Friday I caught a bug. My guess is I got it from the staff gym on Thursday. It’s on the outs now, but it kicked my ass for a day or two. I took Friday off work and slept it off enough to make it to Burly’s wedding on Saturday. The wedding was good.

Over the past few days I also decided to work on a little theme change for the blog. WordPress 2.7 came out last week, and I felt a new theme was in order. It’s a lot like the old theme, except the HTML/CSS behind is lot cleaner in my opinion. It’s always good to look back at code you wrote a year or two ago and think, “Man, that code sucks.” It means that you’ve gotten better since then.

I had a brief brainwave today about relationships and what they mean to me. The last part of Brian’s latest post made me think a little. For a while now, I’ve looked at the need to have a romantic relationship as weak. Trying to hook up with someone strikes me as lustful and as a sign of low self-esteem. Why would someone want to spend the effort needed to charm someone into a relationship? Read the rest of this entry »