Interestingly Mundane.

I often debate about whether or not to write about the minor happenings of my day. The common things that I do every day, perhaps. Read a little from a magazine, read a little from my current book, ate lunch. These things can be boring if just spouted off as a series of facts, but what if there were more story behind them? I read about how the road in London aren't safe for children because there are so many busy streets that can hardly fit pedestrians and vehicles comfortably, and that while the child-auto-mortality rate there is high, it's three times as high in Scotland. I read in the book that cities are growing too fast, and aren't going to be able to sustain themselves, which holds true enough in Civilization IV. Too big to feed everyone? People aren't happy, and they're not going to work. Then where do you turn for dye when your only node is next to the bustling metropolis? You ask the guys that live in the desert? Salah al-Dīn could care less about your petty dyeing needs, he's got nations to conqure. What was the other thing? I ate lunch? Well, that really wasn't that exciting, I just had leftovers from last night. Can't really make much with that.

I ate a good breakfast for the first time in far to long, though. That was very satisfying. About as satisfying as the excercises I did afterwards, but not nearly as satisfying as the shower, or the conversation I'm going to have with a lovely friend as soon as I get done writing this.

I did some things I'm very proud of today, luckily. I've been working in Flash more at my brother's request, and I've been learning some XML along my path. I made my first little widget today, which doesn't really do anything awesome, but there's a giddy feeling you get when you put something together and it works. I love that. I wish I enjoyed programming enough to seek that out all the time. Or maybe everyone hates programming, and that feeling is euphoric enough to make up for it to them. That would make sense, I suppose.

Google is down $50 from about a week ago. I keep waiting for it to break $700, but it just keeps getting really close to victory and then edging away. Story of my life, if you consider the first post here.

My car door broke apart the other day. It literally ripped itself a sizable gash that was causing me a great deal of agony for about a week. It would get stuck when I was trying to open the door, and I would have to open another door on the car and push the broken part back out. Finally - CRAP. I forgot to give him that Air Tank. I KNEW I would forget if I got started working on the door too soon. Back track? Sure, a little. I have a go-to guy for all my repair projects, and I had this Air Tank I was going to give him. I told myself to do it before I got started, and I didn't do it. Now where am I? Back at my house with an Air Tank still in my trunk. Awesome. Anyway, back to good news - It wasn't much trouble getting the door fixed, but these really crappy clips that I had to replace the old really crappy clips with kept breaking. Again, once all the peices were back together and we'd reinforced the broken section, it was nice to see it back in place and working perfectly. Almost as nice as the aformentioned feeling with making something else that works. Building and Repairing things is kind of more awesome than anyone gives it credit for. Go build something. I don't care what it is, just make sure it does something so you can be proud of it. Or fix something. You know you've got something you've been putting off that would be wonderful to finally take care of. Go on, because you're about to be alone here. Right now.