Lately I find that every Monday right after work isn’t the best time to go to Flying Saucer. By the time I get there, there’s already like 6 people there. I go from a Monday at work, most of which I spend alone in my cubicle, directly to a rowdy group of folks. It’s kind of a shock. I mean, I get as rowdy as the next guy sometimes, but I need some buffer time.

Sometimes all I really want to do is either go home and unwind or have a drink with only a few friends (as opposed to 8 of them). I don’t like going there when there’s a crap load of people at our table. At least not on a Monday.

Over the weekend I set up a wiki. Go check it out if you get bored.

Monday night was the first time since I’ve moved out on my own that I’ve felt noticeably lonely. And I actually did something about it! I asked Stuffy if I could come over, and I hung out with James, Stuffy, Natalie, and Catherine. I felt better after that.

This week I’ve had a hard time getting back into the flow of work. I did manage to get a git repository set up for all of my dotfiles, but that’s pretty much the most productive thing I’ve done. I’ve been kicking around coupler a little but haven’t really gotten a significant amount of work done there.

I jumped a curb on my bike the other day, and now the back wheel is wobby as hell. So either I bent the wheel frame, or it needs truing. Guess that’ll be my project for this weekend. I also need to get more work clothes pretty badly.

Back to putzing around at work.

What with everything that happened this weekend, my brain is not keen on thinking about programming right now.

The past couple of weeks have been mostly fun. I’ve been playing a good amount of Mario Kart Wii, which is amazing. I also had my yearly work evaluations, and I’m getting promoted! So that’s exciting.

Earlier this week the landlord left a not-so-nice note on our door about how we needed to clean up so he could show the apartment. He called the apartment “a nightmare”, among other things. It was sort of offensive, but I mean, it was a bit messy. So we cleaned up that night frantically, then found out he wouldn’t be showing it for another 5 days because he was so busy. So that was some douche-baggery we had to deal with. For the most part our landlord has been pretty helpful, though, so I’m not really that upset about it anymore.

At least I can start moving out in a week. Hooray!

Sometimes I feel like I hang out with certain people too much. I try to back off sometimes when I get the feeling that they’ve had enough of me. I don’t want to be too clingy or wear out my welcome. Sometimes when I get to see friends that I haven’t seen in a while, I try to cram in as much as possible into the time I have with them. I think the result of that is times that are a bit too stressful than necessary.

I feel like I have to compete with certain people for social space. I want to be understood, and so I want to have my share of time with someone so that we can understand each other. That also makes me a bit more pushy than I’d normally be, at least when certain people are around.

Catherine and I started work on Cowboy’s website. It’ll be a new experience working with a real graphic designer for a change. I’m looking forward to it.

Well, I got my living arrangements settled. I’m not sure how it’ll work out, living alone. Part of me is a little scared, and part of me is excited.

I think about what’s happened while living here a lot. Sometimes I feel angry, sometimes guilty, sometimes shameful. I know that I’m not blameless.

At work I’ve been learning a lot about git, an application for software control management created by Linus Torvalds, the same guy who created Linux. It’s a different way of looking at version control, but it seems pretty cool. I haven’t gotten excited about software like this in a while, probably not since I went to RailsConf last year. Most of the time, I hate software.

I saw Linus’s talk about git yesterday. It’s kinda funny how the big names in open source all share certain qualities. They have strong opinions, and most of the time they’re exceedingly arrogant. I suppose you need people like that to lead software projects, though. They think their way is right, and if you do it another way, you’re “ugly and stupid” (to quote Linus). Granted, Linus’s arrogance is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but generally that’s how all open source programmers are.

I mean, hubris is one of the three great virtues of a programmer. If you’re not arrogant enough to think that your software is awesome, then why write it at all?