Masochistic Gaming

Yep, it's time for another corporate league session at iplay. Somehow we always get our monkey asses beat. sometimes worse than others. but i keep coming back for more, so i must actually like it deep down inside. i suppose more practice would make things better, or learning some new strategies. it seems whoever owns the skies in most of the games, dominates the other team completely.. note to self, learn how to fly in bf1942... better. last time the best 2 pilots got teamed up and you would basically die as soon as you spawned, or if you lived that long, youd have a bomb dropped on you the instant you climbed in a vehicle. boom, dead. there was really no hope of any kind of effective counter-offensive. oh well, I'm trying to recruit a new player for our team, and hopefully that works out well for us :)

Work is going really, really slowly right now. And I'm SO bored. I'm trying to be a little pro-active with the process since theres no actual work to be done at the moment. we have sharepoint here at work to work as a document repository and version control system, but up until now we've been doing manual versioning. i guess noone either got the concept of automatic version control, or they didnt trust the computer to do something that wonderful and not screw things up. so we're trying to implement a check-out, check-in system that will solve some of our revisioning "issues". working on the wrong version of a document, etc. also a solid planned directory structure will help things not get too messy, like last time. i think this would have saved some people hours of lost labour if they had actually come up with a process last time.

Anyhow, work has also become a little like survivor now. michel, one of the original guys was laid off last week, and there may be more to come. im pretty sure im sticking around from all the signals ive been given, but you never know. there's this bi-polar guy working on the same project as me, and while hes entertaining, hes not the greatest guy in the world to work with. so my money is on him.

Anyhow, with work being so slow, I've taken to surfing the web a lot. and since I'm almost completely bored and sick of that, I think I may just decide to start doing some more worthwhile project with my time. All my old php stuff is more or less gone, or i have outdated backups of it, so maybe i could get started on new versions of that. i think i should really wrap my head around some CSS stuff first though. i've been checking out CSSzengarden and i've been really impressed with the designs people come up with, and I think my next project will definitely separate the content from the design in the same way, so i can update the design at any time. I've done some pretty basic things with CSS before, but you can do so much with it, that i really have to do some more research and study. God knows my blogger could use a new CSS template.

I've actually been getting back into a better workout schedule lately. I'm trying to go 4 or 5 nights a week to do weights again, and cycling into work at least once or twice a week. the trip to work is about 45 minutes, so it's a decent ride. I've already done it twice in the last 2 weeks, so hopefully my joints will start getting used to the idea. still recovering from the flu though, this thing seems to be sticking around a week after the initial fever. it doesn't slow me down much, but im still sniffling and coughing on occasion.

And in music, FischerSpooner came out with a new album i thought was pretty solid, so I'm liking that. and sage francis is coming to town pretty soon, so thats another concert to look forward to on top of moby and buck.