Chapter Ten.

Today was a good day for random science fiction/fantasy stories, though I use science fiction as a qualifier simply to differentiate the type of "fantasy" I'm referring to, so you don't get confused and worried that this blog is about to include a bit too much information.  

So I've been reading the Wheel of Time, as mentioned numerous times before, and I just reached chapter Ten of book eleven.  Excellent chapter!  I'm thrilled, though the possibility exists that someone reading this might receive a spoiler as a result of my expounding upon why I'm excited by this chapter - thus, I will dispense with further description.

Regardless, I've been waiting for it for a long, long time.  Awesome!

In other, related news (re: the first paragraph here), we had what felt like a pretty good Ars session today, which I ran for the most part.  Our characters are all embroiled in Ragnarok (Yeah, the end of the Norse mythos), so we as players keep doing all this research into what would supposedly transpire.  I, currently, seem to be playing the universe conspiring to make Ragnarok happen (or not happen!), and everybody else is trying to navigate events and figure out what's going on and why we seem to be stuck at the beginning of the process.  Three years of winter have come and gone, all of Europe is freaking out, the year is 1255, and for some reason the frickin' Jotunn and AEsir aren't gettin' their fight on.  Loki seems to be missing (what else would a trickster do than not be where he's supposed to be?), and stuff is generally messed up. 

But it went pretty well.  They figured some stuff out.  Next week should be fun!

Otherwise, I sat around today and made orange juice / Cracklin' Oat Bran pancakes, cleaned the kitchen, read a book, and planned for tonight's game.  All in all, a lovely Sunday. 

Simple Exercises

Today I woke up at 7:00 AM.

HAH.

Take that, life.

This is notable, if only for the reason that lately I've been unable to reliably make myself wake up prior to 7:30 to 8:00 AM. This is, most definitely, annoying as hell, as it has a tendency to throw my whole day off. There's something about my bed, I think. It's just too wonderfully comfortable. Flannel sheets, lots of blankets, a nearby heater and an otherwise cold room in the winter make it a very attractive place to stay in the morning. This is in contrast to the summer, when the room is hot and uncomfortable and I can't wait to get up and get moving.

The plan is, hopefully, to do the same exact thing in approximately 7 hours and 25 minutes.

The key, I found, is to set my alarm to 6:55 and then snooze for 5 minutes. Then, it's like waking up an hour later, because the first number is different, you see. It's all very scientific.

And that, as they say, is how I manage to wake up.

Work sped by, and I was able to create a backwards dependency checker (What projects use this piece of code?) by adding a new feature to ItDepends. It now allows you to import an entire directory of link reports and then see on a new fourth tab which link reports contain dependencies on the selected package or class. Lately at work there's been a question of what projects are using what code, and we don't have a very good way of determining that short of an Eclipse search or a grep. Seems like it'll be moderately useful.

My new project should be starting up in force tomorrow. I went so far as to create a branch for it today (woohoo!). I think it'll be fun! Nothing crazy, but a lot to get done. Hopefully we can learn some stuff along the way.

After work, Jules and I hit up the ol' BSC for an hour or so, then took a joint trip to the grocery store. I got pineapple. And cottage cheese. And the greatest cereal of all time, Cracklin' Oat Bran. I know someone else who has an insatiable appetite for COB, if I get around to creating a "fiction" blog at some point in the near future, I'll introduce you to her.

Eeeexcellent.

After getting home, I mostly sat around and played iPhone Scrabble all night. Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Other times, I play Scrabble.