It's All About ME!

Far Kit

It's been a while, and a few things have happened, both good and bad.

The worst part was our cat Gypsy. After her long battle with failed kidneys, her eyesight going and her hearing going as well, she finally gave out last week. She lasted well though, seeing as how the vet told us that she had weeks to live when she first turned up on our doorstep starving over 9 months ago. Now, she's buried in a quiet spot in the bush land at the back of our house. We miss her, but it's still good that how she's away from all her problems and can get a bit of peace for a change.

Work has been frustrating over the last few weeks. I've been told that I'm learning a new system... and it's probably one of the hardest things to get your head around out there at the moment. It's Plone, which is a CMS that is used where I work. As much as I know it's a good system and all, it's also one of the most complicated things out there. What makes it worse is that to learn this, I also need to learn a new programming language, refactor another language for this specific application, and figure out where the 1,000's of required "includes" are even though there's pretty much no documentation anywhere out there about anything. The boss bought a book on it all, and that's an utter waste of time. After going through half of it I feel like I now know a hell of a lot less about how to do it then I did before I started and knew nothing. It's ridiculous... from what I can see, to be able to add in a "portlet" (a tiny bit area of content that can be moved around to suit the layout) I need to modify 2-5 files, add in 5-20 files and reference things that are not documented or can be found anywhere in the first place... It's insane. It's supposed to be at least sort of easy, but it's the most stupid system that I've ever seen before. It'd almost be quicker for me to write my own content management system in PHP before I could understand even the basics of this one.

There's not much going on in the romance department here either. I've got a couple of girls that I've been talking to, and they've both said that they want to meet me, but... we all know where that goes. The first one I've been talking to for a fair while now and she's great, but even though she keeps on saying that she wants to do something, I don't think that she's actually ready or capable of doing anything at all yet. I understand it though. She's going through some things, but she's finally gone to get some help for it, so I'll wait and see how that turns out. The other one I've only been talking to for a bit less then a week now. She seems very nice, but it's going to be the normal thing of seeing when (if...) I actually do get to meet her and if she turns out to be the same in real life as she seems to be online.

This weekend might be good. I'm going to see what my friend is up to Friday night. He's changed a lot in the last few years. He's gone from the hard-drinkin' party animal that I met originally, to the calm family guy that likes nothing more then a cup of tea and a nice lie down. Then again, two kids, a partner and a 6-day-a-week job will do that to you! Saturday I have a "surprise" party for an old family friend. It's his 30th, so it should be good. Sunday, not sure yet, but things might come together some where.

So, that's about it. Hopefully everyone else out there is going good too. How about letting me know what you're all up to if you're reading this! Let's hear more from the people that have so little to do that they actually want to read about me!!!

posted by Michael @ 10:20 AM