Mmmm, that was a GOOD lunch! I must say that when I take the time to prepare batch lunches upon a weekend, I do a very good job. Yesterday, I spent a good deal of time in the kitchen, while neither barefoot nor pregnant, still managing to design and implement a serious amount of deliciousness.

First, it was Gai Mi Fen Tong (a wikked Chinese chicken noodle soup), then chicken curry, then "turds" - a chocolaty macaroon-like cookie. It's amazing that I am so conscious of waste and budgetary concerns, that I spend a good portion of my Sunday afternoon ensuring I have a range of healthy and tasty lunches for the next couple of weeks.

...or maybe it's because the food vendors local to my employment are absolute shite. Ah-ha! The light begins to dawn. I think it only took me a few months here to realize that even going to all the effort of making my own lunches was MUCH more preferable than forking over hard earned cash to the crap-merchants across the street from the office!

Hee-hee! Must be Monday. The day that I have to come in at 08:30 for a team meeting, instead of my usual 09:00 ... ish. Bitterness abounds. It's now 15:30 and I'm just dying to get out of here and go home. Anyone feel the urge to take me on some exotic vacation? I pine for a tropical paradise.

My job just isn't holding my attention these days. In the "down time" between development cycles, it's all about 'corporate-y' things: code reviews, personnel reviews, vague research, writing reports, and generally doing all the boring muck which I became a developer in order to avoid! We'll probably be going pretty strong again within a few weeks, but in the meantime, I'm not the most enthused outdoor recreational lodger (or "happy camper" to those who refuse to exercise their cerebral lobes).

Okay, well I can't think of any good segue to the next section, so I'll just make the disjointed leap.

For anyone who feels the urge to care, I have been investigating "features" to add to the blog software. If I am going to be using it semi-regularly now (I'm still suspiscious, knowing myself as well as I do), it definitely needs some improvements. First order of business is to get some sort of decent archiving; a calendar for current month, and links to archived months would probably be a good thing. I have found a piece of code which will aid in the calendar creation, so hopefully I'll get around to that soon. By some miracle, I've already run past the 5-post viewable limit I imposed on the blog main page.

However, it may be just a little while before I manage to get that up and running. I've already regaled you, gentle reader, previously with the many technical tasks that are currently vying for my attention. And apparently, the cable company has been and gone to my house - my new PC-TV awaits in readiness.

In actuality, it's been ready to go for a week, but I'll finally be able to test it properly with a cable signal. Of course, I'm still waiting for the software upgrade to arrive in the mail. Things won't be complete until then, but at least I can see if I can start recording The Simpsons to my hard drive!

I'm sorry, but my priorities are set!