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Leah did this amazing thing today and painted the kitchen. Amazing to watch her work. I also am catching up on scads of stuff. It’s going to be a good but busy week.
Are you a California College Student?
If yes, then you should know about an amazing concept where you can take classes at local universities called: Cross Enrollment.
Because I have some units from UCLA Extension, I need to do this cautiously, but I could theoretically do this. It’s pretty cool.
Some Java Links for future reference
To get started with Java…
which jdk to download?
getting started (covers Environment Variables, etc)
get jGrasp (a slim multi-platform Java editor)
And I really really enjoy the essay How to Write Unmaintainable Code.
Tomorrow: March Mingle & LAMP Host
The March Mingle put on my Macromedia and the San Diego Cold Fusion Users Group is so tomorrow. If you’re a web nerd, you need to be there.
I’ll be in the house representin’ LAMP Host.
LAMP Host customers and others, feel free to come say hey!
Spanish and Java
My oral presentation from last Thursday for Spanish went well. And the program due today in Java went well as well. It was some Swing/Graphics programming. Relatively painless stuff, and I’m enjoying it so far.
Things feel pretty good. I like these languages.
New Interesting San Diego Blogger Added
2004-03-09 Legal News Watch (RSS) ... “Stories that impact your rights” ... based in Chula Vista. I like it a lot already!
Spalding Gray, et cetera
Spalding Gray has been found dead.
Terribly sad. A suicide. I devoured his work when I was a teenager. I first became aware of him with Swimming to Cambodia in 1987. This was also around the time I saw Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, Eraserhead, and Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave—all at the indie theater The Ken.
I count him as an influence. His honesty, style, and audacity were inspirational to me.
In 1991 (it may have been 1990) I saw him live at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke performing Monster in a Box—this was before the movie was made of it. I found if profoundly moving. It was about his inability to complete a novel which talks about his own mother’s suicide. It was, as all his work was, incisive, witty, and dark. It was somehow hopeful for me at a time when I was unsure what I would do with my life.
It’s difficult to not consider his art when considering his suicide. He spoke often about suicide, analysis, his own failings and faults. Though there was much he did not talk about. In some ways I consider his personal monologues in the same way I consider certain blogs. People reveal much, but they hide just as much, if not more. For how does one cram the complexities of years of life into bite sized snippets of a line or two, a paragraph, or even a novel?
When I think of suicide, I think of my cousin Eddie. He was troubled, in trouble. He left behind a wife, children. So does Spalding. Suicide is something that has darted across my mind a few times in my life, when times have been terribly bad. The period of my separation and divorce stand out. Luckily, with analysis and counseling I was able to deal with the pain attendant to existing in a complex world. I am sad that some people are not so lucky.
Hmm. I’m forgetting when it was, but I saw Spalding Gray a few years ago as well. He did a two night stand at The Escondido Arts Center and Jennifer and I went to that. Well, Jennifer and I went to the first night, but I could only get tickets for one for the next night. My memory on this is hazy though.
I suppose the take-home message is that life is hard. And for some people, it’s not possible to retain hope.
But hope is the key. Hope for the future, hope for life, hope that things can get better.
I am lucky to have hope.
Onward.
Rini’s Back!
Glad to be back, Bill sez…
“Some of you may have been wondering where Ive been the last several weeks. Well, I spent the better part of the last couple of months preparing to sit for the Project Management Institutes (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. That combined with my regular workload left me precious little time to blog (or do much else). But the exam is over, I passed, and Im back now.”Kudos Bill! And your voice (cranky, incisive, funny, sometimes offensive) has been missed!
Office Revamp
Today Leah and I are working on a major revamp of the office, which was 100% chaos. Working in there has gotten harder, but on Friday we bought some used furniture at a cheap joint in South Park – and so far it’s a major revamp.
I’m taking an extended break right now, but will get back to it real soon now.
It’s a beautiful day. Not a day of rest, but a day that’s refreshing.
Onward.
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