My foray into deeper geekitude, part 2

I'm slowly working into the all-nighter thing. I was up until 12:30 AM working on my PHP-based content management system. I know, 12:30 is far from "all night", but when you work a 9-to-5 job it feels like it sometimes. I think I just need to get my body used to running on about 6 hours of sleep. That, and I need more caffeine. I need some Jolt, or Bawls, or maybe I should go off the deep end and try Amp, since Dan swears by it.

It's also hard to do an all-night geek run when you want to sleep with your wife, but she goes to bed at 11 PM. Of course, that's one of the trade-offs of being in a relationship - you give up a few of the things you have when you're single to get the expanded benefits of being non-single. Sure, if I were still single, I could stay up as late as I wanted and not have to care what anyone else thought or wanted. Of course, if I were single, I wouldn't be well-fed, well-sexed, and well-loved as I am now. I'll gladly trade a couple of hours of programming time for that.

Of course, the other possibility would be to pull Z deeper into geekness with me... *chuckles evilly* We need to get a new DSL modem - one that I can network into a router so that we can both be online at the same time. That way, we could both get our online time, and everyone would be happy. Of course, the router and firewall would run somewhere around $100 to $200 (that we don't have), and who knows how much SWBell will charge for replacing the modem. It's a worthy goal, though. A networked DSL with a hardware firewall would mean no more USB drain or software firewall taking up system resources - there's no downside to it! Of course, I'll need my dad's help to set it up, as he is the Master Networking Geek.

*blinks* Need caffeine. Need to recover from staying up. *yawns*

A brief interlude.

I am what we affectionately refer to as a "poor" chess player. Les, our VP of sales, just beat me in the semi-finals of the company chess tournament. Totally snuck up on me and pinned me. Too bad, too... I had him on the run a couple of times. Oh well... time to work on my technique.

Eat that, bitch!

And now, back to work. Took me an hour and a half, but I finally got my ColdFusion script to read this 1.3 MB CVS file properly. Of course, that's because the CVS was just barely malformed enough to keep things interesting.

But through perseverance (because I am too stubborn to give up) and an eye for detail, I am victorious

Kick-ass.

Went to buy Dennis's birthday present at the mall, and of course, no trip to the mall is complete without a game or two of DDR. Sure, it's just USA Mix, which has a much looser timing system than the Japanese originals, but still, it's fun and it's a good workout. So, despite the asthma that kicks me in the ass when I play in cool weather, I give it a shot.

I did something I've never done - I got an AAA (that's at least an S, possibly a SS for you Japanese DDR fans) on Dynamite Rave standard. Sure, it's only a five-foot song, but the best I've ever gotten a AAA on before was a 3-foot song. On top of that, I got an AAA on End of the Century as well. Two first-time triple-As on one night is worthy of celebration. And on top of both of those, I tried Trip Machine, a six-foot song, and actually got an A on it. My score would have been a B or C on a Japanese machine, but that's still good considering how I've done on 6-foot songs in the past. Turns out the key is to get half-beats and off-beats down... that's what separates the six-foot songs from their easier companions.

Anyway, time to watch a movie with Z and snuggle on the couch. Does the night stop getting good? :)