DarqByte

I do apologize if you’re sick about reading about how busy I am. But such is my life as of late, and as we all know, I like to talk about stuff that actually relates to me in my blog.

So today is my marathon day. If I survive the day without going crazy and not breaking any bones, then I’ve accomplished an extraordinary feat. Here is my schedule:

• 7am-4pm: Work
• 11:30am: Lunchtime mortgage meeting
• 5:30pm to, at the latest, 8:15pm – Corporate Challenge Flag Football
• 9:00pm: Work (evening release)
• 10:00pm: Indoor Soccer

I’ll probably get home at 11:30, where I’ll probably go immediately to bed and wake up the next morning to get to work at 7am again. Oh. My. God.

So let me explain some of these items. Obviously, I have work. But during my lunch break I’ll be heading to rework our mortgage, probably to a decently lower interest rate, which would rock. If that happens, we’ll likely keep our payments where they’re at now, and if we run into issues in the future, cut how much we’re paying to it. It’ll be a nice buffer should we ever need to use it. Otherwise, we’ll pay off the house much faster.

So we also have Corporate Challenge Flag Football this evening. I’ll get into the reason why, but our earliest game starts at 6:30 and our latest goes until whenever. If we keep winning, we keep playing. But I know for a fact that I can’t play past 8:15 and some other people can’t because we all have evening releases at work. Which, of course, is next on my list.

Our evening release should actually be pretty easy. Normally, when we have Thursday evening releases, if I have an Indoor Soccer game later than 7:30, I won’t play. But this evening’s release shouldn’t take longer than a half-hour. So I’m going to head up to my Dad’s place and do the release from there, which is 5 minutes from the Indoor Soccer facility. As long as the release doesn’t take too much longer than we’re anticipating, I will make my Indoor Soccer game at 10.

Wow. Indoor Soccer at 10. Looking forward to that one too. But that means I’ll have at least played in two games (one football, one soccer) and potentially up to four, depending on how the flag football games shake out. I’ll be dead, dead tired. And let’s not forget all of the other busy-ness I’ll be tackling throughout the day.

Oh, I figured I should give you a quick wrap-up to my odd breathing issue. Yesterday it started getting better as the day went on, and when I woke up this morning, it was gone! I’ve had a suggestion that it could have been allergies from a shitload of dust that was kicked up over the last couple days by high winds, as well as hyperventilation, in addition to those thoughts that I listed on the post yesterday. If it happens again, I’ll have to see if I can identify any similar and dissimilar conditions between the two occurrences to see if I can come to a better conclusion.

So as for the reason we’re playing Flag Football tonight — we won last night! But that will be a blog post later today, likely, as I want to expand upon that subject.

Also, Wyatt Gallagher had a pretty interesting post on the state of the USA right now…

Sorry for not posting much lately. Haven’t had a whole lot to talk about. I’ve just been playing a lot of Fallout 3, which is totally awesome by the way. I’ve never been a really big RPG player, but this game is sweet. It’s a post-apocalyptic RPG set in Washington D.C., after a nuclear war with China. All kinds of fun.

Anyway, one of the reasons I’m popping in today is to bring to light Laura’s 365-Day project. She’s posting the photos on her blog and on her Facebook profile, I think. But some of them are really cool and good, like the one of Pepper.
I’m finally starting to delve into learning C#. It’s about time I did because having more exposure to other languages is a good thing, and it makes me more marketable in the event that my job collapses (which is highly unlikely given how well we’re doing, but you never know).

I’m also probably going to learn Flash at some point too, especially with ActionScript. There’s another good thing to know. And I want to learn more about Java as well.

I was thinking, morbidly, that if I ever lost my job and became unemployed, there would be some pros:

1. I would get unemployment benefits (although it would never make up for the income from a real job)
2. I would have lots of time to learn all these technologies that I want to learn to make myself more marketable
3. I would have lots of time to work on my own websites, like I’ve always wanted

Overall it would still suck, but there would be a couple upsides, at least.

Well, back to the grind.