Just another day inside Tommy Westphall's head
I haven't been posting so much recently because not much has been happening
that's worth talking about. Either things have been too trivial to post
publicly, or they have been about work and so I haven't been able to post them
(much as I'd like to keep the log; I keep it in emacs instead), or they've been
about GNOME and so have gone on the
Metacity blog, or something. Maybe I
should just post every day whatever happens.
I suppose I could give you some links: here's
an
interview with Alan Moore (who is, as always, fascinating); here's
ringing from the point of
view of a non-ringer (thanks,
Jezebel_z). But I doubt you
want to come here to read links. What do you want?
Actually, today was quite an interesting day. I woke up early, and ate
breakfast; Sharon honked as I was eating and I scrambled into my clothes,
forgetting to wear a jumper, and so I was cold all day; I got all the code
written that I wanted to write, but not all the tests finished, and I'm working
on them this evening. When I got home I walked a mile in the darkness along the
side of the road with
Plexq
to the chemist's, and another mile back. I went up to read
Alanna to
Riordon (which
Dimethirwen sent her) and
found a pile of blankets with a sign saying "SIT ON ME!" Giggling was to be
heard from under the bed. All very odd.
Emacs's
longlines-mode
is hugely useful.
With the cold weather coming in, I am thinking about writing stories again...
Oh yeah, I remember something I wanted to talk to you all about. I've said
before that I've been thinking of moving my day-to-day public blogging (anything
with a "day" tag, really) off of LJ and onto somewhere else. I had previously
thought about moving it onto marnanel.org, since most of my public LJ is already
mirrored there anyway. But jdub has suggested that I could move it onto
blogs.gnome.org; I am seriously considering it. (I might keep it automatically
updating to marnanel.org and LJ as mirrors so that posts would be in all three
places.)
Updated: Oh, and another thing: I don't like talking about this, but I
feel with today's events I should. I have mild Asperger syndrome and I've been
on medication for bipolar disorder for about ten years now. As they say, you get
busy living or you get busy dying-- but sometimes you're dying alive inside.
Times like that, it's difficult to get anything done for a bit, at least until
they sort your medication out, and at the worst times, in the past, especially
when I didn't have health insurance, I've had difficulty keeping jobs and
relationships going. I'm pretty much stable now, but
if
Jeff is a "paranoid psycho", so am I, and so are

more people around you than you imagine.