Excessive

I'm tired and kind of super surprised I'm still awake, and kind of scared as to what that means. Daylight savings time started this morning, and that's just complete bullcrap, because I lost an hour of sleep. I woke up at 6:15am, after about 4.5 hours of sleep, and I didn't feel too tired, I just had breakfast and grabbed my cab.

Since I had gotten everything imaginable ready the day before, it was fairy easy going this morning... Julie was an couple hours late, Aaron was late, and I had pretty much got everything possible done and ready by te time she came in, she just made hollendaise and I got Aaron to make the croquembouche.

As the food was going out at 10am, Travis came in, and we got him to work the carvery, and Julie spent her time in the cafe, keeping an eye on food, and I stayed in the main kitchen getting the mama mia lunch out on time (which was a lasnagna and garlic bread, with other stuff I got ready the day before (see a pattern here?)

There wasn't really anything to do to be honest, I made bechamel (kind of crappily if I do say so myself) and warmed soups, but other than that, just made a few eggs benedicts, and cleaned. I ended up leaving early, as it was dead, and I had worked so hard to make it an easy day, it was kind of like a reward, so Julie let me go early, although it was kind of fun having a slow day to just hang out, since Julie was pretty much stuck in the cafe, it was pretty boring just being in the main kitchen by my lonesome.

Rob was off work at the same time (I guess I didn't mention that I hung out with him at work too, which I rarely get to do) so I insisted he give me a ride home, which he agreed to begrudgingly. I got home around 1:45pm or so, well... got home, not inside my home. Yes, in my super tired haze this morning, I had forgot to grab my keys before leaving to catch the cab, so here I was outside the door with no way in.

I texted Michelle to find out where she was or when she was coming home but she was at work until 4pm and wouldn't get home until after that, so I sent a text to my Sister for help and she drove to Michelle's work to pick up her keys, and when she dropped them off we went to the grocery store for a few things and I bought her a Tim Horton's coffee for her trouble.

So I eventually got in the house, and made lunch/a snack with the stuff I bought at No Frills, which was another baguette and tomatos for some fresh bruschetta, which I made and enjoyed. I also did the dishes, cleaned the kitty litter, took out recycling and tried to make the place feel comfortable, but by the end of that I was pretty much dead tired.

I sat down and tried to play WoW at one point, probably around 5:30 or something, and I was just doing quests while waiting in the dungeon queue, but I was so tired I would literally doze off while playing the game. Like I would be running somewhere, fall asleep, and something would wake me up (like a loud noise in a song that was on) and I'd look up real fast and see that I was running into a wall for god knows how long. It was making it near impossible to play the game and enjoy it in any way, so I just said screw it, I gotta nap or I'll never make it through the night (because I had to raid).

When I left to go nap, I realized it was like 7pm or something and I still hadn't eaten a proper dinner, and the raid was in an hour and a half, so I knew it was going to be near impossible to sleep and eat, but I knew I should eat so I made one of the frozen President's Choice lasagna's and it was enjoyable, although I always feel like I could eat a tiny bit more, but couldn't eat an entire second one, which is why I like the larger (medium) sized one because it's really easy to have seconds and even save some for lunch or dinner the next couple days.

By the time I was done eating dinner, it was basically time to raid, so I made coffee, and sat down to play. We just had Cho'gal, Nefarian and Throne of the four Winds remaining to do, and we raided from around 8:30pm to 11:30pm, and we managed to down Cho'gal for the first time in 25man raids, and killed Conclave and made progress on Al Akir, but couldn't quite get him down. After the raid had reached it's end, we all went to TogC and kicked the shit out of a few achievements but wiped on the last boss because simple mechanics because very complicated with Cata levels of life and stuff, so we just gave up but tonight's raid was just full of fun. Lots of joking around, laughing, it was just super fun, I really enjoyed it.

After raiding, I ran a bath and had a nice refreshing hot soak, which was enjoyable, and needed because of my sore body from working over the weekend. I didn't stay in for a long time, but the water was hot enough that it felt good to get in there, and that's all I ask for most of the time.

Oh man I took a sleeping pill an hour ago and it's really kicking my ass right now.

After my bath, I made quite a bit of progress on my current mini-project, which was writing a javascript word counting algorithm, ie. a feature of this form I'm using right now that you can't see, but it shows me how many words my entry is as I am typing, in real time. I had written a method that had done this before, but it wasn't 100% accurate and was bugged whenever I put multiple line breaks or spaces in a row, but now, I rewrote it, rethought it and it works perfectly now. This did lead to new challenges however, in that, while the real time display of the words worked perfectly, the 'on-the-fly' type calculation of word count when an entry is loaded was not accurate either, so I tried to figure out how to rewrite it in PHP, but eventually discovered it was already a built in method, called str_word_count or something, and it does exactly what I want, so that was easy.

Once I got the word counting working perfectly, another problem arrised, in that, the entire entry database had incorrect word counts in the rows, and this has to be fixed to be accurate, so I had to write a script that looped through every entry I've ever made, loaded the information, recalculated the word count, and then resaved it to the database. This was probably the most frustrating thing, because over the years, the data I've input into the entry table has been so different that trying to read and write back the data is really difficult, since it requires different formatting depending on how it was originally written. It took awhile, but I finally got it to work, so all entries in the table have updated accurate word counts, which makes me happy.

So the entire 'word-count' section of my project is complete now, so I've made a lot of progress on the entry class, however I've come up with another idea to try and add in, which is tags. Writing tags and associating them with an entry will make it easier to find related posts, and make it easy to find specific information. For example, if I write about a show, like Parks and Recreation, I could just tag the entry with Parks and Rec, and in the future I can search for that and it would show up, so that's my next goal, to implement a tagging system for all entries, old and new alike. As of right now I haven't done any official planning in my notebook, but my idea right now is to just have the tags only visible to the admin (or author) and just use the tags for improved searching, so again, you as the reader probably won't notice a difference, but it should make it easier for me to find information in the future.

This pill is really destroying my ability to think, so I better go now. Tomorrow is late school, 3pm to 5pm, so I've got time to wake up and eat before I have to go, so that's good. I've got quite a bit of school work to finish next week and not that much time, so I really need to focus on doing things when I intend and not putting it off. Tuesday I've got school 8am to 12pm, and then I have to go to work for stupid WHMIS training, but so does everyone else, so I think I'm just going to get a late lunch with Julie and she'll drive me to work to go to the meeting.

Okay, I'm going now, have a good night!

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