On Wednesday I was told I had to be down in Sunnyvale for an EMERGENCY project meeting. They put me in a pink room. At least Ed visited me. On Friday I was notified that I had a Monday deadline. That's right! I'm expected to work on the weekends! And I do! Like crazy! As if posessed!

I hit my deadline. Now I'm on yet another Humongous Emergency(tm) brand project. This one's timeline: 8 weeks. Have I ever seen a group software project finished on time? Has anyone? I don't think so.

I seem to fill every waking second with some kind of obsessively intense activity. Cleaning, working, practicing, programming, reading, or making a mess in the kitchen ("cooking"). Yesterday I spent 3 hours sitting on the floor of my kitchen, programming for work. How can I do this now?

At least partially to keep me from getting disgusted and quitting, I have been given some hardware to deploy in my house, sort of as a trial to see if it would be a good idea to put it everywhere. It's a wireless 11 Meg LAN. It is very cool and makes me want to put wireless access points everywhere I go. I can wander out on the balcony and have access to the network (though it drops to 2 Meg at that distance, since I had to give my extended range antenna to Jake when his turned out to be broken)

Despite all this work, I'm totally cleaned out, money wise. I haven't filed any expense reports in months, so I'm basically carrying about $3000 of company expenses, and I just paid rent. Thus, I've been eating a lot of you-know-what.

Actually, I was just paid today, so I don't have to eat it. But I bought a lot. Also, my Mom sent me my colanders, so I can drain the runny broth and eat just the noodles.

One last thing I'd like to document. Imagine you're me (I don't have to imagine, I actually am me; I have no choice), and on average you receive one giant computer thing in the mail per month. You can dispose of about half a computer box twice a month in the communal recycle bins. No problem, right? Theoretically, no. Except that I got all my boxes for the year at the same time:

IN THE LIVING ROOM (double bass for scale)

So anyway.