Another battle in the same old war...
We'll see. Goal: 2 weeks.
Well, shit. Not today.
There is a religious discussion going on in the Scribe Tribe mailing list, and I am staying out of it. Mostly because someone early on said how nice it was that nobody was being nasty... that was a challenge that I couldn't resist... but I did anyway.
I'm becoming more and more contemptuous of all things religious, and I don't really want to be offensive about it, so I just bite my tongue and go about my own business.
I have realized that I'm not going to change anybodys mind if they are believers in any faith, religion or myth. This belief is central to their well-being, to their feeling good about themselves, and they will allow nothing to disrupt that belief, especially not facts.
This would be a lot easier to accept if their faith was harmless, but, even at its most innocuous, it isn't. I have to pay taxes for their entertainment, because they don't.
I got the Keirsey Profiles updated, which is about a two-hour job... unless I get ambitious and decide to remove some programs while there some time-consuming processes running... especially if said programs being removed are reluctant to part company with my system... and, kicking and screaming, take aforementioned system down with them...
And that makes it a four-hour job.
Then I spent an hour making a beautiful image... and I couldn't get it to save in JPG format. Everything else, but not JPG. I finally gave up on it and did a much simpler one, dammit.
I amaze myself with my ignorance sometimes. Heck, sometimes I amaze other people too. I can hear them whispering, "Gee, that Doug sure is amazing..."
Paranoia is, indeed, my middle name. Well, not really, it's Clifton, after my Great Uncle Cliff. That doesn't keep me from knowing what those whispers are about, though.
I didn't get to know Uncle Cliff very well, and I'm sorry about that. By all accounts, he was a great guy.
And, speaking of relatives, I haven't heard from my boys in Texas lately. Tyler was supposedly coming back up about a week ago... I suppose they'll let me know sooner or later. Maybe I outta call them and find out...
O'well, time to go do something constructive. Well, I did change the sheets on the bed...
Yep, I doing it again.
Too many other people doing it for me to not join in.
17:16...
This day has flown, and I have got a lot done... sitting here, unfortunately. No "REAL" work. Well, there's always tomorrow for that...