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Hey, IT Department!

Jason — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:22:01 +0000

NOTE: This blog is moving to a new address. It will be located at http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/. I'm going to be stopping my posting on Vox in the near future.

Oh what I wouldn't give for a new laptop at work. This thing that I'm running now is dog slow. I mean, we're talking I change a file on one of the programs I'm writing, hit save and then I can go run some laps around the building and come back…and then maybe it'll be done.

It was nice back when I first got it, but now it's showing it's age and it's become a definite drain on my productivity here. I can't even start any programs for 15-20 minutes after I start it up.

But money is tight these days around the company, so I doubt they'll authorize a new laptop purchase for me. This thing will have to die first.

…

Hrrrrm….

Nah, I wouldn't do that.

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Hey, IT Department!

Jason — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:16:49 +0000

Oh what I wouldn’t give for a new laptop at work. This thing that I’m running now is dog slow. I mean, we’re talking I change a file on one of the programs I’m writing, hit save and then I can go run some laps around the building and come back…and then maybe it’ll be done.

It was nice back when I first got it, but now it’s showing it’s age and it’s become a definite drain on my productivity here. I can’t even start any programs for 15-20 minutes after I start it up.

But money is tight these days around the company, so I doubt they’ll authorize a new laptop purchase for me. This thing will have to die first.

…

Hrrrrm….

Nah, I wouldn’t do that.

Impasse

Jason — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:33:19 +0000

It's been kinda a low productivity couple of days here, even though I
had high hopes that they wouldn't be. I'm still stuck with my mom's
craft website design that I've been working on. I've been poking at it
here and there still and I can't seem to find anything that works and
doesn't look stupid. Still. I think at this point I might need to put
some distance on it and come back refreshed.

The most productive
thing I've done was to go searching for some fonts that might kick start
the process. Finding a foothold to work with starting out seems like
it's an issue for me with this project. I just can't find something to
use as a base that I can work off of. I find a couple of neat fonts that
should work well on a craft store type page that I've been playing
around with, but nothing jumps out at me.

So I've been doing some
more transferring of my blog posts over to my new blog at
http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/. So far I've got all of august and September 2006 transferred over and about half of October. I posted a lot
more back in the days when I first got my blog, so once I get pas the
first 3-4 months, the rest should follow pretty quickly after that.

I've
also been feeling in the mood to play some sort of RPG type game.
There's been a lot of talk about Final Fantasy 13 that I've heard
recently that's been influencing me. I borrowed Dragon Quest 8 for the
PS2 (after going through my old blog posts and remembering that one of
my now roommates offered to let me borrow it from them after they had
finished in a couple days. This was 3 years ago) but it wasn't quite
what I was looking for it seems. So I'm going to be borrowing Dark Cloud
2 for a while instead and hoping that scratches the itch for now.

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Impasse

Jason — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:32:30 +0000

It’s been kinda a low productivity couple of days here, even though I had high hopes that they wouldn’t be. I’m still stuck with my mom’s craft website design that I’ve been working on. I’ve been poking at it here and there still and I can’t seem to find anything that works and doesn’t look stupid. Still. I think at this point I might need to put some distance on it and come back refreshed.

The most productive thing I’ve done was to go searching for some fonts that might kick start the process. Finding a foothold to work with starting out seems like it’s an issue for me with this project. I just can’t find something to use as a base that I can work off of. I find a couple of neat fonts that should work well on a craft store type page that I’ve been playing around with, but nothing jumps out at me.

So I’ve been doing some more transferring of my blog posts over to my new blog at http://www.nopurpose.org/blog/. So far I’ve got all of august and September 2006 transferred over and about half of October. I posted a lot more back in the days when I first got my blog, so once I get pas the first 3-4 months, the rest should follow pretty quickly after that.

I’ve also been feeling in the mood to play some sort of RPG type game. There’s been a lot of talk about Final Fantasy 13 that I’ve heard recently that’s been influencing me. I borrowed Dragon Quest 8 for the PS2 (after going through my old blog posts and remembering that one of my now roommates offered to let me borrow it from them after they had finished in a couple days. This was 3 years ago) but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for it seems. So I’m going to be borrowing Dark Cloud 2 for a while instead and hoping that scratches the itch for now.

Less Productive Laundry

Jason — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:33:48 +0000

The building our apartment is in has a shared laundry room. One washer and dryer for the 6 apartments that are in the building. And since I'm up so early on weekends, I found it's pretty reliably open at 7am on Saturday morning, so that's when I've been doing my laundry. My friends follow me when I'm done since I can let them know I'm done and they can hop on board.

Except this weekend when the washing machine was broken. Dah. We ended up having to go out to one of the area laundromats and do our clothes there (and sit with them). Which resulted in a loss of productivity on what was supposed to be a productivity oriented weekend. I wanted to do some more work on redesigning Wassy's site and she wanted to get some artwork stuff done. It cut a couple hours of productive work time out of the day unfortunately.

We were originally intending on going to see Drag Me To Hell this weekend, but we've pushed that off a bit due to the productivity issues experienced yesterday.

Wassy's site redesign is coming along pretty nicely so far I think. I'm working on the header of the site which is going to be the biggest time sink since it's the most art intensive part of the design. But so far so good. And the more I use my Bamboo, the more I like it. It's very nice having a graphics tablet for this sort of work. Makes a huge difference. I'm still enjoying my shift in focus to graphic design type stuff, but like I mentioned earlier, we'll see if this keeps up.

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