Nothing Terribly Exciting

I’ve been very bad at updating this little blog!!  Sometimes, it’s really just for lack of anything remotely interesting to say.  I have a list of blogs I read on a regular basis, and there are so many people that are writing interesting stuff.  And they all seem to really be experts at something.  I think that might be part of my problem – I know a little bit about a lot of different subjects, but I’m not an expert at any of them.  Jack of all trades, master of none, right?

What I’ve been up to:

• Work – I spent the entire day today working on this problem, developing what I thought was going to be a terrific solution to a problem.  Really – it was such a great idea in my head.  After I got all the development done and started testing it, I realized that it definitely fixed the problem that we were trying to fix.  However, it would have completely crippled another process.  So – at around 5:15, it was back to the drawing board – literally.  My gigantic whiteboard is no longer full of fun random pictures and sayings – I actually used it for work today, and mapped out my next “great” idea.  It’s too bad they don’t make those fun smelly markers for whiteboards.  I LOVE those things!  The bonus of all this failed development work is that I think I came up with something that will work better for the users anyway.  It’s a lot more initial work for me, but… it’s a learning experience!  Wish me luck!  If it doesn’t work, you’ll probably hear the screams and keyboard-banging from wherever you are.
• Golf – I took the lessons, and I keep trying to play.  I’m so terribly inconsistent.  One day I’m incredibly horrible, then the next day I’m just a little bit awful, and the next day – incredibly horrible again.  I think my new clubs are broken.  I’m actually playing in a tournament (I know!!!  How ridiculous!!) in a couple of weeks.  It’s a work tournament they do every year (best ball, thank goodness!), and I’ve finally gotten up the nerve to join in on the fun.  I’m going to make such an ass of myself.  I hope my team doesn’t end up hating me.
• Beads – I’ve been on a little beading “binge” lately – I’ve been quite prolific over the last few days!  A while ago, a friend sent me a link to these, and I finally tried making my own versions over the weekend.  You should have seen the Radio Shack guy’s face when I asked for resistors in different colors, and told him I didn’t really care about the function of them – they were for a “craft project!”  I was fully intending to post a picture tonight, but…
• Fighting with my wireless router – I spent nearly three hours tonight trying to make my wireless network actually work tonight, sitting on the wood floor, leaning against the brick fireplace hearth (since the routers are hidden inside the entertainment center).  Comfy!  I think it may actually be dead.  Hopefully Circuit City has something fantastic on sale this weekend.  Or tomorrow.

More to come another day!  Hopefully tomorrow!  Maybe I’ll have some pictures to show you all.  (And maybe I’ll be able to post from a different room in my house, unconstrained by the ties of a wired internet connection…)