Eriko sent me an email tonight and asked when it would be convient for me to get married (i’m paraphrasing, not quoting). she and i are so similar in that we are both goal-oriented, determined, hard-asses. her soft spot is for boys, mine is for girls. which is why i’ll never expect her to discipline our boys and i’ll make her aware that i cannot be expected to discpline our girls.

i borrowed some of kaya’s books on ipc mechanisms because last night i realized i am a complete coding newb. there are so many things i don’t know and so many things i want to know. i was telling alex this morning that i have to step this up a notch otherwise i’m not going to get bored of developing in the unix environment and i need to, otherwise i will not want to move onto getting a phd in mathematics.

i had to fire my first employee yesterday. it wasn’t an easy decision, nor an easy process. as terminations go, however, he made it easy. his unwilligness to put any effort towards addressing my concerns made the decision much easier and informing me that he was interviewing made the process much easier (no regrets). i’m rearranging my team and our working area in preparation for the new hires on Monday. i’m nervous, but in a good way.

i’ve got what appears to be some kind of throat cold, i’m still not sleeping well (usually too cold), i can’t concentrate on work right now because an event will transpire in 30 minutes, i’m not getting much stuff done after work these days (although i read a couple more pages of ‘The Book of Five Rings’ by Miaymoto Musashii yesterday). right now i am extremely anxious…

Bailey went out for a short prowl tonight and brought me back her biggest catch that i’ve seen yet. i find it amazing that she carried it all this way, up the stairs, up and over the window sill, to deliver it next to her food dish – for me. it definitely surprised the heck out of me. ;) less favorable news is that i may be coming down with something.

Kaya has given me two free books because they are ‘Eastern Economy Editions’ with thin paper. i don’t mind though. isilon was going to throw away a lamp which is pretty abused but i took it home and fixed it up. i had to do a little soldering but it saved me $20. sweet!