Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Good news: NaNo wordcount at 14275 as of midnight 11/4. This means I've officially surpassed my 2003 and 2004 numbers for the entire month of November (I skipped 2005). I'm solidly on my way to winning this year, barring tragedy or extreme silliness.

Bad news: I was stupid and bought a white chocolate mocha around 9:30 tonight and spent the next hour and a half work my way through it. Rough upshot is that I'm still wide awake. In about four hours, I'll have been up for 24 hours straight.

Good news: The coding book I bought about design patterns on Friday is completely awesome. It talks like people learn.

Bad news: It failed to mention anywhere on the cover that it's Java-specific and that knowledge of Java was necessary to work through any of the more complex concepts.

Good news: Returned book and bought another one specifically geared to PHP.

I've been meaning to make some sort of Doctor Who post, but the problem is, that's about as far as I've thought about it. Some sort of Doctor Who post. I may just have Time Lords on the brain.

Did something rather old school Tuesday night. *cryptics*

I'm recoding the backend for the fandomhigh.net character list generators (the ones that aren't working right now) and for my own amusement, I've named one of the major components a Bristow (the technical term I would've preferred is being used by another, similar system, so I go for the crack).

I keep meaning to write a review for The Innocents, which I saw recently, but I keep putting it off, as it would entail another viewing and I don't think I could handle being that wigged out again.

Oh! _jealousy_ and I have plotted the final course for our trip from Wisconsin to San Diego. It will take us through Iowa City. I'm hoping we can stop off in town for some coffee at the Java House, which where my brain lived during my stay there.

Gonna be 23 in a little over a week and a half. Very strange. Time for all those yearly looking-over-stuff things that one does when one ticks off another year. Time to reevaluate the Top 25 films, to start working on my yearly Birthday Mix CD, to kick myself into gear about all the things I didn't accomplish since the last time I changed ages.

It's all very strange, this onward process of time.

*goes back to PHP coding of doom*