Archive for the 'Journal' Category

chronicles stuff related to day-to-day activity

Authware is semi-live

November 18th, 2006

I intended to push myself to get my writing site working before my birthday, but couldn't because I was also working on my blog theme. I'll be changing things across my sites, to keep the designs related.
I couldn't make the necessary code modifications because

I'm lazy
Writing some components within that short a time would have required [...]

At 18?

November 12th, 2006

Very few people know I’m 17. Even less know I’ll be 18 tomorrow. Will it feel different? Will I automatically shed my recluse persona and ask my first girl out? Will there be a sense of accomplishment at having crossed that silly invisible line? Honestly I don’t know.
My schedule tomorrow will probably be the same [...]

Over billed

October 15th, 2006

The guy behind the counter at the corner shop [the only other place I shop besides Amazon.com] is usually cleanshaven and amiable looking. When I walked in last night, he was sporting a goatee and looking as if he’d been on drugs.
I spent quite a while doing some shopping, reluctant as always to head back [...]

Sportsmanship?

October 12th, 2006

I wiped my sweaty hands on my towel and waited at the table’s edge, knees bent slightly, my bat — “paddle” as it’s called here — at the ready. AngryPlayer* the Pakistani, executed one of those crazy serves he used to get me with the last time we played.
It landed on my side and curved [...]

Near Disaster

October 9th, 2006

My friend Samuel took me to Walmart last night. On a whim I decided to pick some sausage-and-pepperoni pizza — I think I’ve begun to like pizza.
I followed the instructions on the back of the box — put the pizza in an oven and bake for 18 minutes. Unfortunately, my ‘oven’ was my microwave :).
I [...]

Delusions of Grandeur

September 18th, 2006

I must admit that when I started writing Authware, the aim was to have somewhere I could put up all my writing on the web and have people read it. Of late, I suppose I’ve been getting rather swollen-headed, trying to write something for everyone interested in writing, trying to figure out what people might [...]