Reality Me

Category: Daily Life

Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.

  • Firefighting

    Averted a grease fire in the oven. Hmm.. Yet another of working from home instead of an office!

  • Focus

    I have a task to do. A commitment that was made. I am going to focus on that task and get it done. Everything else will work out.

    Making such a decision alone is comforting.

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    This Morning

    Woke this morning at 5:49 feeling pretty good. Went back to sleep immediately and woke at 7:30 in sheer fear and panic.

    I walked the dog hoping to calm and it helped. Bonus that she actually did her business outside. I found urine in her cage this morning so this theory that dogs never go in their cages is wrong. Of course, she does accidents when she gets excited so that could have been what the cage was about.

    Time to split time between programming, sales and job hunting.

  • Poem – Water Down the Hill

    Water flows downhill

    Enjoying Nature’s beauty

    As it goes

    Never trying to return

    Up the mountain

    To revisit its past.

    Ever accepting of its course

    Destiny offers little choice

    Other than to decide its distance

    From the shore.

    Perhaps to eddy is allowed

    But not acccepted by the main stream crowd.

    “We rush down. Why do you wait?”

    “Do you not ponder from which we came?”

    “Do you wish to go upstream? You are insane!”

    “Do you remember sites of yesterday?”

    “Do you not see the things yet to be?”

    Try, try as it might

    The water cannot win

    The upstream fight.

    Tis unnatural and stressful

    To go against the flow

    Better to accept one’s path

    Enjoy it! And conserve strength

    Not for the impossible

    But for that occasional tendency

    To be separate from the main current.

    Not until the heavens

    Take it up into the sky

    Does the water get rebirthed

    With an opportunity to live again

    And be baptised within its own rain.

    -copyright © 2004 Doug McCaughan.

  • Smarter

    I have this really neato pressure in my left temple now. I think my brain is growing!

  • False starts

    I’ve just spent 2 hours trying to start something. This is not only frustrating but exhausting.

  • Mode change

    Programming mode now. All diversions turned off. Perhaps a break to cook dinner shortly. Strike up the programming music!

  • Amy is standing at the top of the stairs screaming…

    Amy is standing at the top of the stairs screaming her head off while I am trying to make phone calls. Now she has change to whimpers and tears. Noah zombied by the television and Sarah hypnotised by the computer.

    I need to work with businesses that only work late at night.

  • Help!

    I’m driving my wife crazy and I don’t know how to stop! Note: It’s not as fun as you’d expect it to be.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: What should I wear today?

    Teacher: Whatever you laid out last night.

  • Today’s Video

    The Tie 0:09 1.5 mb

    Someone teach me to compress video!

  • Applying for school

    note: this was worded poorly. Today I got information about an associated degrees program and a bs program. I cannot know how much of my UT credit will transfer without going through the application process. I am also considering other options. All of it requires much paperwork that will take some time. No final decision was made.

    Today I made a choice to get back into a BS degree program that will take from 2-4 years. This will require a lot of work on my part as well as my family’s part. I am enthused but need to return to UT to see if there is a faster solution with them.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Master, why am I surrounded by mess?

    Teacher: Don’t put things down; put things away!

  • DARPA Challenge 2005

    When the DARPA Challenge 2004 was announced, I seriously considered forming a team and competing. I just did not have the vision for how to do it and still pay the bills. In hindsight, the bills didn’t get paid anyway.

    This article by Slashdot says the 2005 challenge has been announced but basically implies ‘for 2004 competitors that have fixed their vehicles.’ Bummer.

    The proposed rules.

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    This Morning

    I woke at 5am! Wide awake! Having gone to bed near 1am. Then went back to sleep until 7, ugh.

    I am T totally tripped this morning but doing my best to stay calm. This day needs to be so much more than it will be. I need sales! I’d kill for one person working for me right now. I could only image what it would be like to have 2 people working for me again!