This sucks, Laura starts school again tomorrow. I hate knowing that I’ll be back to school myself in a week. Why can’t people all just live without working and enjoy stuff? I think we need to create more intelligent monkeys and get them to run the day-to-day stuff for humans while we just play and have fun. Either monkeys or AI.
I’ve just been sorting through all of my photos. I still have a few more directories to sort out, but then I may work on some sort of online gallery. I might just remove the pictures altogether because of the HUGE amount of space they take up, and the small amount of new pictures.
Looking through all of my old pictures made me spend a lot of time thinking about 2003, and even 2002. It actually upset me. :(
I miss all of the stuff I used to do with David and JonP, I miss it a lot.
I miss the way everything felt when I first arrived in America. Things are still superb here, but not the same as when everything was new.
I miss having a house of my own where I leave the internet connected 24/7 so I never had to turn a stupid router on all the time.
I miss having a job, but I love going to college sometimes.
I hate taking all of this money from my dad, even though it’ll eventually be mine if I don’t (my dad said so, I’m not being … What’s the word? Presumptive? Whatever. I’m not presuming things.)
To some extent I miss my family, but not an awful lot. I still wouldn’t say I’m home-sick. If David and JonP came to California then I’d be fine. I’m friend-sick. Don’t get me wrong, Laura’s fantastic, more than I could ever ask for or expect. I just miss the friends I had while I was growing up or going through the latter parts of school. I miss nights of pizza, computer games, David playing his little song on my bass guitar… Fruit Winders, I found something like them the other day, but I miss fruit winders anyway. I miss wagon wheels. I miss tasty milk, proper chocolate, fish and chips in paper with a wooden fork… You know what I mean by now I’m sure.
I wish there was something I could do about all of this, but there seems no easy solution. If I leave America then I leave Laura and there’s not a chance of that happening, unless I have to. If I stay then I lose everything I’m missing for even longer.
Oh well, who knows what lies ahead? Perhaps I’ll get rich quick and pay for Mansfield to be shipped to Walnut Creek and dumped on top of Alamo or some lame place like that. Or move Lafayette to … Kirkby or Sutton… :
Hmmm, speaking of getting rich quick I got a memo from a friend on IRC (mark) with a link to a site. I went to the site and read all about how FedEx (deliveries) are buying Kinko’s (photocopiers etc.) and starting up a thing where you send something electronically to another Kinko’s and then FedEx deliver it.
Well, I’ll be damned if that isn’t the exact fucking idea that I had a couple of months ago and almost patented. I’m not even joking, I was reading up about patents and working on the documentation and even looking up a patent lawyer person to help me with it. I _was_ doing this until people convinced me that it wasn’t such a good idea. Damn you IRC people! You owe me millions!
Website
I thought about creating a new website to replace this one when it gets taken down in a few weeks… I’m just thinking the workings and details out in my head at the moment though.
Perl is cool, I like CGI, but PHP is looking good right now too. I installed PHP5-beta3 a few minutes ago and got it working with Apache2 nicely. PHP5 has built-in support for SQLite, which is what I currently use Perl for on this site.
Let me sum this up…
Advantages
PHP: Simple support for stuff without a bunch of modules.
Perl: I can remember how to use Perl.
Perl: Sounsd cooler to say CGI than PHP.
Disadvantages
PHP: None really.
Perl: Modules need to be installed and included and stuff.
So there… Perhaps I’ll just use them both. :D
Anyway, it’s late, I have a bed to go to. I will probably sit here though :
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