Chris

* I find that I'm a much calmer driver when I deliberately remind myself over and over that I am generally easy-going when driving, it's that when there are assholes, I go from calm to eleven in seconds flat.  But I pay a lot of attention to this tendency, and I find I can calm myself down a bit faster.

Also, When I Learned To Drive™, I learned of the two-second rule, where you keep two seconds of space between you and the car in front of you.  Apparently, this morphed into the "two feet no matter what the speed" rule.  When I viewed that as the new way people do things, I got a bit calmer, too.  I don't goddamn do it, because augh, but I stopped viewing it as about me, and viewed it more as about people being complete maniacs, and that's better.

* Whoever recently posted about "Soap" has destroyed whole acres of potential productivity, or at least that's my claim.  I now know precisely why I always tried to watch "That 70s Show" and was always disappointed.

* Still major malefit to driving: AUGH MY HAND BURNS /rsi

* I forget.  Alas.

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Dear self:

Dumbass.

HEarts,
x

* As always, I learn best through having projects.  I'm doing a bunch of tinkering to get this one website to do my bidding, so I'm learning a ton of PHP in the meantime.  This article on basic PHP security things seems not ungood, but it's from 2003, so I want to find something better.  (I need to, for example, block against SQL-based suck in the URL query string, this I know.)

If you have good links on basic-cat PHP (with MySQL) security things, this is the place for 'em.  Even if it's dirt-simple - I'm not an idiot, but I am a scatterbrain, and reminders are good.  Not to mention the part where I'm newish to PHP anyhow.

[eta] Fuck, I'm going to have to learn regex again.  *annoyed*

* My arms got betterish over the weekend, but they're starting to twinge, which means there's something about my work setup that's sub-par.  Alas.  It's probably the arms on this goddamn chair.  I'm trying to space typing out anyhow, just to be thorough, and I'm still not signed onto AIM.

* Part of yesterday was going to a friend's house for grilling.  Her roommate has the gardening bug, so she was raking and setting up a compost pile and digging a fire pit and so and so and so forth.  I wish I didn't kill plants through inattention, I would love to get a bit into container gardening - find some easy-to-grow vegetable that I like, and make that go.  Not necessarily for cooking, mostly just for the occasional munching-on.

I dunno, maybe if I set up reminders for watering...  *sad face*  This is why my loving kitties totally works - there's no set schedule of kitty-care.

* Blogspot has, by far, the shittiest commenting system known to thinking creatures.  Fucking hell.  And you'd think that with that in mind, third-party commenting systems (Disqus, IntenseDebate, Haloscan) would have, I dunno, options for importing Blogger comments.  And yet.  Fuckers.

What do you do when your arms hurt?

Not like "how to fix".  More like "dear god I'm bored forever".

- My arms feel like twisted bits of leather, and my hands feel like bruises.  I'm bored stupid at home, and have to do work at work, so I can hope this'll change... but...

- On the bright side, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is on Hulu, so I can watch that instead of knitting or typing more.  And maybe I'll just fill the sink with ice and soak my arms for a bit.  :P

- I'm now one of the co-mods of knittingpix!  Nifty.

- I had wicked insomnia last night, and only got two hours of sleep.  I am woozy and vaguely ill.  *lists to starboard*

- Hey, free 12oz beverage from Borders coupon.

- I got that from this blog.  I am a total sucker for freebies.  Combination of free, small things, and being able to try something without buying it?  I'm so there.

- Oh hooray, I can get my 14-day pass from a machine!  So I don't have to rush to leave work in order to get to the office on time.  *phew*

Oh man, ice.

In other news, ow.