Straight Edge Life

I thought I was going to sleep through the night at first… then I woke up in utter terror at 11:00 PM realizing that I have a meeting, no, THE meeting, in the morning. The one where I have to delicately explain why we’re months overdue with the new database system. So I flew down here and joined Karen the janitor in the basement dregs of the PDS for a long session of cleaning up other people’s messes. Got a ton done too. One of the gratifying things about development jobs is that you can always reuse 30% of the code you write for later projects. It’s a nice geometric progression because the more jobs you do the more pre-written code you get to put into play. This job for example is at least 40% code that I’ve already written. It’s nice. Unfortunately only about 5% of my time on this job is writing code. The other 95% is cleaning up the disaster that my predecessor left behind.

And yes, this job (and others) are exactly the reason why I haven’t been keeping this site very well updated. I have a hell-bent goal of being out of debt by tax season. But believe me baby, this site ain’t the only thing suffering at the expense of getting out of debt. No pun intended. Social life? Recreation? Physical fitness? Mental health? Ha! Who need’s ‘em?

Finally went out and picked up some boots and bindings for my Ride Decade this afternoon. Got the board last year, it was already the previous year’s model when I got it. The boots are from last season of course, on clearance. The bindings are new… Last year there wasn’t enough snow or time to go boarding. This year is going to be different. If there’s one thing I do for recreation this winter it’s cutting some turns through some trees in the white stuff. I may be working 16 hours a day 6 days a week, but Thursday, Thursday is my day in the hills.

I can’t, in fact, stop thinking about boarding. Pray for snow.

Shot another wedding this weekend. An absolutely enjoyable costume affair in the heart of the city. Drove down to the city with my dad, followed the bride and groom for a couple of days, and then back to Eugene with my sister. Haven’t slept more than a few hours a night for the last couple of weeks but life is good. I’m shooting. Even if it is wedding photography.