12:15:

This last week and a half have been really rough on my body and mind. I'm feeling very sluggish and lethargic from what is most likely a combination of lack of sleep, working too hard (no, I'm serious!), the change in the temperature, and mild allergies. Whatever the sources may be, its got a good grip on me.

The physical badness has me cranky in a way I'm not used to. Even though I'm tiring of all sorts of things more quickly than usual, somehow I still have the negative mental energy to stay on a verbal attack and enunciate things I don't necessarily mean with precise clarity.

Needless to say, Suzy isn't delighted by this, but she's called me out on it twice now and we've talked though exactly what causes me to be a brutal ass and how to suppress it before it does any damage. This is the sort of thing she's lived with all the time in her own brain for many years, so I consider it expert advice. Its been something I've been working on a long time myself, and having a frank discussion about it really helps.

Went to Staples yesterday on the ride home and did a little comfort shopping. I don't know what other people buy, but for me its the weapons of order: pencils, pens, and grid paper. Apparently among my friends this is not an atypical way to destress. It must be the INTJ in me.

The first thing I drew when I got to Suzy's place was a map of all three floors of my house and all the various things I need to do (inventory random boxes, paint porch rails, caulk bathroom) from memory. Probably easier to do it on her bed than walking around my house, because the to-do list just kept flowing.

In a few days I'm going to post up help wanted ads here for various jobs around my house. I don't really have a lot of money, but I'm big on services in trade for people who are good with caulk guns and gardening and are willing to teach me in the process.

So in summary, life is good, my girlfriend is wonderful and spring is not quite, but almost here.

Also, I love my job.

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18:19:

My lunchtime bitching aside, today went pretty well. Got through a ton of e-mail, holding my work e-mail box solid at 8 messages (which are too complicated to figure out in a single sitting), and my work-order tickets at 38. Hopefully the flurry of e-mails I sent out at the end of the day will let me close out about a dozen tomorrow morning when the users decide their problem has been solved or they don't care anymore.

My programming has become a little more elegant in the last few days from reading a bunch of Suzy's code and consulting various tutorials. I've gotten into a few bad habits over the last few months and with a couple of quick array tricks, the number of lines I need to write to accomplish a particular task has dropped by roughly half.

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