the diary of antoine roquentin

I have exactly 30 minutes to finish this post.

I’m not sure whether it’s a good idea to try and regiment my time so that I have more time for writing, but it seems like it’s the only way it’s going to get done. I need a more healthy nighttime routine than surfing Reddit until I go bleary-eyed.

I made a pot of red tea and I’m sipping it cup by cup.

The website for my company is growing in complexity by leaps and bounds, which seems to be a good thing. I’m sure Google has algorithms to detect changes to pages, and we keep adding things all the time. One of my coworkers will have an idea for a refinement or a useful page, I’ll prototype it, run it by my boss, then go live all in the span of a few hours.

And even with this rapid development, I’m still leagues behind where I want to be. This is the point where I almost need an assistant to do the more tedious data entry stuff. I almost want to start a dev blog, but I don’t think it’s a good idea yet.

The unending saga about Kathleen and the checks continues…my dad is accusing her of stealing another $4,000. The number just gets bigger and bigger. I’m meeting her for lunch tomorrow.

Things continue to be pretty insane here. The refrigerator looks like someone took out all the contents and put them back in alphabetically. There’s broccoli in the butter part, bacon in the crisper…it’s just insane. I found two packages of muffins in the microwave this afternoon too. Well, at least she isn’t putting that poison powder everywhere.

My mom and my grandma Jean are heading home early Sunday morning. It’s going to suck to not see my mom, but it will be great not to go back to Burlingame any time soon. I’m going to accompany them to the airport, and after that I’m not sure. Maybe I’ll pick up a scum bag fag mag, go down to Ocean Beach and watch the sunset.

Meh. San Francisco isn’t the same without Sam.

I bought two things this month with my windfall check.

1) a 500GB drive for my MacBook

2) a 1TB external drive.

I’m going to get rid of all my other various hard drives, so I’ll have 1TB mobile (MacBook + WD Passport drive) and 1TB at home as a backup (the new external).

It’ll be nice to only have two drives instead of this hodgepodge of backups and kinda-working drives that click and groan.

This is sort of a wasted week, since tomorrow I head back to Burlingame. Someday I won’t feel tired. Someday I’ll be able to get all of my projects done. Someday I’ll be able to paint again without them getting stolen.

Bitch stole my IKEA pillow. It’s gone. Nowhere in the guest rooms. I’m going to have to sneak into her room and try to get it back next week.

Kevin wants me to design a website for his DJ projects. That should be a fun one. Well, I exceeded my allotment of time by a half-hour, which always happens. I’m going to hit the hay. Next post should be from the train.