A Day Off
Today was spent largely unpacking more boxes and straightening up some rooms to make them livable. I also hung up the last of the curtains and broke down about 1000000000 boxes to be recycled.
Some good news - I got a callback from Lifeofsports Inc., and I have an interview/meet-and-greet next Wednesday. I had a great chat with Chris today - he actually knew that I used to DJ, so we got to talk on a more personal level than just about the job. The job would entail a lot of PHP coding over the summer. It would be the perfect summer job, because I'd be working from home and able to set my own hours. The only restriction on my time would be deadlines for deploying new features. I've never coded in PHP before, but I have worked in C++ and I want this really, really badly, so I'm willing to put in the time necessary to learn it. I already started researching it tonight. I guess I won't be on YTMND much in the next little while. Eh, I could use a break anyway. There have been a lot of amazing sites lately, and I've been gorging on them, feasting like a fat kid in a cake shop. Yeah, time for a break. Anyway, it would great to get this job. I'd be great to know I have something lined up for after the game project, not to mention something programming-related.
On a somewhat more sour note, I haven't heard back from Greenlyph, so I don't know how my baby is doing. It's been hard living without her. You don't realize how much something means to you until it's gone. OK, that's probably a little melodramatic - it IS just a computer. But I use my computer every day. I sit in front of it at least 3-4 hours a day. It's my little corner of the world, my playground, my workbench, my study, my friend.
I actually went so far as to give my computer a name: Takuan, after the famous Japanese swordsman Takuan Soho. He was an interesting fellow. It was said that he remained undefated in combat throughout his lifetime. I believe there is also a pickle or a radish named after him. Anyway, he was also a Zen master, and he wrote a treatise on the art of swordsmanship that is studied my some Zen monks even today. I read about it in a great book called Zen in the Art of Archery, by a German professor named Eugen Herrigel. Herrigel went to Japan in the early 1950s to teach philosophy as the Unversity of Tokyo, I believe, and he studied the art of archery under a Zen Master during his stay. It's an incredible book.
I would love to keep going, but you know what? I really want to play some video games. I'm pretty sure this is iver 300 words - yup, we're around 500 words at this point, so I'm gonna pack it in. I got the living rooma ll set up this afternoon, so I think I might hook up my PS2 and rock some ICO or GTA or something. I'd like to write about gaming tomorrow.
