3 : 29 A.M.
God Gift Maggot

Just had an unpleasant encounter with maggots tonight. It polarized my brain into two arguing viewpoints. The left said, "looks like we're having our hot dog without a bun, orthodox-style." The right side said, " GYAAAAHAHAAGHAAAAGAHAGA GET IT OFF ME." I hope I can move on with my life soon and stop scrubbing the hand that found the bug.

Weird. Do I not remember anything that happened during the day, or was I really asleep the whole time? I mean, don't get me wrong, it was a great day! But it seems like there's very little to discuss.

Blah blah, I programmed a little at the "Capitol Hill Cafe". They have big, desklike tables. One downside was that no one there when I got there knew how the espresso machine worked. So they told me it was "broken". Later I asked an employee (as I got a tea-refill) how the repair situation looked, and she said she could pull me a shot. Huh? Well, she was the only one there who knew how to work the machine, and she was mostly cooking things. But it was a lull in the cooking action.

So these days I guess you could say I'm hanging out in coffee shops programming. People seem to find the IDE on my screen very interesting. I'm sure the context highlighting looks pretty, what with my color scheme of black with mostly green and purple comments (Textpad) or black with cyan, yellow, and red (MSVS). Anyway, most people using computers in cafes with internet seem to be browsing the web. I sort of was, because I was bidding on an ebay auction which ended as I sat there (got outbidded by four people in the last ten seconds). (Let the record show that I have never ever bought anything on ebay, despite several attempts.) Well anyway, I think I'll pretend that the people who are trying to shoulder surf my screen find computer programs compelling to look at because they are so essentially "techy". Yeah, more like tetchy. I bet I could sit there with notepad open (word wrap active) and fill my screen with the numbers 1 and 0 and probably convince 3 out of 4 people in there that I was "programming".

You know, there are ways that your brain can feel dirty that don't ever happen before you start writing programs.