I guess it doesn’t matter that much.

I thought I fixed comments, but IF NO ONE IS READING THEN NO ONE WILL COMMENT. I’m about to break it again, and no one will care.

So I had my much anticipated meeting with my manager at megacorp today. I was afraid it was another, “Pile on the work,” meeting that everyone has seemed to get this week. But he was really tired from a transglobal business trip and I came prepared with a non-trivial list of tasks I’d accomplished lately and a tentative schedule for the rest of the year. (This is why they pay me money, to do the odd-seeming things. If it were all playing with computers, I’d have to pay them, I’m sure.) Oddly enough, I’m still enjoying my job.

Moron boy breaks things.

The first thing I broke is this blog. The next thing I “broke” is my alarm clock. I set it for 4:45AM so I could drive my mom to the airport . Well, I forgot to set the time back to PST. So at 3:45AM I was swatting at all the clocks I have in the room, trying to remember where I was and what I was supposed to be doing. I decided NOT to reset the clock since I was sure I’d wake up in an hour (HAH).

I woke up this morning with my sister standing over me saying, “You going or what?” Fortunately she had no troubles with her alarm clock and she drove over as well. I was kinda loopy all day until I had both my morning coffee and my afternoon Diet Coke at around 3:00PM.

Oh, and I got my $2500 window installed today! It wasn’t raining today, even though we’ve been getting flood-like rain the past week. I think we get a couple of inches of rain a month here (it’s constant but not a lot of water) but recently we’ve had an inch per day or so. Pretty weird.

My ma leaves for Japan tomorrow.

This is the trip I had to cancel out on to take my job with megacorp (where they just asked me for a projection of measurable accomplishments on a weekly basis from now until the end of the year) and it would have been my first trip back in 14 years. I left a fiancee and an engineering job because my dad was ailing and what do I have to show for it now? A quick trip to a crashing high tech company, dozens of rejection letters from medical school, never finding another full-time engineering job, several jobs at startups that meant long hours with little pay, and lots of other things I won’t actually list.

I was finally going back to visit friends and relatives for three weeks including a trip to the Japan Sea town of Toyama and a ham radio convention, but I had to cancel it all. Ah, well, that’s life.

I better hit the hay. I had to make a trip to a couple of grocery stores before I found a box of Ho-Ho’s. Dr. Kawasaki, the son of Dr. Kawasaki, and the brother of Dr. Kawasaki, liked Ho-Ho’s when he was a kid here in Portland, so we take him some as a gift. We just got an email asking for a second box, so I had to drive around and find some. I have to get up before 5AM to drive my ma to the airport so I better call it quits.