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Ah, goodness. So working long hours at home alone was not a very
good idea. As a direct result of this revelation, I've scaled back
my work with Scout a bit and will be pursuing other jobs that can
give me more time interacting directly with and around people.
It's amazing how my productivity and happiness levels just shoot
through the roof when people are around: I went into the city for
a day to chill with the Scout folks and ended up coding a good
chunk of their intranet. =)
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It looks like the money situation is hopefully now nicely taken care
of: my mother managed to bail me out on summer rent and I got three
checks in the mail for consulting work and articles. Some of my work
for Casio & MyPlay should pay nicely (MyPlay even promised me a car
by the end of the summer!) and I will hopefully sign my book contract
at some point to get me a few bucks. All this just means that now I
can buy groceries again. I was seriously going hungry for a while
there, munching some Ramen on the sly. Ech. A man can only take so
much of that stuff, you know?
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The book is now the longest continuous piece of English that I've ever
written at just over 9100 words. And to think that it's just getting
started! [gulp] I sure hope I can keep it up. I may need to do a bunch
more research to stay on top of things. There's a lot of things that
I'm going to need to address in the book that I don't yet know the
answers to myself! It will be interesting to walk the fine line
between making the text widely interesting and readable at the same
time as being useful and appealing to a technical audience. Writing
the technical bits are turning out to be hard, and I need to figure
out how I'm going to do the graphics and illustrations.
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It's really funny, my friend from last summer called me up: he's now
the Vice President of HyperBanner, an Israli online ad banner company,
and he had a very simple problem. I solved it for him and now the guy
wants to fly me wherever I want to go for two weeks! Yippee! Is that
<b>cool</b> or what?? Where should I go? I don't know!
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The 4<sup>th</sup> was real fun, I went to my roomate's grandmother's
place and we hung out and ate grilled hot dogs. A very laid back
day, good for thinking and music and sunshine...I think I'm a little
crispy now! Okay, well, time for me to fall over. Oh, and I finally
wrote a biography up on Alex Blok -- should be out tomorrow; you'll
find out who this guy is!
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LINK OF THE DAY: <a href="http://www.davidmagazine.com/">David Weekly
Magazine</a> (I have <b>nothing</b> to do with this site!)
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