I spent a lot of my weekend playing GTA: San Andreas. A lot. Maybe too much. I got to the pleasant part of the game where I had four or five missions available at any given time. As I recall from Vice City, it’s the best part. Once you get to a bottleneck of one or two missions, it gets really frustrating. There’s an extent to which you can just tool around and have fun, but when large sections of the game are still off limits, that gets frustrating. Anyway, it’s staying fun, although I’m still a pretty horrible driver. I do feel like I’m better this time around than I was in VC. I’m thinking about sticking Vice City in sometime to see if I can beat any of the missions that I left undone.

The index cards and push pins I ordered arrived today. I took down the cards for the aborted “let’s code together!” project, but I haven’t put anything new up. The cards for the characterization system are still there, mocking me. I need to put up a card for the current blocker, “dynamic by-variant widgets.”

I get to work and stare at my whiteboard, index cards, and screen. If I turned on cursor blinking in Vim, I’d become hypnotized and sit transfixed until my phone rang. I’m not sure what’s happening. I think that it’s a combination of a lot of things. I feel like the systems I’m working on are destined to be eternally unreleased, remaining forever in the ivory tower, which is exactly what I don’t want. I know that’s not the plan, but it’s how it feels, lately. I’ve been working on the same project for months, and with no real back and forth with the users. They green light just about everything, which isn’t a lot of fun. I want an exchange of ideas, and a challenge.

Gloria and I watched Dawn of the Dead (2004) tonight. It pretty much sucked.

America has awakened from its long national nightmare… and pressed the snooze button.

Kinesis replied to my request for information, solving my problems. On these older Contours, (Keymap,PrintScn) is not Windows. Instead, I need (Keymap,H). That works, so I can now correctly map keys using the keyboard’s own remappability. I’ve removed (again) my scancode registry entry, and am going to give things another go!

I voted, I voted! Please, please, PLEASE stop calling me and telling me to vote, to vote for someone, to vote against someone, or to vote in a particular form of dress. Tonight they will count votes, and by Friday, we will have a clear President-Elect. I DEMAND IT.

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Gloria and I took Duan to breakfast and the airport this morning. More accurately, Gloria drove Duan and me, and Duan treated Gloria and me. I sort of sat around and tried not to wince every time I moved. My back and neck have been incredibly sore! We went to the Cracker Barrel in Clinton, and breakfast was pretty good. Their grits were actually just fine, which Gloria says was not the case at the Fogelsville Cracker Barrel.

As I believe the kids say, “Mad props due.”