I wish I could somehow convey the way “Work! Work!” is supposed to be said. To those who have played Warcraft 3, it should sound like the peons when you click on them. =)

I’ve been having severe motivation problems going to work recently. I wake up and I just don’t want to go. That’s not good. Currently, I’m trying to figure out why some darn Gstreamer plugins won’t build and I absolutely hate debugging build issues. They really tick me off.

I think that’s a big reason why I like a lot of common web tools like PHP and Perl… there’s no compiling. Development environments just seem so much simpler with them. shrug

I think I might take a break from running today… but I’m not sure yet. The past few days I went running by my lonesome have been pretty nice though (weather is gooood =), so maybe I’ll be in the mood when I leave work…

“I’ve been cheated by you since I don’t know when
So I made up my mind, it must come to an end
Look at me now, will I ever learn?
I don’t know how but I suddenly lose control
There’s a fire within my soul
Just one look and I can hear a bell ring
One more look and I forget everything, w-o-o-o-oh” - ABBA

So last night at Elements, I was tasked with taking this picture and creating the image above. As you can tell, it’s a really quick hack job in Photoshop, but I hope you enjoy it, haha… I didn’t want to waste too much of my life on it. =)

On a slightly related note, I think I may try to lead a college Elements… but we’ll see. There seem to be a lack of female leaders, so I may be stuck with no coleader and/or another guy coleader (which means the group will be all guys and not coed)… I seem to be cursed (or blessed? =) with all guy small groups (haha, well, except my current one… though the girls are far outnumbered). I think all my previous Elements, there has only been maybe one or two girls in the group other than the leader that sometimes showed up. Then, there was that one group where Jen Chi ended up being the only girl and eventually they made ours officially an all-guy group and sent her to another group. Haha…

“I know that your powers of retention

Are as wet as a warthog’s backside

But thick as you are, pay attention

My words are a matter of pride

It’s clear from your vacant expressions

The lights are not all on upstairs

But we’re talking kings and successions

Even you can’t be caught unawares” - Scar (The Lion King)

I hope you learn your lesson, Sam! Image hotlinking is for lamers! And no credit either… tsk tsk.

And you better realize I was being nice… there are far worse pics I could have I used…… =D

“For the sake of argument
Say Jerry Springer were the president
“No Inhibitions!”
The national theme
There’d still be one thing
Makin’ Donahue scream

“Taboo!”
We’ve come to the last
Taboo
There’s an audible gasp
When you claim there’s a God
Who’s objectively true
It’s taboo” - Ian Eskelin

Oh goody goody goody, cooler weather. =)

Also, I just wanted to let everyone know that nothing’s official until it is on Facebook and everything on there is 100% factual and must be taken seriously. Either that, or must be scrutinized to the nth degree to find the hidden meanings. It’s crazy, I tell you, crazy!!!

That being said, I would like to say that Sam is a big fat copy-cat.

Hmph.

“Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you” - The Police

I tend to waste my days off by sleeping in late. I tried to wake up today at 10:30ish after going to sleep at 5AM, but that didn’t work out so well. Ended up waking up at 1something. Oh well.

I slept on the couch downstairs again last night. Man, that thing is comfy. It’s so much better than my bed (which reminds me, I need to get some of that foam stuff that will probably make it better). I like taking two pillows, one for my head and one to hug and falling asleep like that. I don’t know why I like it, but I do, haha. Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten used to couches cause I regularly sleep on the couch instead of a bed when I go home home. shrug Beds are so… boring. ;)

“Open up your box of sunshine
And smile as confetti comes raining down on you
You feel a lot like the good guy, but do you know why
Everything’s so blue” - Jars of Clay

Okay, so the new OliverWEB design has been pretty much stagnant for a while and I’m wondering if I should keep it under wraps for another month to play with and possibly tweak and improve more or just go ahead and switch to it a month early (I think this makes up for the year I was late… at least I think I was late one year… ;).

Anyways, if I switched now, I could focus on owiber.com and what I want to do with that a month earlier… if not, I’ll just continue staring at the new design and maybe or maybe not improve upon it. What do you guys think? =)

While we’re on the topic, I’ll show you one of the designs I ended up scrapping:

I decided I wanted something lighter/cleaner. I also made a “messy” version of it, which I didn’t like that much…

I decided to go with a clean design and I think I did pretty well. The new one also uses a color scheme that is quite a bit different from any of my previous designs (yay!). But you can’t see it until I’m done (actually, truth be told, probably a ton of people have seen it in various states already, since I haven’t exactly been working on it behind lock and key… hehe).

Went running yesterday with Kathy and Olivia, and this time successfully did not lose Olivia, haha. I also got really hungry yesterday for some reason and after eating dinner, I ate a turkey leg, chunks of cheese, an apple and other random stuff. I think this running thing is making my metabolism go crazy… speaking of which, who wants to do the Hairy Man 5k? Haha…

gack I just accidently swallowed my Starburst whole… oh… this is not a pleasant feeling… at all…

My work desk is covered with lots of boxes, wires going everywhere, LCD displays, and development boards. Some coworkers that I make snack runs with made comments on how messy my desk was, so I cleaned it up a bit, haha. It was becoming a problem when getting to my phone was difficult…

The new OliverWEB layout is getting there, but it still seems like it’s missing a little bit… I’m not sure what it is yet. I’ll probably convert it to CSS/HTML soon and play around with it there a bit. Going to use owiber.com as my development location for now since I’m switching over to WordPress too. Hip! Hip! HORAY!

“As I walk this land with broken dreams
I have visions of many things
Love’s happiness is just an illusion
Filled with sadness and confusion,
What becomes of the broken hearted
Who had love that’s now departed?
I know I’ve got to find
Some kind of peace of mind” - Jimmy Ruffin

Haha, all these lyrics read so much sadder than they sound (in the song)…

So yesterday I went on an ‘owiber’ registration spree and registered [email protected] and owiber.com. I tried to make an owiber Blogger account, but apparently I already had one, so I just made a post instead. Doing a Google search for owiber reveals a lot of accounts I wasn’t aware or didn’t remember I had, haha…

Now I’m not sure what to do with owiber.com. I could just make it point to OliverWEB as well, but I was thinking something else would be more fun… but what? =)

“Crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain well
The shadow proves the sunshine” - Switchfoot

I don’t know if it’s just the weather, the having to go back to work after a great vacation, the missing school-feeling or what, but I felt rather gloomy today. When I run, I set landmarks for myself that I force myself to hit. “Just get to the next bridge” or something more important like “just make it to land, so you don’t drown.” I guess I felt like that today… “just get through the meeting” or “just finish up ___ for ___ and before you know it, you’ll get to go home.”

I really feel like running… in the rain, unfortunately, the rain’s probably over now, eh? Oh well, at least the sun’s heat is somewhat deflected by the clouds… but not the UV rays, kids!

“You had a bad day
You’re taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don’t know
You tell me don’t lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride” - Daniel Powter

lol… posting that makes me feel like a fruity emo kid…

I don’t want to go back to work. More vacation, please. =(

“And if he falls in love tonight,
It can be assumed
His carefree days with us are history.
In short, our pal is doomed.“ - Timon & Pumbaa (The Lion King)