Stressed out to the max

Today I got a prank call which had me frazzled all day long. I wasn't really mad at whomever called me, though I do wish they would have said "sorry wrong number" or something instead of just hanging up in my face. Even so, it shouldn't be that big of a deal, but it just bugged me all day long and disrupted my thoughts of encryption and parsing data with regular expressions. I attribute this to stress.

I have been on edge lately. Work hasn't been particularly stressful lately, but being that I work in the financial sector and the economy is in the tank, in makes me nervous. It's just been a comedy (or tragedy) of errors.

About a week ago I ran out of fuel on my motorcycle when I didn't have my cellphone with me. Of course I don't have anyone's number memorized who could pick me up, so the call box didn't help much.

I spilled fuel all over and accomplished nothing positive one day while working on it. A couple days later I replaced the fuel line, getting gasoline in my eye. Then the following day I got stranded on the way to work.

I've been paying more in rent lately, which is taxing. I get by, but getting a utility bill for $889 for one month isn't helping. I've been arguing with them and trying to get that reduced for several weeks. I almost got evicted for having some weeds in the yard. I think all these little things which have been adding up.

So it's time to take a few days to relax. In a way, I want to forget about these things of the past and move on. But that hasn't seemed to be working out for me so far. Furthermore it doesn't solve the issues afoot. Nonetheless, I still plan on doing nothing productive in my free time. I think I'll hit the beach, probably the dog beach in HB, the port for some industrial scenery and then something on the West coast. That should be relaxing since there won't be any time schedules, nothing which needs to be done, and I can just reminisce about the good ol' days. But for now, it's time to go to bed early because I'm exhausted.

Post-Defcon post

We all survived Defcon. In my opinion it's getting more and more tame as it grows, which is only logical. A few people might be able to get away with some shenanigans, but when there are many thousands of us... It's still fun though.

My ZX-7R is finally in a reasonable condition. Once that happened it instantly became my daily driver. The fuel line was leaking for the past couple days, but I just fixed that a little bit ago. After I tune the carbs, it should be running smoothly. Then it's just a matter of replacing the clutch lever, rebuilding the petcock, and some other little things like that. I'll be glad when all that's done so it's stop sucking down my money.

My corporation is offically underway and a flood of mail is comming in about taxes and paperwork which needs to be filed, and things of that nature. I plan on finishing up the business plan over the next week and then things should really get rolling.