add this, and while Im' explaining this go sign up!" So with every new email I get about 3-5 more.
Y'know, PHP really ain't half bad. Nor is mysql.
J
mySQL is awesome. you're still using access databases here, aren't you?
Nah, I switched this over to MS SQL Server 2000 a few years ago. Not bad either, just ... big overhead.